VMware Contracts

VMware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 68 54
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware 868 1,314 2,183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.88% 3.02% 3.93%
As % of the Vendors category 6.05% 7.08% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 903 1,515
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £645 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £510
% change year-on-year +7.32% +0.49% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 38 98
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.23 £25.93
25th Percentile £30.49 £36.09 £44.06
Median hourly rate £34.71 £40.25 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% -33.31% +35.62%
75th Percentile £46.17 £71.10 £68.44
90th Percentile £53.72 £75.90 £84.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £40.13 £51.07
% change year-on-year -18.33% -21.42% +79.74%

All Vendors
UK

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,351 18,572 24,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.57% 42.63% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,804 11,529 16,058
10th Percentile £280 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,182 638
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.27 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.71 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.23 £23.80 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -41.23% +85.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.70 £63.62
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.94 £22.50 £32.15
% change year-on-year +1.94% -30.02% +64.87%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK

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Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 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 -23 751 £550 +7.84% 766
UK excluding London -12 589 £550 +7.32% 523
Work from Home -4 237 £525 +5.00% 371
London -28 199 £525 +5.00% 286
South East -18 152 £569 +8.29% 170
South West +7 141 £600 +14.29% 66
North of England +13 110 £450 +18.42% 124
Midlands -17 76 £536 +1.04% 82
East of England +25 57 £550 - 51
West Midlands -14 57 £501 -8.91% 46
North West -8 56 £450 +28.57% 58
Yorkshire +15 45 £458 +14.38% 53
Scotland +6 45 £445 +1.60% 28
East Midlands -9 19 £550 +15.79% 36
North East +1 10 £358 -10.63% 14
Wales +3 6 £290 +31.82% 4
Northern Ireland -2 6 £255 -51.43% 8
Channel Islands - 2 £725 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 93 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (5.65%) Confluence
2 49 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.07%) IIS
4 16 (1.84%) Apache
5 7 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.58%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.46%) nginx
7 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) Gunicorn
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) WinCC
Applications
1 47 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (26.38%) Azure
2 115 (13.25%) AWS
3 96 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (7.60%) IaaS
5 61 (7.03%) Entra ID
6 42 (4.84%) OpenShift
7 39 (4.49%) PaaS
8 35 (4.03%) GCP
9 24 (2.76%) GitHub
10 22 (2.53%) Cohesity
10 22 (2.53%) Nutanix
10 22 (2.53%) SaaS
11 14 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.04%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.58%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.58%) Asana
13 5 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 202 (23.27%) DNS
2 151 (17.40%) Firewall
3 119 (13.71%) DHCP
4 100 (11.52%) SAN
5 91 (10.48%) TCP/IP
6 62 (7.14%) VPN
7 56 (6.45%) Network Security
8 45 (5.18%) VSAN
9 37 (4.26%) LAN
10 35 (4.03%) WAN
11 34 (3.92%) BGP
12 31 (3.57%) VLAN
13 27 (3.11%) NAS
14 24 (2.76%) iSCSI
15 22 (2.53%) HTTP
16 21 (2.42%) Fibre Channel
16 21 (2.42%) Intrusion Detection
16 21 (2.42%) SMTP
17 20 (2.30%) OSPF
18 18 (2.07%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.96%) Oracle Database
3 15 (1.73%) MongoDB
4 13 (1.50%) Big Data
4 13 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.46%) MySQL
9 3 (0.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.35%) Power BI
10 2 (0.23%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.12%) Redis
11 1 (0.12%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (8.64%) Git
2 65 (7.49%) JIRA
3 61 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.65%) Bitbucket
5 22 (2.53%) GitLab
6 15 (1.73%) Postman
7 12 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.27%) Subversion
9 10 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.69%) MSI
11 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.23%) Maven
12 2 (0.23%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.23%) Selenium
12 2 (0.23%) TestNG
12 2 (0.23%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.12%) Introscope
General
1 204 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.41%) Finance
3 76 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 52 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.61%) Telecoms
6 26 (3.00%) Banking
7 23 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.42%) Legal
9 16 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.38%) Military
11 9 (1.04%) Law
12 8 (0.92%) Local Government
13 7 (0.81%) Billing
13 7 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Marketing
15 5 (0.58%) Electronics
15 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 155 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 106 (12.21%) Architect
3 69 (7.95%) VMware Engineer
4 60 (6.91%) Consultant
5 50 (5.76%) Senior
6 49 (5.65%) Linux Engineer
6 49 (5.65%) Network Engineer
7 40 (4.61%) Administrator
8 34 (3.92%) Lead
8 34 (3.92%) Support Engineer
9 31 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 31 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
10 30 (3.46%) VMware Consultant
