VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 66 83
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 517 799 910
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.52% 3.41% 2.99%
As % of the System Software category 21.41% 22.58% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 564 668
10th Percentile £262 £313 £250
25th Percentile £363 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £429
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +22.51% +0.84%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £465
% change year-on-year -6.32% +14.78% +5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 47 30
10th Percentile £37.86 £38.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.13 £28.41
Median hourly rate £43.22 £63.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.40% +32.63% -
75th Percentile £74.06 £65.75 £60.07
90th Percentile £87.88 £83.82 £67.55
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £49.84
% change year-on-year -38.08% +30.42% -4.15%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,415 3,538 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.79% 15.08% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 2,553 3,250
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £285 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £559
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 185 239
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £46.11 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.73% +149.22% +5.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.88
90th Percentile £77.40 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
South East +1 230 £501 -3.75% 101
South West -3 93 £535 -2.73% 64
North of England -6 85 £350 -30.00% 78
Midlands -13 44 £544 +8.75% 74
North West -28 44 £325 -35.00% 50
Scotland +25 38 £453 -2.58% 7
Yorkshire +29 34 £378 -20.94% 21
West Midlands +6 33 £538 +13.16% 43
East of England -49 22 £650 - 47
East Midlands -5 10 £550 -14.73% 31
North East +11 7 £600 +14.29% 9
Wales -2 5 £285 -46.98% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 - 1
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 56 (10.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.00%) Confluence
3 23 (4.45%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.55%) IIS
5 7 (1.35%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.97%) nginx
7 4 (0.77%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.39%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.39%) Traefik
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.19%) Site Server
Applications
1 31 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.39%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.39%) RMDS
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 118 (22.82%) Azure
2 57 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (10.44%) AWS
4 21 (4.06%) IaaS
5 18 (3.48%) PaaS
6 16 (3.09%) GCP
7 15 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.90%) OCI
8 14 (2.71%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.13%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.93%) GitHub
10 10 (1.93%) SaaS
11 8 (1.55%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.58%) Azure Event Grid
14 3 (0.58%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.58%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 132 (25.53%) DNS
2 123 (23.79%) Firewall
3 112 (21.66%) DHCP
4 75 (14.51%) SAN
5 64 (12.38%) WAN
6 62 (11.99%) LAN
7 52 (10.06%) VPN
8 38 (7.35%) TCP/IP
9 36 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (5.80%) VSAN
11 20 (3.87%) NAS
11 20 (3.87%) VLAN
11 20 (3.87%) Wireless
12 16 (3.09%) Remote Desktop
13 14 (2.71%) VoIP
14 13 (2.51%) MPLS
15 10 (1.93%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (1.93%) Internet
15 10 (1.93%) Network Security
16 9 (1.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.55%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.55%) MySQL
4 7 (1.35%) Metadata
4 7 (1.35%) PowerPivot
4 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Power View
6 4 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.58%) Power BI
8 2 (0.39%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.19%) Big Data
9 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (7.74%) JIRA
2 20 (3.87%) Robot Framework
3 15 (2.90%) GitLab
4 14 (2.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.35%) Git
7 6 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.16%) Selenium
8 3 (0.58%) CppUnit
8 3 (0.58%) PVCS
8 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.19%) MSI
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 169 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 67 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.84%) Finance
5 20 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.29%) Military
7 15 (2.90%) Banking
8 12 (2.32%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.16%) Publishing
13 5 (0.97%) Billing
13 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.97%) Marketing
14 3 (0.58%) Back Office
14 3 (0.58%) Digital Economy
14 3 (0.58%) Front Office
15 2 (0.39%) Advertising
15 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (27.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (10.44%) Architect
3 41 (7.93%) Network Engineer
4 35 (6.77%) Support Engineer
4 35 (6.77%) VMware Engineer
5 33 (6.38%) Analyst
6 27 (5.22%) Integration Engineer
6 27 (5.22%) Senior
7 24 (4.64%) Storage Engineer
8 22 (4.26%) Wintel Engineer
9 19 (3.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 19 (3.68%) Linux Engineer
9 19 (3.68%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 18 (3.48%) Test Engineer
