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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 46 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 25 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.62% 1.61% 1.92%
As % of the System Software category 23.15% 17.65% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 9
10th Percentile £296 £291 £244
25th Percentile £408 £337 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £363
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +24.14% -24.48%
75th Percentile £488 £536 £400
90th Percentile £560 £537 £485
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 108 51 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.30% 9.11% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 31 74
10th Percentile £131 £175 £160
25th Percentile £163 £186 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £356 £350
Median % change year-on-year -29.78% +1.71% -14.89%
75th Percentile £473 £460 £525
90th Percentile £544 £525 £614
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £16.25 - £16.54
25th Percentile £17.39 £23.10 £16.99
Median hourly rate £23.71 £24.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +36.57% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.30 £21.24
90th Percentile £25.58 - £22.73
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +44.62% -33.71% +13.64%

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 27 January 2026.

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 27 January 2026. 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
Derbyshire +4 9 £445 +18.67% 2
Northamptonshire -15 9 £458 +75.96% 4
Nottinghamshire -11 6 £413 - 2
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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (28.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) NAS
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) VSAN
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Local Government
2 4 (16.00%) Police
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Help Desk Technician
2 4 (16.00%) ICT Technician
3 3 (12.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Wintel Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Mac OS
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.00%) AIX
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (44.00%) Data Protection
2 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (28.00%) ITIL
3 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (28.00%) Thought Leadership
3 7 (28.00%) User Experience
3 7 (28.00%) Zero Trust
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) ITSM
6 4 (16.00%) Budgeting
6 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
6 4 (16.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (16.00%) Programme Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (28.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) NVQ Level 3
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) VCAP
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) GDPR
1 7 (28.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) vSphere
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) SCCM
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (28.00%) Citrix
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) Remedy