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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 88 95
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 28 35 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.24% 1.75% 1.32%
As % of the Vendors category 2.79% 3.90% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 25
10th Percentile £464 £303 £247
25th Percentile £466 £494 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +43.64% -22.54%
75th Percentile £616 £658 £475
90th Percentile £641 £679 £573
London median daily rate £550 £525 £493
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.60% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate £67.70 £112.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.55% +244.62% -25.47%

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 1,005 897 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.63% 44.74% 42.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 588 789
10th Percentile £356 £313 £286
25th Percentile £427 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £666 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £548
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.37% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 8
10th Percentile - £29.07 £12.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.52 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £38.58 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -33.97% +103.40% -9.69%
75th Percentile £27.00 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 £134.65 £31.25
London median hourly rate £26.50 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.87% +26.00% -2.76%

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 March 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 March 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 -24 27 £550 -7.17% 21
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Rubrik
4 2 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) VSAN
2 2 (7.14%) NAS
2 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.57%) VLAN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Consultant
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
3 7 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Migration Architect
5 2 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Clustering
1 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) CMDB
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (3.57%) Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Solaris
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (25.00%) Migration
1 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) Business Continuity
5 3 (10.71%) Change Management
5 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (7.14%) ITIL
6 2 (7.14%) ITSM
6 2 (7.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.71%) VCAP
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.57%) PMP
6 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.86%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) NFS
3 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
2 7 (25.00%) vRealize
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) PowerCLI
5 2 (7.14%) SCCM
5 2 (7.14%) SnapMirror
5 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.57%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.57%) Packer
6 1 (3.57%) vMotion
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Pure Storage
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Broadcom
3 2 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) Qualys
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Symantec
4 1 (3.57%) Tanium
4 1 (3.57%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) Zerto