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 9 March 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
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 25 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 10 3 30
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 3.77% 2.11% 12.61%
As % of the Vendors category 6.90% 3.19% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 26
10th Percentile £473 - £375
25th Percentile £513 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +18.92% -20.67%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £488
90th Percentile £725 - £588
South East median daily rate £525 £569 £514
% change year-on-year -7.65% +10.60% -6.12%

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 145 94 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 54.72% 66.20% 56.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 72 98
10th Percentile £283 £204 £217
25th Percentile £413 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.39% -18.13%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £512
90th Percentile £626 £633 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile - £15.78 £13.09
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.95 £15.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £35.53 £20.69 £22.25
90th Percentile £40.98 £23.07 -
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +7.67% -12.00% -30.56%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 0 9 £575 +4.55%
Crawley - 1 £525 - 1
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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Nutanix
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Nutanix Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Release Management
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Edge Computing
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) VCAP
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (30.00%) vSphere
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (10.00%) SELinux
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas