VMware Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median VMware Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 329 419
Rank change year-on-year +29 +90 +184
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 4 16 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £438 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £594
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -15.79% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £663
90th Percentile - £527 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £600
% change year-on-year +12.82% -18.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - - £63.00
25th Percentile - - £65.75
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £86.10
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £63.00 £70.75
% change year-on-year +30.95% -10.95% +7.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

VMware Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured VMware Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Consultant.

VMware Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Consultant.

VMware Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, VMware Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring VMware Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) vRealize
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (25.00%) VSAN
4 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (25.00%) VxRail
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (25.00%) Unix
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Runbook
1 1 (25.00%) Use Case
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) vRealize
2 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Google