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 24 November 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
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware 223 294 406
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.50% 7.13% 7.67%
As % of the Vendors category 10.53% 14.34% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 211 241
10th Percentile £267 £330 £288
25th Percentile £443 £419 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £594
90th Percentile £650 £685 £672
England median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 19
10th Percentile £55.11 £25.04 £20.45
25th Percentile £76.00 £28.99 £39.80
Median hourly rate £90.00 £36.17 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +148.86% -44.36% +19.27%
75th Percentile £101.75 £59.62 £76.53
90th Percentile £127.60 £73.35 £76.82
England median hourly rate £62.00 £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +24.00% -24.22% +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 2,117 2,050 2,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.23% 49.75% 52.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,445 1,315 1,765
10th Percentile £215 £256 £205
25th Percentile £388 £412 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £605
90th Percentile £663 £690 £678
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 63 128
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.88 £16.18
25th Percentile £15.75 £23.84 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +9.21% +79.54%
75th Percentile £40.65 £67.26 £65.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £74.14 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.24% -25.84% +62.56%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 24 November 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 -2 101 £550 -4.35% 52
Thames Valley -17 93 £483 -8.10% 42
Berkshire -6 81 £483 -11.67% 18
Kent +12 13 £425 +170.55% 12
Buckinghamshire -26 8 £529 +0.67% 12
West Sussex -8 7 £513 +9.63% 2
Oxfordshire -7 4 £413 - 14
Surrey -20 4 £413 +17.86% 13
East Sussex +5 3 £170 +4.62% 1
Middlesex - 1 £500 -
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 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.69%) Apache
2 6 (2.69%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.35%) IIS
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.11%) AWS
2 55 (24.66%) Azure
3 33 (14.80%) OpenShift
4 16 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.83%) GitHub
5 13 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (5.38%) IaaS
7 10 (4.48%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.59%) GCP
9 5 (2.24%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.90%) PaaS
12 1 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.45%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.45%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.45%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (22.87%) DNS
2 44 (19.73%) Firewall
3 33 (14.80%) DHCP
4 29 (13.00%) TCP/IP
5 21 (9.42%) VLAN
6 18 (8.07%) SAN
7 16 (7.17%) Fibre Channel
8 15 (6.73%) VSAN
9 14 (6.28%) iSCSI
10 10 (4.48%) VPN
11 9 (4.04%) BGP
11 9 (4.04%) LAN
11 9 (4.04%) NAS
12 8 (3.59%) OSPF
12 8 (3.59%) WAN
12 8 (3.59%) Wireless
13 7 (3.14%) MPLS
13 7 (3.14%) TACACS
14 6 (2.69%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (2.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (6.73%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (4.48%) GitLab
4 9 (4.04%) Cucumber
4 9 (4.04%) JMeter
4 9 (4.04%) JUnit
5 3 (1.35%) Maven
5 3 (1.35%) MSI
5 3 (1.35%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.90%) Git
7 1 (0.45%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 60 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.62%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.73%) Finance
5 13 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.69%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.69%) Legal
7 5 (2.24%) Law
8 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.35%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Front Office
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (26.46%) Architect
2 43 (19.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (12.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 23 (10.31%) Support Engineer
5 22 (9.87%) VMware Architect
6 21 (9.42%) Infrastructure Support
7 20 (8.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 18 (8.07%) Senior
9 17 (7.62%) VMware Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Developer
11 11 (4.93%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.59%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (3.14%) Lead
14 6 (2.69%) IP Designer
14 6 (2.69%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.83%) Kafka
2 9 (4.04%) Spring
3 8 (3.59%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.59%) Loki
4 4 (1.79%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.35%) Middleware
5 3 (1.35%) Swagger
5 3 (1.35%) YAML
6 2 (0.90%) JSON
6 2 (0.90%) OAuth
6 2 (0.90%) REST
6 2 (0.90%) RESTful
6 2 (0.90%) SAML
7 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.45%) LDAP
7 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.31%) PKI
2 17 (7.62%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.48%) Fat Client
6 10 (4.48%) Thin Client
7 8 (3.59%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.69%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.69%) Replication
9 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) NHS
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.45%) FlexPod
10 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.45%) Life Science
10 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (44.84%) Windows
2 82 (36.77%) Linux
3 49 (21.97%) Windows Server
4 24 (10.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (8.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (6.28%) Windows 10
7 13 (5.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (4.93%) Ubuntu
9 10 (4.48%) Windows 7
10 9 (4.04%) CentOS
11 7 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (2.24%) Debian
12 5 (2.24%) Mac OS
12 5 (2.24%) Unix
13 2 (0.90%) VMS
14 1 (0.45%) Rocky
14 1 (0.45%) Solaris
14 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (21.52%) Agile
4 39 (17.49%) ITIL
5 38 (17.04%) CI/CD
6 21 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (8.97%) Containerisation
7 20 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (8.97%) DevOps
7 20 (8.97%) Prototyping
8 19 (8.52%) DevSecOps
8 19 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (8.07%) Observability
9 18 (8.07%) Validation
10 16 (7.17%) Preventative Maintenance
10 16 (7.17%) Roadmaps
11 15 (6.73%) Infrastructure Management
12 14 (6.28%) Mentoring
12 14 (6.28%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 57 (25.56%) Python
2 39 (17.49%) PowerShell
3 30 (13.45%) Bash
4 22 (9.87%) SQL
5 16 (7.17%) Java
6 8 (3.59%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.35%) Go
7 3 (1.35%) Perl
7 3 (1.35%) PHP
8 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 128 (57.40%) Security Cleared
2 68 (30.49%) DV Cleared
3 65 (29.15%) SC Cleared
4 30 (13.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (8.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 18 (8.07%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.73%) AWS Certification
8 14 (6.28%) MCSE
9 11 (4.93%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (4.93%) Server+ Certification
10 8 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (3.14%) CCIE
11 7 (3.14%) VCP5
11 7 (3.14%) VCP6
12 6 (2.69%) Degree
12 6 (2.69%) JNCIE
13 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.38%) GDPR
2 6 (2.69%) QA
3 5 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.35%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.90%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) RMADS
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 131 (58.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (27.80%) Active Directory
3 59 (26.46%) vSphere
4 34 (15.25%) VMware ESXi
5 29 (13.00%) Hyper-V
6 26 (11.66%) VMware NSX
7 16 (7.17%) NFS
8 13 (5.83%) Docker
9 7 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.24%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.35%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.35%) Firmware
12 2 (0.90%) KVM
12 2 (0.90%) UAG
12 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.45%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 53 (23.77%) Ansible
2 30 (13.45%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.00%) Terraform
4 21 (9.42%) vCenter Server
5 15 (6.73%) Argo
6 12 (5.38%) Grafana
6 12 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.38%) WMI
7 11 (4.93%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.93%) SCCM
8 9 (4.04%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (3.59%) Kustomize
9 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.69%) vRealize
11 5 (2.24%) VxRail
12 4 (1.79%) Rundeck
12 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.35%) Proxmox
13 3 (1.35%) Salt
13 3 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 83 (37.22%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.70%) Red Hat
3 21 (9.42%) Citrix
4 20 (8.97%) Cisco
4 20 (8.97%) NetApp
5 18 (8.07%) Veeam
6 14 (6.28%) Splunk
7 8 (3.59%) Dell
7 8 (3.59%) F5
7 8 (3.59%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.59%) Juniper
8 6 (2.69%) Pure Storage
9 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.35%) EMC
10 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.35%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.90%) Aruba
11 2 (0.90%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.90%) Oracle
11 2 (0.90%) Zscaler