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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 158 136
Rank change year-on-year -31 -22 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware 236 211 316
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.71% 1.81%
As % of the Vendors category 3.12% 3.73% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 140 203
10th Percentile £414 £349 £290
25th Percentile £464 £425 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £598 £551
90th Percentile £663 £677 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £28.94 - £22.08
25th Percentile £43.48 - £22.68
Median hourly rate £67.70 - £33.82
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.57 £46.18
% change year-on-year +15.69% +18.17% -23.03%

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 7,574 5,654 7,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.96% 45.77% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,008 3,687 4,906
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.69% -4.20%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 97 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.69
90th Percentile £78.55 £66.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -9 28 £482 -15.71% 12
South London -15 7 £165 -68.57%
West London -36 1 - - 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 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.97%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.54%) nginx
4 5 (2.12%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.85%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.20%) Azure
2 32 (13.56%) AWS
3 29 (12.29%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.20%) IaaS
5 15 (6.36%) PaaS
6 14 (5.93%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.66%) GitHub
7 11 (4.66%) Rubrik
8 8 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.39%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.97%) Datadog
9 7 (2.97%) SaaS
10 6 (2.54%) Azure Stack
11 5 (2.12%) GCP
11 5 (2.12%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (1.69%) Cohesity
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (21.61%) Firewall
2 39 (16.53%) DNS
3 29 (12.29%) DHCP
3 29 (12.29%) SAN
4 28 (11.86%) VSAN
5 24 (10.17%) VPN
6 22 (9.32%) NAS
7 19 (8.05%) WAN
8 18 (7.63%) LAN
9 11 (4.66%) VLAN
10 8 (3.39%) Network Security
10 8 (3.39%) SMTP
11 7 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.54%) BGP
12 6 (2.54%) HTTP
13 5 (2.12%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.69%) OSPF
15 3 (1.27%) MPLS
15 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
15 3 (1.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.85%) Power BI
5 1 (0.42%) Metadata
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Chocolatey
1 7 (2.97%) GitLab
1 7 (2.97%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.69%) JIRA
3 3 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.42%) Maven
4 1 (0.42%) MSI
4 1 (0.42%) RStudio
4 1 (0.42%) Subversion
4 1 (0.42%) VersionOne
General
1 45 (19.07%) Finance
2 37 (15.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.51%) Banking
5 12 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.39%) Legal
8 6 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.12%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Front Office
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 39 (16.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (13.14%) Senior
3 27 (11.44%) Consultant
4 26 (11.02%) Architect
5 23 (9.75%) VMware Engineer
6 18 (7.63%) VMware Consultant
7 14 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.51%) Storage Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) NetApp Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) VMware Architect
12 8 (3.39%) IT Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.27%) Flash
1 3 (1.27%) REST
2 2 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.85%) ARM Templates
2 2 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.85%) JSON
2 2 (0.85%) Middleware
3 1 (0.42%) Django
3 1 (0.42%) EJB
3 1 (0.42%) HTML
3 1 (0.42%) JavaBeans
3 1 (0.42%) JSP
3 1 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.42%) RESTful
3 1 (0.42%) XML
3 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.44%) Replication
2 20 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.36%) Clustering
3 15 (6.36%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (5.08%) PKI
5 9 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.54%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.27%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.85%) CMDB
11 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (36.86%) Windows
2 51 (21.61%) Windows Server
3 40 (16.95%) Linux
4 12 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.97%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.54%) VMS
8 5 (2.12%) Solaris
8 5 (2.12%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (1.69%) SUSE
9 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.69%) Unix
10 3 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.42%) AIX
11 1 (0.42%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (30.51%) Migration
2 46 (19.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (12.29%) DevOps
4 23 (9.75%) CI/CD
4 23 (9.75%) Validation
5 22 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (9.32%) ITIL
6 20 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (8.05%) Change Management
7 19 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (6.78%) High Availability
9 15 (6.36%) Capacity Management
9 15 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (5.93%) Agile
11 13 (5.51%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (5.51%) Runbook
12 12 (5.08%) Data Migration
13 11 (4.66%) Incident Management
13 11 (4.66%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.34%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.36%) Python
2 15 (6.36%) SQL
3 9 (3.81%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.54%) Bash
4 6 (2.54%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.69%) C#
5 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.27%) Bicep
6 3 (1.27%) Java
7 2 (0.85%) C
8 1 (0.42%) Korn
8 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 58 (24.58%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.75%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.66%) Degree
5 9 (3.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.69%) VCAP
8 3 (1.27%) VCDX
9 2 (0.85%) CCNA
9 2 (0.85%) CCNP
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) MCSE
10 1 (0.42%) OCP
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) SLA
2 4 (1.69%) NIST
3 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.42%) COBIT
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) DICOM
4 1 (0.42%) HL7
4 1 (0.42%) NCSC
4 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.42%) QA
4 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 135 (57.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (22.03%) Active Directory
3 45 (19.07%) VMware NSX
4 40 (16.95%) vSphere
5 29 (12.29%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (11.02%) Hyper-V
7 18 (7.63%) Docker
8 15 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (5.51%) NFS
10 9 (3.81%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (3.39%) BitLocker
12 7 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (2.12%) Firmware
14 4 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.85%) vCloud
16 2 (0.85%) XenDesktop
17 1 (0.42%) KVM
17 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.42%) UAG
Systems Management
1 26 (11.02%) Ansible
2 24 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (10.17%) vCenter Server
3 22 (9.32%) Terraform
4 20 (8.47%) Kubernetes
5 19 (8.05%) SCCM
6 16 (6.78%) vMotion
6 16 (6.78%) vRealize
7 8 (3.39%) EMC VPLEX
7 8 (3.39%) Puppet
8 7 (2.97%) VxRail
9 5 (2.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (1.69%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.69%) PowerCLI
10 4 (1.69%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.27%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.27%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 50 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.90%) Citrix
3 20 (8.47%) Cisco
3 20 (8.47%) NetApp
4 18 (7.63%) Pure Storage
5 16 (6.78%) Dell
6 15 (6.36%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.24%) Commvault
8 9 (3.81%) Oracle
9 7 (2.97%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.97%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.97%) Tenable
10 6 (2.54%) Broadcom
10 6 (2.54%) IBM
10 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.12%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.12%) Juniper
12 4 (1.69%) CyberArk
13 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.27%) Splunk