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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 121 109
Rank change year-on-year -45 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 594 577 798
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.24% 2.09%
As % of the System Software category 13.90% 17.36% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 386 505
10th Percentile £313 £263 £272
25th Percentile £404 £405 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £608
90th Percentile £667 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 51
10th Percentile £22.00 £74.40 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.70 £88.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £112.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +124.54% -23.26%
75th Percentile - - £76.39
90th Percentile £76.56 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 4,273 3,323 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 12.93% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 2,228 2,931
10th Percentile £205 £206 £188
25th Percentile £400 £390 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 81 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.16 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +15.73% -34.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £88.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.39% -23.13% -

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -7 150 £513 -6.90% 80
London -85 133 £545 +1.40% 48
Midlands -3 116 £401 -27.22% 24
North of England -41 115 £441 +3.65% 61
West Midlands -9 88 £340 -43.99% 17
North West -25 68 £441 +0.69% 33
South West -52 62 £550 -4.35% 41
Yorkshire -30 54 £425 -6.08% 25
East of England -2 32 £475 +1.82% 14
East Midlands -14 28 £447 -14.86% 7
North East -16 2 £513 +46.43% 4
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 (6.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.69%) Confluence
4 7 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.01%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.67%) 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%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 175 (29.46%) Azure
2 135 (22.73%) AWS
3 59 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (8.25%) OpenShift
5 45 (7.58%) GCP
6 44 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 27 (4.55%) IaaS
8 26 (4.38%) Nutanix
9 20 (3.37%) GitHub
10 17 (2.86%) PaaS
11 14 (2.36%) Datadog
12 8 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (1.01%) Rubrik
14 5 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.84%) Cohesity
15 4 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 167 (28.11%) DNS
2 145 (24.41%) Firewall
3 83 (13.97%) DHCP
4 59 (9.93%) VPN
5 53 (8.92%) SAN
6 49 (8.25%) TCP/IP
7 42 (7.07%) Network Security
8 40 (6.73%) VSAN
9 34 (5.72%) WAN
10 32 (5.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 32 (5.39%) VLAN
11 30 (5.05%) BIG-IP
11 30 (5.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 30 (5.05%) LAN
11 30 (5.05%) SSL
12 28 (4.71%) NAS
13 27 (4.55%) HTTP
14 25 (4.21%) Wireshark
15 24 (4.04%) BGP
16 17 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.18%) 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%) 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 29 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.20%) JIRA
3 18 (3.03%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.53%) Git
5 13 (2.19%) GitLab
6 9 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.35%) PVCS
7 8 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.18%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.18%) JMeter
8 7 (1.18%) JUnit
9 4 (0.67%) RStudio
10 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.34%) Subversion
12 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
12 1 (0.17%) GoCD
12 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.44%) Public Sector
3 60 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.43%) Finance
5 52 (8.75%) Banking
6 27 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.70%) Legal
8 14 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.68%) Military
9 10 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.35%) Electronics
11 7 (1.18%) Police
12 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.84%) Local Government
14 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Social Science
15 3 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 107 (18.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (14.31%) Architect
3 59 (9.93%) Analyst
4 44 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 33 (5.56%) Senior
6 32 (5.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 32 (5.39%) VMware Engineer
7 28 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
7 28 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (4.21%) Support Engineer
9 24 (4.04%) Consultant
9 24 (4.04%) Lead
10 22 (3.70%) Storage Analyst
11 19 (3.20%) Web Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) IP Network Engineer
12 18 (3.03%) Wintel Engineer
13 17 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.86%) VMware Consultant
14 15 (2.53%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.70%) Flash
2 14 (2.36%) LDAP
3 10 (1.68%) SAML
4 9 (1.52%) Kafka
5 7 (1.18%) Loki
5 7 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.18%) Spring
6 6 (1.01%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.01%) REST
7 5 (0.84%) Middleware
7 5 (0.84%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.67%) OAuth
8 4 (0.67%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.67%) OpenID
9 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.34%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.44%) Data Centre
2 58 (9.76%) Replication
3 44 (7.41%) PKI
4 37 (6.23%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (5.05%) Linux Command Line
7 29 (4.88%) Management Information System
8 24 (4.04%) Private Cloud
9 21 (3.54%) Clustering
10 16 (2.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 16 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.69%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.19%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.85%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.18%) Driving Licence
16 5 (0.84%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 259 (43.60%) Windows
2 211 (35.52%) Linux
3 160 (26.94%) Windows Server
4 44 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.71%) Windows 10
6 27 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.86%) VMS
8 17 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.53%) Mac OS
9 15 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.68%) Unix
11 9 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (1.18%) CentOS
12 7 (1.18%) Solaris
13 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.84%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.67%) AIX
15 4 (0.67%) CatOS
16 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 107 (18.01%) Migration
3 98 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (14.98%) Agile
5 78 (13.13%) CI/CD
6 72 (12.12%) DevOps
6 72 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
7 69 (11.62%) High Availability
8 67 (11.28%) Load Balancing
9 66 (11.11%) ITIL
10 59 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 53 (8.92%) Containerisation
12 50 (8.42%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (8.25%) Data Protection
14 42 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (6.57%) Roadmaps
16 38 (6.40%) Capacity Planning
16 38 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (5.89%) Change Management
17 35 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (23.57%) PowerShell
2 106 (17.85%) Python
3 72 (12.12%) Bash
4 16 (2.69%) SQL
5 13 (2.19%) Perl
6 11 (1.85%) C
7 8 (1.35%) C++
7 8 (1.35%) Java
8 7 (1.18%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.18%) Embedded C++
9 6 (1.01%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.84%) Bicep
11 4 (0.67%) C#
11 4 (0.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.34%) COBOL
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) Go
13 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 231 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.63%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.41%) Degree
5 39 (6.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 33 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 22 (3.70%) CCNP
9 15 (2.53%) MCSE
9 15 (2.53%) VCAP
10 13 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (2.19%) CCNA
11 12 (2.02%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.02%) MCSA
12 9 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (1.18%) CCIE
14 6 (1.01%) CCDP
14 6 (1.01%) CISSP
14 6 (1.01%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.86%) GDPR
3 16 (2.69%) NIST
4 9 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.52%) SLA
5 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.67%) 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
1 180 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 136 (22.90%) vSphere
3 96 (16.16%) Hyper-V
4 93 (15.66%) VMware NSX
5 89 (14.98%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (9.26%) Docker
7 54 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
8 40 (6.73%) NFS
9 27 (4.55%) Firmware
10 26 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (2.86%) GPFS
11 17 (2.86%) KVM
12 6 (1.01%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.67%) vCloud
15 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.51%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 102 (17.17%) Ansible
2 77 (12.96%) Terraform
3 72 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 72 (12.12%) vCenter Server
4 60 (10.10%) SCCM
5 58 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 48 (8.08%) vRealize
7 24 (4.04%) Grafana
8 23 (3.87%) Argo
9 20 (3.37%) VxRail
10 19 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (2.36%) Progress Chef
12 14 (2.36%) Prometheus
12 14 (2.36%) SCOM
13 13 (2.19%) vMotion
14 12 (2.02%) PowerCLI
15 11 (1.85%) FortiGate
15 11 (1.85%) Puppet
16 9 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 594 (100.00%) VMware
2 169 (28.45%) Microsoft
3 131 (22.05%) Cisco
4 64 (10.77%) Citrix
5 59 (9.93%) F5
6 58 (9.76%) Red Hat
7 45 (7.58%) NetApp
8 43 (7.24%) IBM
9 38 (6.40%) Dell
10 34 (5.72%) ServiceNow
10 34 (5.72%) SolarWinds
11 30 (5.05%) Oracle
11 30 (5.05%) Pure Storage
12 28 (4.71%) Palo Alto
13 25 (4.21%) Veeam
14 24 (4.04%) Commvault
15 22 (3.70%) McAfee
16 19 (3.20%) Blue Coat
16 19 (3.20%) HP
17 16 (2.69%) Google