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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 332 177 356
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.03% 5.02% 7.52%
As % of the Vendors category 11.56% 9.71% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 133 238
10th Percentile £420 £329 £354
25th Percentile £463 £480 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £647
England median daily rate £531 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -3.55% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 2
10th Percentile £33.70 £28.95 £23.72
25th Percentile £51.31 £30.39 £25.70
Median hourly rate £67.00 £32.77 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year +104.46% +11.91% -46.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £96.39 £33.16
90th Percentile £95.00 £134.55 £35.31
England median hourly rate £67.47 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +114.98% -37.23% -16.67%

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 2,873 1,822 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.55% 51.70% 48.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,780 1,218 1,382
10th Percentile £281 £208 £255
25th Percentile £425 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 107 129
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £14.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £18.87 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +158.19% -67.10% +13.09%
75th Percentile £75.40 £37.34 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.65 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +24 163 £536 +2.17% 35
Hampshire +1 147 £550 -8.33% 30
Buckinghamshire +21 92 £575 +8.80% 3
Berkshire -7 69 £460 -4.66% 26
Surrey -7 13 £475 -13.64% 19
West Sussex -22 3 £700 +27.27% 6
Middlesex -20 2 - -
Oxfordshire -23 2 £363 - 6
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 8 (2.41%) Confluence
1 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.51%) Apache
2 5 (1.51%) nginx
3 4 (1.20%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 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 97 (29.22%) Azure
2 57 (17.17%) AWS
3 16 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.52%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.01%) IaaS
5 10 (3.01%) Rubrik
6 9 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (2.11%) GCP
7 7 (2.11%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.90%) PaaS
11 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 97 (29.22%) DNS
2 66 (19.88%) Firewall
3 52 (15.66%) DHCP
4 38 (11.45%) VPN
5 33 (9.94%) WAN
6 32 (9.64%) VSAN
7 31 (9.34%) VLAN
8 28 (8.43%) LAN
9 26 (7.83%) TCP/IP
10 22 (6.63%) Cisco Firepower
11 21 (6.33%) SD-WAN
12 20 (6.02%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (5.12%) BGP
13 17 (5.12%) Network Security
14 15 (4.52%) IPsec
15 14 (4.22%) SSL
16 13 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (3.92%) OSPF
17 12 (3.61%) NGFW
18 10 (3.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (2.71%) JIRA
2 7 (2.11%) GitLab
3 5 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.60%) Git
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
General
1 67 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.52%) Finance
4 10 (3.01%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (2.41%) Retail
6 7 (2.11%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.81%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.81%) Military
8 4 (1.20%) Legal
8 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 81 (24.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 60 (18.07%) Senior
3 40 (12.05%) Architect
4 37 (11.14%) Network Engineer
4 37 (11.14%) VMware Engineer
5 33 (9.94%) Lead
6 31 (9.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 30 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (8.13%) Support Engineer
9 26 (7.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 25 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.42%) Storage Engineer
12 17 (5.12%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Senior Network Engineer
14 13 (3.92%) Technical Leader
15 12 (3.61%) Administrator
15 12 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
15 12 (3.61%) Technical Architect
16 11 (3.31%) Citrix Engineer
16 11 (3.31%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.04%) Terraform
2 4 (1.20%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.90%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.90%) REST
4 2 (0.60%) Kafka
4 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.60%) Middleware
4 2 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.60%) YAML
5 1 (0.30%) LDAP
5 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.30%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.84%) Data Centre
2 34 (10.24%) PKI
3 29 (8.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.12%) Private Cloud
6 13 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.31%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.11%) SCADA
9 6 (1.81%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.51%) Life Science
10 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.51%) Replication
11 4 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 172 (51.81%) Windows
2 114 (34.34%) Windows Server
3 82 (24.70%) Linux
4 24 (7.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.81%) Debian
8 5 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.90%) Rocky
9 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.30%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (20.48%) ITIL
4 66 (19.88%) Technical Leadership
5 50 (15.06%) ITSM
6 46 (13.86%) Change Management
7 38 (11.45%) Agile
8 34 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (10.24%) Service Management
9 31 (9.34%) CI/CD
9 31 (9.34%) High Availability
9 31 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (8.43%) Migration
11 27 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (7.83%) Network Virtualisation
12 26 (7.83%) Service Delivery
13 25 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (7.23%) DevOps
15 21 (6.33%) Roadmaps
15 21 (6.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.59%) PowerShell
2 31 (9.34%) Python
3 25 (7.53%) SQL
4 13 (3.92%) Bash
5 4 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) C
6 3 (0.90%) Lua
6 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 245 (73.80%) Security Cleared
2 152 (45.78%) DV Cleared
3 110 (33.13%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (7.53%) Degree
6 21 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (5.12%) VCAP
8 16 (4.82%) CCNP
9 14 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.71%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.41%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 6 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.81%) MCSA
13 5 (1.51%) CCSE
13 5 (1.51%) CCSM
13 5 (1.51%) MCSE
14 4 (1.20%) CCNA
15 3 (0.90%) CCA
15 3 (0.90%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.52%) NIST
2 14 (4.22%) NCSC
3 8 (2.41%) SLA
4 4 (1.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.20%) GxP
4 4 (1.20%) QA
5 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 217 (65.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (28.61%) Active Directory
2 95 (28.61%) VMware ESXi
3 89 (26.81%) VMware NSX
4 47 (14.16%) vSphere
5 38 (11.45%) Hyper-V
6 27 (8.13%) vCloud
7 22 (6.63%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.52%) Docker
9 12 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.20%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.60%) UAG
11 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (27.41%) vCenter Server
2 60 (18.07%) SCOM
3 37 (11.14%) Ansible
4 17 (5.12%) Kubernetes
5 16 (4.82%) Avamar
6 11 (3.31%) SCCM
7 9 (2.71%) Grafana
7 9 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.71%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.51%) Packer
10 4 (1.20%) Argo
10 4 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.20%) WMI
11 3 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.90%) Istio
11 3 (0.90%) Nagios
11 3 (0.90%) Podman
11 3 (0.90%) SCSM
11 3 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 88 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.57%) Cisco
3 32 (9.64%) SolarWinds
4 30 (9.04%) Citrix
5 29 (8.73%) Palo Alto
6 22 (6.63%) ServiceNow
7 19 (5.72%) Broadcom
8 18 (5.42%) Dell
9 17 (5.12%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.92%) F5
10 13 (3.92%) Juniper
10 13 (3.92%) Thales
10 13 (3.92%) Veeam
11 12 (3.61%) NetApp
12 10 (3.01%) CheckPoint
12 10 (3.01%) Fortinet
13 9 (2.71%) Meraki
14 6 (1.81%) Remedy
14 6 (1.81%) Splunk
15 5 (1.51%) Becrypt