VMware Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 December 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 46 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 -14 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware 640 645 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 3.50% 4.39% 5.33%
As % of the Vendors category 7.54% 9.53% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 403 682
10th Percentile £307 £302 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £612
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £500
% change year-on-year +2.82% +2.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 49
10th Percentile £59.48 £24.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £70.00 £35.00 £54.00
Median hourly rate £72.13 £60.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -9.06% +1.51%
75th Percentile £87.13 £80.59 £76.53
90th Percentile £100.05 £85.12 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +12.45% -5.65% +1.51%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,491 6,768 9,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.41% 46.05% 46.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,524 4,044 5,759
10th Percentile £220 £215 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 657 357 528
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.49 £16.92 £17.74
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.55
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -45.11% +102.42%
75th Percentile £44.50 £59.88 £62.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £73.94
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.76%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

VMware
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
South East -3 243 £500 -9.09% 209
North of England -24 140 £462 -2.84% 170
Midlands +11 130 £475 +5.56% 123
West Midlands +15 109 £525 +13.51% 62
North West -16 96 £475 -5.00% 79
South West -35 77 £550 - 87
Yorkshire -10 55 £415 +0.61% 61
East of England 0 50 £526 +10.63% 87
East Midlands -11 21 £450 +24.14% 58
Scotland -40 13 £465 -11.43% 22
Northern Ireland -5 7 £375 +141.94% 4
Wales -4 5 £550 +131.58% 20
North East -8 5 £550 +69.23% 33
South Coast - 1 £575 -
VMware
UK

VMware
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.66%) Confluence
4 11 (1.72%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.94%) IIS
5 6 (0.94%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.31%) Apache
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 162 (25.31%) Azure
2 141 (22.03%) AWS
3 56 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.34%) OpenShift
5 46 (7.19%) GCP
6 35 (5.47%) Entra ID
7 31 (4.84%) GitHub
8 27 (4.22%) IaaS
9 22 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (2.50%) PaaS
10 16 (2.50%) SaaS
11 13 (2.03%) Datadog
12 11 (1.72%) Nutanix
13 6 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.63%) Google Ads
16 3 (0.47%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 178 (27.81%) DNS
2 130 (20.31%) Firewall
3 75 (11.72%) DHCP
4 72 (11.25%) TCP/IP
5 44 (6.88%) VPN
6 43 (6.72%) VLAN
6 43 (6.72%) VSAN
7 41 (6.41%) Network Security
8 39 (6.09%) SAN
9 38 (5.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 36 (5.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 28 (4.38%) DMZ
12 27 (4.22%) LAN
12 27 (4.22%) WAN
13 22 (3.44%) BIG-IP
13 22 (3.44%) SSL
14 19 (2.97%) HTTP
14 19 (2.97%) Wireless
14 19 (2.97%) Wireshark
15 18 (2.81%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.09%) Redis
4 5 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (5.78%) Jenkins
2 30 (4.69%) GitLab
3 23 (3.59%) Git
4 18 (2.81%) JIRA
5 16 (2.50%) Fiddler
6 14 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.41%) JMeter
7 9 (1.41%) JUnit
8 7 (1.09%) PVCS
8 7 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.63%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.47%) Maven
11 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.31%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.31%) Postman
12 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.16%) GoCD
12 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 166 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 69 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 39 (6.09%) Finance
5 38 (5.94%) Banking
6 30 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 18 (2.81%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.34%) Legal
10 9 (1.41%) Electronics
10 9 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.94%) Law
13 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.63%) Military
13 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.63%) Retail
13 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 114 (17.81%) Architect
2 99 (15.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 48 (7.50%) Analyst
4 41 (6.41%) Network Engineer
5 37 (5.78%) Senior
6 35 (5.47%) Support Engineer
6 35 (5.47%) VMware Engineer
7 33 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
9 28 (4.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 23 (3.59%) Infrastructure Support
10 23 (3.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 23 (3.59%) VMware Architect
11 21 (3.28%) Consultant
12 20 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.66%) IT Engineer
13 17 (2.66%) Lead
13 17 (2.66%) Storage Analyst
14 16 (2.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 16 (2.50%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.97%) Kafka
2 13 (2.03%) Flash
2 13 (2.03%) SAML
3 12 (1.88%) Middleware
