VMware Consultant Contract Job Trends

VMware Consultant
UK

The median VMware Consultant daily rate in the UK is £598, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 529 555
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +199
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 70 25 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.074% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.080% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 30
10th Percentile £534 £382 £358
25th Percentile £559 £462 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 -
90th Percentile £625 £598 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £484 £390
% change year-on-year +13.70% +24.04% -42.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.97% -12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £81.25 -

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 33,803 31,437 40,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 92.75% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,362 19,311 27,163
10th Percentile £294 £300 £283
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 980 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.86
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.20 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -26.67% +45.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -10 48 £600 +20.00%
London +19 29 £600 +20.00%
UK excluding London -41 17 £550 +13.70%
Work from Home +8 15 £596 +19.20% 1
East of England -17 5 - -
South West -9 4 £550 +10.00%
North of England - 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
South East -32 2 £650 +13.04%
Scotland +5 1 - -
Midlands -42 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 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 50 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 42 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 28 (40.00%) VMware NSX
5 25 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 24 (34.29%) vRealize
7 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (31.43%) PowerShell
8 22 (31.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 20 (28.57%) vSphere
10 18 (25.71%) Python
11 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
12 8 (11.43%) Terraform
12 8 (11.43%) VSAN
13 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
14 6 (8.57%) Azure
14 6 (8.57%) Security Hardening
15 5 (7.14%) Analytics
15 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
15 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
15 5 (7.14%) Migration
15 5 (7.14%) Observability
15 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 5 (7.14%) VCAP
15 5 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 4 (5.71%) Ansible
16 4 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
16 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
16 4 (5.71%) Failover Clustering

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 6 (8.57%) 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 8 (11.43%) VSAN
2 4 (5.71%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.86%) Firewall
3 2 (2.86%) VPN
3 2 (2.86%) WAN
General
1 27 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
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 9 (12.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.14%) Replication
3 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (8.57%) Security Hardening
4 5 (7.14%) Analytics
4 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (7.14%) Migration
4 5 (7.14%) Observability
4 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (5.71%) Roadmaps
5 4 (5.71%) Storage Management
5 4 (5.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (5.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (4.29%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (4.29%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (4.29%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (4.29%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (4.29%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (4.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) PowerShell
2 18 (25.71%) Python
3 17 (24.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 42 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (31.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (7.14%) VCAP
5 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (40.00%) VMware NSX
2 25 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (28.57%) vSphere
4 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (34.29%) vRealize
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 5 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 4 (5.71%) Ansible
4 4 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (5.71%) PowerCLI
5 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.86%) vMotion
6 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.43%) Packer
6 1 (1.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (2.86%) Dell
2 2 (2.86%) EMC
2 2 (2.86%) SAP
2 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.43%) Veeam