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

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 177 107
Rank change year-on-year +17 -70 -15
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 783 445 733
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.63% 2.25%
As % of the System Software category 17.04% 13.70% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 296 457
10th Percentile £318 £313 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 3 7
10th Percentile £26.20 £28.40 £23.24
25th Percentile £42.92 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -61.37%
75th Percentile £89.81 £48.63 £43.37
90th Percentile £98.19 £59.80 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £65.24 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +117.47% +26.05% -62.22%

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 4,595 3,249 3,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 11.94% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,018 2,087 2,595
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £684 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 93 116
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £33.70 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £63.48 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +58.70% +65.43% -47.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.20 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £60.17 £34.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +76.96% +40.61% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -5 213 £538 -6.52% 111
London -14 191 £525 +5.00% 174
North of England +4 169 £466 +9.53% 70
Midlands -7 95 £450 -20.00% 49
North West +11 88 £466 +7.94% 26
South West -24 82 £625 +9.89% 65
West Midlands -15 71 £450 -21.40% 28
Yorkshire -18 69 £523 +26.67% 25
East of England -11 44 £500 -9.09% 48
East Midlands -8 24 £438 -16.03% 21
North East -27 12 £375 -40.00% 22
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 44 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.79%) IIS
4 11 (1.40%) Confluence
5 9 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.89%) JBoss
6 7 (0.89%) nginx
6 7 (0.89%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.26%) Houdini
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.26%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 14 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 220 (28.10%) Azure
2 132 (16.86%) AWS
3 78 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (7.28%) Entra ID
5 39 (4.98%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.21%) GCP
7 31 (3.96%) GitHub
8 26 (3.32%) IaaS
9 18 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.92%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.79%) PaaS
13 14 (1.79%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.79%) SaaS
14 11 (1.40%) Nutanix
15 9 (1.15%) Azure Stack
15 9 (1.15%) Rubrik
16 8 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 259 (33.08%) DNS
2 174 (22.22%) Firewall
3 163 (20.82%) DHCP
4 92 (11.75%) TCP/IP
5 87 (11.11%) VSAN
6 72 (9.20%) VPN
7 67 (8.56%) SAN
8 63 (8.05%) VLAN
9 55 (7.02%) WAN
10 54 (6.90%) Network Security
11 44 (5.62%) LAN
12 40 (5.11%) NAS
13 39 (4.98%) SSL
14 35 (4.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (3.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 29 (3.70%) HTTP
17 28 (3.58%) BGP
17 28 (3.58%) BIG-IP
18 23 (2.94%) Wireshark
19 19 (2.43%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.66%) Power BI
4 10 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.15%) Big Data
5 9 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.26%) GIS
11 1 (0.13%) DataStage
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (4.09%) JIRA
2 25 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.68%) Git
4 20 (2.55%) GitLab
5 14 (1.79%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.38%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.38%) 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%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 178 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (9.32%) Finance
4 36 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.45%) Banking
6 25 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.81%) Legal
8 15 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.02%) Retail
13 7 (0.89%) Law
14 6 (0.77%) Military
15 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.64%) Police
16 4 (0.51%) Back Office
16 4 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 194 (24.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 110 (14.05%) Senior
3 87 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
4 66 (8.43%) Network Engineer
5 59 (7.54%) Architect
6 48 (6.13%) Support Engineer
7 45 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.11%) Lead
9 37 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (4.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 33 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (3.96%) Administrator
12 31 (3.96%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 31 (3.96%) Storage Engineer
13 27 (3.45%) Consultant
14 26 (3.32%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 24 (3.07%) IT Engineer
16 23 (2.94%) Server Engineer
17 22 (2.81%) Senior Network Engineer
17 22 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (15.33%) Terraform
2 21 (2.68%) REST
3 16 (2.04%) JSON
4 11 (1.40%) LDAP
5 10 (1.28%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.15%) Kafka
6 9 (1.15%) YAML
7 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.77%) Middleware
8 5 (0.64%) .NET
8 5 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.64%) Regular Expression
9 4 (0.51%) Flash
9 4 (0.51%) Redfish
10 3 (0.38%) Java SE
10 3 (0.38%) SAML
10 3 (0.38%) XML
11 2 (0.26%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 69 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (8.05%) PKI
4 46 (5.87%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (5.62%) Clustering
6 38 (4.85%) Replication
7 32 (4.09%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.70%) Public Cloud
9 27 (3.45%) Private Cloud
10 24 (3.07%) Onboarding
11 21 (2.68%) Cloud Native
12 17 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.40%) SCADA
14 10 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.15%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.15%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 427 (54.53%) Windows
2 285 (36.40%) Windows Server
3 211 (26.95%) Linux
4 44 (5.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 43 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (3.07%) VMS
7 23 (2.94%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.43%) Unix
9 18 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (2.04%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
14 9 (1.15%) Solaris
15 8 (1.02%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.77%) CentOS
16 6 (0.77%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.51%) SUSE
17 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
18 3 (0.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (33.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 153 (19.54%) ITIL
3 151 (19.28%) Migration
4 149 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (16.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (14.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 100 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
8 99 (12.64%) CI/CD
8 99 (12.64%) High Availability
9 85 (10.86%) Change Management
10 83 (10.60%) ITSM
11 75 (9.58%) Network Virtualisation
12 73 (9.32%) Agile
12 73 (9.32%) Service Management
13 72 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 71 (9.07%) Root Cause Analysis
15 70 (8.94%) DevOps
16 69 (8.81%) Platform Engineering
17 67 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 64 (8.17%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 197 (25.16%) PowerShell
2 113 (14.43%) Python
3 78 (9.96%) Bash
4 53 (6.77%) SQL
5 18 (2.30%) Java
6 8 (1.02%) Bicep
7 7 (0.89%) C
8 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.51%) Go
10 4 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) Lua
11 3 (0.38%) VB
11 3 (0.38%) VBScript
12 2 (0.26%) C++
12 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.26%) Korn
13 1 (0.13%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 387 (49.43%) Security Cleared
2 224 (28.61%) SC Cleared
3 189 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.64%) Degree
6 44 (5.62%) VCAP
7 36 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.68%) MCSE
10 17 (2.17%) CCNP
11 16 (2.04%) CCNA
11 16 (2.04%) MCSA
12 15 (1.92%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 10 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.89%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.19%) SLA
2 18 (2.30%) NIST
2 18 (2.30%) QA
3 15 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.66%) NCSC
6 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.51%) GxP
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 2 (0.26%) ISA99
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 264 (33.72%) Active Directory
2 197 (25.16%) VMware ESXi
3 191 (24.39%) vSphere
4 169 (21.58%) Hyper-V
5 147 (18.77%) VMware NSX
6 88 (11.24%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (7.02%) Docker
8 38 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.96%) Firmware
10 17 (2.17%) NFS
11 16 (2.04%) KVM
12 11 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 9 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
14 8 (1.02%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.89%) vCloud
15 7 (0.89%) XenApp
15 7 (0.89%) XenDesktop
16 6 (0.77%) oVirt
16 6 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 151 (19.28%) Ansible
2 150 (19.16%) vCenter Server
3 116 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 51 (6.51%) SCCM
4 51 (6.51%) SCOM
5 40 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (4.21%) VxRail
7 26 (3.32%) vRealize
8 24 (3.07%) Grafana
9 20 (2.55%) Prometheus
10 19 (2.43%) PowerCLI
11 18 (2.30%) Puppet
12 17 (2.17%) NetBackup
12 17 (2.17%) WSUS
13 16 (2.04%) vMotion
14 15 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (1.66%) Argo
15 13 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
16 12 (1.53%) Avamar
17 11 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 783 (100.00%) VMware
2 229 (29.25%) Microsoft
3 140 (17.88%) Cisco
4 59 (7.54%) Citrix
5 55 (7.02%) NetApp
6 51 (6.51%) Red Hat
7 46 (5.87%) Dell
8 45 (5.75%) F5
9 40 (5.11%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.47%) Palo Alto
10 35 (4.47%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.21%) Oracle
12 30 (3.83%) Veeam
13 29 (3.70%) Juniper
14 22 (2.81%) Fortinet
15 20 (2.55%) Broadcom
16 18 (2.30%) CheckPoint
16 18 (2.30%) IBM
17 17 (2.17%) Remedy
18 15 (1.92%) McAfee
498 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England