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 13 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
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 35 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 265 172 356
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.08% 5.77% 6.33%
As % of the Vendors category 10.93% 11.32% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 126 221
10th Percentile £368 £350 £331
25th Percentile £450 £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £514
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +10.60% -6.38%
75th Percentile £618 £647 £575
90th Percentile £725 £694 £619
England median daily rate £525 £531 £490
% change year-on-year -1.18% +8.42% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.25
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £42.75
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 £75.00 £49.88
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.36% -23.26%

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 2,424 1,520 2,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.43% 51.01% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 1,008 1,700
10th Percentile £281 £234 £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 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 76 158
10th Percentile £13.13 £16.66 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.22 £17.03
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £82.75 £62.81 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +23.12% -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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +8 134 £550 -4.35% 39
Thames Valley -26 101 £490 -10.91% 33
Berkshire -15 74 £475 -13.64% 16
Buckinghamshire -20 24 £560 -8.94% 11
Surrey -3 14 £400 -20.00% 12
West Sussex -8 10 £575 +4.55%
Kent -16 4 £571 +71.80% 2
Oxfordshire - 3 £425 - 6
East Sussex +5 2 £788 +384.62% 2
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 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Apache
3 2 (0.75%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.70%) Azure
2 68 (25.66%) AWS
3 38 (14.34%) OpenShift
4 20 (7.55%) Entra ID
5 19 (7.17%) IaaS
6 18 (6.79%) GitHub
6 18 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (5.28%) PaaS
9 13 (4.91%) GCP
10 8 (3.02%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.89%) SaaS
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.38%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 67 (25.28%) DNS
2 47 (17.74%) Firewall
3 37 (13.96%) DHCP
4 21 (7.92%) TCP/IP
5 18 (6.79%) VPN
6 14 (5.28%) SAN
7 12 (4.53%) FTP
7 12 (4.53%) VSAN
8 11 (4.15%) WAN
9 10 (3.77%) VLAN
10 8 (3.02%) BGP
10 8 (3.02%) LAN
10 8 (3.02%) Network Security
11 7 (2.64%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.64%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (2.64%) NAS
12 6 (2.26%) OSPF
13 5 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (1.89%) IPsec
13 5 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.02%) Redis
3 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (4.53%) GitLab
4 9 (3.40%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.40%) JMeter
4 9 (3.40%) JUnit
5 6 (2.26%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.13%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) Git
7 1 (0.38%) JIRA
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 48 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.19%) Public Sector
3 22 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.53%) Finance
5 10 (3.77%) Military
6 7 (2.64%) Legal
7 6 (2.26%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.51%) Retail
9 3 (1.13%) Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (27.92%) Architect
2 38 (14.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (9.81%) Infrastructure Architect
4 23 (8.68%) VMware Engineer
5 22 (8.30%) Senior
6 18 (6.79%) Network Engineer
6 18 (6.79%) VMware Architect
7 12 (4.53%) Lead
7 12 (4.53%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.15%) Technical Architect
9 10 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 10 (3.77%) Analyst
9 10 (3.77%) Wintel Analyst
10 9 (3.40%) Developer
11 8 (3.02%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (2.64%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.55%) Kafka
2 9 (3.40%) Spring
3 8 (3.02%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.02%) Keycloak
3 8 (3.02%) Loki
4 4 (1.51%) Software Packaging
4 4 (1.51%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.13%) 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 (12.08%) PKI
2 24 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.04%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.28%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.40%) Fat Client
7 9 (3.40%) Private Cloud
7 9 (3.40%) Thin Client
8 8 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.02%) Replication
8 8 (3.02%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.38%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 98 (36.98%) Windows
2 96 (36.23%) Linux
3 61 (23.02%) Windows Server
4 30 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.77%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.40%) Windows 7
7 8 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.26%) CentOS
9 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.51%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.51%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.13%) Debian
11 3 (1.13%) Unix
12 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.38%) Solaris
12 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.40%) Agile
2 57 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (21.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 42 (15.85%) CI/CD
4 42 (15.85%) ITIL
5 31 (11.70%) DevSecOps
5 31 (11.70%) Roadmaps
6 30 (11.32%) High Availability
6 30 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (10.57%) Containerisation
7 28 (10.57%) DevOps
8 24 (9.06%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (8.68%) Observability
10 21 (7.92%) Migration
11 20 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (6.04%) Load Balancing
13 16 (6.04%) Prototyping
13 16 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (4.91%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.74%) Python
2 35 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.19%) Bash
4 13 (4.91%) Java
5 6 (2.26%) SQL
6 3 (1.13%) Perl
7 2 (0.75%) Bicep
7 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 176 (66.42%) Security Cleared
2 90 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 78 (29.43%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.02%) CCNP
7 8 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.51%) MCSE
8 4 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.13%) Server+ Certification
10 2 (0.75%) CCIE
10 2 (0.75%) CCNA
10 2 (0.75%) CCSM
10 2 (0.75%) Degree
10 2 (0.75%) RHCE
10 2 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.53%) NCSC
2 7 (2.64%) NIST
3 4 (1.51%) SLA
4 3 (1.13%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.75%) 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
1 156 (58.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (30.19%) Active Directory
3 38 (14.34%) vSphere
4 34 (12.83%) Hyper-V
5 31 (11.70%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.92%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (5.66%) Docker
8 11 (4.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (3.40%) vCloud
10 7 (2.64%) NFS
11 4 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (1.13%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.13%) Firmware
12 3 (1.13%) KVM
13 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.38%) RHEV
14 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.38%) UAG
14 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (20.75%) Ansible
2 38 (14.34%) Kubernetes
3 34 (12.83%) vCenter Server
4 32 (12.08%) Terraform
5 22 (8.30%) Argo
6 20 (7.55%) Grafana
6 20 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (7.55%) Prometheus
7 16 (6.04%) SCCM
8 13 (4.91%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (4.15%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (3.40%) WMI
11 8 (3.02%) Kustomize
12 7 (2.64%) SCOM
13 6 (2.26%) Istio
13 6 (2.26%) linkerd
14 3 (1.13%) WSUS
15 2 (0.75%) Rancher
15 2 (0.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 70 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.49%) Red Hat
3 23 (8.68%) Cisco
3 23 (8.68%) Citrix
4 13 (4.91%) Palo Alto
5 11 (4.15%) F5
5 11 (4.15%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.02%) Splunk
7 6 (2.26%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.26%) Pure Storage
8 5 (1.89%) NetApp
8 5 (1.89%) Veeam
9 4 (1.51%) Broadcom
9 4 (1.51%) Dell
9 4 (1.51%) Juniper
9 4 (1.51%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.51%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.13%) Aruba
10 3 (1.13%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.13%) NVIDIA