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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 98 78
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 53 30 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.13% 1.54% 2.28%
As % of the Vendors category 4.74% 3.18% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 35
10th Percentile £408 £306 £338
25th Percentile £450 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £638 £611 £633
90th Percentile £663 £685 £715
London median daily rate £550 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £11.85 - -
25th Percentile £14.63 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.38 - -
90th Percentile £28.75 - -
London median hourly rate £46.00 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +53.33% -55.56% +19.50%

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 1,118 943 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.88% 48.56% 43.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 636 660
10th Percentile £313 £313 £337
25th Percentile £446 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £657
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 13
10th Percentile £17.98 £19.24 £16.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £60.25 £92.50
90th Percentile £64.25 £64.84 £137.50
London median hourly rate £39.00 £26.30 £31.00
% change year-on-year +48.29% -15.16% -17.33%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -1 49 £575 +9.52% 28
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 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
3 2 (3.77%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) AWS
3 8 (15.09%) IaaS
3 8 (15.09%) PaaS
4 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.55%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.77%) Rubrik
7 2 (3.77%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.89%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.19%) DNS
2 11 (20.75%) Firewall
3 10 (18.87%) DHCP
4 9 (16.98%) VPN
5 4 (7.55%) LAN
5 4 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (5.66%) SAN
6 3 (5.66%) SMTP
6 3 (5.66%) WAN
7 2 (3.77%) BGP
7 2 (3.77%) DMZ
7 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.77%) VLAN
7 2 (3.77%) VSAN
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (1.89%) NAS
8 1 (1.89%) Network Security
8 1 (1.89%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.55%) Power BI
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.66%) Big Data
4 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 13 (24.53%) Finance
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Architect
4 6 (11.32%) Support Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Migration Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Migration Project Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) REST
3 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.89%) Blazor
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth
4 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.09%) Clustering
3 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.43%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) PKI
5 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.89%) BYOD
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.89%) CMDB
6 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.89%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.89%) Replication
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (54.72%) Windows
2 20 (37.74%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.09%) Linux
4 6 (11.32%) VMS
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.77%) OpenVMS
6 2 (3.77%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.89%) CentOS
7 1 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.89%) SUSE
7 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (26.42%) Migration
3 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
4 8 (15.09%) ITIL
5 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.43%) AI
7 5 (9.43%) DevOps
7 5 (9.43%) High Availability
7 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (7.55%) Agile
8 4 (7.55%) Change Control
8 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (7.55%) Incident Management
8 4 (7.55%) ITSM
8 4 (7.55%) Service Delivery
8 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.32%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) Python
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) C#
4 2 (3.77%) Korn
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.09%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.32%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) CCNA
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.77%) CCNP
6 2 (3.77%) CISSP
7 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.89%) MCSE
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) SLA
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.89%) GRC
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (75.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (41.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (26.42%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (16.98%) vSphere
5 7 (13.21%) Hyper-V
6 5 (9.43%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (9.43%) VMware NSX
7 4 (7.55%) Docker
8 3 (5.66%) BitLocker
8 3 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (5.66%) Terminal Services
9 2 (3.77%) Firmware
9 2 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.89%) NFS
10 1 (1.89%) UAG
10 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) vCenter Server
2 10 (18.87%) Ansible
3 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.43%) Puppet
4 5 (9.43%) SCCM
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (7.55%) SCOM
6 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
6 3 (5.66%) Nagios
6 3 (5.66%) PowerCLI
6 3 (5.66%) vMotion
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.77%) Nessus
7 2 (3.77%) NetBackup
7 2 (3.77%) WSUS
8 1 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.89%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.89%) SnapMirror
8 1 (1.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Cisco
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Citrix
3 5 (9.43%) Dell
3 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.55%) Google
4 4 (7.55%) Oracle
4 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.66%) BMC
5 3 (5.66%) Commvault
5 3 (5.66%) EMC
5 3 (5.66%) HP
5 3 (5.66%) NetApp
5 3 (5.66%) Remedy
5 3 (5.66%) Symantec
6 2 (3.77%) Broadcom
6 2 (3.77%) Tenable
6 2 (3.77%) Veeam
6 2 (3.77%) Veritas
6 2 (3.77%) Zscaler