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 29 April 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
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 280 163 348
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.81% 5.47% 6.31%
As % of the Vendors category 11.27% 10.48% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 115 236
10th Percentile £400 £396 £350
25th Percentile £485 £519 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.64% -3.62%
75th Percentile £644 £630 £583
90th Percentile £725 £675 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £57.43 £33.08 £33.85
25th Percentile £73.00 £40.69 £53.88
Median hourly rate £87.00 £55.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.47% -18.15% +12.50%
75th Percentile £96.88 £71.69 £76.25
90th Percentile £101.75 £80.43 £78.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -26.51%

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 2,485 1,556 2,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.70% 52.20% 47.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,042 1,591
10th Percentile £306 £247 £213
25th Percentile £413 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 91 180
10th Percentile £13.43 £14.20 £11.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £17.09
Median hourly rate £47.54 £24.66 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +92.78% -49.42% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85.63 £59.44 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.25 £65.20
England median hourly rate £30.49 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.87% +22.22% -43.75%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +9 147 £600 +3.45% 29
Thames Valley -19 108 £525 -4.55% 29
Berkshire -19 59 £433 -19.91% 17
Buckinghamshire -11 47 £595 -4.65% 8
Surrey -8 13 £400 -23.81% 12
West Sussex -12 6 £600 +9.09% 3
Kent -17 3 £575 +27.64% 4
East Sussex +2 2 £788 +384.62%
Oxfordshire -18 2 £425 - 4
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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) WordPress
4 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.21%) Azure
2 67 (23.93%) AWS
3 24 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.43%) OpenShift
5 17 (6.07%) IaaS
5 17 (6.07%) PaaS
6 16 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (4.29%) GCP
8 11 (3.93%) GitHub
8 11 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.14%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.79%) SaaS
11 4 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.36%) Cohesity
14 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 66 (23.57%) DNS
2 47 (16.79%) Firewall
3 42 (15.00%) DHCP
4 24 (8.57%) VPN
5 21 (7.50%) WAN
6 20 (7.14%) VSAN
7 16 (5.71%) SAN
7 16 (5.71%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.36%) FTP
9 14 (5.00%) LAN
10 12 (4.29%) VLAN
11 11 (3.93%) NAS
12 10 (3.57%) BGP
12 10 (3.57%) Network Security
12 10 (3.57%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (2.86%) OSPF
14 7 (2.50%) BIG-IP
14 7 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.21%) Redis
3 3 (1.07%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.57%) GitLab
1 10 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (2.14%) Robot Framework
3 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 5 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.79%) JMeter
3 5 (1.79%) JUnit
4 1 (0.36%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 44 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.57%) Finance
4 10 (3.57%) Military
5 9 (3.21%) Legal
6 6 (2.14%) Retail
7 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Front Office
10 1 (0.36%) Police
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (27.50%) Architect
2 45 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (11.07%) Senior
3 31 (11.07%) VMware Engineer
4 25 (8.93%) Infrastructure Architect
4 25 (8.93%) VMware Architect
5 24 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 18 (6.43%) Technical Architect
7 14 (5.00%) Lead
7 14 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Analyst
9 11 (3.93%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.57%) Capacity Manager
10 10 (3.57%) Service Manager
10 10 (3.57%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (3.21%) Senior Network Engineer
12 8 (2.86%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.00%) Kafka
2 9 (3.21%) Keycloak
3 5 (1.79%) Spring
4 4 (1.43%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.43%) Software Packaging
5 3 (1.07%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.36%) JSON
6 1 (0.36%) Loki
6 1 (0.36%) Middleware
6 1 (0.36%) REST
6 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.07%) PKI
2 28 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.43%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.64%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.86%) Replication
9 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.79%) Fat Client
10 5 (1.79%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (35.36%) Windows
2 82 (29.29%) Linux
3 64 (22.86%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (3.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.21%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.79%) Debian
7 5 (1.79%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.43%) CentOS
8 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
10 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (22.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 57 (20.36%) Agile
4 48 (17.14%) ITIL
5 37 (13.21%) Roadmaps
6 33 (11.79%) High Availability
7 32 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 31 (11.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (10.36%) DevSecOps
10 27 (9.64%) DevOps
11 24 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (7.50%) Migration
15 20 (7.14%) Containerisation
15 20 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (7.14%) Service Delivery
15 20 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (5.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.36%) Python
3 12 (4.29%) Bash
4 6 (2.14%) Java
4 6 (2.14%) SQL
5 2 (0.71%) Bicep
5 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 199 (71.07%) Security Cleared
2 107 (38.21%) DV Cleared
3 96 (34.29%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.71%) CCNP
4 16 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.50%) Degree
8 7 (2.50%) VCAP
9 6 (2.14%) MCSE
10 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.07%) CCSM
12 2 (0.71%) CCIE
12 2 (0.71%) CCNA
12 2 (0.71%) CCSE
12 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.43%) NCSC
2 16 (5.71%) NIST
3 7 (2.50%) SLA
4 5 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 168 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (29.29%) Active Directory
3 48 (17.14%) VMware NSX
4 36 (12.86%) Hyper-V
5 34 (12.14%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (10.36%) vSphere
7 12 (4.29%) vCloud
8 9 (3.21%) Docker
8 9 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.79%) NFS
11 3 (1.07%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.07%) Firmware
11 3 (1.07%) UAG
12 1 (0.36%) KVM
12 1 (0.36%) RHEV
12 1 (0.36%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (15.00%) Ansible
2 35 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 28 (10.00%) Terraform
4 21 (7.50%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (6.07%) SCCM
7 11 (3.93%) Grafana
7 11 (3.93%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.93%) SCOM
8 10 (3.57%) Argo
9 9 (3.21%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.14%) Istio
10 6 (2.14%) linkerd
11 5 (1.79%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.79%) WMI
12 4 (1.43%) WSUS
13 3 (1.07%) Rancher
13 3 (1.07%) SCSM
14 2 (0.71%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 72 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.14%) Cisco
3 31 (11.07%) Red Hat
4 26 (9.29%) Citrix
5 19 (6.79%) Palo Alto
6 14 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.64%) F5
8 9 (3.21%) Broadcom
8 9 (3.21%) Splunk
8 9 (3.21%) Veeam
9 7 (2.50%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.50%) NetApp
10 6 (2.14%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.14%) Juniper
10 6 (2.14%) Zerto
11 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.79%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.43%) NVIDIA
13 3 (1.07%) Becrypt
13 3 (1.07%) Meraki