VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Bristol

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 56 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 17 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.46% 1.69% 1.31%
As % of the System Software category 27.42% 16.84% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £315 £315 £390
25th Percentile £508 £463 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £691 £513 £600
90th Percentile £744 £523 £623
South West median daily rate £575 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +6.98% +4.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.06% +80.18%
South West median hourly rate - £72.75 £61.50
% change year-on-year - +18.29% +27.41%

All System Software Skills
Bristol

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 62 95 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.96% 10.05% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 75 45
10th Percentile £221 £385 £187
25th Percentile £235 £463 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.52% +23.53% -12.82%
75th Percentile £625 £599 £538
90th Percentile £735 £710 £638
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile £79.09 £63.18 £16.77
25th Percentile £79.68 £69.09 £18.08
Median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +255.56% -54.73%
75th Percentile £95.00 £85.00 £52.38
90th Percentile - £90.25 £68.95
South West median hourly rate £78.70 £78.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year +0.90% +258.62% -55.04%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) PaaS
1 7 (41.18%) SaaS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) PBX
1 7 (41.18%) VoIP
2 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.88%) 4G
3 1 (5.88%) 5G
3 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
General
1 7 (41.18%) Telecoms
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Police
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior VMware Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Blackberry
1 7 (41.18%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Migration
1 10 (58.82%) Roadmaps
2 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Commercial Awareness
3 7 (41.18%) Impact Assessments
3 7 (41.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (41.18%) Validation
4 6 (35.29%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (35.29%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (35.29%) Product Roadmap
4 6 (35.29%) Service Design
4 6 (35.29%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (29.41%) User Experience
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
7 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (11.76%) Agile
8 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
8 2 (11.76%) Scrum
8 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
4 7 (41.18%) CCNP
4 7 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (41.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.76%) XenDesktop
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (47.06%) Cisco
3 7 (41.18%) Avaya
3 7 (41.18%) Ericsson
3 7 (41.18%) F5
3 7 (41.18%) Juniper
3 7 (41.18%) Nokia
3 7 (41.18%) Palo Alto
3 7 (41.18%) Ribbon
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) Ivanti
6 1 (5.88%) Brocade
6 1 (5.88%) Extreme Networks