VMware Consultant Contract Job Trends

VMware Consultant
UK

The median VMware Consultant daily rate in the UK is £596, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 506 544
Rank change year-on-year -58 +38 +107
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 68 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.089% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.096% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 11 31
10th Percentile £525 £513 £413
25th Percentile £550 £519 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £523
90th Percentile £659 - £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £460
% change year-on-year - +19.57% -22.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Median hourly rate £51.00 £81.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +28.97% -11.27%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £81.25 -
% change year-on-year -37.23% - -

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 42,439 27,180 40,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 92.60% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,345 17,830 26,590
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,678 986 2,604
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.71 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.59 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £75.38 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £29.53 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.64% -15.64% -17.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Consultant over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Consultant 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 10 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 17 April 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 -90 38 £588 +6.82% 7
Work from Home 0 28 £596 +13.52% 7
London -48 26 £588 +11.90% 3
UK excluding London -88 13 £550 - 4
East of England - 5 - -
South West -30 4 £650 - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - - 1
South East -59 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £425 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 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 68 (100.00%) VMware
2 36 (52.94%) Security Cleared
3 32 (47.06%) vRealize
4 29 (42.65%) PowerShell
4 29 (42.65%) SC Cleared
5 25 (36.76%) Python
5 25 (36.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (36.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (36.76%) VMware NSX
6 24 (35.29%) JavaScript
7 15 (22.06%) vSphere
8 11 (16.18%) Software-Defined Networking
9 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.24%) VSAN
11 7 (10.29%) Azure
11 7 (10.29%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (10.29%) Hyper-V
11 7 (10.29%) Migration
11 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
12 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (7.35%) Broadcom
13 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (7.35%) Knowledge Transfer
13 5 (7.35%) Network Virtualisation
13 5 (7.35%) Observability
13 5 (7.35%) Terraform
13 5 (7.35%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 4 (5.88%) Analytics
14 4 (5.88%) Ansible

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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 1 (1.47%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.47%) IaaS
2 1 (1.47%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.47%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Software-Defined Networking
2 9 (13.24%) VSAN
3 4 (5.88%) Firewall
4 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) DNS
6 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.47%) NAS
6 1 (1.47%) Network Security
6 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 23 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.94%) Electronics
4 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.94%) Marketing
4 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) XML
2 1 (1.47%) .NET
2 1 (1.47%) LDAP
2 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) Replication
3 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) PACS
4 1 (1.47%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (10.29%) Migration
2 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (7.35%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (7.35%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (7.35%) Observability
4 5 (7.35%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (5.88%) Analytics
5 4 (5.88%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (5.88%) Roadmaps
5 4 (5.88%) Security Hardening
6 3 (4.41%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (4.41%) Data Protection
6 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (4.41%) ITSM
6 3 (4.41%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (4.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.65%) PowerShell
2 25 (36.76%) Python
3 24 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.47%) C++
4 1 (1.47%) Java
4 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 29 (42.65%) SC Cleared
3 25 (36.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.94%) VCAP
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (36.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 25 (36.76%) VMware NSX
2 15 (22.06%) vSphere
3 7 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (47.06%) vRealize
2 7 (10.29%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (7.35%) Terraform
4 4 (5.88%) Ansible
4 4 (5.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (2.94%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (7.35%) Broadcom
3 3 (4.41%) OpenText
3 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.41%) Veritas
4 2 (2.94%) EMC
4 2 (2.94%) Pure Storage
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
4 2 (2.94%) Zerto
5 1 (1.47%) Dell
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Veeam