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 20 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
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 96 96
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 29 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.21% 1.45% 1.54%
As % of the Vendors category 2.85% 3.21% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 28
10th Percentile £463 £320 £253
25th Percentile £465 £503 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £593 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +35.43% -18.60%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £523
90th Percentile £598 £699 £612
London median daily rate £550 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -11.71%

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 1,017 904 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.55% 45.06% 42.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 588 767
10th Percentile £356 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 7
10th Percentile £18.65 £27.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £29.07 £14.38
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +73.40% -11.95%
75th Percentile £27.00 £58.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 £108.75 £25.05
London median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
% change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%

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 20 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 20 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 -5 28 £496 -16.33% 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) nginx
1 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Rubrik
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Cohesity
4 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) VSAN
2 3 (10.34%) NAS
2 3 (10.34%) SAN
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.45%) VLAN
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Consultant
1 9 (31.03%) Senior
1 9 (31.03%) VMware Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) NetApp Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.45%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Clustering
2 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) VMS
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (6.90%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) CentOS
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) SUSE
4 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (20.69%) Migration
2 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.24%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) High Availability
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (6.90%) Agile
5 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity
5 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.90%) Change Management
5 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL
5 2 (6.90%) ITSM
5 2 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CCNA
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) VCAP
5 1 (3.45%) MCSE
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMP
5 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (65.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) vSphere
3 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
4 3 (10.34%) NFS
4 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.90%) Firmware
5 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.45%) Docker
6 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Ansible
3 5 (17.24%) vRealize
4 3 (10.34%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.90%) PowerCLI
5 2 (6.90%) SCCM
5 2 (6.90%) SnapMirror
6 1 (3.45%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) vMotion
6 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Broadcom
2 3 (10.34%) Pure Storage
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) NetApp
4 1 (3.45%) BMC
4 1 (3.45%) Commvault
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) EMC
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Zerto