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 27 February 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
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 34 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 265 185 341
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.41% 5.90% 6.22%
As % of the Vendors category 11.31% 11.70% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 136 209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £439 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +10.54% -2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £561
90th Percentile £725 £686 £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £493
% change year-on-year - +6.60% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 17
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.40
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £54.50
Median hourly rate £87.00 £81.25 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +18.39% +0.93%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 £78.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%

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 2,343 1,581 2,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.83% 50.41% 49.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 1,027 1,696
10th Percentile £263 £243 £205
25th Percentile £413 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £687 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 59 156
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.44 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.28 £23.84 £18.44
Median hourly rate £26.97 £27.76 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -41.56% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66.88 £63.13 £62.66
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% +18.38% -21.21%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +6 129 £550 -4.35% 34
Thames Valley -25 104 £483 -12.27% 32
Berkshire -11 85 £475 -13.64% 16
Buckinghamshire -22 16 £600 -2.83% 9
Surrey -2 13 £400 -18.37% 12
West Sussex -6 10 £575 +4.55%
Kent -8 5 £568 -0.18% 5
East Sussex +6 4 £473 +190.77% 1
Oxfordshire -11 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 13 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Apache
3 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.75%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.08%) Azure
2 71 (26.79%) AWS
3 39 (14.72%) OpenShift
4 19 (7.17%) Entra ID
5 18 (6.79%) GitHub
5 18 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (6.79%) IaaS
6 17 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.91%) PaaS
8 12 (4.53%) GCP
9 8 (3.02%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.51%) SaaS
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
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 71 (26.79%) DNS
2 44 (16.60%) DHCP
3 43 (16.23%) Firewall
4 24 (9.06%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.17%) VLAN
6 16 (6.04%) VPN
7 14 (5.28%) SAN
8 12 (4.53%) FTP
9 11 (4.15%) VSAN
10 8 (3.02%) WAN
11 7 (2.64%) BGP
11 7 (2.64%) NAS
12 6 (2.26%) LAN
13 5 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (1.89%) iSCSI
13 5 (1.89%) SNMP
14 4 (1.51%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (1.51%) Network Security
14 4 (1.51%) VoIP
14 4 (1.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.64%) Redis
3 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (4.15%) GitLab
4 9 (3.40%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.40%) JMeter
4 9 (3.40%) JUnit
5 5 (1.89%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.13%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) Git
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 50 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.06%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.15%) Finance
5 8 (3.02%) Military
6 6 (2.26%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.26%) Legal
7 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.13%) Banking
8 3 (1.13%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Back Office
9 1 (0.38%) Front Office
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (29.06%) Architect
2 44 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.57%) Infrastructure Architect
4 26 (9.81%) Support Engineer
5 21 (7.92%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (7.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 21 (7.92%) VMware Engineer
6 20 (7.55%) VMware Architect
7 15 (5.66%) Senior
8 12 (4.53%) Lead
8 12 (4.53%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.15%) Analyst
9 11 (4.15%) Technical Architect
10 10 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.77%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (3.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.40%) Developer
12 8 (3.02%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.17%) Kafka
2 9 (3.40%) Spring
3 8 (3.02%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.02%) Loki
4 7 (2.64%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.51%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.51%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.38%) JSON
7 1 (0.38%) Middleware
7 1 (0.38%) OAuth
7 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.38%) OpenID
7 1 (0.38%) REST
7 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.08%) PKI
2 24 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (6.04%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.53%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.77%) Fat Client
6 10 (3.77%) Thin Client
7 9 (3.40%) Replication
8 8 (3.02%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.02%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.75%) NHS
13 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 101 (38.11%) Linux
2 100 (37.74%) Windows
3 56 (21.13%) Windows Server
4 32 (12.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.77%) Windows 7
6 8 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.64%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.89%) CentOS
8 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.51%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.51%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.13%) Debian
10 3 (1.13%) Unix
11 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.38%) Solaris
11 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.28%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 59 (22.26%) Agile
4 48 (18.11%) ITIL
5 41 (15.47%) CI/CD
6 34 (12.83%) DevSecOps
7 29 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (10.57%) Containerisation
9 26 (9.81%) Roadmaps
10 25 (9.43%) DevOps
11 23 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (8.30%) Observability
13 21 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (7.92%) High Availability
14 19 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (6.79%) Prototyping
15 18 (6.79%) Service Management
16 17 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (6.42%) Migration
17 15 (5.66%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.11%) Python
2 32 (12.08%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.19%) Bash
4 13 (4.91%) Java
5 8 (3.02%) SQL
6 3 (1.13%) Perl
7 2 (0.75%) Bicep
7 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 169 (63.77%) Security Cleared
2 86 (32.45%) SC Cleared
3 78 (29.43%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.17%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.53%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.15%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (4.15%) Server+ Certification
7 9 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.64%) CCNP
8 7 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.26%) MCSE
10 4 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.51%) CCIE
10 4 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.51%) VCDX
11 2 (0.75%) CCNA
11 2 (0.75%) JNCIE
11 2 (0.75%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.53%) NCSC
2 6 (2.26%) NIST
3 4 (1.51%) SLA
4 3 (1.13%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) QA
6 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (56.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 77 (29.06%) Active Directory
3 38 (14.34%) Hyper-V
3 38 (14.34%) vSphere
4 33 (12.45%) VMware NSX
5 22 (8.30%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (4.91%) Docker
7 11 (4.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (3.40%) NFS
9 8 (3.02%) vCloud
10 4 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.13%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.13%) KVM
12 2 (0.75%) Firmware
12 2 (0.75%) 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 57 (21.51%) Ansible
2 37 (13.96%) Kubernetes
3 32 (12.08%) Terraform
3 32 (12.08%) vCenter Server
4 21 (7.92%) Argo
5 20 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (7.17%) Grafana
6 19 (7.17%) Prometheus
7 16 (6.04%) Red Hat Satellite
8 15 (5.66%) SCCM
9 11 (4.15%) Progress Chef
10 10 (3.77%) WMI
11 9 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (3.02%) Kustomize
13 6 (2.26%) Istio
13 6 (2.26%) linkerd
13 6 (2.26%) SCOM
14 2 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.75%) vRealize
14 2 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 77 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 51 (19.25%) Red Hat
3 24 (9.06%) Citrix
4 21 (7.92%) Cisco
5 9 (3.40%) F5
5 9 (3.40%) Splunk
6 8 (3.02%) NetApp
6 8 (3.02%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.26%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.26%) Juniper
7 6 (2.26%) Pure Storage
8 5 (1.89%) Dell
8 5 (1.89%) Veeam
9 4 (1.51%) Broadcom
9 4 (1.51%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.13%) Aruba
11 2 (0.75%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.75%) Zerto