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 20 December 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 33 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 234 236 374
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.35% 6.34% 7.47%
As % of the Vendors category 10.46% 12.59% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 175 224
10th Percentile £274 £338 £294
25th Percentile £416 £402 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.52% -0.71%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £671
England median daily rate £525 £512 £500
% change year-on-year +2.62% +2.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 18
10th Percentile £59.94 £39.77 £20.43
25th Percentile £76.00 £46.06 £37.40
Median hourly rate £90.00 £58.08 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +54.95% -12.17% +19.16%
75th Percentile £101.75 £71.06 £76.53
90th Percentile £127.60 £77.92 £76.97
England median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.06% +1.51%

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 2,238 1,874 2,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.18% 50.34% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 1,241 1,679
10th Percentile £221 £239 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £608
90th Percentile £675 £688 £676
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 53 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.36 £24.18 £24.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% -30.91% +129.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.23
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.78 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.84% -32.91% +77.76%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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
Hampshire +7 117 £537 -6.61% 36
Thames Valley -21 88 £483 -12.27% 12
Berkshire -8 79 £483 -12.27% 7
Kent +12 11 £425 +31.78% 13
West Sussex -6 9 £525 +12.30% 3
Buckinghamshire -22 6 £550 -1.12% 4
Surrey -15 5 £443 +4.12% 14
East Sussex +8 3 £170 +4.62% 1
Oxfordshire -12 3 £425 - 1
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 7 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.56%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.35%) AWS
2 62 (26.50%) Azure
3 39 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.69%) GitHub
4 18 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.13%) IaaS
7 9 (3.85%) GCP
8 7 (2.99%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.71%) PaaS
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.43%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.43%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.43%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 53 (22.65%) DNS
2 44 (18.80%) Firewall
3 34 (14.53%) DHCP
4 29 (12.39%) TCP/IP
5 19 (8.12%) VLAN
6 14 (5.98%) SAN
7 13 (5.56%) VSAN
8 12 (5.13%) iSCSI
9 11 (4.70%) Fibre Channel
9 11 (4.70%) LAN
9 11 (4.70%) VPN
10 10 (4.27%) WAN
11 8 (3.42%) NAS
11 8 (3.42%) Wireless
12 7 (2.99%) BGP
12 7 (2.99%) MPLS
12 7 (2.99%) SNMP
13 6 (2.56%) FTP
13 6 (2.56%) OSPF
13 6 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.99%) Redis
2 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (6.84%) GitLab
2 15 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.85%) JMeter
4 9 (3.85%) JUnit
5 3 (1.28%) Maven
6 2 (0.85%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.43%) Git
7 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 56 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.26%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.98%) Finance
5 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.56%) Legal
7 5 (2.14%) Law
8 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Banking
9 3 (1.28%) Military
9 3 (1.28%) Retail
10 2 (0.85%) Back Office
10 2 (0.85%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 62 (26.50%) Architect
2 43 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (10.26%) Infrastructure Architect
3 24 (10.26%) Support Engineer
4 21 (8.97%) VMware Architect
5 20 (8.55%) Infrastructure Support
5 20 (8.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 18 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
7 15 (6.41%) Senior
8 9 (3.85%) Developer
8 9 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.42%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.42%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) Analyst
10 7 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (2.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (2.99%) Lead
10 7 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.12%) Kafka
2 9 (3.85%) Spring
3 8 (3.42%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.42%) Loki
4 7 (2.99%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.71%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.28%) Swagger
7 2 (0.85%) Middleware
7 2 (0.85%) OAuth
7 2 (0.85%) RESTful
7 2 (0.85%) SAML
8 1 (0.43%) LDAP
8 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.43%) OpenID
8 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.83%) PKI
2 19 (8.12%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.84%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.70%) Fat Client
6 11 (4.70%) Thin Client
7 8 (3.42%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.42%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.99%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
10 1 (0.43%) FlexPod
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 93 (39.74%) Windows
2 83 (35.47%) Linux
3 48 (20.51%) Windows Server
4 28 (11.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (5.98%) Windows 10
6 13 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (4.70%) Windows 7
8 9 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (2.99%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.14%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.71%) CentOS
13 3 (1.28%) Debian
13 3 (1.28%) Unix
14 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.43%) Solaris
14 1 (0.43%) VMS
14 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (23.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 50 (21.37%) Agile
4 45 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 45 (19.23%) ITIL
5 28 (11.97%) DevSecOps
6 26 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 25 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (10.26%) Observability
9 21 (8.97%) DevOps
9 21 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (7.69%) Roadmaps
11 17 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (7.26%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (6.84%) Preventative Maintenance
12 16 (6.84%) Prototyping
13 14 (5.98%) Infrastructure Management
13 14 (5.98%) Validation
13 14 (5.98%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 58 (24.79%) Python
2 39 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 35 (14.96%) Bash
4 18 (7.69%) SQL
5 17 (7.26%) Java
6 8 (3.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.28%) Go
7 3 (1.28%) Perl
8 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 142 (60.68%) Security Cleared
2 78 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 65 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 26 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 16 (6.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (6.41%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.70%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (4.70%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (4.27%) MCSE
10 8 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.99%) CCIE
12 6 (2.56%) JNCIE
13 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (2.14%) Degree
14 4 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.71%) VCAP
14 4 (1.71%) VCDX
14 4 (1.71%) VCP5
14 4 (1.71%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) GDPR
2 6 (2.56%) NCSC
3 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.71%) QA
5 3 (1.28%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.28%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) RMADS
6 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 137 (58.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (27.35%) Active Directory
3 47 (20.09%) vSphere
4 30 (12.82%) Hyper-V
5 29 (12.39%) VMware NSX
6 24 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.98%) Docker
7 14 (5.98%) NFS
8 7 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.14%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.28%) KVM
12 2 (0.85%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.85%) Firmware
12 2 (0.85%) UAG
12 2 (0.85%) vCloud
12 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.43%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (23.93%) Ansible
2 37 (15.81%) Kubernetes
3 33 (14.10%) Terraform
4 25 (10.68%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.97%) Argo
6 18 (7.69%) Grafana
6 18 (7.69%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.98%) SCCM
8 13 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (4.70%) Progress Chef
10 10 (4.27%) WMI
11 8 (3.42%) Kustomize
12 7 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (2.99%) vRealize
13 6 (2.56%) Istio
13 6 (2.56%) linkerd
14 5 (2.14%) SCOM
14 5 (2.14%) VxRail
15 4 (1.71%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 77 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 45 (19.23%) Red Hat
3 24 (10.26%) Citrix
4 19 (8.12%) Cisco
5 16 (6.84%) NetApp
5 16 (6.84%) Splunk
6 12 (5.13%) Veeam
7 9 (3.85%) F5
8 8 (3.42%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.42%) Juniper
9 6 (2.56%) Dell
9 6 (2.56%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.28%) EMC
11 3 (1.28%) Oracle
11 3 (1.28%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.28%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.85%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.85%) Symantec