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 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
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 185 112
Rank change year-on-year -13 -73 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 297 187 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 1.37% 2.24%
As % of the Vendors category 3.47% 2.98% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 115 244
10th Percentile £380 £363 £325
25th Percentile £454 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £599 £575
90th Percentile £725 £698 £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% +19.28%
75th Percentile £28.19 - £71.25
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +25.55%

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 8,547 6,266 6,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.18% 45.84% 42.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,552 4,078 4,731
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.41%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 123 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.70 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -5.23% -20.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.48 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -18.92%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +12 52 £550 +4.76% 10
West London -24 4 £475 -25.49%
South London -23 2 £456 -13.10% 3
East London +1 1 £525 - 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 22 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.69%) nginx
3 8 (2.69%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.02%) Confluence
4 6 (2.02%) JBoss
4 6 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.01%) IIS
5 3 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.67%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.34%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.66%) Azure
2 50 (16.84%) AWS
3 31 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.74%) IaaS
6 19 (6.40%) PaaS
7 18 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.05%) SaaS
9 13 (4.38%) GCP
9 13 (4.38%) GitHub
10 11 (3.70%) Datadog
10 11 (3.70%) OneDrive
10 11 (3.70%) Rubrik
11 10 (3.37%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.36%) Azure Stack
13 7 (2.36%) Nutanix
14 6 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.02%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.68%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 62 (20.88%) DNS
2 53 (17.85%) Firewall
3 44 (14.81%) DHCP
4 25 (8.42%) VPN
5 23 (7.74%) SAN
5 23 (7.74%) VSAN
6 19 (6.40%) WAN
7 17 (5.72%) LAN
8 15 (5.05%) Network Security
8 15 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (4.71%) NAS
9 14 (4.71%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.71%) VLAN
10 9 (3.03%) BGP
11 7 (2.36%) HTTP
11 7 (2.36%) SMTP
12 6 (2.02%) Kerberos
12 6 (2.02%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.68%) SSL
13 5 (1.68%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.80%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.37%) Power BI
3 10 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.69%) Big Data
6 5 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.68%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.34%) GIS
9 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.34%) Metadata
9 1 (0.34%) MySQL
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 11 (3.70%) GitLab
2 10 (3.37%) Git
2 10 (3.37%) JIRA
3 9 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.69%) Chocolatey
5 3 (1.01%) Subversion
5 3 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) Maven
6 1 (0.34%) MSI
6 1 (0.34%) VersionOne
General
1 67 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.21%) Finance
3 29 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.39%) Banking
4 16 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (5.05%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.04%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.36%) Legal
8 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Retail
9 2 (0.67%) Front Office
9 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Law
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (12.79%) Senior
3 26 (8.75%) VMware Engineer
4 23 (7.74%) Consultant
5 22 (7.41%) Architect
6 19 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (5.72%) VMware Consultant
8 16 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 15 (5.05%) Network Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.70%) IT Engineer
13 10 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.03%) Lead
14 9 (3.03%) Storage Engineer
15 8 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 8 (2.69%) DBA
15 8 (2.69%) Linux Engineer
15 8 (2.69%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.36%) REST
2 6 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.68%) .NET
4 4 (1.35%) JSON
5 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.01%) Middleware
5 3 (1.01%) YAML
6 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.67%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.67%) Blazor
6 2 (0.67%) Flash
7 1 (0.34%) EJB
7 1 (0.34%) HTML
7 1 (0.34%) JSP
7 1 (0.34%) Kafka
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) OpenID
7 1 (0.34%) RESTful
7 1 (0.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.49%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.77%) Clustering
3 17 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.05%) PKI
5 14 (4.71%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.37%) Replication
7 8 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.02%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.02%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 151 (50.84%) Windows
2 89 (29.97%) Windows Server
3 74 (24.92%) Linux
4 21 (7.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (4.04%) VMS
6 12 (4.04%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (3.03%) Ubuntu
8 8 (2.69%) Windows 10
9 7 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.02%) Solaris
11 5 (1.68%) Apple iOS
12 4 (1.35%) SUSE
12 4 (1.35%) Unix
12 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (1.01%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (1.01%) OpenVMS
13 3 (1.01%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (28.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (26.94%) Migration
3 48 (16.16%) ITIL
4 43 (14.48%) CI/CD
5 41 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (13.13%) DevOps
6 39 (13.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 39 (13.13%) High Availability
7 37 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (10.77%) Change Management
9 28 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (8.75%) Agile
10 26 (8.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (8.08%) ITSM
12 23 (7.74%) Incident Management
13 22 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (6.73%) Project Delivery
14 20 (6.73%) Service Management
15 19 (6.40%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (6.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (26.94%) PowerShell
2 28 (9.43%) Python
3 26 (8.75%) SQL
4 24 (8.08%) Bash
5 12 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.70%) Java
7 5 (1.68%) Bicep
8 4 (1.35%) C#
8 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.01%) Go
10 2 (0.67%) C
10 2 (0.67%) Korn
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 110 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 82 (27.61%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.78%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.75%) Degree
5 12 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.36%) CCNA
8 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.68%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.35%) CCNP
10 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.35%) PMP
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.01%) VCAP
12 2 (0.67%) CISSP
12 2 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.67%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.07%) SLA
2 10 (3.37%) QA
3 4 (1.35%) NIST
4 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) DICOM
5 1 (0.34%) GRC
5 1 (0.34%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) NCSC
5 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 179 (60.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (31.31%) Active Directory
3 49 (16.50%) VMware ESXi
4 47 (15.82%) vSphere
5 40 (13.47%) VMware NSX
6 33 (11.11%) Hyper-V
7 20 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (6.40%) Docker
9 9 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (2.69%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (2.36%) BitLocker
11 7 (2.36%) Firmware
12 6 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (1.68%) NFS
13 5 (1.68%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (1.35%) Terminal Services
14 4 (1.35%) UAG
15 3 (1.01%) KVM
15 3 (1.01%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.67%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 48 (16.16%) Ansible
2 47 (15.82%) Terraform
3 38 (12.79%) vCenter Server
4 33 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 27 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (7.07%) SCCM
7 17 (5.72%) Puppet
7 17 (5.72%) vRealize
8 14 (4.71%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (3.03%) SCOM
10 8 (2.69%) vMotion
11 7 (2.36%) FortiGate
11 7 (2.36%) VxRail
12 6 (2.02%) NetBackup
12 6 (2.02%) PowerCLI
12 6 (2.02%) Prometheus
12 6 (2.02%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.68%) Nagios
13 5 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 86 (28.96%) Microsoft
2 47 (15.82%) Cisco
3 26 (8.75%) Red Hat
4 25 (8.42%) Citrix
5 20 (6.73%) NetApp
6 17 (5.72%) Oracle
7 14 (4.71%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.04%) Dell
8 12 (4.04%) Tenable
9 10 (3.37%) Commvault
10 9 (3.03%) BMC
10 9 (3.03%) Broadcom
10 9 (3.03%) Remedy
11 8 (2.69%) AppDynamics
11 8 (2.69%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (2.69%) CyberArk
11 8 (2.69%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.69%) HP
11 8 (2.69%) Pure Storage
11 8 (2.69%) WALLIX