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 15 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
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 128 120
Rank change year-on-year -57 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 238 269 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.45% 2.06% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 3.27% 4.61% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 174 231
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% -8.26%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £659 £663
England median daily rate £525 £535 £493
% change year-on-year -1.87% +8.63% -6.19%
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 £73.75 £46.39
% change year-on-year -5.08% +58.98% -28.08%

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 7,275 5,837 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.38% 44.77% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,787 3,757 4,993
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
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 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 82 142
10th Percentile £18.03 £20.90 £13.46
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £16.90
Median hourly rate £26.50 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.43 £69.95
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.76% +21.60% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -16 28 £550 - 17
South London -6 9 £333 -11.33% 1
West London -21 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 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.84%) Confluence
3 2 (0.84%) nginx
3 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.42%) JBoss
4 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.57%) Azure
2 35 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (11.76%) AWS
4 17 (7.14%) IaaS
5 16 (6.72%) GitHub
6 13 (5.46%) PaaS
7 12 (5.04%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.04%) Nutanix
8 11 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.36%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.52%) Datadog
10 6 (2.52%) Rubrik
10 6 (2.52%) SaaS
11 5 (2.10%) GCP
11 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.26%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.84%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 46 (19.33%) Firewall
2 39 (16.39%) DNS
3 29 (12.18%) SAN
4 26 (10.92%) DHCP
5 21 (8.82%) VPN
5 21 (8.82%) VSAN
6 19 (7.98%) LAN
6 19 (7.98%) NAS
6 19 (7.98%) WAN
7 10 (4.20%) Network Security
8 8 (3.36%) VLAN
9 7 (2.94%) SMTP
10 6 (2.52%) BGP
10 6 (2.52%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.68%) HTTP
11 4 (1.68%) MPLS
11 4 (1.68%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.68%) VXLAN
12 3 (1.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.26%) 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 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.52%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.52%) GitLab
2 6 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.26%) RStudio
4 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.84%) JIRA
4 2 (0.84%) JMeter
4 2 (0.84%) JUnit
4 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) MSI
General
1 50 (21.01%) Finance
2 45 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.30%) Banking
6 13 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.94%) Legal
8 4 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.26%) Local Government
9 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.26%) Social Science
10 2 (0.84%) Electronics
10 2 (0.84%) Front Office
10 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (15.55%) Consultant
2 33 (13.87%) Architect
3 30 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (12.18%) Senior
5 28 (11.76%) VMware Consultant
6 21 (8.82%) VMware Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) Storage Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) VMware Architect
8 10 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.78%) Developer
9 9 (3.78%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.36%) Lead
10 8 (3.36%) NetApp Engineer
11 7 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (2.94%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.94%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.10%) Middleware
2 4 (1.68%) Flash
3 3 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (0.84%) .NET
4 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.84%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.84%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.84%) Express.js
4 2 (0.84%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.84%) Kafka
4 2 (0.84%) React
4 2 (0.84%) REST
4 2 (0.84%) SOAP
4 2 (0.84%) Spring
4 2 (0.84%) WCF
4 2 (0.84%) Web Services
4 2 (0.84%) WPF
5 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.76%) Replication
2 21 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 17 (7.14%) PKI
4 12 (5.04%) Enterprise Storage
5 11 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.20%) Clustering
6 10 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.36%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.26%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.26%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.26%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.84%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 73 (30.67%) Windows
2 46 (19.33%) Windows Server
3 32 (13.45%) Linux
4 9 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.78%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.10%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.68%) VMS
10 3 (1.26%) Solaris
10 3 (1.26%) Unix
10 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.84%) AIX
11 2 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.42%) Android
12 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.93%) Migration
2 35 (14.71%) DevOps
2 35 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (10.08%) ITIL
5 21 (8.82%) CI/CD
6 19 (7.98%) Agile
7 18 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (7.56%) Validation
8 16 (6.72%) Change Management
8 16 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (6.72%) Runbook
8 16 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (5.46%) Capacity Management
9 13 (5.46%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (5.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (5.04%) Data Migration
10 12 (5.04%) High Availability
10 12 (5.04%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.50%) Python
3 16 (6.72%) SQL
4 10 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.36%) T-SQL
6 7 (2.94%) Bash
7 4 (1.68%) C#
8 2 (0.84%) C
8 2 (0.84%) Java
8 2 (0.84%) Korn
8 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (34.03%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.50%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (4.62%) Degree
6 10 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.52%) CCNP
8 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.10%) VCAP
10 4 (1.68%) CCNA
11 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.26%) VCDX
12 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.84%) HP ASE
12 2 (0.84%) PMP
13 1 (0.42%) OCP
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.78%) SLA
2 7 (2.94%) NIST
3 3 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.84%) NCSC
4 2 (0.84%) 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
1 130 (54.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (21.85%) Active Directory
3 43 (18.07%) VMware NSX
4 40 (16.81%) vSphere
5 25 (10.50%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.98%) Hyper-V
7 16 (6.72%) Docker
8 12 (5.04%) NFS
9 9 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (3.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (2.94%) BitLocker
11 7 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.84%) Firmware
12 2 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.84%) vCloud
12 2 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.84%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.42%) UAG
13 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (13.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (13.03%) Ansible
3 26 (10.92%) SCCM
4 24 (10.08%) Terraform
5 22 (9.24%) vCenter Server
6 21 (8.82%) Kubernetes
7 15 (6.30%) vMotion
7 15 (6.30%) vRealize
8 8 (3.36%) EMC VPLEX
8 8 (3.36%) SCOM
9 6 (2.52%) PowerCLI
9 6 (2.52%) Puppet
10 5 (2.10%) Grafana
11 4 (1.68%) AirWatch
11 4 (1.68%) Argo
11 4 (1.68%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.68%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (1.26%) Rancher
12 3 (1.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.24%) Citrix
3 21 (8.82%) Pure Storage
4 17 (7.14%) Cisco
4 17 (7.14%) NetApp
5 16 (6.72%) Dell
6 13 (5.46%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.20%) Commvault
7 10 (4.20%) Oracle
8 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.94%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.94%) Tenable
10 6 (2.52%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.52%) Bloomberg
10 6 (2.52%) Splunk
10 6 (2.52%) Veeam
11 5 (2.10%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.68%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.68%) F5
12 4 (1.68%) Palo Alto