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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 510 534
Rank change year-on-year -91 +24 +72
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 60 34 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 26
10th Percentile £525 £513 £387
25th Percentile £563 £550 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £715 - £500
90th Percentile £731 £612 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £713 £550 £438
% change year-on-year +29.55% +25.57% -12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - £63.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £80.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 - -

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 48,690 30,025 37,043
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 91.50% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,369 19,114 23,981
10th Percentile £331 £282 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,338 1,460 2,193
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.69 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £19.09
Median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -40.82% -1.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +7.50%

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 29 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Consultant over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Consultant 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 29 July 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 -100 39 £617 +12.18% 1
UK excluding London -89 25 £713 +29.55% 1
Work from Home -50 19 £596 -0.67%
London -57 16 £563 -6.25% 1
East of England - 9 £575 -
South West -35 6 £750 -
Midlands -58 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
North West -50 3 £713 +18.75%
North of England -74 3 £713 +18.75%
Scotland -16 2 £425 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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 60 (100.00%) VMware
2 31 (51.67%) Security Cleared
3 30 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (45.00%) VMware NSX
5 24 (40.00%) SC Cleared
6 23 (38.33%) vRealize
7 17 (28.33%) vSphere
8 13 (21.67%) Python
8 13 (21.67%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
9 12 (20.00%) vCenter Server
10 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
11 10 (16.67%) Migration
11 10 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (15.00%) Validation
12 9 (15.00%) VSAN
13 6 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
13 6 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
14 5 (8.33%) Ansible
14 5 (8.33%) Broadcom
14 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (8.33%) F5
14 5 (8.33%) Linux
14 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
14 5 (8.33%) Veeam
14 5 (8.33%) VxRail
15 4 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
15 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
15 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
15 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes

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 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) AWS
3 1 (1.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) VSAN
2 6 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.00%) DNS
4 3 (5.00%) Firewall
5 1 (1.67%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) GitLab
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.67%) Migration
2 9 (15.00%) Validation
3 6 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 3 (5.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.00%) High Availability
6 3 (5.00%) ITSM
6 3 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (5.00%) Use Case
7 2 (3.33%) Change Management
7 2 (3.33%) Load Balancing
7 2 (3.33%) Operational Stability
7 2 (3.33%) Problem Management
7 2 (3.33%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (3.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (3.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) Python
2 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (51.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) VCAP
System Software
1 30 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (45.00%) VMware NSX
3 17 (28.33%) vSphere
4 13 (21.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (38.33%) vRealize
2 12 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 5 (8.33%) Ansible
3 5 (8.33%) VxRail
4 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.67%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.33%) Terraform
6 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (8.33%) Broadcom
2 5 (8.33%) F5
2 5 (8.33%) Veeam
3 4 (6.67%) OpenText
3 4 (6.67%) Veritas
3 4 (6.67%) Zerto
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.33%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow