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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 163 103
Rank change year-on-year -5 -60 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 710 472 783
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.73% 2.21%
As % of the System Software category 15.77% 14.44% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 314 512
10th Percentile £325 £329 £306
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +5.01% -0.24%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £589
90th Percentile £650 £660 £663
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -8.64% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 18
10th Percentile £21.28 £28.20 £22.23
25th Percentile £30.17 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -27.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.20 £29.50 £44.64
90th Percentile £96.93 £29.80 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +68.97% -27.50% -36.51%

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 4,503 3,269 4,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.00% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,135 2,838
10th Percentile £213 £217 £219
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 86 172
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% +60.06% -44.44%
75th Percentile £74.26 £79.68 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.57 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.15
% change year-on-year +67.28% +35.57% -53.70%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +2 218 £538 -6.93% 74
London -26 166 £500 -4.76% 48
North of England -9 142 £483 +15.34% 37
Midlands -2 91 £450 -13.96% 23
Yorkshire -25 71 £500 +11.11% 6
North West -7 69 £466 +20.13% 26
West Midlands -15 69 £450 -12.11% 12
South West -49 65 £550 -4.35% 31
East of England -26 34 £500 -9.09% 21
East Midlands -4 22 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -45 2 £588 +62.07% 6
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 40 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.27%) IIS
4 8 (1.13%) nginx
4 8 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.85%) Confluence
7 4 (0.56%) Apache
8 3 (0.42%) CICS
8 3 (0.42%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.42%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.28%) Houdini
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.28%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 193 (27.18%) Azure
2 124 (17.46%) AWS
3 55 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.48%) OpenShift
6 30 (4.23%) GCP
7 24 (3.38%) GitHub
8 20 (2.82%) IaaS
9 14 (1.97%) Nutanix
10 13 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.69%) PaaS
11 12 (1.69%) Rubrik
12 11 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.27%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.13%) SaaS
15 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
15 7 (0.99%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (29.44%) DNS
2 155 (21.83%) Firewall
3 124 (17.46%) DHCP
4 78 (10.99%) VSAN
5 76 (10.70%) SAN
6 73 (10.28%) TCP/IP
7 66 (9.30%) VPN
8 59 (8.31%) WAN
9 52 (7.32%) Network Security
10 51 (7.18%) VLAN
11 46 (6.48%) NAS
12 44 (6.20%) LAN
13 43 (6.06%) SSL
14 29 (4.08%) BGP
15 28 (3.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 27 (3.80%) HTTP
17 26 (3.66%) Wireshark
18 25 (3.52%) BIG-IP
19 23 (3.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
20 22 (3.10%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 6 (0.85%) Power BI
3 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (0.42%) Big Data
6 3 (0.42%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.42%) DataStage
6 3 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.28%) Redis
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.14%) GIS
8 1 (0.14%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.14%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 27 (3.80%) Jenkins
1 27 (3.80%) JIRA
2 16 (2.25%) Fiddler
2 16 (2.25%) Git
3 11 (1.55%) GitLab
4 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.28%) MSI
5 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.28%) Subversion
6 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 157 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 59 (8.31%) Finance
3 58 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.93%) Banking
6 21 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.96%) Legal
7 17 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.83%) Military
9 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.99%) Police
11 7 (0.99%) Retail
12 6 (0.85%) Law
13 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.42%) Games
14 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.28%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 169 (23.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 79 (11.13%) Senior
3 68 (9.58%) Architect
3 68 (9.58%) Network Engineer
4 65 (9.15%) VMware Engineer
5 40 (5.63%) Support Engineer
6 36 (5.07%) Lead
7 31 (4.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 31 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (4.37%) Storage Engineer
8 29 (4.08%) Consultant
9 26 (3.66%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 24 (3.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 23 (3.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (3.10%) Administrator
13 21 (2.96%) Senior Network Engineer
13 21 (2.96%) VMware Consultant
14 18 (2.54%) Data Centre Engineer
14 18 (2.54%) IT Engineer
14 18 (2.54%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.69%) Flash
2 11 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.41%) REST
4 9 (1.27%) LDAP
5 6 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.85%) Middleware
6 5 (0.70%) .NET
7 4 (0.56%) JSON
7 4 (0.56%) Redfish
8 3 (0.42%) Kafka
8 3 (0.42%) SAML
8 3 (0.42%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.42%) YAML
9 2 (0.28%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.28%) Java SE
9 2 (0.28%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.28%) Qt
9 2 (0.28%) Unreal Engine
9 2 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (14.37%) Data Centre
2 59 (8.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (8.17%) PKI
4 50 (7.04%) Replication
5 45 (6.34%) Enterprise Storage
6 33 (4.65%) Clustering
7 27 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.38%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.24%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (2.39%) Private Cloud
12 16 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.55%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.41%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.41%) SCADA
15 10 (1.41%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (1.13%) EMC VMAX
17 8 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 356 (50.14%) Windows
2 225 (31.69%) Windows Server
3 200 (28.17%) Linux
4 44 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (3.38%) VMS
6 24 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (2.39%) Data ONTAP
8 16 (2.25%) Windows 10
9 15 (2.11%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.11%) Unix
10 12 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.55%) Solaris
12 8 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.99%) CentOS
13 7 (0.99%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.56%) AIX
15 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (30.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 145 (20.42%) Migration
3 120 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (15.63%) High Availability
5 91 (12.82%) ITIL
6 88 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 84 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 83 (11.69%) CI/CD
9 71 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
10 66 (9.30%) DevOps
11 65 (9.15%) Agile
12 63 (8.87%) Change Management
13 62 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
14 60 (8.45%) Capacity Planning
15 59 (8.31%) Load Balancing
15 59 (8.31%) Validation
16 58 (8.17%) ITSM
17 55 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
18 48 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
19 47 (6.62%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (21.97%) PowerShell
2 102 (14.37%) Python
3 63 (8.87%) Bash
4 32 (4.51%) SQL
5 13 (1.83%) Java
6 7 (0.99%) C
6 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.70%) Bicep
7 5 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.42%) COBOL
8 3 (0.42%) Lua
8 3 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.28%) VBScript
10 1 (0.14%) C#
10 1 (0.14%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Korn
10 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.14%) Perl
10 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 340 (47.89%) Security Cleared
2 190 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 169 (23.80%) DV Cleared
4 59 (8.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 45 (6.34%) Degree
6 34 (4.79%) VCAP
7 33 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (3.10%) Azure Certification
10 19 (2.68%) CCNP
11 18 (2.54%) MCSE
12 16 (2.25%) MCSA
13 15 (2.11%) CCNA
14 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (1.27%) OCP
17 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.99%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.38%) NIST
2 21 (2.96%) SLA
3 17 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.69%) NCSC
6 7 (0.99%) QA
7 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.42%) GxP
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) ISA99
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.14%) DICOM
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 224 (31.55%) Active Directory
2 186 (26.20%) VMware ESXi
3 176 (24.79%) vSphere
4 146 (20.56%) VMware NSX
5 133 (18.73%) Hyper-V
6 89 (12.54%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (6.76%) Docker
8 39 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.51%) Firmware
10 31 (4.37%) NFS
11 24 (3.38%) KVM
12 11 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.27%) vCloud
14 8 (1.13%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.99%) GPFS
16 6 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
17 5 (0.70%) SRDF
18 4 (0.56%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 146 (20.56%) vCenter Server
2 138 (19.44%) Ansible
3 94 (13.24%) Terraform
4 89 (12.54%) Kubernetes
5 41 (5.77%) SCCM
6 38 (5.35%) SCOM
7 36 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (4.65%) vRealize
9 26 (3.66%) VxRail
10 24 (3.38%) Grafana
11 21 (2.96%) vMotion
12 20 (2.82%) Argo
13 18 (2.54%) PowerCLI
14 16 (2.25%) Puppet
15 14 (1.97%) NetBackup
15 14 (1.97%) Prometheus
15 14 (1.97%) WSUS
16 13 (1.83%) EMC VPLEX
17 12 (1.69%) Avamar
17 12 (1.69%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 710 (100.00%) VMware
2 188 (26.48%) Microsoft
3 136 (19.15%) Cisco
4 57 (8.03%) Citrix
5 56 (7.89%) NetApp
6 52 (7.32%) Red Hat
7 45 (6.34%) Dell
8 39 (5.49%) F5
9 32 (4.51%) Juniper
9 32 (4.51%) SolarWinds
10 31 (4.37%) Palo Alto
10 31 (4.37%) ServiceNow
11 30 (4.23%) Pure Storage
12 28 (3.94%) Veeam
13 26 (3.66%) Oracle
14 24 (3.38%) Broadcom
15 21 (2.96%) IBM
16 20 (2.82%) Commvault
17 19 (2.68%) Fortinet
17 19 (2.68%) McAfee
218 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England