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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 57 74
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 7 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.12% 1.99% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 14.58% 21.31% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £418 £416 £447
25th Percentile £425 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% +2.20% -28.57%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £550
90th Percentile £523 £597 £633
Scotland median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% +7.64%

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 48 61 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.69% 9.36% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 59
10th Percentile £203 £200 £216
25th Percentile £383 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £471 £479
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -1.67% +0.84%
75th Percentile £556 £522 £611
90th Percentile £675 £592 £750
Scotland median daily rate £402 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.61% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% -
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +15.70% +199.80%

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