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 16 December 2025, 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
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 31 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware 230 245 374
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.28% 6.51% 7.41%
As % of the Vendors category 10.29% 12.79% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 182 223
10th Percentile £271 £330 £294
25th Percentile £424 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.26% +0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £699 £671
England median daily rate £525 £512 £500
% change year-on-year +2.49% +2.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 18
10th Percentile £41.23 £25.04 £20.43
25th Percentile £63.72 £28.99 £37.40
Median hourly rate £87.00 £36.17 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +140.56% -45.31% +19.16%
75th Percentile £99.63 £59.62 £76.53
90th Percentile £122.20 £73.35 £76.97
England median hourly rate £68.85 £55.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +25.18% -16.64% +1.51%

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 2,235 1,915 2,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.33% 50.90% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,575 1,265 1,675
10th Percentile £221 £243 £205
25th Percentile £402 £404 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £611
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 57 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.28 £23.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.79 £36.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.51% -34.25% +129.17%
75th Percentile £61.56 £62.56 £66.44
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.43% +73.88%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 +5 115 £550 -4.35% 35
Thames Valley -19 88 £483 -12.27% 19
Berkshire -10 78 £483 -12.27% 10
Kent +7 9 £155 -35.02% 18
West Sussex -4 8 £525 +12.30% 3
Surrey -18 6 £443 +4.12% 17
Buckinghamshire -23 6 £550 -1.12% 7
Oxfordshire -11 4 £413 - 2
East Sussex +7 3 £170 +4.62% 1
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 8 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.61%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) WordPress
5 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (26.09%) AWS
2 56 (24.35%) Azure
3 35 (15.22%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.09%) GitHub
5 14 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (5.22%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.78%) IaaS
8 9 (3.91%) GCP
9 6 (2.61%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.30%) PaaS
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.43%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.43%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.43%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (22.17%) DNS
2 43 (18.70%) Firewall
3 32 (13.91%) DHCP
4 29 (12.61%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.26%) VLAN
6 13 (5.65%) iSCSI
6 13 (5.65%) VSAN
7 12 (5.22%) SAN
7 12 (5.22%) VPN
8 11 (4.78%) Fibre Channel
8 11 (4.78%) LAN
9 10 (4.35%) WAN
10 8 (3.48%) NAS
10 8 (3.48%) Wireless
11 7 (3.04%) BGP
11 7 (3.04%) MPLS
11 7 (3.04%) SNMP
12 6 (2.61%) OSPF
12 6 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (2.61%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.30%) Redis
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.22%) GitLab
2 12 (5.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.91%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.91%) JMeter
3 9 (3.91%) JUnit
4 3 (1.30%) Maven
4 3 (1.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.43%) Git
5 1 (0.43%) MSI
5 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 55 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.09%) Finance
5 12 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.61%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.61%) Legal
7 5 (2.17%) Law
8 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Banking
9 3 (1.30%) Military
9 3 (1.30%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Back Office
10 2 (0.87%) Front Office
10 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 64 (27.83%) Architect
2 40 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (11.30%) Infrastructure Architect
4 24 (10.43%) Support Engineer
5 23 (10.00%) VMware Architect
6 21 (9.13%) Infrastructure Support
7 20 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 15 (6.52%) Senior
8 15 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
9 9 (3.91%) Developer
10 8 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.48%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.48%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Lead
11 7 (3.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.61%) Designer
12 6 (2.61%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.52%) Kafka
2 9 (3.91%) Spring
3 8 (3.48%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.48%) Loki
4 4 (1.74%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.30%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.30%) Swagger
6 2 (0.87%) Middleware
6 2 (0.87%) OAuth
6 2 (0.87%) RESTful
6 2 (0.87%) SAML
7 1 (0.43%) JSON
7 1 (0.43%) LDAP
7 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.43%) OpenID
7 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.43%) PKI
2 19 (8.26%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.96%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.78%) Fat Client
6 11 (4.78%) Thin Client
7 8 (3.48%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.48%) Virtual Team
8 7 (3.04%) Replication
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.87%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.43%) FlexPod
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 95 (41.30%) Windows
2 86 (37.39%) Linux
3 50 (21.74%) Windows Server
4 30 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (6.09%) Windows 10
7 11 (4.78%) Windows 7
8 9 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (3.04%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.17%) CentOS
11 5 (2.17%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.30%) Debian
12 3 (1.30%) Unix
13 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.43%) Rocky
13 1 (0.43%) Solaris
13 1 (0.43%) VMS
13 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (22.61%) Agile
2 52 (22.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (19.13%) ITIL
4 41 (17.83%) CI/CD
5 25 (10.87%) DevSecOps
6 22 (9.57%) Containerisation
7 20 (8.70%) Observability
8 19 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (7.83%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (7.83%) Roadmaps
10 17 (7.39%) Prototyping
11 16 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (6.96%) DevOps
11 16 (6.96%) Preventative Maintenance
12 14 (6.09%) Infrastructure Management
12 14 (6.09%) Mentoring
12 14 (6.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 55 (23.91%) Python
2 41 (17.83%) PowerShell
3 31 (13.48%) Bash
4 20 (8.70%) SQL
5 17 (7.39%) Java
6 8 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.30%) Go
7 3 (1.30%) Perl
8 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) PHP
9 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 139 (60.43%) Security Cleared
2 72 (31.30%) SC Cleared
3 69 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 27 (11.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (7.83%) Azure Certification
6 17 (7.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (6.52%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.78%) MCSE
8 11 (4.78%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (4.78%) Server+ Certification
9 8 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.04%) CCIE
11 6 (2.61%) JNCIE
12 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.17%) Degree
12 5 (2.17%) VCP5
12 5 (2.17%) VCP6
13 4 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.74%) VCAP
13 4 (1.74%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) GDPR
2 5 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.74%) QA
4 3 (1.30%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) RMADS
5 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 135 (58.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (27.83%) Active Directory
3 46 (20.00%) vSphere
4 30 (13.04%) Hyper-V
5 28 (12.17%) VMware NSX
6 25 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (6.52%) NFS
8 14 (6.09%) Docker
9 7 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (2.17%) Terminal Services
10 5 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.30%) KVM
12 2 (0.87%) Firmware
12 2 (0.87%) UAG
12 2 (0.87%) vCloud
12 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.43%) RHEV
13 1 (0.43%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (23.48%) Ansible
2 33 (14.35%) Kubernetes
3 30 (13.04%) Terraform
4 25 (10.87%) vCenter Server
5 17 (7.39%) Argo
6 14 (6.09%) Grafana
6 14 (6.09%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.09%) SCCM
7 13 (5.65%) Red Hat Satellite
8 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (4.78%) Progress Chef
8 11 (4.78%) WMI
9 8 (3.48%) Kustomize
10 7 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (3.04%) vRealize
11 5 (2.17%) SCOM
12 4 (1.74%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.74%) Rundeck
12 4 (1.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 4 (1.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (34.35%) Microsoft
2 43 (18.70%) Red Hat
3 24 (10.43%) Citrix
4 19 (8.26%) Cisco
5 17 (7.39%) NetApp
6 13 (5.65%) Splunk
6 13 (5.65%) Veeam
7 9 (3.91%) F5
8 8 (3.48%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.48%) Juniper
9 6 (2.61%) Dell
9 6 (2.61%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.17%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.30%) EMC
12 3 (1.30%) Oracle
12 3 (1.30%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.30%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.87%) Aruba
13 2 (0.87%) NetIQ