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 6 September 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
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 97 79
Rank change year-on-year +5 -18 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 50 21 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.19% 1.17% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 5.05% 2.39% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 17 30
10th Percentile £445 £365 £320
25th Percentile £465 £419 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £637
90th Percentile £670 £685 £703
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -
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 991 880 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.46% 49.16% 44.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 579 603
10th Percentile £338 £319 £350
25th Percentile £446 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £758
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 2 (4.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (2.00%) nginx
4 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) IaaS
3 6 (12.00%) PaaS
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.00%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.00%) DNS
2 10 (20.00%) Firewall
3 9 (18.00%) DHCP
4 8 (16.00%) VPN
5 3 (6.00%) LAN
5 3 (6.00%) SMTP
5 3 (6.00%) VSAN
5 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (4.00%) BGP
6 2 (4.00%) DMZ
6 2 (4.00%) SAN
6 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.00%) WAN
7 1 (2.00%) MPLS
7 1 (2.00%) OSPF
7 1 (2.00%) TACACS
7 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.00%) VLAN
7 1 (2.00%) Wireless
7 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (8.00%) Power BI
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.00%) Big Data
4 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Network Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Migration Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Senior VMware Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) VMware Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.00%) .NET
4 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.00%) Blazor
4 1 (2.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.00%) Clustering
3 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.00%) PKI
4 4 (8.00%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.00%) BYOD
6 1 (2.00%) CMDB
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.00%) Replication
6 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (50.00%) Windows
2 18 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (16.00%) Linux
4 6 (12.00%) VMS
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.00%) OpenVMS
6 2 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.00%) CentOS
7 1 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.00%) SUSE
7 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (22.00%) Migration
3 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (14.00%) ITIL
5 5 (10.00%) AI
5 5 (10.00%) DevOps
5 5 (10.00%) High Availability
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 5 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 4 (8.00%) Change Control
6 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (8.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.00%) Python
2 6 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) Bash
3 2 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Korn
4 1 (2.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (46.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (12.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) CCNA
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.00%) CCNP
6 2 (4.00%) CISSP
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.00%) MCSE
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (76.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (36.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (26.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (16.00%) vSphere
5 7 (14.00%) Hyper-V
6 6 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (10.00%) VMware NSX
8 4 (8.00%) Docker
9 3 (6.00%) BitLocker
9 3 (6.00%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (6.00%) Terminal Services
10 2 (4.00%) Firmware
11 1 (2.00%) NFS
11 1 (2.00%) UAG
11 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Ansible
2 10 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.00%) Puppet
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (8.00%) PowerCLI
5 4 (8.00%) SCCM
5 4 (8.00%) SCOM
6 3 (6.00%) FortiGate
6 3 (6.00%) Nagios
6 3 (6.00%) vMotion
7 2 (4.00%) Nessus
7 2 (4.00%) NetBackup
7 2 (4.00%) WSUS
8 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.00%) SCOrch
8 1 (2.00%) SnapMirror
8 1 (2.00%) vRealize
8 1 (2.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Cisco
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Citrix
3 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.00%) Dell
4 4 (8.00%) Google
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 3 (6.00%) BMC
5 3 (6.00%) Commvault
5 3 (6.00%) EMC
5 3 (6.00%) HP
5 3 (6.00%) NetApp
5 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.00%) Remedy
5 3 (6.00%) Symantec
6 2 (4.00%) Broadcom
6 2 (4.00%) Tenable
6 2 (4.00%) Veeam
6 2 (4.00%) Veritas
6 2 (4.00%) Zscaler