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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 105 85
Rank change year-on-year -67 -20 +44
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 503 718 1,070
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 2.30% 2.66%
As % of the System Software category 13.64% 19.39% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 430 693
10th Percentile £290 £312 £310
25th Percentile £414 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £631
90th Percentile £650 £672 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 58
10th Percentile £21.50 £23.10 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.75 £48.34
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.08 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -34.70% +39.37%
75th Percentile £67.25 £96.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £71.46 £112.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £65.98
% change year-on-year -17.05% -45.19% +39.37%

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 3,687 3,702 5,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.65% 11.87% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,390 2,391 3,667
10th Percentile £206 £220 £198
25th Percentile £378 £381 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £622 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £722
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 78 243
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.31 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.87 £21.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £52.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% +20.57% +86.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £66.62
90th Percentile £88.68 £75.75 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -45.00% +8.98% +95.23%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 -28 123 £525 -4.55% 84
London -85 110 £500 +1.57% 53
North of England +12 97 £442 -6.89% 38
Midlands -21 79 £470 -17.90% 40
South West -26 68 £550 -4.35% 28
West Midlands -13 64 £513 -12.39% 22
Yorkshire +17 54 £413 -25.00% 9
North West +2 54 £475 +11.76% 26
East of England +6 36 £550 +7.32% 11
East Midlands -21 15 £458 +11.04% 18
North East -12 2 £550 +83.33% 3
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 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.57%) Confluence
3 21 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.99%) Apache
4 10 (1.99%) IIS
4 10 (1.99%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.39%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.60%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.20%) Traefik
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 23 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 146 (29.03%) Azure
2 101 (20.08%) AWS
3 46 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (7.95%) GCP
5 31 (6.16%) Entra ID
6 27 (5.37%) OpenShift
7 21 (4.17%) SaaS
8 19 (3.78%) Cohesity
8 19 (3.78%) GitHub
9 18 (3.58%) IaaS
10 13 (2.58%) Nutanix
11 11 (2.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (1.99%) PaaS
13 8 (1.59%) Datadog
14 6 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (0.99%) Asana
15 5 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
16 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
17 3 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 166 (33.00%) DNS
2 122 (24.25%) Firewall
3 69 (13.72%) TCP/IP
4 61 (12.13%) DHCP
5 53 (10.54%) SAN
6 48 (9.54%) VLAN
7 45 (8.95%) VPN
8 32 (6.36%) VSAN
9 30 (5.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 29 (5.77%) Network Security
10 29 (5.77%) WAN
11 26 (5.17%) BGP
11 26 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 25 (4.97%) DMZ
13 24 (4.77%) LAN
14 22 (4.37%) iSCSI
15 19 (3.78%) Fibre Channel
15 19 (3.78%) MPLS
15 19 (3.78%) NAS
16 16 (3.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.40%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.40%) MySQL
4 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.20%) Power BI
5 1 (0.20%) Redis
5 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (7.75%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.77%) Git
3 23 (4.57%) JIRA
4 16 (3.18%) GitLab
4 16 (3.18%) Postman
5 11 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.59%) Subversion
7 5 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.99%) Fiddler
7 5 (0.99%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.80%) JMeter
8 4 (0.80%) JUnit
8 4 (0.80%) MSI
8 4 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.40%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.40%) RStudio
9 2 (0.40%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 145 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (9.94%) Finance
3 50 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.36%) Banking
5 27 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.38%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.19%) Legal
10 9 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.99%) Law
12 5 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.60%) Military
15 2 (0.40%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.40%) Billing
15 2 (0.40%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (16.10%) Architect
2 72 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (7.16%) Senior
4 30 (5.96%) Consultant
4 30 (5.96%) Support Engineer
5 28 (5.57%) Network Engineer
6 25 (4.97%) Infrastructure Architect
7 22 (4.37%) Analyst
8 21 (4.17%) Administrator
8 21 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (3.98%) VMware Architect
10 17 (3.38%) Infrastructure Support
