VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Cambridgeshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 52 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 -3 -17
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 10 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.62% 0.61% 1.52%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 6.67% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £463 - £341
25th Percentile £465 £235 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £240 £413
Median % change year-on-year +108.85% -41.82% +7.14%
75th Percentile £545 £245 £423
90th Percentile £550 - £432
East of England median daily rate £473 £650 £661
% change year-on-year -27.31% -1.66% +59.28%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 50 45 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 18.12% 9.09% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 54
10th Percentile £333 £120 £200
25th Percentile £379 £178 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £450
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -50.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £245 £500
90th Percentile £575 £275 £532
East of England median daily rate £470 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 26 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -2.34% -
75th Percentile £16.95 £14.88 £18.50
90th Percentile £21.46 £15.12 £32.90
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
% change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Cambridgeshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Cambridgeshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Cambridgeshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Huntingdon - 3 - - 1
Cambridge +11 2 £540 +125.00% 4
VMware Infrastructure
East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Nutanix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
1 4 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (40.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 4 (40.00%) Proactive Management
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) VCAP
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (40.00%) Podman
2 4 (40.00%) PowerCLI
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (40.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat