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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 118 121
Rank change year-on-year -52 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 618 552 735
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.27% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 14.54% 17.19% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 382 468
10th Percentile £316 £300 £263
25th Percentile £409 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 38
10th Percentile £44.97 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £52.11 £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 £73.00 £55.75 £69.93
90th Percentile £76.28 £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 4,251 3,211 4,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.32% 13.23% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,909 2,221 2,846
10th Percentile £213 £210 £188
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.95% -9.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £738 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 80 202
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.20 £15.54
Median hourly rate £48.72 £28.71 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +69.73% +29.59% -44.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £61.50
90th Percentile £79.20 £82.88 £70.59
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% +16.00% -44.35%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -13 165 £525 -7.65% 71
London -74 136 £545 -0.91% 44
North of England -34 124 £441 +3.65% 71
Midlands -1 117 £400 -27.34% 28
West Midlands -8 94 £340 -38.29% 18
North West -20 74 £441 +3.65% 46
South West -56 56 £550 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire -22 55 £425 -8.60% 22
East of England -12 35 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -22 23 £415 -20.95% 10
North East -18 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 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.27%) Confluence
4 6 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.49%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.32%) CICS
6 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.32%) nginx
6 2 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.32%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.32%) WordPress
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.75%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 187 (30.26%) Azure
2 138 (22.33%) AWS
3 56 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (8.09%) OpenShift
5 43 (6.96%) Entra ID
6 38 (6.15%) GCP
7 30 (4.85%) IaaS
8 25 (4.05%) Nutanix
9 21 (3.40%) GitHub
10 18 (2.91%) PaaS
11 15 (2.43%) Datadog
12 10 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.13%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.97%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.97%) SaaS
16 5 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 164 (26.54%) DNS
2 154 (24.92%) Firewall
3 80 (12.94%) DHCP
4 70 (11.33%) VPN
5 60 (9.71%) VSAN
6 58 (9.39%) SAN
7 48 (7.77%) Network Security
8 47 (7.61%) TCP/IP
9 44 (7.12%) WAN
10 37 (5.99%) LAN
11 36 (5.83%) BIG-IP
12 35 (5.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 35 (5.66%) SSL
13 32 (5.18%) NAS
14 30 (4.85%) BGP
14 30 (4.85%) VLAN
15 29 (4.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (4.69%) HTTP
16 27 (4.37%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.88%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.91%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (0.49%) Redis
4 2 (0.32%) DataStage
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.32%) 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 (5.18%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.07%) Fiddler
2 19 (3.07%) JIRA
3 14 (2.27%) Git
4 12 (1.94%) GitLab
5 8 (1.29%) PVCS
5 8 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.65%) JMeter
7 4 (0.65%) JUnit
8 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.49%) RStudio
9 2 (0.32%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.32%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.16%) GoCD
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 140 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 61 (9.87%) Public Sector
3 55 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.09%) Finance
5 48 (7.77%) Banking
6 28 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.21%) Investment Banking
8 23 (3.72%) Legal
9 11 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.78%) Military
10 10 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.29%) Electronics
12 7 (1.13%) Police
13 5 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.81%) Local Government
14 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.49%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 113 (18.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 98 (15.86%) Architect
3 56 (9.06%) Analyst
3 56 (9.06%) Network Engineer
4 47 (7.61%) Senior
5 42 (6.80%) VMware Engineer
6 32 (5.18%) Infrastructure Architect
7 31 (5.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 28 (4.53%) Lead
9 22 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (3.56%) Storage Analyst
10 21 (3.40%) Consultant
11 20 (3.24%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 20 (3.24%) Web Engineer
12 19 (3.07%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 19 (3.07%) IP Network Engineer
13 18 (2.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (2.91%) Support Engineer
14 17 (2.75%) VMware Architect
