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 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
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 89 96
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 30 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.32% 1.53% 1.49%
As % of the Vendors category 3.14% 3.41% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 23
10th Percentile £463 £320 £243
25th Percentile £465 £503 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £593 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +39.41% -23.60%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £538
90th Percentile £598 £699 £632
Central London median daily rate £510 £593 £438
% change year-on-year -13.92% +35.43% -18.60%
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 954 791 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.97% 44.71% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 499 701
10th Percentile £363 £313 £313
25th Percentile £431 £455 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 6
10th Percentile - £25.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.10 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +95.32% -5.95%
75th Percentile £29.64 £72.81 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.70 £126.25 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £31.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -28.18% +63.76% -9.86%

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 26 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) IIS
1 1 (3.33%) nginx
1 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Rubrik
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.67%) Cohesity
4 2 (6.67%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) VSAN
2 3 (10.00%) NAS
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Consultant
1 9 (30.00%) Senior
1 9 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) NetApp Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Migration Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Programme Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) VMS
4 2 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (3.33%) CentOS
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) SUSE
5 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (20.00%) Migration
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.00%) Change Management
4 3 (10.00%) High Availability
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (6.67%) Agile
5 2 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL
5 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) VCAP
5 1 (3.33%) MCSE
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMP
5 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) NIST
1 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (13.33%) vSphere
3 3 (10.00%) NFS
4 2 (6.67%) Firmware
4 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.33%) Docker
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) vRealize
4 3 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
5 2 (6.67%) SCCM
5 2 (6.67%) SnapMirror
6 1 (3.33%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.33%) Packer
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
6 1 (3.33%) vMotion
6 1 (3.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Broadcom
2 3 (10.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) BMC
4 1 (3.33%) Commvault
4 1 (3.33%) Dell
4 1 (3.33%) EMC
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Zerto