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 12 January 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 83 85
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware 34 45 57
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.72% 2.10% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 3.64% 4.84% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 38
10th Percentile £335 £405 £253
25th Percentile £444 £420 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £453
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.50% -12.14%
75th Percentile £619 £614 £538
90th Percentile £683 £656 £611
London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate £45.35 £112.00 £49.88
% change year-on-year -59.51% +124.54% +30.00%

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 935 929 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.37% 43.35% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 583 796
10th Percentile £333 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £456 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 9
10th Percentile £18.87 £19.74 £16.05
25th Percentile £19.98 £33.32 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +489.47% -7.32%
75th Percentile £33.61 £124.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £137.50 £54.50
London median hourly rate £26.00 £31.17 £33.25
% change year-on-year -16.59% -6.25% +33.00%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -11 29 £550 +5.77% 10
City of Westminster +6 4 £475 +11.76%
West End of London - 1 - -
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 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) IaaS
2 4 (11.76%) Nutanix
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) LAN
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
1 2 (5.88%) WAN
1 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) DKIM
2 1 (2.94%) DMARC
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) NAS
2 1 (2.94%) PSTN
2 1 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) SAN
2 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.94%) VLAN
2 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Migration Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Desktop Support
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Junior
5 1 (2.94%) Programme Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Middleware
1 1 (2.94%) Regular Expression
1 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.82%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) CMDB
3 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Windows 10
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.88%) Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
5 1 (2.94%) Unix
5 1 (2.94%) VMS
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (17.65%) Migration
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) ITIL
4 4 (11.76%) Business Continuity
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (8.82%) Agile
5 3 (8.82%) Change Management
5 3 (8.82%) Configuration Management
5 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.82%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (8.82%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (8.82%) Security Patching
5 3 (8.82%) Software Deployment
5 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (5.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 11 (32.35%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) VCAP
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
5 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.71%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.94%) Docker
6 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Terraform
1 7 (20.59%) vRealize
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) SCCM
3 3 (8.82%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.88%) PowerCLI
4 2 (5.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.94%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) Packer
5 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Citrix
3 4 (11.76%) Symantec
4 3 (8.82%) Altiris
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 3 (8.82%) Ivanti
5 2 (5.88%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) BMC
6 1 (2.94%) Dell
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.94%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.94%) Okta
6 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.94%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.94%) Qualys
6 1 (2.94%) Tanium
6 1 (2.94%) Tenable
6 1 (2.94%) Zerto