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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 114 88
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 56 24 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.18% 1.16% 2.00%
As % of the Vendors category 5.05% 2.45% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 17 31
10th Percentile £411 £276 £321
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -3.29%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £620
90th Percentile £659 £711 £700
London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.23 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 - -
Median hourly rate £24.75 - -
75th Percentile £28.19 - -
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
London median hourly rate £24.75 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -17.50% -55.56% +27.43%

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 1,109 979 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.24% 47.50% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 637 708
10th Percentile £338 £313 £339
25th Percentile £439 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -2.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 13
10th Percentile - £19.69 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% +20.00%
75th Percentile £38.13 £58.50 £92.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £69.02 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%

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 16 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in Central London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in Central London

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 16 August 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 +27 53 £563 +7.14% 11
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.36%) Confluence
3 2 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.79%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (1.79%) nginx
4 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 11 (19.64%) AWS
3 7 (12.50%) IaaS
3 7 (12.50%) PaaS
4 4 (7.14%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) GitHub
4 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.36%) Rubrik
6 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.57%) DNS
2 11 (19.64%) Firewall
3 10 (17.86%) DHCP
4 9 (16.07%) VPN
5 5 (8.93%) VSAN
6 4 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (5.36%) LAN
7 3 (5.36%) SAN
7 3 (5.36%) SMTP
8 2 (3.57%) BGP
8 2 (3.57%) DMZ
8 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.57%) VLAN
8 2 (3.57%) WAN
9 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (1.79%) TACACS
9 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.79%) Wireless
9 1 (1.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.36%) Big Data
3 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) GitLab
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 15 (26.79%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (19.64%) Senior
2 10 (17.86%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Architect
4 6 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Consultant
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (7.14%) Senior VMware Consultant
6 4 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.79%) Blazor
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.07%) Clustering
3 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) PKI
4 4 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.79%) BYOD
6 1 (1.79%) CMDB
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.79%) Replication
6 1 (1.79%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (48.21%) Windows
2 20 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.29%) Linux
4 6 (10.71%) VMS
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (3.57%) OpenVMS
6 2 (3.57%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.79%) CentOS
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.79%) SUSE
7 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (23.21%) Migration
3 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 7 (12.50%) ITIL
5 5 (8.93%) AI
5 5 (8.93%) DevOps
5 5 (8.93%) High Availability
5 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.93%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (8.93%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 4 (7.14%) Change Control
6 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (7.14%) Incident Management
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (7.14%) TOGAF
7 3 (5.36%) Agile
7 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) SQL
4 2 (3.57%) Bash
4 2 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) Korn
5 1 (1.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.71%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) CCNA
5 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.57%) CCNP
6 2 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.79%) MCSE
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.79%) GRC
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (73.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (35.71%) Active Directory
3 15 (26.79%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (16.07%) vSphere
5 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
5 6 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (10.71%) VMware NSX
6 4 (7.14%) Docker
7 3 (5.36%) BitLocker
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (5.36%) Terminal Services
8 2 (3.57%) Firmware
8 2 (3.57%) NFS
8 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.79%) UAG
9 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) vCenter Server
2 11 (19.64%) Ansible
3 10 (17.86%) Terraform
4 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 5 (8.93%) Puppet
5 5 (8.93%) SCCM
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (5.36%) FortiGate
7 3 (5.36%) Nagios
7 3 (5.36%) PowerCLI
7 3 (5.36%) SCOM
7 3 (5.36%) vMotion
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.57%) Nessus
8 2 (3.57%) NetBackup
8 2 (3.57%) SnapMirror
8 2 (3.57%) WSUS
9 1 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.79%) vRealize
9 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) Cisco
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Citrix
3 4 (7.14%) Broadcom
3 4 (7.14%) Dell
3 4 (7.14%) Google
3 4 (7.14%) NetApp
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.36%) BMC
4 3 (5.36%) Commvault
4 3 (5.36%) EMC
4 3 (5.36%) HP
4 3 (5.36%) Pure Storage
4 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.36%) Remedy
4 3 (5.36%) Symantec
5 2 (3.57%) Tenable
5 2 (3.57%) Veritas
5 2 (3.57%) Zscaler