VMware Contracts 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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 131 111
Rank change year-on-year -33 -20 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 210 341 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.58% 1.94% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 3.47% 4.60% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 226 442
10th Percentile £363 £313 £345
25th Percentile £450 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.59% +4.19%
75th Percentile £595 £550 £638
90th Percentile £700 £657 £725
England median daily rate £550 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 6
10th Percentile - £22.08 £34.38
25th Percentile - £23.05 £48.87
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £56.59
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -57.94% +19.54%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £64.77
90th Percentile - - £72.55
England median hourly rate £32.77 £40.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -18.08% -26.69% +29.90%

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 6,049 7,414 10,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.53% 42.14% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,917 5,073 7,376
10th Percentile £325 £312 £325
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% -0.09%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 127 123
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.60 £17.96 £21.12
Median hourly rate £28.33 £24.18 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -21.37% -10.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.40 £25.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year +1.60% -23.66% +52.33%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in London

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 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 -9 26 £550 +4.76% 89
South London +11 12 £525 +16.67% 3
West London +17 11 £638 +59.38% 15
East London +1 2 £375 -14.77% 3
North London -4 1 £550 +120.00% 3
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.33%) Confluence
4 4 (1.90%) Apache
5 3 (1.43%) nginx
6 2 (0.95%) IIS
6 2 (0.95%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.48%) JBoss
7 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.62%) Azure
2 44 (20.95%) AWS
3 34 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (11.43%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.05%) GCP
6 14 (6.67%) GitHub
6 14 (6.67%) IaaS
6 14 (6.67%) Nutanix
7 8 (3.81%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.86%) SaaS
9 5 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.38%) PaaS
10 4 (1.90%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 48 (22.86%) Firewall
2 40 (19.05%) DNS
3 27 (12.86%) DHCP
4 25 (11.90%) TCP/IP
5 23 (10.95%) VPN
6 17 (8.10%) SAN
6 17 (8.10%) WAN
7 15 (7.14%) LAN
7 15 (7.14%) VSAN
8 12 (5.71%) NAS
8 12 (5.71%) Network Security
9 11 (5.24%) VLAN
10 7 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.38%) MPLS
11 5 (2.38%) SSH
12 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (1.90%) iSCSI
12 4 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (1.43%) 4G
13 3 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.38%) Big Data
2 5 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.43%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.43%) MySQL
4 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.62%) Git
2 12 (5.71%) JIRA
3 7 (3.33%) GitLab
4 6 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.86%) Subversion
5 5 (2.38%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.95%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (25.24%) Finance
2 51 (24.29%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.19%) Banking
4 13 (6.19%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.86%) Legal
7 5 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.38%) Marketing
8 4 (1.90%) Electronics
8 4 (1.90%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) French Language
10 1 (0.48%) Front Office
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) Architect
3 23 (10.95%) Consultant
4 17 (8.10%) Network Engineer
4 17 (8.10%) VMware Engineer
5 14 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (6.19%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (5.71%) Senior
8 10 (4.76%) Administrator
9 9 (4.29%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.29%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.29%) VMware Consultant
10 8 (3.81%) Analyst
10 8 (3.81%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.33%) Lead
11 7 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
12 6 (2.86%) Security Analyst
12 6 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) .NET
1 6 (2.86%) JSON
1 6 (2.86%) REST
1 6 (2.86%) XML
2 5 (2.38%) ASP.NET
2 5 (2.38%) RESTful
3 4 (1.90%) Middleware
4 3 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (1.43%) CSS
4 3 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.43%) HTML
4 3 (1.43%) Node.js
4 3 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.95%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.95%) EDI
5 2 (0.95%) LDAP
5 2 (0.95%) React
6 1 (0.48%) LAMP
6 1 (0.48%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.95%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.24%) Clustering
2 11 (5.24%) Private Cloud
2 11 (5.24%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.24%) Replication
3 9 (4.29%) PKI
4 8 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.43%) CMDB
8 3 (1.43%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.95%) Blog
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (47.14%) Windows
2 77 (36.67%) Linux
3 51 (24.29%) Windows Server
4 24 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (8.10%) Windows 10
6 12 (5.71%) CentOS
6 12 (5.71%) Unix
7 11 (5.24%) Ubuntu
8 8 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (2.38%) Apple iOS
9 5 (2.38%) Solaris
10 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.43%) VMS
11 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.95%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.95%) SUSE
12 2 (0.95%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.95%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (18.57%) Migration
2 34 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (14.29%) High Availability
5 23 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (8.57%) DevOps
6 18 (8.57%) ITIL
7 16 (7.62%) Configuration Management
7 16 (7.62%) ITSM
8 15 (7.14%) SIEM
9 14 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (6.67%) Task Automation
10 13 (6.19%) Containerisation
10 13 (6.19%) Incident Response
11 12 (5.71%) CI/CD
11 12 (5.71%) Data Protection
11 12 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (5.24%) Agile
12 11 (5.24%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (5.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.33%) Python
2 41 (19.52%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.90%) Bash
4 20 (9.52%) SQL
5 10 (4.76%) Perl
6 7 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.86%) C#
7 6 (2.86%) Java
8 3 (1.43%) PHP
8 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.43%) VBA
9 2 (0.95%) C++
9 2 (0.95%) Go
9 2 (0.95%) VB
9 2 (0.95%) VBScript
10 1 (0.48%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.48%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) Degree
5 9 (4.29%) CCNP
6 7 (3.33%) VCAP
7 5 (2.38%) CCIE
7 5 (2.38%) CCNA
8 4 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.95%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.48%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.48%) RHCE
11 1 (0.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) GDPR
2 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.38%) NIST
2 5 (2.38%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.95%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 131 (62.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 78 (37.14%) Active Directory
3 35 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 33 (15.71%) vSphere
5 21 (10.00%) VMware NSX
6 16 (7.62%) Docker
6 16 (7.62%) Hyper-V
7 14 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.90%) Firmware
9 4 (1.90%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (1.43%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (1.43%) iptables
10 3 (1.43%) KVM
10 3 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (1.43%) vCloud
10 3 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (1.43%) XenApp
11 2 (0.95%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 37 (17.62%) Ansible
2 23 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.05%) Terraform
3 19 (9.05%) vCenter Server
4 15 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (6.19%) Puppet
6 12 (5.71%) SCCM
7 9 (4.29%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.33%) PowerCLI
8 7 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (3.33%) vRealize
9 6 (2.86%) Nagios
10 5 (2.38%) NetBackup
10 5 (2.38%) Netcool
10 5 (2.38%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.90%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (1.90%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (1.90%) QRadar
11 4 (1.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.90%) vMotion
Vendors
1 69 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 46 (21.90%) Cisco
3 23 (10.95%) Citrix
3 23 (10.95%) Red Hat
4 21 (10.00%) Splunk
5 16 (7.62%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.67%) EMC
7 11 (5.24%) Google
7 11 (5.24%) NetApp
7 11 (5.24%) Oracle
8 10 (4.76%) F5
8 10 (4.76%) Veritas
9 9 (4.29%) CyberArk
9 9 (4.29%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.81%) Dell
10 8 (3.81%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.33%) Fortinet
11 7 (3.33%) HP
11 7 (3.33%) IBM
12 6 (2.86%) Meraki