VMware Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 281 172 353
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.91% 5.74% 6.34%
As % of the Vendors category 11.38% 10.96% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 120 240
10th Percentile £400 £392 £350
25th Percentile £485 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £643 £630 £588
90th Percentile £725 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £57.43 £37.90 £33.85
25th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £53.88
Median hourly rate £87.00 £80.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £96.88 £84.38 £76.25
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -28.40%

All Vendors
South East

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,470 1,569 2,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.16% 52.40% 47.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,733 1,053 1,623
10th Percentile £306 £248 £213
25th Percentile £413 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 90 182
10th Percentile £13.18 £14.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.88 £16.95 £17.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.62% -48.08% +5.56%
75th Percentile £85.63 £59.78 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.09 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -43.75%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VMware job vacancy trend in the South East

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South East

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the South East

VMware
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +6 148 £600 +3.45% 28
Thames Valley -23 108 £520 -5.45% 27
Berkshire -21 63 £453 -15.96% 15
Buckinghamshire -6 43 £605 -3.05% 9
Surrey -3 14 £400 -23.81% 16
West Sussex -9 6 £600 +9.09% 3
Kent -15 3 £575 +27.64% 4
East Sussex +4 2 £788 +384.62%
Oxfordshire -16 2 £425 - 3
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) WordPress
4 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.10%) Azure
2 69 (24.56%) AWS
3 24 (8.54%) Entra ID
4 22 (7.83%) OpenShift
5 18 (6.41%) IaaS
6 17 (6.05%) PaaS
7 16 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.27%) GCP
8 12 (4.27%) GitHub
8 12 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.14%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.78%) SaaS
11 4 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.36%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.36%) Datadog
13 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (23.49%) DNS
2 46 (16.37%) Firewall
3 40 (14.23%) DHCP
4 23 (8.19%) VPN
5 20 (7.12%) VSAN
5 20 (7.12%) WAN
6 16 (5.69%) SAN
6 16 (5.69%) TCP/IP
7 15 (5.34%) FTP
8 13 (4.63%) LAN
9 11 (3.91%) NAS
9 11 (3.91%) VLAN
10 10 (3.56%) BGP
10 10 (3.56%) SD-WAN
11 9 (3.20%) Network Security
12 8 (2.85%) OSPF
13 7 (2.49%) BIG-IP
13 7 (2.49%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.49%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.20%) Redis
3 3 (1.07%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
2 10 (3.56%) GitLab
3 7 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.14%) JMeter
4 6 (2.14%) JUnit
4 6 (2.14%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.36%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 47 (16.73%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.91%) Finance
5 10 (3.56%) Military
6 9 (3.20%) Legal
7 6 (2.14%) Retail
8 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Police
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (27.76%) Architect
2 42 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (10.68%) VMware Engineer
4 28 (9.96%) Senior
5 26 (9.25%) Infrastructure Architect
6 25 (8.90%) VMware Architect
7 22 (7.83%) Network Engineer
8 17 (6.05%) Technical Architect
9 14 (4.98%) Lead
10 12 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.91%) Analyst
12 10 (3.56%) Capacity Manager
12 10 (3.56%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Service Manager
12 10 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Wintel Analyst
13 8 (2.85%) Senior Network Engineer
14 7 (2.49%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.34%) Kafka
2 9 (3.20%) Keycloak
3 6 (2.14%) Spring
4 5 (1.78%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.42%) Software Packaging
6 3 (1.07%) Loki
7 2 (0.71%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.36%) JSON
8 1 (0.36%) Middleware
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.36%) OpenID
8 1 (0.36%) REST
8 1 (0.36%) SAML
8 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.03%) PKI
2 28 (9.96%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.83%) Public Cloud
4 20 (7.12%) Cloud Native
5 17 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.98%) Private Cloud
7 11 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.20%) Replication
9 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.78%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.78%) Thin Client
11 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.36%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 99 (35.23%) Windows
2 82 (29.18%) Linux
3 64 (22.78%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (3.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.20%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.78%) Debian
7 5 (1.78%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.42%) CentOS
8 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
10 1 (0.36%) Unix
10 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (21.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 59 (21.00%) Agile
4 45 (16.01%) ITIL
5 37 (13.17%) Roadmaps
6 35 (12.46%) CI/CD
7 34 (12.10%) High Availability
8 32 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (10.32%) DevSecOps
10 27 (9.61%) DevOps
11 25 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (8.19%) Migration
12 23 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (7.47%) Containerisation
14 20 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.12%) Service Delivery
15 19 (6.76%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (6.41%) Observability
17 16 (5.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.81%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.39%) Python
3 15 (5.34%) Bash
4 7 (2.49%) Java
5 6 (2.14%) SQL
6 2 (0.71%) Bicep
6 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 199 (70.82%) Security Cleared
2 105 (37.37%) DV Cleared
3 97 (34.52%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.34%) CCNP
4 15 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (4.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.49%) Degree
8 7 (2.49%) VCAP
9 6 (2.14%) MCSE
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.07%) CCSM
12 2 (0.71%) CCIE
12 2 (0.71%) CCNA
12 2 (0.71%) CCSE
12 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.05%) NCSC
2 14 (4.98%) NIST
3 6 (2.14%) SLA
4 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 168 (59.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (29.18%) Active Directory
3 47 (16.73%) VMware NSX
4 36 (12.81%) Hyper-V
5 33 (11.74%) VMware ESXi
6 32 (11.39%) vSphere
7 12 (4.27%) vCloud
8 10 (3.56%) Docker
9 9 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (2.14%) NFS
11 3 (1.07%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.07%) Firmware
11 3 (1.07%) UAG
12 1 (0.36%) KVM
12 1 (0.36%) RHEV
12 1 (0.36%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 44 (15.66%) Ansible
2 37 (13.17%) vCenter Server
3 29 (10.32%) Terraform
4 25 (8.90%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (6.05%) SCCM
7 13 (4.63%) Argo
7 13 (4.63%) Grafana
7 13 (4.63%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.56%) SCOM
8 10 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (3.20%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.14%) Istio
10 6 (2.14%) linkerd
10 6 (2.14%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.78%) WMI
12 4 (1.42%) WSUS
13 3 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.07%) Rancher
13 3 (1.07%) SCSM
Vendors
1 72 (25.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.10%) Red Hat
3 32 (11.39%) Cisco
4 25 (8.90%) Citrix
5 17 (6.05%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.63%) F5
7 11 (3.91%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.20%) Broadcom
8 9 (3.20%) Splunk
8 9 (3.20%) Veeam
9 7 (2.49%) NetApp
10 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.14%) Zerto
11 5 (1.78%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.78%) Juniper
11 5 (1.78%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.42%) NVIDIA
12 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.07%) Meraki
13 3 (1.07%) Rackspace