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 11 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
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 128 117
Rank change year-on-year -47 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 236 267 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 2.06% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 3.29% 4.64% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 168 240
10th Percentile £406 £273 £263
25th Percentile £475 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.06%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £582
90th Percentile £668 £657 £665
England median daily rate £525 £535 £493
% change year-on-year -1.87% +8.63% -6.19%
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 7,170 5,759 7,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.49% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,726 3,695 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £276
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -0.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.77 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £80.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +23.12% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -22 29 £550 - 8
South London -6 9 £333 +47.78% 1
West London -22 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 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) nginx
4 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 67 (28.39%) Azure
2 36 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (12.71%) AWS
4 19 (8.05%) GitHub
5 16 (6.78%) IaaS
6 12 (5.08%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.08%) Nutanix
6 12 (5.08%) PaaS
7 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.24%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.54%) Datadog
9 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.54%) Rubrik
9 6 (2.54%) SaaS
10 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.69%) GCP
12 3 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.27%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.85%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.22%) Firewall
2 38 (16.10%) DNS
3 29 (12.29%) SAN
4 24 (10.17%) DHCP
5 19 (8.05%) NAS
5 19 (8.05%) VPN
5 19 (8.05%) VSAN
6 18 (7.63%) LAN
6 18 (7.63%) WAN
7 8 (3.39%) Network Security
7 8 (3.39%) VLAN
8 6 (2.54%) BGP
8 6 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.12%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.12%) SMTP
9 5 (2.12%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.69%) HTTP
10 4 (1.69%) MPLS
10 4 (1.69%) VXLAN
11 3 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.42%) Power BI
5 1 (0.42%) Redis
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.54%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.54%) GitLab
2 6 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.69%) JMeter
3 4 (1.69%) JUnit
3 4 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.27%) RStudio
5 2 (0.85%) Git
5 2 (0.85%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) MSI
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (22.03%) Finance
2 45 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.78%) Banking
6 12 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.97%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Local Government
9 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Social Science
10 2 (0.85%) Electronics
10 2 (0.85%) Front Office
10 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (15.25%) Consultant
2 32 (13.56%) Architect
3 29 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (11.86%) VMware Consultant
5 27 (11.44%) Senior
6 20 (8.47%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.24%) Developer
8 10 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.24%) Storage Engineer
8 10 (4.24%) VMware Architect
9 9 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.39%) Lead
11 7 (2.97%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (2.97%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.97%) NetApp Engineer
12 6 (2.54%) Database Developer
12 6 (2.54%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.12%) Middleware
2 4 (1.69%) Flash
2 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
2 4 (1.69%) Kafka
2 4 (1.69%) Spring
3 3 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.85%) .NET
4 2 (0.85%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.85%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.85%) Express.js
4 2 (0.85%) React
4 2 (0.85%) REST
4 2 (0.85%) SOAP
4 2 (0.85%) WCF
4 2 (0.85%) Web Services
4 2 (0.85%) WPF
5 1 (0.42%) EDI
5 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.29%) Replication
2 18 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.36%) PKI
4 11 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.81%) Clustering
7 8 (3.39%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.27%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 71 (30.08%) Windows
2 44 (18.64%) Windows Server
3 34 (14.41%) Linux
4 10 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.81%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.69%) Solaris
9 4 (1.69%) VMS
10 3 (1.27%) Unix
10 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.85%) AIX
11 2 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.42%) Android
12 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.20%) Migration
2 36 (15.25%) DevOps
3 34 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (10.17%) CI/CD
5 24 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (10.17%) ITIL
6 19 (8.05%) Agile
7 18 (7.63%) Validation
8 17 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (6.78%) Change Management
10 15 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (5.93%) Runbook
12 13 (5.51%) High Availability
12 13 (5.51%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (5.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (5.08%) Capacity Management
13 12 (5.08%) Data Migration
13 12 (5.08%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.92%) PowerShell
2 26 (11.02%) Python
3 16 (6.78%) SQL
4 10 (4.24%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.39%) Bash
5 8 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.69%) C#
6 4 (1.69%) Java
7 2 (0.85%) C
7 2 (0.85%) Korn
7 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.42%) Perl
8 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 51 (21.61%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.24%) Degree
6 7 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.54%) CCNP
7 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.69%) CCNA
8 4 (1.69%) VCAP
9 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.27%) VCDX
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.85%) HP ASE
10 2 (0.85%) PMP
11 1 (0.42%) CCSM
11 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.81%) SLA
2 7 (2.97%) NIST
3 4 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
4 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) COBIT
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.42%) MiFID
5 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 129 (54.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (21.19%) Active Directory
3 40 (16.95%) VMware NSX
4 38 (16.10%) vSphere
5 23 (9.75%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (7.20%) Hyper-V
7 15 (6.36%) Docker
8 13 (5.51%) NFS
9 8 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (2.54%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (2.12%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.85%) Firmware
13 2 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.85%) vCloud
13 2 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.85%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.42%) Veritas File System
14 1 (0.42%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (13.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (13.14%) Ansible
3 26 (11.02%) SCCM
4 22 (9.32%) Terraform
5 20 (8.47%) Kubernetes
6 19 (8.05%) vCenter Server
7 15 (6.36%) vRealize
8 13 (5.51%) vMotion
9 8 (3.39%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.39%) SCOM
10 6 (2.54%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.12%) AirWatch
11 5 (2.12%) Grafana
11 5 (2.12%) Puppet
12 4 (1.69%) Argo
12 4 (1.69%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.69%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.90%) Citrix
2 21 (8.90%) Pure Storage
3 17 (7.20%) Cisco
4 15 (6.36%) Dell
4 15 (6.36%) NetApp
5 13 (5.51%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.24%) Commvault
6 10 (4.24%) Oracle
7 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.97%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.97%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.97%) Splunk
8 7 (2.97%) Tenable
9 6 (2.54%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.54%) Bloomberg
9 6 (2.54%) Veeam
10 4 (1.69%) EMC
10 4 (1.69%) Juniper
10 4 (1.69%) Reuters