15 16 (2.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.40%) Flash
2 15 (2.43%) LDAP
3 12 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.78%) SAML
5 7 (1.13%) Loki
6 6 (0.97%) Kafka
7 5 (0.81%) Middleware
7 5 (0.81%) REST
7 5 (0.81%) 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 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.32%) 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 68 (11.00%) Data Centre
2 62 (10.03%) Replication
3 43 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (6.96%) PKI
4 42 (6.80%) Cloud Native
5 32 (5.18%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (4.53%) Management Information System
7 26 (4.21%) Clustering
8 23 (3.72%) Private Cloud
9 20 (3.24%) Public Cloud
10 19 (3.07%) Enterprise Storage
11 15 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.27%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.62%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.46%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.29%) Onboarding
16 8 (1.29%) SCADA
17 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 263 (42.56%) Windows
2 212 (34.30%) Linux
3 165 (26.70%) Windows Server
4 48 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (4.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.40%) VMS
7 21 (3.40%) Windows 10
8 18 (2.91%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (1.62%) Data ONTAP
9 10 (1.62%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.29%) Unix
11 7 (1.13%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.97%) Solaris
13 5 (0.81%) CentOS
13 5 (0.81%) CoreOS
14 4 (0.65%) AIX
14 4 (0.65%) CatOS
15 3 (0.49%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (23.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 123 (19.90%) Migration
3 102 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (13.75%) High Availability
5 84 (13.59%) Agile
6 78 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 76 (12.30%) CI/CD
7 76 (12.30%) Load Balancing
8 69 (11.17%) DevOps
9 66 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (10.52%) ITIL
11 53 (8.58%) Containerisation
12 47 (7.61%) Platform Engineering
13 46 (7.44%) Data Protection
14 45 (7.28%) Capacity Planning
15 42 (6.80%) Network Virtualisation
16 40 (6.47%) Change Management
17 39 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
18 37 (5.99%) Roadmaps
18 37 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (23.14%) PowerShell
2 104 (16.83%) Python
3 70 (11.33%) Bash
4 16 (2.59%) SQL
5 11 (1.78%) C
6 10 (1.62%) Perl
7 8 (1.29%) C++
8 7 (1.13%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.13%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.81%) Bicep
9 5 (0.81%) Java
9 5 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.65%) PHP
11 3 (0.49%) C#
12 2 (0.32%) COBOL
12 2 (0.32%) Korn
12 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 244 (39.48%) Security Cleared
2 159 (25.73%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.27%) DV Cleared
4 43 (6.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 42 (6.80%) Degree
6 27 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.05%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.72%) VCAP
9 20 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.91%) CCNP
11 17 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (2.10%) MCSE
13 12 (1.94%) MCSA
13 12 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
14 11 (1.78%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.46%) CCNA
15 9 (1.46%) OCP
16 6 (0.97%) CCIE
16 6 (0.97%) CISSP
16 6 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.24%) NIST
3 12 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (1.94%) GDPR
4 10 (1.62%) SLA
5 7 (1.13%) NCSC
6 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.65%) QA
7 2 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.32%) ISA99
7 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 170 (27.51%) Active Directory
2 154 (24.92%) vSphere
3 121 (19.58%) VMware NSX
4 107 (17.31%) VMware ESXi
5 100 (16.18%) Hyper-V
6 60 (9.71%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (8.25%) Docker
8 39 (6.31%) NFS
9 31 (5.02%) Firmware
10 26 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (2.59%) GPFS
11 16 (2.59%) KVM
12 8 (1.29%) BitLocker
12 8 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.65%) vCloud
14 3 (0.49%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.49%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.32%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.32%) SRDF
15 2 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 112 (18.12%) Ansible
2 87 (14.08%) vCenter Server
3 85 (13.75%) Terraform
4 75 (12.14%) Kubernetes
5 52 (8.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (8.41%) SCCM
6 49 (7.93%) vRealize
7 27 (4.37%) Argo
7 27 (4.37%) Grafana
8 25 (4.05%) VxRail
9 18 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (2.75%) PowerCLI
10 17 (2.75%) vMotion
11 14 (2.27%) Prometheus
12 13 (2.10%) SCOM
13 12 (1.94%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.62%) FortiGate
14 10 (1.62%) Puppet
15 9 (1.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 618 (100.00%) VMware
2 162 (26.21%) Microsoft
3 129 (20.87%) Cisco
4 62 (10.03%) F5
5 60 (9.71%) Red Hat
6 59 (9.55%) Citrix
7 50 (8.09%) NetApp
8 42 (6.80%) IBM
9 40 (6.47%) Dell
10 36 (5.83%) Pure Storage
11 35 (5.66%) Palo Alto
11 35 (5.66%) ServiceNow
12 30 (4.85%) Oracle
12 30 (4.85%) SolarWinds
13 24 (3.88%) Commvault
14 23 (3.72%) McAfee
15 22 (3.56%) Veeam
16 20 (3.24%) Blue Coat
17 19 (3.07%) HP
18 17 (2.75%) Broadcom