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 12 April 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
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 133 123
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 253 245 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.94% 1.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.33% 4.29% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 164 218
10th Percentile £425 £313 £263
25th Percentile £473 £423 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £550
90th Percentile £660 £675 £641
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile - - £22.02
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate £67.70 - £38.17
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -28.95%

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 7,597 5,707 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.86% 45.12% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,743 4,942
10th Percentile £350 £322 £281
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £658
90th Percentile £738 £766 £767
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 87 142
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.39 £13.46
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.55 £16.90
Median hourly rate £32.00 £29.07 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +18.65% -5.20%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.50 £39.77
90th Percentile £68.12 £68.00 £67.70
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -41.56%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -19 27 £510 -13.92% 21
South London -10 9 £289 -45.00% 2
West London -28 2 - - 3
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 (5.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.58%) nginx
5 3 (1.19%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.79%) Confluence
6 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.43%) Azure
2 38 (15.02%) AWS
3 33 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (7.51%) IaaS
5 15 (5.93%) PaaS
6 14 (5.53%) Entra ID
7 13 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.14%) GitHub
8 11 (4.35%) Nutanix
9 7 (2.77%) Datadog
9 7 (2.77%) Rubrik
9 7 (2.77%) SaaS
10 6 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.37%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.58%) Azure Stack
12 4 (1.58%) GCP
13 3 (1.19%) Cohesity
13 3 (1.19%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (20.16%) Firewall
2 42 (16.60%) DNS
3 31 (12.25%) SAN
4 29 (11.46%) DHCP
5 26 (10.28%) VSAN
6 25 (9.88%) VPN
7 21 (8.30%) NAS
8 19 (7.51%) LAN
9 18 (7.11%) WAN
10 11 (4.35%) Network Security
10 11 (4.35%) VLAN
11 8 (3.16%) SMTP
12 7 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.37%) BGP
13 6 (2.37%) HTTP
14 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
15 4 (1.58%) MPLS
15 4 (1.58%) OSPF
15 4 (1.58%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.58%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.77%) Chocolatey
1 7 (2.77%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (2.37%) GitLab
2 6 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.19%) Git
3 3 (1.19%) JIRA
4 2 (0.79%) RStudio
5 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.40%) MSI
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
5 1 (0.40%) VersionOne
General
1 48 (18.97%) Finance
2 42 (16.60%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.32%) Banking
6 12 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.77%) Legal
8 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Local Government
10 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Front Office
11 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
11 2 (0.79%) Police
11 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 2 (0.79%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 36 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (13.83%) Consultant
3 34 (13.44%) Architect
4 31 (12.25%) Senior
5 26 (10.28%) VMware Consultant
6 25 (9.88%) VMware Engineer
7 14 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.14%) Storage Engineer
9 11 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.35%) VMware Architect
10 10 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) NetApp Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) Developer
11 9 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.16%) Lead
12 8 (3.16%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.77%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.58%) Flash
1 4 (1.58%) Middleware
2 3 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.19%) REST
3 2 (0.79%) .NET
3 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (0.79%) Bootstrap
3 2 (0.79%) Express.js
3 2 (0.79%) React
3 2 (0.79%) SOAP
3 2 (0.79%) WCF
3 2 (0.79%) Web Services
3 2 (0.79%) WPF
4 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.40%) Django
4 1 (0.40%) EDI
4 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.65%) Replication
2 18 (7.11%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.32%) Clustering
4 15 (5.93%) PKI
5 14 (5.53%) Enterprise Storage
6 12 (4.74%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.37%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.19%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.19%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 79 (31.23%) Windows
2 44 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 38 (15.02%) Linux
4 12 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.56%) VMS
5 9 (3.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (2.77%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (1.58%) Solaris
9 4 (1.58%) SUSE
9 4 (1.58%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.19%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.79%) AIX
11 2 (0.79%) Unix
12 1 (0.40%) Android
12 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.62%) Migration
2 42 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (13.83%) DevOps
4 29 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (9.49%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (8.70%) ITIL
6 22 (8.70%) Validation
7 21 (8.30%) CI/CD
8 20 (7.91%) Agile
9 17 (6.72%) High Availability
9 17 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (6.32%) Change Management
10 16 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (5.93%) Runbook
12 13 (5.14%) Capacity Management
12 13 (5.14%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (5.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (4.74%) Data Migration
13 12 (4.74%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.55%) PowerShell
2 22 (8.70%) Python
3 15 (5.93%) SQL
4 12 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.16%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.37%) Bash
7 4 (1.58%) C#
7 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.79%) C
8 2 (0.79%) Java
8 2 (0.79%) Korn
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 92 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.67%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (5.14%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.74%) Degree
7 5 (1.98%) VCAP
8 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.58%) VCDX
9 3 (1.19%) CCNP
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.79%) CCNA
10 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.79%) PMP
11 1 (0.40%) CCSM
11 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.40%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) SLA
2 6 (2.37%) NIST
3 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.79%) QA
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) COBIT
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 143 (56.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (20.95%) Active Directory
3 43 (17.00%) VMware NSX
4 42 (16.60%) vSphere
5 34 (13.44%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (10.67%) Hyper-V
7 18 (7.11%) Docker
8 15 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (5.14%) NFS
10 9 (3.56%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (3.16%) BitLocker
11 8 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (1.98%) Firmware
13 4 (1.58%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.79%) vCloud
14 2 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.79%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.40%) UAG
15 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (11.07%) vCenter Server
3 27 (10.67%) Ansible
4 25 (9.88%) SCCM
5 21 (8.30%) Terraform
6 20 (7.91%) Kubernetes
7 17 (6.72%) vRealize
8 16 (6.32%) vMotion
9 8 (3.16%) EMC VPLEX
10 7 (2.77%) Puppet
10 7 (2.77%) VxRail
11 6 (2.37%) SCOM
12 5 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (1.98%) PowerCLI
12 5 (1.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 4 (1.58%) AirWatch
13 4 (1.58%) Argo
13 4 (1.58%) Grafana
13 4 (1.58%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (1.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.91%) Citrix
2 20 (7.91%) Pure Storage
3 19 (7.51%) NetApp
4 18 (7.11%) Dell
5 17 (6.72%) Cisco
6 14 (5.53%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.74%) Oracle
8 10 (3.95%) Commvault
9 8 (3.16%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.77%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.77%) Tenable
11 6 (2.37%) Broadcom
11 6 (2.37%) IBM
12 5 (1.98%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.98%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.98%) Splunk
12 5 (1.98%) Veeam
13 4 (1.58%) F5