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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 168 100
Rank change year-on-year +2 -68 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 725 463 767
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.68% 2.29%
As % of the System Software category 15.87% 13.97% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 308 498
10th Percentile £325 £344 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -0.24%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £595
90th Percentile £658 £650 £660
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -6.55% +6.18% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 2 8
10th Percentile £25.90 £28.20 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -3.28% -50.03%
75th Percentile £74.26 £29.50 £72.94
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +117.71% -3.28% -52.41%

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 4,567 3,314 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.03% 11.99% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,004 2,171 2,703
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £684 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 88 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £28.00 £22.88 £14.77
Median hourly rate £60.00 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +54.84% +62.82% -40.50%
75th Percentile £74.26 £80.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £23.80
% change year-on-year +60.21% +37.69% -52.40%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +6 219 £538 -6.52% 78
London -8 177 £525 - 90
North of England -7 138 £484 +15.58% 54
Midlands -19 88 £450 -18.18% 23
North West -8 70 £482 +37.57% 34
South West -48 69 £553 -3.91% 41
West Midlands -27 68 £450 -20.84% 13
Yorkshire -27 65 £500 +11.48% 12
East of England -18 38 £500 -9.09% 24
East Midlands -1 20 £450 -18.18% 10
North East -39 3 £500 -20.00% 10
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 40 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.52%) Confluence
4 9 (1.24%) IIS
5 8 (1.10%) nginx
5 8 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.55%) Apache
6 4 (0.55%) FactoryTalk
6 4 (0.55%) JBoss
7 3 (0.41%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) CICS
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.41%) 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 12 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (26.76%) Azure
2 133 (18.34%) AWS
3 55 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 38 (5.24%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.55%) GCP
7 26 (3.59%) GitHub
8 24 (3.31%) IaaS
9 16 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.07%) PaaS
11 14 (1.93%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.79%) Rubrik
13 12 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.66%) SaaS
14 11 (1.52%) OneDrive
15 10 (1.38%) Nutanix
16 9 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (1.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 229 (31.59%) DNS
2 164 (22.62%) Firewall
3 140 (19.31%) DHCP
4 85 (11.72%) VSAN
5 84 (11.59%) TCP/IP
6 70 (9.66%) VPN
7 66 (9.10%) SAN
8 57 (7.86%) WAN
9 55 (7.59%) VLAN
10 53 (7.31%) Network Security
11 44 (6.07%) SSL
12 41 (5.66%) LAN
13 38 (5.24%) NAS
14 31 (4.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (4.14%) BGP
16 27 (3.72%) HTTP
17 26 (3.59%) BIG-IP
17 26 (3.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 26 (3.59%) Wireshark
18 21 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (1.79%) Power BI
2 13 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (1.24%) NoSQL
3 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (0.83%) Big Data
5 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (0.55%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.28%) DataStage
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.28%) Redis
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
9 1 (0.14%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 32 (4.41%) JIRA
2 27 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.34%) Git
4 16 (2.21%) Fiddler
5 15 (2.07%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.41%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.28%) CppUnit
9 2 (0.28%) MSI
9 2 (0.28%) PVCS
9 2 (0.28%) Subversion
10 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 161 (22.21%) Social Skills
2 67 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (8.14%) Finance
4 46 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.69%) Banking
6 22 (3.03%) Legal
7 20 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.66%) Military
11 8 (1.10%) Retail
12 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.83%) Law
14 5 (0.69%) Police
15 4 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.55%) Games
16 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (24.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (12.83%) Senior
3 74 (10.21%) VMware Engineer
4 72 (9.93%) Network Engineer
5 60 (8.28%) Architect
6 46 (6.34%) Support Engineer
7 38 (5.24%) Lead
8 35 (4.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 34 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (4.41%) Storage Engineer
11 29 (4.00%) Consultant
11 29 (4.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 28 (3.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (3.31%) Administrator
13 24 (3.31%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 23 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (3.03%) IT Engineer
15 22 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
