VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 83 38
Rank change year-on-year +21 -45 +24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 20 29 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 1.52% 4.84%
As % of the System Software category 13.79% 17.79% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 74
10th Percentile £243 £235 £363
25th Percentile £366 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £650 £661
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -1.66% +59.28%
75th Percentile £540 £725 £700
90th Percentile £565 - £788
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.59% +130.55%
75th Percentile - £89.06 £65.75
90th Percentile - £89.63 £67.88
England median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.25% -38.46% +30.42%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 145 163 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.54% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £587
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 41
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire +17 10 £501 +108.85% 10
Hertfordshire +8 4 £525 -19.23% 18
Essex - 4 £245 - 18
Suffolk - 2 £369 - 2
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (5.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 4 (20.00%) GitHub
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) Network Security
3 4 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (20.00%) VPN
3 4 (20.00%) VSAN
4 3 (15.00%) DHCP
4 3 (15.00%) LAN
4 3 (15.00%) SAN
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
4 3 (15.00%) VoIP
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.00%) IMAP
6 1 (5.00%) Skype
6 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support
3 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Support
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
1 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (30.00%) Capacity Management
6 5 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
7 4 (20.00%) Proactive Management
7 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
8 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.00%) High Availability
9 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 2 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (15.00%) VCAP
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (30.00%) Docker
4 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (25.00%) vSphere
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) SCCM
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (20.00%) Podman
3 4 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 4 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (20.00%) VxRail
4 3 (15.00%) AppManager
5 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (10.00%) WSUS
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Dell
3 4 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (20.00%) NetApp
4 3 (15.00%) Ivanti
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.00%) Splunk
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) Fujitsu
6 1 (5.00%) Tenable