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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 128 120
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 645 547 736
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.25% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 14.92% 17.33% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 386 475
10th Percentile £316 £311 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 34
10th Percentile £45.43 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £37.25 £37.63
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 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.38 £61.30 £86.13
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 4,322 3,156 4,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.05% 12.97% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,954 2,196 2,833
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £484
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.47% -7.81%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 83 204
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.36 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% +34.88% -46.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.50 £69.59
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% +28.89% -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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -15 166 £537 -6.61% 71
London -92 143 £525 -4.55% 44
North of England -22 132 £456 +7.29% 71
Midlands -10 120 £397 -27.84% 28
West Midlands -8 96 £340 -38.29% 18
North West +2 77 £450 +5.88% 46
Yorkshire -22 58 £482 +3.66% 22
South West -59 56 £550 -4.35% 34
East of England -7 42 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -30 24 £415 -21.74% 10
North East -18 3 £550 +57.14% 5
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 38 (5.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.02%) Confluence
4 6 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.62%) nginx
5 4 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.47%) CICS
6 3 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 188 (29.15%) Azure
2 144 (22.33%) AWS
3 54 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (7.44%) OpenShift
5 46 (7.13%) Entra ID
6 38 (5.89%) GCP
7 30 (4.65%) IaaS
8 24 (3.72%) Nutanix
9 22 (3.41%) GitHub
10 18 (2.79%) PaaS
11 16 (2.48%) Datadog
12 10 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.09%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.93%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 176 (27.29%) DNS
2 160 (24.81%) Firewall
3 90 (13.95%) DHCP
4 72 (11.16%) VPN
5 64 (9.92%) SAN
6 63 (9.77%) VSAN
7 50 (7.75%) Network Security
7 50 (7.75%) TCP/IP
8 49 (7.60%) WAN
9 41 (6.36%) LAN
10 39 (6.05%) NAS
10 39 (6.05%) SSL
11 37 (5.74%) BIG-IP
12 36 (5.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 32 (4.96%) HTTP
14 31 (4.81%) BGP
15 30 (4.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 30 (4.65%) VLAN
16 28 (4.34%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.72%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.47%) DataStage
4 3 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.47%) Redis
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.31%) Power BI
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (5.27%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.10%) Fiddler
3 19 (2.95%) JIRA
4 17 (2.64%) Git
5 15 (2.33%) GitLab
6 8 (1.24%) PVCS
6 8 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.47%) JMeter
8 3 (0.47%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.16%) GoCD
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 140 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 57 (8.84%) Public Sector
3 56 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.37%) Finance
5 49 (7.60%) Banking
6 26 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 25 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.72%) Legal
9 12 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.55%) Military
10 10 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.24%) Electronics
12 7 (1.09%) Police
13 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.78%) Local Government
14 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (18.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 99 (15.35%) Architect
3 60 (9.30%) Network Engineer
4 55 (8.53%) Analyst
5 49 (7.60%) Senior
5 49 (7.60%) VMware Engineer
6 31 (4.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 31 (4.81%) Infrastructure Architect
6 31 (4.81%) Lead
7 23 (3.57%) Storage Analyst
8 22 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (3.26%) Web Engineer
10 20 (3.10%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 20 (3.10%) IP Network Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) Consultant
11 19 (2.95%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 18 (2.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (2.79%) Support Engineer
13 17 (2.64%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.41%) Flash
2 16 (2.48%) LDAP
3 12 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.71%) SAML
5 7 (1.09%) Middleware
5 7 (1.09%) REST
6 6 (0.93%) Kafka
7 5 (0.78%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.62%) OpenID
9 3 (0.47%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.47%) Loki
9 3 (0.47%) Spring
10 2 (0.31%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.16%) Jinja
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.63%) Data Centre
2 65 (10.08%) Replication
3 43 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (6.51%) PKI
5 40 (6.20%) Cloud Native
6 34 (5.27%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (4.34%) Management Information System
8 27 (4.19%) Clustering
9 26 (4.03%) Private Cloud
10 25 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
11 20 (3.10%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (2.33%) Product Ownership
13 14 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
16 8 (1.24%) SCADA
17 7 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 6 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 276 (42.79%) Windows
2 221 (34.26%) Linux
3 177 (27.44%) Windows Server
4 45 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (3.57%) VMS
6 23 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.10%) Windows 10
8 17 (2.64%) Ubuntu
8 17 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.48%) Data ONTAP
10 10 (1.55%) Mac OS
10 10 (1.55%) Unix
11 9 (1.40%) Solaris
12 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (0.93%) CentOS
14 5 (0.78%) AIX
14 5 (0.78%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.62%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (24.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (19.84%) Migration
3 108 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (13.95%) High Availability
5 82 (12.71%) Agile
6 80 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 79 (12.25%) Load Balancing
8 74 (11.47%) CI/CD
9 73 (11.32%) DevOps
10 67 (10.39%) ITIL
11 66 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 56 (8.68%) Containerisation
13 51 (7.91%) Platform Engineering
14 49 (7.60%) Capacity Planning
15 48 (7.44%) Data Protection
15 48 (7.44%) Network Virtualisation
16 41 (6.36%) Change Management
17 40 (6.20%) Roadmaps
18 39 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
18 39 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (22.79%) PowerShell
2 99 (15.35%) Python
3 69 (10.70%) Bash
4 18 (2.79%) SQL
5 11 (1.71%) C
6 10 (1.55%) Perl
7 8 (1.24%) C++
8 7 (1.09%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.09%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.78%) Bicep
9 5 (0.78%) Java
10 4 (0.62%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) C#
11 3 (0.47%) COBOL
11 3 (0.47%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) VBScript
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 259 (40.16%) Security Cleared
2 166 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 95 (14.73%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (6.67%) Degree
6 27 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 22 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (3.41%) VCAP
8 18 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.79%) CCNP
9 13 (2.02%) MCSE
10 12 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.71%) MCSA
12 10 (1.55%) CCNA
13 9 (1.40%) OCP
14 6 (0.93%) CCIE
14 6 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.10%) NIST
3 13 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (2.02%) SLA
4 12 (1.86%) GDPR
5 6 (0.93%) NCSC
6 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.62%) QA
7 2 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.31%) ISA99
7 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) COBIT
8 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 178 (27.60%) Active Directory
2 156 (24.19%) vSphere
3 129 (20.00%) VMware NSX
4 125 (19.38%) VMware ESXi
5 110 (17.05%) Hyper-V
6 65 (10.08%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (8.37%) Docker
8 41 (6.36%) NFS
9 32 (4.96%) Firmware
10 26 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (3.10%) KVM
12 17 (2.64%) GPFS
13 9 (1.40%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.62%) vCloud
15 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.47%) SRDF
15 3 (0.47%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 120 (18.60%) Ansible
2 96 (14.88%) vCenter Server
3 85 (13.18%) Terraform
4 72 (11.16%) Kubernetes
5 54 (8.37%) SCCM
6 51 (7.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (7.75%) vRealize
8 26 (4.03%) Argo
9 25 (3.88%) VxRail
10 24 (3.72%) Grafana
11 19 (2.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (2.79%) PowerCLI
12 18 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (2.79%) vMotion
13 15 (2.33%) SCOM
14 12 (1.86%) Progress Chef
15 11 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
15 11 (1.71%) Prometheus
15 11 (1.71%) Puppet
15 11 (1.71%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 645 (100.00%) VMware
2 164 (25.43%) Microsoft
3 138 (21.40%) Cisco
4 64 (9.92%) F5
5 61 (9.46%) Citrix
6 60 (9.30%) Red Hat
7 59 (9.15%) NetApp
8 46 (7.13%) IBM
9 38 (5.89%) Dell
10 36 (5.58%) Pure Storage
10 36 (5.58%) ServiceNow
11 35 (5.43%) Palo Alto
12 33 (5.12%) Oracle
13 31 (4.81%) SolarWinds
14 26 (4.03%) Veeam
15 25 (3.88%) Commvault
16 24 (3.72%) McAfee
17 21 (3.26%) Blue Coat
18 19 (2.95%) HP
19 18 (2.79%) CheckPoint
258 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England