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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 35 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 264 174 357
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.13% 5.77% 6.33%
As % of the Vendors category 10.98% 11.28% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 128 223
10th Percentile £363 £359 £331
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £514
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +10.60% -6.25%
75th Percentile £618 £641 £575
90th Percentile £725 £691 £619
England median daily rate £525 £536 £496
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.91% -5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.30
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £62.63
Median hourly rate £87.00 £81.25 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +18.39% +3.98%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -3.45% +28.89% -13.46%

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 2,404 1,542 2,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.69% 51.16% 49.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,698 1,029 1,706
10th Percentile £275 £242 £205
25th Percentile £413 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 74 158
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.54 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.07 £17.03
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.92 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.86% -30.56%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £88.00 £73.88 £70.57
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +7 137 £550 -4.35% 37
Thames Valley -22 96 £488 -11.36% 31
Berkshire -17 73 £475 -13.64% 14
Buckinghamshire -23 20 £588 -4.47% 10
Surrey -2 14 £400 -20.00% 14
West Sussex -6 10 £575 +4.55% 1
Kent -13 4 £571 +26.80% 5
East Sussex +6 3 £775 +376.92% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 £425 - 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 15 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.76%) Apache
3 2 (0.76%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.92%) Azure
2 63 (23.86%) AWS
3 38 (14.39%) OpenShift
4 19 (7.20%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.20%) IaaS
5 18 (6.82%) GitHub
5 18 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.30%) PaaS
8 13 (4.92%) GCP
9 8 (3.03%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.89%) SaaS
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.38%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (25.00%) DNS
2 43 (16.29%) Firewall
3 36 (13.64%) DHCP
4 18 (6.82%) TCP/IP
4 18 (6.82%) VPN
5 13 (4.92%) SAN
6 12 (4.55%) FTP
6 12 (4.55%) VSAN
7 11 (4.17%) VLAN
8 8 (3.03%) WAN
9 6 (2.27%) BGP
9 6 (2.27%) NAS
10 5 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (1.89%) LAN
10 5 (1.89%) Network Security
11 4 (1.52%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.52%) VXLAN
12 3 (1.14%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (1.14%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.03%) Redis
3 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (4.55%) GitLab
4 9 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.41%) JMeter
4 9 (3.41%) JUnit
5 6 (2.27%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.14%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) Git
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 49 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.85%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.17%) Finance
5 10 (3.79%) Military
6 7 (2.65%) Legal
7 6 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (28.41%) Architect
2 38 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (9.47%) Infrastructure Architect
4 23 (8.71%) VMware Engineer
5 20 (7.58%) Senior
5 20 (7.58%) VMware Architect
6 14 (5.30%) Network Engineer
7 13 (4.92%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.55%) Lead
9 11 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.17%) Technical Architect
10 10 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) Analyst
10 10 (3.79%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (3.41%) Developer
12 8 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support
12 8 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 8 (3.03%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.58%) Kafka
2 9 (3.41%) Spring
3 8 (3.03%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.03%) Keycloak
3 8 (3.03%) Loki
4 4 (1.52%) Software Packaging
4 4 (1.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.38%) JSON
6 1 (0.38%) Middleware
6 1 (0.38%) OAuth
6 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.38%) OpenID
6 1 (0.38%) REST
6 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.12%) PKI
2 25 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.30%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.30%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.41%) Fat Client
5 9 (3.41%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.41%) Thin Client
6 8 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.03%) Replication
6 8 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.76%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.38%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 98 (37.12%) Windows
2 96 (36.36%) Linux
3 62 (23.48%) Windows Server
4 30 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.79%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.41%) Windows 7
7 8 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.27%) CentOS
9 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.52%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.14%) Debian
11 3 (1.14%) Unix
12 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.38%) Solaris
12 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.11%) Agile
2 57 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 43 (16.29%) CI/CD
5 38 (14.39%) ITIL
6 31 (11.74%) DevSecOps
6 31 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (11.36%) Roadmaps
8 29 (10.98%) Containerisation
9 28 (10.61%) DevOps
10 26 (9.85%) High Availability
11 24 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (8.71%) Observability
13 19 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (6.82%) Migration
15 16 (6.06%) Prototyping
16 15 (5.68%) Load Balancing
17 13 (4.92%) Infrastructure Management
17 13 (4.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.80%) Python
2 36 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.23%) Bash
4 13 (4.92%) Java
5 6 (2.27%) SQL
6 3 (1.14%) Perl
7 2 (0.76%) Bicep
7 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 174 (65.91%) Security Cleared
2 89 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 78 (29.55%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (2.65%) CCNP
8 7 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.52%) MCSE
9 4 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.52%) VCDX
10 3 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.14%) Server+ Certification
10 3 (1.14%) VCAP
11 2 (0.76%) CCIE
11 2 (0.76%) CCNA
11 2 (0.76%) RHCE
11 2 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.55%) NCSC
2 6 (2.27%) NIST
3 3 (1.14%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.14%) SLA
4 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 153 (57.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (30.30%) Active Directory
3 39 (14.77%) vSphere
4 33 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 33 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 20 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (5.68%) Docker
7 11 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (3.41%) vCloud
9 7 (2.65%) NFS
10 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.14%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.14%) Firmware
11 3 (1.14%) KVM
12 2 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.38%) RHEV
13 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.38%) UAG
13 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (21.21%) Ansible
2 39 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 34 (12.88%) vCenter Server
4 33 (12.50%) Terraform
5 22 (8.33%) Argo
6 20 (7.58%) Grafana
6 20 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (7.58%) Prometheus
7 16 (6.06%) SCCM
8 13 (4.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (4.17%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.41%) WMI
11 8 (3.03%) Kustomize
12 7 (2.65%) SCOM
13 6 (2.27%) Istio
13 6 (2.27%) linkerd
14 3 (1.14%) WSUS
15 2 (0.76%) Rancher
15 2 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (26.52%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.56%) Red Hat
3 23 (8.71%) Citrix
4 19 (7.20%) Cisco
5 9 (3.41%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.03%) F5
6 8 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.03%) Splunk
7 6 (2.27%) Pure Storage
8 5 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.89%) NetApp
8 5 (1.89%) Veeam
9 4 (1.52%) Broadcom
9 4 (1.52%) Dell
9 4 (1.52%) Juniper
9 4 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.14%) Aruba
10 3 (1.14%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.76%) Rackspace