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 31 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
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 140 121
Rank change year-on-year -46 -19 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 244 250 356
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 1.98% 1.97%
As % of the Vendors category 3.28% 4.38% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 169 226
10th Percentile £425 £278 £264
25th Percentile £475 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £484
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +8.53% -12.05%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £563
90th Percentile £662 £671 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -27.41%

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 7,428 5,706 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 45.18% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,905 3,746 4,972
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.00%
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 115 88 144
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.72 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.91 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.71 £29.54 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +18.48% -3.04%
75th Percentile £41.85 £55.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.33 £70.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.47 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% +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 31 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 31 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 -16 29 £545 -8.02% 25
South London -12 8 £165 -66.15%
West London -24 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 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.05%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.64%) nginx
5 3 (1.23%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.82%) Confluence
6 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.74%) Azure
2 35 (14.34%) AWS
3 33 (13.52%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.38%) IaaS
5 14 (5.74%) GitHub
5 14 (5.74%) PaaS
6 13 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.51%) Nutanix
8 7 (2.87%) Datadog
8 7 (2.87%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.87%) Rubrik
8 7 (2.87%) SaaS
9 6 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (2.05%) GCP
10 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.64%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.23%) Cohesity
12 3 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 50 (20.49%) Firewall
2 39 (15.98%) DNS
3 29 (11.89%) SAN
4 26 (10.66%) DHCP
5 25 (10.25%) VSAN
6 24 (9.84%) VPN
7 19 (7.79%) LAN
7 19 (7.79%) NAS
8 18 (7.38%) WAN
9 12 (4.92%) VLAN
10 11 (4.51%) Network Security
11 7 (2.87%) SMTP
11 7 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.46%) BGP
12 6 (2.46%) HTTP
13 4 (1.64%) MPLS
13 4 (1.64%) OSPF
13 4 (1.64%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.64%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.41%) Metadata
4 1 (0.41%) Power BI
4 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%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.05%) GitLab
4 3 (1.23%) JIRA
5 2 (0.82%) Git
5 2 (0.82%) RStudio
6 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.41%) JUnit
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) MSI
6 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.41%) Subversion
6 1 (0.41%) VersionOne
General
1 47 (19.26%) Finance
2 41 (16.80%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.56%) Banking
6 13 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.87%) Legal
8 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Local Government
9 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Electronics
10 2 (0.82%) Front Office
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Marketing
10 2 (0.82%) Police
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 34 (13.93%) Architect
1 34 (13.93%) Consultant
2 30 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (11.48%) Senior
4 25 (10.25%) VMware Consultant
4 25 (10.25%) VMware Engineer
5 14 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (4.92%) Storage Engineer
7 11 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.51%) VMware Architect
8 10 (4.10%) Developer
9 9 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.69%) NetApp Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) Lead
10 8 (3.28%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.87%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (2.46%) SQL Developer
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%) 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%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.41%) Django
5 1 (0.41%) EDI
5 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.11%) Replication
2 20 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.15%) Clustering
4 14 (5.74%) PKI
5 12 (4.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 11 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 10 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.46%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 5 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
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%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.23%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 74 (30.33%) Windows
2 42 (17.21%) Windows Server
3 36 (14.75%) Linux
4 13 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.28%) VMS
7 7 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.87%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.05%) Solaris
8 5 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (1.64%) SUSE
9 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.23%) Unix
11 2 (0.82%) AIX
12 1 (0.41%) Android
12 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.38%) Migration
2 36 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (13.52%) DevOps
4 28 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (8.61%) Agile
6 21 (8.61%) ITIL
6 21 (8.61%) Validation
7 19 (7.79%) CI/CD
8 17 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (6.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (6.56%) Change Management
9 16 (6.56%) High Availability
9 16 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (6.15%) Runbook
11 13 (5.33%) Capacity Management
11 13 (5.33%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (4.92%) Data Migration
12 12 (4.92%) ITSM
12 12 (4.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.90%) PowerShell
2 22 (9.02%) Python
3 14 (5.74%) SQL
4 12 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.28%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.05%) Bash
7 4 (1.64%) C#
7 4 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) Java
9 2 (0.82%) C
9 2 (0.82%) Korn
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 84 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (5.74%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.92%) Degree
7 6 (2.46%) VCAP
8 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.64%) VCDX
9 3 (1.23%) CCNP
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) CCNA
10 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.82%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) CCSM
11 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.10%) SLA
2 6 (2.46%) NIST
3 3 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 137 (56.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (20.08%) Active Directory
3 43 (17.62%) VMware NSX
4 42 (17.21%) vSphere
5 31 (12.70%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (9.43%) Hyper-V
7 16 (6.56%) Docker
8 14 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (5.33%) NFS
10 8 (3.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.87%) BitLocker
12 5 (2.05%) Firmware
13 4 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.82%) vCloud
14 2 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.82%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.41%) UAG
15 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (11.48%) Ansible
3 26 (10.66%) vCenter Server
4 25 (10.25%) SCCM
5 22 (9.02%) Terraform
6 19 (7.79%) Kubernetes
7 17 (6.97%) vRealize
8 15 (6.15%) vMotion
9 8 (3.28%) EMC VPLEX
10 7 (2.87%) VxRail
11 6 (2.46%) PowerCLI
11 6 (2.46%) Puppet
11 6 (2.46%) SCOM
11 6 (2.46%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 5 (2.05%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (2.05%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.64%) AirWatch
13 4 (1.64%) Argo
13 4 (1.64%) Grafana
13 4 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 55 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.61%) Pure Storage
3 19 (7.79%) Citrix
4 18 (7.38%) Cisco
4 18 (7.38%) Dell
4 18 (7.38%) NetApp
5 14 (5.74%) Red Hat
6 12 (4.92%) 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%) IBM
11 5 (2.05%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.05%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.05%) CyberArk
11 5 (2.05%) Splunk
11 5 (2.05%) Veeam
12 4 (1.64%) F5