10 17 (3.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 17 (3.38%) Windows Engineer
11 14 (2.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 14 (2.78%) Operations Engineer
12 13 (2.58%) Server Engineer
12 13 (2.58%) VMware Consultant
12 13 (2.58%) VMware Engineer
13 12 (2.39%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.19%) REST
2 8 (1.59%) Flash
2 8 (1.59%) Middleware
3 7 (1.39%) NETCONF
3 7 (1.39%) RESTCONF
4 6 (1.19%) Loki
5 5 (0.99%) YAML
6 4 (0.80%) Hibernate
6 4 (0.80%) Kafka
6 4 (0.80%) RESTful
6 4 (0.80%) Spring
7 3 (0.60%) .NET
7 3 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.60%) OAuth
7 3 (0.60%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.60%) OpenID
7 3 (0.60%) SAML
7 3 (0.60%) Swagger
8 2 (0.40%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.93%) Data Centre
2 38 (7.55%) PKI
3 35 (6.96%) Replication
4 30 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (5.96%) Management Information System
5 21 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 17 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (2.58%) Clustering
7 13 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.39%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.19%) NHS
12 6 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 241 (47.91%) Windows
2 179 (35.59%) Linux
3 131 (26.04%) Windows Server
4 56 (11.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (8.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (8.15%) Windows 10
7 31 (6.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (3.38%) CentOS
9 16 (3.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (2.78%) Ubuntu
11 13 (2.58%) Mac OS
12 12 (2.39%) Solaris
12 12 (2.39%) VMS
13 11 (2.19%) Unix
14 6 (1.19%) AIX
15 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.80%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
18 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
18 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (17.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (14.12%) Agile
4 69 (13.72%) DevOps
5 66 (13.12%) Migration
6 59 (11.73%) ITIL
7 57 (11.33%) CI/CD
8 56 (11.13%) Disaster Recovery
9 49 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (8.75%) Containerisation
11 42 (8.35%) Business Strategy
12 41 (8.15%) High Availability
12 41 (8.15%) Load Balancing
13 39 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (7.75%) Service Management
14 37 (7.36%) Data Protection
15 34 (6.76%) Validation
16 31 (6.16%) Configuration Management
17 30 (5.96%) Deployment Automation
18 29 (5.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 128 (25.45%) PowerShell
2 127 (25.25%) Python
3 74 (14.71%) Bash
4 39 (7.75%) SQL
5 17 (3.38%) Perl
6 15 (2.98%) Java
7 10 (1.99%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.79%) PHP
9 7 (1.39%) Go
9 7 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.99%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) C#
11 1 (0.20%) Rust
11 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 197 (39.17%) Security Cleared
2 124 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 79 (15.71%) DV Cleared
4 44 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
5 40 (7.95%) Degree
6 32 (6.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 31 (6.16%) CCNP
8 23 (4.57%) Azure Certification
9 19 (3.78%) MCSE
10 16 (3.18%) CCNA
11 11 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (2.19%) Server+ Certification
12 10 (1.99%) CCIE
12 10 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.79%) AWS Certification
13 9 (1.79%) VCAP
13 9 (1.79%) VCP5
13 9 (1.79%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.77%) GDPR
2 15 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.99%) SLA
4 9 (1.79%) QA
5 8 (1.59%) NIST
6 5 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.80%) NCSC
8 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) RMADS
System Software
1 164 (32.60%) Active Directory
2 93 (18.49%) vSphere
3 79 (15.71%) VMware ESXi
4 69 (13.72%) Hyper-V
5 51 (10.14%) VMware NSX
6 39 (7.75%) Docker
7 37 (7.36%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (5.96%) Virtual Servers
9 28 (5.57%) NFS
10 25 (4.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 22 (4.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (2.19%) Firmware
13 10 (1.99%) KVM
14 8 (1.59%) GPFS
15 7 (1.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 6 (1.19%) Dovecot
16 6 (1.19%) Postfix
16 6 (1.19%) Terminal Services
16 6 (1.19%) UAG
16 6 (1.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 129 (25.65%) Ansible
2 68 (13.52%) Terraform
3 67 (13.32%) SCCM
4 60 (11.93%) vCenter Server
5 38 (7.55%) Kubernetes
6 32 (6.36%) vRealize
7 31 (6.16%) WSUS
8 27 (5.37%) Puppet
9 26 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (2.78%) VxRail
11 13 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (2.58%) Argo
11 13 (2.58%) Grafana
11 13 (2.58%) Microsoft Clustering
12 11 (2.19%) Prometheus
13 10 (1.99%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.99%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
15 8 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (1.39%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 503 (100.00%) VMware
2 179 (35.59%) Microsoft
3 100 (19.88%) Cisco
4 58 (11.53%) NetApp
5 57 (11.33%) Red Hat
6 55 (10.93%) F5
7 53 (10.54%) Citrix
8 42 (8.35%) Splunk
9 36 (7.16%) Veeam
10 28 (5.57%) Dell
10 28 (5.57%) SolarWinds
11 25 (4.97%) Oracle
12 19 (3.78%) Broadcom
13 18 (3.58%) IBM
14 17 (3.38%) MuleSoft
14 17 (3.38%) Palo Alto
15 15 (2.98%) Juniper
16 14 (2.78%) Fortinet
16 14 (2.78%) Google
17 13 (2.58%) CyberArk