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 3 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 3 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 108 124
Rank change year-on-year -60 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 303 262 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 2.38% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 14.72% 17.32% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 185 234
10th Percentile £318 £329 £250
25th Percentile £408 £450 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £598 £623 £588
90th Percentile £670 £689 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 24
10th Percentile £43.48 - £22.14
25th Percentile £68.28 - £39.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £40.13
75th Percentile - - £52.96
90th Percentile £72.13 - £79.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £40.25
% change year-on-year - - -38.08%

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 2,058 1,513 2,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.55% 13.72% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,054 1,472
10th Percentile £200 £210 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -10.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 128
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.08 £14.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.30% +32.00% -60.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £102.00 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £34.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% +51.11% -59.09%

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 3 months to 11 March 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 3 months to 11 March 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 3 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
South East +2 81 £538 -2.45% 76
London -59 75 £500 -4.76% 40
North of England -24 67 £445 +7.23% 60
Midlands -37 43 £402 -27.04% 27
North West -18 34 £435 +2.35% 30
Yorkshire -14 33 £482 +1.47% 28
West Midlands -47 29 £402 -41.65% 21
South West -46 26 £538 -6.52% 41
East Midlands -14 14 £426 -18.95% 6
East of England -15 12 £475 +1.82% 18
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 37 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.39%) Confluence
4 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.85%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.91%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 174 (29.74%) Azure
2 133 (22.74%) AWS
3 57 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (8.55%) OpenShift
5 44 (7.52%) Entra ID
5 44 (7.52%) GCP
6 27 (4.62%) IaaS
7 26 (4.44%) Nutanix
8 20 (3.42%) GitHub
9 17 (2.91%) PaaS
10 14 (2.39%) Datadog
11 8 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.03%) Rubrik
13 5 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.85%) Cohesity
13 5 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 164 (28.03%) DNS
2 139 (23.76%) Firewall
3 79 (13.50%) DHCP
4 60 (10.26%) VPN
5 52 (8.89%) SAN
6 48 (8.21%) TCP/IP
7 43 (7.35%) VSAN
8 42 (7.18%) Network Security
9 36 (6.15%) WAN
10 33 (5.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 32 (5.47%) BIG-IP
11 32 (5.47%) LAN
12 31 (5.30%) SSL
13 30 (5.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 28 (4.79%) HTTP
15 27 (4.62%) NAS
15 27 (4.62%) VLAN
16 26 (4.44%) Wireshark
17 25 (4.27%) BGP
18 20 (3.42%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.51%) Redis
5 2 (0.34%) DataStage
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) Power BI
6 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (5.30%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.08%) Fiddler
3 17 (2.91%) JIRA
4 15 (2.56%) Git
5 12 (2.05%) GitLab
6 9 (1.54%) 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 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) RStudio
10 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Subversion
11 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
11 1 (0.17%) MSI
11 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 59 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.89%) Banking
4 52 (8.89%) Finance
5 27 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 27 (4.62%) Investment Banking
6 22 (3.76%) Legal
7 14 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.88%) Military
9 10 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.37%) Electronics
11 7 (1.20%) Police
12 5 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.85%) Local Government
13 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.51%) Social Science
15 2 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (14.87%) Architect
3 57 (9.74%) Analyst
4 47 (8.03%) Network Engineer
5 36 (6.15%) Senior
6 32 (5.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 32 (5.47%) VMware Engineer
7 29 (4.96%) Infrastructure Architect
8 26 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (4.10%) Lead
10 23 (3.93%) Consultant
11 22 (3.76%) Storage Analyst
12 21 (3.59%) Support Engineer
13 19 (3.25%) Web Engineer
14 18 (3.08%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 18 (3.08%) IP Network Engineer
14 18 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.91%) Wintel Engineer
16 16 (2.74%) VMware Architect
