VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Central London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 105 100
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 +51
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 15 26 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.74% 1.12% 1.64%
As % of the System Software category 7.58% 9.74% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 29
10th Percentile £470 £320 £252
25th Percentile £503 £407 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.17% -8.95% -10.38%
75th Percentile £600 £485 £538
90th Percentile £645 £559 £640
London median daily rate £545 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +9.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -73.21% +103.86% +34.04%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 198 267 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.78% 11.45% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 171 227
10th Percentile £279 £275 £223
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £565 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +15.31% -14.78%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £730 £754
London median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £22.22 £84.40 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £94.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £43.84
% change year-on-year +5.67% -45.71% +67.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Central London

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Central London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Central London

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
City of London -9 13 £550 +25.00% 15
City of Westminster +3 2 £450 +5.88%
West End of London - 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure
London

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DKIM
2 1 (6.67%) DMARC
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) PSTN
2 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) VLAN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Migration Architect
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) VCAP
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) MCSA
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) vRealize
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) PowerCLI
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Pure Storage
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow