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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 102 92
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 40 23 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.63% 1.23% 1.72%
As % of the Vendors category 3.91% 2.61% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 29
10th Percentile £450 £467 £303
25th Percentile £464 £491 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £656
90th Percentile £652 £711 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.23 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 - -
Median hourly rate £24.75 - -
75th Percentile £28.19 - -
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.75 - -

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 1,022 881 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.61% 47.04% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 557 692
10th Percentile £361 £321 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £549
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.27% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 10
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +60.73% -33.79%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £41.95 £89.67 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -31.45% +21.57% +8.00%

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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 12 July 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the City of London

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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 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) IaaS
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Rubrik
5 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.00%) Cohesity
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) DNS
2 10 (25.00%) Firewall
3 8 (20.00%) DHCP
3 8 (20.00%) VPN
4 5 (12.50%) VSAN
5 3 (7.50%) LAN
5 3 (7.50%) SMTP
5 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.00%) DMZ
6 2 (5.00%) NAS
6 2 (5.00%) SAN
6 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.00%) WAN
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) MPLS
7 1 (2.50%) Network Security
7 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.50%) VLAN
7 1 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Law
3 1 (2.50%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Senior
2 9 (22.50%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Consultant
4 6 (15.00%) VMware Consultant
5 5 (12.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Senior VMware Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.50%) Blazor
2 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
2 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.00%) PKI
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) BYOD
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (7.50%) VMS
5 2 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.50%) CentOS
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.50%) SUSE
6 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (12.50%) Migration
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) AI
3 4 (10.00%) DevOps
3 4 (10.00%) High Availability
3 4 (10.00%) ITIL
3 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (7.50%) Change Control
4 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (7.50%) Machine Learning
4 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (7.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
4 3 (7.50%) Software Deployment
4 3 (7.50%) Storage Management
5 2 (5.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (7.50%) CCNA
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.00%) CCNP
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.50%) MCSE
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.50%) GRC
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 29 (72.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (27.50%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (15.00%) vSphere
4 5 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (10.00%) VMware NSX
6 3 (7.50%) BitLocker
6 3 (7.50%) Docker
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (7.50%) NFS
6 3 (7.50%) Terminal Services
7 2 (5.00%) Firmware
8 1 (2.50%) UAG
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (20.00%) Ansible
2 8 (20.00%) Terraform
3 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (12.50%) Puppet
5 4 (10.00%) vMotion
6 3 (7.50%) FortiGate
6 3 (7.50%) Nagios
6 3 (7.50%) PowerCLI
6 3 (7.50%) SCCM
6 3 (7.50%) vRealize
7 2 (5.00%) Nessus
7 2 (5.00%) SnapMirror
8 1 (2.50%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Cisco
2 8 (20.00%) Citrix
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.00%) Broadcom
5 3 (7.50%) Google
5 3 (7.50%) HP
5 3 (7.50%) NetApp
5 3 (7.50%) Pure Storage
5 3 (7.50%) Symantec
6 2 (5.00%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) EMC
6 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.00%) Tenable
6 2 (5.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.50%) ForeScout
7 1 (2.50%) Isilon
7 1 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.50%) Meraki
7 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto