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 15 May 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 99 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware 28 28 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.14% 1.42% 1.67%
As % of the Vendors category 2.77% 3.16% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 30
10th Percentile £404 £250 £262
25th Percentile £465 £488 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £593 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +31.67% -15.09%
75th Percentile £575 £660 £597
90th Percentile £608 £694 £703
London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £67.70 - £33.82
% change year-on-year - - -46.04%

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 1,012 887 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.29% 45.03% 42.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 560 753
10th Percentile £362 £303 £300
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £674 £675 £675
90th Percentile £768 £751 £785
London median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 6
10th Percentile - £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.16 £13.56
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.04 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.87% +52.08% -5.95%
75th Percentile £34.13 £48.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.86 £96.38 £25.38
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -21.05%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -9 28 £482 -18.73% 16
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 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) IIS
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
1 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Rubrik
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) VSAN
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) NAS
3 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (7.14%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Consultant
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Programme Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) BYOD
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) SUSE
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (17.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Migration
2 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.14%) Agile
3 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (7.14%) Change Management
3 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (7.14%) High Availability
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (7.14%) ITIL
3 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.57%) Generative AI
4 1 (3.57%) Server Management
4 1 (3.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (7.14%) CCNA
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) MCSE
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.57%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) NFS
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (10.71%) vSphere
3 2 (7.14%) Firmware
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) vRealize
3 2 (7.14%) SnapMirror
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.57%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Packer
4 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) vMotion
4 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Broadcom
2 3 (10.71%) Pure Storage
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Citrix
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Zerto