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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 104 96
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 +53
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 6 25 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 1.20% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 4.23% 9.96% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 41
10th Percentile - £318 £438
25th Percentile - £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -7.83% +0.46%
75th Percentile £563 £560 £644
90th Percentile £600 £694 £688
Central London median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.57% -10.49% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.88
25th Percentile - - £27.81
Median hourly rate - - £36.25
75th Percentile - - £45.31
90th Percentile - - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate - - £36.25
% change year-on-year - - +85.90%

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 142 251 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.06% 12.07% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 174 254
10th Percentile £275 £341 £283
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -2.61% +4.45%
75th Percentile £668 £684 £738
90th Percentile £688 £735 £824
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £22.48 - £23.88
25th Percentile £23.19 £77.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -70.29% +134.48% +76.83%
75th Percentile £28.19 £92.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.43 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £85.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -68.88% +134.48% +76.83%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Operations Director
1 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Subject Matter Expert
1 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Technology Director
1 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Tech Ops
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCSA
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Firmware
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Avaya
4 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto