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 11 June 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
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 40 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 304 152 408
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.01% 5.09% 7.10%
As % of the Vendors category 12.06% 9.63% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 107 278
10th Percentile £402 £370 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +4.95% +1.16%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £588
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £33.08 £66.50
25th Percentile - £40.69 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £55.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.33% +19.05%
75th Percentile - £71.69 £78.75
90th Percentile - £80.43 £79.50
England median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £42.05
% change year-on-year -11.30% +36.76% -29.93%

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 2,521 1,579 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 41.52% 52.84% 46.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 1,053 1,582
10th Percentile £300 £225 £243
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.61% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 88 193
10th Percentile £15.83 £14.20 £12.05
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.50 £17.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.62% -53.03% +8.47%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.56 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.38 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.13 £23.80
% change year-on-year +25.31% +13.97% -39.82%

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 11 June 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
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 11 June 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 +8 145 £575 -4.17% 16
Thames Valley 0 133 £525 -0.33% 30
Buckinghamshire +14 79 £575 +9.52% 6
Berkshire -31 54 £450 -16.36% 17
Surrey -5 15 £438 -20.45% 17
West Sussex -20 5 £625 +13.64% 3
Kent -18 3 £575 +27.07% 2
East Sussex -2 2 £788 -
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 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (35.20%) Azure
2 67 (22.04%) AWS
3 21 (6.91%) Entra ID
4 20 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.26%) IaaS
6 14 (4.61%) GCP
6 14 (4.61%) PaaS
7 9 (2.96%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.97%) Rubrik
9 5 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.64%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.64%) SaaS
10 4 (1.32%) GitHub
10 4 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (23.36%) DNS
2 42 (13.82%) Firewall
3 38 (12.50%) DHCP
4 27 (8.88%) VSAN
4 27 (8.88%) WAN
5 25 (8.22%) VPN
6 20 (6.58%) LAN
7 15 (4.93%) SD-WAN
8 14 (4.61%) Cisco Firepower
8 14 (4.61%) VLAN
9 13 (4.28%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (3.95%) FTP
10 12 (3.95%) Network Security
11 11 (3.62%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (3.62%) SSL
12 10 (3.29%) BGP
12 10 (3.29%) SAN
13 9 (2.96%) IPsec
14 8 (2.63%) OSPF
15 7 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (1.97%) Redis
2 3 (0.99%) Data Mining
2 3 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.30%) GitLab
2 5 (1.64%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 40 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 12 (3.95%) Finance
5 9 (2.96%) Legal
5 9 (2.96%) Military
6 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.97%) Retail
7 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.33%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Front Office
10 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (20.39%) Architect
2 61 (20.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 42 (13.82%) Senior
4 41 (13.49%) VMware Engineer
5 35 (11.51%) Network Engineer
6 24 (7.89%) Infrastructure Architect
7 23 (7.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.91%) VMware Architect
9 17 (5.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 15 (4.93%) Lead
11 13 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.28%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 13 (4.28%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.28%) Technical Architect
12 12 (3.95%) Linux Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Senior Network Engineer
13 11 (3.62%) Citrix Engineer
13 11 (3.62%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.97%) Kafka
1 6 (1.97%) Keycloak
2 5 (1.64%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.32%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.33%) JSON
4 1 (0.33%) Middleware
4 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.84%) PKI
2 35 (11.51%) Data Centre
3 28 (9.21%) Public Cloud
4 19 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.93%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.62%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Replication
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.66%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.33%) Fibre Optics
12 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (39.47%) Windows
2 79 (25.99%) Windows Server
3 76 (25.00%) Linux
4 15 (4.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.97%) Debian
7 6 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.32%) CentOS
8 4 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.66%) VMS
9 2 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (15.79%) ITIL
4 37 (12.17%) High Availability
5 35 (11.51%) Agile
6 31 (10.20%) ITSM
6 31 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
7 29 (9.54%) Roadmaps
8 27 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (8.88%) Migration
9 26 (8.55%) CI/CD
10 25 (8.22%) DevOps
11 22 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (6.91%) Change Management
12 21 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (6.91%) Service Management
13 19 (6.25%) Load Balancing
14 18 (5.92%) DevSecOps
15 17 (5.59%) Service Delivery
16 16 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.49%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.25%) Python
2 19 (6.25%) SQL
3 4 (1.32%) Bash
4 2 (0.66%) Bicep
4 2 (0.66%) Java
Qualifications
1 221 (72.70%) Security Cleared
2 122 (40.13%) DV Cleared
3 104 (34.21%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (5.59%) CCNP
5 17 (5.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.62%) VCAP
7 10 (3.29%) Degree
8 8 (2.63%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (2.63%) MCSE
9 5 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.64%) CCSE
9 5 (1.64%) CCSM
10 4 (1.32%) MCSA
11 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.99%) CCA
11 3 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.66%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.25%) NIST
2 16 (5.26%) NCSC
3 11 (3.62%) SLA
4 5 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.32%) QA
6 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 192 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 88 (28.95%) Active Directory
3 69 (22.70%) VMware NSX
4 57 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (12.83%) Hyper-V
6 38 (12.50%) vSphere
7 23 (7.57%) Virtual Machines
8 20 (6.58%) vCloud
9 9 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.64%) Docker
11 3 (0.99%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.99%) Firmware
11 3 (0.99%) UAG
12 2 (0.66%) NFS
Systems Management
1 55 (18.09%) vCenter Server
2 31 (10.20%) Ansible
3 29 (9.54%) SCOM
4 25 (8.22%) Terraform
5 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (5.59%) SCCM
7 11 (3.62%) Kubernetes
8 10 (3.29%) Avamar
9 8 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (2.30%) Argo
10 7 (2.30%) Grafana
10 7 (2.30%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.64%) WMI
12 4 (1.32%) Istio
12 4 (1.32%) linkerd
13 3 (0.99%) SCSM
13 3 (0.99%) WSUS
14 2 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 83 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 49 (16.12%) Cisco
3 37 (12.17%) Citrix
4 21 (6.91%) Palo Alto
5 20 (6.58%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.28%) Fortinet
7 13 (4.28%) SolarWinds
8 12 (3.95%) F5
9 11 (3.62%) Broadcom
9 11 (3.62%) CheckPoint
9 11 (3.62%) Veeam
10 10 (3.29%) Dell
10 10 (3.29%) Juniper
11 9 (2.96%) NetApp
12 8 (2.63%) Thales
13 6 (1.97%) Meraki
13 6 (1.97%) Splunk
13 6 (1.97%) Zerto
14 5 (1.64%) Becrypt