VMware Contracts 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware 163 353 454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.42% 6.35% 7.82%
As % of the Vendors category 10.32% 13.40% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 239 331
10th Percentile £397 £350 £320
25th Percentile £522 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -4.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £579 £600
90th Percentile £675 £619 £675
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 22
10th Percentile £33.08 £33.85 £47.59
25th Percentile £40.69 £53.88 £52.19
Median hourly rate £55.25 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.15% +12.50% +200.00%
75th Percentile £71.69 £76.25 £79.13
90th Percentile £80.43 £78.50 £81.26
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £63.00
% change year-on-year +56.99% -26.70% +76.84%

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 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the South East

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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 1 May 2025. 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 -3 78 £558 +6.19% 57
Hampshire -3 60 £575 +6.98% 53
Berkshire +5 55 £540 +7.78% 32
Buckinghamshire -7 22 £628 +14.19% 15
Kent +12 12 £451 +33.48% 16
West Sussex -16 5 £550 +18.92% 11
Surrey -10 4 £500 +24.22% 26
East Sussex -3 2 £163 -65.79% 6
Oxfordshire -10 1 - - 16
Sussex - 1 - - 6
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England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.07%) IIS
3 4 (2.45%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (28.83%) Azure
2 30 (18.40%) AWS
3 26 (15.95%) IaaS
3 26 (15.95%) PaaS
4 20 (12.27%) SaaS
5 19 (11.66%) OpenShift
6 17 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (6.13%) GCP
8 6 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.07%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 39 (23.93%) DNS
2 30 (18.40%) Firewall
3 26 (15.95%) DHCP
4 18 (11.04%) VSAN
5 17 (10.43%) SMTP
6 15 (9.20%) VPN
7 11 (6.75%) SD-WAN
7 11 (6.75%) TCP/IP
8 9 (5.52%) WAN
9 8 (4.91%) iSCSI
9 8 (4.91%) NGFW
9 8 (4.91%) SAN
10 7 (4.29%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (3.68%) BGP
11 6 (3.68%) MPLS
11 6 (3.68%) NetScaler
11 6 (3.68%) OSPF
12 5 (3.07%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.07%) Network Security
12 5 (3.07%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (4.91%) Big Data
1 8 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.84%) GitLab
1 3 (1.84%) JIRA
2 2 (1.23%) Git
2 2 (1.23%) Subversion
General
1 26 (15.95%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.04%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.07%) Finance
6 2 (1.23%) Electronics
6 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.23%) Marketing
6 2 (1.23%) Military
7 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Law
7 1 (0.61%) Legal
7 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (30.67%) Architect
2 49 (30.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (11.66%) Infrastructure Architect
4 18 (11.04%) Senior
5 15 (9.20%) Technical Architect
6 12 (7.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) 3rd Line Support
7 11 (6.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Senior Architect
7 11 (6.75%) Senior Technical Architect
7 11 (6.75%) Support Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) VMware Architect
8 10 (6.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Support
8 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) Lead
8 10 (6.13%) VMware Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.07%) LDAP
2 4 (2.45%) Kafka
2 4 (2.45%) SAML
3 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.18%) PKI
2 22 (13.50%) Data Centre
3 21 (12.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (10.43%) Public Cloud
5 16 (9.82%) Clustering
6 14 (8.59%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.29%) Driving Licence
8 6 (3.68%) Client/Server
9 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.84%) Replication
12 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
13 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 86 (52.76%) Windows
2 60 (36.81%) Windows Server
3 53 (32.52%) Linux
4 18 (11.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (10.43%) Windows 10
6 14 (8.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (7.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (4.91%) CentOS
8 8 (4.91%) Ubuntu
8 8 (4.91%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (2.45%) Solaris
9 4 (2.45%) Unix
10 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.23%) AIX
11 2 (1.23%) Android
11 2 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.23%) VMS
12 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.79%) Agile
3 28 (17.18%) ITIL
4 26 (15.95%) DevSecOps
5 25 (15.34%) DevOps
6 23 (14.11%) TOGAF
7 22 (13.50%) CI/CD
7 22 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (11.66%) Migration
9 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.82%) Microservices
11 15 (9.20%) Containerisation
11 15 (9.20%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (9.20%) IT Strategy
12 14 (8.59%) Application Packaging
12 14 (8.59%) Zachman Framework
13 13 (7.98%) Technology Strategy
14 12 (7.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (29.45%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.36%) Python
3 10 (6.13%) SQL
4 6 (3.68%) VBScript
5 5 (3.07%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.84%) Bash
7 2 (1.23%) Perl
8 1 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 106 (65.03%) Security Cleared
2 56 (34.36%) DV Cleared
3 52 (31.90%) SC Cleared
4 22 (13.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (12.27%) MCSE
6 18 (11.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (6.13%) Degree
8 6 (3.68%) CCNP
8 6 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.45%) VCP5
9 4 (2.45%) VCP6
10 3 (1.84%) CISSP
10 3 (1.84%) VCAP
11 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.23%) CISM
11 2 (1.23%) MCP
12 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.66%) NIST
2 16 (9.82%) NCSC
3 12 (7.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.68%) SLA
5 3 (1.84%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.23%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) QA
7 1 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.61%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 100 (61.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 60 (36.81%) Active Directory
3 37 (22.70%) VMware ESXi
4 35 (21.47%) vSphere
5 30 (18.40%) VMware NSX
6 22 (13.50%) Hyper-V
7 12 (7.36%) NFS
8 11 (6.75%) Docker
9 9 (5.52%) BitLocker
10 8 (4.91%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (4.91%) Terminal Services
11 6 (3.68%) DFS Replication
11 6 (3.68%) XenApp
12 5 (3.07%) XenDesktop
13 4 (2.45%) Samba
14 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (19.02%) Ansible
2 23 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (14.11%) vCenter Server
3 11 (6.75%) Puppet
3 11 (6.75%) Terraform
4 8 (4.91%) Nagios
4 8 (4.91%) vMotion
4 8 (4.91%) WSUS
5 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.29%) Nessus
5 7 (4.29%) vRealize
6 6 (3.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 6 (3.68%) yum
7 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (3.07%) SCCM
8 4 (2.45%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.84%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.84%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (1.84%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 58 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.34%) HP
3 22 (13.50%) Citrix
3 22 (13.50%) Dell
3 22 (13.50%) Red Hat
4 21 (12.88%) Cisco
5 15 (9.20%) Palo Alto
6 13 (7.98%) Symantec
7 9 (5.52%) Wyse
8 8 (4.91%) Google
9 6 (3.68%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.68%) Veeam
9 6 (3.68%) Veritas
10 5 (3.07%) NetApp
10 5 (3.07%) Splunk
11 4 (2.45%) 3PAR
11 4 (2.45%) Juniper
12 3 (1.84%) Commvault
12 3 (1.84%) NETGEAR
12 3 (1.84%) Oracle