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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 59 61
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 8 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.05% 0.94% 2.24%
As % of the System Software category 11.76% 12.50% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £269 £423 £390
25th Percentile £357 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +19.86% -23.83%
75th Percentile £465 £569 £646
90th Percentile £490 £580 £654
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £438
% change year-on-year -3.07% +6.05% -11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.19
Median hourly rate - - £18.38
75th Percentile - - £18.56
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £18.38

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 68 48 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.94% 7.52% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 86
10th Percentile £238 £240 £200
25th Percentile £357 £431 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +13.64% -7.07%
75th Percentile £591 £544 £500
90th Percentile £650 £588 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £495 £433
% change year-on-year -9.00% +14.20% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £18.19
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £20.29
75th Percentile £45.41 - £24.18
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 - £20.29
% change year-on-year - - -62.26%

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 29 July 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%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Apigee
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Environment Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Service Improvement Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) MSMQ
1 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Go
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (12.50%) Informatica
4 1 (12.50%) Qualys
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk