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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 11 20 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.43% 2.60% 2.23%
As % of the System Software category 14.86% 21.05% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 13
10th Percentile £380 - £164
25th Percentile £425 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £412 £375
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% +9.87% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £474 £455
90th Percentile - £497 £675
England median daily rate £550 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £63.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -62.22% +41.89%

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 74 95 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.61% 12.34% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 59 98
10th Percentile £152 £176 £143
25th Percentile £255 £256 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £383 £338
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +13.48% +16.38%
75th Percentile £488 £499 £530
90th Percentile £550 £530 £658
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £19.15 £13.25
25th Percentile - £20.63 £13.89
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.57% -4.22%
75th Percentile - £38.60 £20.75
90th Percentile - £46.58 £21.50
England median hourly rate £38.75 £24.19 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.19% -47.62% +109.91%

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
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 7 September 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 7 September 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 +7 5 £550 +46.67% 11
Northamptonshire -16 3 £450 -5.26% 7
Nottinghamshire -3 2 - - 8
Leicestershire -3 1 - - 2
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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) VLAN
2 1 (9.09%) VSAN
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Architect
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) AIX
4 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) Data Management
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) IT Audit
3 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Podman
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (9.09%) Zerto