16 16 (2.74%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.59%) Flash
2 15 (2.56%) LDAP
3 11 (1.88%) SAML
4 9 (1.54%) Kafka
5 8 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (1.20%) Loki
6 7 (1.20%) Spring
7 6 (1.03%) Hibernate
7 6 (1.03%) REST
8 5 (0.85%) Middleware
8 5 (0.85%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.68%) OAuth
9 4 (0.68%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.68%) OpenID
10 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.34%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.60%) Data Centre
2 56 (9.57%) Replication
3 40 (6.84%) PKI
4 37 (6.32%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (4.96%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.93%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.59%) Clustering
9 17 (2.91%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
10 16 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.39%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.54%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.20%) Driving Licence
16 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 256 (43.76%) Windows
2 208 (35.56%) Linux
3 159 (27.18%) Windows Server
4 45 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (4.10%) Windows 10
7 22 (3.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.91%) Ubuntu
10 15 (2.56%) VMS
11 14 (2.39%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.71%) Unix
13 9 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
14 7 (1.20%) CentOS
14 7 (1.20%) Solaris
15 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.85%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.68%) AIX
17 4 (0.68%) CatOS
18 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (23.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 103 (17.61%) Migration
3 97 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (14.70%) Agile
5 74 (12.65%) CI/CD
6 72 (12.31%) High Availability
7 69 (11.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 69 (11.79%) Load Balancing
8 67 (11.45%) DevOps
9 64 (10.94%) ITIL
10 57 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (8.89%) Containerisation
12 50 (8.55%) Data Protection
13 49 (8.38%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
15 39 (6.67%) Roadmaps
16 37 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (5.81%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (23.93%) PowerShell
2 102 (17.44%) Python
3 73 (12.48%) Bash
4 16 (2.74%) SQL
5 13 (2.22%) Perl
6 11 (1.88%) C
7 8 (1.37%) C++
7 8 (1.37%) Java
8 7 (1.20%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.20%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.85%) Bicep
9 5 (0.85%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.68%) PHP
11 3 (0.51%) C#
12 2 (0.34%) COBOL
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 225 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 146 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 73 (12.48%) DV Cleared
4 42 (7.18%) Degree
5 38 (6.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 30 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.76%) Azure Certification
9 21 (3.59%) CCNP
10 16 (2.74%) VCAP
11 14 (2.39%) MCSE
12 13 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (2.05%) CCNA
13 12 (2.05%) MCSA
14 11 (1.88%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.03%) CCDP
16 6 (1.03%) CCIE
16 6 (1.03%) CISSP
16 6 (1.03%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (2.74%) GDPR
2 16 (2.74%) NIST
3 9 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.37%) SLA
5 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.68%) QA
6 3 (0.51%) NCSC
6 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 174 (29.74%) Active Directory
2 135 (23.08%) vSphere
3 95 (16.24%) VMware NSX
4 93 (15.90%) Hyper-V
5 89 (15.21%) VMware ESXi
6 53 (9.06%) Docker
7 49 (8.38%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (6.67%) NFS
9 27 (4.62%) Firmware
10 26 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (3.08%) KVM
12 16 (2.74%) GPFS
13 6 (1.03%) BitLocker
13 6 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.68%) vCloud
14 4 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.51%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.34%) Sendmail
16 2 (0.34%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 104 (17.78%) Ansible
2 77 (13.16%) Terraform
3 70 (11.97%) Kubernetes
3 70 (11.97%) vCenter Server
4 57 (9.74%) SCCM
5 56 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (7.69%) vRealize
7 24 (4.10%) Grafana
8 23 (3.93%) Argo
9 20 (3.42%) VxRail
10 18 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (2.74%) Progress Chef
12 14 (2.39%) Prometheus
13 13 (2.22%) SCOM
13 13 (2.22%) vMotion
14 12 (2.05%) PowerCLI
15 11 (1.88%) FortiGate
15 11 (1.88%) Puppet
16 9 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 585 (100.00%) VMware
2 163 (27.86%) Microsoft
3 123 (21.03%) Cisco
4 62 (10.60%) Citrix
5 60 (10.26%) Red Hat
6 59 (10.09%) F5
7 45 (7.69%) NetApp
8 42 (7.18%) IBM
9 35 (5.98%) Dell
10 33 (5.64%) ServiceNow
10 33 (5.64%) SolarWinds
11 31 (5.30%) Pure Storage
12 30 (5.13%) Palo Alto
13 29 (4.96%) Oracle
14 25 (4.27%) Veeam
15 24 (4.10%) Commvault
16 22 (3.76%) McAfee
17 19 (3.25%) Blue Coat
18 17 (2.91%) HP
19 15 (2.56%) Google
252 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England