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

 6 months to
16 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 169 108
Rank change year-on-year +6 -61 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 784 466 720
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.68% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 17.01% 13.79% 18.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 310 448
10th Percentile £316 £300 £321
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +8.11% -3.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £682 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 2 6
10th Percentile £26.00 £33.58 £23.10
25th Percentile £33.70 £38.94 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.08% +102.73% -62.22%
75th Percentile £90.00 £57.94 £33.51
90th Percentile £97.56 £63.53 £43.37
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £48.25 £23.80
% change year-on-year +40.93% +102.73% -63.93%

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 4,609 3,380 3,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.00% 12.17% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,000 2,173 2,567
10th Percentile £213 £214 £219
25th Percentile £385 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £595 £600 £609
90th Percentile £682 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 96 100
10th Percentile £17.63 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.50 £16.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% +47.84% -49.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.31 £90.75 £80.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £33.39 £24.35
% change year-on-year +89.11% +37.10% -51.30%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -8 203 £538 -2.27% 130
London -23 188 £525 +5.00% 231
North of England +5 177 £476 +10.38% 83
Midlands -10 96 £450 -18.18% 87
North West +9 86 £455 +3.89% 42
Yorkshire -16 77 £523 +26.67% 26
South West -33 76 £638 +12.83% 82
West Midlands -23 71 £450 -21.36% 57
East of England -6 50 £505 -8.18% 63
East Midlands -3 25 £425 -11.92% 30
North East -27 14 £400 -36.00% 16
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 43 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.04%) IIS
4 12 (1.53%) 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
7 4 (0.51%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
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 Project
2 2 (0.26%) NUKE
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 221 (28.19%) Azure
2 126 (16.07%) AWS
3 81 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 39 (4.97%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.21%) GCP
7 29 (3.70%) GitHub
8 25 (3.19%) IaaS
9 18 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.66%) PaaS
12 13 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.66%) SaaS
13 11 (1.40%) Nutanix
14 9 (1.15%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.15%) Rubrik
15 8 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 258 (32.91%) DNS
2 166 (21.17%) Firewall
3 162 (20.66%) DHCP
4 92 (11.73%) TCP/IP
5 80 (10.20%) VSAN
6 67 (8.55%) VPN
7 66 (8.42%) SAN
8 64 (8.16%) VLAN
9 52 (6.63%) WAN
10 51 (6.51%) Network Security
11 41 (5.23%) LAN
12 38 (4.85%) NAS
13 37 (4.72%) SSL
14 30 (3.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 29 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (3.70%) HTTP
16 24 (3.06%) BGP
17 23 (2.93%) Wireshark
18 22 (2.81%) BIG-IP
19 18 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.66%) Power BI
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%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.26%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) DataStage
10 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (4.08%) JIRA
2 24 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.81%) Git
4 20 (2.55%) GitLab
5 13 (1.66%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.51%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.51%) PVCS
8 3 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 183 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (9.82%) Finance
4 35 (4.46%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.57%) Banking
5 28 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (3.06%) Legal
7 15 (1.91%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.53%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.02%) Law
12 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Retail
13 6 (0.77%) Back Office
13 6 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.64%) Military
14 5 (0.64%) Police
15 4 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 191 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 110 (14.03%) Senior
3 83 (10.59%) VMware Engineer
4 62 (7.91%) Architect
5 57 (7.27%) Network Engineer
6 50 (6.38%) Support Engineer
7 48 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.10%) Lead
9 38 (4.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (4.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 34 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (4.08%) Storage Engineer
12 31 (3.95%) Administrator
13 28 (3.57%) Consultant
14 27 (3.44%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 24 (3.06%) IT Engineer
16 23 (2.93%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 22 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
18 21 (2.68%) Server Engineer
18 21 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (14.92%) Terraform
2 22 (2.81%) REST
3 18 (2.30%) JSON
4 16 (2.04%) Kafka
5 12 (1.53%) LDAP
6 11 (1.40%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.15%) YAML
8 8 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.89%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.77%) Middleware
11 5 (0.64%) .NET
12 4 (0.51%) Flash
12 4 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.51%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
13 3 (0.38%) XML
14 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
14 2 (0.26%) OAuth
14 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.20%) Data Centre
2 71 (9.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.29%) PKI
4 46 (5.87%) Enterprise Storage
5 42 (5.36%) Clustering
6 37 (4.72%) Replication
7 34 (4.34%) Private Cloud
8 31 (3.95%) Management Information System
9 29 (3.70%) Onboarding
10 28 (3.57%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.55%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.66%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.66%) SCADA
16 12 (1.53%) Operational Technology
17 10 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 437 (55.74%) Windows
2 294 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 209 (26.66%) Linux
4 44 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (5.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (3.44%) Windows 10
6 23 (2.93%) VMS
7 19 (2.42%) Unix
8 17 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (1.79%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.15%) Solaris
14 8 (1.02%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.89%) CentOS
16 6 (0.77%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.51%) SUSE
18 3 (0.38%) AIX
18 3 (0.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (33.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 159 (20.28%) ITIL
3 151 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
4 146 (18.62%) Migration
5 134 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 114 (14.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 104 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
8 103 (13.14%) CI/CD
9 94 (11.99%) Change Management
10 90 (11.48%) High Availability
11 86 (10.97%) ITSM
12 77 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
13 76 (9.69%) Agile
14 75 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
15 74 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (9.31%) Service Management
17 72 (9.18%) Network Virtualisation
18 69 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
19 68 (8.67%) DevOps
19 68 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 193 (24.62%) PowerShell
2 113 (14.41%) Python
3 76 (9.69%) Bash
4 53 (6.76%) SQL
5 19 (2.42%) Java
6 9 (1.15%) C
7 8 (1.02%) Bicep
8 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.51%) C++
10 4 (0.51%) Go
10 4 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.38%) Lua
11 3 (0.38%) VB
12 2 (0.26%) Korn
12 2 (0.26%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 390 (49.74%) Security Cleared
2 224 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 191 (24.36%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 53 (6.76%) Degree
6 43 (5.48%) VCAP
7 39 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.70%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.68%) MCSE
11 17 (2.17%) AWS Certification
11 17 (2.17%) CCNP
12 16 (2.04%) CCNA
12 16 (2.04%) MCSA
13 12 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.06%) SLA
2 18 (2.30%) NIST
2 18 (2.30%) QA
3 14 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.66%) NCSC
5 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.51%) GxP
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) DICOM
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 277 (35.33%) Active Directory
2 196 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 190 (24.23%) vSphere
4 174 (22.19%) Hyper-V
5 134 (17.09%) VMware NSX
6 91 (11.61%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (6.89%) Docker
8 39 (4.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.08%) Firmware
10 19 (2.42%) NFS
11 15 (1.91%) KVM
12 13 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (1.15%) XenApp
15 8 (1.02%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.89%) oVirt
16 7 (0.89%) vCloud
17 6 (0.77%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 148 (18.88%) vCenter Server
2 143 (18.24%) Ansible
3 122 (15.56%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.89%) SCCM
4 54 (6.89%) SCOM
5 43 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (4.46%) VxRail
7 22 (2.81%) Grafana
7 22 (2.81%) vRealize
8 19 (2.42%) Prometheus
9 17 (2.17%) PowerCLI
9 17 (2.17%) Puppet
10 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Clustering
11 14 (1.79%) vMotion
11 14 (1.79%) WSUS
12 13 (1.66%) Avamar
12 13 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
13 12 (1.53%) Argo
14 11 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
14 11 (1.40%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 784 (100.00%) VMware
2 240 (30.61%) Microsoft
3 132 (16.84%) Cisco
4 60 (7.65%) Citrix
5 54 (6.89%) NetApp
6 49 (6.25%) Dell
6 49 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 39 (4.97%) F5
8 38 (4.85%) ServiceNow
9 36 (4.59%) SolarWinds
10 33 (4.21%) Oracle
11 30 (3.83%) Veeam
12 29 (3.70%) Palo Alto
13 28 (3.57%) Juniper
14 23 (2.93%) Fortinet
15 22 (2.81%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.42%) IBM
17 18 (2.30%) McAfee
17 18 (2.30%) Remedy
18 16 (2.04%) CheckPoint
682 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England