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 17 October 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 78 69
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware 32 52 88
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.69% 2.21% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 3.45% 5.09% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 57
10th Percentile £329 £397 £375
25th Percentile £453 £432 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +4.37% +0.60%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £600
90th Percentile £682 £725 £693
London median daily rate £520 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +7.31% -7.70% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £27.81
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year - +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile - - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
London median hourly rate £26.50 £23.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +11.34% -60.33% +37.60%

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 928 1,022 1,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.97% 43.51% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 659 901
10th Percentile £325 £313 £281
25th Percentile £421 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £650 £681
90th Percentile £761 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 9
10th Percentile £18.96 £19.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.33 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.35% +122.22% -4.94%
75th Percentile £53.31 £112.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £137.50 £57.90
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.04% +61.00%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -11 27 £545 +3.81% 18
City of Westminster +2 4 £475 +11.76%
West End of London +6 1 - -
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 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DHCP
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) LAN
3 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 2 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (3.13%) BGP
4 1 (3.13%) DKIM
4 1 (3.13%) DMARC
4 1 (3.13%) MPLS
4 1 (3.13%) OSPF
4 1 (3.13%) PSTN
4 1 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) VSAN
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Consultant
1 5 (15.63%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Security Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.13%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Junior Support Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.13%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
1 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (9.38%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.13%) Clustering
2 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (59.38%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
2 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Solaris
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) ITIL
3 6 (18.75%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (12.50%) SIEM
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Security Operations
5 3 (9.38%) Security Patching
5 3 (9.38%) SOAR
5 3 (9.38%) Software Deployment
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (9.38%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (6.25%) Application Packaging
6 2 (6.25%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) PowerShell
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) MCSA
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) VCAP
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.38%) vSphere
5 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (3.13%) Firmware
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) SCCM
1 5 (15.63%) vRealize
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.38%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 3 (9.38%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
5 1 (3.13%) AirWatch
5 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.13%) vMotion
5 1 (3.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Citrix
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco
3 4 (12.50%) Symantec
4 3 (9.38%) Altiris
4 3 (9.38%) CyberArk
4 3 (9.38%) Ivanti
4 3 (9.38%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Dell
5 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.13%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.13%) Okta
6 1 (3.13%) Pure Storage
6 1 (3.13%) Qualys
6 1 (3.13%) Tanium
6 1 (3.13%) Tenable