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 28 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 43 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 331 169 361
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.99% 4.79% 7.56%
As % of the Vendors category 11.46% 9.28% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 126 242
10th Percentile £420 £353 £360
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £645
England median daily rate £526 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.43% +6.80% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 2
10th Percentile £33.70 £28.95 £23.72
25th Percentile £49.78 £30.39 £25.70
Median hourly rate £65.24 £32.77 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year +99.08% +11.91% -43.99%
75th Percentile £68.99 £96.39 £33.16
90th Percentile £78.50 £134.55 £35.31
England median hourly rate £67.00 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +113.48% -37.23% -14.89%

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 2,889 1,822 2,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.58% 51.61% 48.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,798 1,221 1,396
10th Percentile £281 £208 £253
25th Percentile £425 £365 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
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 246 111 133
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £19.05 £15.00 £26.03
Median hourly rate £50.99 £18.87 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +170.23% -67.10% +18.49%
75th Percentile £77.50 £39.54 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £73.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +24 161 £536 +0.88% 33
Hampshire +1 148 £550 -8.33% 32
Buckinghamshire +18 93 £575 +8.80% 3
Berkshire -7 66 £460 -18.22% 25
Surrey -11 13 £475 -13.64% 21
West Sussex -21 3 £700 +27.27% 4
Middlesex -18 2 - -
Oxfordshire -24 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 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.11%) Confluence
3 5 (1.51%) Apache
3 5 (1.51%) nginx
4 4 (1.21%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) 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 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (29.61%) Azure
2 57 (17.22%) AWS
3 16 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.53%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.32%) IaaS
6 10 (3.02%) Rubrik
7 9 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.42%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.11%) GCP
10 5 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.21%) PaaS
11 4 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.91%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
14 1 (0.30%) Datadog
14 1 (0.30%) GitHub
14 1 (0.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (29.31%) DNS
2 67 (20.24%) Firewall
3 53 (16.01%) DHCP
4 38 (11.48%) VPN
5 33 (9.97%) VSAN
5 33 (9.97%) WAN
6 32 (9.67%) VLAN
7 28 (8.46%) LAN
8 27 (8.16%) TCP/IP
9 22 (6.65%) Cisco Firepower
10 21 (6.34%) SD-WAN
11 20 (6.04%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (5.14%) BGP
12 17 (5.14%) Network Security
13 15 (4.53%) IPsec
14 14 (4.23%) SSL
15 13 (3.93%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (3.93%) OSPF
16 12 (3.63%) NGFW
17 10 (3.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.91%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (2.42%) JIRA
2 6 (1.81%) GitLab
3 5 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.60%) Git
5 2 (0.60%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.53%) Finance
4 11 (3.32%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.02%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.42%) Retail
7 7 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.81%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.81%) Military
9 4 (1.21%) Legal
9 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 84 (25.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 59 (17.82%) Senior
3 40 (12.08%) Architect
4 37 (11.18%) Network Engineer
4 37 (11.18%) VMware Engineer
5 32 (9.67%) Lead
5 32 (9.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (7.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 26 (7.85%) Support Engineer
7 26 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.44%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 17 (5.14%) Storage Engineer
10 14 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
11 12 (3.63%) Technical Architect
11 12 (3.63%) Technical Leader
11 12 (3.63%) VMware Architect
12 11 (3.32%) Administrator
12 11 (3.32%) Citrix Engineer
12 11 (3.32%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.37%) Terraform
2 4 (1.21%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.91%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.91%) 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 (10.88%) Data Centre
2 35 (10.57%) PKI
3 29 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (6.65%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.44%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.63%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.32%) 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%) Replication
11 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.21%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 169 (51.06%) Windows
2 111 (33.53%) Windows Server
3 81 (24.47%) Linux
4 24 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.81%) Debian
8 5 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.21%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) CentOS
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 92 (27.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (25.08%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (20.85%) ITIL
4 63 (19.03%) Technical Leadership
5 49 (14.80%) ITSM
6 45 (13.60%) Change Management
7 40 (12.08%) Agile
8 34 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (9.97%) Service Management
10 32 (9.67%) High Availability
11 31 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (8.46%) Migration
13 27 (8.16%) CI/CD
13 27 (8.16%) Service Delivery
14 26 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (7.85%) Network Virtualisation
15 25 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (6.95%) DevOps
17 22 (6.65%) Roadmaps
18 21 (6.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.66%) PowerShell
2 32 (9.67%) Python
3 24 (7.25%) SQL
4 10 (3.02%) Bash
5 4 (1.21%) Java
6 3 (0.91%) Bicep
6 3 (0.91%) C
6 3 (0.91%) Lua
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 245 (74.02%) Security Cleared
2 150 (45.32%) DV Cleared
3 111 (33.53%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (7.55%) Degree
6 21 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (5.44%) VCAP
8 16 (4.83%) CCNP
9 14 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.72%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.42%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.42%) 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 (1.21%) CCNA
15 3 (0.91%) CCA
15 3 (0.91%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.53%) NIST
2 14 (4.23%) NCSC
3 8 (2.42%) SLA
4 4 (1.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.21%) GxP
4 4 (1.21%) QA
5 3 (0.91%) 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
1 219 (66.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (29.00%) Active Directory
3 91 (27.49%) VMware ESXi
4 88 (26.59%) VMware NSX
5 45 (13.60%) vSphere
6 38 (11.48%) Hyper-V
7 26 (7.85%) vCloud
8 21 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (3.63%) Docker
9 12 (3.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.91%) 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 (27.49%) vCenter Server
2 58 (17.52%) SCOM
3 35 (10.57%) Ansible
4 17 (5.14%) Kubernetes
5 16 (4.83%) Avamar
6 11 (3.32%) SCCM
7 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (2.11%) Grafana
8 7 (2.11%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.51%) Packer
10 4 (1.21%) Argo
10 4 (1.21%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.21%) WMI
11 3 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.91%) Istio
11 3 (0.91%) Nagios
11 3 (0.91%) Rancher
11 3 (0.91%) SCSM
11 3 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 90 (27.19%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.62%) Cisco
3 32 (9.67%) SolarWinds
4 30 (9.06%) Citrix
5 29 (8.76%) Palo Alto
6 22 (6.65%) ServiceNow
7 19 (5.74%) Broadcom
8 18 (5.44%) Dell
9 17 (5.14%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.93%) F5
10 13 (3.93%) Juniper
10 13 (3.93%) Thales
10 13 (3.93%) Veeam
11 12 (3.63%) NetApp
12 11 (3.32%) Fortinet
13 10 (3.02%) CheckPoint
14 9 (2.72%) Meraki
15 6 (1.81%) Remedy
15 6 (1.81%) Splunk
16 5 (1.51%) Becrypt