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 August 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
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 185 118
Rank change year-on-year +7 -67 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware 308 185 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.53% 1.38% 2.21%
As % of the Vendors category 3.58% 2.99% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 113 236
10th Percentile £380 £353 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £561
90th Percentile £725 £697 £656
England median daily rate £526 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.36% +6.80% +1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £20.23 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £24.75 £30.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -55.56% +19.28%
75th Percentile £28.19 - £71.25
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +113.48% -37.23% -14.34%

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 8,597 6,177 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.76% 46.15% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,590 3,997 4,678
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -4.91%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -7.72% -24.00%
75th Percentile £63.25 £39.69 £61.34
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.50 £76.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +27.24% -15.52% -28.27%

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 August 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in London

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 August 2026. 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 +9 53 £550 +4.76% 14
West London -26 4 £475 -25.49% 4
East London +5 3 £538 +2.38% 5
South London -23 1 £413 -21.43% 4
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 20 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.27%) JBoss
3 7 (2.27%) nginx
3 7 (2.27%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.27%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.95%) Confluence
5 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 105 (34.09%) Azure
2 58 (18.83%) AWS
3 30 (9.74%) Entra ID
4 27 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (6.49%) IaaS
6 19 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.52%) PaaS
8 16 (5.19%) GCP
9 15 (4.87%) SaaS
10 14 (4.55%) GitHub
11 11 (3.57%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.25%) OneDrive
12 10 (3.25%) Rubrik
13 9 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.92%) Datadog
14 8 (2.60%) Nutanix
14 8 (2.60%) OpenShift
15 7 (2.27%) Azure Stack
16 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.62%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.16%) DNS
2 51 (16.56%) Firewall
3 42 (13.64%) DHCP
4 24 (7.79%) SAN
5 23 (7.47%) VPN
5 23 (7.47%) WAN
6 20 (6.49%) Network Security
7 18 (5.84%) LAN
8 17 (5.52%) VSAN
9 14 (4.55%) NAS
9 14 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (4.22%) TCP/IP
11 12 (3.90%) VLAN
12 8 (2.60%) BGP
13 7 (2.27%) Kerberos
13 7 (2.27%) SMTP
14 6 (1.95%) HTTP
14 6 (1.95%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.95%) VXLAN
15 5 (1.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.57%) Power BI
2 11 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (2.92%) Big Data
5 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.62%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.97%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.65%) GIS
8 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.32%) Metadata
9 1 (0.32%) MySQL
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 13 (4.22%) Git
1 13 (4.22%) GitLab
2 12 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.92%) JIRA
4 6 (1.95%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.97%) Subversion
6 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.32%) Maven
6 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.32%) VersionOne
General
1 77 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.78%) Finance
3 29 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (5.19%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.87%) Banking
6 12 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Retail
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.32%) Military
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (19.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (12.99%) Senior
3 27 (8.77%) VMware Engineer
4 25 (8.12%) Architect
5 21 (6.82%) Consultant
6 18 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (5.19%) Network Engineer
7 16 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.19%) Support Engineer
8 15 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.55%) VMware Consultant
10 13 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.22%) Lead
10 13 (4.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.92%) Administrator
13 9 (2.92%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) SQL DBA
13 9 (2.92%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.26%) Terraform
2 11 (3.57%) REST
3 7 (2.27%) JSON
4 6 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.62%) .NET
5 5 (1.62%) YAML
6 3 (0.97%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.97%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.65%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.65%) Blazor
7 2 (0.65%) EJB
7 2 (0.65%) Java SE
7 2 (0.65%) JSP
7 2 (0.65%) Kafka
7 2 (0.65%) Middleware
7 2 (0.65%) XML
8 1 (0.32%) DCOM
8 1 (0.32%) Flash
8 1 (0.32%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.36%) Clustering
3 20 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.19%) Enterprise Storage
6 14 (4.55%) PKI
7 11 (3.57%) Replication
8 8 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.27%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.62%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 154 (50.00%) Windows
2 96 (31.17%) Windows Server
3 86 (27.92%) Linux
4 23 (7.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.55%) VMS
5 14 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (4.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (3.25%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.95%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.62%) Solaris
11 5 (1.62%) Unix
11 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
12 4 (1.30%) SUSE
12 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.97%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.97%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (27.60%) Migration
3 54 (17.53%) ITIL
4 47 (15.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 45 (14.61%) CI/CD
6 44 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (13.64%) DevOps
8 40 (12.99%) High Availability
9 38 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (10.39%) Change Management
12 27 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (8.44%) Project Delivery
14 25 (8.12%) Incident Management
14 25 (8.12%) ITSM
15 24 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (7.79%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (7.47%) Agile
17 22 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
17 22 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 40 (12.99%) Python
3 28 (9.09%) Bash
4 24 (7.79%) SQL
5 13 (4.22%) Java
6 12 (3.90%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.62%) Bicep
7 5 (1.62%) Go
8 4 (1.30%) C#
9 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.65%) C
10 2 (0.65%) Korn
10 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) C++
11 1 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 88 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.34%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.74%) Degree
5 15 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.27%) CCNA
9 6 (1.95%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.62%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.62%) PMP
11 4 (1.30%) CCNP
12 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.97%) CISSP
12 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.97%) VCAP
13 2 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.65%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.84%) SLA
2 11 (3.57%) QA
3 6 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.97%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) DICOM
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.32%) HL7
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 191 (62.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 92 (29.87%) Active Directory
3 54 (17.53%) VMware ESXi
4 49 (15.91%) vSphere
5 39 (12.66%) VMware NSX
6 34 (11.04%) Hyper-V
7 21 (6.82%) Docker
8 20 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.60%) Firmware
9 8 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.27%) BitLocker
10 7 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.30%) NFS
11 4 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (1.30%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.30%) UAG
12 3 (0.97%) KVM
13 2 (0.65%) Ceph
13 2 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (18.18%) Ansible
2 40 (12.99%) Kubernetes
3 39 (12.66%) vCenter Server
4 24 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.49%) SCCM
5 20 (6.49%) vRealize
6 19 (6.17%) Puppet
7 15 (4.87%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (3.25%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (2.60%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.60%) SCOM
10 7 (2.27%) Nagios
10 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (2.27%) vMotion
11 6 (1.95%) FortiGate
11 6 (1.95%) NetBackup
11 6 (1.95%) PowerCLI
11 6 (1.95%) VxRail
12 5 (1.62%) Grafana
12 5 (1.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 90 (29.22%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.94%) Cisco
3 30 (9.74%) Red Hat
4 21 (6.82%) NetApp
5 20 (6.49%) Citrix
6 18 (5.84%) Oracle
7 16 (5.19%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.55%) Dell
9 11 (3.57%) BMC
10 10 (3.25%) CyberArk
10 10 (3.25%) Remedy
10 10 (3.25%) Tenable
11 9 (2.92%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.92%) Commvault
11 9 (2.92%) EMC
11 9 (2.92%) WALLIX
12 8 (2.60%) HP
13 7 (2.27%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.27%) Google
13 7 (2.27%) IBM