VMware Workstation Contract Job Trends

VMware Workstation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VMware Workstation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 520 563
Rank change year-on-year -116 +43 +111
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 9 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.017% 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 0.14% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 8
10th Percentile £259 - £234
25th Percentile £263 - £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £700 £240
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +191.67% -54.29%
75th Percentile £675 - £311
90th Percentile - - £339
UK excluding London median daily rate £269 - £240
% change year-on-year - - -56.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 - £40.00

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Workstation 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 4,911 3,629 4,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 12.27% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 2,391 3,281
10th Percentile £219 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 86 228
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.38 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -36.60%

VMware Workstation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware Workstation job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Workstation over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

VMware Workstation
Top 5 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 Workstation within the UK over the 6 months to 14 June 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 -104 9 £425 -39.29% 1
South West -21 4 £269 -
Work from Home -43 4 £650 - 1
UK excluding London -109 4 £269 - 1
London -82 3 £425 -39.29%

VMware Workstation
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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Mimecast
2 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) PCoIP
3 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OpenGL
1 2 (22.22%) Qt
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
2 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (22.22%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) Project Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (22.22%) Docker
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) Packer
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix
4 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Leostream
4 2 (22.22%) NVIDIA
4 2 (22.22%) Ping Identity