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 15 November 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 82 70
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +40
Contract jobs citing VMware 30 46 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 2.17% 2.99%
As % of the Vendors category 3.45% 4.88% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 54
10th Percentile £413 £414 £366
25th Percentile £488 £473 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.95% -9.05%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £591
90th Percentile £685 £691 £696
Central London median daily rate £540 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +3.35% +4.50% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £27.81
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year - +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile - - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year - +208.97% +85.90%

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 869 943 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.54% 44.42% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 594 821
10th Percentile £325 £328 £313
25th Percentile £413 £456 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 9
10th Percentile £17.75 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.42% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £58.50 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -49.06% +163.16% -7.32%

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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 15 November 2025.

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 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) IaaS
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DHCP
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) LAN
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
3 2 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) BGP
4 1 (3.33%) MPLS
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) OSPF
4 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) VSAN
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Consultant
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) Migration Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (3.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Desktop Support
4 1 (3.33%) Junior
4 1 (3.33%) Junior Support Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
1 1 (3.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Solaris
6 1 (3.33%) Unix
6 1 (3.33%) VMS
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (10.00%) Security Patching
4 3 (10.00%) SIEM
4 3 (10.00%) Software Deployment
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (6.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (6.67%) High Availability
5 2 (6.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (6.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (6.67%) SOAR
5 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) VCAP
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA
6 1 (3.33%) CCNP
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) MCSA
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) vSphere
4 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.33%) Docker
6 1 (3.33%) Firmware
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
1 5 (16.67%) vRealize
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
3 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.33%) AirWatch
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) vMotion
4 1 (3.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Citrix
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Symantec
4 3 (10.00%) Altiris
4 3 (10.00%) Ivanti
5 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.33%) Meraki
6 1 (3.33%) Okta
6 1 (3.33%) Pure Storage
6 1 (3.33%) Qualys
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) Tanium
6 1 (3.33%) Tenable