15 22 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.90%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.66%) REST
2 11 (1.52%) Flash
3 10 (1.38%) 802.1X
4 9 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (0.97%) LDAP
5 7 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (0.69%) .NET
6 5 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.69%) JSON
6 5 (0.69%) Middleware
6 5 (0.69%) YAML
7 4 (0.55%) Redfish
8 3 (0.41%) Kafka
8 3 (0.41%) SAML
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
1 111 (15.31%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.69%) PKI
3 62 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 45 (6.21%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (6.07%) Clustering
6 43 (5.93%) Replication
7 30 (4.14%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.59%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.90%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (2.34%) Private Cloud
12 15 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.79%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.52%) SCADA
15 10 (1.38%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.38%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.38%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
17 8 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 375 (51.72%) Windows
2 238 (32.83%) Windows Server
3 210 (28.97%) Linux
4 47 (6.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 43 (5.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (3.59%) VMS
7 24 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (2.21%) Ubuntu
8 16 (2.21%) Windows 10
9 15 (2.07%) Data ONTAP
9 15 (2.07%) Unix
10 13 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.38%) Solaris
12 7 (0.97%) CentOS
13 6 (0.83%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.69%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.55%) SUSE
15 4 (0.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 145 (20.00%) Migration
3 131 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (15.59%) High Availability
5 104 (14.34%) ITIL
6 102 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 94 (12.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 89 (12.28%) CI/CD
9 80 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
10 76 (10.48%) Network Virtualisation
11 73 (10.07%) Agile
12 72 (9.93%) Change Management
13 67 (9.24%) DevOps
14 64 (8.83%) ITSM
15 60 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (8.28%) Load Balancing
16 58 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
17 56 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (7.45%) Platform Engineering
19 53 (7.31%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 175 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 108 (14.90%) Python
3 74 (10.21%) Bash
4 46 (6.34%) SQL
5 16 (2.21%) Java
6 7 (0.97%) Bicep
6 7 (0.97%) C
6 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.55%) Go
9 3 (0.41%) Lua
10 2 (0.28%) C++
10 2 (0.28%) COBOL
10 2 (0.28%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.28%) VBScript
11 1 (0.14%) C#
11 1 (0.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 363 (50.07%) Security Cleared
2 207 (28.55%) SC Cleared
3 178 (24.55%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (6.90%) Degree
6 40 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (5.38%) VCAP
8 35 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (3.59%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.76%) CCNP
10 20 (2.76%) MCSE
11 19 (2.62%) CCNA
12 16 (2.21%) MCSA
13 14 (1.93%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 7 (0.97%) OCP
16 7 (0.97%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.17%) SLA
2 20 (2.76%) NIST
3 16 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.93%) QA
6 13 (1.79%) NCSC
7 4 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.55%) GxP
7 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) GDPR
9 2 (0.28%) ISA99
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 238 (32.83%) Active Directory
2 188 (25.93%) VMware ESXi
3 177 (24.41%) vSphere
4 149 (20.55%) VMware NSX
5 144 (19.86%) Hyper-V
6 85 (11.72%) Virtual Machines
7 53 (7.31%) Docker
8 35 (4.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (4.28%) Firmware
10 21 (2.90%) NFS
11 19 (2.62%) KVM
12 11 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.10%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.97%) GPFS
14 7 (0.97%) vCloud
14 7 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.69%) SRDF
17 4 (0.55%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 147 (20.28%) Ansible
1 147 (20.28%) vCenter Server
2 107 (14.76%) Terraform
3 95 (13.10%) Kubernetes
4 43 (5.93%) SCOM
5 39 (5.38%) SCCM
6 32 (4.41%) vRealize
7 31 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (4.28%) VxRail
8 24 (3.31%) Grafana
9 20 (2.76%) Puppet
10 18 (2.48%) NetBackup
10 18 (2.48%) Prometheus
11 17 (2.34%) vMotion
12 16 (2.21%) Argo
12 16 (2.21%) PowerCLI
12 16 (2.21%) WSUS
13 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Clustering
14 13 (1.79%) Avamar
15 10 (1.38%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 725 (100.00%) VMware
2 197 (27.17%) Microsoft
3 137 (18.90%) Cisco
4 56 (7.72%) NetApp
5 52 (7.17%) Citrix
6 48 (6.62%) Red Hat
7 43 (5.93%) Dell
8 42 (5.79%) F5
9 34 (4.69%) Juniper
9 34 (4.69%) Palo Alto
9 34 (4.69%) SolarWinds
10 33 (4.55%) Oracle
10 33 (4.55%) ServiceNow
11 29 (4.00%) Veeam
12 23 (3.17%) Broadcom
13 20 (2.76%) IBM
14 19 (2.62%) Fortinet
14 19 (2.62%) McAfee
14 19 (2.62%) Pure Storage
15 18 (2.48%) Commvault
296 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England