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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 276 176 357
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.12% 5.94% 6.34%
As % of the Vendors category 11.13% 11.44% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 127 228
10th Percentile £377 £350 £331
25th Percentile £458 £473 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £569 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +10.39% -6.19%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £575
90th Percentile £725 £693 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £57.43 £37.90 £20.12
25th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £31.63
Median hourly rate £87.00 £80.00 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +16.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £96.88 £84.38 £76.15
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £46.29
% change year-on-year +1.82% +48.54% -27.24%

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 2,480 1,538 2,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.01% 51.92% 48.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 1,024 1,687
10th Percentile £289 £247 £211
25th Percentile £413 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.67% +2.19% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 83 163
10th Percentile £13.20 £15.05 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £19.21 £17.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.34 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% -41.48% -
75th Percentile £83.00 £62.50 £61.80
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.75 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.41% +23.53% -29.57%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +9 139 £550 -4.35% 47
Thames Valley -21 106 £500 -9.09% 36
Berkshire -19 74 £475 -13.64% 16
Buckinghamshire -19 30 £570 -7.32% 17
Surrey -4 15 £400 -20.00% 12
West Sussex -6 10 £575 +4.55%
Kent -17 4 £571 +71.80% 3
East Sussex +3 2 £788 +384.62% 1
Oxfordshire - 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 15 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) Apache
3 2 (0.72%) WordPress
4 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 87 (31.52%) Azure
2 71 (25.72%) AWS
3 37 (13.41%) OpenShift
4 21 (7.61%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.25%) IaaS
6 19 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (6.16%) GitHub
7 17 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (5.43%) PaaS
9 12 (4.35%) GCP
10 8 (2.90%) Nutanix
11 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.81%) SaaS
13 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
15 1 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.36%) Cohesity
15 1 (0.36%) Datadog
15 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (23.91%) DNS
2 47 (17.03%) Firewall
3 35 (12.68%) DHCP
4 20 (7.25%) VPN
5 18 (6.52%) TCP/IP
5 18 (6.52%) VSAN
6 16 (5.80%) SAN
7 13 (4.71%) WAN
8 12 (4.35%) FTP
9 9 (3.26%) LAN
9 9 (3.26%) NAS
9 9 (3.26%) VLAN
10 8 (2.90%) BGP
10 8 (2.90%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.90%) Network Security
11 7 (2.54%) BIG-IP
12 6 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.17%) OSPF
12 6 (2.17%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.81%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.90%) Redis
3 4 (1.45%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (5.07%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (4.35%) GitLab
4 8 (2.90%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.90%) JMeter
4 8 (2.90%) JUnit
5 6 (2.17%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.09%) Maven
7 1 (0.36%) Git
7 1 (0.36%) JIRA
7 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 51 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.14%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.07%) Finance
5 10 (3.62%) Military
6 7 (2.54%) Legal
7 6 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.81%) Retail
9 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (28.62%) Architect
2 36 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 25 (9.06%) Senior
5 24 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
6 21 (7.61%) Network Engineer
7 19 (6.88%) VMware Architect
8 13 (4.71%) Technical Architect
9 12 (4.35%) Lead
10 11 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 10 (3.62%) Analyst
11 10 (3.62%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.62%) Wintel Analyst
12 8 (2.90%) Developer
12 8 (2.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.90%) Service Manager
13 7 (2.54%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.54%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (2.54%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.88%) Kafka
2 8 (2.90%) Keycloak
2 8 (2.90%) Loki
2 8 (2.90%) Spring
3 7 (2.54%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.45%) Software Packaging
4 4 (1.45%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
6 1 (0.36%) Middleware
6 1 (0.36%) OAuth
6 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.36%) OpenID
6 1 (0.36%) REST
6 1 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.32%) PKI
2 25 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.88%) Data Centre
4 17 (6.16%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.26%) Fat Client
7 9 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 9 (3.26%) Replication
7 9 (3.26%) Thin Client
8 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.90%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.36%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 99 (35.87%) Windows
2 95 (34.42%) Linux
3 61 (22.10%) Windows Server
4 29 (10.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.26%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.26%) Windows 7
6 9 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.45%) CentOS
8 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.45%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.09%) Debian
10 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
10 1 (0.36%) Unix
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (22.46%) Agile
2 59 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (15.94%) CI/CD
5 43 (15.58%) ITIL
6 34 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (11.96%) Roadmaps
8 32 (11.59%) DevSecOps
9 31 (11.23%) High Availability
10 30 (10.87%) DevOps
11 27 (9.78%) Containerisation
12 24 (8.70%) Migration
12 24 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (8.33%) Observability
14 21 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (6.52%) Load Balancing
15 18 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (5.80%) Prototyping
17 14 (5.07%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.30%) Python
2 36 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 25 (9.06%) Bash
4 12 (4.35%) Java
5 6 (2.17%) SQL
6 2 (0.72%) Bicep
6 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (67.75%) Security Cleared
2 95 (34.42%) SC Cleared
3 87 (31.52%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.26%) CCNP
6 9 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.81%) VCAP
9 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.45%) MCSE
9 4 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.09%) CCSM
11 2 (0.72%) CCIE
11 2 (0.72%) CCNA
11 2 (0.72%) CCSE
11 2 (0.72%) Degree
11 2 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.72%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.07%) NCSC
2 10 (3.62%) NIST
3 5 (1.81%) SLA
4 4 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.09%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.09%) GDPR
5 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) QA
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 164 (59.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 81 (29.35%) Active Directory
3 39 (14.13%) vSphere
4 37 (13.41%) VMware NSX
5 34 (12.32%) Hyper-V
6 26 (9.42%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.07%) Docker
8 11 (3.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (3.62%) vCloud
10 7 (2.54%) NFS
11 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.09%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.09%) Firmware
13 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.36%) KVM
14 1 (0.36%) RHEV
14 1 (0.36%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.36%) UAG
14 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (19.20%) Ansible
2 38 (13.77%) vCenter Server
3 37 (13.41%) Kubernetes
4 34 (12.32%) Terraform
5 22 (7.97%) Argo
6 20 (7.25%) Grafana
6 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (7.25%) Prometheus
7 16 (5.80%) SCCM
8 12 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (3.26%) WMI
10 8 (2.90%) Kustomize
10 8 (2.90%) Progress Chef
11 7 (2.54%) SCOM
12 6 (2.17%) Istio
12 6 (2.17%) linkerd
13 4 (1.45%) WSUS
14 2 (0.72%) Rancher
14 2 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 72 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 46 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 28 (10.14%) Cisco
4 23 (8.33%) Citrix
5 16 (5.80%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.35%) F5
7 11 (3.99%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.90%) Splunk
9 7 (2.54%) Broadcom
9 7 (2.54%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.17%) Pure Storage
11 5 (1.81%) NetApp
11 5 (1.81%) Veeam
12 4 (1.45%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.45%) Dell
12 4 (1.45%) Juniper
12 4 (1.45%) NVIDIA
12 4 (1.45%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.45%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.09%) Aruba