VMware Consultant Contract Job Trends

VMware Consultant
UK

The median VMware Consultant daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 549 591
Rank change year-on-year +33 +42 +234
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 43 24 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.063% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.068% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 28
10th Percentile £550 £377 £358
25th Percentile £575 £444 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £605 £528 £509
90th Percentile £638 £594 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £421 £390
% change year-on-year +30.72% +7.88% -22.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £61.44
Median hourly rate - - £64.50
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 29,996 35,551 46,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,952 21,923 31,999
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,570 1,683 1,490
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +93.18%

VMware Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured VMware Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Consultant 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 September 2025.

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 11 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 September 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
England +46 33 £600 +26.32% 3
London +36 19 £600 +20.00% 2
UK excluding London +3 12 £550 +30.72%
Work from Home +9 10 £600 +20.00% 1
Midlands -11 5 £550 +47.06%
East Midlands - 5 £550 -
North West - 4 £600 -
North of England - 4 £600 -
South West +23 1 - -
South East +22 1 £650 -
Scotland -7 1 - -

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, VMware Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring VMware Consultant in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) VMware
2 31 (72.09%) Security Cleared
3 29 (67.44%) SC Cleared
4 14 (32.56%) VMware NSX
5 13 (30.23%) vRealize
5 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
7 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (20.93%) Python
9 8 (18.60%) Data Centre
9 8 (18.60%) PowerCLI
10 7 (16.28%) vSphere
11 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
11 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
12 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
12 5 (11.63%) Terraform
12 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (11.63%) VSAN
12 5 (11.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 4 (9.30%) Zero Trust
13 4 (9.30%) Security Hardening
13 4 (9.30%) Ansible
13 4 (9.30%) Validation
14 3 (6.98%) Unix
14 3 (6.98%) VCAP
14 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
14 3 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (6.98%) Edge Computing
14 3 (6.98%) Onboarding

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (4.65%) Azure
2 1 (2.33%) AWS
2 1 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) VSAN
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Billing
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (9.30%) Security Hardening
2 4 (9.30%) Validation
2 4 (9.30%) Zero Trust
3 3 (6.98%) Edge Computing
3 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (6.98%) Minimum Viable Product
4 2 (4.65%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (4.65%) Migration
4 2 (4.65%) Operations Management
4 2 (4.65%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (4.65%) Project Delivery
4 2 (4.65%) Project Management
4 2 (4.65%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (2.33%) Analytics
5 1 (2.33%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.33%) High Availability
5 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (2.33%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Python
2 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
2 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (72.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (67.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.98%) VCAP
6 2 (4.65%) VCDX
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) VMware NSX
2 13 (30.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (16.28%) vSphere
4 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) vRealize
2 8 (18.60%) PowerCLI
3 5 (11.63%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 4 (9.30%) Ansible
5 3 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.65%) VxRail
7 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco
2 1 (2.33%) Dell
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Splunk