11 17 (3.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (3.09%) IT Engineer
13 15 (2.90%) 2nd Line Support
13 15 (2.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 15 (2.90%) Server Engineer
13 15 (2.90%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.09%) .NET
2 9 (1.74%) CSS
2 9 (1.74%) HTML
3 7 (1.35%) Middleware
3 7 (1.35%) Web Services
4 5 (0.97%) Flash
5 4 (0.77%) ModSecurity
5 4 (0.77%) REST
6 3 (0.58%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.58%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.58%) EDI
6 3 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.58%) J2EE
6 3 (0.58%) React
6 3 (0.58%) Vue
6 3 (0.58%) XMPP
7 2 (0.39%) ADSI
7 2 (0.39%) LDAP
7 2 (0.39%) Node.js
7 2 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.02%) Data Centre
2 55 (10.64%) PKI
3 42 (8.12%) Clustering
4 33 (6.38%) Client/Server
5 22 (4.26%) Private Cloud
6 16 (3.09%) Replication
7 14 (2.71%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.35%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.77%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 3 (0.58%) EMC VNX
14 3 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 289 (55.90%) Windows
2 202 (39.07%) Windows Server
3 164 (31.72%) Linux
4 77 (14.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 64 (12.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 58 (11.22%) Windows 10
7 51 (9.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 37 (7.16%) Unix
10 20 (3.87%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (3.09%) Windows XP
12 13 (2.51%) CentOS
13 12 (2.32%) VMS
14 11 (2.13%) Solaris
14 11 (2.13%) Ubuntu
15 9 (1.74%) Windows 7
16 8 (1.55%) Mac OS
17 7 (1.35%) Debian
18 3 (0.58%) AIX
19 2 (0.39%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (34.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 127 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (17.21%) Agile
4 86 (16.63%) Migration
5 75 (14.51%) ITIL
6 52 (10.06%) DevOps
7 41 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (7.54%) High Availability
9 38 (7.35%) Disaster Recovery
10 35 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (6.38%) Customer Service
12 32 (6.19%) Server Management
12 32 (6.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 31 (6.00%) Containerisation
13 31 (6.00%) Decision-Making
14 30 (5.80%) Release Management
15 29 (5.61%) Change Management
15 29 (5.61%) Data Protection
15 29 (5.61%) Test Automation
16 28 (5.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 125 (24.18%) PowerShell
2 70 (13.54%) Python
3 39 (7.54%) SQL
4 33 (6.38%) Bash
5 20 (3.87%) VBScript
6 13 (2.51%) C#
6 13 (2.51%) Java
7 10 (1.93%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.93%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.55%) Perl
9 6 (1.16%) C++
9 6 (1.16%) Go
9 6 (1.16%) Ruby
10 3 (0.58%) C
10 3 (0.58%) PHP
10 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.19%) Elixir
11 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 236 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 116 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 110 (21.28%) DV Cleared
4 91 (17.60%) Degree
5 52 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (9.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 46 (8.90%) CCNA
7 46 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (6.38%) MCSE
9 25 (4.84%) CCNP
9 25 (4.84%) MCSA
10 13 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (2.32%) Master's Degree
12 11 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (1.35%) A+ Certification
14 7 (1.35%) DBS Check
15 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.16%) RHCT
15 6 (1.16%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.68%) SLA
2 8 (1.55%) NIST
3 7 (1.35%) RMADS
4 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.97%) PMO
4 5 (0.97%) QA
5 4 (0.77%) GDPR
6 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 224 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 120 (23.21%) Hyper-V
3 84 (16.25%) vSphere
4 76 (14.70%) VMware NSX
5 74 (14.31%) VMware ESXi
6 34 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (4.45%) Virtual Servers
8 21 (4.06%) Docker
8 21 (4.06%) VMware Workstation
9 19 (3.68%) KVM
10 16 (3.09%) XenApp
11 9 (1.74%) vCloud
12 6 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (1.16%) VMware Server
13 5 (0.97%) Firmware
14 4 (0.77%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.58%) SRDF
15 3 (0.58%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.39%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 91 (17.60%) vCenter Server
2 68 (13.15%) SCCM
3 60 (11.61%) Ansible
4 48 (9.28%) Kubernetes
5 46 (8.90%) WSUS
6 39 (7.54%) Terraform
7 26 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (5.03%) SCOM
8 22 (4.26%) NetBackup
9 14 (2.71%) EMC NetWorker
10 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (1.74%) Nagios
11 9 (1.74%) Rancher
11 9 (1.74%) vRealize
11 9 (1.74%) VxRail
12 8 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (1.35%) Nessus
13 7 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 517 (100.00%) VMware
2 196 (37.91%) Microsoft
3 74 (14.31%) Cisco
4 50 (9.67%) Dell
5 42 (8.12%) Red Hat
6 39 (7.54%) Citrix
7 34 (6.58%) Veeam
8 32 (6.19%) Oracle
9 26 (5.03%) HP
10 24 (4.64%) EMC
11 22 (4.26%) Palo Alto
12 21 (4.06%) Juniper
13 17 (3.29%) SolarWinds
13 17 (3.29%) Symantec
14 14 (2.71%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.71%) Atlassian
14 14 (2.71%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (2.71%) Google
15 12 (2.32%) Ivanti
15 12 (2.32%) Splunk