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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 104 107
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +26
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 19 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.85% 0.96% 1.08%
As % of the System Software category 12.10% 8.81% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 15
10th Percentile £463 £165 £236
25th Percentile £465 £425 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +33.33% -22.72%
75th Percentile £538 £665 £499
90th Percentile £575 £675 £563
Central London median daily rate £482 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -12.45% +33.33% -23.26%

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 157 193 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.04% 10.93% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 136 179
10th Percentile £241 £263 £248
25th Percentile £402 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £543 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +11.28% -15.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £659
90th Percentile £686 £710 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £533 £475
% change year-on-year -1.50% +12.21% -15.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £175.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.13% +337.50% -
75th Percentile £50.72 £187.50 -
90th Percentile £56.12 - £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +70.21%

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
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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Cohesity
3 2 (10.53%) Rubrik
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) NAS
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
1 3 (15.79%) VSAN
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) DNS
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
1 6 (31.58%) VMware Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) NetApp Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Project Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Senior VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) VMS
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
4 1 (5.26%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) SUSE
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.79%) High Availability
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (5.26%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Runbook
5 1 (5.26%) Security Hardening
5 1 (5.26%) Server Hardening
5 1 (5.26%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (5.26%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) VCAP
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) MCSE
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (21.05%) vSphere
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) NFS
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.53%) Firmware
3 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
4 1 (5.26%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
2 3 (15.79%) vRealize
3 2 (10.53%) PowerCLI
3 2 (10.53%) SCCM
3 2 (10.53%) SnapMirror
4 1 (5.26%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) vMotion
4 1 (5.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) NetApp
2 2 (10.53%) Pure Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Broadcom
3 1 (5.26%) Commvault
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) EMC
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat