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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 538 582
Rank change year-on-year +22 +44 +215
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 70 26 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.071% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.077% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 11 33
10th Percentile £550 £374 £358
25th Percentile £563 £461 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile - £513 -
90th Percentile £625 £600 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £468 £390
% change year-on-year +17.65% +19.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £77.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +28.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £64.13
90th Percentile - - £64.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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 32,121 33,965 44,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.87% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,371 20,492 29,993
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,875 1,270 1,571
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.10 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%

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 16 November 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 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 16 November 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 +11 49 £600 +23.08% 7
London +19 30 £600 +20.00% 3
UK excluding London -24 16 £550 +17.65% 2
Work from Home +22 15 £600 +20.00% 2
North of England - 6 £600 -
North West - 6 £600 -
South West +12 4 £550 +10.00%
South East -1 2 £650 +8.33%
Scotland -2 2 - -
East of England -15 1 - - 2
Midlands -36 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 51 (72.86%) Security Cleared
3 46 (65.71%) SC Cleared
4 25 (35.71%) VMware NSX
5 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (32.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (30.00%) vRealize
7 20 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 19 (27.14%) PowerShell
8 19 (27.14%) vSphere
9 17 (24.29%) Python
10 14 (20.00%) JavaScript
11 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (11.43%) Terraform
12 7 (10.00%) VSAN
13 6 (8.57%) PowerCLI
13 6 (8.57%) VCAP
14 5 (7.14%) Analytics
14 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
14 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
14 5 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
14 5 (7.14%) Observability
14 5 (7.14%) Security Hardening
14 5 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (5.71%) Ansible
15 4 (5.71%) Azure
15 4 (5.71%) Capacity Planning
15 4 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
15 4 (5.71%) Customer Requirements
15 4 (5.71%) Migration

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 (1.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.71%) Azure
2 1 (1.43%) AWS
2 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.43%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.43%) GCP
2 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.43%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) VSAN
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.86%) VPN
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
General
1 25 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Electronics
4 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.86%) Marketing
4 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.43%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.71%) Replication
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (7.14%) Analytics
3 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (7.14%) Observability
3 5 (7.14%) Security Hardening
4 4 (5.71%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (5.71%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (5.71%) Migration
4 4 (5.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (5.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (5.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (5.71%) Zero Trust
5 3 (4.29%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (4.29%) Edge Computing
5 3 (4.29%) Storage Management
5 3 (4.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) PowerShell
2 17 (24.29%) Python
3 14 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 51 (72.86%) Security Cleared
2 46 (65.71%) SC Cleared
3 20 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (8.57%) VCAP
5 5 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) VCDX
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (35.71%) VMware NSX
2 23 (32.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (27.14%) vSphere
4 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) vRealize
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) PowerCLI
4 5 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 4 (5.71%) Ansible
6 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.86%) vMotion
8 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.43%) Packer
8 1 (1.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (2.86%) EMC
2 2 (2.86%) SAP
2 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco
3 1 (1.43%) Dell
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.43%) Splunk
3 1 (1.43%) Veeam