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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 105 89
Rank change year-on-year -86 -16 +35
Contract jobs citing VMware 211 367 521
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 2.33% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 3.22% 5.35% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 223 375
10th Percentile £366 £279 £331
25th Percentile £463 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £508
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -4.52% -6.88%
75th Percentile £612 £578 £629
90th Percentile £685 £657 £683
England median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 18
10th Percentile £23.70 £41.44 £22.00
25th Percentile £24.75 £67.90 £32.19
Median hourly rate £26.50 £112.00 £49.94
Median % change year-on-year -76.34% +124.27% +30.15%
75th Percentile £28.25 - £64.69
90th Percentile £29.30 - £73.63
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +15.00% -24.22% +1.51%

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 6,551 6,864 8,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.34% 43.65% 41.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,233 4,319 5,657
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £749 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 65 116
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -7.41% +57.53%
75th Percentile £39.25 £65.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.30 £97.00 £84.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.79% +72.12%

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 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -13 35 £540 +2.86% 45
South London -1 8 £513 +3.74%
West London -10 7 £525 +31.25% 2
East London +3 1 £525 +133.33% 1
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 22 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.32%) Confluence
3 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) JBoss
5 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.47%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.01%) Azure
2 27 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (11.85%) AWS
4 18 (8.53%) Nutanix
5 16 (7.58%) GitHub
6 12 (5.69%) GCP
7 10 (4.74%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.79%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.32%) IaaS
10 6 (2.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.90%) SaaS
13 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.95%) OneDrive
14 2 (0.95%) PaaS
14 2 (0.95%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.47%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.59%) DNS
2 31 (14.69%) Firewall
3 21 (9.95%) DHCP
4 19 (9.00%) VPN
5 18 (8.53%) WAN
6 15 (7.11%) SAN
6 15 (7.11%) TCP/IP
7 14 (6.64%) LAN
8 9 (4.27%) VSAN
9 8 (3.79%) NAS
9 8 (3.79%) VLAN
10 7 (3.32%) Network Security
11 6 (2.84%) BGP
11 6 (2.84%) VXLAN
12 5 (2.37%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (2.37%) OSPF
12 5 (2.37%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
13 4 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (1.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.47%) MySQL
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
4 1 (0.47%) Redis
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Git
1 9 (4.27%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (2.84%) Subversion
3 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.90%) JMeter
3 4 (1.90%) JUnit
3 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.42%) GitLab
4 3 (1.42%) JIRA
4 3 (1.42%) RStudio
5 2 (0.95%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (23.22%) Finance
2 48 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.74%) Banking
7 6 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Electronics
9 4 (1.90%) Local Government
9 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 3 (1.42%) Social Science
11 2 (0.95%) French Language
11 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.95%) Police
12 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (18.96%) Consultant
2 31 (14.69%) VMware Consultant
3 24 (11.37%) Architect
4 21 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.11%) Administrator
5 15 (7.11%) Senior
6 11 (5.21%) VMware Engineer
6 11 (5.21%) Windows Engineer
7 10 (4.74%) Developer
8 9 (4.27%) Linux Administrator
8 9 (4.27%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.27%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.79%) Lead
9 8 (3.79%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (3.79%) Wintel Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (2.84%) ETL Developer
10 6 (2.84%) PowerShell Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Senior Wintel Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) REST
1 6 (2.84%) RESTful
2 5 (2.37%) JSON
2 5 (2.37%) Middleware
2 5 (2.37%) XML
3 4 (1.90%) Hibernate
3 4 (1.90%) Kafka
3 4 (1.90%) Spring
4 2 (0.95%) .NET
4 2 (0.95%) EDI
4 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.95%) Node.js
4 2 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.95%) React
5 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.47%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.47%) Loki
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.47%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.43%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.11%) Replication
3 11 (5.21%) PKI
4 10 (4.74%) Hedge funds
4 10 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.74%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.27%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.32%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.37%) Clustering
10 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.95%) CMDB
11 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (36.02%) Windows
2 56 (26.54%) Linux
3 43 (20.38%) Windows Server
4 25 (11.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.21%) Windows 10
6 10 (4.74%) CentOS
7 9 (4.27%) Ubuntu
8 8 (3.79%) Unix
9 7 (3.32%) Solaris
10 6 (2.84%) VMS
11 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.95%) AIX
13 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.47%) Debian
14 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.43%) Migration
2 39 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (15.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 25 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (11.37%) CI/CD
6 23 (10.90%) DevOps
7 22 (10.43%) ITIL
8 20 (9.48%) High Availability
9 16 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (6.16%) Agile
11 12 (5.69%) Data Protection
12 11 (5.21%) Containerisation
12 11 (5.21%) Patch Management
12 11 (5.21%) Task Automation
13 10 (4.74%) Business Continuity
13 10 (4.74%) Project Delivery
14 9 (4.27%) Knowledge Transfer
14 9 (4.27%) Validation
15 8 (3.79%) RBAC
15 8 (3.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.44%) Python
2 48 (22.75%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.85%) Bash
4 17 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 17 (8.06%) SQL
5 11 (5.21%) Java
6 6 (2.84%) Perl
6 6 (2.84%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.84%) VBA
7 4 (1.90%) Go
7 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.42%) C++
8 3 (1.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.95%) C#
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) Korn
10 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 56 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (6.64%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.16%) CCNP
6 11 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.74%) Degree
7 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.32%) CCNA
9 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.42%) CCIE
10 3 (1.42%) VCAP
11 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.95%) CCDP
11 2 (0.95%) HP ASE
11 2 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.95%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.95%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.37%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.42%) NIST
5 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.95%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 121 (57.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (25.12%) Active Directory
3 27 (12.80%) vSphere
4 24 (11.37%) Hyper-V
5 22 (10.43%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (8.53%) VMware NSX
7 12 (5.69%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (4.74%) Docker
9 6 (2.84%) KVM
10 5 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.90%) NFS
11 4 (1.90%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.90%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (1.90%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (1.42%) Firmware
13 1 (0.47%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.47%) Postfix
13 1 (0.47%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.47%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (17.06%) Ansible
2 22 (10.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (10.43%) SCCM
3 21 (9.95%) Terraform
4 20 (9.48%) vRealize
5 17 (8.06%) vCenter Server
6 14 (6.64%) Kubernetes
7 9 (4.27%) SCOM
8 7 (3.32%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.84%) Puppet
9 6 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.37%) Grafana
11 4 (1.90%) Argo
11 4 (1.90%) Control-M
11 4 (1.90%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.90%) QRadar
12 3 (1.42%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.42%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 53 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.32%) Cisco
3 25 (11.85%) Red Hat
4 21 (9.95%) Citrix
5 13 (6.16%) Oracle
6 12 (5.69%) Dell
7 11 (5.21%) Splunk
8 10 (4.74%) CyberArk
9 9 (4.27%) NetApp
10 8 (3.79%) EMC
11 7 (3.32%) F5
11 7 (3.32%) Palo Alto
12 6 (2.84%) Qualys
12 6 (2.84%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.37%) Google
14 4 (1.90%) McAfee
14 4 (1.90%) SaltStack
14 4 (1.90%) SAP
14 4 (1.90%) Symantec
14 4 (1.90%) Veeam