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 6 August 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 45 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 335 165 379
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.02% 4.71% 7.63%
As % of the Vendors category 11.49% 8.95% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 120 252
10th Percentile £415 £348 £360
25th Percentile £463 £498 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +5.28% +8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £598
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 3
10th Percentile - £28.95 £25.04
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.39 £28.99
Median hourly rate £58.74 £32.77 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +79.23% -9.39% -33.72%
75th Percentile £67.47 £96.39 £58.37
90th Percentile - £134.55 £71.35
England median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +23.72%

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 2,916 1,844 2,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.67% 52.69% 48.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,828 1,221 1,439
10th Percentile £281 £210 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £626
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 119 141
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £28.80 £15.00 £22.58
Median hourly rate £56.00 £19.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +194.74% -66.87% +27.44%
75th Percentile £83.00 £38.42 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +17 163 £536 +1.83% 29
Hampshire 0 153 £575 -4.17% 23
Buckinghamshire +19 95 £590 +12.01% 3
Berkshire -13 66 £449 -18.45% 19
Surrey -13 13 £475 -13.64% 18
Middlesex -16 2 - -
Oxfordshire -20 2 £363 - 7
West Sussex -25 2 - - 6
East Sussex +3 1 £800 - 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 14 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.49%) Apache
3 5 (1.49%) Confluence
3 5 (1.49%) nginx
4 4 (1.19%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.19%) 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 98 (29.25%) Azure
2 61 (18.21%) AWS
3 20 (5.97%) Entra ID
3 20 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.28%) IaaS
5 10 (2.99%) Rubrik
6 8 (2.39%) GCP
7 7 (2.09%) PaaS
8 6 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.49%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.90%) SaaS
12 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 97 (28.96%) DNS
2 62 (18.51%) Firewall
3 51 (15.22%) DHCP
4 36 (10.75%) VPN
5 34 (10.15%) VSAN
6 33 (9.85%) WAN
7 31 (9.25%) VLAN
8 26 (7.76%) LAN
9 23 (6.87%) SD-WAN
9 23 (6.87%) TCP/IP
10 22 (6.57%) Cisco Firepower
11 20 (5.97%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (5.07%) BGP
12 17 (5.07%) Network Security
13 16 (4.78%) IPsec
13 16 (4.78%) SSL
14 14 (4.18%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (4.18%) OSPF
15 12 (3.58%) NGFW
16 10 (2.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (1.79%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.19%) GitLab
3 4 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.90%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.60%) Git
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.48%) Finance
4 13 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.58%) Military
6 10 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.39%) Retail
8 7 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.79%) Legal
10 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 78 (23.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (16.72%) Senior
3 43 (12.84%) Architect
4 39 (11.64%) Network Engineer
5 37 (11.04%) VMware Engineer
6 29 (8.66%) Lead
7 27 (8.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (7.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.57%) Support Engineer
11 18 (5.37%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 16 (4.78%) Senior Network Engineer
13 15 (4.48%) Storage Engineer
14 14 (4.18%) VMware Architect
15 13 (3.88%) Technical Architect
16 12 (3.58%) Linux Engineer
17 11 (3.28%) Administrator
17 11 (3.28%) Citrix Engineer
17 11 (3.28%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.49%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.90%) REST
3 2 (0.60%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.60%) Kafka
3 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.30%) LDAP
4 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.30%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.30%) YAML
4 1 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.64%) PKI
2 36 (10.75%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (7.16%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.07%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.79%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.79%) Replication
9 6 (1.79%) SCADA
10 5 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.49%) Life Science
11 4 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 163 (48.66%) Windows
2 105 (31.34%) Windows Server
3 87 (25.97%) Linux
4 24 (7.16%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.09%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.79%) Debian
7 6 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.49%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.90%) CentOS
9 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 78 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (18.81%) ITIL
4 51 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
5 44 (13.13%) ITSM
6 41 (12.24%) High Availability
7 40 (11.94%) Change Management
8 38 (11.34%) Agile
9 33 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (8.66%) Service Management
12 28 (8.36%) Migration
13 27 (8.06%) Roadmaps
14 26 (7.76%) CI/CD
14 26 (7.76%) Service Delivery
15 25 (7.46%) Network Virtualisation
16 22 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 21 (6.27%) Disaster Recovery
18 19 (5.67%) Load Balancing
18 19 (5.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.40%) PowerShell
2 30 (8.96%) Python
3 21 (6.27%) SQL
4 7 (2.09%) Bash
5 4 (1.19%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) C
6 3 (0.90%) Lua
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 247 (73.73%) Security Cleared
2 151 (45.07%) DV Cleared
3 109 (32.54%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (6.57%) Degree
6 17 (5.07%) CCNP
6 17 (5.07%) VCAP
7 14 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 6 (1.79%) MCSA
10 5 (1.49%) CCNA
10 5 (1.49%) CCSE
10 5 (1.49%) CCSM
10 5 (1.49%) MCSE
11 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.19%) CCIE
12 3 (0.90%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.78%) NIST
2 15 (4.48%) NCSC
3 8 (2.39%) SLA
4 5 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.19%) GxP
5 4 (1.19%) QA
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 219 (65.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 104 (31.04%) Active Directory
3 85 (25.37%) VMware ESXi
3 85 (25.37%) VMware NSX
4 42 (12.54%) vSphere
5 40 (11.94%) Hyper-V
6 24 (7.16%) vCloud
7 23 (6.87%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.99%) Docker
10 2 (0.60%) Firmware
10 2 (0.60%) UAG
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 85 (25.37%) vCenter Server
2 49 (14.63%) SCOM
3 35 (10.45%) Ansible
4 29 (8.66%) Terraform
5 16 (4.78%) Avamar
6 13 (3.88%) Kubernetes
7 11 (3.28%) Red Hat Satellite
7 11 (3.28%) SCCM
8 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.49%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.49%) Grafana
9 5 (1.49%) Packer
9 5 (1.49%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.19%) Argo
10 4 (1.19%) WMI
11 3 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.90%) Nagios
11 3 (0.90%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 94 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 57 (17.01%) Cisco
3 31 (9.25%) Citrix
3 31 (9.25%) SolarWinds
4 30 (8.96%) Palo Alto
5 21 (6.27%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.67%) Red Hat
7 18 (5.37%) Broadcom
7 18 (5.37%) Dell
8 14 (4.18%) Juniper
9 13 (3.88%) F5
9 13 (3.88%) Thales
9 13 (3.88%) Veeam
10 12 (3.58%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.58%) NetApp
11 11 (3.28%) CheckPoint
12 10 (2.99%) Meraki
13 6 (1.79%) Remedy
13 6 (1.79%) Splunk
13 6 (1.79%) Zerto