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 28 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 142 128
Rank change year-on-year -39 -14 -18
Contract jobs citing VMware 247 252 353
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 2.00% 1.96%
As % of the Vendors category 3.32% 4.40% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 169 225
10th Percentile £425 £278 £264
25th Percentile £475 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.60% -10.45%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £569
90th Percentile £669 £671 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - £22.01
25th Percentile - - £22.08
Median hourly rate £67.70 - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £52.41
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -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 7,431 5,721 7,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 45.29% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,896 3,746 4,963
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 87 143
10th Percentile £18.04 £19.25 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £16.93
Median hourly rate £27.71 £30.00 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +20.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.12 £70.75 £71.00
England median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%

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 28 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 28 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 -15 30 £545 -8.02% 25
South London -9 9 £333 -31.79%
West London -19 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 13 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.62%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.21%) nginx
4 3 (1.21%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.81%) Confluence
5 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.36%) Azure
2 34 (13.77%) AWS
3 33 (13.36%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.29%) IaaS
5 15 (6.07%) GitHub
6 14 (5.67%) PaaS
7 13 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.45%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.83%) Datadog
9 7 (2.83%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.83%) Rubrik
9 7 (2.83%) SaaS
10 6 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (2.02%) GCP
11 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.62%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.21%) Cohesity
13 3 (1.21%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.65%) Firewall
2 39 (15.79%) DNS
3 29 (11.74%) SAN
4 26 (10.53%) DHCP
4 26 (10.53%) VSAN
5 24 (9.72%) VPN
6 19 (7.69%) LAN
6 19 (7.69%) NAS
6 19 (7.69%) WAN
7 12 (4.86%) Network Security
7 12 (4.86%) VLAN
8 7 (2.83%) BGP
8 7 (2.83%) SMTP
8 7 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.02%) HTTP
9 5 (2.02%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.02%) VXLAN
10 4 (1.62%) MPLS
10 4 (1.62%) OSPF
10 4 (1.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Redis
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Chocolatey
1 7 (2.83%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (2.43%) GitLab
2 6 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.21%) JIRA
3 3 (1.21%) RStudio
4 2 (0.81%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.40%) JMeter
5 1 (0.40%) JUnit
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.40%) MSI
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
5 1 (0.40%) VersionOne
General
1 47 (19.03%) Finance
2 43 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.31%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.48%) Banking
6 14 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.83%) Legal
8 4 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Local Government
9 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Social Science
10 2 (0.81%) Electronics
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Marketing
10 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (14.57%) Consultant
2 35 (14.17%) Architect
3 30 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (11.74%) Senior
5 27 (10.93%) VMware Consultant
6 25 (10.12%) VMware Engineer
7 14 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (4.86%) Storage Engineer
9 11 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.45%) VMware Architect
10 10 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Developer
11 9 (3.64%) NetApp Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.83%) Infrastructure Architect
13 7 (2.83%) Lead
14 6 (2.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.02%) Middleware
2 4 (1.62%) Flash
3 3 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.81%) .NET
4 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.81%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.81%) Express.js
4 2 (0.81%) React
4 2 (0.81%) REST
4 2 (0.81%) SOAP
4 2 (0.81%) WCF
4 2 (0.81%) Web Services
4 2 (0.81%) WPF
5 1 (0.40%) Django
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
5 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.40%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.96%) Replication
2 21 (8.50%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.07%) Clustering
3 15 (6.07%) PKI
4 12 (4.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (4.45%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.24%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.21%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.21%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.21%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 74 (29.96%) Windows
2 43 (17.41%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.98%) Linux
4 13 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.24%) VMS
7 7 (2.83%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.83%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.02%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.62%) Solaris
9 4 (1.62%) SUSE
9 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.21%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.21%) Unix
11 2 (0.81%) AIX
12 1 (0.40%) Android
12 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.39%) Migration
2 36 (14.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (13.36%) DevOps
4 30 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (8.91%) Validation
7 21 (8.50%) Agile
7 21 (8.50%) ITIL
8 20 (8.10%) CI/CD
9 19 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (6.48%) Change Management
11 16 (6.48%) High Availability
11 16 (6.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (6.07%) Runbook
13 13 (5.26%) Capacity Management
13 13 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (4.86%) Data Migration
14 12 (4.86%) ITSM
14 12 (4.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.12%) Python
3 14 (5.67%) SQL
4 13 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.24%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.02%) Bash
7 4 (1.62%) C#
8 3 (1.21%) Java
8 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.81%) C
9 2 (0.81%) Korn
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 85 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.12%) DV Cleared
4 19 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (5.67%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.86%) Degree
7 6 (2.43%) VCAP
8 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.62%) CCNP
9 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.62%) VCDX
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.81%) CCNA
10 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.81%) PMP
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.05%) SLA
2 7 (2.83%) NIST
3 3 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.81%) NCSC
4 2 (0.81%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.81%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) COBIT
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 139 (56.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (20.24%) Active Directory
3 44 (17.81%) VMware NSX
4 42 (17.00%) vSphere
5 30 (12.15%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (9.31%) Hyper-V
7 16 (6.48%) Docker
8 15 (6.07%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (5.26%) NFS
10 8 (3.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.83%) BitLocker
12 5 (2.02%) Firmware
13 3 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.81%) vCloud
14 2 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.81%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.40%) UAG
15 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (12.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (12.15%) Ansible
3 26 (10.53%) vCenter Server
4 25 (10.12%) SCCM
5 24 (9.72%) Terraform
6 21 (8.50%) Kubernetes
7 18 (7.29%) vRealize
8 15 (6.07%) vMotion
9 8 (3.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.24%) VxRail
10 6 (2.43%) PowerCLI
10 6 (2.43%) Puppet
10 6 (2.43%) SCOM
10 6 (2.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 5 (2.02%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (2.02%) Grafana
11 5 (2.02%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.62%) AirWatch
12 4 (1.62%) Argo
13 3 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 55 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.50%) Pure Storage
3 19 (7.69%) Citrix
3 19 (7.69%) Dell
4 18 (7.29%) Cisco
4 18 (7.29%) NetApp
5 13 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.45%) Oracle
7 10 (4.05%) Commvault
8 8 (3.24%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.24%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.24%) Tenable
9 7 (2.83%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.43%) Splunk
10 6 (2.43%) Veeam
11 5 (2.02%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.02%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.02%) CyberArk
11 5 (2.02%) IBM
12 4 (1.62%) EMC