VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 125 104
Rank change year-on-year -34 -21 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 585 562 834
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 2.14% 2.21%
As % of the System Software category 14.20% 17.51% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 361 527
10th Percentile £300 £263 £275
25th Percentile £400 £388 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £603
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 63
10th Percentile £33.93 £54.50 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.21 £61.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +47.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £76.39
90th Percentile £77.13 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -7.69%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,121 3,209 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.34% 12.21% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,803 2,083 3,104
10th Percentile £205 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -8.49%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £488
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.64% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 80 227
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -27.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £90.95 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £43.84
% change year-on-year +36.39% -29.85% +25.24%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
South East -13 148 £500 -9.09% 77
London -81 128 £540 +2.86% 63
Midlands +12 117 £402 -33.39% 34
North of England -35 105 £425 - 48
West Midlands +8 89 £340 -43.99% 25
North West -14 70 £437 -2.94% 22
South West -34 70 £550 -0.18% 33
Yorkshire -27 45 £385 -14.44% 24
East of England -4 31 £475 +8.57% 13
East Midlands -3 28 £447 -14.86% 9
North East -17 2 £513 +46.43% 4
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 34 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.91%) Confluence
4 11 (1.88%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.20%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.85%) IIS
6 5 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.91%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 176 (30.09%) Azure
2 140 (23.93%) AWS
3 55 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (7.69%) GCP
5 44 (7.52%) OpenShift
6 39 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 25 (4.27%) Nutanix
8 24 (4.10%) IaaS
9 20 (3.42%) GitHub
10 15 (2.56%) PaaS
11 14 (2.39%) Datadog
12 8 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.85%) SaaS
15 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
15 4 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 174 (29.74%) DNS
2 139 (23.76%) Firewall
3 88 (15.04%) DHCP
4 56 (9.57%) TCP/IP
5 55 (9.40%) VPN
6 44 (7.52%) Network Security
7 43 (7.35%) SAN
8 39 (6.67%) VLAN
9 35 (5.98%) VSAN
10 33 (5.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 32 (5.47%) WAN
12 31 (5.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 31 (5.30%) LAN
13 25 (4.27%) BIG-IP
14 24 (4.10%) BGP
14 24 (4.10%) NAS
15 23 (3.93%) SSL
16 21 (3.59%) HTTP
17 20 (3.42%) Wireless
17 20 (3.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.34%) Redis
5 1 (0.17%) DataStage
5 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.17%) Power BI
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.08%) Git
3 16 (2.74%) JIRA
4 15 (2.56%) GitLab
5 14 (2.39%) Fiddler
6 10 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.37%) PVCS
7 8 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.20%) JMeter
8 7 (1.20%) JUnit
9 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.68%) RStudio
9 4 (0.68%) Subversion
10 3 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 145 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.72%) Finance
5 43 (7.35%) Banking
6 33 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.27%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.39%) Legal
9 13 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.37%) Electronics
12 7 (1.20%) Police
13 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.85%) Local Government
14 5 (0.85%) Military
15 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 107 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 80 (13.68%) Architect
3 56 (9.57%) Analyst
4 35 (5.98%) Network Engineer
5 30 (5.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 30 (5.13%) Senior
5 30 (5.13%) Support Engineer
6 29 (4.96%) VMware Engineer
7 28 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (4.27%) Infrastructure Architect
9 23 (3.93%) Consultant
10 19 (3.25%) Lead
10 19 (3.25%) Storage Analyst
11 17 (2.91%) Wintel Engineer
12 16 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (2.74%) VMware Consultant
12 16 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
13 15 (2.56%) Administrator
13 15 (2.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 15 (2.56%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.08%) Flash
2 13 (2.22%) LDAP
3 10 (1.71%) SAML
4 9 (1.54%) REST
5 8 (1.37%) Kafka
6 7 (1.20%) Loki
6 7 (1.20%) Spring
7 6 (1.03%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.85%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.68%) Middleware
9 4 (0.68%) OAuth
