VMware Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

VMware
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 5 October 2026, 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -23 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.95% 1.06% 5.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 1.92% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £531 £410 £406
25th Percentile £559 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% +13.89% +38.46%
75th Percentile £659 £581 £491
90th Percentile £684 £615 £539
South East median daily rate £538 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.73% +10.00%

All Vendors
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 238 104 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 56.53% 55.32% 59.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 81 61
10th Percentile £213 £191 £170
25th Percentile £345 £205 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +52.83% -33.33% -8.72%
75th Percentile £489 £525 £528
90th Percentile £624 £638 £638
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 2
10th Percentile £15.46 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £41.48 £16.02 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.89% -42.78% +60.00%
75th Percentile £49.75 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.24 £21.95 £57.35
% change year-on-year +69.70% -61.73% +11.53%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

VMware job vacancy trend in West Sussex

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in West Sussex over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in West Sussex

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Worthing -7 2 £700 +12.00%
Crawley -9 1 £525 +31.25% 2
VMware
South East

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) AirWatch
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat