VMware Contracts 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 3 July 2025, 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware 161 408 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.99% 7.14% 8.18%
As % of the Vendors category 9.31% 15.21% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 277 327
10th Percentile £356 £359 £308
25th Percentile £513 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £550 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +8.16% -3.14% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £28.48 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £29.19 £32.29 £46.56
Median hourly rate £30.39 £53.08 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% -2.71% +172.80%
75th Percentile £31.58 £76.25 £61.97
90th Percentile £32.29 £78.50 £80.81
England median hourly rate £32.77 £40.00 £53.16
% change year-on-year -18.08% -24.76% +26.57%

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 1,730 2,683 2,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 53.64% 46.97% 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,583 1,979
10th Percentile £220 £246 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 192 127
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.03 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.47 £17.91 £18.50
Median hourly rate £20.33 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.30% +8.33% +125.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.15 £70.00 £71.70
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the South East

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the South East

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South East

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 2025. 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 -6 65 £535 +1.90% 157
Hampshire -13 63 £600 +9.09% 89
Berkshire +10 55 £545 +8.78% 87
Kent +14 24 £400 +47.47% 34
Buckinghamshire -20 8 £527 +0.33% 38
West Sussex -20 4 £550 +18.92% 29
Surrey 0 3 £550 +37.50% 53
Oxfordshire -9 2 £363 -27.50% 33
Middlesex +4 1 £500 +81.82% 2
East Sussex -4 1 - - 14
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.97%) Apache
2 8 (4.97%) IIS
3 6 (3.73%) Confluence
4 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.62%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.98%) Azure
2 21 (13.04%) IaaS
3 18 (11.18%) AWS
4 17 (10.56%) PaaS
5 12 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (6.21%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.21%) GCP
7 8 (4.97%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.86%) Asana
8 3 (1.86%) SaaS
9 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.62%) GitHub
9 1 (0.62%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 47 (29.19%) DNS
2 33 (20.50%) DHCP
2 33 (20.50%) Firewall
3 18 (11.18%) Fibre Channel
3 18 (11.18%) VPN
4 17 (10.56%) SAN
5 16 (9.94%) SMTP
5 16 (9.94%) TCP/IP
6 13 (8.07%) iSCSI
7 9 (5.59%) VSAN
8 8 (4.97%) VLAN
9 6 (3.73%) SD-WAN
10 5 (3.11%) NetScaler
10 5 (3.11%) SSL
11 3 (1.86%) NAS
11 3 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.24%) LAN
12 2 (1.24%) Network Security
12 2 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (1.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (4.97%) Big Data
1 8 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (5.59%) JIRA
2 5 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.48%) MSI
3 4 (2.48%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.86%) Git
5 2 (1.24%) Subversion
6 1 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 27 (16.77%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.42%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.24%) Law
6 2 (1.24%) Legal
6 2 (1.24%) Military
6 2 (1.24%) Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Finance
7 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Local Government
7 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (31.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (21.12%) Architect
3 22 (13.66%) Infrastructure Architect
3 22 (13.66%) VMware Engineer
4 21 (13.04%) VMware Architect
5 17 (10.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) 3rd Line Support
6 12 (7.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support
6 12 (7.45%) Support Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 11 (6.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Integration Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Windows Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.48%) Kafka
1 4 (2.48%) YAML
2 2 (1.24%) JSON
2 2 (1.24%) Middleware
3 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.62%) LDAP
3 1 (0.62%) REST
3 1 (0.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.53%) PKI
2 24 (14.91%) Data Centre
3 17 (10.56%) Clustering
4 14 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.73%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.24%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.24%) Replication
8 2 (1.24%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Life Science
9 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 101 (62.73%) Windows
2 67 (41.61%) Windows Server
3 45 (27.95%) Linux
4 28 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (15.53%) Windows 10
6 17 (10.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (7.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (7.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (5.59%) Ubuntu
9 8 (4.97%) CentOS
10 5 (3.11%) Debian
10 5 (3.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
11 4 (2.48%) Solaris
11 4 (2.48%) Unix
12 3 (1.86%) Windows 7
13 2 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.24%) VMS
14 1 (0.62%) Rocky
14 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (16.15%) Agile
3 26 (16.15%) DevOps
3 26 (16.15%) ITIL
4 15 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (9.32%) Migration
5 13 (8.07%) Roadmaps
6 12 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (6.83%) Project Management
7 11 (6.83%) Prototyping
7 11 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (6.21%) Edge Virtualization
8 10 (6.21%) Performance Analysis
9 9 (5.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (5.59%) High Availability
9 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (4.97%) Machine Learning
10 8 (4.97%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.19%) PowerShell
2 19 (11.80%) SQL
3 16 (9.94%) Python
4 5 (3.11%) Bash
5 4 (2.48%) PHP
5 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.24%) Perl
7 1 (0.62%) Go
7 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (61.49%) Security Cleared
2 66 (40.99%) DV Cleared
3 32 (19.88%) SC Cleared
4 19 (11.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (9.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 14 (8.70%) Degree
7 13 (8.07%) MCSE
8 11 (6.83%) VCP5
8 11 (6.83%) VCP6
9 4 (2.48%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.86%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.86%) VCAP
11 2 (1.24%) MCP
12 1 (0.62%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.62%) CCNA
12 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.62%) CISSP
12 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) SLA
2 7 (4.35%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) QA
4 3 (1.86%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) RMADS
System Software
1 97 (60.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 65 (40.37%) Active Directory
3 55 (34.16%) VMware ESXi
4 54 (33.54%) vSphere
5 27 (16.77%) Hyper-V
6 13 (8.07%) NFS
7 10 (6.21%) Terminal Services
7 10 (6.21%) VMware NSX
8 9 (5.59%) DFS Replication
9 8 (4.97%) BitLocker
9 8 (4.97%) Docker
9 8 (4.97%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (3.11%) XenApp
11 4 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (2.48%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (16.15%) Ansible
2 18 (11.18%) vCenter Server
3 9 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.59%) Puppet
4 8 (4.97%) Nagios
4 8 (4.97%) Terraform
4 8 (4.97%) vMotion
5 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.35%) WSUS
6 6 (3.73%) SCCM
7 5 (3.11%) Tivoli
8 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (2.48%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.48%) WMI
9 3 (1.86%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.86%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (1.86%) vRealize
10 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.24%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.24%) yum
Vendors
1 61 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 34 (21.12%) Citrix
3 22 (13.66%) Dell
4 21 (13.04%) Red Hat
5 20 (12.42%) Veeam
6 17 (10.56%) HP
7 15 (9.32%) NetApp
8 14 (8.70%) Splunk
9 13 (8.07%) Symantec
10 11 (6.83%) Wyse
11 10 (6.21%) SolarWinds
12 8 (4.97%) Google
13 7 (4.35%) Cisco
14 6 (3.73%) Veritas
15 4 (2.48%) 3PAR
15 4 (2.48%) Juniper
15 4 (2.48%) Oracle
16 3 (1.86%) NETGEAR
16 3 (1.86%) TP-LINK
17 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow