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 2 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 515 574
Rank change year-on-year 0 +59 +137
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 75 17 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.055% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.059% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 6 20
10th Percentile £532 £488 £395
25th Percentile £563 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% +5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £524
90th Percentile £611 £638 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £527
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.11% -11.24%
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 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 35,158 28,873 41,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.93% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,167 17,619 27,765
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,109 850 2,268
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.77 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -12.99% +15.54%

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 2 February 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 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 2 February 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 -37 46 £600 +20.00% 3
London -1 30 £600 +20.00% 3
Work from Home +3 23 £596 +3.65% 4
UK excluding London -57 14 £550 -4.35% 1
East of England - 5 - -
South West -16 4 £550 -
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
South East -29 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 February 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 75 (100.00%) VMware
2 52 (69.33%) Security Cleared
3 44 (58.67%) SC Cleared
4 32 (42.67%) vRealize
5 31 (41.33%) PowerShell
6 29 (38.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 27 (36.00%) Python
7 27 (36.00%) VMware NSX
8 25 (33.33%) JavaScript
9 24 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (22.67%) vSphere
12 8 (10.67%) Azure
12 8 (10.67%) Knowledge Transfer
12 8 (10.67%) Software-Defined Networking
13 7 (9.33%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (9.33%) Hyper-V
14 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
14 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (8.00%) VSAN
15 5 (6.67%) Analytics
15 5 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
15 5 (6.67%) Observability
15 5 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 5 (6.67%) Storage Management
15 5 (6.67%) Terraform
15 5 (6.67%) VCAP
15 5 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 4 (5.33%) Customer Engagement
16 4 (5.33%) Firewall

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 (1.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.67%) Azure
2 1 (1.33%) AWS
2 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.33%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.33%) GCP
2 1 (1.33%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (8.00%) VSAN
3 4 (5.33%) Firewall
4 2 (2.67%) VPN
4 2 (2.67%) WAN
5 1 (1.33%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.33%) NAS
5 1 (1.33%) SAN
General
1 28 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.33%) Finance
4 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Electronics
4 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.67%) Marketing
4 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) .NET
1 1 (1.33%) LDAP
1 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.67%) Replication
3 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) PACS
5 1 (1.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (10.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (6.67%) Analytics
4 5 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (6.67%) Observability
4 5 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (6.67%) Storage Management
5 4 (5.33%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (5.33%) Migration
5 4 (5.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (5.33%) Security Hardening
5 4 (5.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (5.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (5.33%) Workflow
6 3 (4.00%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (4.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (4.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (4.00%) Refactoring
6 3 (4.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) PowerShell
2 27 (36.00%) Python
3 25 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.33%) C++
4 1 (1.33%) Java
4 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (69.33%) Security Cleared
2 44 (58.67%) SC Cleared
3 29 (38.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) VCAP
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (36.00%) VMware NSX
2 24 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (22.67%) vSphere
4 7 (9.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (42.67%) vRealize
2 7 (9.33%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (6.67%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (2.67%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) PowerCLI
4 2 (2.67%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (2.67%) EMC
2 2 (2.67%) SAP
2 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.33%) Dell
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle
3 1 (1.33%) Veeam
3 1 (1.33%) Veritas