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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 121 92
Rank change year-on-year -40 -29 +24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 545 565 858
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 2.12% 2.34%
As % of the System Software category 13.80% 17.65% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 354 549
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £402 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £623 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 49
10th Percentile £33.93 £54.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £67.21 £61.25 £46.39
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +34.13% +1.51%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.13 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +21.74% -12.85% +1.51%

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 3,949 3,202 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.47% 12.01% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,704 2,062 3,115
10th Percentile £213 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £367 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 77 192
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.58 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.05 £18.27
Median hourly rate £41.94 £28.41 £48.89
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -41.89% +41.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.88
90th Percentile £89.38 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.96 £55.00
% change year-on-year +52.69% -49.17% +57.14%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -9 140 £500 -9.09% 94
Midlands +35 119 £413 -25.14% 33
London -87 109 £548 +9.50% 53
West Midlands +27 97 £400 -30.43% 17
North of England -27 93 £425 - 42
North West -13 64 £438 +2.94% 18
South West -37 62 £550 -0.09% 44
Yorkshire -19 40 £380 -15.56% 21
East of England +5 32 £475 +18.75% 15
East Midlands -9 22 £447 +40.79% 15
North East -15 2 £513 +57.69% 6
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 30 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.30%) Confluence
4 12 (2.20%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.28%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.92%) IIS
6 5 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Traefik
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (3.12%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 166 (30.46%) Azure
2 138 (25.32%) AWS
3 49 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.81%) GCP
5 35 (6.42%) OpenShift
6 32 (5.87%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.40%) IaaS
8 22 (4.04%) GitHub
9 20 (3.67%) SaaS
10 16 (2.94%) Nutanix
11 15 (2.75%) PaaS
12 14 (2.57%) Datadog
13 8 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.73%) AWS Direct Connect
16 4 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 173 (31.74%) DNS
2 129 (23.67%) Firewall
3 84 (15.41%) DHCP
4 58 (10.64%) TCP/IP
5 55 (10.09%) VPN
6 42 (7.71%) VLAN
7 40 (7.34%) Network Security
8 35 (6.42%) SAN
9 33 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 33 (6.06%) VSAN
10 31 (5.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 31 (5.69%) WAN
11 30 (5.50%) LAN
12 23 (4.22%) BGP
12 23 (4.22%) BIG-IP
13 21 (3.85%) SSL
13 21 (3.85%) Wireless
14 19 (3.49%) DMZ
14 19 (3.49%) HTTP
15 18 (3.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.37%) Redis
5 1 (0.18%) Power BI
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.04%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.67%) Git
3 18 (3.30%) JIRA
4 14 (2.57%) GitLab
5 12 (2.20%) Fiddler
6 11 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.47%) PVCS
7 8 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.28%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.28%) JMeter
8 7 (1.28%) JUnit
9 5 (0.92%) Subversion
10 4 (0.73%) RStudio
10 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.18%) GoCD
12 1 (0.18%) Postman
12 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
General
1 146 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 43 (7.89%) Banking
4 43 (7.89%) Finance
5 29 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (2.20%) Legal
8 10 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.47%) Electronics
10 6 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.92%) Police
12 4 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.73%) Military
12 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.73%) Social Science
13 3 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (17.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (15.60%) Architect
3 53 (9.72%) Analyst
4 34 (6.24%) Network Engineer
5 30 (5.50%) Support Engineer
6 29 (5.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 29 (5.32%) Senior
7 27 (4.95%) Infrastructure Architect
7 27 (4.95%) VMware Engineer
8 26 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (4.22%) Consultant
10 19 (3.49%) Storage Analyst
11 16 (2.94%) Lead
11 16 (2.94%) Storage Engineer
11 16 (2.94%) VMware Consultant
12 15 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support
12 15 (2.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 14 (2.57%) Administrator
13 14 (2.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.12%) Flash
2 12 (2.20%) LDAP
3 10 (1.83%) SAML
4 9 (1.65%) REST
5 8 (1.47%) Kafka
6 7 (1.28%) Loki
6 7 (1.28%) Spring
