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 9 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
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 171 137
Rank change year-on-year -23 -34 -25
Contract jobs citing VMware 256 198 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.62% 1.83%
As % of the Vendors category 3.30% 3.56% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 132 208
10th Percentile £423 £350 £300
25th Percentile £465 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.33% -8.14%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £550
90th Percentile £670 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £28.94 - £22.08
25th Percentile £43.48 - £23.05
Median hourly rate £67.70 - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £42.05
% change year-on-year +9.80% +36.76% -29.81%

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 7,760 5,560 7,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 45.48% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,114 3,585 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £325 £307
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 104 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -11.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.63 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.98 £27.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.07% +15.07% -39.01%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -3 32 £550 - 18
South London -12 7 £165 -68.57% 2
West London -24 2 £475 +18.75% 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 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.73%) nginx
3 7 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.34%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.17%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 82 (32.03%) Azure
2 38 (14.84%) AWS
3 27 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (7.81%) IaaS
5 17 (6.64%) PaaS
6 15 (5.86%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.69%) GitHub
9 11 (4.30%) Rubrik
10 10 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (3.52%) Nutanix
12 8 (3.13%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.73%) Azure Stack
13 7 (2.73%) Datadog
13 7 (2.73%) GCP
13 7 (2.73%) SaaS
14 5 (1.95%) Cohesity
15 4 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 54 (21.09%) Firewall
2 45 (17.58%) DNS
3 34 (13.28%) DHCP
4 30 (11.72%) SAN
5 29 (11.33%) VSAN
6 27 (10.55%) VPN
7 23 (8.98%) NAS
8 20 (7.81%) WAN
9 16 (6.25%) LAN
10 13 (5.08%) VLAN
11 10 (3.91%) SMTP
12 9 (3.52%) Network Security
13 7 (2.73%) BGP
13 7 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.34%) SD-WAN
14 6 (2.34%) TCP/IP
15 5 (1.95%) HTTP
16 4 (1.56%) OSPF
16 4 (1.56%) VXLAN
17 3 (1.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.17%) Power BI
5 2 (0.78%) Big Data
5 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) GIS
6 1 (0.39%) Metadata
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.13%) GitLab
2 7 (2.73%) Chocolatey
2 7 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (1.95%) Git
3 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.95%) JIRA
4 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.39%) Maven
4 1 (0.39%) MSI
4 1 (0.39%) RStudio
4 1 (0.39%) Subversion
4 1 (0.39%) VersionOne
General
1 43 (16.80%) Finance
2 41 (16.02%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (3.91%) Banking
4 10 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.13%) Legal
6 7 (2.73%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.17%) Retail
8 2 (0.78%) Front Office
8 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.39%) Law
9 1 (0.39%) Local Government
9 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.39%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 47 (18.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (12.11%) Senior
3 29 (11.33%) Architect
4 27 (10.55%) Consultant
5 22 (8.59%) VMware Engineer
6 20 (7.81%) VMware Consultant
7 16 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.47%) Storage Engineer
10 12 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 10 (3.91%) NetApp Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) VMware Architect
14 8 (3.13%) IT Engineer
14 8 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.13%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) REST
2 5 (1.95%) .NET
3 3 (1.17%) Flash
3 3 (1.17%) JSON
4 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.78%) Blazor
4 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.78%) Middleware
4 2 (0.78%) YAML
5 1 (0.39%) Django
5 1 (0.39%) EJB
5 1 (0.39%) HTML
5 1 (0.39%) Java SE
5 1 (0.39%) JavaBeans
5 1 (0.39%) JSP
5 1 (0.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.39%) RESTful
5 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.16%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.77%) Replication
3 17 (6.64%) Clustering
3 17 (6.64%) PKI
4 16 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.17%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.78%) CMDB
12 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (38.67%) Windows
2 59 (23.05%) Windows Server
3 46 (17.97%) Linux
4 15 (5.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (2.73%) VMS
7 7 (2.73%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.34%) Solaris
8 6 (2.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.95%) Unix
10 4 (1.56%) SUSE
11 3 (1.17%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.39%) AIX
13 1 (0.39%) CentOS
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.69%) Migration
2 56 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 38 (14.84%) DevOps
4 30 (11.72%) CI/CD
5 27 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (9.77%) Validation
7 24 (9.38%) ITIL
8 22 (8.59%) Change Management
9 19 (7.42%) Agile
9 19 (7.42%) High Availability
10 18 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (6.64%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (5.86%) Capacity Management
13 15 (5.86%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (5.47%) Runbook
15 13 (5.08%) Data Migration
15 13 (5.08%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.48%) PowerShell
2 23 (8.98%) Python
3 15 (5.86%) SQL
4 12 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.52%) Bash
6 6 (2.34%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.95%) C#
8 4 (1.56%) Java
8 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.17%) Bicep
9 3 (1.17%) C
10 1 (0.39%) Korn
10 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 60 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.94%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.69%) Degree
5 11 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) CCNA
8 4 (1.56%) VCAP
9 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.17%) PMP
9 3 (1.17%) VCDX
10 2 (0.78%) CCNP
10 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.39%) MCSE
11 1 (0.39%) OCP
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.86%) SLA
2 4 (1.56%) NIST
3 3 (1.17%) QA
4 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) COBIT
5 1 (0.39%) DICOM
5 1 (0.39%) HL7
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 151 (58.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (21.88%) Active Directory
3 49 (19.14%) VMware NSX
4 43 (16.80%) vSphere
5 34 (13.28%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (11.72%) Hyper-V
7 18 (7.03%) Docker
7 18 (7.03%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (5.08%) NFS
9 11 (4.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 10 (3.91%) BitLocker
11 5 (1.95%) Firmware
11 5 (1.95%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.17%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.78%) vCloud
14 2 (0.78%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.39%) KVM
15 1 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 36 (14.06%) Ansible
2 30 (11.72%) Terraform
3 27 (10.55%) vCenter Server
4 26 (10.16%) Kubernetes
5 21 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (7.81%) vRealize
7 18 (7.03%) vMotion
8 17 (6.64%) SCCM
9 10 (3.91%) Puppet
10 8 (3.13%) EMC VPLEX
11 7 (2.73%) PowerCLI
11 7 (2.73%) VxRail
12 5 (1.95%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 4 (1.56%) AirWatch
13 4 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
14 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (1.17%) Nagios
14 3 (1.17%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 55 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.55%) Cisco
3 22 (8.59%) Citrix
4 21 (8.20%) NetApp
5 18 (7.03%) Pure Storage
5 18 (7.03%) Red Hat
6 17 (6.64%) Dell
7 10 (3.91%) Commvault
7 10 (3.91%) Oracle
8 8 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.73%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.73%) Broadcom
9 7 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.73%) IBM
9 7 (2.73%) Tenable
10 5 (1.95%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.95%) Juniper
11 4 (1.56%) EMC
11 4 (1.56%) Google
11 4 (1.56%) Splunk