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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 81 76
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware 29 39 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.58% 2.00% 2.22%
As % of the Vendors category 3.28% 4.62% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 34
10th Percentile £313 £385 £274
25th Percentile £478 £434 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £472
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +8.17% -13.49%
75th Percentile £628 £614 £538
90th Percentile £685 £634 £626
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £453
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.50% -14.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

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 885 845 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.12% 43.24% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 517 733
10th Percentile £338 £313 £319
25th Percentile £416 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £19.98 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £20.34 £50.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £98.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.14% +337.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.89 £118.38 £36.25
90th Percentile £44.72 £137.50 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £71.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -64.25% +275.00% -7.32%

VMware
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 8 January 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 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) IaaS
3 3 (10.34%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) LAN
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
2 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.45%) SAN
3 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.45%) VLAN
3 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Consultant
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Consultant
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
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%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Desktop Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Desktop Support
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Programme Delivery Manager
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%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.90%) Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris
5 1 (3.45%) Unix
5 1 (3.45%) VMS
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (20.69%) Migration
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Business Continuity
4 3 (10.34%) Change Management
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (10.34%) Security Patching
4 3 (10.34%) Software Deployment
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.34%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) VCAP
6 1 (3.45%) CCNA
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) MCSA
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.45%) PMP
6 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 3 (10.34%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.45%) Docker
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
1 6 (20.69%) vRealize
2 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) SCCM
3 3 (10.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.90%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
5 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Citrix
3 4 (13.79%) Symantec
4 3 (10.34%) Altiris
4 3 (10.34%) Ivanti
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.45%) BMC
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.45%) Okta
6 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) Tanium
6 1 (3.45%) Tenable
6 1 (3.45%) Zerto