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 14 June 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
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 100 88
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 32 23 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.33% 1.34% 1.71%
As % of the Vendors category 3.33% 2.99% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 29
10th Percentile £463 £467 £293
25th Percentile £466 £491 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £656
90th Percentile £645 £711 £725
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -2.27% +8.37% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 960 770 933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.95% 44.87% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 470 681
10th Percentile £356 £315 £338
25th Percentile £436 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £668 £677 £683
90th Percentile £756 £752 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +42.53% -56.50%
75th Percentile £25.25 £53.75 £24.56
90th Percentile £42.48 £100.00 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.71 £29.07 £21.75
% change year-on-year -21.87% +33.66% -42.00%

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 14 June 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 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) nginx
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (9.38%) Rubrik
4 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.25%) Cohesity
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
2 5 (15.63%) VSAN
3 4 (12.50%) DHCP
3 4 (12.50%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (6.25%) NAS
4 2 (6.25%) SAN
4 2 (6.25%) SMTP
5 1 (3.13%) LAN
5 1 (3.13%) Network Security
5 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) VLAN
5 1 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 8 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Consultant
3 7 (21.88%) VMware Consultant
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (12.50%) Senior VMware Consultant
7 3 (9.38%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) NetApp Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) BYOD
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 9 (28.13%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.63%) Linux
4 3 (9.38%) VMS
5 2 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (3.13%) CentOS
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.13%) SUSE
6 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (15.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) AI
5 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) High Availability
5 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.25%) Change Control
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning
6 2 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.25%) Software Deployment
6 2 (6.25%) Storage Management
6 2 (6.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.13%) PMP
5 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.13%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (12.50%) vSphere
5 3 (9.38%) NFS
5 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (6.25%) BitLocker
6 2 (6.25%) Docker
6 2 (6.25%) Firmware
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (6.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.50%) vRealize
4 3 (9.38%) PowerCLI
4 3 (9.38%) Puppet
4 3 (9.38%) vMotion
5 2 (6.25%) Nagios
5 2 (6.25%) SnapMirror
6 1 (3.13%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.13%) SCCM
6 1 (3.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Broadcom
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix
3 3 (9.38%) NetApp
3 3 (9.38%) Pure Storage
4 2 (6.25%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) EMC
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) HP
4 2 (6.25%) Symantec
5 1 (3.13%) Brocade
5 1 (3.13%) Commvault
5 1 (3.13%) Isilon
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow