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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 142 113
Rank change year-on-year -26 -29 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 651 485 754
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.95% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 15.10% 15.53% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 343 489
10th Percentile £325 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £464 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -6.31%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 26
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.19
25th Percentile £28.50 - £27.26
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -36.18%
75th Percentile £72.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £76.50
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% -38.46%

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 4,312 3,122 4,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.03% 12.58% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 2,082 2,902
10th Percentile £213 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £608
90th Percentile £681 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 75 203
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +25.56% -56.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.60 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £90.40 £72.85
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +2 184 £538 -6.52% 54
London -24 150 £525 - 28
North of England -11 140 £458 +7.65% 35
Midlands -21 88 £450 -18.18% 37
North West +3 72 £450 +5.88% 23
West Midlands -21 68 £425 -32.00% 22
Yorkshire -28 67 £485 +2.05% 8
South West -60 56 £539 -6.30% 23
East of England -35 33 £475 -13.64% 22
East Midlands -15 20 £450 -18.18% 15
North East -40 1 £675 +92.86% 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 35 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.38%) IIS
4 8 (1.23%) nginx
4 8 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.46%) CICS
6 3 (0.46%) Confluence
6 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (29.49%) Azure
2 125 (19.20%) AWS
3 46 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.91%) OpenShift
5 42 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.53%) GCP
7 24 (3.69%) GitHub
8 23 (3.53%) IaaS
9 18 (2.76%) Nutanix
10 16 (2.46%) PaaS
11 11 (1.69%) Rubrik
12 10 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.08%) Azure Stack
14 7 (1.08%) Cohesity
14 7 (1.08%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 188 (28.88%) DNS
2 138 (21.20%) Firewall
3 112 (17.20%) DHCP
4 74 (11.37%) SAN
5 68 (10.45%) VPN
6 63 (9.68%) VSAN
7 61 (9.37%) WAN
8 52 (7.99%) Network Security
9 45 (6.91%) LAN
9 45 (6.91%) TCP/IP
10 44 (6.76%) NAS
11 41 (6.30%) SSL
12 35 (5.38%) VLAN
13 29 (4.45%) BIG-IP
14 28 (4.30%) HTTP
15 27 (4.15%) BGP
16 25 (3.84%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.69%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (3.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 23 (3.53%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.92%) Power BI
5 5 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.46%) Big Data
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.46%) DataStage
7 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.31%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.99%) Jenkins
2 22 (3.38%) JIRA
3 17 (2.61%) Fiddler
4 14 (2.15%) Git
5 13 (2.00%) GitLab
6 3 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.31%) MSI
7 2 (0.31%) PVCS
7 2 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) GoCD
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 133 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.99%) Finance
3 49 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.38%) Banking
6 24 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.38%) Legal
8 18 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.54%) Police
10 9 (1.38%) Military
11 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.92%) Law
12 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.92%) Retail
13 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.77%) Local Government
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.31%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 144 (22.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 77 (11.83%) Architect
3 64 (9.83%) Network Engineer
4 62 (9.52%) Senior
5 52 (7.99%) VMware Engineer
6 33 (5.07%) Support Engineer
7 27 (4.15%) Lead
8 26 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (3.99%) Analyst
9 25 (3.84%) Consultant
9 25 (3.84%) Storage Engineer
10 23 (3.53%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 22 (3.38%) Wintel Engineer
12 21 (3.23%) Administrator
12 21 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
13 19 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (2.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 17 (2.61%) IP Network Engineer
15 17 (2.61%) VMware Consultant
15 17 (2.61%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.61%) Flash
2 15 (2.30%) LDAP
3 11 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.69%) REST
4 8 (1.23%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.08%) SAML
6 6 (0.92%) Middleware
7 5 (0.77%) .NET
7 5 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.77%) JSON
8 4 (0.61%) Redfish
