VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 45 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 20 9 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.26% 1.53% 1.79%
As % of the System Software category 21.05% 17.65% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 10
10th Percentile £321 £291 £169
25th Percentile £408 £337 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -34.13%
75th Percentile £491 £388 £392
90th Percentile £563 - £443
England median daily rate £513 £512 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -0.10% -2.38%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 95 51 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.72% 8.69% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 30 68
10th Percentile £131 £177 £163
25th Percentile £180 £188 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £366 £375
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £488 £419 £530
90th Percentile £538 £494 £627
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.65 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.39 £19.40 £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.71 £21.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% +19.98% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.60 £21.24
90th Percentile £25.58 £24.62 £22.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +63.79% -36.79% +83.52%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Northamptonshire -6 10 £465 +78.85% 2
Nottinghamshire -9 5 £410 +9.33% 1
Derbyshire +2 4 £550 +46.67% 3
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DHCP
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) NAS
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Programme Director
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Mac OS
3 6 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.00%) AIX
6 1 (5.00%) Linux
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
2 8 (40.00%) User Experience
3 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (35.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Budgeting
5 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Business Transformation
5 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.00%) VCAP
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) GDPR
1 8 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) SCCM
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (40.00%) Citrix
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.00%) Remedy