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 29 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 78 83
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing VMware 29 40 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.55% 2.13% 2.03%
As % of the Vendors category 3.23% 4.99% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 32
10th Percentile £374 £338 £263
25th Percentile £505 £475 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £453
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +30.94% -15.81%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £538
90th Percentile £685 £675 £634
Central London median daily rate £550 £520 £438
% change year-on-year +5.77% +18.86% -12.50%
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 898 801 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.87% 42.63% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 487 737
10th Percentile £347 £305 £312
25th Percentile £414 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £20.02 £20.25 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.50 £33.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £77.25 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.64% +272.29% +0.72%
75th Percentile £41.85 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.16 - £57.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -8.23%

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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 29 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 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%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) NAS
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
1 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
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%) VSAN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Consultant
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) 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%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Platform Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
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 8 (27.59%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Solaris
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) VMS
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (24.14%) 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%) Incident Management
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) Security Patching
5 3 (10.34%) Software Deployment
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.90%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (6.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) VCAP
5 1 (3.45%) CCNA
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMP
5 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 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 3 (10.34%) 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 8 (27.59%) vRealize
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (6.90%) PowerCLI
5 2 (6.90%) SCCM
5 2 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.45%) AirWatch
6 1 (3.45%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.45%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Citrix
2 4 (13.79%) Symantec
3 3 (10.34%) Altiris
3 3 (10.34%) Ivanti
4 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) Pure Storage
5 1 (3.45%) BMC
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Commvault
5 1 (3.45%) Dell
5 1 (3.45%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.45%) Okta
5 1 (3.45%) Qualys
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Tanium
5 1 (3.45%) Tenable
5 1 (3.45%) Zerto