VMware Server Contract Job Trends

VMware Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VMware Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 550 629
Rank change year-on-year -10 +79 +176
Contract jobs citing VMware Server 1 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.019% 0.015%
As % of the System Software category 0.025% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £299 £266
25th Percentile - £299 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £300 £438
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -31.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £489 £456
90th Percentile - £553 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £300 £225
% change year-on-year +75.29% +33.11% -35.71%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Server falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,070 4,275 6,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.27% 11.53% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,768 4,257
10th Percentile £208 £213 £198
25th Percentile £375 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 90 264
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.56 £21.30 £18.45
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -12.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £67.00 £69.92 £66.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +100.00%

VMware Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Server job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Server
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Server

VMware Server
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Server

VMware Server
Top 3 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 Server within the UK over the 6 months to 20 October 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 -2 1 £525 +75.00% 1
UK excluding London -12 1 £525 +75.29% 1
South East - 1 £525 -

VMware Server
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware