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 6 November 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 108 89
Rank change year-on-year -83 -19 +37
Contract jobs citing VMware 202 363 531
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 2.32% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 3.15% 5.32% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 219 387
10th Percentile £363 £278 £343
25th Percentile £431 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% -4.59%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £686 £656 £680
England median daily rate £529 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 17
10th Percentile £23.70 £41.44 £27.55
25th Percentile £24.75 £67.90 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £112.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.34% +124.00% +21.99%
75th Percentile £28.25 - £65.00
90th Percentile £29.30 - £74.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.58 £63.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% -35.58% -

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 6,403 6,819 8,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.47% 43.66% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,138 4,278 5,744
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 61 112
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.75 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -2.47% +60.40%
75th Percentile £38.44 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £100.00 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +73.08%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 -18 33 £540 +2.86% 107
South London +3 9 £513 +3.74% 55
West London -10 5 £525 +31.25% 60
East London +2 1 £525 +133.33% 42
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 20 (9.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.47%) Confluence
3 2 (0.99%) Apache
3 2 (0.99%) nginx
3 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.50%) Traefik
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.20%) Azure
2 25 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (10.89%) AWS
4 16 (7.92%) Nutanix
5 14 (6.93%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.44%) GitHub
7 11 (5.45%) GCP
8 7 (3.47%) IaaS
9 6 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (2.97%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.98%) SaaS
12 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.99%) Asana
13 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.99%) PaaS
13 2 (0.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.34%) DNS
2 31 (15.35%) Firewall
3 21 (10.40%) DHCP
4 19 (9.41%) VPN
5 17 (8.42%) WAN
6 16 (7.92%) TCP/IP
7 13 (6.44%) LAN
7 13 (6.44%) SAN
8 10 (4.95%) VSAN
9 9 (4.46%) VLAN
10 7 (3.47%) Network Security
11 6 (2.97%) BGP
11 6 (2.97%) NAS
11 6 (2.97%) VXLAN
12 5 (2.48%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (2.48%) OSPF
12 5 (2.48%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) Power BI
4 1 (0.50%) Redis
4 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Git
2 7 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (2.97%) Subversion
4 5 (2.48%) JIRA
5 4 (1.98%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.98%) JMeter
5 4 (1.98%) JUnit
5 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.49%) GitLab
7 2 (0.99%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.99%) RStudio
8 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (24.26%) Finance
2 46 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.95%) Banking
7 6 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.98%) Electronics
9 4 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.98%) Local Government
9 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.98%) Marketing
9 4 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.99%) French Language
10 2 (0.99%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Social Science
11 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (18.32%) Consultant
2 28 (13.86%) VMware Consultant
3 21 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.41%) Architect
5 15 (7.43%) Administrator
6 13 (6.44%) Senior
7 11 (5.45%) Windows Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Developer
8 10 (4.95%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.46%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (4.46%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.46%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (3.96%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.96%) Systems Administrator
11 7 (3.47%) Cisco Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) Wintel Engineer
12 6 (2.97%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (2.97%) ETL Developer
12 6 (2.97%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.97%) REST
1 6 (2.97%) RESTful
2 5 (2.48%) JSON
2 5 (2.48%) Middleware
2 5 (2.48%) XML
3 4 (1.98%) Hibernate
3 4 (1.98%) Kafka
3 4 (1.98%) Spring
4 2 (0.99%) .NET
4 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.99%) Node.js
4 2 (0.99%) React
5 1 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.50%) Loki
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.50%) SOAP
5 1 (0.50%) Web Services
5 1 (0.50%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.89%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.94%) Replication
3 10 (4.95%) Hedge funds
3 10 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.95%) PKI
4 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.96%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.97%) Clustering
7 4 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.99%) BYOD
9 2 (0.99%) CMDB
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.99%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 79 (39.11%) Windows
2 60 (29.70%) Linux
3 44 (21.78%) Windows Server
4 26 (12.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.45%) Ubuntu
5 11 (5.45%) Windows 10
6 10 (4.95%) CentOS
7 8 (3.96%) Unix
8 7 (3.47%) Solaris
9 4 (1.98%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.49%) VMS
10 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.99%) AIX
11 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.50%) Android
12 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.32%) Migration
2 35 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (14.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (11.39%) ITIL
6 21 (10.40%) CI/CD
7 20 (9.90%) DevOps
8 18 (8.91%) High Availability
9 15 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (5.94%) Data Protection
11 11 (5.45%) Task Automation
12 10 (4.95%) Agile
12 10 (4.95%) Business Continuity
12 10 (4.95%) Change Management
12 10 (4.95%) Patch Management
12 10 (4.95%) Project Delivery
13 9 (4.46%) Knowledge Transfer
13 9 (4.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (4.46%) Validation
14 8 (3.96%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (28.71%) Python
2 47 (23.27%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.39%) Bash
4 17 (8.42%) SQL
5 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.45%) Java
7 6 (2.97%) Perl
7 6 (2.97%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.97%) VBA
8 4 (1.98%) Go
8 4 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.49%) C++
9 3 (1.49%) PHP
10 2 (0.99%) C#
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) Korn
11 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 13 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.94%) CCNP
6 11 (5.45%) Degree
7 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.47%) CCNA
8 7 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.97%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.99%) CCDP
11 2 (0.99%) CCIE
11 2 (0.99%) HP ASE
11 2 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.99%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.99%) RHCE
11 2 (0.99%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.99%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.48%) GDPR
3 4 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.98%) NIST
4 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) QA
5 2 (0.99%) SLA
6 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.50%) MiFID
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 114 (56.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (26.73%) Active Directory
3 25 (12.38%) vSphere
4 23 (11.39%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (9.90%) Hyper-V
6 16 (7.92%) VMware NSX
7 12 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (4.46%) Docker
9 7 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (2.97%) KVM
11 5 (2.48%) Firmware
12 4 (1.98%) NFS
12 4 (1.98%) Veritas File System
12 4 (1.98%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 4 (1.98%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.50%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.50%) Postfix
13 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.50%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (16.34%) Ansible
2 19 (9.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (9.41%) SCCM
2 19 (9.41%) vRealize
3 18 (8.91%) Terraform
4 16 (7.92%) vCenter Server
5 10 (4.95%) Kubernetes
6 9 (4.46%) SCOM
7 7 (3.47%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.97%) Puppet
8 6 (2.97%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (1.98%) Control-M
9 4 (1.98%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.98%) QRadar
10 3 (1.49%) Grafana
10 3 (1.49%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.49%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.49%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 54 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.86%) Cisco
3 23 (11.39%) Citrix
3 23 (11.39%) Red Hat
4 13 (6.44%) Dell
5 10 (4.95%) CyberArk
6 9 (4.46%) Oracle
6 9 (4.46%) Splunk
7 7 (3.47%) EMC
7 7 (3.47%) F5
7 7 (3.47%) NetApp
7 7 (3.47%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.97%) Qualys
9 5 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.98%) Google
10 4 (1.98%) McAfee
10 4 (1.98%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.98%) SAP
10 4 (1.98%) Symantec
10 4 (1.98%) Veeam