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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 114 91
Rank change year-on-year -66 -23 +23
Contract jobs citing VMware 194 362 564
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.44% 2.22% 2.59%
As % of the Vendors category 3.13% 5.13% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 231 413
10th Percentile £330 £310 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £562 £638
90th Percentile £700 £656 £675
England median daily rate £550 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - - £35.58
25th Percentile - £23.80 £40.82
Median hourly rate £30.00 £67.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +19.50% +25.52%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £66.95
90th Percentile - - £75.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £43.08 £63.00
% change year-on-year -21.08% -31.62% +36.45%

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 6,207 7,055 8,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.16% 43.31% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,023 4,573 6,246
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 111
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £58.13
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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
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 18 September 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 -20 29 £513 -2.38% 16
West London +1 10 £638 +59.38% 4
South London +1 9 £525 +6.28%
East London +4 1 £525 +73.55% 3
North London -8 1 £550 +115.69% 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 18 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.58%) Confluence
3 4 (2.06%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) nginx
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) Traefik
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.90%) Azure
2 26 (13.40%) AWS
3 25 (12.89%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.76%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.70%) GCP
6 12 (6.19%) Nutanix
7 10 (5.15%) GitHub
7 10 (5.15%) IaaS
8 6 (3.09%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (2.58%) SaaS
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.55%) PaaS
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.03%) Asana
11 2 (1.03%) Datadog
11 2 (1.03%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 37 (19.07%) DNS
1 37 (19.07%) Firewall
2 25 (12.89%) DHCP
3 22 (11.34%) VPN
4 19 (9.79%) TCP/IP
5 17 (8.76%) WAN
6 13 (6.70%) LAN
7 12 (6.19%) SAN
7 12 (6.19%) VSAN
8 11 (5.67%) VLAN
9 7 (3.61%) NAS
10 6 (3.09%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (2.58%) BGP
11 5 (2.58%) MPLS
11 5 (2.58%) OSPF
12 4 (2.06%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (2.06%) PSTN
12 4 (2.06%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (2.06%) VXLAN
13 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.06%) Big Data
3 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.55%) MySQL
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (4.64%) Git
2 7 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (3.09%) Subversion
4 5 (2.58%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.58%) JIRA
5 4 (2.06%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) GitLab
6 2 (1.03%) JMeter
6 2 (1.03%) JUnit
6 2 (1.03%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) RStudio
7 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 46 (23.71%) Finance
2 41 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.64%) Banking
7 7 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.06%) Electronics
9 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.06%) Marketing
10 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Law
10 3 (1.55%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) French Language
11 2 (1.03%) Front Office
11 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Local Government
11 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (15.46%) Consultant
2 23 (11.86%) Architect
3 21 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.79%) VMware Consultant
5 14 (7.22%) Administrator
6 11 (5.67%) Support Engineer
6 11 (5.67%) VMware Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Windows Engineer
8 9 (4.64%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.64%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Developer
9 8 (4.12%) Linux Administrator
10 7 (3.61%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.61%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (3.09%) ETL Developer
11 6 (3.09%) Infrastructure Manager
11 6 (3.09%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.09%) .NET
1 6 (3.09%) REST
1 6 (3.09%) RESTful
2 5 (2.58%) JSON
2 5 (2.58%) XML
3 4 (2.06%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.55%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.55%) Middleware
4 3 (1.55%) React
5 2 (1.03%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.03%) CSS
5 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.03%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.03%) HTML
5 2 (1.03%) Kafka
5 2 (1.03%) Node.js
5 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.03%) Spring
6 1 (0.52%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.79%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.15%) Hedge funds
2 10 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.15%) PKI
3 9 (4.64%) Private Cloud
3 9 (4.64%) Replication
4 8 (4.12%) Clustering
4 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.55%) CMDB
8 3 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (41.24%) Windows
2 64 (32.99%) Linux
3 40 (20.62%) Windows Server
4 25 (12.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.70%) CentOS
6 12 (6.19%) Windows 10
7 10 (5.15%) Ubuntu
8 8 (4.12%) Unix
9 6 (3.09%) Solaris
10 5 (2.58%) VMS
11 3 (1.55%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.03%) Mac OS X
12 2 (1.03%) Windows 8
12 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (1.03%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.52%) Debian
13 1 (0.52%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (16.49%) Migration
2 31 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (12.37%) High Availability
5 23 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (9.79%) ITIL
7 15 (7.73%) CI/CD
8 14 (7.22%) DevOps
9 11 (5.67%) Data Protection
9 11 (5.67%) Task Automation
10 10 (5.15%) Service Delivery
11 9 (4.64%) Configuration Management
11 9 (4.64%) Incident Response
11 9 (4.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (4.64%) ITSM
11 9 (4.64%) Patch Management
11 9 (4.64%) Project Delivery
12 8 (4.12%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (4.12%) RBAC
12 8 (4.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.80%) Python
2 39 (20.10%) PowerShell
3 21 (10.82%) Bash
4 20 (10.31%) SQL
5 14 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.64%) Java
7 7 (3.61%) Perl
8 6 (3.09%) VBA
9 5 (2.58%) C#
9 5 (2.58%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.06%) Go
10 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) PHP
12 2 (1.03%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) C
13 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.67%) CCNP
5 10 (5.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (4.12%) Degree
6 8 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.58%) CCIE
7 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.06%) CCNA
9 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.03%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.03%) RHCE
10 2 (1.03%) RHCSA
10 2 (1.03%) VCAP
11 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.52%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.58%) GDPR
2 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.06%) SLA
3 2 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 112 (57.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (32.99%) Active Directory
3 30 (15.46%) VMware ESXi
4 27 (13.92%) vSphere
5 19 (9.79%) Hyper-V
6 17 (8.76%) VMware NSX
7 15 (7.73%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (4.64%) Docker
9 8 (4.12%) KVM
10 7 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (3.09%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (2.06%) Firmware
12 4 (2.06%) NFS
12 4 (2.06%) Veritas File System
12 4 (2.06%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 3 (1.55%) BitLocker
14 2 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (1.03%) Terminal Services
14 2 (1.03%) vCloud
14 2 (1.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (14.43%) Ansible
2 19 (9.79%) vCenter Server
3 15 (7.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (7.73%) SCCM
4 13 (6.70%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.70%) vRealize
5 11 (5.67%) Terraform
6 8 (4.12%) Puppet
7 6 (3.09%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (2.58%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.06%) Control-M
9 4 (2.06%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.06%) QRadar
9 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.06%) vMotion
10 3 (1.55%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.55%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (1.03%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 56 (28.87%) Microsoft
2 39 (20.10%) Cisco
3 27 (13.92%) Citrix
4 20 (10.31%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.67%) Dell
5 11 (5.67%) Splunk
6 10 (5.15%) CyberArk
7 9 (4.64%) Google
8 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.61%) EMC
9 7 (3.61%) NetApp
9 7 (3.61%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.09%) F5
10 6 (3.09%) HP
10 6 (3.09%) Oracle
10 6 (3.09%) Symantec
11 5 (2.58%) Qualys
12 4 (2.06%) Canon
12 4 (2.06%) SaltStack
12 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds