VMware Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 89 100
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.21% 1.53% 1.48%
As % of the Vendors category 2.86% 3.45% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 23
10th Percentile £463 £320 £243
25th Percentile £465 £503 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £593 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +39.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £538
90th Percentile £608 £699 £632
Central London median daily rate £518 £593 £438
% change year-on-year -12.66% +35.43% -18.60%

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 943 782 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.40% 44.41% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 495 697
10th Percentile £363 £314 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% -1.34%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £680
90th Percentile £760 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile - £29.56 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.81 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £42.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +115.19% -5.95%
75th Percentile £33.76 £81.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £135.00 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.93
% change year-on-year -22.41% +73.40% -11.95%

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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 19 April 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) nginx
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Rubrik
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) VSAN
2 3 (11.11%) NAS
2 3 (11.11%) SAN
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.70%) VLAN
4 1 (3.70%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) WAN
4 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Consultant
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 8 (29.63%) VMware Consultant
2 8 (29.63%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Senior VMware Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) NetApp Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Programme Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) VMS
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) CentOS
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) SUSE
4 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Migration
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 3 (11.11%) High Availability
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (7.41%) Agile
5 2 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (7.41%) Change Management
5 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.70%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CCNA
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) VCAP
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.70%) PMP
5 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
1 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (14.81%) vSphere
3 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.11%) NFS
3 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.41%) Firmware
4 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.70%) Docker
5 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Ansible
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) vRealize
3 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.41%) PowerCLI
4 2 (7.41%) SCCM
4 2 (7.41%) SnapMirror
5 1 (3.70%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Packer
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) vMotion
5 1 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Broadcom
2 3 (11.11%) Pure Storage
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) NetApp
4 1 (3.70%) BMC
4 1 (3.70%) Commvault
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) EMC
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Zerto