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 12 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 193 116
Rank change year-on-year +5 -77 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware 301 183 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.35% 2.22%
As % of the Vendors category 3.54% 2.93% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 112 243
10th Percentile £380 £364 £325
25th Percentile £454 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £699 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +0.49%
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% +27.43%
75th Percentile £28.19 - £71.25
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +110.45% -55.56% +27.43%

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 8,510 6,236 6,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.23% 45.87% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,056 4,733
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 122 87
10th Percentile £18.68 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.93 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -4.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.60 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +10 53 £550 +4.76% 15
West London -23 4 £475 -25.49% 1
South London -20 2 £456 -13.10% 4
East London +4 1 £525 - 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 22 (7.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.66%) nginx
3 8 (2.66%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.99%) Confluence
4 6 (1.99%) JBoss
4 6 (1.99%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.00%) IIS
5 3 (1.00%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.66%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (32.56%) Azure
2 52 (17.28%) AWS
3 32 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (9.30%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.64%) IaaS
6 19 (6.31%) PaaS
7 17 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.32%) SaaS
9 14 (4.65%) GCP
10 13 (4.32%) GitHub
11 12 (3.99%) OneDrive
12 11 (3.65%) Datadog
12 11 (3.65%) Rubrik
13 10 (3.32%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.33%) Azure Stack
15 7 (2.33%) Nutanix
15 7 (2.33%) OpenShift
16 6 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.66%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 62 (20.60%) DNS
2 53 (17.61%) Firewall
3 44 (14.62%) DHCP
4 25 (8.31%) VPN
5 23 (7.64%) VSAN
6 22 (7.31%) SAN
7 19 (6.31%) WAN
8 17 (5.65%) LAN
9 15 (4.98%) Network Security
9 15 (4.98%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (4.65%) TCP/IP
10 14 (4.65%) VLAN
11 13 (4.32%) NAS
12 10 (3.32%) BGP
13 7 (2.33%) HTTP
13 7 (2.33%) SMTP
14 6 (1.99%) Kerberos
14 6 (1.99%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.99%) VXLAN
15 5 (1.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.62%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.32%) Power BI
3 10 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (2.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.66%) Big Data
6 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.66%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.33%) GIS
9 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.33%) Metadata
9 1 (0.33%) MySQL
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 12 (3.99%) GitLab
2 11 (3.65%) Git
3 10 (3.32%) JIRA
4 9 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.66%) Chocolatey
6 3 (1.00%) Subversion
7 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.33%) Maven
8 1 (0.33%) MSI
8 1 (0.33%) VersionOne
General
1 70 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.59%) Finance
3 29 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.32%) Banking
4 16 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (4.98%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.99%) Financial Institution
6 12 (3.99%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.66%) Legal
8 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Retail
9 2 (0.66%) Front Office
9 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Local Government
10 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (18.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (12.62%) Senior
3 26 (8.64%) VMware Engineer
4 24 (7.97%) Architect
5 23 (7.64%) Consultant
6 19 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (5.65%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.65%) VMware Consultant
8 15 (4.98%) Network Engineer
9 14 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (3.99%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.65%) Lead
12 10 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.99%) IT Support
13 9 (2.99%) Storage Engineer
14 8 (2.66%) DBA
14 8 (2.66%) Linux Engineer
14 8 (2.66%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.66%) REST
2 6 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.66%) .NET
3 5 (1.66%) JSON
4 4 (1.33%) YAML
5 3 (1.00%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.00%) Middleware
6 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.66%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.66%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.66%) Blazor
7 1 (0.33%) EJB
7 1 (0.33%) Flash
7 1 (0.33%) HTML
7 1 (0.33%) JSP
7 1 (0.33%) Kafka
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth
7 1 (0.33%) OpenID
7 1 (0.33%) RESTful
7 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.63%) Clustering
3 18 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.65%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.98%) PKI
6 14 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.99%) Replication
8 8 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.33%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 154 (51.16%) Windows
2 90 (29.90%) Windows Server
3 76 (25.25%) Linux
4 22 (7.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.99%) VMS
6 12 (3.99%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (2.99%) Ubuntu
8 8 (2.66%) Windows 10
9 7 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.99%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.99%) Solaris
11 4 (1.33%) SUSE
11 4 (1.33%) Unix
11 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (1.00%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (1.00%) OpenVMS
12 3 (1.00%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (28.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 82 (27.24%) Migration
3 49 (16.28%) ITIL
4 43 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 41 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (12.96%) DevOps
6 39 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
6 39 (12.96%) High Availability
7 38 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (10.63%) Change Management
9 29 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (8.97%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (8.64%) Agile
12 25 (8.31%) ITSM
13 23 (7.64%) Incident Management
14 21 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (6.98%) Project Delivery
14 21 (6.98%) Service Management
15 20 (6.64%) Validation
16 19 (6.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (27.24%) PowerShell
2 29 (9.63%) Python
3 25 (8.31%) Bash
3 25 (8.31%) SQL
4 12 (3.99%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.65%) Java
6 5 (1.66%) Bicep
7 4 (1.33%) C#
7 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.00%) Go
9 2 (0.66%) C
9 2 (0.66%) Korn
9 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 110 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 83 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.96%) DV Cleared
4 27 (8.97%) Degree
5 12 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.33%) CCNA
8 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.99%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.33%) CCNP
10 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.33%) PMP
11 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.00%) CISSP
11 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.00%) VCAP
12 2 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.66%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.98%) SLA
2 10 (3.32%) QA
3 4 (1.33%) NIST
4 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) DICOM
5 1 (0.33%) GRC
5 1 (0.33%) HL7
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 182 (60.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (31.56%) Active Directory
3 50 (16.61%) VMware ESXi
4 49 (16.28%) vSphere
5 41 (13.62%) VMware NSX
6 33 (10.96%) Hyper-V
7 20 (6.64%) Docker
7 20 (6.64%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (2.66%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (2.33%) BitLocker
10 7 (2.33%) Firmware
11 6 (1.99%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (1.66%) NFS
12 5 (1.66%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (1.33%) Terminal Services
13 4 (1.33%) UAG
14 3 (1.00%) KVM
14 3 (1.00%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.66%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 51 (16.94%) Ansible
2 49 (16.28%) Terraform
3 38 (12.62%) vCenter Server
4 34 (11.30%) Kubernetes
5 28 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (6.98%) SCCM
7 17 (5.65%) Puppet
7 17 (5.65%) vRealize
8 14 (4.65%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (2.99%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (2.99%) SCOM
10 8 (2.66%) vMotion
11 7 (2.33%) FortiGate
11 7 (2.33%) VxRail
12 6 (1.99%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.99%) PowerCLI
12 6 (1.99%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.66%) Nagios
13 5 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 88 (29.24%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.95%) Cisco
3 28 (9.30%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.31%) Citrix
5 20 (6.64%) NetApp
6 17 (5.65%) Oracle
7 16 (5.32%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.32%) Dell
9 12 (3.99%) Tenable
10 9 (2.99%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (2.99%) BMC
10 9 (2.99%) Broadcom
10 9 (2.99%) Commvault
10 9 (2.99%) CyberArk
10 9 (2.99%) Remedy
10 9 (2.99%) WALLIX
11 8 (2.66%) AppDynamics
11 8 (2.66%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.66%) HP
12 7 (2.33%) EMC