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 30 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
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 198 122
Rank change year-on-year +7 -76 -18
Contract jobs citing VMware 311 186 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.38% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 3.59% 2.99% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 113 232
10th Percentile £365 £353 £322
25th Percentile £461 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.62%
75th Percentile £648 £575 £553
90th Percentile £725 £685 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +2.30%
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 £67.24 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +114.23% -37.23% -16.67%

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 8,667 6,223 6,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.82% 46.22% 43.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,633 4,034 4,652
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
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 132 126 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.17
25th Percentile £20.69 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -18.37%
75th Percentile £63.00 £39.69 £61.39
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -28.53%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +14 55 £550 +4.76% 8
West London -24 4 £475 -25.49% 4
East London +5 3 £538 +2.38% 4
South London -24 1 £413 -21.43% 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 21 (6.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.25%) JBoss
3 7 (2.25%) nginx
3 7 (2.25%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.25%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.93%) Confluence
5 3 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.96%) IIS
6 2 (0.64%) Apache
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (34.41%) Azure
2 58 (18.65%) AWS
3 31 (9.97%) Entra ID
4 29 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (6.43%) IaaS
6 19 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.47%) PaaS
8 16 (5.14%) GCP
9 15 (4.82%) GitHub
9 15 (4.82%) SaaS
10 11 (3.54%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.22%) OneDrive
12 9 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (2.89%) Datadog
12 9 (2.89%) Rubrik
13 8 (2.57%) Nutanix
13 8 (2.57%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.25%) Azure Stack
14 7 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 59 (18.97%) DNS
2 51 (16.40%) Firewall
3 43 (13.83%) DHCP
4 24 (7.72%) SAN
4 24 (7.72%) WAN
5 23 (7.40%) VPN
6 20 (6.43%) Network Security
7 19 (6.11%) LAN
8 17 (5.47%) VSAN
9 14 (4.50%) NAS
9 14 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (4.18%) TCP/IP
10 13 (4.18%) VLAN
11 8 (2.57%) BGP
12 7 (2.25%) Kerberos
12 7 (2.25%) SMTP
13 6 (1.93%) HTTP
13 6 (1.93%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.93%) VXLAN
14 5 (1.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.54%) Power BI
4 10 (3.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.89%) Big Data
6 6 (1.93%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.64%) GIS
9 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.32%) Metadata
10 1 (0.32%) MySQL
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 13 (4.18%) Git
1 13 (4.18%) GitLab
2 12 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.89%) JIRA
4 6 (1.93%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.96%) 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 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.58%) Finance
3 29 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (5.14%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.82%) Banking
6 12 (3.86%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.25%) Legal
9 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.96%) Retail
10 2 (0.64%) 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 61 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (12.86%) Senior
3 28 (9.00%) VMware Engineer
4 25 (8.04%) Architect
5 21 (6.75%) Consultant
6 18 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.14%) Network Engineer
7 16 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.14%) Support Engineer
8 14 (4.50%) VMware Consultant
9 13 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (4.18%) Lead
9 13 (4.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.54%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.22%) Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (3.22%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 9 (2.89%) Administrator
12 9 (2.89%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (2.89%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.43%) Terraform
2 12 (3.86%) REST
3 7 (2.25%) JSON
4 6 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.61%) .NET
5 5 (1.61%) YAML
6 3 (0.96%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.96%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.64%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.64%) Blazor
7 2 (0.64%) EJB
7 2 (0.64%) Java SE
7 2 (0.64%) JSP
7 2 (0.64%) Kafka
7 2 (0.64%) Middleware
7 2 (0.64%) OAuth
7 2 (0.64%) XML
8 1 (0.32%) DCOM
8 1 (0.32%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 34 (10.93%) Clustering
3 22 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.79%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 14 (4.50%) PKI
7 11 (3.54%) Replication
8 8 (2.57%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.61%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 158 (50.80%) Windows
2 98 (31.51%) Windows Server
3 86 (27.65%) Linux
4 23 (7.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.50%) VMS
5 14 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (4.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.54%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (3.22%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.93%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.61%) Solaris
11 5 (1.61%) Unix
11 5 (1.61%) Windows 10
12 4 (1.29%) SUSE
12 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.96%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.96%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.64%) CentOS
14 2 (0.64%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (27.33%) Migration
3 56 (18.01%) ITIL
4 48 (15.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (14.79%) CI/CD
6 45 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (13.50%) DevOps
8 39 (12.54%) High Availability
8 39 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (10.29%) Change Management
11 28 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 26 (8.36%) ITSM
13 25 (8.04%) Project Delivery
14 24 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (7.72%) Incident Management
14 24 (7.72%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (7.40%) Agile
15 23 (7.40%) Root Cause Analysis
15 23 (7.40%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (27.65%) PowerShell
2 40 (12.86%) Python
3 28 (9.00%) Bash
4 25 (8.04%) SQL
5 13 (4.18%) Java
6 12 (3.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.61%) Bicep
7 5 (1.61%) Go
8 4 (1.29%) C#
9 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.64%) C
10 2 (0.64%) Korn
10 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) C++
11 1 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 117 (37.62%) Security Cleared
2 89 (28.62%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.22%) DV Cleared
4 31 (9.97%) Degree
5 15 (4.82%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.57%) CCNA
10 6 (1.93%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.61%) CCNP
11 5 (1.61%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.61%) PMP
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.96%) CISSP
12 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.96%) VCAP
13 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.64%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.11%) SLA
2 11 (3.54%) QA
3 7 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.29%) NIST
5 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.64%) 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
1 193 (62.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (30.55%) Active Directory
3 55 (17.68%) VMware ESXi
4 50 (16.08%) vSphere
5 39 (12.54%) VMware NSX
6 36 (11.58%) Hyper-V
7 21 (6.75%) Docker
8 19 (6.11%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.25%) BitLocker
10 7 (2.25%) Firmware
10 7 (2.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (2.25%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (1.29%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.29%) UAG
12 3 (0.96%) KVM
12 3 (0.96%) NFS
13 2 (0.64%) Ceph
14 1 (0.32%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 56 (18.01%) Ansible
2 40 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 39 (12.54%) vCenter Server
4 24 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.43%) SCCM
5 20 (6.43%) vRealize
6 19 (6.11%) Puppet
7 15 (4.82%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (3.22%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (2.89%) SCOM
10 8 (2.57%) Prometheus
11 7 (2.25%) Nagios
11 7 (2.25%) PowerCLI
11 7 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (2.25%) vMotion
12 6 (1.93%) FortiGate
12 6 (1.93%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.93%) VxRail
13 5 (1.61%) Grafana
13 5 (1.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.43%) Cisco
3 30 (9.65%) Red Hat
4 20 (6.43%) NetApp
5 19 (6.11%) Citrix
6 18 (5.79%) Oracle
7 17 (5.47%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.82%) Dell
9 11 (3.54%) BMC
10 10 (3.22%) CyberArk
10 10 (3.22%) Remedy
10 10 (3.22%) Tenable
11 9 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.89%) Commvault
11 9 (2.89%) EMC
11 9 (2.89%) WALLIX
12 8 (2.57%) HP
13 7 (2.25%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.25%) Google
13 7 (2.25%) IBM