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 25 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
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 140 124
Rank change year-on-year -48 -16 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 244 251 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 1.98% 1.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.32% 4.39% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 165 222
10th Percentile £425 £278 £263
25th Percentile £475 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £573
90th Percentile £669 £662 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.42% +7.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile - - £22.02
25th Percentile - - £22.08
Median hourly rate £67.70 - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £69.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.82% +48.87% -26.97%

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 7,343 5,713 7,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.09% 45.11% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,843 3,715 4,973
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 83 144
10th Percentile £18.02 £18.50 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.87 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.25 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +24.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £54.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.39 £72.50 £79.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.48% -31.20%

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 25 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
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 25 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 -8 29 £550 -7.17% 25
South London -8 9 £333 -26.11%
West London -22 2 - - 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 14 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
4 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.82%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.92%) Azure
2 34 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (13.52%) AWS
4 18 (7.38%) IaaS
5 15 (6.15%) GitHub
6 14 (5.74%) PaaS
7 13 (5.33%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.51%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.87%) Datadog
9 7 (2.87%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.87%) Rubrik
9 7 (2.87%) SaaS
10 5 (2.05%) GCP
10 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.23%) Cohesity
12 3 (1.23%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.82%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 48 (19.67%) Firewall
2 39 (15.98%) DNS
3 29 (11.89%) SAN
4 26 (10.66%) DHCP
5 24 (9.84%) VSAN
6 22 (9.02%) VPN
7 19 (7.79%) LAN
7 19 (7.79%) NAS
7 19 (7.79%) WAN
8 10 (4.10%) Network Security
8 10 (4.10%) VLAN
9 7 (2.87%) BGP
9 7 (2.87%) SMTP
9 7 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (2.05%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.05%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.64%) HTTP
11 4 (1.64%) MPLS
11 4 (1.64%) OSPF
11 4 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.41%) Metadata
5 1 (0.41%) Power BI
5 1 (0.41%) Redis
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.87%) Chocolatey
1 7 (2.87%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (2.46%) GitLab
2 6 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.23%) JIRA
3 3 (1.23%) RStudio
4 2 (0.82%) Git
5 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) JMeter
5 1 (0.41%) JUnit
5 1 (0.41%) Maven
5 1 (0.41%) MSI
5 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) Subversion
5 1 (0.41%) VersionOne
General
1 48 (19.67%) Finance
2 43 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.56%) Banking
5 14 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.87%) Legal
7 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Local Government
8 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Social Science
9 2 (0.82%) Electronics
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.82%) Marketing
9 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (14.75%) Consultant
2 35 (14.34%) Architect
3 30 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (11.89%) Senior
5 27 (11.07%) VMware Consultant
6 24 (9.84%) VMware Engineer
7 12 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (4.92%) Storage Engineer
8 11 (4.51%) VMware Architect
9 10 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Developer
10 9 (3.69%) NetApp Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Infrastructure Architect
12 7 (2.87%) Lead
13 6 (2.46%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.05%) Middleware
2 4 (1.64%) Flash
3 3 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.82%) .NET
4 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.82%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.82%) Express.js
4 2 (0.82%) React
4 2 (0.82%) REST
4 2 (0.82%) SOAP
4 2 (0.82%) WCF
4 2 (0.82%) Web Services
4 2 (0.82%) WPF
5 1 (0.41%) Django
5 1 (0.41%) Kafka
5 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.41%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.30%) Replication
2 21 (8.61%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.56%) PKI
4 13 (5.33%) Clustering
5 12 (4.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 11 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 10 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.28%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.23%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.23%) Educational Technology
12 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.23%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 72 (29.51%) Windows
2 43 (17.62%) Windows Server
3 34 (13.93%) Linux
4 10 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.87%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.87%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.46%) VMS
7 6 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.05%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.23%) Solaris
9 3 (1.23%) Unix
9 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.82%) AIX
10 2 (0.82%) SUSE
11 1 (0.41%) Android
11 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.97%) Migration
2 36 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (13.52%) DevOps
4 30 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (10.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (9.02%) ITIL
7 20 (8.20%) Agile
7 20 (8.20%) Validation
8 19 (7.79%) CI/CD
8 19 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (6.56%) Change Management
10 16 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (6.15%) Runbook
12 14 (5.74%) High Availability
13 13 (5.33%) Capacity Management
14 12 (4.92%) Data Migration
14 12 (4.92%) ITSM
14 12 (4.92%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (4.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.49%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.25%) Python
3 14 (5.74%) SQL
4 13 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.28%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.05%) Bash
7 4 (1.64%) C#
8 2 (0.82%) C
8 2 (0.82%) Java
8 2 (0.82%) Korn
8 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 81 (33.20%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.25%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.92%) Degree
6 6 (2.46%) VCAP
7 5 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.64%) CCNP
8 4 (1.64%) VCDX
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) CCNA
9 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.82%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.10%) SLA
2 7 (2.87%) NIST
3 3 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.82%) NCSC
4 2 (0.82%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.82%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) COBIT
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 134 (54.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (20.90%) Active Directory
3 44 (18.03%) VMware NSX
4 41 (16.80%) vSphere
5 27 (11.07%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (8.61%) Hyper-V
7 15 (6.15%) Docker
8 13 (5.33%) NFS
8 13 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.28%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.87%) BitLocker
11 3 (1.23%) Firmware
12 2 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.82%) vCloud
12 2 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.82%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.41%) UAG
13 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (12.30%) Ansible
3 25 (10.25%) SCCM
4 24 (9.84%) Terraform
4 24 (9.84%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.61%) Kubernetes
6 18 (7.38%) vRealize
7 15 (6.15%) vMotion
8 8 (3.28%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (2.87%) SCOM
10 6 (2.46%) PowerCLI
10 6 (2.46%) Puppet
10 6 (2.46%) VxRail
11 5 (2.05%) Grafana
11 5 (2.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 4 (1.64%) AirWatch
12 4 (1.64%) Argo
12 4 (1.64%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.61%) Pure Storage
3 20 (8.20%) Citrix
4 18 (7.38%) Cisco
4 18 (7.38%) Dell
4 18 (7.38%) NetApp
5 12 (4.92%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.51%) Oracle
7 10 (4.10%) Commvault
8 8 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.28%) Tenable
9 7 (2.87%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.46%) Bloomberg
10 6 (2.46%) Splunk
10 6 (2.46%) Veeam
11 5 (2.05%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.05%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.64%) F5
12 4 (1.64%) Palo Alto