VMware Contract Job Trends in London

VMware
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 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
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 112 97
Rank change year-on-year -83 -15 +29
Contract jobs citing VMware 209 366 495
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 2.30% 2.54%
As % of the Vendors category 3.16% 5.25% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 222 356
10th Percentile £367 £278 £324
25th Percentile £471 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.68% -1.54% -8.26%
75th Percentile £613 £579 £625
90th Percentile £685 £656 £694
England median daily rate £527 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +1.10% +4.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 16
10th Percentile £23.70 £41.44 £22.00
25th Percentile £24.75 £67.90 £31.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £112.00 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year -76.34% +139.01% +22.13%
75th Percentile £28.25 - £65.03
90th Percentile £29.30 - £74.38
England median hourly rate £62.00 £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +24.00% -24.22% +1.51%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,615 6,973 8,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.54% 43.81% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,276 4,385 5,559
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 66 112
10th Percentile £18.10 £20.22 £16.87
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -2.22% +53.15%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.55 £93.13 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -27.78% +66.67%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

VMware job vacancy trend in London

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in London over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in London

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the London region over the 6 months to 27 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -24 35 £540 +2.86% 12
South London +4 8 £513 +3.74% 1
West London -9 6 £525 +31.25% 2
East London +2 1 £525 +114.29% 3
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 19 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.35%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) nginx
4 2 (0.96%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.48%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.32%) Azure
2 26 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (11.96%) AWS
4 18 (8.61%) Nutanix
5 16 (7.66%) GitHub
6 12 (5.74%) GCP
7 10 (4.78%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.83%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.35%) IaaS
10 6 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.91%) SaaS
13 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.96%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.96%) PaaS
14 2 (0.96%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.75%) DNS
2 31 (14.83%) Firewall
3 21 (10.05%) DHCP
4 19 (9.09%) VPN
5 17 (8.13%) WAN
6 16 (7.66%) TCP/IP
7 15 (7.18%) SAN
8 14 (6.70%) LAN
9 9 (4.31%) VSAN
10 8 (3.83%) NAS
10 8 (3.83%) VLAN
11 7 (3.35%) Network Security
12 6 (2.87%) BGP
12 6 (2.87%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.39%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (2.39%) OSPF
13 5 (2.39%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.91%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (1.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.48%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) Power BI
4 1 (0.48%) Redis
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Git
1 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (2.87%) Subversion
3 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.91%) JMeter
3 4 (1.91%) JUnit
3 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 3 (1.44%) JIRA
4 3 (1.44%) RStudio
5 2 (0.96%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (23.44%) Finance
2 47 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.26%) Banking
7 6 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Electronics
9 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.91%) Local Government
9 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.44%) Social Science
11 2 (0.96%) French Language
11 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Police
12 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (19.14%) Consultant
2 31 (14.83%) VMware Consultant
3 24 (11.48%) Architect
4 21 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.18%) Senior
6 14 (6.70%) Administrator
7 12 (5.74%) VMware Engineer
7 12 (5.74%) Windows Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Developer
9 9 (4.31%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (4.31%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Lead
10 8 (3.83%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Systems Administrator
12 6 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (2.87%) ETL Developer
12 6 (2.87%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (2.87%) Senior Wintel Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.87%) Middleware
1 6 (2.87%) REST
1 6 (2.87%) RESTful
2 5 (2.39%) JSON
2 5 (2.39%) XML
3 4 (1.91%) Hibernate
3 4 (1.91%) Kafka
3 4 (1.91%) Spring
4 3 (1.44%) .NET
4 3 (1.44%) React
5 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.96%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (0.96%) Bootstrap
5 2 (0.96%) EDI
5 2 (0.96%) Express.js
5 2 (0.96%) Node.js
5 2 (0.96%) SOAP
5 2 (0.96%) WCF
5 2 (0.96%) Web Services
5 2 (0.96%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.66%) Replication
3 11 (5.26%) PKI
4 10 (4.78%) Hedge funds
4 10 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.78%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.31%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.35%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.39%) Clustering
10 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.96%) CMDB
12 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (36.36%) Windows
2 57 (27.27%) Linux
3 44 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 25 (11.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.26%) Windows 10
6 10 (4.78%) CentOS
6 10 (4.78%) Ubuntu
7 8 (3.83%) Unix
8 7 (3.35%) Solaris
9 6 (2.87%) VMS
10 4 (1.91%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.96%) AIX
11 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.48%) Debian
12 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (18.18%) Migration
1 38 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (11.48%) CI/CD
5 23 (11.00%) DevOps
6 21 (10.05%) ITIL
7 20 (9.57%) High Availability
8 16 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (6.70%) Agile
10 12 (5.74%) Data Protection
11 11 (5.26%) Containerisation
11 11 (5.26%) Patch Management
11 11 (5.26%) Task Automation
12 10 (4.78%) Business Continuity
12 10 (4.78%) Knowledge Transfer
12 10 (4.78%) Project Delivery
13 9 (4.31%) Validation
14 8 (3.83%) ETL
14 8 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.71%) Python
2 49 (23.44%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.96%) Bash
4 17 (8.13%) JavaScript
4 17 (8.13%) SQL
5 11 (5.26%) Java
6 7 (3.35%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.87%) Perl
7 6 (2.87%) VBA
8 4 (1.91%) Go
8 4 (1.91%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.44%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) C++
9 3 (1.44%) PHP
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) Korn
10 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 56 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 44 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.22%) CCNP
6 12 (5.74%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.26%) Degree
8 10 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.35%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.35%) CCNA
10 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.44%) CCIE
11 3 (1.44%) VCAP
12 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.96%) CCDP
12 2 (0.96%) HP ASE
12 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.96%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.96%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.39%) GDPR
3 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.96%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.48%) MiFID
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 120 (57.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (24.88%) Active Directory
3 27 (12.92%) vSphere
4 24 (11.48%) Hyper-V
5 22 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (8.61%) VMware NSX
7 12 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (5.26%) Docker
9 6 (2.87%) KVM
9 6 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.91%) NFS
10 4 (1.91%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.91%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (1.44%) Firmware
12 1 (0.48%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.48%) Postfix
12 1 (0.48%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (17.22%) Ansible
2 23 (11.00%) SCCM
3 21 (10.05%) Terraform
4 20 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (9.57%) vRealize
5 17 (8.13%) vCenter Server
6 14 (6.70%) Kubernetes
7 9 (4.31%) SCOM
8 7 (3.35%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.87%) Puppet
9 6 (2.87%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.39%) Grafana
11 4 (1.91%) Argo
11 4 (1.91%) Control-M
11 4 (1.91%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.91%) QRadar
12 3 (1.44%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.44%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 53 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.44%) Cisco
3 25 (11.96%) Red Hat
4 20 (9.57%) Citrix
5 13 (6.22%) Oracle
6 12 (5.74%) Dell
7 11 (5.26%) Splunk
8 10 (4.78%) CyberArk
9 9 (4.31%) NetApp
10 8 (3.83%) EMC
11 7 (3.35%) F5
11 7 (3.35%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.87%) Qualys
12 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.39%) Google
13 5 (2.39%) Veeam
14 4 (1.91%) McAfee
14 4 (1.91%) SaltStack
14 4 (1.91%) SAP
14 4 (1.91%) Symantec