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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 130 98
Rank change year-on-year -53 -32 +34
Contract jobs citing VMware 222 279 422
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 2.06% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 3.27% 4.66% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 168 285
10th Percentile £362 £249 £300
25th Percentile £475 £393 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +1.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £657 £664
England median daily rate £525 £525 £493
% change year-on-year - +6.60% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 16
10th Percentile £31.94 - £22.04
25th Percentile £45.35 - £22.24
Median hourly rate £67.70 £112.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -39.55% +155.49% +0.53%
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £70.63
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year +7.69% +6.12% -5.77%

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 6,784 5,985 7,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.65% 44.16% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,473 3,687 5,148
10th Percentile £350 £313 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% -3.34%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 73 150
10th Percentile £17.79 £21.50 £13.81
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £17.20
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +31.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £41.75 £61.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.33 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £28.50
% change year-on-year -22.18% +7.42% -12.31%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -20 33 £550 -7.17% 16
South London - 8 £165 - 4
West London -18 3 - - 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 13 (5.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.70%) Confluence
3 5 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.45%) Traefik
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.23%) Azure
2 29 (13.06%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (9.46%) AWS
4 19 (8.56%) GitHub
5 12 (5.41%) Nutanix
6 11 (4.95%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.50%) IaaS
8 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.60%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.70%) PaaS
10 5 (2.25%) GCP
10 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.35%) Datadog
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.90%) SaaS
13 1 (0.45%) IBM Watson
13 1 (0.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 36 (16.22%) Firewall
2 34 (15.32%) DNS
3 22 (9.91%) SAN
4 19 (8.56%) DHCP
5 16 (7.21%) VPN
6 15 (6.76%) NAS
6 15 (6.76%) WAN
7 14 (6.31%) LAN
8 12 (5.41%) VSAN
9 7 (3.15%) Network Security
10 5 (2.25%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.25%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.80%) BGP
11 4 (1.80%) SMTP
11 4 (1.80%) VLAN
11 4 (1.80%) VXLAN
12 3 (1.35%) Calico
12 3 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.45%) Power BI
5 1 (0.45%) Redis
5 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.80%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.80%) JMeter
3 4 (1.80%) JUnit
3 4 (1.80%) RStudio
3 4 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.35%) Git
4 3 (1.35%) GitLab
4 3 (1.35%) JIRA
5 2 (0.90%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.90%) Subversion
5 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (21.17%) Finance
2 45 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.41%) Banking
6 8 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.25%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.25%) Legal
9 4 (1.80%) Social Science
9 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Local Government
10 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Electronics
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Police
12 1 (0.45%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (16.22%) Consultant
2 30 (13.51%) VMware Consultant
3 28 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (11.71%) Architect
5 22 (9.91%) Senior
6 21 (9.46%) VMware Engineer
7 12 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.05%) Administrator
8 9 (4.05%) Developer
8 9 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.60%) Lead
10 7 (3.15%) VMware Architect
10 7 (3.15%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) DevOps Specialist
11 6 (2.70%) IT Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) Senior Wintel Engineer
11 6 (2.70%) VMware Specialist
11 6 (2.70%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.80%) Hibernate
1 4 (1.80%) Kafka
1 4 (1.80%) Spring
2 3 (1.35%) .NET
2 3 (1.35%) Middleware
2 3 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.35%) React
2 3 (1.35%) REST
3 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (0.90%) Bootstrap
3 2 (0.90%) Django
3 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.90%) Express.js
3 2 (0.90%) Flash
3 2 (0.90%) SOAP
3 2 (0.90%) WCF
3 2 (0.90%) Web Services
3 2 (0.90%) WPF
4 1 (0.45%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.26%) Replication
2 15 (6.76%) PKI
3 14 (6.31%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.50%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.60%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.60%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.15%) Clustering
7 7 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.35%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.03%) Windows
2 44 (19.82%) Windows Server
3 37 (16.67%) Linux
4 14 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.50%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.25%) Solaris
7 5 (2.25%) Unix
7 5 (2.25%) VMS
7 5 (2.25%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.80%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.35%) CentOS
10 2 (0.90%) AIX
11 1 (0.45%) Android
11 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.83%) Migration
2 36 (16.22%) DevOps
2 36 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (10.81%) CI/CD
5 23 (10.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (9.01%) ITIL
7 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (7.21%) Agile
9 14 (6.31%) Validation
10 13 (5.86%) High Availability
10 13 (5.86%) Knowledge Transfer
10 13 (5.86%) Runbook
11 12 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (4.95%) Capacity Management
12 11 (4.95%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (4.95%) Use Case
13 9 (4.05%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.07%) PowerShell
2 48 (21.62%) Python
3 19 (8.56%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.86%) Bash
5 12 (5.41%) SQL
6 9 (4.05%) Java
7 6 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.25%) C#
9 4 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.35%) C
10 3 (1.35%) Perl
11 2 (0.90%) Go
11 2 (0.90%) Korn
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Rust
12 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 16 (7.21%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.86%) Degree
6 9 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.60%) CCNP
8 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.80%) CCNA
9 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.35%) VCAP
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.90%) CCIE
11 2 (0.90%) HP ASE
11 2 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.90%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.90%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.70%) NIST
2 5 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.25%) SLA
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) COBIT
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.45%) MiFID
4 1 (0.45%) NCSC
4 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 128 (57.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (20.27%) Active Directory
3 36 (16.22%) VMware NSX
3 36 (16.22%) vSphere
4 19 (8.56%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (8.11%) Hyper-V
6 12 (5.41%) Docker
7 11 (4.95%) NFS
8 9 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (2.25%) KVM
11 4 (1.80%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.90%) vCloud
12 2 (0.90%) Veritas File System
12 2 (0.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 1 (0.45%) Firmware
13 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.45%) XenApp
13 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (16.22%) Ansible
2 26 (11.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (10.36%) SCCM
3 23 (10.36%) vRealize
4 21 (9.46%) Kubernetes
5 20 (9.01%) Terraform
6 15 (6.76%) vCenter Server
7 11 (4.95%) vMotion
8 9 (4.05%) SCOM
9 8 (3.60%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (2.70%) Argo
10 6 (2.70%) Grafana
10 6 (2.70%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.70%) Puppet
11 5 (2.25%) AirWatch
12 4 (1.80%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.80%) Rancher
12 4 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.35%) Istio
13 3 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.11%) Cisco
2 18 (8.11%) Citrix
2 18 (8.11%) Dell
2 18 (8.11%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.31%) Pure Storage
4 11 (4.95%) NetApp
5 10 (4.50%) Oracle
6 9 (4.05%) CyberArk
7 7 (3.15%) Commvault
7 7 (3.15%) Splunk
8 6 (2.70%) Veeam
9 5 (2.25%) Arista
9 5 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.25%) Tenable
10 4 (1.80%) F5
10 4 (1.80%) Symantec
11 3 (1.35%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.35%) EMC
11 3 (1.35%) Ivanti