VMware Contracts 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 6 July 2025, 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 93 82
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware 26 42 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.29% 1.77% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 2.80% 4.00% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 67
10th Percentile £385 £314 £413
25th Percentile £488 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £665 £650 £647
90th Percentile £705 £720 £738
London median daily rate £525 £500 £547
% change year-on-year +5.00% -8.59% +4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £27.81
Median hourly rate - - £36.25
75th Percentile - - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £56.59
% change year-on-year +26.05% -57.94% +19.54%

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 929 1,050 1,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 46.20% 44.30% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 766 1,042
10th Percentile £310 £316 £231
25th Percentile £425 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £530 £550
% change year-on-year - -3.64% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 9
10th Percentile £23.23 £12.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.91 £15.19 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.83 £20.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.13% -20.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £62.00 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £75.90 £63.53 £53.15
London median hourly rate £28.33 £24.18 £30.75
% change year-on-year +17.14% -21.37% -10.22%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in Central London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in Central London

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Central London

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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 6 July 2025. 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 -10 23 £550 +4.76% 86
West End of London +4 2 - - 2
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
3 3 (11.54%) Network Security
4 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) VSAN
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.85%) BGP
5 1 (3.85%) HTTP
5 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) MPLS
5 1 (3.85%) OSPF
5 1 (3.85%) SAN
5 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.85%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Subversion
3 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Security Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) SCCM Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
1 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Clustering
2 3 (11.54%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 7 (26.92%) Linux
4 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.85%) Solaris
6 1 (3.85%) Unix
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) Migration
3 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 4 (15.38%) SIEM
3 4 (15.38%) SOAR
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL
4 3 (11.54%) Patch Management
4 3 (11.54%) Security Hardening
4 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
4 3 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) CCNP
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CCIE
3 2 (7.69%) VCAP
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (42.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
3 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
4 2 (7.69%) vSphere
5 1 (3.85%) Firmware
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.85%) NFS
5 1 (3.85%) Veritas File System
5 1 (3.85%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.85%) XenApp
5 1 (3.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) SCCM
3 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) Control-M
4 1 (3.85%) Netcool
4 1 (3.85%) QRadar
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.85%) vMotion
4 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco
3 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
4 4 (15.38%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) Splunk
5 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
5 3 (11.54%) Citrix
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.69%) Arista
6 2 (7.69%) Atempo
6 2 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 2 (7.69%) Databricks
6 2 (7.69%) Juniper
6 2 (7.69%) Mellanox
6 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.85%) ForeScout
7 1 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (3.85%) TP-LINK