VMware Workstation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware Workstation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VMware Workstation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 333 364
Rank change year-on-year -102 +31 +82
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 2 2 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.016% 0.098%
As % of the System Software category 0.077% 0.11% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £257 - £235
25th Percentile £258 - £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 - £273
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.45%
75th Percentile £283 - £350
90th Percentile £286 - £360
UK median daily rate £463 £700 £273
% change year-on-year -33.93% +156.88% -50.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - - £40.00

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

VMware Workstation falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,591 1,801 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.70% 14.15% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 1,239 1,626
10th Percentile £190 £190 £178
25th Percentile £350 £313 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.76%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £584
90th Percentile £644 £657 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 54 191
10th Percentile £15.54 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.32 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +62.43% +68.52% -51.81%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £89.00 £87.48 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.00% -58.52%

VMware Workstation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Workstation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VMware Workstation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware Workstation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware Workstation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Workstation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
South West -32 2 £269 - 3
VMware Workstation
UK

VMware Workstation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft