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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 263 179 352
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.16% 5.78% 6.34%
As % of the Vendors category 10.94% 11.37% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 133 219
10th Percentile £363 £350 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +7.83% -3.58%
75th Percentile £616 £630 £569
90th Percentile £725 £687 £619
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.35
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £53.62
Median hourly rate £87.00 £81.25 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +18.39% +0.93%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 £77.41
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%

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 2,405 1,574 2,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.17% 50.79% 49.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,035 1,706
10th Percentile £272 £247 £205
25th Percentile £413 £408 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £678
England median daily rate £505 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.84% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 70 156
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.89 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.25 £23.50 £17.90
Median hourly rate £29.61 £28.38 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -33.22% -5.56%
75th Percentile £80.09 £62.50 £62.51
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.22 £75.77
England median hourly rate £24.55 £31.42 £25.25
% change year-on-year -21.87% +24.45% -27.86%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +5 135 £550 -4.35% 37
Thames Valley -30 96 £485 -11.82% 38
Berkshire -15 76 £475 -12.04% 17
Buckinghamshire -26 17 £600 -2.44% 14
Surrey -2 13 £400 -20.00% 13
West Sussex -6 10 £575 +4.55%
Kent -9 5 £568 +25.97% 5
East Sussex +5 4 £473 +190.77% 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £425 - 7
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 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.76%) Apache
3 2 (0.76%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.42%) Azure
2 64 (24.33%) AWS
3 39 (14.83%) OpenShift
4 19 (7.22%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.22%) IaaS
5 18 (6.84%) GitHub
5 18 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.32%) PaaS
8 12 (4.56%) GCP
9 8 (3.04%) Nutanix
10 5 (1.90%) SaaS
11 4 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.38%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 67 (25.48%) DNS
2 42 (15.97%) Firewall
3 39 (14.83%) DHCP
4 19 (7.22%) TCP/IP
5 17 (6.46%) VPN
6 14 (5.32%) VLAN
7 13 (4.94%) SAN
7 13 (4.94%) VSAN
8 12 (4.56%) FTP
9 8 (3.04%) WAN
10 6 (2.28%) BGP
10 6 (2.28%) NAS
11 5 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (1.90%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.90%) LAN
12 4 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.52%) Network Security
12 4 (1.52%) SNMP
12 4 (1.52%) VoIP
12 4 (1.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.66%) Redis
3 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.70%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (4.18%) GitLab
4 9 (3.42%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.42%) JMeter
4 9 (3.42%) JUnit
5 6 (2.28%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.14%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) Git
7 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 51 (19.39%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.13%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.18%) Finance
5 9 (3.42%) Military
6 7 (2.66%) Legal
7 6 (2.28%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Front Office
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (28.90%) Architect
2 39 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (10.27%) Infrastructure Architect
4 22 (8.37%) VMware Engineer
5 21 (7.98%) VMware Architect
6 18 (6.84%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.46%) Senior
8 13 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (4.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 13 (4.94%) Network Engineer
9 12 (4.56%) Lead
10 11 (4.18%) Analyst
10 11 (4.18%) Technical Architect
11 10 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.80%) Wintel Analyst
12 9 (3.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 9 (3.42%) Developer
13 8 (3.04%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.66%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (2.66%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.22%) Kafka
2 9 (3.42%) Spring
3 8 (3.04%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.04%) Loki
4 7 (2.66%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.52%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.52%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.38%) JSON
7 1 (0.38%) Middleware
7 1 (0.38%) OAuth
7 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.38%) OpenID
7 1 (0.38%) REST
7 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.17%) PKI
2 24 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.70%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.94%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.42%) Fat Client
7 9 (3.42%) Private Cloud
7 9 (3.42%) Thin Client
8 8 (3.04%) Replication
8 8 (3.04%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.90%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.76%) NHS
13 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
13 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 97 (36.88%) Windows
2 96 (36.50%) Linux
3 60 (22.81%) Windows Server
4 31 (11.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.42%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.42%) Windows 7
5 9 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.28%) CentOS
7 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.52%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.14%) Debian
9 3 (1.14%) Unix
10 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.38%) Solaris
10 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (22.81%) Agile
1 60 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (15.59%) CI/CD
3 41 (15.59%) ITIL
4 32 (12.17%) DevSecOps
5 29 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (10.65%) Containerisation
6 28 (10.65%) Roadmaps
7 26 (9.89%) DevOps
8 24 (9.13%) High Availability
9 23 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (8.37%) Observability
11 19 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (6.84%) Prototyping
13 17 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (6.46%) Migration
14 15 (5.70%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (5.70%) Load Balancing
15 13 (4.94%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.87%) Python
2 34 (12.93%) PowerShell
3 27 (10.27%) Bash
4 13 (4.94%) Java
5 8 (3.04%) SQL
6 3 (1.14%) Perl
7 2 (0.76%) Bicep
7 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 170 (64.64%) Security Cleared
2 84 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 80 (30.42%) DV Cleared
4 13 (4.94%) Azure Certification
4 13 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (2.66%) CCNP
8 6 (2.28%) MCSE
9 5 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.90%) Server+ Certification
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.52%) VCDX
11 3 (1.14%) CCIE
11 3 (1.14%) VCAP
12 2 (0.76%) CCNA
12 2 (0.76%) RHCE
12 2 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.56%) NCSC
2 6 (2.28%) NIST
3 4 (1.52%) SLA
4 3 (1.14%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.76%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) QA
6 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (56.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 79 (30.04%) Active Directory
3 40 (15.21%) vSphere
4 35 (13.31%) VMware NSX
5 33 (12.55%) Hyper-V
6 23 (8.75%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.94%) Docker
8 11 (4.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (3.42%) NFS
9 9 (3.42%) vCloud
10 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.14%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.14%) KVM
12 2 (0.76%) Firmware
12 2 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.38%) RHEV
13 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.38%) UAG
13 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (21.29%) Ansible
2 37 (14.07%) Kubernetes
3 34 (12.93%) vCenter Server
4 32 (12.17%) Terraform
5 21 (7.98%) Argo
6 20 (7.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (7.22%) Grafana
7 19 (7.22%) Prometheus
8 15 (5.70%) SCCM
9 14 (5.32%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (4.18%) Progress Chef
11 9 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (3.42%) WMI
12 8 (3.04%) Kustomize
13 6 (2.28%) Istio
13 6 (2.28%) linkerd
13 6 (2.28%) SCOM
14 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.76%) Puppet
14 2 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.01%) Red Hat
3 24 (9.13%) Citrix
4 20 (7.60%) Cisco
5 9 (3.42%) Splunk
6 8 (3.04%) F5
6 8 (3.04%) Palo Alto
6 8 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.66%) NetApp
8 6 (2.28%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.28%) Pure Storage
9 5 (1.90%) Dell
9 5 (1.90%) Juniper
9 5 (1.90%) Veeam
10 4 (1.52%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.52%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.52%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.14%) Aruba
12 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.76%) Symantec