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 24 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 192 119
Rank change year-on-year +14 -73 -16
Contract jobs citing VMware 304 187 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 1.39% 2.21%
As % of the Vendors category 3.56% 3.01% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 113 235
10th Percentile £380 £353 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.62%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £562
90th Percentile £726 £697 £656
England median daily rate £527 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.18% +6.80% +2.90%
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 £63.48 £31.39 £58.75
% change year-on-year +102.26% -46.58% +0.65%

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 8,551 6,214 7,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.63% 46.09% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,566 4,020 4,685
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 128 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -21.53%
75th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £61.39
90th Percentile £82.00 £63.40 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.24%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +11 53 £550 +4.76% 11
West London -23 4 £475 -25.49% 3
East London +5 2 £538 +2.38% 4
South London -17 1 £413 -21.43% 2
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 (7.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.30%) JBoss
3 7 (2.30%) nginx
3 7 (2.30%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.30%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.97%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.99%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) Apache
6 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 102 (33.55%) Azure
2 56 (18.42%) AWS
3 30 (9.87%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (9.21%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.24%) IaaS
6 18 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.92%) PaaS
7 16 (5.26%) GCP
7 16 (5.26%) SaaS
8 13 (4.28%) GitHub
9 11 (3.62%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.29%) Datadog
10 10 (3.29%) OneDrive
10 10 (3.29%) Rubrik
11 9 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.96%) Nutanix
12 7 (2.30%) Azure Stack
12 7 (2.30%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.64%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 61 (20.07%) DNS
2 54 (17.76%) Firewall
3 43 (14.14%) DHCP
4 24 (7.89%) SAN
4 24 (7.89%) VPN
5 21 (6.91%) WAN
6 19 (6.25%) VSAN
7 18 (5.92%) LAN
8 17 (5.59%) Network Security
9 15 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (4.28%) NAS
10 13 (4.28%) TCP/IP
10 13 (4.28%) VLAN
11 9 (2.96%) BGP
12 7 (2.30%) Kerberos
12 7 (2.30%) SMTP
12 7 (2.30%) VXLAN
13 6 (1.97%) HTTP
13 6 (1.97%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.62%) Power BI
2 11 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (3.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (2.96%) Big Data
5 6 (1.97%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.66%) GIS
8 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
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
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 12 (3.95%) Git
2 11 (3.62%) GitLab
2 11 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.96%) JIRA
4 7 (2.30%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.99%) Subversion
6 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.33%) VersionOne
General
1 73 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.05%) Finance
3 29 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.26%) Banking
4 16 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.30%) Legal
8 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Retail
9 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (19.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (12.50%) Senior
3 26 (8.55%) Architect
3 26 (8.55%) VMware Engineer
4 21 (6.91%) Consultant
5 20 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (5.59%) Support Engineer
7 16 (5.26%) Network Engineer
7 16 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.28%) VMware Consultant
10 12 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.95%) Lead
11 11 (3.62%) IT Engineer
12 9 (2.96%) Administrator
12 9 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (2.96%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (2.96%) SQL DBA
12 9 (2.96%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.46%) Terraform
2 11 (3.62%) REST
3 7 (2.30%) JSON
4 6 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.64%) .NET
5 5 (1.64%) YAML
6 3 (0.99%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.66%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.66%) Blazor
7 2 (0.66%) EJB
7 2 (0.66%) Java SE
7 2 (0.66%) JSP
7 2 (0.66%) Middleware
7 2 (0.66%) XML
8 1 (0.33%) DCOM
8 1 (0.33%) Flash
8 1 (0.33%) HTML
8 1 (0.33%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 35 (11.51%) Clustering
3 18 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.93%) Enterprise Storage
5 15 (4.93%) PKI
6 10 (3.29%) Replication
7 8 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 152 (50.00%) Windows
2 93 (30.59%) Windows Server
3 85 (27.96%) Linux
4 23 (7.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.61%) VMS
5 14 (4.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.62%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (3.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.97%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.97%) Windows 10
11 5 (1.64%) Solaris
11 5 (1.64%) Unix
12 4 (1.32%) SUSE
12 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.99%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.99%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.66%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (28.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (27.63%) Migration
3 53 (17.43%) ITIL
4 45 (14.80%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (14.14%) CI/CD
5 43 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (13.16%) DevOps
6 40 (13.16%) High Availability
7 38 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (9.54%) Change Management
10 27 (8.88%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (8.55%) ITSM
12 25 (8.22%) Incident Management
13 24 (7.89%) Project Delivery
14 23 (7.57%) Agile
15 22 (7.24%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (7.24%) Service Management
16 21 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (6.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.63%) PowerShell
2 38 (12.50%) Python
3 26 (8.55%) Bash
4 25 (8.22%) SQL
5 13 (4.28%) Java
6 12 (3.95%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.64%) Bicep
8 4 (1.32%) C#
8 4 (1.32%) Go
9 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.66%) C
10 2 (0.66%) Korn
10 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 86 (28.29%) SC Cleared
3 38 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 29 (9.54%) Degree
5 14 (4.61%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.30%) CCNA
10 6 (1.97%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.32%) CCNP
11 4 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.32%) PMP
12 3 (0.99%) CISSP
12 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.99%) VCAP
13 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.66%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.58%) SLA
2 11 (3.62%) QA
3 4 (1.32%) NIST
4 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) DICOM
6 1 (0.33%) GRC
6 1 (0.33%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 189 (62.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (30.59%) Active Directory
3 53 (17.43%) VMware ESXi
4 48 (15.79%) vSphere
5 40 (13.16%) VMware NSX
6 34 (11.18%) Hyper-V
7 20 (6.58%) Docker
7 20 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (2.63%) Firmware
10 7 (2.30%) BitLocker
10 7 (2.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.32%) NFS
11 4 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (1.32%) Terminal Services
11 4 (1.32%) UAG
12 3 (0.99%) KVM
12 3 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.66%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 56 (18.42%) Ansible
2 39 (12.83%) vCenter Server
3 38 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 26 (8.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (7.24%) SCCM
6 20 (6.58%) vRealize
7 19 (6.25%) Puppet
8 15 (4.93%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (3.29%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (2.63%) SCOM
11 7 (2.30%) Prometheus
11 7 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (2.30%) vMotion
11 7 (2.30%) VxRail
12 6 (1.97%) FortiGate
12 6 (1.97%) Nagios
12 6 (1.97%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.97%) PowerCLI
13 5 (1.64%) Grafana
13 5 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 89 (29.28%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.13%) Cisco
3 29 (9.54%) Red Hat
4 22 (7.24%) Citrix
5 20 (6.58%) NetApp
6 18 (5.92%) Oracle
7 17 (5.59%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.61%) Dell
9 11 (3.62%) BMC
9 11 (3.62%) Tenable
10 10 (3.29%) CyberArk
10 10 (3.29%) Remedy
11 9 (2.96%) BeyondTrust
11 9 (2.96%) EMC
11 9 (2.96%) WALLIX
12 8 (2.63%) Commvault
12 8 (2.63%) HP
13 7 (2.30%) AppDynamics
13 7 (2.30%) Google
13 7 (2.30%) IBM