10 30 (3.46%) Windows Engineer
11 29 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
12 27 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.11%) VMware Architect
13 26 (3.00%) Analyst
14 25 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.88%) REST
2 19 (2.19%) Middleware
3 12 (1.38%) .NET
3 12 (1.38%) Kafka
4 11 (1.27%) Flash
4 11 (1.27%) SOAP
5 8 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (0.92%) LDAP
5 8 (0.92%) Loki
6 7 (0.81%) HTML
6 7 (0.81%) NETCONF
6 7 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (0.81%) RESTCONF
7 6 (0.69%) CSS
7 6 (0.69%) YAML
8 5 (0.58%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.58%) JSON
8 5 (0.58%) Spine.js
9 4 (0.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.18%) Data Centre
2 53 (6.11%) PKI
3 51 (5.88%) Clustering
4 39 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.88%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.53%) Enterprise Storage
9 20 (2.30%) Replication
10 17 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.61%) Blackberry
13 12 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
14 11 (1.27%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.04%) Driving Licence
16 8 (0.92%) CMDB
17 7 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 418 (48.16%) Windows
2 291 (33.53%) Linux
3 260 (29.95%) Windows Server
4 97 (11.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 76 (8.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 63 (7.26%) Unix
7 59 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 58 (6.68%) Windows 10
9 32 (3.69%) Ubuntu
10 30 (3.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 29 (3.34%) CentOS
12 21 (2.42%) VMS
13 20 (2.30%) Windows Server 2003
14 17 (1.96%) Solaris
15 15 (1.73%) AIX
16 11 (1.27%) Debian
17 8 (0.92%) Mac OS
18 7 (0.81%) Android
18 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
19 6 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (23.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 137 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (13.36%) Agile
4 112 (12.90%) Migration
5 106 (12.21%) DevOps
6 98 (11.29%) ITIL
7 97 (11.18%) High Availability
8 73 (8.41%) Service Management
9 65 (7.49%) Validation
10 61 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 60 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
12 59 (6.80%) Configuration Management
13 53 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 51 (5.88%) Containerisation
15 50 (5.76%) CI/CD
15 50 (5.76%) Roadmaps
16 48 (5.53%) Deployment Automation
16 48 (5.53%) Project Delivery
17 44 (5.07%) ITSM
18 40 (4.61%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 196 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 184 (21.20%) Python
3 76 (8.76%) Bash
4 57 (6.57%) SQL
5 31 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 29 (3.34%) Java
7 28 (3.23%) Perl
8 11 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.04%) Erlang
9 9 (1.04%) PHP
9 9 (1.04%) Prolog
10 8 (0.92%) VBScript
11 7 (0.81%) C#
12 5 (0.58%) VB
13 4 (0.46%) Go
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.23%) C
16 1 (0.12%) ActionScript
16 1 (0.12%) VB6
Qualifications
1 379 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 229 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 171 (19.70%) DV Cleared
4 89 (10.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 75 (8.64%) Cisco Certification
6 59 (6.80%) Degree
7 53 (6.11%) CCNP
8 50 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.23%) CCNA
10 26 (3.00%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.65%) MCSE
12 22 (2.53%) VCAP
13 15 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
14 14 (1.61%) RHCE
15 11 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.27%) OCA
16 10 (1.15%) RHCA
16 10 (1.15%) VCP5
16 10 (1.15%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.76%) SLA
2 15 (1.73%) NCSC
3 14 (1.61%) GDPR
4 10 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.04%) Def Stans
5 9 (1.04%) QA
6 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.58%) NIST
7 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.23%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 551 (63.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 297 (34.22%) Active Directory
3 156 (17.97%) VMware ESXi
4 145 (16.71%) vSphere
5 107 (12.33%) Hyper-V
6 86 (9.91%) VMware NSX
7 66 (7.60%) Docker
8 46 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (3.46%) Virtual Servers
10 22 (2.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 22 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (2.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 17 (1.96%) NFS
13 15 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
14 14 (1.61%) BitLocker
15 10 (1.15%) Terminal Services
16 9 (1.04%) DFS Replication
16 9 (1.04%) XenApp
17 8 (0.92%) Firmware
17 8 (0.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 222 (25.58%) Ansible
2 103 (11.87%) Terraform
3 95 (10.94%) vCenter Server
4 78 (8.99%) Kubernetes
5 73 (8.41%) Puppet
6 72 (8.29%) SCCM
7 54 (6.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 51 (5.88%) WSUS
9 30 (3.46%) vRealize
10 29 (3.34%) PowerCLI
11 27 (3.11%) Progress Chef
12 22 (2.53%) VxRail
13 19 (2.19%) Nagios
14 18 (2.07%) Prometheus
15 17 (1.96%) Grafana
15 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
16 16 (1.84%) Tivoli
17 14 (1.61%) vMotion
17 14 (1.61%) vRealize Orchestrator
18 11 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 271 (31.22%) Microsoft
2 153 (17.63%) Cisco
3 106 (12.21%) Red Hat
4 69 (7.95%) Citrix
5 68 (7.83%) Splunk
6 58 (6.68%) Dell
7 54 (6.22%) NetApp
8 52 (5.99%) Oracle
9 47 (5.41%) Veeam
10 40 (4.61%) HP
10 40 (4.61%) SolarWinds
11 33 (3.80%) ServiceNow
12 31 (3.57%) F5
13 27 (3.11%) Atlassian
14 24 (2.76%) Google
14 24 (2.76%) Veritas
15 22 (2.53%) Palo Alto
15 22 (2.53%) Symantec
16 21 (2.42%) EMC
16 21 (2.42%) Juniper