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 25 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
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 82 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 33 44 51
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.60% 2.05% 1.92%
As % of the Vendors category 3.36% 4.76% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 34
10th Percentile £413 £338 £261
25th Percentile £463 £420 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +12.68% -11.25%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £536
90th Percentile £685 £670 £626
London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate £67.70 £112.00 £46.86
% change year-on-year -39.55% +139.01% +23.96%

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 983 925 1,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.70% 43.12% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 588 805
10th Percentile £342 £303 £300
25th Percentile £421 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £663 £651 £675
90th Percentile £759 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £18.96 £16.91 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -7.78%
75th Percentile £29.77 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.92 - £51.63
London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.87% +3.33% +20.00%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Central London over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Central London

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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

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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 25 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% 11
City of Westminster +4 3 £475 +11.76%
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London

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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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.09%) IaaS
2 3 (9.09%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.03%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) NAS
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) DHCP
2 1 (3.03%) LAN
2 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.03%) VLAN
2 1 (3.03%) VSAN
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Consultant
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (15.15%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Migration Architect
5 2 (6.06%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Platform Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Middleware
1 1 (3.03%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) CMDB
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Solaris
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.21%) Migration
3 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (12.12%) ITIL
5 4 (12.12%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (9.09%) Agile
6 3 (9.09%) Business Continuity
6 3 (9.09%) Change Management
6 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Security Patching
6 3 (9.09%) Software Deployment
6 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) PowerShell
2 12 (36.36%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) VCAP
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.03%) PMP
5 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (15.15%) vSphere
4 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.03%) Docker
5 1 (3.03%) NFS
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) vRealize
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 5 (15.15%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (6.06%) PowerCLI
5 2 (6.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.03%) AirWatch
6 1 (3.03%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.03%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Citrix
2 4 (12.12%) Symantec
3 3 (9.09%) Altiris
3 3 (9.09%) Ivanti
4 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.06%) Pure Storage
5 1 (3.03%) BMC
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) Commvault
5 1 (3.03%) Dell
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.03%) Okta
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Tanium
5 1 (3.03%) Tenable
5 1 (3.03%) Zerto