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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 521 551
Rank change year-on-year +3 +30 +193
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 70 21 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.063% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.068% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 28
10th Percentile £534 £374 £358
25th Percentile £559 £460 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £563 -
90th Percentile £619 £608 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% +3.89% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.97% -11.58%
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 33,835 30,753 40,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 18,857 26,859
10th Percentile £300 £298 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 949 1,554
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%

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
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 1 January 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 -9 47 £600 +20.00% 4
London +10 29 £600 +20.00% 2
Work from Home +6 16 £598 +19.60% 2
UK excluding London -44 16 £550 +17.65% 2
East of England - 5 - -
North of England - 4 - -
North West - 4 - -
South West - 4 £550 - 1
Scotland +10 1 - -
South East -14 1 - - 1
Midlands -39 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 50 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 42 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 27 (38.57%) VMware NSX
5 25 (35.71%) vRealize
6 24 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 23 (32.86%) PowerShell
7 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (31.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 19 (27.14%) Python
9 19 (27.14%) vSphere
10 18 (25.71%) JavaScript
11 8 (11.43%) Terraform
12 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (10.00%) VSAN
13 6 (8.57%) Security Hardening
14 5 (7.14%) Analytics
14 5 (7.14%) Azure
14 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
14 5 (7.14%) Observability
14 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 5 (7.14%) VCAP
14 5 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (5.71%) Ansible
15 4 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
15 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
15 4 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (5.71%) Hyper-V
15 4 (5.71%) Migration

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 5 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (1.43%) AWS
2 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.43%) Cohesity
2 1 (1.43%) GCP
2 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
2 1 (1.43%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) 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 8 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.14%) Replication
3 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
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%) Observability
4 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (5.71%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (5.71%) Migration
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%) Refactoring
6 3 (4.29%) Unit Testing
6 3 (4.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) PowerShell
2 19 (27.14%) Python
3 18 (25.71%) 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%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (38.57%) VMware NSX
2 24 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (27.14%) vSphere
4 4 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (35.71%) 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%) 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%) Veeam