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 24 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 172 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 -52 -25
Contract jobs citing VMware 308 203 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.51% 2.22%
As % of the Vendors category 3.54% 3.24% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 124 224
10th Percentile £350 £337 £311
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £561
90th Percentile £735 £695 £657
England median daily rate £531 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
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% +27.43%
75th Percentile £63.00 £28.25 £81.44
90th Percentile £77.75 £29.30 £112.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 £34.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.00% -23.65%

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 8,698 6,271 7,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 46.52% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,062 4,496
10th Percentile £334 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year - -2.19% -2.41%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 121 77
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.30 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.59% -19.08% -8.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.75 £85.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.33% -28.14% -20.18%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -5 53 £575 +9.52% 27
West London -26 4 £475 -25.49% 9
East London +3 3 £538 +2.38% 5
South London -18 1 £413 -21.43% 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 19 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.27%) Confluence
3 7 (2.27%) JBoss
3 7 (2.27%) nginx
3 7 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.95%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) CloudStack
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 121 (39.29%) Azure
2 54 (17.53%) AWS
3 33 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (10.39%) Entra ID
5 21 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.84%) GCP
6 18 (5.84%) IaaS
7 17 (5.52%) GitHub
8 15 (4.87%) PaaS
8 15 (4.87%) SaaS
9 12 (3.90%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.57%) Datadog
10 11 (3.57%) OneDrive
10 11 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.60%) Nutanix
12 8 (2.60%) Rubrik
13 7 (2.27%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (21.10%) DNS
2 48 (15.58%) Firewall
3 46 (14.94%) DHCP
4 24 (7.79%) SAN
5 21 (6.82%) VPN
6 20 (6.49%) WAN
7 17 (5.52%) Network Security
7 17 (5.52%) TCP/IP
8 15 (4.87%) VSAN
9 14 (4.55%) LAN
9 14 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (4.22%) VLAN
11 12 (3.90%) NAS
12 9 (2.92%) HTTP
13 8 (2.60%) SSL
14 7 (2.27%) Kerberos
15 6 (1.95%) BGP
15 6 (1.95%) SD-WAN
16 5 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 5 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (3.57%) Power BI
4 10 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (2.92%) Big Data
5 9 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.62%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.65%) GIS
10 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.32%) MySQL
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 16 (5.19%) GitLab
2 14 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.90%) Git
4 8 (2.60%) JIRA
5 5 (1.62%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 83 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 69 (22.40%) Finance
3 31 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.19%) Banking
5 16 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.25%) Legal
8 7 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (19.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (12.99%) Senior
3 28 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
4 25 (8.12%) Architect
5 19 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (5.84%) Consultant
6 18 (5.84%) Lead
6 18 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (5.84%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.19%) Network Engineer
9 13 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.90%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.90%) VMware Consultant
11 11 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.92%) Server Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.21%) Terraform
2 12 (3.90%) REST
3 7 (2.27%) JSON
4 5 (1.62%) .NET
4 5 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.62%) YAML
5 3 (0.97%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.97%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.97%) Middleware
5 3 (0.97%) 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%) OAuth
6 2 (0.65%) XML
7 1 (0.32%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.88%) Data Centre
2 32 (10.39%) Clustering
3 30 (9.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 14 (4.55%) PKI
6 12 (3.90%) Private Cloud
7 11 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.25%) Replication
9 9 (2.92%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.97%) CMDB
12 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.65%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (51.95%) Windows
2 106 (34.42%) Windows Server
3 83 (26.95%) Linux
4 23 (7.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (4.87%) VMS
6 14 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (4.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (2.92%) Ubuntu
10 8 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (2.27%) Apple iOS
12 5 (1.62%) Solaris
12 5 (1.62%) Unix
13 4 (1.30%) SUSE
13 4 (1.30%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.97%) CentOS
14 3 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.97%) OpenVMS
14 3 (0.97%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (27.60%) Migration
3 59 (19.16%) Disaster Recovery
3 59 (19.16%) ITIL
4 52 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (16.23%) CI/CD
6 47 (15.26%) DevOps
7 40 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (12.66%) High Availability
9 33 (10.71%) Change Management
10 31 (10.06%) Infrastructure Automation
11 28 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (8.44%) Project Delivery
13 25 (8.12%) Service Management
14 24 (7.79%) ITSM
14 24 (7.79%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (7.14%) Agile
15 22 (7.14%) Configuration Management
15 22 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.97%) PowerShell
2 41 (13.31%) Python
3 27 (8.77%) Bash
4 25 (8.12%) SQL
5 13 (4.22%) Java
6 8 (2.60%) Bicep
6 8 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.62%) Go
8 4 (1.30%) C
8 4 (1.30%) C#
9 3 (0.97%) Korn
9 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) C++
11 1 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (34.42%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 30 (9.74%) Degree
5 13 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.60%) CCNA
9 7 (2.27%) A+ Certification
9 7 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.95%) CCNP
11 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.62%) CISSP
11 5 (1.62%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.62%) PMP
12 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.97%) 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 (5.84%) SLA
2 10 (3.25%) QA
3 7 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.95%) NIST
5 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.65%) NCSC
6 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) DICOM
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.32%) HL7
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 199 (64.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 102 (33.12%) Active Directory
3 54 (17.53%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (17.21%) vSphere
5 36 (11.69%) Hyper-V
6 35 (11.36%) VMware NSX
7 21 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (6.17%) Docker
9 10 (3.25%) Firmware
10 9 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.30%) BitLocker
12 4 (1.30%) KVM
12 4 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (1.30%) NFS
12 4 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.97%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.97%) UAG
14 2 (0.65%) Ceph
14 2 (0.65%) IAG
Systems Management
1 55 (17.86%) Ansible
2 47 (15.26%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.36%) vCenter Server
4 25 (8.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.82%) SCCM
6 20 (6.49%) Puppet
7 16 (5.19%) vRealize
8 15 (4.87%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (3.25%) Failover Clustering
9 10 (3.25%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.25%) SCOM
10 8 (2.60%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (2.27%) Grafana
11 7 (2.27%) Nagios
12 6 (1.95%) FortiGate
13 5 (1.62%) PowerCLI
13 5 (1.62%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.30%) NetBackup
14 4 (1.30%) vMotion
14 4 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 99 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 47 (15.26%) Cisco
3 33 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 18 (5.84%) Oracle
5 16 (5.19%) Citrix
5 16 (5.19%) NetApp
5 16 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.87%) Dell
7 11 (3.57%) BMC
8 10 (3.25%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.25%) Remedy
9 9 (2.92%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (2.92%) Commvault
9 9 (2.92%) Tenable
9 9 (2.92%) WALLIX
10 8 (2.60%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.60%) Veeam
10 8 (2.60%) Zscaler
11 7 (2.27%) HP
11 7 (2.27%) Meraki