4 11 (1.72%) LDAP
5 10 (1.56%) OAuth
6 9 (1.41%) OpenID
6 9 (1.41%) Spring
7 8 (1.25%) Hibernate
7 8 (1.25%) Loki
8 7 (1.09%) Keycloak
9 6 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.94%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.94%) XMPP
10 4 (0.63%) REST
10 4 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (0.47%) Swagger
12 2 (0.31%) ModSecurity
12 2 (0.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.44%) Data Centre
2 48 (7.50%) PKI
3 40 (6.25%) Replication
4 35 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.06%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (3.91%) Cloud Native
7 24 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.59%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.19%) Operational Technology
11 11 (1.72%) Fat Client
11 11 (1.72%) Thin Client
12 9 (1.41%) Clustering
12 9 (1.41%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.41%) SCADA
13 8 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 266 (41.56%) Windows
2 218 (34.06%) Linux
3 148 (23.13%) Windows Server
4 61 (9.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (5.94%) Windows 10
6 26 (4.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (2.34%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.88%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.72%) Windows 7
11 9 (1.41%) VMS
12 7 (1.09%) CentOS
13 5 (0.78%) Unix
14 4 (0.63%) Solaris
15 3 (0.47%) Debian
15 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.31%) CatOS
16 2 (0.31%) zOS
17 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 111 (17.34%) Agile
4 89 (13.91%) ITIL
5 86 (13.44%) CI/CD
6 72 (11.25%) DevOps
6 72 (11.25%) Load Balancing
7 63 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (8.91%) Containerisation
9 56 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 50 (7.81%) Migration
10 50 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
11 45 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
12 44 (6.88%) Roadmaps
13 42 (6.56%) Service Management
13 42 (6.56%) Zero Trust
14 41 (6.41%) Business Strategy
14 41 (6.41%) Infrastructure Automation
15 39 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (5.47%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 147 (22.97%) PowerShell
2 139 (21.72%) Python
3 96 (15.00%) Bash
4 33 (5.16%) SQL
5 20 (3.13%) Java
6 16 (2.50%) Perl
7 12 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.25%) C
8 8 (1.25%) Go
8 8 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.09%) C++
10 6 (0.94%) Embedded C
10 6 (0.94%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.63%) Bicep
12 3 (0.47%) C#
12 3 (0.47%) VBScript
13 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.16%) VB
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 298 (46.56%) Security Cleared
2 179 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 120 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 50 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 37 (5.78%) Degree
6 31 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (4.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 27 (4.22%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.59%) MCSE
9 21 (3.28%) CCNP
10 20 (3.13%) AWS Certification
11 16 (2.50%) CCNA
12 15 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.72%) CCIE
13 11 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.72%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (1.72%) VCAP
14 10 (1.56%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.41%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.22%) GDPR
2 23 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (1.72%) NCSC
4 10 (1.56%) SLA
5 8 (1.25%) NIST
6 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.94%) Def Stans
7 6 (0.94%) QA
8 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 422 (65.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 187 (29.22%) Active Directory
3 120 (18.75%) vSphere
4 86 (13.44%) VMware NSX
5 74 (11.56%) Hyper-V
6 68 (10.63%) VMware ESXi
7 44 (6.88%) Docker
8 36 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (4.22%) NFS
10 13 (2.03%) GPFS
11 12 (1.88%) Firmware
11 12 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.94%) KVM
14 5 (0.78%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.78%) Postfix
14 5 (0.78%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.63%) UAG
16 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 132 (20.63%) Ansible
2 92 (14.38%) Terraform
3 70 (10.94%) vCenter Server
4 66 (10.31%) Kubernetes
5 51 (7.97%) vRealize
6 49 (7.66%) SCCM
7 31 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (4.22%) Grafana
9 26 (4.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (3.91%) Prometheus
10 25 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (3.59%) Argo
12 20 (3.13%) VxRail
13 16 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
14 15 (2.34%) WSUS
15 11 (1.72%) Progress Chef
16 10 (1.56%) SCOM
16 10 (1.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 10 (1.56%) WMI
17 8 (1.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 180 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 129 (20.16%) Cisco
3 79 (12.34%) F5
3 79 (12.34%) Red Hat
4 54 (8.44%) Citrix
5 42 (6.56%) SolarWinds
6 40 (6.25%) Veeam
7 36 (5.63%) Dell
7 36 (5.63%) IBM
8 34 (5.31%) NetApp
9 27 (4.22%) Oracle
10 26 (4.06%) Palo Alto
11 23 (3.59%) McAfee
11 23 (3.59%) Splunk
12 22 (3.44%) ServiceNow
13 21 (3.28%) Blue Coat
13 21 (3.28%) Broadcom
14 16 (2.50%) HP
15 15 (2.34%) Commvault
15 15 (2.34%) Juniper