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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 188 115
Rank change year-on-year -8 -73 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware 306 199 367
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.48% 2.25%
As % of the Vendors category 3.53% 3.19% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 121 233
10th Percentile £350 £331 £311
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £560
90th Percentile £726 £700 £656
England median daily rate £530 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £14.63 £23.70 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £24.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £46.00 £26.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.58% -60.74% +19.50%
75th Percentile £63.00 £28.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £77.75 £29.30 -
England median hourly rate £68.38 £34.00 £43.08
% change year-on-year +101.10% -21.08% -31.62%

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 8,664 6,246 7,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.80% 46.41% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,644 4,047 4,582
10th Percentile £333 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.68% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 120 78
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £26.30 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -14.60% -17.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £63.17
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.88 £77.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -23.79% -24.79%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -2 52 £563 +9.76% 25
West London -29 4 £475 -25.49% 8
East London +4 3 £538 +2.38% 6
South London -17 1 £413 -21.43% 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 19 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.29%) JBoss
3 7 (2.29%) nginx
3 7 (2.29%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.96%) Confluence
4 6 (1.96%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.98%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.24%) Azure
2 52 (16.99%) AWS
3 31 (10.13%) Entra ID
3 31 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.88%) GCP
5 18 (5.88%) IaaS
6 17 (5.56%) GitHub
7 15 (4.90%) PaaS
7 15 (4.90%) SaaS
8 12 (3.92%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.59%) Datadog
9 11 (3.59%) OneDrive
9 11 (3.59%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.61%) Rubrik
12 7 (2.29%) Azure Stack
12 7 (2.29%) Nutanix
13 6 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (20.59%) DNS
2 46 (15.03%) Firewall
3 44 (14.38%) DHCP
4 24 (7.84%) SAN
5 20 (6.54%) WAN
6 19 (6.21%) VPN
7 17 (5.56%) Network Security
8 16 (5.23%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.58%) LAN
9 14 (4.58%) VSAN
9 14 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (4.25%) VLAN
11 12 (3.92%) NAS
12 9 (2.94%) HTTP
13 8 (2.61%) SSL
14 7 (2.29%) Kerberos
15 6 (1.96%) BGP
15 6 (1.96%) SD-WAN
16 5 (1.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 5 (1.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.40%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (3.59%) Power BI
4 10 (3.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.94%) Big Data
5 9 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.65%) GIS
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.33%) MySQL
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (5.23%) GitLab
2 14 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.92%) Git
4 8 (2.61%) JIRA
5 5 (1.63%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 79 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.22%) Finance
3 31 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.23%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.90%) Banking
7 10 (3.27%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.94%) Legal
9 7 (2.29%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Law
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (19.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (13.73%) Senior
3 27 (8.82%) VMware Engineer
4 24 (7.84%) Architect
5 20 (6.54%) Consultant
6 18 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (5.56%) Lead
7 17 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 16 (5.23%) Network Engineer
9 14 (4.58%) VMware Consultant
10 13 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.59%) IT Engineer
13 10 (3.27%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 9 (2.94%) Administrator
14 9 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
14 9 (2.94%) Linux Engineer
14 9 (2.94%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (16.34%) Terraform
2 12 (3.92%) REST
3 7 (2.29%) JSON
4 5 (1.63%) .NET
4 5 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.63%) YAML
5 3 (0.98%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.98%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.98%) Pulumi
6 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.65%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.65%) Blazor
6 2 (0.65%) EJB
6 2 (0.65%) Java SE
6 2 (0.65%) JSP
6 2 (0.65%) Kafka
6 2 (0.65%) Middleware
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth
6 2 (0.65%) XML
7 1 (0.33%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.01%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.46%) Clustering
3 28 (9.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.58%) Enterprise Storage
5 14 (4.58%) PKI
6 11 (3.59%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.59%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.27%) Replication
8 9 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.65%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 158 (51.63%) Windows
2 103 (33.66%) Windows Server
3 82 (26.80%) Linux
4 22 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (4.90%) VMS
6 14 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (3.59%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (2.94%) Ubuntu
10 7 (2.29%) Apple iOS
10 7 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.63%) Solaris
11 5 (1.63%) Unix
12 4 (1.31%) SUSE
12 4 (1.31%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.98%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.98%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.98%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.65%) CentOS
14 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (27.45%) Migration
3 58 (18.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 57 (18.63%) ITIL
5 50 (16.34%) CI/CD
6 49 (16.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (15.36%) DevOps
8 39 (12.75%) High Availability
8 39 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (10.46%) Change Management
10 30 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
11 28 (9.15%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (8.17%) Service Management
13 24 (7.84%) ITSM
13 24 (7.84%) Project Delivery
13 24 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 22 (7.19%) Agile
14 22 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (6.86%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.49%) PowerShell
2 42 (13.73%) Python
3 27 (8.82%) Bash
4 25 (8.17%) SQL
5 13 (4.25%) Java
6 9 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.61%) Bicep
8 5 (1.63%) Go
9 4 (1.31%) C
9 4 (1.31%) C#
10 3 (0.98%) Korn
10 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 107 (34.97%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.44%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.80%) Degree
5 13 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.61%) CCNA
8 8 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (2.29%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.96%) CCNP
11 5 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.63%) CISSP
11 5 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.63%) PMP
12 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.65%) CCSP
13 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.88%) SLA
2 10 (3.27%) QA
3 7 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.96%) NIST
5 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.33%) DICOM
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 193 (63.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (32.68%) Active Directory
3 54 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
4 52 (16.99%) vSphere
5 35 (11.44%) Hyper-V
6 34 (11.11%) VMware NSX
7 21 (6.86%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (6.21%) Docker
9 10 (3.27%) Firmware
10 8 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.31%) BitLocker
12 4 (1.31%) KVM
12 4 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (1.31%) NFS
12 4 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.98%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.98%) UAG
14 2 (0.65%) Ceph
15 1 (0.33%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 54 (17.65%) Ansible
2 47 (15.36%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.44%) vCenter Server
4 24 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.54%) Puppet
5 20 (6.54%) SCCM
6 18 (5.88%) vRealize
7 15 (4.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 10 (3.27%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (3.27%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.27%) SCOM
9 7 (2.29%) Grafana
9 7 (2.29%) Nagios
9 7 (2.29%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (1.96%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.63%) PowerCLI
11 5 (1.63%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.31%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.31%) vMotion
12 4 (1.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 97 (31.70%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.03%) Cisco
3 32 (10.46%) Red Hat
4 18 (5.88%) Oracle
5 16 (5.23%) NetApp
5 16 (5.23%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.90%) Citrix
6 15 (4.90%) Dell
7 11 (3.59%) BMC
8 10 (3.27%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.27%) Remedy
9 9 (2.94%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (2.94%) Commvault
9 9 (2.94%) Tenable
9 9 (2.94%) WALLIX
10 8 (2.61%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.61%) Zscaler
11 7 (2.29%) EMC
11 7 (2.29%) HP
11 7 (2.29%) IBM