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 4 September 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 326 177 349
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.98% 5.12% 7.52%
As % of the Vendors category 11.42% 9.96% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 136 234
10th Percentile £427 £269 £353
25th Percentile £463 £479 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £546
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +0.69% +9.25%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £645
England median daily rate £535 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -2.73% +7.59% +2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 2
10th Percentile £33.70 £28.95 £23.72
25th Percentile £51.31 £30.39 £25.70
Median hourly rate £67.00 £32.77 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year +104.46% +11.91% -46.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £96.39 £33.16
90th Percentile £95.00 £134.55 £35.31
England median hourly rate £67.47 £32.77 £50.00
% change year-on-year +105.89% -34.46% -16.67%

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 2,855 1,777 2,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.65% 51.45% 49.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,777 1,194 1,367
10th Percentile £280 £205 £255
25th Percentile £430 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £636
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 105 124
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £15.45
25th Percentile £18.30 £14.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +151.93% -67.10% +10.37%
75th Percentile £71.20 £38.42 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £32.75
% change year-on-year +27.24% -23.21% -21.65%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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
Thames Valley +12 160 £543 +10.58% 38
Hampshire -2 144 £550 -8.33% 36
Buckinghamshire +22 91 £575 +8.80% 3
Berkshire -6 67 £460 -4.66% 28
Surrey -11 12 £475 -13.64% 18
West Sussex -24 4 £613 +19.51% 6
Middlesex -20 2 - -
Oxfordshire -23 2 £363 - 7
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 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.45%) Confluence
2 8 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.53%) Apache
3 5 (1.53%) nginx
4 4 (1.23%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.61%) Houdini
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.61%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (29.75%) Azure
2 55 (16.87%) AWS
3 17 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.60%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.07%) IaaS
5 10 (3.07%) Rubrik
6 9 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (2.15%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.84%) GCP
9 5 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.92%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.92%) PaaS
12 2 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.61%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.31%) Datadog
13 1 (0.31%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 96 (29.45%) DNS
2 66 (20.25%) Firewall
3 52 (15.95%) DHCP
4 37 (11.35%) VPN
5 32 (9.82%) WAN
6 31 (9.51%) VLAN
6 31 (9.51%) VSAN
7 28 (8.59%) LAN
8 27 (8.28%) TCP/IP
9 22 (6.75%) Cisco Firepower
10 20 (6.13%) Cisco ASA
10 20 (6.13%) SD-WAN
11 17 (5.21%) BGP
11 17 (5.21%) Network Security
12 15 (4.60%) IPsec
13 14 (4.29%) SSL
14 13 (3.99%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (3.99%) OSPF
15 12 (3.68%) NGFW
16 10 (3.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (2.76%) JIRA
2 6 (1.84%) GitLab
3 5 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.61%) Git
6 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.31%) MSI
6 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 65 (19.94%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (4.29%) Finance
4 10 (3.07%) Manufacturing
5 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.45%) Retail
6 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.84%) Military
8 4 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Legal
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (24.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (17.79%) Senior
3 38 (11.66%) Architect
4 37 (11.35%) VMware Engineer
5 36 (11.04%) Network Engineer
6 33 (10.12%) Lead
7 30 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (9.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (8.28%) Support Engineer
9 26 (7.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 24 (7.36%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (5.83%) Storage Engineer
12 16 (4.91%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 13 (3.99%) Senior Network Engineer
13 13 (3.99%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.68%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.68%) Technical Architect
15 11 (3.37%) Administrator
15 11 (3.37%) Citrix Engineer
15 11 (3.37%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.59%) Terraform
2 4 (1.23%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.92%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.92%) REST
4 2 (0.61%) Middleware
4 2 (0.61%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.61%) YAML
5 1 (0.31%) Kafka
5 1 (0.31%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.31%) LDAP
5 1 (0.31%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.31%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.31%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.31%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.04%) Data Centre
2 34 (10.43%) PKI
3 29 (8.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (6.13%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.21%) Private Cloud
6 13 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.07%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.15%) SCADA
9 6 (1.84%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.53%) Life Science
10 5 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.53%) Replication
11 4 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.23%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (52.76%) Windows
2 115 (35.28%) Windows Server
3 78 (23.93%) Linux
4 23 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.15%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.84%) Debian
8 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.92%) Rocky
10 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.31%) VMS
11 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (20.86%) ITIL
4 65 (19.94%) Technical Leadership
5 50 (15.34%) ITSM
6 46 (14.11%) Change Management
7 37 (11.35%) Agile
8 34 (10.43%) Service Management
9 33 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (9.20%) High Availability
12 29 (8.90%) CI/CD
13 28 (8.59%) Migration
14 26 (7.98%) Disaster Recovery
14 26 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (7.98%) Service Delivery
15 25 (7.67%) Network Virtualisation
16 22 (6.75%) DevOps
17 20 (6.13%) Roadmaps
17 20 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (23.01%) PowerShell
2 30 (9.20%) Python
3 25 (7.67%) SQL
4 13 (3.99%) Bash
5 4 (1.23%) Java
6 3 (0.92%) Bicep
6 3 (0.92%) C
6 3 (0.92%) Lua
6 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (73.01%) Security Cleared
2 150 (46.01%) DV Cleared
3 106 (32.52%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (7.67%) Degree
6 21 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (5.21%) VCAP
8 16 (4.91%) CCNP
9 14 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.45%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 6 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.84%) MCSA
13 5 (1.53%) CCSE
13 5 (1.53%) CCSM
13 5 (1.53%) MCSE
14 4 (1.23%) CCNA
15 3 (0.92%) CCA
15 3 (0.92%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.60%) NIST
2 14 (4.29%) NCSC
3 9 (2.76%) SLA
4 4 (1.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.23%) GxP
4 4 (1.23%) QA
5 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.61%) GDPR
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 213 (65.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (29.45%) VMware ESXi
3 95 (29.14%) Active Directory
4 87 (26.69%) VMware NSX
5 47 (14.42%) vSphere
6 38 (11.66%) Hyper-V
7 27 (8.28%) vCloud
8 22 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (3.99%) Docker
10 12 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (1.53%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.61%) UAG
12 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 91 (27.91%) vCenter Server
2 60 (18.40%) SCOM
3 34 (10.43%) Ansible
4 16 (4.91%) Avamar
5 15 (4.60%) Kubernetes
6 12 (3.68%) SCCM
7 8 (2.45%) Grafana
7 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.45%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.53%) Packer
9 4 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.23%) WMI
10 3 (0.92%) Argo
10 3 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.92%) Istio
10 3 (0.92%) Nagios
10 3 (0.92%) Podman
10 3 (0.92%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.92%) SCSM
Vendors
1 89 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.87%) Cisco
3 32 (9.82%) SolarWinds
4 30 (9.20%) Citrix
5 29 (8.90%) Palo Alto
6 22 (6.75%) ServiceNow
7 19 (5.83%) Broadcom
8 18 (5.52%) Dell
9 16 (4.91%) Red Hat
10 14 (4.29%) Juniper
11 13 (3.99%) F5
11 13 (3.99%) Thales
11 13 (3.99%) Veeam
12 12 (3.68%) NetApp
13 10 (3.07%) CheckPoint
13 10 (3.07%) Fortinet
14 9 (2.76%) Meraki
15 6 (1.84%) Remedy
16 5 (1.53%) Becrypt
16 5 (1.53%) Splunk