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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 10 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 4.22% 3.15% 5.53%
As % of the Vendors category 7.25% 4.76% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £448 £384 £270
25th Percentile £475 £415 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -18.80%
75th Percentile £638 £564 £488
90th Percentile £725 £601 £538
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -

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 138 84 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 58.23% 66.14% 53.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 79
10th Percentile £205 £187 £200
25th Percentile £306 £367 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -5.64% -3.70%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £518
90th Percentile £638 £636 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £511
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.78% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £27.80 - £12.40
25th Percentile £29.00 - £12.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% +15.38% -40.17%
75th Percentile £34.50 - £13.28
90th Percentile £34.80 - £13.44
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £40.25 £55.53
% change year-on-year -44.10% -27.52% +76.12%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -2 8 £575 +53.33%
Crawley -7 2 £463 -4.64% 4
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 5 (50.00%) 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 4 (40.00%) DHCP
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
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%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
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 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (30.00%) 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
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Fit Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
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%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) 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%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas