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

 6 months to
21 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 122 118
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 652 533 718
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.17% 1.94%
As % of the System Software category 15.18% 16.87% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 372 468
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 31
10th Percentile £43.17 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £52.11 £37.25 £38.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.53% -38.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £74.48 £61.30 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £45.01
% change year-on-year +50.54% +3.31% -30.75%

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 4,296 3,160 4,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.86% 12.89% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,930 2,195 2,798
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £691 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 77 207
10th Percentile £16.83 £15.05 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.47 £19.97 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.41 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.99% +35.29% -54.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £84.88 £86.95 £70.26
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £28.41 £22.50
% change year-on-year +85.67% +26.27% -55.00%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -15 168 £531 -7.61% 79
London -71 146 £525 -2.33% 53
North of England -19 127 £456 +9.88% 50
Midlands -10 119 £382 -30.48% 25
West Midlands -11 93 £326 -40.89% 16
North West -24 66 £450 +5.88% 20
Yorkshire -31 62 £454 -2.47% 21
South West -62 56 £550 -4.35% 24
East of England -6 44 £475 +1.17% 23
East Midlands -22 26 £415 -22.50% 9
North East -16 3 £550 +57.14% 13
VMware Infrastructure
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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 39 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.69%) Confluence
4 6 (0.92%) nginx
4 6 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.46%) CICS
5 3 (0.46%) IIS
5 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.46%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.31%) WordPress
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 184 (28.22%) Azure
2 137 (21.01%) AWS
3 50 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.21%) OpenShift
5 46 (7.06%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.52%) GCP
7 26 (3.99%) IaaS
8 23 (3.53%) GitHub
9 22 (3.37%) Nutanix
10 18 (2.76%) PaaS
11 16 (2.45%) Datadog
12 10 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.07%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.92%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 174 (26.69%) DNS
2 155 (23.77%) Firewall
3 96 (14.72%) DHCP
4 67 (10.28%) VPN
5 66 (10.12%) VSAN
6 65 (9.97%) SAN
7 53 (8.13%) WAN
8 51 (7.82%) Network Security
9 48 (7.36%) TCP/IP
10 43 (6.60%) LAN
11 41 (6.29%) NAS
12 37 (5.67%) SSL
13 35 (5.37%) BIG-IP
14 32 (4.91%) VLAN
15 31 (4.75%) BGP
15 31 (4.75%) HTTP
16 30 (4.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 27 (4.14%) Wireshark
18 25 (3.83%) Cisco ASA
19 24 (3.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.46%) DataStage
5 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.46%) Redis
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (4.60%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.07%) JIRA
3 18 (2.76%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.61%) Git
5 15 (2.30%) GitLab
6 8 (1.23%) PVCS
6 8 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 142 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (8.74%) Finance
3 57 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 43 (6.60%) Banking
5 26 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (3.53%) Legal
7 22 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.53%) Military
9 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.38%) Police
11 8 (1.23%) Electronics
12 5 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.77%) Local Government
12 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.61%) Law
13 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (14.72%) Architect
3 56 (8.59%) Analyst
4 55 (8.44%) Senior
5 54 (8.28%) Network Engineer
6 52 (7.98%) VMware Engineer
7 34 (5.21%) Lead
8 31 (4.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 31 (4.75%) Infrastructure Architect
9 23 (3.53%) Storage Analyst
10 20 (3.07%) Consultant
11 19 (2.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 19 (2.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (2.91%) Support Engineer
12 18 (2.76%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 18 (2.76%) IP Network Engineer
12 18 (2.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 18 (2.76%) Web Engineer
13 17 (2.61%) Storage Engineer
13 17 (2.61%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.37%) Flash
2 18 (2.76%) LDAP
3 13 (1.99%) SAML
4 12 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (1.23%) REST
6 7 (1.07%) Middleware
7 6 (0.92%) Kafka
8 5 (0.77%) OAuth
8 5 (0.77%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.77%) OpenID
8 5 (0.77%) Software Packaging
9 3 (0.46%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.46%) Spring
10 2 (0.31%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.31%) JSON
10 2 (0.31%) Loki
11 1 (0.15%) EDI
11 1 (0.15%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.50%) Data Centre
2 65 (9.97%) Replication
3 44 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (6.75%) PKI
4 40 (6.13%) Cloud Native
5 35 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (4.45%) Clustering
7 28 (4.29%) Private Cloud
8 26 (3.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 25 (3.83%) Management Information System
10 20 (3.07%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.30%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.23%) SCADA
14 8 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.92%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 288 (44.17%) Windows
2 215 (32.98%) Linux
3 191 (29.29%) Windows Server
4 46 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (5.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (3.83%) VMS
8 21 (3.22%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.76%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.45%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (1.53%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.53%) Solaris
12 10 (1.53%) Unix
13 8 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (1.07%) CentOS
14 7 (1.07%) CoreOS
15 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.77%) AIX
17 4 (0.61%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (26.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (19.79%) Migration
3 111 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (13.96%) High Availability
5 84 (12.88%) Agile
6 79 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
7 74 (11.35%) ITIL
8 67 (10.28%) Load Balancing
9 66 (10.12%) CI/CD
9 66 (10.12%) DevOps
10 64 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 56 (8.59%) Capacity Planning
12 51 (7.82%) Network Virtualisation
13 49 (7.52%) Data Protection
14 48 (7.36%) Platform Engineering
15 45 (6.90%) Containerisation
16 42 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (6.29%) Change Management
17 41 (6.29%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (6.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.63%) PowerShell
2 90 (13.80%) Python
3 56 (8.59%) Bash
4 18 (2.76%) SQL
5 11 (1.69%) C
6 8 (1.23%) C++
7 7 (1.07%) Embedded C
7 7 (1.07%) Embedded C++
7 7 (1.07%) Java
7 7 (1.07%) Perl
7 7 (1.07%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
9 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.61%) PHP
9 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.46%) C#
10 3 (0.46%) COBOL
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 263 (40.34%) Security Cleared
2 167 (25.61%) SC Cleared
3 101 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 46 (7.06%) Degree
4 46 (7.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 28 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.68%) VCAP
7 23 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.22%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.76%) CCNP
11 14 (2.15%) MCSE
12 12 (1.84%) MCSA
12 12 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
13 11 (1.69%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.53%) CCNA
15 9 (1.38%) OCP
16 6 (0.92%) CCIE
16 6 (0.92%) CISSP
16 6 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.07%) NIST
3 15 (2.30%) SLA
4 13 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.84%) GDPR
6 9 (1.38%) NCSC
7 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.61%) QA
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%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 186 (28.53%) Active Directory
2 152 (23.31%) vSphere
3 132 (20.25%) VMware ESXi
3 132 (20.25%) VMware NSX
4 116 (17.79%) Hyper-V
5 68 (10.43%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (6.44%) Docker
7 40 (6.13%) NFS
8 32 (4.91%) Firmware
9 27 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (3.22%) KVM
11 17 (2.61%) GPFS
12 9 (1.38%) BitLocker
12 9 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.77%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.61%) vCloud
14 4 (0.61%) XenApp
15 3 (0.46%) SRDF
15 3 (0.46%) UAG
Systems Management
1 122 (18.71%) Ansible
2 96 (14.72%) vCenter Server
3 80 (12.27%) Terraform
4 66 (10.12%) Kubernetes
5 56 (8.59%) SCCM
6 52 (7.98%) vRealize
7 50 (7.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (3.83%) VxRail
9 24 (3.68%) Argo
9 24 (3.68%) Grafana
10 20 (3.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (2.76%) PowerCLI
12 18 (2.76%) vMotion
13 16 (2.45%) SCOM
14 14 (2.15%) WSUS
15 12 (1.84%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.84%) Puppet
16 11 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
16 11 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 652 (100.00%) VMware
2 170 (26.07%) Microsoft
3 138 (21.17%) Cisco
4 67 (10.28%) Citrix
5 59 (9.05%) Red Hat
6 56 (8.59%) NetApp
7 55 (8.44%) F5
8 47 (7.21%) IBM
9 39 (5.98%) Dell
10 37 (5.67%) ServiceNow
11 34 (5.21%) Oracle
12 33 (5.06%) Palo Alto
13 32 (4.91%) Pure Storage
13 32 (4.91%) SolarWinds
14 27 (4.14%) Veeam
15 26 (3.99%) Commvault
16 22 (3.37%) McAfee
17 20 (3.07%) CheckPoint
18 19 (2.91%) Broadcom
18 19 (2.91%) HP
239 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England