VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 43 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 14 26 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.97% 2.99% 3.21%
As % of the System Software category 19.18% 22.61% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 24
10th Percentile £418 - £243
25th Percentile £524 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £645
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.23% +51.76%
75th Percentile - £538 £696
90th Percentile - £573 £715
England median daily rate £550 £511 £545
% change year-on-year +7.58% -6.19% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £61.35
% change year-on-year -30.00% -34.80% +28.33%

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 73 115 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.28% 13.23% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 78 117
10th Percentile £199 £157 £122
25th Percentile £324 £253 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £533 £497 £565
90th Percentile £550 £568 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £12.87
25th Percentile - £45.22 £13.57
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +131.24% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £55.37
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.04% -55.40% +150.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the East Midlands

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 2 July 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
Derbyshire +11 5 £550 +46.67% 25
Nottinghamshire +5 5 - - 17
Leicestershire -5 4 £530 +1.00% 15
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) VSAN
General
1 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Architect
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Build Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Build Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Biometrics
2 1 (7.14%) Coaching
2 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
2 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.14%) Data Management
2 1 (7.14%) IT Audit
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL
2 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.14%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (7.14%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
2 1 (7.14%) Service Management
2 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) SCOM
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Podman
3 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam
3 1 (7.14%) Zerto