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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 99 92
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 34 26 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.31% 1.36% 1.59%
As % of the Vendors category 3.28% 3.02% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £463 £385 £313
25th Percentile £465 £488 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% -4.19%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £653
90th Percentile £644 £705 £725
London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £43.60 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -61.92%

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 1,036 860 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.88% 44.98% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 538 760
10th Percentile £350 £312 £325
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £537 £538
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.09% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 8
10th Percentile - £22.70 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.60 £15.19
Median hourly rate £22.27 £29.07 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +33.66% -42.00%
75th Percentile £42.13 £47.96 £24.56
90th Percentile £64.00 £85.50 £63.53
London median hourly rate £35.50 £28.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.56% +19.75% -8.46%

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 June 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 16 June 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 -2 33 £550 - 9
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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
2 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) IaaS
3 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
3 3 (8.82%) PaaS
3 3 (8.82%) Rubrik
4 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.88%) Cohesity
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) DNS
2 5 (14.71%) DHCP
2 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) VPN
2 5 (14.71%) VSAN
3 3 (8.82%) SMTP
4 2 (5.88%) NAS
4 2 (5.88%) SAN
5 1 (2.94%) LAN
5 1 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.94%) VLAN
5 1 (2.94%) WAN
5 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.82%) Big Data
2 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
1 9 (26.47%) VMware Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Consultant
2 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Senior VMware Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.94%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Clustering
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) PKI
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) BYOD
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Windows Server
3 6 (17.65%) Linux
4 3 (8.82%) VMS
5 2 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.94%) CentOS
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.94%) SUSE
6 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (14.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (11.76%) AI
4 4 (11.76%) DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.82%) High Availability
5 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.82%) Software Deployment
5 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.88%) Change Control
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (5.88%) Storage Management
6 2 (5.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.65%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (11.76%) Degree
4 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) MCSE
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
5 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.94%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (67.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
3 5 (14.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (14.71%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) BitLocker
4 3 (8.82%) Docker
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (8.82%) NFS
4 3 (8.82%) Terminal Services
4 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.88%) Firmware
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) vCenter Server
3 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.76%) Puppet
4 4 (11.76%) vMotion
4 4 (11.76%) vRealize
5 3 (8.82%) Nagios
5 3 (8.82%) PowerCLI
6 2 (5.88%) SnapMirror
7 1 (2.94%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.94%) SCCM
7 1 (2.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Broadcom
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco
2 4 (11.76%) Citrix
3 3 (8.82%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) HP
3 3 (8.82%) NetApp
3 3 (8.82%) Pure Storage
3 3 (8.82%) Symantec
4 2 (5.88%) Dell
4 2 (5.88%) EMC
5 1 (2.94%) Brocade
5 1 (2.94%) Commvault
5 1 (2.94%) Isilon
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow