VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 7 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.14% 1.79% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 13.46% 20.75% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £418 £443 £445
25th Percentile £425 £478 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £536 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +9.39% -0.41%
75th Percentile £500 £592 £528
90th Percentile £523 £601 £541
Scotland median daily rate £464 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -6.69% -0.60% +9.17%

All System Software Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 52 53 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.48% 8.60% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 64
10th Percentile £250 £201 £224
25th Percentile £414 £248 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -7.42% -
75th Percentile £547 £505 £538
90th Percentile £675 £581 £718
Scotland median daily rate £431 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -4.17% -5.26% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £70.50 £60.00
25th Percentile - £71.25 £60.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +19.83% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £60.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £72.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -24.14% +19.83% +241.42%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Catchpoint
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) NVMe
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) BCP
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) NCDA
1 1 (14.29%) VCP6
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) vMotion
1 3 (42.86%) vRealize
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Brocade
3 2 (28.57%) Commvault
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
4 1 (14.29%) AppNeta
4 1 (14.29%) Arista
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam