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 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 33 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 257 193 330
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.36% 6.08% 6.03%
As % of the Vendors category 11.21% 12.09% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 140 200
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £421 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £551 £511
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% +7.93% -4.36%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £561
90th Percentile £725 £685 £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £493
% change year-on-year - +6.60% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.38
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £52.02
Median hourly rate £87.00 £81.25 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +18.39% -1.96%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 £77.27
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -3.45% +18.37% -5.77%

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 2,292 1,597 2,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.79% 50.33% 49.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 1,024 1,699
10th Percentile £263 £250 £205
25th Percentile £411 £408 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 53 157
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.33 £24.18 £18.58
Median hourly rate £26.97 £29.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -38.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65.63 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.25 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
% change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%

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 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 20 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 20 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 +5 125 £538 -6.52% 38
Thames Valley -20 100 £483 -12.27% 39
Berkshire -9 84 £475 -11.87% 17
Surrey -10 13 £400 -16.67% 15
Buckinghamshire -19 13 £568 -8.10% 12
West Sussex -7 10 £575 +24.32% 1
Kent -7 6 £559 -1.72% 6
East Sussex +7 3 £170 +4.62% 3
Oxfordshire -12 3 £425 - 10
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 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 82 (31.91%) Azure
2 71 (27.63%) AWS
3 40 (15.56%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.00%) GitHub
4 18 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (6.61%) IaaS
6 16 (6.23%) Entra ID
7 15 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.67%) GCP
8 12 (4.67%) PaaS
9 7 (2.72%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.56%) SaaS
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.39%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.39%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 67 (26.07%) DNS
2 43 (16.73%) Firewall
3 40 (15.56%) DHCP
4 24 (9.34%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.39%) VLAN
6 15 (5.84%) SAN
6 15 (5.84%) VPN
7 11 (4.28%) VSAN
8 10 (3.89%) FTP
9 8 (3.11%) BGP
9 8 (3.11%) NAS
9 8 (3.11%) WAN
10 7 (2.72%) LAN
11 6 (2.33%) SNMP
12 5 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (1.95%) iSCSI
12 5 (1.95%) OSPF
13 4 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.56%) PCoIP
13 4 (1.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.72%) Redis
3 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (4.28%) GitLab
4 9 (3.50%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.50%) JMeter
4 9 (3.50%) JUnit
5 4 (1.56%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.17%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) Git
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 49 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.95%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.67%) Finance
5 8 (3.11%) Military
6 6 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.95%) Legal
8 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Banking
9 3 (1.17%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Front Office
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (29.18%) Architect
2 43 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (10.51%) Infrastructure Architect
4 26 (10.12%) Support Engineer
5 21 (8.17%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (8.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 20 (7.78%) VMware Engineer
7 19 (7.39%) VMware Architect
8 13 (5.06%) Senior
9 11 (4.28%) Analyst
9 11 (4.28%) Lead
9 11 (4.28%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.89%) Technical Architect
10 10 (3.89%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (3.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.50%) Developer
12 8 (3.11%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.39%) Kafka
2 9 (3.50%) Spring
3 8 (3.11%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.11%) Loki
4 7 (2.72%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.56%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.39%) JSON
7 1 (0.39%) Middleware
7 1 (0.39%) OAuth
7 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.39%) OpenID
7 1 (0.39%) REST
7 1 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.28%) PKI
2 24 (9.34%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.61%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.67%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.89%) Fat Client
6 10 (3.89%) Thin Client
7 9 (3.50%) Replication
8 8 (3.11%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.11%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.78%) NHS
13 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.39%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 99 (38.52%) Linux
2 95 (36.96%) Windows
3 51 (19.84%) Windows Server
4 31 (12.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.89%) Windows 7
6 7 (2.72%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.56%) CentOS
8 4 (1.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.56%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.17%) Debian
9 3 (1.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.39%) Solaris
10 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (22.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 57 (22.18%) Agile
4 47 (18.29%) ITIL
5 40 (15.56%) CI/CD
6 33 (12.84%) DevSecOps
7 29 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (10.89%) Containerisation
9 24 (9.34%) DevOps
9 24 (9.34%) Roadmaps
10 23 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (8.56%) Observability
12 20 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (7.39%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (6.61%) High Availability
14 17 (6.61%) Migration
14 17 (6.61%) Prototyping
14 17 (6.61%) Service Management
15 16 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (5.84%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.68%) Python
2 31 (12.06%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.51%) Bash
4 13 (5.06%) Java
5 8 (3.11%) SQL
6 3 (1.17%) Perl
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
7 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 162 (63.04%) Security Cleared
2 86 (33.46%) SC Cleared
3 71 (27.63%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.39%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.28%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (4.28%) Server+ Certification
7 10 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (2.72%) CCNP
10 6 (2.33%) MCSE
11 5 (1.95%) CCIE
12 4 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.56%) VCDX
13 3 (1.17%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.78%) CCNA
14 2 (0.78%) RHCE
14 2 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.28%) NCSC
2 5 (1.95%) NIST
3 4 (1.56%) SLA
4 3 (1.17%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (57.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 72 (28.02%) Active Directory
3 39 (15.18%) vSphere
4 37 (14.40%) Hyper-V
5 29 (11.28%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.78%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (5.06%) Docker
8 12 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (3.50%) NFS
10 7 (2.72%) vCloud
11 3 (1.17%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.17%) KVM
12 2 (0.78%) Firmware
12 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.39%) RHEV
13 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.39%) UAG
13 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (22.18%) Ansible
2 37 (14.40%) Kubernetes
3 32 (12.45%) Terraform
3 32 (12.45%) vCenter Server
4 21 (8.17%) Argo
5 19 (7.39%) Grafana
5 19 (7.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (7.39%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.23%) Red Hat Satellite
7 14 (5.45%) SCCM
8 11 (4.28%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.89%) WMI
10 8 (3.11%) Kustomize
10 8 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.33%) Istio
11 6 (2.33%) linkerd
11 6 (2.33%) SCOM
12 2 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.78%) vRealize
12 2 (0.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 73 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 51 (19.84%) Red Hat
3 24 (9.34%) Citrix
4 21 (8.17%) Cisco
5 9 (3.50%) F5
5 9 (3.50%) Splunk
6 8 (3.11%) NetApp
6 8 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.72%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.72%) Juniper
7 7 (2.72%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.33%) Pure Storage
9 5 (1.95%) Dell
9 5 (1.95%) Veeam
10 4 (1.56%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.56%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.17%) Aruba
11 3 (1.17%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.78%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.78%) Zerto