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 26 July 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
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 104 95
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware 45 26 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.73% 1.26% 1.86%
As % of the Vendors category 4.18% 2.67% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 32
10th Percentile £428 £385 £325
25th Percentile £463 £488 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £643
90th Percentile £644 £705 £723
London median daily rate £543 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.23 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 - -
Median hourly rate £24.75 - -
75th Percentile £28.19 - -
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
London median hourly rate £24.75 £30.00 £45.65
% change year-on-year -17.50% -34.28% -13.82%

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 1,076 972 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.31% 47.07% 43.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 620 728
10th Percentile £339 £325 £336
25th Percentile £450 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £656
90th Percentile £750 £760 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 12
10th Percentile - £23.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £62.00 £103.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.90 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.88% -4.29% -17.91%

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 26 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in Central London over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 July 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 +7 43 £550 - 7
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 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) nginx
2 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) IaaS
3 5 (11.11%) PaaS
4 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.67%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
5 3 (6.67%) Rubrik
6 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Cohesity
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) DNS
2 10 (22.22%) Firewall
3 9 (20.00%) DHCP
4 8 (17.78%) VPN
5 5 (11.11%) VSAN
6 3 (6.67%) LAN
6 3 (6.67%) SMTP
6 3 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.44%) DMZ
7 2 (4.44%) SAN
7 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.44%) WAN
8 1 (2.22%) BGP
8 1 (2.22%) MPLS
8 1 (2.22%) Network Security
8 1 (2.22%) OSPF
8 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.22%) VLAN
8 1 (2.22%) Wireless
8 1 (2.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.67%) Big Data
2 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.44%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Senior
1 10 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Consultant
3 5 (11.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) VMware Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Senior VMware Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.22%) Blazor
2 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Clustering
2 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.89%) PKI
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.22%) BYOD
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (48.89%) Windows
2 17 (37.78%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.78%) Linux
4 3 (6.67%) VMS
5 2 (4.44%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.22%) CentOS
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.22%) SUSE
6 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (15.56%) Migration
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps
3 5 (11.11%) High Availability
3 5 (11.11%) ITIL
3 5 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (8.89%) AI
4 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 3 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.67%) Storage Management
5 3 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) C#
3 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (6.67%) CCNA
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.44%) CCNP
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.22%) MCSE
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.22%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.22%) GRC
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 14 (31.11%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (17.78%) vSphere
5 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (11.11%) VMware NSX
7 3 (6.67%) BitLocker
7 3 (6.67%) Docker
7 3 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (6.67%) Terminal Services
8 2 (4.44%) Firmware
8 2 (4.44%) NFS
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (2.22%) UAG
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) vCenter Server
2 9 (20.00%) Ansible
2 9 (20.00%) Terraform
3 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
4 5 (11.11%) Puppet
5 4 (8.89%) SCCM
6 3 (6.67%) FortiGate
6 3 (6.67%) Nagios
6 3 (6.67%) PowerCLI
6 3 (6.67%) vMotion
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (4.44%) Nessus
7 2 (4.44%) SnapMirror
7 2 (4.44%) vRealize
8 1 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.22%) SCOM
8 1 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Cisco
2 8 (17.78%) Citrix
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) Broadcom
4 4 (8.89%) NetApp
5 3 (6.67%) EMC
5 3 (6.67%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) HP
5 3 (6.67%) Pure Storage
5 3 (6.67%) Symantec
6 2 (4.44%) Dell
6 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.44%) Tenable
6 2 (4.44%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.22%) ForeScout
7 1 (2.22%) Isilon
7 1 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.22%) Meraki
7 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto