VMware Consultant Contract Job Trends

VMware Consultant
UK

The median VMware Consultant daily rate in the UK is £598, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 505 561
Rank change year-on-year +2 +56 +164
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 71 19 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.060% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.065% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 9 24
10th Percentile £537 £374 £358
25th Percentile £563 £459 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £575 -
90th Percentile £618 £615 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -1.58% -25.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.97% -11.27%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £81.25 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,096 29,209 40,038
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.69% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,909 17,885 26,705
10th Percentile £300 £291 £280
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% -4.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,948 878 1,679
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.88 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.54% -31.39% +66.65%

VMware Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'VMware Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Consultant job vacancies in the UK

VMware Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Consultant job vacancies in the UK

VMware Consultant
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 12 January 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
England -31 46 £600 +20.00% 2
London +13 30 £600 +20.00% 2
Work from Home +2 19 £598 +4.00% 3
UK excluding London -41 14 £550 +17.65% 1
East of England - 5 - -
South West - 4 £550 -
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Scotland +4 1 - -
South East -20 1 - - 1
Midlands -47 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, VMware Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring VMware Consultant in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) VMware
2 49 (69.01%) Security Cleared
3 41 (57.75%) SC Cleared
4 28 (39.44%) vRealize
5 26 (36.62%) PowerShell
6 25 (35.21%) VMware NSX
7 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (33.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 22 (30.99%) Python
8 22 (30.99%) VMware Infrastructure
9 20 (28.17%) JavaScript
10 17 (23.94%) vSphere
11 7 (9.86%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (8.45%) Azure
12 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (8.45%) Terraform
12 6 (8.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 5 (7.04%) Analytics
13 5 (7.04%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
13 5 (7.04%) Identity Access Management
13 5 (7.04%) Observability
13 5 (7.04%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 5 (7.04%) VCAP
13 5 (7.04%) VSAN
14 4 (5.63%) Customer Engagement
14 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
14 4 (5.63%) Migration
14 4 (5.63%) Roadmaps

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.45%) Azure
2 1 (1.41%) AWS
2 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.41%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.41%) GCP
2 1 (1.41%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.41%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Software-Defined Networking
1 5 (7.04%) VSAN
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) VPN
2 2 (2.82%) WAN
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.63%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Electronics
5 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.82%) Marketing
5 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.04%) Replication
3 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (9.86%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (7.04%) Analytics
4 5 (7.04%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (7.04%) Observability
4 5 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (5.63%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (5.63%) Migration
5 4 (5.63%) Roadmaps
5 4 (5.63%) Security Hardening
5 4 (5.63%) Storage Management
5 4 (5.63%) Test Automation
5 4 (5.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (4.23%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (4.23%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (4.23%) Refactoring
6 3 (4.23%) Unit Testing
6 3 (4.23%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) PowerShell
2 22 (30.99%) Python
3 20 (28.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 49 (69.01%) Security Cleared
2 41 (57.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (33.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (7.04%) VCAP
5 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) VMware NSX
2 22 (30.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (23.94%) vSphere
4 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (39.44%) vRealize
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
2 6 (8.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 5 (7.04%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.23%) Ansible
5 2 (2.82%) PowerCLI
5 2 (2.82%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.82%) vMotion
6 1 (1.41%) Packer
6 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (2.82%) Dell
2 2 (2.82%) EMC
2 2 (2.82%) SAP
2 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.41%) Veeam