VMware Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VMware
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 1 November 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
1 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 75 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware 29 49 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 2.33% 2.92%
As % of the Vendors category 3.42% 5.24% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 53
10th Percentile £401 £372 £363
25th Percentile £488 £460 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +4.90% -7.31%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £600
90th Percentile £685 £727 £698
Central London median daily rate £533 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +1.91% +4.45% +0.05%
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
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year - +208.97% +85.90%

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 847 935 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.88% 44.42% 41.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 589 812
10th Percentile £325 £324 £319
25th Percentile £413 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -49.06% +140.96% +1.22%

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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 1 November 2025.

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 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) IaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DHCP
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) LAN
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) WAN
4 1 (3.45%) BGP
4 1 (3.45%) MPLS
4 1 (3.45%) OSPF
4 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.45%) SAN
4 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) VLAN
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) VSAN
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Consultant
1 4 (13.79%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Operations Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Security Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Security Operations Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Migration Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Automation Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Desktop Support
4 1 (3.45%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Middleware
1 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.45%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris
5 1 (3.45%) Unix
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) Migration
3 6 (20.69%) ITIL
4 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.79%) SIEM
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Security Operations
5 3 (10.34%) Security Patching
5 3 (10.34%) SOAR
5 3 (10.34%) Software Deployment
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (6.90%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.90%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
6 1 (3.45%) CCNA
6 1 (3.45%) CCNP
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.45%) MCSA
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (34.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.34%) vSphere
5 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.45%) Firmware
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
1 5 (17.24%) vRealize
2 3 (10.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
4 1 (3.45%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.45%) vMotion
4 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Citrix
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco
3 4 (13.79%) Symantec
4 3 (10.34%) Altiris
4 3 (10.34%) CyberArk
4 3 (10.34%) Ivanti
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) Dell
5 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.45%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.45%) HP
6 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.45%) Juniper
6 1 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.45%) Meraki
6 1 (3.45%) Okta
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
23 VMware jobs in Central London