VMware Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 April 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
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 87 91
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware 26 31 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 1.78% 1.47%
As % of the Vendors category 2.76% 4.01% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 23
10th Percentile £463 £320 £243
25th Percentile £465 £503 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £593 £413
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +43.64% -25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £524
90th Percentile £613 £699 £598
Central London median daily rate £510 £593 £419
% change year-on-year -13.92% +41.49% -22.09%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 943 774 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.81% 44.33% 43.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 494 712
10th Percentile £363 £313 £313
25th Percentile £430 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £675
90th Percentile £766 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 5
10th Percentile - £32.81 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.28 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +176.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £33.76 £90.94 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £143.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £34.65 £18.93
% change year-on-year -26.49% +83.04% -9.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

VMware job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Rubrik
4 2 (7.69%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) VSAN
2 3 (11.54%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) NAS
3 2 (7.69%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) Firewall
4 1 (3.85%) LAN
4 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) WAN
4 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Consultant
2 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 8 (30.77%) VMware Consultant
2 8 (30.77%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Senior VMware Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Migration Architect
4 2 (7.69%) NetApp Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (7.69%) VMS
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Migration
2 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.69%) Agile
6 2 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (7.69%) High Availability
6 2 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement
6 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.69%) VCAP
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.85%) PMP
6 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) NFS
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
3 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) Firmware
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) vRealize
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.69%) PowerCLI
5 2 (7.69%) SCCM
5 2 (7.69%) SnapMirror
6 1 (3.85%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.85%) Packer
6 1 (3.85%) vMotion
6 1 (3.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Broadcom
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Pure Storage
3 2 (7.69%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) BMC
4 1 (3.85%) Commvault
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Zerto