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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 127 118
Rank change year-on-year -52 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 233 273 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 2.09% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 3.28% 4.70% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 171 240
10th Percentile £406 £278 £263
25th Percentile £475 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £582
90th Percentile £671 £670 £665
England median daily rate £525 £538 £496
% change year-on-year -2.33% +8.31% -5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £31.94 - £22.02
25th Percentile £45.35 - £22.08
Median hourly rate £67.70 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.55% +244.62% -25.47%
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £64.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -3.45% +28.89% -13.46%

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 7,107 5,806 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 44.47% 40.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,724 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £276
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 81 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.86 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +26.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £80.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -19 29 £550 -3.72% 16
South London -6 9 £333 +47.78% 1
West London -21 2 - - 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 15 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.86%) nginx
4 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.86%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.86%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.33%) Azure
2 36 (15.45%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (12.02%) AWS
4 18 (7.73%) GitHub
5 16 (6.87%) IaaS
6 12 (5.15%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.15%) Nutanix
6 12 (5.15%) PaaS
7 10 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.29%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.58%) Datadog
8 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.58%) Rubrik
8 6 (2.58%) SaaS
9 4 (1.72%) GCP
9 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.29%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.86%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.45%) Firewall
2 38 (16.31%) DNS
3 29 (12.45%) SAN
4 24 (10.30%) DHCP
5 19 (8.15%) NAS
5 19 (8.15%) VSAN
6 18 (7.73%) VPN
7 17 (7.30%) LAN
7 17 (7.30%) WAN
8 8 (3.43%) VLAN
9 7 (3.00%) Network Security
10 6 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.15%) BGP
11 5 (2.15%) SMTP
11 5 (2.15%) TCP/IP
12 4 (1.72%) HTTP
12 4 (1.72%) MPLS
12 4 (1.72%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.29%) DMZ
13 3 (1.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) Redis
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.58%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.58%) GitLab
2 6 (2.58%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.72%) JMeter
3 4 (1.72%) JUnit
3 4 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.29%) JIRA
4 3 (1.29%) RStudio
5 2 (0.86%) Git
6 1 (0.43%) MSI
6 1 (0.43%) Subversion
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (23.18%) Finance
2 46 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.44%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.87%) Banking
6 11 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.00%) Legal
8 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Local Government
9 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Social Science
10 2 (0.86%) Electronics
10 2 (0.86%) Front Office
10 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (15.45%) Consultant
2 30 (12.88%) Architect
3 29 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (12.02%) VMware Consultant
5 27 (11.59%) Senior
6 20 (8.58%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.29%) Developer
8 10 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.29%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.86%) VMware Architect
10 8 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.43%) Lead
11 7 (3.00%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.00%) NetApp Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) Azure Developer
12 6 (2.58%) DevOps Specialist
12 6 (2.58%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.15%) Middleware
2 4 (1.72%) Flash
2 4 (1.72%) Hibernate
2 4 (1.72%) Kafka
2 4 (1.72%) Spring
3 3 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.86%) .NET
4 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.86%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.86%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.86%) Express.js
4 2 (0.86%) React
4 2 (0.86%) REST
4 2 (0.86%) SOAP
4 2 (0.86%) WCF
4 2 (0.86%) Web Services
4 2 (0.86%) WPF
5 1 (0.43%) EDI
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.45%) Replication
2 17 (7.30%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.44%) PKI
4 11 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.86%) Clustering
7 8 (3.43%) Private Cloud
8 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.29%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.29%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.29%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.29%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 71 (30.47%) Windows
2 44 (18.88%) Windows Server
3 33 (14.16%) Linux
4 9 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.86%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.72%) Solaris
7 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.72%) VMS
8 3 (1.29%) Unix
8 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.86%) AIX
9 2 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.43%) Android
10 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (33.05%) Migration
2 36 (15.45%) DevOps
3 34 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (10.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (9.87%) CI/CD
6 23 (9.87%) ITIL
7 20 (8.58%) Agile
8 18 (7.73%) Validation
9 15 (6.44%) Change Management
9 15 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (6.01%) Runbook
10 14 (6.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (5.58%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (5.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (5.15%) Data Migration
12 12 (5.15%) High Availability
12 12 (5.15%) Knowledge Transfer
13 11 (4.72%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.74%) PowerShell
2 26 (11.16%) Python
3 16 (6.87%) SQL
4 10 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.43%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.00%) Bash
7 4 (1.72%) C#
7 4 (1.72%) Java
8 2 (0.86%) C
8 2 (0.86%) Korn
8 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) Perl
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.58%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (4.72%) Degree
6 9 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.58%) CCNP
8 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.72%) CCNA
10 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.29%) VCAP
11 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.86%) HP ASE
11 2 (0.86%) PMP
11 2 (0.86%) VCDX
12 1 (0.43%) CCDP
12 1 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.86%) SLA
2 7 (3.00%) NIST
3 4 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.86%) NCSC
4 2 (0.86%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) COBIT
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.43%) MiFID
5 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 128 (54.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (21.46%) Active Directory
3 39 (16.74%) VMware NSX
4 38 (16.31%) vSphere
5 23 (9.87%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (6.87%) Hyper-V
7 15 (6.44%) Docker
8 13 (5.58%) NFS
9 8 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (2.58%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (2.15%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.86%) Firmware
13 2 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.86%) vCloud
13 2 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.86%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.43%) Veritas File System
14 1 (0.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (12.45%) Ansible
3 26 (11.16%) SCCM
4 20 (8.58%) Terraform
5 19 (8.15%) Kubernetes
5 19 (8.15%) vCenter Server
6 15 (6.44%) vRealize
7 13 (5.58%) vMotion
8 8 (3.43%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (3.43%) SCOM
9 6 (2.58%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.15%) AirWatch
10 5 (2.15%) Puppet
11 4 (1.72%) Argo
11 4 (1.72%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.72%) Grafana
11 4 (1.72%) PowerCLI
11 4 (1.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.01%) Citrix
2 21 (9.01%) Pure Storage
3 17 (7.30%) Cisco
4 16 (6.87%) NetApp
5 15 (6.44%) Dell
6 13 (5.58%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.29%) Commvault
7 10 (4.29%) Oracle
8 9 (3.86%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.00%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.00%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.00%) Splunk
9 7 (3.00%) Tenable
10 6 (2.58%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.58%) Bloomberg
10 6 (2.58%) Veeam
11 4 (1.72%) EMC
11 4 (1.72%) Juniper
11 4 (1.72%) Reuters