7 6 (1.10%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.92%) Middleware
9 4 (0.73%) OAuth
9 4 (0.73%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.73%) OpenID
10 3 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.55%) Swagger
11 2 (0.37%) .NET
11 2 (0.37%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.37%) RESTful
11 2 (0.37%) Software Packaging
12 1 (0.18%) React
12 1 (0.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.93%) Data Centre
2 55 (10.09%) Replication
3 42 (7.71%) PKI
4 33 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 32 (5.87%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (5.69%) Cloud Native
7 26 (4.77%) Private Cloud
8 25 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (3.12%) Clustering
10 15 (2.75%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.83%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.47%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.10%) SCADA
16 5 (0.92%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 226 (41.47%) Windows
2 198 (36.33%) Linux
3 131 (24.04%) Windows Server
4 43 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (6.06%) Windows 10
6 21 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (3.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (2.20%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.20%) VMS
10 11 (2.02%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.83%) Solaris
12 8 (1.47%) CentOS
12 8 (1.47%) Unix
13 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.73%) CatOS
14 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.55%) AIX
16 2 (0.37%) zOS
17 1 (0.18%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (21.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (15.41%) Agile
4 71 (13.03%) CI/CD
5 68 (12.48%) Migration
6 66 (12.11%) ITIL
7 63 (11.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 62 (11.38%) DevOps
9 59 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 56 (10.28%) Load Balancing
11 46 (8.44%) Containerisation
12 45 (8.26%) High Availability
13 42 (7.71%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (7.16%) Data Protection
15 37 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (6.61%) Business Strategy
16 36 (6.61%) Service Management
17 32 (5.87%) Project Delivery
18 31 (5.69%) Cybersecurity
18 31 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (24.04%) PowerShell
2 103 (18.90%) Python
3 76 (13.94%) Bash
4 29 (5.32%) SQL
5 16 (2.94%) Perl
6 15 (2.75%) Java
7 10 (1.83%) C
7 10 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.65%) C++
9 7 (1.28%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.28%) Embedded C++
10 4 (0.73%) C#
10 4 (0.73%) Go
10 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.55%) Bicep
12 1 (0.18%) Korn
12 1 (0.18%) PHP
12 1 (0.18%) Rust
12 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 211 (38.72%) Security Cleared
2 144 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.74%) DV Cleared
4 39 (7.16%) Degree
5 38 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (6.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 31 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (4.77%) Azure Certification
9 23 (4.22%) CCNP
10 16 (2.94%) AWS Certification
11 15 (2.75%) MCSE
12 12 (2.20%) CCIE
12 12 (2.20%) CCNA
12 12 (2.20%) VCAP
13 11 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (2.02%) Server+ Certification
14 8 (1.47%) JNCIE
14 8 (1.47%) MCSA
15 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.04%) GDPR
2 18 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.83%) NIST
4 9 (1.65%) SLA
5 7 (1.28%) QA
6 6 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.73%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 155 (28.44%) Active Directory
2 106 (19.45%) vSphere
3 87 (15.96%) Hyper-V
4 73 (13.39%) VMware NSX
5 72 (13.21%) VMware ESXi
6 51 (9.36%) Docker
7 41 (7.52%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (5.32%) NFS
9 21 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (3.12%) GPFS
11 15 (2.75%) Firmware
11 15 (2.75%) KVM
12 9 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.10%) Dovecot
13 6 (1.10%) Postfix
14 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.73%) Veritas File System
15 4 (0.73%) Veritas Volume Manager
15 4 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 94 (17.25%) Ansible
2 76 (13.94%) Terraform
3 63 (11.56%) vCenter Server
4 58 (10.64%) Kubernetes
5 55 (10.09%) SCCM
6 49 (8.99%) vRealize
7 43 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (3.67%) VxRail
9 17 (3.12%) Grafana
10 16 (2.94%) Argo
11 15 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (2.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (2.57%) Prometheus
13 12 (2.20%) WSUS
14 11 (2.02%) Progress Chef
14 11 (2.02%) SCOM
15 10 (1.83%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.83%) Puppet
16 8 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
17 7 (1.28%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 545 (100.00%) VMware
2 155 (28.44%) Microsoft
3 132 (24.22%) Cisco
4 64 (11.74%) F5
5 55 (10.09%) Citrix
6 54 (9.91%) Red Hat
7 41 (7.52%) IBM
7 41 (7.52%) SolarWinds
8 40 (7.34%) NetApp
9 36 (6.61%) Oracle
9 36 (6.61%) Veeam
10 34 (6.24%) Dell
11 30 (5.50%) ServiceNow
12 28 (5.14%) Palo Alto
13 23 (4.22%) Broadcom
14 16 (2.94%) Google
15 15 (2.75%) HP
15 15 (2.75%) Juniper
16 14 (2.57%) Commvault
16 14 (2.57%) Fortinet
253 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England