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 26 February 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 83 89
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware 29 37 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.46% 2.01% 1.58%
As % of the Vendors category 3.16% 4.67% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 24
10th Percentile £413 £320 £245
25th Percentile £515 £503 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £596 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +36.29% -19.54%
75th Percentile £619 £663 £541
90th Percentile £660 £699 £685
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £425
% change year-on-year -7.17% +39.41% -19.81%
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 918 793 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.29% 43.03% 42.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 492 713
10th Percentile £353 £313 £312
25th Percentile £425 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +489.47% -8.88%
75th Percentile £41.75 - £23.75
90th Percentile £43.05 £157.30 £31.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

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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 26 February 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 (31.03%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) IaaS
2 3 (10.34%) Nutanix
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) NAS
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
1 2 (6.90%) SAN
1 2 (6.90%) VSAN
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Consultant
2 9 (31.03%) VMware Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Senior VMware Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Programme Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Middleware
1 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
1 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) CMDB
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Solaris
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) VMS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (27.59%) Migration
3 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (10.34%) Agile
5 3 (10.34%) Change Management
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.90%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (6.90%) ITIL
6 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
6 2 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (31.03%) 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%) 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 15 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) vSphere
3 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.45%) Docker
5 1 (3.45%) NFS
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) vRealize
2 8 (27.59%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) PowerCLI
4 2 (6.90%) SCCM
4 2 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
5 1 (3.45%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.45%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Pure Storage
3 2 (6.90%) Broadcom
3 2 (6.90%) Citrix
3 2 (6.90%) Symantec
4 1 (3.45%) Altiris
4 1 (3.45%) BMC
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Commvault
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Ivanti
4 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.45%) Qualys
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Tanium
4 1 (3.45%) Tenable
4 1 (3.45%) Zerto