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 4 October 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
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 98 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware 46 27 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.11% 1.55% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 4.61% 3.15% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 19 28
10th Percentile £430 £389 £380
25th Percentile £466 £453 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% - -
75th Percentile £638 £624 £652
90th Percentile £704 £685 £726
Central London median daily rate £583 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +10.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £11.85 - -
25th Percentile £14.63 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £112.00
75th Percentile £25.38 - -
90th Percentile £28.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £112.00
% change year-on-year - - +208.97%

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 997 858 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.67% 49.31% 44.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 582 591
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £450 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -0.23% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.82 £16.75
25th Percentile £19.31 £21.54 £22.13
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -43.35% +140.96%
75th Percentile £38.69 £58.50 £112.00
90th Percentile £55.95 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.33 £42.00
% change year-on-year -7.75% -32.56% +102.41%

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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 4 October 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 4 October 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 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.70%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (2.17%) nginx
4 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) IaaS
3 7 (15.22%) PaaS
4 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) DNS
2 9 (19.57%) DHCP
2 9 (19.57%) Firewall
3 7 (15.22%) VPN
4 3 (6.52%) LAN
4 3 (6.52%) SAN
4 3 (6.52%) SMTP
4 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.35%) BGP
5 2 (4.35%) DMZ
5 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.35%) WAN
6 1 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (2.17%) MPLS
6 1 (2.17%) OSPF
6 1 (2.17%) TACACS
6 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.17%) VSAN
6 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (8.70%) Power BI
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.52%) Big Data
4 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Senior
4 4 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Migration Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Migration Project Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Server Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) REST
3 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.17%) Blazor
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) OAuth
4 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.04%) Clustering
3 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.87%) Private Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) PKI
5 2 (4.35%) CMDB
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.17%) BYOD
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.17%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 19 (41.30%) Windows Server
3 9 (19.57%) Linux
4 5 (10.87%) VMS
5 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.35%) CentOS
7 2 (4.35%) OpenVMS
7 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.35%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (26.09%) Migration
3 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.39%) ITIL
5 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (10.87%) AI
6 5 (10.87%) Change Control
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.70%) Agile
7 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (8.70%) High Availability
7 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Python
4 2 (4.35%) Bash
4 2 (4.35%) C#
4 2 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) CCNA
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.35%) CCNP
6 2 (4.35%) CISSP
7 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.17%) MCSE
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 37 (80.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (41.30%) Active Directory
3 11 (23.91%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
4 7 (15.22%) vSphere
5 4 (8.70%) Docker
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (8.70%) VMware NSX
6 3 (6.52%) BitLocker
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (6.52%) Terminal Services
7 1 (2.17%) Firmware
7 1 (2.17%) UAG
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Ansible
2 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.39%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.87%) Puppet
4 5 (10.87%) SCCM
5 4 (8.70%) SCOM
6 3 (6.52%) FortiGate
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (6.52%) Nagios
6 3 (6.52%) PowerCLI
6 3 (6.52%) vMotion
6 3 (6.52%) WSUS
7 2 (4.35%) Nessus
7 2 (4.35%) NetBackup
8 1 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.17%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Cisco
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Citrix
3 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
3 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.70%) EMC
4 4 (8.70%) Google
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 3 (6.52%) BMC
5 3 (6.52%) Commvault
5 3 (6.52%) Dell
5 3 (6.52%) HP
5 3 (6.52%) Remedy
5 3 (6.52%) Symantec
6 2 (4.35%) Isilon
6 2 (4.35%) NetApp
6 2 (4.35%) Tenable
6 2 (4.35%) Veeam
6 2 (4.35%) Veritas
6 2 (4.35%) Zscaler