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 19 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
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 142 123
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 241 259 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.47% 2.03% 1.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.32% 4.51% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 166 226
10th Percentile £414 £278 £263
25th Percentile £475 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £661 £663
England median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% +7.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile £31.94 - £22.01
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 - - £52.41
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.39
% change year-on-year -5.08% +58.98% -27.52%

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 7,265 5,741 7,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.19% 44.92% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,786 3,706 4,981
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 84 141
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.26 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.14 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.38 £56.19 £41.25
90th Percentile £65.51 £79.78 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.20 £24.75
% change year-on-year -17.22% +22.01% -29.28%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -21 27 £550 -7.17% 16
South London -8 9 £333 -26.11% 1
West London -21 2 - - 4
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 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.24%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) nginx
4 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.83%) 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 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.22%) Azure
2 33 (13.69%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.86%) AWS
4 17 (7.05%) IaaS
5 16 (6.64%) GitHub
6 13 (5.39%) PaaS
7 12 (4.98%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.56%) Nutanix
9 8 (3.32%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.49%) Datadog
10 6 (2.49%) Rubrik
10 6 (2.49%) SaaS
11 5 (2.07%) GCP
11 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.24%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.83%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 47 (19.50%) Firewall
2 38 (15.77%) DNS
3 28 (11.62%) SAN
4 25 (10.37%) DHCP
5 22 (9.13%) VSAN
6 20 (8.30%) LAN
6 20 (8.30%) VPN
6 20 (8.30%) WAN
7 19 (7.88%) NAS
8 10 (4.15%) Network Security
9 8 (3.32%) VLAN
10 7 (2.90%) BGP
10 7 (2.90%) SMTP
11 6 (2.49%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.07%) VXLAN
13 4 (1.66%) HTTP
13 4 (1.66%) MPLS
13 4 (1.66%) OSPF
13 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.41%) Metadata
4 1 (0.41%) Power BI
4 1 (0.41%) Redis
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.90%) Jenkins
1 7 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (2.49%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.49%) GitLab
3 3 (1.24%) JIRA
3 3 (1.24%) RStudio
4 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.83%) Git
4 2 (0.83%) JMeter
4 2 (0.83%) JUnit
4 2 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.41%) Maven
5 1 (0.41%) MSI
5 1 (0.41%) Subversion
5 1 (0.41%) VersionOne
General
1 49 (20.33%) Finance
2 45 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.13%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.22%) Banking
6 14 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.90%) Legal
8 4 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Local Government
9 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Social Science
10 2 (0.83%) Electronics
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (14.52%) Architect
1 35 (14.52%) Consultant
2 30 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (11.62%) Senior
4 26 (10.79%) VMware Consultant
5 24 (9.96%) VMware Engineer
6 11 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (4.56%) Storage Engineer
6 11 (4.56%) VMware Architect
7 10 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.73%) Developer
8 9 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.32%) Lead
9 8 (3.32%) NetApp Engineer
9 8 (3.32%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.90%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (2.90%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.07%) Middleware
2 4 (1.66%) Flash
3 3 (1.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.83%) .NET
4 2 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.83%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.83%) Express.js
4 2 (0.83%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.83%) Kafka
4 2 (0.83%) React
4 2 (0.83%) REST
4 2 (0.83%) SOAP
4 2 (0.83%) Spring
4 2 (0.83%) WCF
4 2 (0.83%) Web Services
4 2 (0.83%) WPF
5 1 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.41%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.62%) Replication
2 22 (9.13%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.64%) PKI
4 12 (4.98%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (4.56%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.15%) Clustering
6 10 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.32%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.24%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.24%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.24%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 71 (29.46%) Windows
2 45 (18.67%) Windows Server
3 33 (13.69%) Linux
4 9 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.90%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.07%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.07%) VMS
9 3 (1.24%) Solaris
9 3 (1.24%) Unix
9 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.83%) AIX
10 2 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.41%) Android
11 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.54%) Migration
2 36 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (14.52%) DevOps
4 31 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (9.96%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (9.54%) ITIL
7 21 (8.71%) Agile
7 21 (8.71%) CI/CD
8 19 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (7.88%) Validation
9 17 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (6.64%) Change Management
10 16 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (6.22%) Runbook
12 13 (5.39%) Capacity Management
12 13 (5.39%) High Availability
12 13 (5.39%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (5.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (4.98%) Data Migration
14 11 (4.56%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.33%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.37%) Python
3 14 (5.81%) SQL
4 12 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.32%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.49%) Bash
7 4 (1.66%) C#
8 3 (1.24%) Java
9 2 (0.83%) C
9 2 (0.83%) Korn
9 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.82%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.37%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.98%) Degree
6 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.49%) VCAP
8 5 (2.07%) CCNP
8 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.66%) VCDX
10 3 (1.24%) CCNA
10 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.83%) PMP
12 1 (0.41%) CCSM
12 1 (0.41%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.73%) SLA
2 7 (2.90%) NIST
3 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
4 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.83%) 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
1 133 (55.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (20.75%) Active Directory
3 43 (17.84%) VMware NSX
4 39 (16.18%) vSphere
5 25 (10.37%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.88%) Hyper-V
7 16 (6.64%) Docker
8 12 (4.98%) NFS
9 10 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (3.32%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (2.90%) BitLocker
11 7 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.83%) Firmware
12 2 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.83%) vCloud
12 2 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.83%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.41%) UAG
13 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (12.86%) Ansible
1 31 (12.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (10.37%) Terraform
3 24 (9.96%) SCCM
4 22 (9.13%) Kubernetes
4 22 (9.13%) vCenter Server
5 16 (6.64%) vRealize
6 15 (6.22%) vMotion
7 8 (3.32%) EMC VPLEX
8 7 (2.90%) SCOM
9 6 (2.49%) PowerCLI
9 6 (2.49%) Puppet
10 5 (2.07%) Grafana
10 5 (2.07%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.07%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 4 (1.66%) AirWatch
11 4 (1.66%) Argo
11 4 (1.66%) VxRail
12 3 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 53 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.71%) Citrix
2 21 (8.71%) Pure Storage
3 18 (7.47%) Cisco
4 17 (7.05%) NetApp
5 16 (6.64%) Dell
6 13 (5.39%) Red Hat
7 11 (4.56%) Oracle
8 10 (4.15%) Commvault
9 9 (3.73%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.90%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.90%) Tenable
11 6 (2.49%) AppDynamics
11 6 (2.49%) Bloomberg
11 6 (2.49%) Splunk
11 6 (2.49%) Veeam
12 5 (2.07%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.66%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.66%) F5
13 4 (1.66%) Palo Alto