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 10 August 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
10 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 44 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 -24 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 334 164 379
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.00% 4.64% 7.73%
As % of the Vendors category 11.42% 8.78% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 119 255
10th Percentile £420 £350 £360
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +3.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £603
90th Percentile £725 £650 £642
England median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 3
10th Percentile £33.70 £28.95 £25.04
25th Percentile £37.33 £30.39 £28.99
Median hourly rate £61.11 £32.77 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +86.47% -9.39% -33.72%
75th Percentile £67.47 £96.39 £58.37
90th Percentile £69.59 £134.55 £71.35
England median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +25.55%

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 2,924 1,867 2,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.75% 52.87% 48.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,829 1,238 1,441
10th Percentile £281 £213 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £628
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 120 139
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £29.07 £15.13 £24.39
Median hourly rate £57.00 £19.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -66.87% +27.44%
75th Percentile £82.50 £36.79 £61.45
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.39% -16.17% -20.00%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +17 165 £536 +1.83% 31
Hampshire +3 147 £560 -6.67% 29
Buckinghamshire +21 98 £583 +10.58% 3
Berkshire -15 65 £455 -17.27% 21
Surrey -17 13 £475 -13.64% 15
Middlesex -15 2 - -
Oxfordshire -25 2 £363 - 7
West Sussex -27 2 - - 5
East Sussex +3 1 £800 - 1
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 12 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) Apache
3 5 (1.50%) Confluence
3 5 (1.50%) nginx
4 4 (1.20%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.60%) Houdini
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (31.44%) Azure
2 61 (18.26%) AWS
3 21 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.99%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.59%) IaaS
6 10 (2.99%) Rubrik
7 8 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (2.40%) GCP
8 7 (2.10%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.80%) PaaS
10 5 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.90%) SaaS
13 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
14 1 (0.30%) Datadog
14 1 (0.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 98 (29.34%) DNS
2 67 (20.06%) Firewall
3 54 (16.17%) DHCP
4 38 (11.38%) VPN
5 35 (10.48%) WAN
6 34 (10.18%) VSAN
7 32 (9.58%) VLAN
8 28 (8.38%) LAN
9 25 (7.49%) TCP/IP
10 23 (6.89%) SD-WAN
11 22 (6.59%) Cisco Firepower
12 20 (5.99%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (5.09%) BGP
13 17 (5.09%) Network Security
14 16 (4.79%) IPsec
14 16 (4.79%) SSL
15 14 (4.19%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (4.19%) OSPF
16 12 (3.59%) NGFW
17 10 (2.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (1.80%) JIRA
2 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.20%) GitLab
3 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.90%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.60%) Git
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 69 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.49%) Finance
4 13 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.99%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.99%) Military
6 8 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.40%) Retail
7 7 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.80%) Legal
9 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (24.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 60 (17.96%) Senior
3 42 (12.57%) Architect
4 39 (11.68%) Network Engineer
5 35 (10.48%) VMware Engineer
6 30 (8.98%) Lead
6 30 (8.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (7.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 26 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (6.59%) Support Engineer
10 18 (5.39%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 16 (4.79%) Senior Network Engineer
12 15 (4.49%) Storage Engineer
13 14 (4.19%) Technical Architect
14 12 (3.59%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) VMware Architect
15 11 (3.29%) Administrator
15 11 (3.29%) Citrix Engineer
15 11 (3.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.50%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.90%) REST
3 2 (0.60%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.60%) Kafka
3 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.60%) Middleware
3 2 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.30%) LDAP
4 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.30%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.30%) YAML
4 1 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.68%) PKI
2 36 (10.78%) Data Centre
3 29 (8.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (7.19%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.09%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.69%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.10%) SCADA
10 6 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.80%) Replication
11 5 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.50%) Life Science
12 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 169 (50.60%) Windows
2 111 (33.23%) Windows Server
3 88 (26.35%) Linux
4 24 (7.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.10%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.80%) Debian
7 6 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.50%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.90%) CentOS
9 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (19.76%) ITIL
4 53 (15.87%) Technical Leadership
5 45 (13.47%) ITSM
6 42 (12.57%) Change Management
7 41 (12.28%) High Availability
8 38 (11.38%) Agile
9 33 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (9.28%) Service Management
10 31 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (8.68%) Migration
12 27 (8.08%) CI/CD
12 27 (8.08%) Roadmaps
13 26 (7.78%) Service Delivery
14 25 (7.49%) Network Virtualisation
15 24 (7.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (6.89%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (6.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 20 (5.99%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 70 (20.96%) PowerShell
2 31 (9.28%) Python
3 22 (6.59%) SQL
4 8 (2.40%) Bash
5 4 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) C
6 3 (0.90%) Lua
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 246 (73.65%) Security Cleared
2 149 (44.61%) DV Cleared
3 112 (33.53%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 23 (6.89%) Degree
6 22 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (5.09%) CCNP
7 17 (5.09%) VCAP
8 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.69%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.40%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 6 (1.80%) MCSA
12 5 (1.50%) CCNA
12 5 (1.50%) CCSE
12 5 (1.50%) CCSM
12 5 (1.50%) MCSE
13 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.20%) CCIE
13 4 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.09%) NCSC
1 17 (5.09%) NIST
2 8 (2.40%) SLA
3 5 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.20%) GxP
4 4 (1.20%) QA
5 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 222 (66.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 103 (30.84%) Active Directory
3 85 (25.45%) VMware ESXi
3 85 (25.45%) VMware NSX
4 43 (12.87%) Hyper-V
5 42 (12.57%) vSphere
6 23 (6.89%) vCloud
6 23 (6.89%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (3.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (3.29%) Docker
9 2 (0.60%) Firmware
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.60%) UAG
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 84 (25.15%) vCenter Server
2 52 (15.57%) SCOM
3 34 (10.18%) Ansible
4 31 (9.28%) Terraform
5 16 (4.79%) Avamar
6 15 (4.49%) Kubernetes
7 11 (3.29%) SCCM
8 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.80%) Grafana
10 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.50%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (1.50%) Packer
12 4 (1.20%) Argo
12 4 (1.20%) WMI
13 3 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.90%) Nagios
13 3 (0.90%) SCSM
13 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 100 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 57 (17.07%) Cisco
3 32 (9.58%) Palo Alto
4 31 (9.28%) Citrix
4 31 (9.28%) SolarWinds
5 22 (6.59%) ServiceNow
6 18 (5.39%) Broadcom
6 18 (5.39%) Dell
7 16 (4.79%) Red Hat
8 14 (4.19%) Juniper
9 13 (3.89%) F5
9 13 (3.89%) Thales
9 13 (3.89%) Veeam
10 12 (3.59%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.59%) NetApp
11 11 (3.29%) CheckPoint
12 10 (2.99%) Meraki
13 6 (1.80%) Remedy
13 6 (1.80%) Splunk
13 6 (1.80%) Zerto
117 VMware jobs in the South East