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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -19 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 323 167 390
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.95% 4.91% 7.08%
As % of the Vendors category 11.58% 9.13% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 118 261
10th Percentile £417 £354 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +8.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £588
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile - £28.95 £26.35
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.39 £32.29
Median hourly rate £48.73 £32.77 £53.08
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% -38.27% -2.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £96.39 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.47 £134.55 £78.50
England median hourly rate £54.87 £34.71 £40.13
% change year-on-year +58.09% -13.50% -24.25%

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 2,790 1,829 2,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.77% 53.81% 46.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,798 1,192 1,534
10th Percentile £283 £215 £255
25th Percentile £425 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £614
90th Percentile £694 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 118 163
10th Percentile £16.40 £14.20 £13.20
25th Percentile £26.81 £15.25 £20.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.33 £55.08
Median % change year-on-year +170.54% -63.09% +22.39%
75th Percentile £85.00 £44.33 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.93 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +7 160 £536 -0.02% 20
Hampshire +7 145 £575 -4.17% 21
Buckinghamshire +21 94 £590 +12.01% 6
Berkshire -26 64 £450 -18.18% 12
Surrey -13 10 £475 -13.64% 13
West Sussex -21 4 £600 +9.09% 5
Middlesex -10 2 - -
Oxfordshire -26 2 £363 - 2
East Sussex +1 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 16 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Apache
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
3 3 (0.93%) FactoryTalk
3 3 (0.93%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.62%) Houdini
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.62%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (30.03%) Azure
2 64 (19.81%) AWS
3 21 (6.50%) Entra ID
4 18 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.10%) IaaS
6 9 (2.79%) Rubrik
7 8 (2.48%) GCP
8 7 (2.17%) PaaS
9 6 (1.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.55%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.93%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.93%) SaaS
13 2 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.62%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.62%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (26.32%) DNS
2 58 (17.96%) Firewall
3 42 (13.00%) DHCP
4 33 (10.22%) VPN
4 33 (10.22%) VSAN
4 33 (10.22%) WAN
5 27 (8.36%) LAN
6 26 (8.05%) VLAN
7 23 (7.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 20 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
8 20 (6.19%) SD-WAN
9 19 (5.88%) Network Security
9 19 (5.88%) TCP/IP
10 16 (4.95%) IPsec
10 16 (4.95%) SSL
11 14 (4.33%) BGP
11 14 (4.33%) Cisco Nexus
12 13 (4.02%) NGFW
13 12 (3.72%) OSPF
14 10 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.93%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (1.24%) JIRA
1 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
2 3 (0.93%) GitLab
2 3 (0.93%) Robot Framework
3 2 (0.62%) Git
3 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 62 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.33%) Finance
5 12 (3.72%) Military
6 8 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.48%) Legal
6 8 (2.48%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.48%) Retail
7 7 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Advertising
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (22.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (16.10%) Senior
3 46 (14.24%) Architect
4 37 (11.46%) Network Engineer
5 33 (10.22%) VMware Engineer
6 24 (7.43%) Lead
7 23 (7.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 19 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (5.88%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Technical Architect
11 15 (4.64%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 14 (4.33%) VMware Architect
13 13 (4.02%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) Administrator
14 12 (3.72%) Storage Engineer
15 11 (3.41%) Citrix Engineer
15 11 (3.41%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.55%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.93%) REST
2 3 (0.93%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.62%) Kafka
3 2 (0.62%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.62%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.31%) JSON
4 1 (0.31%) LDAP
4 1 (0.31%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 38 (11.76%) PKI
2 26 (8.05%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.17%) Replication
9 6 (1.86%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.55%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.55%) SCADA
11 4 (1.24%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.93%) Life Science
12 3 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.62%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 149 (46.13%) Windows
2 90 (27.86%) Windows Server
3 86 (26.63%) Linux
4 19 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.86%) Debian
6 6 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.93%) CentOS
9 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) VMS
11 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (17.65%) ITIL
4 45 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
5 41 (12.69%) High Availability
6 39 (12.07%) ITSM
7 36 (11.15%) Agile
8 32 (9.91%) Change Management
9 31 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (8.98%) Migration
12 27 (8.36%) Roadmaps
12 27 (8.36%) Service Management
13 26 (8.05%) CI/CD
14 24 (7.43%) Network Virtualisation
14 24 (7.43%) Service Delivery
15 22 (6.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (5.88%) DevSecOps
16 19 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 18 (5.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.72%) PowerShell
2 22 (6.81%) Python
3 21 (6.50%) SQL
4 3 (0.93%) Bash
4 3 (0.93%) Java
5 2 (0.62%) Bicep
5 2 (0.62%) C
5 2 (0.62%) Lua
6 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 237 (73.37%) Security Cleared
2 145 (44.89%) DV Cleared
3 108 (33.44%) SC Cleared
4 26 (8.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (6.50%) CCNP
7 18 (5.57%) Degree
8 16 (4.95%) VCAP
9 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.48%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 8 (2.48%) MCSE
11 6 (1.86%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.55%) CCSE
12 5 (1.55%) CCSM
12 5 (1.55%) MCSA
13 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.93%) CCA
14 3 (0.93%) CCIE
14 3 (0.93%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.19%) NIST
2 18 (5.57%) NCSC
3 8 (2.48%) SLA
4 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.24%) QA
6 3 (0.93%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (0.93%) GxP
6 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 210 (65.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (30.96%) Active Directory
3 83 (25.70%) VMware NSX
4 77 (23.84%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (12.69%) vSphere
6 36 (11.15%) Hyper-V
7 23 (7.12%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (6.50%) vCloud
9 14 (4.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.17%) Docker
11 3 (0.93%) Firmware
11 3 (0.93%) UAG
Systems Management
1 74 (22.91%) vCenter Server
2 41 (12.69%) SCOM
3 32 (9.91%) Ansible
4 25 (7.74%) Terraform
5 14 (4.33%) Avamar
5 14 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.02%) SCCM
7 11 (3.41%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (2.79%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.55%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.55%) Grafana
9 5 (1.55%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.24%) WMI
11 3 (0.93%) Argo
11 3 (0.93%) Packer
11 3 (0.93%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.93%) Rancher
11 3 (0.93%) SCSM
11 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 56 (17.34%) Cisco
3 37 (11.46%) Citrix
4 30 (9.29%) Palo Alto
5 25 (7.74%) SolarWinds
6 20 (6.19%) Red Hat
7 18 (5.57%) ServiceNow
8 17 (5.26%) Broadcom
9 15 (4.64%) Dell
10 14 (4.33%) F5
11 13 (4.02%) Fortinet
11 13 (4.02%) Juniper
11 13 (4.02%) Veeam
12 12 (3.72%) NetApp
13 11 (3.41%) CheckPoint
13 11 (3.41%) Thales
14 7 (2.17%) Meraki
14 7 (2.17%) Zerto
15 6 (1.86%) Becrypt
16 5 (1.55%) Splunk