VMware Contract Job Trends in Central London

VMware
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 10 April 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
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 96 92
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 28 34 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.18% 1.71% 1.52%
As % of the Vendors category 2.73% 3.80% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 28
10th Percentile £463 £320 £253
25th Percentile £465 £503 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £419
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +41.49% -22.09%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £487
90th Percentile £603 £699 £591
London median daily rate £550 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -13.64%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,024 895 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.22% 45.07% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 590 782
10th Percentile £357 £313 £291
25th Percentile £431 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -
75th Percentile £661 £663 £675
90th Percentile £764 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £546
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.14% -2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 8
10th Percentile £18.65 £28.28 £12.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £29.07 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +73.08% -9.69%
75th Percentile £27.00 £72.81 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 £126.25 £31.25
London median hourly rate £31.75 £29.07 £24.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% +18.65% -4.96%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Central London

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Central London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Central London

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
City of London -14 27 £510 -13.92% 25
VMware
London

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Rubrik
4 2 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) VSAN
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
3 2 (7.14%) NAS
3 2 (7.14%) SAN
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
4 1 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Consultant
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Senior VMware Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Migration Architect
4 2 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (3.57%) Solaris
4 1 (3.57%) SUSE
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Migration
1 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Change Management
4 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.14%) Business Continuity
5 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (7.14%) ITIL
5 2 (7.14%) ITSM
5 2 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 2 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.14%) VCAP
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.57%) PMP
6 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) NFS
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) Firmware
5 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) vRealize
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.14%) PowerCLI
5 2 (7.14%) SCCM
5 2 (7.14%) SnapMirror
6 1 (3.57%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.57%) Packer
6 1 (3.57%) vMotion
6 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Broadcom
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Pure Storage
3 2 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Symantec
4 1 (3.57%) Tanium
4 1 (3.57%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) Zerto