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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 54 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 23 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.70% 2.06% 2.62%
As % of the System Software category 20.91% 20.48% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 12
10th Percentile £380 £425 -
25th Percentile £406 £447 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £490 £412
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +18.93% +11.73%
75th Percentile £490 £550 £474
90th Percentile £526 - £497
England median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%

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 110 83 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.15% 10.06% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 63 54
10th Percentile £190 £139 £181
25th Percentile £275 £295 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £420 £392
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +7.28% +11.86%
75th Percentile £500 £507 £494
90th Percentile £545 £570 £525
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 2
10th Percentile £12.76 - £18.65
25th Percentile £16.32 - £19.40
Median hourly rate £25.75 - £21.26
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.49%
75th Percentile - - £23.60
90th Percentile £74.00 - £24.62
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -40.22%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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
Nottinghamshire -7 11 £425 +304.76% 8
Lincolnshire - 9 £352 - 3
Northamptonshire +6 1 £450 -4.26% 1
Derbyshire -13 1 £526 -4.32% 1
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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) DHCP
1 10 (43.48%) DNS
2 4 (17.39%) Network Security
3 3 (13.04%) IPv4
3 3 (13.04%) IPv6
3 3 (13.04%) LAN
3 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 3 (13.04%) VLAN
3 3 (13.04%) WAN
4 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) VMware Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Server Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Consultant
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 3 (13.04%) IT Consultant
6 3 (13.04%) IT Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
1 14 (60.87%) Windows Server
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Project Delivery
3 5 (21.74%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Server Management
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
7 1 (4.35%) Identity Management
7 1 (4.35%) Information Management
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (4.35%) Performance Management
7 1 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (4.35%) Service Management
7 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) MCSA
3 2 (8.70%) MCSE
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
1 13 (56.52%) vSphere
2 1 (4.35%) Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) VxRail
2 3 (13.04%) WSUS
3 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Aruba
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix
4 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds