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 17 May 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 91 88
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 28 25 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.21% 1.43% 1.66%
As % of the Vendors category 2.94% 3.20% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 26
10th Percentile £404 £320 £258
25th Percentile £465 £506 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £593 £431
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +37.39% -19.77%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £630
90th Percentile £608 £699 £713
Central London median daily rate £482 £593 £450
% change year-on-year -18.73% +31.67% -15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 951 781 937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.17% 44.71% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 480 690
10th Percentile £366 £313 £313
25th Percentile £438 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.22% -0.88%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -25.87% +52.08% -5.95%

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 17 May 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) IIS
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
1 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Rubrik
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) VSAN
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) NAS
3 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (7.14%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Consultant
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Business Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Programme Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) BYOD
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) SUSE
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (17.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Migration
2 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.14%) Agile
3 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (7.14%) Change Management
3 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (7.14%) High Availability
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (7.14%) ITIL
3 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.57%) Generative AI
4 1 (3.57%) Server Management
4 1 (3.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (7.14%) CCNA
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) MCSE
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.57%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) NFS
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (10.71%) vSphere
3 2 (7.14%) Firmware
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) vRealize
3 2 (7.14%) SnapMirror
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.57%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Packer
4 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) vMotion
4 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Broadcom
2 3 (10.71%) Pure Storage
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Citrix
4 1 (3.57%) Commvault
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Zerto