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 29 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
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 111 101
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware 48 24 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.85% 1.17% 1.83%
As % of the Vendors category 4.47% 2.49% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 31
10th Percentile £415 £351 £321
25th Percentile £463 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £645
90th Percentile £656 £675 £725
London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -8.59%
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 1,074 962 1,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.45% 46.84% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 617 718
10th Percentile £334 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 11
10th Percentile - £23.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £23.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% -20.90% +66.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £62.00 £115.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.90 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -14.06%

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 29 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 29 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in Central London

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 29 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 +10 46 £550 +2.33% 13
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 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (2.08%) IIS
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
3 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) IaaS
3 5 (10.42%) PaaS
4 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.25%) GCP
5 3 (6.25%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.25%) Rubrik
6 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Cohesity
6 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) DNS
2 10 (20.83%) Firewall
3 9 (18.75%) DHCP
4 8 (16.67%) VPN
5 5 (10.42%) VSAN
6 3 (6.25%) LAN
6 3 (6.25%) SMTP
6 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.17%) DMZ
7 2 (4.17%) SAN
7 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.17%) WAN
8 1 (2.08%) BGP
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.08%) MPLS
8 1 (2.08%) OSPF
8 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.08%) VLAN
8 1 (2.08%) Wireless
8 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.25%) Big Data
2 3 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) GitLab
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (20.83%) Senior
1 10 (20.83%) VMware Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Consultant
2 5 (10.42%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Consultant
3 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (8.33%) Senior VMware Consultant
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.08%) Blazor
2 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Clustering
1 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) PKI
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.08%) BYOD
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (50.00%) Windows
2 18 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (8.33%) VMS
5 2 (4.17%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.08%) CentOS
6 1 (2.08%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.08%) SUSE
6 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.08%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (18.75%) Migration
3 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (10.42%) DevOps
4 5 (10.42%) High Availability
4 5 (10.42%) ITIL
4 5 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (10.42%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (8.33%) AI
5 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (6.25%) Project Delivery
6 3 (6.25%) Storage Management
6 3 (6.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.42%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) SQL
4 2 (4.17%) Bash
4 2 (4.17%) C#
4 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) Korn
5 1 (2.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) Degree
5 4 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (6.25%) CCNA
6 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.17%) CCNP
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.08%) MCSE
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.08%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.08%) GRC
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
3 14 (29.17%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (16.67%) vSphere
5 6 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (10.42%) VMware NSX
7 3 (6.25%) BitLocker
7 3 (6.25%) Docker
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (6.25%) Terminal Services
8 2 (4.17%) Firmware
8 2 (4.17%) NFS
8 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (2.08%) UAG
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 10 (20.83%) Ansible
2 10 (20.83%) Terraform
3 7 (14.58%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.42%) Puppet
5 4 (8.33%) SCCM
6 3 (6.25%) FortiGate
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (6.25%) Nagios
6 3 (6.25%) PowerCLI
6 3 (6.25%) vMotion
7 2 (4.17%) Nessus
7 2 (4.17%) SCOM
7 2 (4.17%) SnapMirror
7 2 (4.17%) vRealize
8 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
8 1 (2.08%) VxRail
8 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Cisco
2 8 (16.67%) Citrix
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) Broadcom
3 4 (8.33%) NetApp
4 3 (6.25%) EMC
4 3 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) HP
4 3 (6.25%) Pure Storage
4 3 (6.25%) Symantec
5 2 (4.17%) BMC
5 2 (4.17%) Commvault
5 2 (4.17%) Dell
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.17%) Remedy
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) Tenable
5 2 (4.17%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.08%) Meraki