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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 102 98
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 21 16 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.88% 0.94% 1.24%
As % of the System Software category 13.64% 10.06% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 18
10th Percentile £463 £467 £264
25th Percentile £465 £516 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £581 £431
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +34.78% -21.59%
75th Percentile £613 £668 £581
90th Percentile £638 £683 £670
Central London median daily rate £482 £581 £450
% change year-on-year -17.16% +29.17% -21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 154 159 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.48% 9.33% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 110 192
10th Percentile £221 £225 £254
25th Percentile £410 £389 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +7.20% -14.53%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £677
90th Percentile £673 £703 £749
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.95 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £24.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -28.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £41.72 £108.88 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £156.05 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.82% -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 10 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
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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Cohesity
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Rubrik
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
2 4 (19.05%) DHCP
2 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) VPN
2 4 (19.05%) VSAN
3 2 (9.52%) NAS
3 2 (9.52%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) SMTP
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) NetApp Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.76%) Blazor
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) BYOD
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) VMS
5 2 (9.52%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (4.76%) CentOS
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.76%) SUSE
6 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) AI
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) High Availability
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
4 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
4 2 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (9.52%) Software Deployment
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
4 2 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (4.76%) Agile
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) CCNA
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) MCSE
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 6 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
2 4 (19.05%) vSphere
3 3 (14.29%) NFS
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (9.52%) BitLocker
4 2 (9.52%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) Firmware
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (9.52%) Terminal Services
4 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) vCenter Server
3 4 (19.05%) Terraform
4 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 3 (14.29%) Puppet
4 3 (14.29%) vMotion
5 2 (9.52%) Nagios
5 2 (9.52%) SnapMirror
5 2 (9.52%) vRealize
6 1 (4.76%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (4.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Citrix
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Dell
3 2 (9.52%) EMC
3 2 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) HP
3 2 (9.52%) NetApp
3 2 (9.52%) Pure Storage
3 2 (9.52%) Symantec
4 1 (4.76%) Broadcom
4 1 (4.76%) Commvault
4 1 (4.76%) Isilon
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow