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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 22 14 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.92% 1.88% 3.04%
As % of the System Software category 19.47% 18.67% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £291 £365 -
25th Percentile £400 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.36% -1.30%
75th Percentile £475 - £528
90th Percentile £485 - £572
England median daily rate £505 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £72.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +117.71% -27.50% -33.33%

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 113 75 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.85% 10.08% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 52 71
10th Percentile £131 £191 £160
25th Percentile £190 £304 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £429 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% +14.40% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £497
90th Percentile £656 £550 £538
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile - - £20.87
25th Percentile £12.76 - £24.92
Median hourly rate £25.75 £15.09 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year +70.64% -54.87% +59.24%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £43.55
90th Percentile - - £48.56
England median hourly rate £56.25 £37.07 £22.23
% change year-on-year +51.73% +66.81% -44.44%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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
Lincolnshire - 9 £352 - 2
Nottinghamshire -15 5 £400 - 4
Northamptonshire +13 4 £450 -4.46% 3
Derbyshire -8 3 £325 -40.91%
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 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) DHCP
1 10 (45.45%) DNS
2 6 (27.27%) IPv4
2 6 (27.27%) IPv6
2 6 (27.27%) Network Security
2 6 (27.27%) VLAN
3 4 (18.18%) SAN
4 3 (13.64%) LAN
4 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 3 (13.64%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
2 2 (9.09%) Local Government
2 2 (9.09%) Police
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) IT Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Server Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Help Desk Technician
4 2 (9.09%) ICT Technician
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Nutanix Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (22.73%) Onboarding
2 5 (22.73%) Virtual Team
3 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 14 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.09%) Linux
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Business Continuity
5 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.09%) ITSM
5 2 (9.09%) Mathematics
5 2 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) Identity Management
6 1 (4.55%) Information Management
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (4.55%) Migration
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Management
6 1 (4.55%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) MCSA
3 2 (9.09%) MCSE
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) vSphere
2 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) Firmware
4 1 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) WSUS
2 3 (13.64%) VxRail
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (27.27%) Citrix
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Dell
5 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds