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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 110 102
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 38 7 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.68% 0.40% 1.24%
As % of the System Software category 20.77% 4.86% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 18
10th Percentile £422 - £319
25th Percentile £463 - £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.57% -9.26%
75th Percentile £638 £563 £554
90th Percentile £650 £600 £685
Central London median daily rate £540 £500 £485
% change year-on-year +8.00% +3.18% -11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £11.85 - -
25th Percentile £14.63 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.38 - -
90th Percentile £28.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 183 144 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.09% 8.21% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 101 173
10th Percentile £243 £275 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.10%
75th Percentile £626 £668 £688
90th Percentile £675 £688 £736
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £12.78 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £16.94 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £21.75 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £25.75 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £28.90 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year -9.26% -68.88% +134.48%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) Confluence
3 2 (5.26%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (2.63%) IIS
4 1 (2.63%) nginx
4 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) IaaS
3 7 (18.42%) PaaS
4 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.63%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) DNS
2 9 (23.68%) Firewall
3 7 (18.42%) DHCP
3 7 (18.42%) VPN
4 3 (7.89%) SMTP
5 2 (5.26%) DMZ
5 2 (5.26%) LAN
5 2 (5.26%) SAN
5 2 (5.26%) VSAN
5 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.63%) BGP
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (2.63%) NAS
6 1 (2.63%) Network Security
6 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.63%) TACACS
6 1 (2.63%) VLAN
6 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (10.53%) Power BI
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.89%) Big Data
4 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Law
4 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Migration Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Migration Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) REST
3 2 (5.26%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.63%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.63%) Blazor
4 1 (2.63%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) OAuth
4 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 8 (21.05%) Clustering
3 4 (10.53%) PKI
3 4 (10.53%) Private Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.63%) BYOD
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) CMDB
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Replication
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.42%) Linux
4 6 (15.79%) VMS
5 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.26%) OpenVMS
6 2 (5.26%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.63%) CentOS
7 1 (2.63%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.63%) SUSE
7 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 13 (34.21%) Migration
2 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.16%) High Availability
4 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 5 (13.16%) ITIL
5 4 (10.53%) Agile
5 4 (10.53%) AI
5 4 (10.53%) DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (10.53%) Incident Management
5 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.89%) Server Management
6 3 (7.89%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) Korn
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) Degree
5 2 (5.26%) CCNA
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CCNP
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) MCSE
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (39.47%) Active Directory
2 11 (28.95%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (18.42%) vSphere
4 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
5 4 (10.53%) Docker
6 3 (7.89%) BitLocker
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (7.89%) Terminal Services
6 3 (7.89%) VMware NSX
7 2 (5.26%) Firmware
7 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.63%) NFS
8 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Ansible
2 8 (21.05%) vCenter Server
3 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 5 (13.16%) Puppet
5 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (10.53%) SCOM
6 3 (7.89%) FortiGate
6 3 (7.89%) Nagios
6 3 (7.89%) PowerCLI
6 3 (7.89%) SCCM
6 3 (7.89%) vMotion
7 2 (5.26%) Nessus
7 2 (5.26%) NetBackup
7 2 (5.26%) WSUS
8 1 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (2.63%) SCOrch
8 1 (2.63%) SnapMirror
8 1 (2.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (21.05%) Cisco
3 7 (18.42%) Citrix
3 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.53%) Google
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle
4 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.89%) BMC
5 3 (7.89%) Commvault
5 3 (7.89%) Dell
5 3 (7.89%) EMC
5 3 (7.89%) HP
5 3 (7.89%) Remedy
5 3 (7.89%) Symantec
6 2 (5.26%) NetApp
6 2 (5.26%) Tenable
6 2 (5.26%) Veeam
6 2 (5.26%) Veritas
6 2 (5.26%) Zscaler