8 4 (0.61%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.31%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.31%) Java SE
9 2 (0.31%) OAuth
9 2 (0.31%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.31%) OpenID
9 2 (0.31%) Qt
9 2 (0.31%) XML
9 2 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (14.13%) Data Centre
2 57 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (8.14%) Replication
4 48 (7.37%) PKI
5 39 (5.99%) Enterprise Storage
6 35 (5.38%) Clustering
7 30 (4.61%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.84%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.53%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (3.07%) Private Cloud
12 16 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.69%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.23%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 320 (49.16%) Windows
2 215 (33.03%) Windows Server
3 194 (29.80%) Linux
4 41 (6.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 38 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.07%) VMS
8 17 (2.61%) Data ONTAP
8 17 (2.61%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.46%) Unix
9 16 (2.46%) Windows 10
10 14 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.69%) Solaris
12 8 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (1.08%) CentOS
13 7 (1.08%) CoreOS
13 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.77%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.61%) AIX
15 4 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 139 (21.35%) Migration
3 103 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (15.36%) High Availability
5 84 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 81 (12.44%) ITIL
7 74 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (10.60%) CI/CD
9 65 (9.98%) DevOps
10 63 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
11 60 (9.22%) Agile
11 60 (9.22%) Load Balancing
12 57 (8.76%) Network Virtualisation
13 54 (8.29%) Change Management
14 52 (7.99%) ITSM
15 48 (7.37%) Validation
16 45 (6.91%) Performance Tuning
17 43 (6.61%) Technical Leadership
18 41 (6.30%) Data Protection
19 40 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (21.51%) PowerShell
2 86 (13.21%) Python
3 45 (6.91%) Bash
4 29 (4.45%) SQL
5 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.92%) Java
7 5 (0.77%) Bicep
7 5 (0.77%) C
7 5 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) PHP
8 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.46%) COBOL
10 2 (0.31%) C#
10 2 (0.31%) C++
10 2 (0.31%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.31%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.31%) VBScript
11 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 280 (43.01%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 125 (19.20%) DV Cleared
4 57 (8.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.84%) Degree
6 32 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (4.61%) VCAP
8 29 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.07%) MCSE
10 19 (2.92%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.76%) CCNP
12 17 (2.61%) MCSA
13 15 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (2.30%) CCNA
14 10 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (1.38%) OCP
16 7 (1.08%) ISTQB
16 7 (1.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.92%) RHCA
18 5 (0.77%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.84%) SLA
2 24 (3.69%) NIST
3 20 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.69%) NCSC
6 7 (1.08%) QA
7 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.31%) ISA99
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) DICOM
10 1 (0.15%) GDPR
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 196 (30.11%) Active Directory
2 171 (26.27%) VMware ESXi
3 157 (24.12%) vSphere
4 135 (20.74%) VMware NSX
5 133 (20.43%) Hyper-V
6 89 (13.67%) Virtual Machines
7 36 (5.53%) Docker
8 35 (5.38%) NFS
9 34 (5.22%) Firmware
10 31 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
11 25 (3.84%) KVM
12 13 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (1.84%) GPFS
14 11 (1.69%) BitLocker
14 11 (1.69%) vCloud
15 6 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.77%) SRDF
17 4 (0.61%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (19.05%) Ansible
1 124 (19.05%) vCenter Server
2 77 (11.83%) Terraform
3 71 (10.91%) Kubernetes
4 43 (6.61%) SCCM
5 36 (5.53%) vRealize
6 34 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (4.45%) SCOM
8 23 (3.53%) vMotion
9 22 (3.38%) Grafana
10 20 (3.07%) Argo
11 18 (2.76%) PowerCLI
12 16 (2.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.46%) VxRail
13 14 (2.15%) Puppet
13 14 (2.15%) WSUS
14 13 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
15 12 (1.84%) NetBackup
15 12 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (1.84%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 651 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.73%) Microsoft
3 143 (21.97%) Cisco
4 58 (8.91%) Citrix
5 52 (7.99%) NetApp
6 47 (7.22%) Red Hat
7 41 (6.30%) F5
8 38 (5.84%) Dell
8 38 (5.84%) ServiceNow
9 33 (5.07%) Palo Alto
10 32 (4.92%) Oracle
10 32 (4.92%) Pure Storage
11 25 (3.84%) IBM
11 25 (3.84%) Juniper
12 24 (3.69%) SolarWinds
12 24 (3.69%) Veeam
13 23 (3.53%) CheckPoint
14 20 (3.07%) McAfee
15 18 (2.76%) Blue Coat
15 18 (2.76%) Fortinet
183 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England