9 4 (0.68%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.68%) OpenID
10 3 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.51%) Swagger
11 2 (0.34%) .NET
11 2 (0.34%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.34%) RESTful
12 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.31%) Data Centre
2 62 (10.60%) Replication
3 44 (7.52%) PKI
4 36 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 33 (5.64%) Management Information System
6 32 (5.47%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (4.96%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.91%) Clustering
9 17 (2.91%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.71%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
12 9 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.37%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 250 (42.74%) Windows
2 207 (35.38%) Linux
3 147 (25.13%) Windows Server
4 37 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (5.81%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (3.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (2.74%) Mac OS
8 16 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (2.22%) Ubuntu
9 13 (2.22%) VMS
10 9 (1.54%) Unix
11 8 (1.37%) Solaris
12 7 (1.20%) CentOS
13 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.68%) AIX
14 4 (0.68%) CatOS
14 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.34%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (22.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 109 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (15.73%) Migration
4 90 (15.38%) Agile
5 74 (12.65%) CI/CD
6 73 (12.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 73 (12.48%) ITIL
7 68 (11.62%) DevOps
8 62 (10.60%) Load Balancing
9 61 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 56 (9.57%) High Availability
11 53 (9.06%) Containerisation
12 46 (7.86%) Data Protection
13 45 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (6.67%) Service Management
16 36 (6.15%) Network Virtualisation
17 35 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (5.98%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 142 (24.27%) PowerShell
2 110 (18.80%) Python
3 79 (13.50%) Bash
4 27 (4.62%) SQL
5 15 (2.56%) Perl
6 13 (2.22%) Java
7 12 (2.05%) C
8 10 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.54%) C++
10 7 (1.20%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.20%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.68%) Bicep
11 4 (0.68%) C#
11 4 (0.68%) Go
11 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.51%) PHP
13 2 (0.34%) Korn
14 1 (0.17%) COBOL
14 1 (0.17%) Rust
14 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 231 (39.49%) Security Cleared
2 153 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.65%) DV Cleared
4 43 (7.35%) Degree
5 41 (7.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (7.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 30 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.93%) CCNP
9 17 (2.91%) MCSE
10 16 (2.74%) VCAP
11 15 (2.56%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.05%) CCNA
12 12 (2.05%) MCSA
13 11 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.88%) CCIE
13 11 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.88%) Server+ Certification
14 7 (1.20%) JNCIE
14 7 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.42%) GDPR
1 20 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.39%) NIST
3 9 (1.54%) SLA
4 7 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.03%) QA
6 5 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.68%) NCSC
8 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) COBIT
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 167 (28.55%) Active Directory
2 125 (21.37%) vSphere
3 90 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 86 (14.70%) VMware NSX
5 81 (13.85%) VMware ESXi
6 54 (9.23%) Docker
7 52 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (5.64%) NFS
9 26 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (3.25%) Firmware
11 18 (3.08%) KVM
12 17 (2.91%) GPFS
13 7 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.68%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.68%) vCloud
15 4 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.51%) UAG
16 3 (0.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 97 (16.58%) Ansible
2 75 (12.82%) Terraform
2 75 (12.82%) vCenter Server
3 64 (10.94%) Kubernetes
4 63 (10.77%) SCCM
5 56 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 50 (8.55%) vRealize
7 23 (3.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (3.76%) Grafana
9 20 (3.42%) Argo
10 19 (3.25%) VxRail
11 16 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (2.39%) Prometheus
12 14 (2.39%) SCOM
13 12 (2.05%) WSUS
14 11 (1.88%) Progress Chef
14 11 (1.88%) vMotion
15 10 (1.71%) FortiGate
16 8 (1.37%) PowerCLI
16 8 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 585 (100.00%) VMware
2 169 (28.89%) Microsoft
3 139 (23.76%) Cisco
4 63 (10.77%) F5
5 62 (10.60%) Citrix
6 54 (9.23%) Red Hat
7 41 (7.01%) IBM
8 40 (6.84%) Dell
8 40 (6.84%) SolarWinds
9 36 (6.15%) NetApp
10 34 (5.81%) Oracle
10 34 (5.81%) Veeam
11 32 (5.47%) ServiceNow
12 27 (4.62%) Palo Alto
13 22 (3.76%) Pure Storage
14 20 (3.42%) Commvault
15 16 (2.74%) McAfee
16 15 (2.56%) Blue Coat
16 15 (2.56%) HP
16 15 (2.56%) Splunk