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 10 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
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 286 176 350
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.06% 5.88% 6.20%
As % of the Vendors category 11.48% 11.11% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 123 231
10th Percentile £400 £363 £350
25th Percentile £484 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £641 £630 £579
90th Percentile £725 £675 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £57.43 £37.90 £19.88
25th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £42.75
Median hourly rate £87.00 £80.00 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +16.57% +14.38%
75th Percentile £96.88 £84.38 £71.82
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -28.95%

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 2,492 1,584 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.10% 52.94% 47.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,752 1,066 1,643
10th Percentile £306 £247 £213
25th Percentile £414 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +4.25% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 89 189
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.20 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £38.56 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.22% -47.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £85.63 £61.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.44 £65.40
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.88 £23.22
% change year-on-year -4.76% +24.38% -38.91%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +9 149 £600 +2.56% 38
Thames Valley -27 110 £520 -5.45% 31
Berkshire -26 69 £475 -10.63% 12
Buckinghamshire -15 39 £600 -2.83% 17
Surrey 0 16 £400 -20.00% 15
West Sussex -11 6 £600 +9.09%
Kent -14 3 £575 +27.64% 2
East Sussex +1 2 £788 +384.62% 1
Oxfordshire -15 2 £425 - 2
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 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) WordPress
4 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 95 (33.22%) Azure
2 77 (26.92%) AWS
3 30 (10.49%) OpenShift
4 24 (8.39%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.69%) IaaS
6 18 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (5.94%) PaaS
8 14 (4.90%) GitHub
8 14 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.20%) GCP
10 6 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.10%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.75%) SaaS
12 4 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (0.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.35%) Cohesity
14 1 (0.35%) Datadog
14 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 69 (24.13%) DNS
2 47 (16.43%) Firewall
3 38 (13.29%) DHCP
4 23 (8.04%) VPN
5 20 (6.99%) WAN
6 19 (6.64%) VSAN
7 16 (5.59%) SAN
7 16 (5.59%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.24%) FTP
9 13 (4.55%) LAN
10 10 (3.50%) BGP
10 10 (3.50%) NAS
10 10 (3.50%) SD-WAN
10 10 (3.50%) VLAN
11 8 (2.80%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (2.80%) Network Security
11 8 (2.80%) OSPF
12 7 (2.45%) BIG-IP
13 6 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (2.10%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.15%) Redis
3 3 (1.05%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (3.50%) GitLab
4 8 (2.80%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.80%) JMeter
4 8 (2.80%) JUnit
5 6 (2.10%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.35%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) JIRA
6 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 47 (16.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.39%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.90%) Finance
5 10 (3.50%) Military
6 9 (3.15%) Legal
7 6 (2.10%) Retail
8 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (29.72%) Architect
2 38 (13.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (10.14%) VMware Engineer
4 27 (9.44%) Infrastructure Architect
5 26 (9.09%) Senior
6 25 (8.74%) VMware Architect
7 22 (7.69%) Network Engineer
8 17 (5.94%) Technical Architect
9 13 (4.55%) Lead
10 12 (4.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) Analyst
11 10 (3.50%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.15%) Capacity Manager
12 9 (3.15%) Service Manager
12 9 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Senior Network Engineer
14 7 (2.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.94%) Kafka
2 9 (3.15%) Keycloak
3 8 (2.80%) Spring
4 7 (2.45%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.40%) Loki
5 4 (1.40%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.70%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.35%) JSON
7 1 (0.35%) Middleware
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.35%) OpenID
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) SAML
7 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.89%) PKI
2 26 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.34%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.55%) Private Cloud
7 11 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.15%) Replication
9 8 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.45%) Fat Client
10 7 (2.45%) Thin Client
11 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
15 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
15 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
15 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 97 (33.92%) Windows
2 89 (31.12%) Linux
3 62 (21.68%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.15%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.45%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.75%) Debian
8 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.40%) CentOS
9 4 (1.40%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.70%) VMS
10 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.35%) Solaris
11 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (21.33%) Agile
2 57 (19.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (15.03%) CI/CD
4 42 (14.69%) ITIL
5 36 (12.59%) Roadmaps
6 34 (11.89%) High Availability
7 33 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (11.19%) DevOps
9 29 (10.14%) DevSecOps
10 27 (9.44%) Containerisation
11 25 (8.74%) Migration
11 25 (8.74%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (7.34%) Load Balancing
14 21 (7.34%) Observability
15 19 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (6.29%) Service Delivery
17 16 (5.59%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.99%) Python
2 36 (12.59%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.34%) Bash
4 9 (3.15%) Java
5 6 (2.10%) SQL
6 2 (0.70%) Bicep
6 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 201 (70.28%) Security Cleared
2 104 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 98 (34.27%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.24%) CCNP
4 15 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (4.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.10%) MCSE
10 5 (1.75%) Degree
10 5 (1.75%) VCAP
11 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.05%) CCSM
13 2 (0.70%) CCIE
13 2 (0.70%) CCNA
13 2 (0.70%) CCSE
13 2 (0.70%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.35%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.59%) NCSC
2 13 (4.55%) NIST
3 5 (1.75%) SLA
4 4 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 166 (58.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (28.67%) Active Directory
3 50 (17.48%) VMware NSX
4 37 (12.94%) vSphere
5 35 (12.24%) Hyper-V
6 31 (10.84%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (5.24%) Docker
8 12 (4.20%) vCloud
9 10 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (2.45%) NFS
12 3 (1.05%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.05%) Firmware
13 2 (0.70%) UAG
13 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.35%) KVM
14 1 (0.35%) RHEV
14 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (17.83%) Ansible
2 41 (14.34%) vCenter Server
3 34 (11.89%) Terraform
4 31 (10.84%) Kubernetes
5 20 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (6.64%) Argo
7 17 (5.94%) SCCM
8 14 (4.90%) Grafana
8 14 (4.90%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.15%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (3.15%) SCOM
11 8 (2.80%) Progress Chef
12 7 (2.45%) WMI
13 6 (2.10%) Istio
13 6 (2.10%) linkerd
14 4 (1.40%) Kustomize
14 4 (1.40%) WSUS
15 3 (1.05%) Rancher
15 3 (1.05%) SCSM
Vendors
1 71 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 31 (10.84%) Cisco
4 25 (8.74%) Citrix
5 17 (5.94%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.55%) F5
7 11 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.15%) Splunk
8 9 (3.15%) Veeam
9 8 (2.80%) Broadcom
10 7 (2.45%) NetApp
11 6 (2.10%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.10%) Pure Storage
11 6 (2.10%) Zerto
12 5 (1.75%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.75%) Juniper
12 5 (1.75%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.75%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.40%) NVIDIA
14 3 (1.05%) Trend Micro