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 13 March 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
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 126 119
Rank change year-on-year -55 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 236 271 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 2.10% 2.00%
As % of the Vendors category 3.28% 4.70% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 173 235
10th Percentile £412 £278 £263
25th Percentile £475 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.02%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £655 £664
England median daily rate £525 £531 £490
% change year-on-year -1.18% +8.42% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile £31.94 - £22.01
25th Percentile £45.35 - £22.08
Median hourly rate £67.70 £112.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.55% +244.62% -25.47%
75th Percentile - - £52.41
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £49.88
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.36% -23.26%

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 7,204 5,769 7,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.37% 44.66% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,747 3,711 4,987
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 81 145
10th Percentile £18.00 £20.86 £13.59
25th Percentile £20.87 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +26.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.63 £57.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.36 £80.75 £69.80
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +23.12% -28.57%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -22 28 £550 - 19
South London -6 9 £333 -11.33% 1
West London -23 2 - - 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 16 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) nginx
3 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.42%) JBoss
4 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.81%) Azure
2 35 (14.83%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (11.86%) AWS
4 16 (6.78%) GitHub
4 16 (6.78%) IaaS
5 12 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.08%) Nutanix
5 12 (5.08%) PaaS
6 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.39%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.54%) Datadog
8 6 (2.54%) Rubrik
8 6 (2.54%) SaaS
9 5 (2.12%) GCP
9 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.27%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.85%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 45 (19.07%) Firewall
2 38 (16.10%) DNS
3 29 (12.29%) SAN
4 25 (10.59%) DHCP
5 20 (8.47%) VPN
5 20 (8.47%) VSAN
6 19 (8.05%) LAN
6 19 (8.05%) NAS
6 19 (8.05%) WAN
7 10 (4.24%) Network Security
8 8 (3.39%) VLAN
9 6 (2.54%) BGP
9 6 (2.54%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.54%) SMTP
9 6 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.69%) HTTP
10 4 (1.69%) MPLS
10 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.69%) VXLAN
11 3 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) Power BI
4 1 (0.42%) Redis
4 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.54%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.54%) GitLab
2 6 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.27%) RStudio
4 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.85%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) JMeter
4 2 (0.85%) JUnit
4 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) MSI
General
1 50 (21.19%) Finance
2 45 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.36%) Banking
6 13 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.97%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Local Government
9 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Social Science
10 2 (0.85%) Electronics
10 2 (0.85%) Front Office
10 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.85%) Marketing
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (15.68%) Consultant
2 32 (13.56%) Architect
3 29 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (12.29%) Senior
4 28 (11.86%) VMware Consultant
5 21 (8.90%) VMware Engineer
6 11 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.24%) Storage Engineer
7 10 (4.24%) VMware Architect
8 9 (3.81%) Developer
8 9 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.39%) Lead
10 7 (2.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (2.97%) IT Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.12%) Middleware
2 4 (1.69%) Flash
3 3 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.85%) .NET
4 2 (0.85%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.85%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.85%) Express.js
4 2 (0.85%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.85%) Kafka
4 2 (0.85%) React
4 2 (0.85%) REST
4 2 (0.85%) SOAP
4 2 (0.85%) Spring
4 2 (0.85%) WCF
4 2 (0.85%) Web Services
4 2 (0.85%) WPF
5 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.86%) Replication
2 20 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.78%) PKI
4 11 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.81%) Clustering
7 8 (3.39%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.27%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 72 (30.51%) Windows
2 45 (19.07%) Windows Server
3 31 (13.14%) Linux
4 9 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.81%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.69%) VMS
9 3 (1.27%) Solaris
9 3 (1.27%) Unix
9 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.85%) AIX
10 2 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.42%) Android
11 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.78%) Migration
2 35 (14.83%) DevOps
3 34 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (10.17%) ITIL
6 21 (8.90%) CI/CD
7 19 (8.05%) Agile
8 18 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (7.63%) Validation
9 16 (6.78%) Change Management
9 16 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (6.78%) Runbook
9 16 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (5.51%) Capacity Management
10 13 (5.51%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (5.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (5.08%) Data Migration
11 12 (5.08%) High Availability
11 12 (5.08%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.19%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.59%) Python
3 16 (6.78%) SQL
4 10 (4.24%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.39%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.97%) Bash
7 4 (1.69%) C#
8 2 (0.85%) C
8 2 (0.85%) Java
8 2 (0.85%) Korn
8 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (4.66%) Degree
6 10 (4.24%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.54%) CCNP
8 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.12%) VCAP
10 4 (1.69%) CCNA
11 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.27%) VCDX
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.85%) HP ASE
12 2 (0.85%) PMP
13 1 (0.42%) OCP
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.81%) SLA
2 7 (2.97%) NIST
3 3 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
4 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) COBIT
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.42%) MiFID
5 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 128 (54.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (21.61%) Active Directory
3 43 (18.22%) VMware NSX
4 40 (16.95%) vSphere
5 24 (10.17%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (7.63%) Hyper-V
7 15 (6.36%) Docker
8 12 (5.08%) NFS
9 8 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.97%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (2.54%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.85%) Firmware
12 2 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.85%) vCloud
12 2 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.85%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.42%) UAG
13 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (13.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (12.71%) Ansible
3 26 (11.02%) SCCM
4 24 (10.17%) Terraform
5 21 (8.90%) vCenter Server
6 20 (8.47%) Kubernetes
7 15 (6.36%) vRealize
8 14 (5.93%) vMotion
9 8 (3.39%) EMC VPLEX
9 8 (3.39%) SCOM
10 6 (2.54%) PowerCLI
11 5 (2.12%) Grafana
11 5 (2.12%) Puppet
12 4 (1.69%) AirWatch
12 4 (1.69%) Argo
12 4 (1.69%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.69%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.90%) Citrix
2 21 (8.90%) Pure Storage
3 17 (7.20%) Cisco
4 16 (6.78%) Dell
4 16 (6.78%) NetApp
5 13 (5.51%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.24%) Commvault
6 10 (4.24%) Oracle
7 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.97%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.97%) Tenable
9 6 (2.54%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.54%) Bloomberg
9 6 (2.54%) Splunk
9 6 (2.54%) Veeam
10 5 (2.12%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.69%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.69%) F5
11 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto