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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 36 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 285 159 352
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.86% 5.30% 6.35%
As % of the Vendors category 11.39% 10.06% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 113 239
10th Percentile £400 £395 £350
25th Percentile £485 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.52% -2.67%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £579
90th Percentile £725 £675 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £57.43 £33.08 £33.85
25th Percentile £73.00 £40.69 £53.88
Median hourly rate £87.00 £55.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.47% -18.15% +12.50%
75th Percentile £96.88 £71.69 £76.25
90th Percentile £101.75 £80.43 £78.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -26.32%

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 2,502 1,580 2,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.67% 52.63% 47.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 1,057 1,596
10th Percentile £300 £250 £213
25th Percentile £413 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +2.93% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 91 184
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £17.09
Median hourly rate £47.54 £24.66 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +92.78% -51.88% +13.89%
75th Percentile £87.50 £59.44 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £67.02
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +7 152 £600 +4.35% 28
Thames Valley -15 109 £517 -6.00% 32
Berkshire -23 57 £405 -24.86% 17
Buckinghamshire -3 50 £575 -6.88% 11
Surrey -6 13 £400 -20.00% 15
West Sussex -16 5 £625 +13.64% 3
Kent -18 3 £575 +27.64% 5
East Sussex +2 2 £788 +384.62%
Oxfordshire -21 2 £425 - 4
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 (4.91%) 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 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 95 (33.33%) Azure
2 68 (23.86%) AWS
3 24 (8.42%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.96%) IaaS
4 17 (5.96%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.96%) PaaS
5 16 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.21%) GCP
7 11 (3.86%) GitHub
7 11 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.11%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.75%) SaaS
10 4 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.35%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (23.16%) DNS
2 45 (15.79%) Firewall
3 41 (14.39%) DHCP
4 24 (8.42%) VPN
5 21 (7.37%) WAN
6 20 (7.02%) VSAN
7 16 (5.61%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.26%) FTP
9 14 (4.91%) LAN
9 14 (4.91%) SAN
10 12 (4.21%) VLAN
11 10 (3.51%) BGP
11 10 (3.51%) Network Security
11 10 (3.51%) SD-WAN
12 9 (3.16%) NAS
13 8 (2.81%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (2.81%) OSPF
14 7 (2.46%) BIG-IP
14 7 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.16%) Redis
3 3 (1.05%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 10 (3.51%) GitLab
3 7 (2.46%) Robot Framework
4 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.75%) JMeter
4 5 (1.75%) JUnit
5 1 (0.35%) JIRA
5 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 42 (14.74%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.07%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.51%) Finance
4 10 (3.51%) Military
5 9 (3.16%) Legal
6 6 (2.11%) Retail
7 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Back Office
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (26.32%) Architect
2 46 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (10.88%) Senior
3 31 (10.88%) VMware Engineer
4 25 (8.77%) Network Engineer
4 25 (8.77%) VMware Architect
5 23 (8.07%) Infrastructure Architect
6 18 (6.32%) Technical Architect
7 14 (4.91%) Lead
7 14 (4.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Analyst
10 11 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Capacity Manager
11 10 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Service Manager
11 10 (3.51%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.16%) Senior Network Engineer
13 8 (2.81%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.91%) Kafka
2 9 (3.16%) Keycloak
3 5 (1.75%) Spring
4 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.40%) Software Packaging
5 3 (1.05%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.35%) JSON
6 1 (0.35%) Middleware
6 1 (0.35%) REST
6 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.58%) PKI
2 28 (9.82%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.72%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (5.96%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.56%) Private Cloud
7 11 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.11%) Replication
10 5 (1.75%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.75%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (36.14%) Windows
2 79 (27.72%) Linux
3 67 (23.51%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (3.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.75%) Debian
8 5 (1.75%) Windows 7
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (22.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 58 (20.35%) Agile
4 49 (17.19%) ITIL
5 36 (12.63%) Roadmaps
6 33 (11.58%) CI/CD
7 32 (11.23%) High Availability
8 30 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (10.18%) DevSecOps
10 27 (9.47%) DevOps
11 24 (8.42%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (7.37%) Migration
14 20 (7.02%) Containerisation
14 20 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.02%) Service Delivery
14 20 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (6.32%) ITSM
16 17 (5.96%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.98%) PowerShell
2 28 (9.82%) Python
3 10 (3.51%) Bash
4 9 (3.16%) SQL
5 6 (2.11%) Java
6 2 (0.70%) Bicep
6 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 204 (71.58%) Security Cleared
2 112 (39.30%) DV Cleared
3 98 (34.39%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.61%) CCNP
4 16 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (4.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (3.51%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.81%) Degree
7 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.46%) VCAP
9 6 (2.11%) MCSE
10 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.05%) CCSM
12 2 (0.70%) CCIE
12 2 (0.70%) CCNA
12 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.70%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.70%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.32%) NCSC
2 16 (5.61%) NIST
3 7 (2.46%) SLA
4 5 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 171 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 85 (29.82%) Active Directory
3 49 (17.19%) VMware NSX
4 37 (12.98%) Hyper-V
5 34 (11.93%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (9.47%) vSphere
7 13 (4.56%) vCloud
8 11 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (3.16%) Docker
10 8 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (1.75%) NFS
12 3 (1.05%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.05%) Firmware
12 3 (1.05%) UAG
13 1 (0.35%) KVM
13 1 (0.35%) RHEV
13 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (14.74%) Ansible
2 37 (12.98%) vCenter Server
3 29 (10.18%) Terraform
4 20 (7.02%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (5.96%) SCCM
6 13 (4.56%) SCOM
7 10 (3.51%) Grafana
7 10 (3.51%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.16%) Argo
8 9 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.81%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.11%) Istio
10 6 (2.11%) linkerd
10 6 (2.11%) WMI
11 5 (1.75%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.40%) WSUS
13 3 (1.05%) Rancher
13 3 (1.05%) SCSM
14 2 (0.70%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 76 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.63%) Cisco
3 29 (10.18%) Red Hat
4 27 (9.47%) Citrix
5 19 (6.67%) Palo Alto
6 14 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.56%) F5
8 9 (3.16%) Broadcom
8 9 (3.16%) Splunk
8 9 (3.16%) Veeam
9 8 (2.81%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.11%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.11%) Juniper
10 6 (2.11%) Zerto
11 5 (1.75%) NetApp
11 5 (1.75%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.40%) NVIDIA
12 4 (1.40%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.05%) Becrypt
13 3 (1.05%) Meraki