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 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 73 65
Rank change year-on-year -22 -8 +42
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 51 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.39% 2.23% 3.17%
As % of the Vendors category 2.91% 5.17% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 68
10th Percentile £289 £330 £405
25th Percentile £417 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £623 £641 £638
90th Percentile £685 £720 £691
London median daily rate £520 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% -1.86%
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 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -55.56% +19.50% +25.52%

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 927 986 1,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.76% 43.11% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 647 964
10th Percentile £313 £340 £264
25th Percentile £408 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £660 £685
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 8
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.50 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.31 £20.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% +30.12% -12.34%
75th Percentile £58.50 £92.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £64.66 £137.50 £60.35
London median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%

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

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 September 2025.

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 September 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 -17 23 £525 - 17
West End of London +2 2 - -
City of Westminster - 2 £450 -
VMware
London

VMware
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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DHCP
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.41%) LAN
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 2 (7.41%) WAN
4 1 (3.70%) BGP
4 1 (3.70%) DKIM
4 1 (3.70%) DMARC
4 1 (3.70%) MPLS
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) OSPF
4 1 (3.70%) PSTN
4 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.70%) SAN
4 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.70%) VLAN
4 1 (3.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Front Office
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (11.11%) Analyst
1 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (11.11%) Security Analyst
1 3 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
1 3 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
1 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Consultant
2 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Build Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) DBA
3 1 (3.70%) Network Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Operations Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Security Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.70%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.70%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) SIEM
5 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
5 4 (14.81%) SOAR
6 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Security Operations
6 3 (11.11%) Security Patching
6 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Software Deployment
6 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (7.41%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (7.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) Bash
2 3 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) CCNP
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.70%) CCIE
3 1 (3.70%) CCNA
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.70%) MCSA
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.70%) Firmware
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 2 (7.41%) vRealize
4 1 (3.70%) AirWatch
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Citrix
3 6 (22.22%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Altiris
4 3 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 3 (11.11%) Ivanti
4 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 3 (11.11%) Symantec
5 2 (7.41%) CheckPoint
5 2 (7.41%) Dell
5 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Avaya
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) HP
6 1 (3.70%) Juniper
6 1 (3.70%) Meraki
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds