VMware Contracts 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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 139 113
Rank change year-on-year -24 -26 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 204 317 593
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.59% 1.81% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 3.51% 4.34% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 212 430
10th Percentile £363 £313 £345
25th Percentile £425 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.59% +4.19%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £696 £656 £725
England median daily rate £550 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 5
10th Percentile - £22.08 £31.75
25th Percentile - £23.05 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -55.07% +11.89%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £63.75
90th Percentile - - £73.50
England median hourly rate £34.71 £40.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year -13.23% -24.49% +34.10%

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 5,811 7,300 10,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.30% 41.77% 40.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,761 5,003 7,222
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -2.55% -0.05%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 129 121
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.78 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.33 £23.80 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.01% -21.32% -13.57%
75th Percentile £48.44 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.32 £24.50 £32.15
% change year-on-year +7.43% -23.79% +47.49%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in London

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 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 -7 25 £550 +5.77% 74
South London +9 11 £525 +16.67% 1
West London +14 9 £750 +87.50% 7
East London +1 2 £375 -14.77% 31
North London -4 1 £550 +120.00% 1
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (9.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.43%) Confluence
4 4 (1.96%) Apache
5 3 (1.47%) nginx
6 2 (0.98%) IIS
6 2 (0.98%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.49%) JBoss
7 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.76%) Azure
2 43 (21.08%) AWS
3 32 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (10.78%) Entra ID
5 18 (8.82%) GCP
6 15 (7.35%) GitHub
7 14 (6.86%) Nutanix
8 13 (6.37%) IaaS
9 8 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.94%) SaaS
11 4 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.96%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.96%) PaaS
12 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.98%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.98%) AWS KMS
13 2 (0.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.06%) Firewall
2 39 (19.12%) DNS
3 26 (12.75%) TCP/IP
4 25 (12.25%) DHCP
5 19 (9.31%) VPN
6 16 (7.84%) SAN
7 15 (7.35%) WAN
8 14 (6.86%) VSAN
9 13 (6.37%) LAN
10 12 (5.88%) NAS
10 12 (5.88%) Network Security
11 11 (5.39%) VLAN
12 7 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.45%) SSH
14 4 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
14 4 (1.96%) iSCSI
14 4 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
15 3 (1.47%) 4G
15 3 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.45%) Big Data
2 5 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.47%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.47%) MySQL
4 3 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.47%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.49%) Power BI
6 1 (0.49%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.33%) Git
2 12 (5.88%) JIRA
3 7 (3.43%) GitLab
3 7 (3.43%) Subversion
4 6 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.45%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.98%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (25.98%) Finance
2 50 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.37%) Banking
4 13 (6.37%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.94%) Legal
7 5 (2.45%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.45%) Marketing
8 4 (1.96%) Electronics
8 4 (1.96%) Law
8 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Local Government
10 1 (0.49%) French Language
10 1 (0.49%) Front Office
10 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (12.25%) Architect
3 22 (10.78%) Consultant
4 17 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 17 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Linux Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (5.88%) Senior
7 11 (5.39%) Administrator
8 9 (4.41%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.41%) VMware Consultant
9 8 (3.92%) Analyst
9 8 (3.92%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.43%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (3.43%) Lead
10 7 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.43%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.94%) Linux Administrator
11 6 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.43%) REST
2 6 (2.94%) .NET
3 5 (2.45%) ASP.NET
3 5 (2.45%) JSON
3 5 (2.45%) XML
4 4 (1.96%) Middleware
4 4 (1.96%) RESTful
5 3 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (1.47%) CSS
5 3 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.47%) HTML
5 3 (1.47%) Node.js
5 3 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.98%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.98%) LDAP
6 2 (0.98%) React
7 1 (0.49%) EDI
7 1 (0.49%) LAMP
7 1 (0.49%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.88%) Clustering
2 12 (5.88%) Replication
3 11 (5.39%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.90%) Private Cloud
5 9 (4.41%) PKI
6 8 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.43%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.47%) CMDB
10 3 (1.47%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.98%) Blog
11 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (47.06%) Windows
2 77 (37.75%) Linux
3 49 (24.02%) Windows Server
4 23 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (8.82%) Windows 10
6 12 (5.88%) Unix
7 11 (5.39%) CentOS
8 10 (4.90%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (3.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (2.94%) Solaris
11 5 (2.45%) Apple iOS
12 3 (1.47%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.47%) VMS
13 2 (0.98%) Android
13 2 (0.98%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.98%) SUSE
13 2 (0.98%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.98%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.12%) Migration
2 34 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (14.71%) High Availability
5 23 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (9.31%) DevOps
7 17 (8.33%) ITSM
8 16 (7.84%) Configuration Management
9 15 (7.35%) ITIL
10 14 (6.86%) SIEM
10 14 (6.86%) Task Automation
11 13 (6.37%) Containerisation
11 13 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (6.37%) Incident Response
12 12 (5.88%) CI/CD
13 11 (5.39%) Agile
13 11 (5.39%) Data Protection
13 11 (5.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (5.39%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (5.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.53%) Python
2 39 (19.12%) PowerShell
3 24 (11.76%) Bash
4 19 (9.31%) SQL
5 11 (5.39%) Perl
6 7 (3.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.94%) C#
7 6 (2.94%) Java
8 3 (1.47%) PHP
9 2 (0.98%) C++
9 2 (0.98%) Go
9 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.98%) VB
9 2 (0.98%) VBA
9 2 (0.98%) VBScript
10 1 (0.49%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.49%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.49%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.39%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.41%) Degree
6 8 (3.92%) CCNP
7 7 (3.43%) VCAP
8 5 (2.45%) CCIE
9 4 (1.96%) CCNA
9 4 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.98%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.49%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.49%) RHCE
12 1 (0.49%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.90%) GDPR
2 5 (2.45%) NIST
2 5 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.45%) SLA
3 4 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.98%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.98%) QA
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 127 (62.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 75 (36.76%) Active Directory
3 35 (17.16%) VMware ESXi
4 32 (15.69%) vSphere
5 20 (9.80%) VMware NSX
6 16 (7.84%) Docker
7 15 (7.35%) Hyper-V
8 13 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.96%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.96%) Firmware
10 4 (1.96%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (1.47%) FreeRADIUS
11 3 (1.47%) iptables
11 3 (1.47%) KVM
11 3 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (1.47%) vCloud
11 3 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (1.47%) XenApp
12 2 (0.98%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 37 (18.14%) Ansible
2 23 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.31%) Terraform
4 17 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 13 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (6.37%) Puppet
6 10 (4.90%) SCCM
7 9 (4.41%) Progress Chef
8 8 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.43%) PowerCLI
10 6 (2.94%) Nagios
10 6 (2.94%) Tivoli
10 6 (2.94%) vRealize
11 5 (2.45%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (2.45%) NetBackup
11 5 (2.45%) Netcool
11 5 (2.45%) QRadar
11 5 (2.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (1.96%) Grafana
12 4 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 46 (22.55%) Cisco
3 23 (11.27%) Red Hat
4 22 (10.78%) Splunk
5 20 (9.80%) Citrix
6 16 (7.84%) ServiceNow
7 14 (6.86%) EMC
8 11 (5.39%) Google
8 11 (5.39%) Oracle
9 10 (4.90%) CyberArk
9 10 (4.90%) F5
9 10 (4.90%) NetApp
9 10 (4.90%) Veritas
10 9 (4.41%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.92%) Dell
11 8 (3.92%) IBM
12 7 (3.43%) Fortinet
12 7 (3.43%) HP
12 7 (3.43%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.94%) Nokia