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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 486 533
Rank change year-on-year -91 +47 +86
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 56 23 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.079% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.085% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 26
10th Percentile £525 £513 £406
25th Percentile £546 £519 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +12.82% -17.02%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £526
90th Percentile £698 £600 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £550 £460
% change year-on-year +4.55% +19.57% -21.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +30.95% -10.95%
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -38.18% - -

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 44,361 26,969 39,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.35% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,167 17,560 25,723
10th Percentile £325 £294 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -3.40%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,886 1,047 2,672
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.29
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.90% -32.19% -5.88%

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 19 May 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 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 19 May 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 29 £575 +4.55% 8
Work from Home -20 26 £596 +13.52% 6
London -48 18 £563 +7.14% 3
UK excluding London -102 13 £575 +4.55% 4
South West -24 5 £750 -
East of England - 4 £575 -
Scotland - 2 £425 -
Midlands -65 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 56 (100.00%) VMware
2 29 (51.79%) vRealize
3 25 (44.64%) Security Cleared
4 23 (41.07%) VMware NSX
5 22 (39.29%) SC Cleared
6 21 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 20 (35.71%) PowerShell
7 20 (35.71%) Python
8 19 (33.93%) JavaScript
8 19 (33.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 15 (26.79%) vSphere
10 10 (17.86%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (14.29%) VSAN
12 7 (12.50%) Migration
13 6 (10.71%) Azure
13 6 (10.71%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
13 6 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (8.93%) Ansible
14 5 (8.93%) Broadcom
14 5 (8.93%) Network Virtualisation
14 5 (8.93%) Veritas
14 5 (8.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
15 4 (7.14%) Firewall
15 4 (7.14%) Linux
15 4 (7.14%) NetBackup
15 4 (7.14%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (7.14%) OpenText

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 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 1 (1.79%) IaaS
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) Software-Defined Networking
2 8 (14.29%) VSAN
3 4 (7.14%) Firewall
4 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.57%) DNS
6 1 (1.79%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.79%) NAS
6 1 (1.79%) Network Security
6 1 (1.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) XML
2 2 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.79%) PACS
3 1 (1.79%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) VMS
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (12.50%) Migration
2 5 (8.93%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (5.36%) Data Protection
4 3 (5.36%) ITSM
4 3 (5.36%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (5.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (5.36%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (5.36%) Use Case
4 3 (5.36%) Validation
5 2 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (3.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (3.57%) Operational Stability
5 2 (3.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (3.57%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (3.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) PowerShell
1 20 (35.71%) Python
2 19 (33.93%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.79%) C++
3 1 (1.79%) Java
3 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 22 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (33.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) VCAP
5 1 (1.79%) VCDX
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) VMware NSX
2 21 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (26.79%) vSphere
4 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 6 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (51.79%) vRealize
2 6 (10.71%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (8.93%) Ansible
3 5 (8.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 4 (7.14%) NetBackup
4 4 (7.14%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (8.93%) Broadcom
2 5 (8.93%) Veritas
3 4 (7.14%) OpenText
3 4 (7.14%) Zerto
4 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.57%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.79%) Dell
6 1 (1.79%) F5
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.79%) Veeam