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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 121 121
Rank change year-on-year -50 0 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 612 556 742
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.25% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 14.33% 17.22% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 381 473
10th Percentile £315 £300 £263
25th Percentile £408 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £595
90th Percentile £650 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £544 £500
% change year-on-year -8.05% +8.75% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 38
10th Percentile £39.99 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £48.00 £37.25 £38.22
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £45.01
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +3.31% -30.75%
75th Percentile - £55.75 £69.93
90th Percentile £75.41 £61.30 £82.63
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.54% +0.69% -28.95%

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 4,271 3,228 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.39% 13.09% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 2,214 2,850
10th Percentile £213 £210 £188
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £480
% change year-on-year -4.40% +8.96% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 79 203
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.15 £15.71
Median hourly rate £43.84 £29.00 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +51.18% +30.93% -44.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.50 £62.25
90th Percentile £77.65 £83.25 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year +55.17% +16.07% -42.70%

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 22 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 6 months to 22 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 6 months to 22 March 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 -6 164 £525 -7.08% 85
London -80 133 £550 - 42
North of England -42 125 £435 +2.24% 61
Midlands -2 114 £400 -27.40% 27
West Midlands -12 93 £340 -43.99% 18
North West -12 74 £435 +2.24% 39
South West -58 59 £550 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire -25 57 £425 -6.59% 19
East of England -7 34 £488 +3.83% 24
East Midlands -25 21 £415 -20.95% 9
North East -20 2 £513 +46.43% 5
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 36 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.29%) Confluence
4 6 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.65%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.33%) CICS
7 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 181 (29.58%) Azure
2 136 (22.22%) AWS
3 54 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (8.17%) OpenShift
5 43 (7.03%) Entra ID
6 38 (6.21%) GCP
7 29 (4.74%) IaaS
8 25 (4.08%) Nutanix
9 20 (3.27%) GitHub
10 18 (2.94%) PaaS
11 14 (2.29%) Datadog
12 7 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.14%) Rubrik
13 6 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.98%) Cohesity
14 5 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 167 (27.29%) DNS
2 149 (24.35%) Firewall
3 78 (12.75%) DHCP
4 65 (10.62%) VPN
5 55 (8.99%) SAN
6 54 (8.82%) VSAN
7 49 (8.01%) TCP/IP
8 47 (7.68%) Network Security
9 43 (7.03%) WAN
10 38 (6.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 38 (6.21%) LAN
11 37 (6.05%) BIG-IP
12 35 (5.72%) SSL
13 32 (5.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 30 (4.90%) HTTP
14 30 (4.90%) NAS
15 29 (4.74%) BGP
16 28 (4.58%) Wireshark
17 25 (4.08%) VLAN
18 24 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (0.49%) Redis
4 2 (0.33%) DataStage
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.33%) Power BI
5 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.16%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (5.23%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.27%) Fiddler
3 19 (3.10%) JIRA
4 14 (2.29%) Git
5 12 (1.96%) GitLab
6 8 (1.31%) PVCS
6 8 (1.31%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.65%) JMeter
8 4 (0.65%) JUnit
9 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.49%) RStudio
10 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.16%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.16%) GoCD
11 1 (0.16%) MSI
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 138 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.13%) Public Sector
3 56 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (8.33%) Finance
5 49 (8.01%) Banking
6 28 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.59%) Legal
8 11 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.80%) Military
9 10 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.31%) Electronics
11 7 (1.14%) Police
12 5 (0.82%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.82%) Local Government
13 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.49%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 111 (18.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (15.69%) Architect
3 57 (9.31%) Analyst
4 56 (9.15%) Network Engineer
5 45 (7.35%) Senior
6 39 (6.37%) VMware Engineer
7 32 (5.23%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 32 (5.23%) Infrastructure Architect
8 27 (4.41%) Lead
9 26 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (3.59%) Storage Analyst
11 21 (3.43%) Consultant
11 21 (3.43%) Web Engineer
12 20 (3.27%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 20 (3.27%) IP Network Engineer
13 19 (3.10%) Support Engineer
13 19 (3.10%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.78%) VMware Architect
16 16 (2.61%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.43%) Flash
