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 3 January 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
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 115 91
Rank change year-on-year -81 -24 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware 196 329 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 2.29% 2.49%
As % of the Vendors category 2.91% 5.20% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 200 314
10th Percentile £404 £275 £300
25th Percentile £496 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% -1.54% -8.17%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £678 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +1.20% +3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile £27.47 - £25.70
25th Percentile £34.18 - £33.13
Median hourly rate £45.35 £112.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -59.51% +124.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £56.53 - £65.05
90th Percentile £63.23 - £74.75
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +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 6,732 6,329 7,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.80% 43.98% 40.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 3,942 5,039
10th Percentile £349 £313 £298
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £753
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 70 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.80 £16.14
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.38
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -10.42% +43.88%
75th Percentile £41.94 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.33 £81.93 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.58% -34.61% +69.93%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -10 35 £550 +10.00% 20
South London -4 4 £506 -5.90% 5
West London -19 3 - - 6
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 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.06%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.51%) Traefik
4 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.98%) Azure
2 22 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (10.71%) AWS
4 15 (7.65%) GitHub
4 15 (7.65%) Nutanix
5 9 (4.59%) OpenShift
6 7 (3.57%) IaaS
7 6 (3.06%) GCP
8 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.02%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.02%) PaaS
11 2 (1.02%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.51%) Datadog
12 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.31%) DNS
2 27 (13.78%) Firewall
3 14 (7.14%) DHCP
3 14 (7.14%) VPN
4 12 (6.12%) SAN
4 12 (6.12%) WAN
5 10 (5.10%) LAN
5 10 (5.10%) VSAN
6 9 (4.59%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.57%) NAS
7 7 (3.57%) Network Security
8 5 (2.55%) BGP
8 5 (2.55%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (2.04%) VLAN
9 4 (2.04%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.53%) OSPF
10 3 (1.53%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.53%) SSL
10 3 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.51%) Power BI
5 1 (0.51%) Redis
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (2.55%) Git
4 4 (2.04%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.04%) JMeter
4 4 (2.04%) JUnit
4 4 (2.04%) Subversion
4 4 (2.04%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.53%) GitLab
5 3 (1.53%) JIRA
5 3 (1.53%) RStudio
6 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (23.47%) Finance
2 45 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.61%) Banking
6 6 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Local Government
8 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Social Science
9 2 (1.02%) Electronics
9 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.02%) Marketing
9 2 (1.02%) Police
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Front Office
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (19.90%) Consultant
2 29 (14.80%) VMware Consultant
3 21 (10.71%) Architect
4 20 (10.20%) Senior
5 18 (9.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.67%) VMware Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Administrator
7 12 (6.12%) Windows Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Developer
10 8 (4.08%) Linux Administrator
11 7 (3.57%) Lead
11 7 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) PowerShell Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Senior Wintel Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.06%) VMware Specialist
12 6 (3.06%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.04%) Hibernate
1 4 (2.04%) Kafka
1 4 (2.04%) REST
1 4 (2.04%) Spring
2 3 (1.53%) .NET
2 3 (1.53%) JSON
2 3 (1.53%) Middleware
2 3 (1.53%) React
2 3 (1.53%) RESTful
2 3 (1.53%) XML
3 2 (1.02%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.02%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.02%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.02%) Express.js
3 2 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.02%) SOAP
3 2 (1.02%) WCF
3 2 (1.02%) Web Services
3 2 (1.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.18%) Replication
2 14 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.12%) PKI
4 10 (5.10%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.59%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.57%) Clustering
7 7 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.53%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.02%) Thin Client
12 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.59%) Windows
2 38 (19.39%) Linux
3 37 (18.88%) Windows Server
4 19 (9.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.10%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.57%) Solaris
7 6 (3.06%) VMS
8 5 (2.55%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.55%) Unix
8 5 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.04%) CentOS
10 3 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.02%) AIX
11 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.51%) Android
12 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.90%) Migration
2 35 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (15.82%) DevOps
4 24 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (11.73%) CI/CD
6 22 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (10.20%) ITIL
8 16 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (7.14%) Agile
9 14 (7.14%) High Availability
10 11 (5.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (4.59%) Business Continuity
11 9 (4.59%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (4.59%) Patch Management
11 9 (4.59%) Project Delivery
11 9 (4.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (4.08%) Configuration Management
12 8 (4.08%) Network Virtualisation
12 8 (4.08%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (4.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.98%) Python
2 44 (22.45%) PowerShell
3 17 (8.67%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.65%) Bash
4 15 (7.65%) SQL
5 9 (4.59%) Java
6 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.55%) Perl
8 4 (2.04%) C#
8 4 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.04%) VBA
9 2 (1.02%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) C
10 1 (0.51%) C++
10 1 (0.51%) Korn
10 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.61%) Degree
6 10 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.59%) CCNP
7 9 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.55%) CCNA
10 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.53%) VCAP
11 3 (1.53%) VCDX
12 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.02%) CCIE
12 2 (1.02%) HP ASE
12 2 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.02%) RHCE
12 2 (1.02%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.55%) NIST
3 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.02%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.51%) MiFID
5 1 (0.51%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 105 (53.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (19.39%) Active Directory
3 27 (13.78%) vSphere
4 21 (10.71%) VMware NSX
5 20 (10.20%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (9.69%) Hyper-V
7 10 (5.10%) Docker
8 8 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (2.55%) KVM
10 4 (2.04%) NFS
10 4 (2.04%) Veritas File System
10 4 (2.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (2.04%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.02%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.51%) Firmware
12 1 (0.51%) Postfix
12 1 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (16.33%) Ansible
2 21 (10.71%) vRealize
3 20 (10.20%) SCCM
4 19 (9.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (9.69%) Terraform
5 16 (8.16%) Kubernetes
6 13 (6.63%) vCenter Server
7 9 (4.59%) SCOM
8 6 (3.06%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.06%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.55%) Grafana
10 4 (2.04%) Argo
10 4 (2.04%) Puppet
10 4 (2.04%) QRadar
11 3 (1.53%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.53%) Istio
11 3 (1.53%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.53%) Rancher
11 3 (1.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 42 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.22%) Red Hat
3 19 (9.69%) Citrix
4 18 (9.18%) Cisco
5 11 (5.61%) Dell
5 11 (5.61%) NetApp
6 10 (5.10%) Oracle
7 9 (4.59%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.08%) Splunk
9 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.06%) EMC
10 6 (3.06%) Qualys
10 6 (3.06%) Veeam
11 4 (2.04%) Arista
11 4 (2.04%) F5
11 4 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.04%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.04%) Symantec
11 4 (2.04%) Tenable
12 3 (1.53%) Pure Storage