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

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 166 112
Rank change year-on-year +6 -54 -24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 816 467 713
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.68% 2.17%
As % of the System Software category 17.48% 13.64% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 310 436
10th Percentile £313 £298 £321
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.11% -3.10%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £598
90th Percentile £705 £650 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 3 8
10th Percentile £25.94 £24.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £26.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £89.75 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £95.05 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +126.67% +0.06% -54.56%

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 4,669 3,424 3,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.03% 12.29% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,193 2,532
10th Percentile £213 £213 £220
25th Percentile £384 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 104 96
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £29.56 £22.50 £17.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -42.31%
75th Percentile £74.66 £80.00 £69.77
90th Percentile £92.11 £89.89 £84.28
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £32.77 £27.50
% change year-on-year +92.66% +19.16% -45.00%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -12 203 £538 -2.27% 124
London -16 198 £525 +5.00% 175
North of England +21 180 £480 +12.94% 78
Midlands -16 97 £450 -18.18% 76
North West -5 83 £450 +2.86% 45
Yorkshire -7 81 £525 +27.27% 22
South West -28 77 £638 +14.86% 58
West Midlands -11 73 £450 -21.36% 53
East of England -6 64 £563 +2.27% 51
East Midlands -5 24 £438 -9.33% 23
North East -27 17 £400 - 11
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 43 (5.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.96%) IIS
4 15 (1.84%) Confluence
5 13 (1.59%) CMS
6 9 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.86%) JBoss
7 7 (0.86%) nginx
7 7 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.49%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.25%) Houdini
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.25%) NUKE
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (27.21%) Azure
2 119 (14.58%) AWS
3 83 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (7.72%) Entra ID
5 42 (5.15%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.04%) GCP
7 28 (3.43%) GitHub
8 25 (3.06%) IaaS
9 18 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (1.72%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.59%) PaaS
12 13 (1.59%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.47%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.47%) Rubrik
13 12 (1.47%) SaaS
14 8 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (0.98%) Azure Stack
14 8 (0.98%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 261 (31.99%) DNS
2 174 (21.32%) Firewall
3 166 (20.34%) DHCP
4 98 (12.01%) TCP/IP
5 74 (9.07%) VSAN
6 67 (8.21%) SAN
6 67 (8.21%) VPN
7 64 (7.84%) VLAN
8 58 (7.11%) Network Security
9 55 (6.74%) WAN
10 49 (6.00%) LAN
11 38 (4.66%) NAS
11 38 (4.66%) SSL
12 32 (3.92%) HTTP
13 31 (3.80%) BGP
14 28 (3.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (3.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 22 (2.70%) Wireshark
17 21 (2.57%) BIG-IP
18 18 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.59%) Power BI
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.10%) Big Data
5 9 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.12%) DataStage
10 1 (0.12%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.12%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (4.17%) JIRA
2 25 (3.06%) Git
3 23 (2.82%) GitLab
4 20 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.47%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.49%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.49%) PVCS
8 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 190 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 87 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (10.29%) Finance
4 33 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
4 33 (4.04%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.43%) Banking
6 24 (2.94%) Legal
7 18 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.98%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.86%) Back Office
12 7 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Police
13 6 (0.74%) Retail
14 5 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (24.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 114 (13.97%) Senior
3 82 (10.05%) VMware Engineer
4 66 (8.09%) Architect
5 57 (6.99%) Network Engineer
6 53 (6.50%) Support Engineer
7 50 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (5.76%) Lead
9 41 (5.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (4.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 36 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
10 36 (4.41%) Storage Engineer
11 32 (3.92%) Administrator
12 29 (3.55%) Consultant
13 25 (3.06%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 24 (2.94%) IT Engineer
15 23 (2.82%) Wintel Engineer
16 22 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
17 21 (2.57%) Server Engineer
17 21 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (14.22%) Terraform
2 25 (3.06%) REST
3 21 (2.57%) JSON
4 17 (2.08%) Kafka
5 12 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 12 (1.47%) LDAP
5 12 (1.47%) XMPP
5 12 (1.47%) YAML
6 8 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.86%) Middleware
7 7 (0.86%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.74%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.61%) .NET
10 4 (0.49%) Flash
10 4 (0.49%) Redfish
11 3 (0.37%) Java SE
11 3 (0.37%) XML
12 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.25%) OpenGL
12 2 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (16.91%) Data Centre
2 68 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 67 (8.21%) PKI
4 48 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (5.39%) Clustering
6 37 (4.53%) Private Cloud
7 36 (4.41%) Replication
8 31 (3.80%) Management Information System
9 29 (3.55%) Onboarding
10 26 (3.19%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.33%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.84%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.72%) Product Ownership
15 14 (1.72%) SCADA
16 12 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.10%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 454 (55.64%) Windows
2 306 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 213 (26.10%) Linux
4 49 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.19%) Windows 10
7 23 (2.82%) VMS
8 20 (2.45%) Unix
9 18 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
12 12 (1.47%) Ubuntu
13 11 (1.35%) Solaris
14 8 (0.98%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.98%) CentOS
15 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.61%) AIX
17 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.37%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (33.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (20.47%) ITIL
3 160 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (18.63%) Migration
5 141 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (14.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 115 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
8 100 (12.25%) CI/CD
9 97 (11.89%) Change Management
10 87 (10.66%) High Availability
11 86 (10.54%) ITSM
12 81 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
13 80 (9.80%) Agile
13 80 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
14 76 (9.31%) Project Delivery
14 76 (9.31%) Service Management
15 75 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
16 74 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 68 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 195 (23.90%) PowerShell
2 112 (13.73%) Python
3 70 (8.58%) Bash
4 51 (6.25%) SQL
5 19 (2.33%) Java
6 9 (1.10%) Bicep
6 9 (1.10%) C
7 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.49%) C++
8 4 (0.49%) Go
8 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.37%) Korn
9 3 (0.37%) Lua
9 3 (0.37%) VB
10 2 (0.25%) VBScript
11 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 412 (50.49%) Security Cleared
2 237 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 197 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (6.99%) Degree
6 48 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (4.90%) VCAP
8 36 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.31%) Azure Certification
10 26 (3.19%) CCNP
11 21 (2.57%) MCSE
12 20 (2.45%) CCNA
13 17 (2.08%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.96%) MCSA
15 12 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.98%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.70%) SLA
2 18 (2.21%) QA
3 17 (2.08%) NIST
4 14 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.35%) NCSC
7 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.49%) GxP
8 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.25%) GDPR
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 293 (35.91%) Active Directory
2 201 (24.63%) vSphere
3 200 (24.51%) VMware ESXi
4 181 (22.18%) Hyper-V
5 127 (15.56%) VMware NSX
6 88 (10.78%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (6.99%) Docker
8 40 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (4.17%) Firmware
10 21 (2.57%) NFS
11 17 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (1.84%) KVM
13 12 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 10 (1.23%) XenApp
15 9 (1.10%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 7 (0.86%) oVirt
16 7 (0.86%) vCloud
17 6 (0.74%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 141 (17.28%) vCenter Server
2 138 (16.91%) Ansible
3 122 (14.95%) Kubernetes
4 57 (6.99%) SCCM
4 57 (6.99%) SCOM
5 44 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (4.66%) VxRail
7 21 (2.57%) vRealize
8 19 (2.33%) Prometheus
9 18 (2.21%) Grafana
10 17 (2.08%) Puppet
11 16 (1.96%) Cisco CUCM
12 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
12 14 (1.72%) PowerCLI
13 13 (1.59%) Avamar
13 13 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
13 13 (1.59%) NetBackup
13 13 (1.59%) WSUS
14 12 (1.47%) vMotion
15 11 (1.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 816 (100.00%) VMware
2 250 (30.64%) Microsoft
3 150 (18.38%) Cisco
4 61 (7.48%) Citrix
5 58 (7.11%) NetApp
6 56 (6.86%) Red Hat
7 53 (6.50%) Dell
8 41 (5.02%) ServiceNow
8 41 (5.02%) SolarWinds
9 37 (4.53%) F5
10 34 (4.17%) Veeam
11 31 (3.80%) Oracle
12 28 (3.43%) Juniper
12 28 (3.43%) Palo Alto
13 25 (3.06%) Fortinet
14 20 (2.45%) Broadcom
14 20 (2.45%) Remedy
15 19 (2.33%) IBM
15 19 (2.33%) McAfee
16 16 (1.96%) EMC
579 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England