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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 56 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +47
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 8 12 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.10% 1.92% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 15.09% 20.69% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £291 £433 £390
25th Percentile £413 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.57% -37.43%
75th Percentile £469 £588 £646
90th Percentile £473 £599 £654
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £453
% change year-on-year -3.07% +2.65% -2.58%

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 53 58 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.30% 9.27% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 67
10th Percentile £285 £226 £238
25th Percentile £409 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £634
90th Percentile £675 £619 £750
Scotland median daily rate £431 £465 £440
% change year-on-year -7.21% +5.57% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile - - £55.19
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 £35.00 £70.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +15.70% +48.72%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Edinburgh

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Catchpoint
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) BGP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (37.50%) NVMe
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) BCP
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (12.50%) CCIE
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) NCDA
2 1 (12.50%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) vMotion
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (25.00%) vRealize
3 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Brocade
3 2 (25.00%) Commvault
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) AppNeta
4 1 (12.50%) Arista
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Qualys
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam