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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 521 533
Rank change year-on-year -85 +12 +67
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 58 33 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 23
10th Percentile £520 £513 £379
25th Percentile £550 £550 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +26.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £715 - £511
90th Percentile £759 £612 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £713 £550 £438
% change year-on-year +29.55% +25.57% +12.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 - -
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 49,463 30,049 36,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 91.45% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,748 19,085 23,408
10th Percentile £329 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,453 1,494 2,053
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.10 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +15.89%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -83 41 £617 +12.18% 2
UK excluding London -87 26 £713 +29.55% 1
Work from Home -42 17 £628 +4.58%
London -67 17 £550 -8.33% 2
East of England - 9 £575 -
South West -28 7 £788 -
Midlands -55 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
North West -42 3 £713 +18.75%
North of England -76 3 £713 +18.75%
Scotland -9 2 £425 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 58 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (48.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (46.55%) Security Cleared
4 26 (44.83%) VMware NSX
5 20 (34.48%) SC Cleared
5 20 (34.48%) vRealize
6 18 (31.03%) vSphere
7 13 (22.41%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (20.69%) vCenter Server
9 11 (18.97%) Migration
10 10 (17.24%) Python
10 10 (17.24%) Validation
10 10 (17.24%) VSAN
11 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
12 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
13 7 (12.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (10.34%) Broadcom
14 6 (10.34%) VxRail
15 5 (8.62%) Ansible
15 5 (8.62%) F5
15 5 (8.62%) Linux
15 5 (8.62%) Network Virtualisation
15 5 (8.62%) Veeam
16 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
16 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Transformation
16 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
16 4 (6.90%) NetBackup
16 4 (6.90%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (6.90%) 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 3 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (1.72%) AWS
2 1 (1.72%) Azure
2 1 (1.72%) Azure Stack
2 1 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) VSAN
2 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.17%) DNS
3 3 (5.17%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.45%) Firewall
5 1 (1.72%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) XML
2 1 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.72%) Clustering
3 1 (1.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) VMS
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) Migration
2 10 (17.24%) Validation
3 5 (8.62%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 4 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (5.17%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (5.17%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.45%) High Availability
6 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (3.45%) ITSM
6 2 (3.45%) Load Balancing
6 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (3.45%) Problem Management
6 2 (3.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (3.45%) Use Case
6 2 (3.45%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.72%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) Python
2 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (46.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) VCAP
System Software
1 28 (48.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (44.83%) VMware NSX
3 18 (31.03%) vSphere
4 13 (22.41%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
6 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.72%) Docker
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) vRealize
2 12 (20.69%) vCenter Server
3 6 (10.34%) VxRail
4 5 (8.62%) Ansible
5 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.90%) NetBackup
5 4 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.45%) Terraform
7 1 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (10.34%) Broadcom
3 5 (8.62%) F5
3 5 (8.62%) Veeam
4 4 (6.90%) OpenText
4 4 (6.90%) Veritas
4 4 (6.90%) Zerto
5 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.45%) Pure Storage
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow