VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 106 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 23 15 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 0.87% 1.15%
As % of the System Software category 14.47% 9.49% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 18
10th Percentile £463 £467 £298
25th Percentile £465 £516 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £581 £508
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +14.53% -7.73%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £581
90th Percentile - £683 £670
Central London median daily rate £482 £581 £450
% change year-on-year -17.16% +29.17% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.23 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 - -
Median hourly rate £24.75 - -
75th Percentile £28.19 - -
90th Percentile £29.88 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.75 - -

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 159 158 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.57% 9.15% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 111 191
10th Percentile £217 £225 £263
25th Percentile £410 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -10.26%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £688
90th Percentile £671 £700 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +1.20% +3.75% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £19.72 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £20.43 £24.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.13 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -28.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £38.18 £108.88 -
90th Percentile £51.11 £156.05 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -33.88% +6.67%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the City of London

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the City of London

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the City of London

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) IaaS
3 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.04%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Cohesity
4 2 (8.70%) Rubrik
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) DNS
2 6 (26.09%) Firewall
3 5 (21.74%) DHCP
3 5 (21.74%) VPN
4 4 (17.39%) VSAN
5 3 (13.04%) SMTP
6 2 (8.70%) NAS
6 2 (8.70%) SAN
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.35%) LAN
7 1 (4.35%) Network Security
7 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
7 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.35%) VLAN
7 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (13.04%) Big Data
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) NetApp Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.35%) Blazor
1 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Clustering
2 5 (21.74%) Data Centre
3 4 (17.39%) PKI
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Replication
5 1 (4.35%) BYOD
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
5 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
5 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 6 (26.09%) Linux
4 3 (13.04%) VMS
5 2 (8.70%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (4.35%) CentOS
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.35%) SUSE
6 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Migration
1 5 (21.74%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 4 (17.39%) AI
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
3 3 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (13.04%) Software Deployment
4 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (8.70%) Load Balancing
4 2 (8.70%) Storage Management
4 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (4.35%) Network Optimisation
5 1 (4.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (8.70%) CCNA
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CCNP
5 1 (4.35%) MCSE
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.35%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
1 7 (30.43%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (21.74%) Hyper-V
3 4 (17.39%) vSphere
4 3 (13.04%) BitLocker
4 3 (13.04%) Docker
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (13.04%) NFS
4 3 (13.04%) Terminal Services
4 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (13.04%) VMware NSX
5 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
3 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Puppet
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) vMotion
4 3 (13.04%) Nagios
4 3 (13.04%) PowerCLI
5 2 (8.70%) SnapMirror
5 2 (8.70%) vRealize
6 1 (4.35%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (4.35%) SCCM
6 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (17.39%) Cisco
2 4 (17.39%) Citrix
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) Symantec
4 2 (8.70%) Dell
4 2 (8.70%) EMC
4 2 (8.70%) NetApp
4 2 (8.70%) Pure Storage
5 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
5 1 (4.35%) Commvault
5 1 (4.35%) Isilon
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow