VMware Consultant Contracts

VMware Consultant
UK

The median VMware Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 533 620
Rank change year-on-year +15 +87 +200
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 32 41 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.095% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 27
10th Percentile £513 £428 £358
25th Percentile - £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -19.15% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £643
90th Percentile - £538 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £460 £575
% change year-on-year +19.57% -20.00% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £61.28
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile - - £79.25
90th Percentile - - £94.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

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 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

VMware Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured VMware Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Consultant in the UK

VMware Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Consultant.

Daily rate trend for VMware Consultant in the UK

VMware Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Consultant over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Consultant in the UK

VMware Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Consultant in the UK

VMware Consultant
Top 11 Contract 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 5 July 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 +49 23 £550 +10.00% 43
UK excluding London +34 13 £550 +19.57% 46
London +42 9 £563 +8.17% 5
Work from Home +18 6 £525 +7.69% 3
South West +35 4 - - 6
East Midlands - 4 £550 - 3
Midlands - 4 £550 - 5
North West - 3 £600 - 5
North of England - 3 £600 - 9
South East +28 1 £650 +31.31% 11
Scotland -3 1 - - 5

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, VMware Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring VMware Consultant in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (65.63%) Security Cleared
3 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (40.63%) PowerCLI
4 13 (40.63%) VMware NSX
5 12 (37.50%) vRealize
6 10 (31.25%) DV Cleared
6 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (28.13%) Data Centre
8 7 (21.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (21.88%) Terraform
8 7 (21.88%) vSphere
9 6 (18.75%) VCAP
9 6 (18.75%) GCP
9 6 (18.75%) Google
9 6 (18.75%) Validation
9 6 (18.75%) Python
9 6 (18.75%) Unix
9 6 (18.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 5 (15.63%) Knowledge Transfer
10 5 (15.63%) Azure
10 5 (15.63%) Ansible
10 5 (15.63%) VSAN
11 4 (12.50%) High Availability
11 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
11 4 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (12.50%) AWS
11 4 (12.50%) Billing
11 4 (12.50%) Use Case
11 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) GCP
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) VSAN
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
General
1 4 (12.50%) Billing
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (21.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.25%) CMDB
4 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Unix
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) Validation
2 5 (15.63%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (12.50%) High Availability
3 4 (12.50%) Runbook
3 4 (12.50%) Use Case
4 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.38%) Security Hardening
4 3 (9.38%) Zero Trust
5 2 (6.25%) Edge Computing
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (6.25%) Migration
5 2 (6.25%) Minimum Viable Product
5 2 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.13%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.13%) DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (3.13%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (65.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 6 (18.75%) VCAP
5 3 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (6.25%) VCDX
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) VMware NSX
2 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (21.88%) vSphere
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.25%) NFS
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) PowerCLI
2 12 (37.50%) vRealize
3 7 (21.88%) Terraform
4 6 (18.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 5 (15.63%) Ansible
6 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
7 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (18.75%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk