VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 10 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 3 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.16% 7.34% 4.41%
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 36.36% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - £295 £420
25th Percentile £203 £403 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -56.84% +5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £391 £488 £494
90th Percentile £502 - £520
South West median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £63.58
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +48.60%

All System Software Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 22 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 12.63% 20.18% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £203 £295 £160
25th Percentile £274 £369 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +23.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £488 £450
90th Percentile £564 - £530
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 27
10th Percentile - - £13.25
25th Percentile - - £14.56
Median hourly rate - - £57.99
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.62%
75th Percentile - - £65.98
90th Percentile - - £69.62
South West median hourly rate £65.75 £37.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year +77.70% -41.04% +27.44%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Dorset over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 2 £205 -
Blandford Forum - 1 £550 - 1
VMware Infrastructure
South West

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) AppManager
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Ivanti
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft