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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 170 103
Rank change year-on-year +6 -67 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 769 457 763
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.66% 2.30%
As % of the System Software category 16.76% 13.82% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 299 483
10th Percentile £318 £331 £321
25th Percentile £424 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -5.64% +5.77% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 8
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% +0.06% -50.03%
75th Percentile £76.50 £48.63 £55.31
90th Percentile £98.82 £59.80 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +110.45% +0.06% -52.41%

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 4,588 3,307 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.01% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,016 2,129 2,648
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £389 £378 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £682 £682 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 95 127
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.03 £14.06
25th Percentile £32.52 £22.75 £15.88
Median hourly rate £60.92 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +62.44% +57.56% -45.60%
75th Percentile £74.45 £80.50 £61.81
90th Percentile £89.88 £91.50 £72.05
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £24.18
% change year-on-year +75.24% +29.80% -51.64%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -3 213 £538 -6.52% 68
London -1 190 £525 - 107
North of England +6 165 £450 +5.88% 38
Midlands -21 96 £450 -18.18% 28
North West +15 90 £472 +11.06% 20
South West -29 77 £613 +6.52% 46
West Midlands -11 74 £450 -21.40% 17
Yorkshire -21 66 £500 +16.35% 10
East of England -18 39 £500 -9.09% 27
East Midlands -8 22 £425 -18.43% 11
North East -32 9 £350 -44.00% 10
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 42 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.17%) Confluence
3 9 (1.17%) IIS
3 9 (1.17%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.91%) JBoss
4 7 (0.91%) nginx
4 7 (0.91%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.52%) Apache
5 4 (0.52%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.26%) CMS
7 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.26%) Houdini
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.26%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 13 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 215 (27.96%) Azure
2 138 (17.95%) AWS
3 73 (9.49%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.76%) Entra ID
5 37 (4.81%) OpenShift
6 35 (4.55%) GCP
7 29 (3.77%) GitHub
8 28 (3.64%) IaaS
9 18 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (2.08%) PaaS
11 15 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.82%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.82%) SaaS
13 13 (1.69%) Nutanix
14 12 (1.56%) Rubrik
15 9 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.17%) Azure Stack
15 9 (1.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 255 (33.16%) DNS
2 175 (22.76%) Firewall
3 160 (20.81%) DHCP
4 89 (11.57%) TCP/IP
5 88 (11.44%) VSAN
6 74 (9.62%) VPN
7 63 (8.19%) SAN
8 62 (8.06%) VLAN
9 59 (7.67%) WAN
10 56 (7.28%) Network Security
11 45 (5.85%) LAN
12 41 (5.33%) SSL
13 38 (4.94%) NAS
14 37 (4.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 32 (4.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 30 (3.90%) BIG-IP
17 27 (3.51%) BGP
18 26 (3.38%) HTTP
19 25 (3.25%) Wireshark
20 20 (2.60%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.69%) Power BI
2 13 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.17%) Big Data
5 9 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
11 1 (0.13%) DataStage
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 29 (3.77%) JIRA
2 24 (3.12%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.47%) Git
3 19 (2.47%) GitLab
4 16 (2.08%) Fiddler
5 5 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.52%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.26%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.26%) MSI
8 2 (0.26%) PVCS
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 175 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 79 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (9.49%) Finance
4 38 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.42%) Banking
6 26 (3.38%) Legal
7 23 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.04%) Retail
13 7 (0.91%) Military
14 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.78%) Law
15 5 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Police
16 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 188 (24.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 103 (13.39%) Senior
3 82 (10.66%) VMware Engineer
4 70 (9.10%) Network Engineer
5 59 (7.67%) Architect
6 48 (6.24%) Support Engineer
7 40 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (5.20%) Lead
8 36 (4.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 33 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (4.16%) Storage Engineer
11 30 (3.90%) Administrator
12 29 (3.77%) Consultant
12 29 (3.77%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 28 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 24 (3.12%) Senior Network Engineer
15 24 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (2.99%) IT Engineer
17 21 (2.73%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.95%) Terraform
2 18 (2.34%) REST
3 11 (1.43%) JSON
4 10 (1.30%) 802.1X
5 9 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (1.04%) Flash
6 8 (1.04%) Kafka
6 8 (1.04%) YAML
7 6 (0.78%) LDAP
7 6 (0.78%) Middleware
8 5 (0.65%) .NET
8 5 (0.65%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.52%) Redfish
10 3 (0.39%) Java SE
10 3 (0.39%) SAML
10 3 (0.39%) XML
11 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.26%) OpenGL
11 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.60%) Data Centre
2 65 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (8.19%) PKI
4 50 (6.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (6.11%) Clustering
6 41 (5.33%) Replication
7 33 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.90%) Public Cloud
9 25 (3.25%) Private Cloud
10 22 (2.86%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.47%) Cloud Native
11 19 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.43%) SCADA
14 10 (1.30%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.30%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.91%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 411 (53.45%) Windows
2 269 (34.98%) Windows Server
3 218 (28.35%) Linux
4 45 (5.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 43 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (3.25%) VMS
7 22 (2.86%) Windows 10
7 22 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.21%) Ubuntu
8 17 (2.21%) Unix
8 17 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (1.56%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (1.04%) Solaris
12 7 (0.91%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.91%) CentOS
13 6 (0.78%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.52%) SUSE
14 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.39%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (32.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 147 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
3 145 (18.86%) Migration
4 138 (17.95%) ITIL
5 125 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 109 (14.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 105 (13.65%) High Availability
8 97 (12.61%) CI/CD
9 96 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
10 79 (10.27%) Change Management
10 79 (10.27%) ITSM
11 76 (9.88%) Agile
12 75 (9.75%) Network Virtualisation
13 72 (9.36%) DevOps
14 68 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (8.58%) Load Balancing
16 65 (8.45%) Capacity Planning
16 65 (8.45%) Service Management
17 64 (8.32%) Platform Engineering
18 61 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (24.19%) PowerShell
2 109 (14.17%) Python
3 76 (9.88%) Bash
4 48 (6.24%) SQL
5 17 (2.21%) Java
6 7 (0.91%) Bicep
6 7 (0.91%) C
7 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.52%) Go
8 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.39%) Lua
9 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.39%) VB
9 3 (0.39%) VBScript
10 2 (0.26%) C++
10 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.26%) Korn
11 1 (0.13%) C#
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 372 (48.37%) Security Cleared
2 216 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 178 (23.15%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (6.50%) Degree
6 44 (5.72%) VCAP
7 36 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.64%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.60%) MCSE
11 17 (2.21%) CCNP
12 16 (2.08%) CCNA
12 16 (2.08%) MCSA
13 15 (1.95%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (0.91%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 6 (0.78%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.25%) SLA
2 18 (2.34%) NIST
3 17 (2.21%) QA
4 15 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.69%) NCSC
7 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.52%) GxP
9 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.26%) GDPR
10 2 (0.26%) ISA99
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 248 (32.25%) Active Directory
2 192 (24.97%) VMware ESXi
3 188 (24.45%) vSphere
4 157 (20.42%) Hyper-V
5 149 (19.38%) VMware NSX
6 83 (10.79%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (7.15%) Docker
8 38 (4.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (4.29%) Firmware
10 17 (2.21%) KVM
10 17 (2.21%) NFS
11 11 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.17%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.91%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 7 (0.91%) GPFS
14 7 (0.91%) vCloud
15 6 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.78%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.65%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 153 (19.90%) Ansible
2 147 (19.12%) vCenter Server
3 108 (14.04%) Kubernetes
4 49 (6.37%) SCCM
5 46 (5.98%) SCOM
6 38 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.55%) VxRail
8 31 (4.03%) vRealize
9 23 (2.99%) Grafana
10 19 (2.47%) PowerCLI
10 19 (2.47%) Prometheus
10 19 (2.47%) Puppet
11 18 (2.34%) WSUS
12 17 (2.21%) NetBackup
13 16 (2.08%) vMotion
14 15 (1.95%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.82%) Argo
16 13 (1.69%) Avamar
16 13 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
17 10 (1.30%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 769 (100.00%) VMware
2 223 (29.00%) Microsoft
3 144 (18.73%) Cisco
4 59 (7.67%) Citrix
5 58 (7.54%) NetApp
6 48 (6.24%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.11%) F5
8 43 (5.59%) Dell
9 42 (5.46%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.55%) Palo Alto
11 34 (4.42%) Oracle
12 33 (4.29%) SolarWinds
13 30 (3.90%) Juniper
14 29 (3.77%) Veeam
15 23 (2.99%) Fortinet
16 21 (2.73%) IBM
17 19 (2.47%) Broadcom
18 18 (2.34%) CheckPoint
18 18 (2.34%) McAfee
19 17 (2.21%) Blue Coat
300 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England