VMware Contracts 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 6 July 2025, 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 89 79
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +29
Contract jobs citing VMware 23 37 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.27% 1.73% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 2.73% 3.88% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 61
10th Percentile £467 £303 £413
25th Percentile £491 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £668 £656 £650
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £27.81
Median hourly rate - - £36.25
75th Percentile - - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate - - £36.25
% change year-on-year - - -12.65%

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 843 953 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.37% 44.68% 40.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 692 952
10th Percentile £313 £339 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -1.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £787 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 8
10th Percentile £22.53 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.91 £15.19 £19.32
Median hourly rate £38.58 £20.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +92.88% -44.83% +36.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £89.67 £63.53 £53.23
Central London median hourly rate £32.83 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +64.13% -20.00% -24.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the City of London

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
3 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
4 3 (13.04%) DHCP
4 3 (13.04%) Network Security
5 2 (8.70%) VSAN
5 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.35%) BGP
6 1 (4.35%) HTTP
6 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
6 1 (4.35%) LAN
6 1 (4.35%) MPLS
6 1 (4.35%) OSPF
6 1 (4.35%) SAN
6 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (4.35%) VLAN
6 1 (4.35%) VPN
6 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Subversion
3 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Security Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Security Operations Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Network Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) LDAP
1 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Clustering
2 3 (13.04%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.35%) HP Storage
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 10 (43.48%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.35%) Solaris
6 1 (4.35%) Unix
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
3 4 (17.39%) SIEM
3 4 (17.39%) SOAR
4 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Security Hardening
4 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
4 3 (13.04%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (8.70%) High Availability
5 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Perl
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) VCAP
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (13.04%) VMware NSX
4 2 (8.70%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) BitLocker
5 1 (4.35%) Firmware
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (4.35%) NFS
5 1 (4.35%) Veritas File System
5 1 (4.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.35%) XenApp
5 1 (4.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) FortiGate
2 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Control-M
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) Netcool
3 1 (4.35%) QRadar
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.35%) vMotion
3 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco
2 4 (17.39%) Splunk
3 3 (13.04%) Fortinet
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) Atempo
4 2 (8.70%) Citrix
4 2 (8.70%) CyberArk
4 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 2 (8.70%) F5
4 2 (8.70%) Juniper
4 2 (8.70%) Mellanox
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (4.35%) Mavenir
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) SaltStack
5 1 (4.35%) TP-LINK