2 15 (2.45%) LDAP
3 12 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.80%) SAML
5 7 (1.14%) Loki
6 6 (0.98%) Kafka
7 5 (0.82%) Middleware
7 5 (0.82%) REST
7 5 (0.82%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.65%) OAuth
8 4 (0.65%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.65%) OpenID
8 4 (0.65%) Spring
9 3 (0.49%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.33%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.16%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.16%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.16%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 57 (9.31%) Replication
3 45 (7.35%) PKI
4 42 (6.86%) Cloud Native
5 41 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (4.90%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (3.76%) Clustering
8 23 (3.76%) Private Cloud
9 20 (3.27%) Public Cloud
10 19 (3.10%) Enterprise Storage
11 15 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.29%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.63%) Operational Technology
15 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.14%) SCADA
17 6 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 257 (41.99%) Windows
2 208 (33.99%) Linux
3 161 (26.31%) Windows Server
4 44 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (4.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (3.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.43%) Windows 10
8 18 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.61%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.61%) VMS
10 10 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
10 10 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 8 (1.31%) Unix
12 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (0.98%) Solaris
14 5 (0.82%) CentOS
14 5 (0.82%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.65%) AIX
15 4 (0.65%) CatOS
16 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (24.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 119 (19.44%) Migration
3 99 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (13.89%) Agile
5 79 (12.91%) High Availability
6 77 (12.58%) CI/CD
6 77 (12.58%) Load Balancing
7 76 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 71 (11.60%) DevOps
9 66 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 66 (10.78%) ITIL
10 53 (8.66%) Containerisation
11 50 (8.17%) Platform Engineering
12 45 (7.35%) Data Protection
13 41 (6.70%) Capacity Planning
14 39 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (6.21%) Change Management
15 38 (6.21%) Network Virtualisation
16 37 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (22.55%) PowerShell
2 102 (16.67%) Python
3 68 (11.11%) Bash
4 16 (2.61%) SQL
5 11 (1.80%) C
6 10 (1.63%) Perl
7 8 (1.31%) C++
8 7 (1.14%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.14%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.82%) Bicep
9 5 (0.82%) Java
10 4 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.65%) PHP
10 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.49%) C#
12 2 (0.33%) COBOL
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 241 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 157 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.24%) DV Cleared
4 43 (7.03%) Degree
5 40 (6.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 28 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.76%) Azure Certification
8 21 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.43%) VCAP
9 20 (3.27%) CCNP
10 16 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (2.12%) MCSE
12 12 (1.96%) MCSA
12 12 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
13 11 (1.80%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.63%) CCNA
15 9 (1.47%) OCP
16 6 (0.98%) CCDP
16 6 (0.98%) CCIE
16 6 (0.98%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (3.27%) NIST
2 12 (1.96%) GDPR
3 11 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.47%) SLA
5 7 (1.14%) NCSC
6 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.65%) QA
7 2 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.33%) ISA99
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 171 (27.94%) Active Directory
2 147 (24.02%) vSphere
3 116 (18.95%) VMware NSX
4 101 (16.50%) VMware ESXi
5 98 (16.01%) Hyper-V
6 54 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (8.33%) Docker
8 39 (6.37%) NFS
9 29 (4.74%) Firmware
10 25 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (2.61%) GPFS
11 16 (2.61%) KVM
12 8 (1.31%) BitLocker
12 8 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.65%) vCloud
14 3 (0.49%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.49%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.33%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 108 (17.65%) Ansible
2 85 (13.89%) Terraform
3 84 (13.73%) vCenter Server
4 75 (12.25%) Kubernetes
5 52 (8.50%) SCCM
6 51 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (7.68%) vRealize
8 28 (4.58%) Grafana
9 27 (4.41%) Argo
10 22 (3.59%) VxRail
11 18 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (2.45%) vMotion
13 14 (2.29%) PowerCLI
13 14 (2.29%) Prometheus
14 13 (2.12%) SCOM
15 12 (1.96%) Progress Chef
16 10 (1.63%) FortiGate
16 10 (1.63%) Puppet
17 9 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 612 (100.00%) VMware
2 164 (26.80%) Microsoft
3 131 (21.41%) Cisco
4 65 (10.62%) F5
5 61 (9.97%) Red Hat
6 58 (9.48%) Citrix
7 50 (8.17%) NetApp
8 42 (6.86%) IBM
9 37 (6.05%) Dell
10 36 (5.88%) Pure Storage
10 36 (5.88%) ServiceNow
11 35 (5.72%) Palo Alto
12 32 (5.23%) SolarWinds
13 29 (4.74%) Oracle
14 24 (3.92%) Commvault
14 24 (3.92%) McAfee
14 24 (3.92%) Veeam
15 21 (3.43%) Blue Coat
16 19 (3.10%) HP
17 17 (2.78%) Broadcom