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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 175 110
Rank change year-on-year +20 -65 -22
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 811 461 701
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.67% 2.18%
As % of the System Software category 17.35% 13.62% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 305 430
10th Percentile £316 £300 £321
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £588
90th Percentile £702 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £509
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.11% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 3 8
10th Percentile £25.94 £24.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £26.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £89.75 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £95.05 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +126.67% +0.06% -54.56%

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 4,674 3,385 3,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.26% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,170 2,508
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £390 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 101 96
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.50 £17.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -42.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £69.77
90th Percentile £92.11 £90.00 £84.28
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £33.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +89.11% +21.40% -45.00%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -9 202 £538 -2.27% 130
London -7 197 £525 +5.00% 146
North of England +3 179 £483 +13.65% 76
Midlands -16 97 £450 -18.18% 76
North West +4 85 £459 +4.91% 43
Yorkshire -16 78 £525 +27.27% 22
South West -23 77 £638 +14.86% 58
West Midlands -11 71 £450 -21.36% 53
East of England -2 62 £550 - 58
East Midlands -11 26 £438 -9.33% 23
North East -22 17 £400 - 11
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 44 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.97%) IIS
4 14 (1.73%) Confluence
5 13 (1.60%) CMS
6 9 (1.11%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.86%) JBoss
7 7 (0.86%) nginx
7 7 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.49%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.25%) Houdini
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.25%) NUKE
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (27.62%) Azure
2 123 (15.17%) AWS
3 82 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (7.52%) Entra ID
5 40 (4.93%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.07%) GCP
7 27 (3.33%) GitHub
8 26 (3.21%) IaaS
9 18 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.73%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.73%) PaaS
12 13 (1.60%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.60%) SaaS
13 12 (1.48%) Nutanix
14 11 (1.36%) Rubrik
15 9 (1.11%) Azure Stack
16 8 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 261 (32.18%) DNS
2 171 (21.09%) Firewall
3 167 (20.59%) DHCP
4 96 (11.84%) TCP/IP
5 75 (9.25%) VSAN
6 68 (8.38%) SAN
6 68 (8.38%) VPN
7 66 (8.14%) VLAN
8 56 (6.91%) Network Security
8 56 (6.91%) WAN
9 47 (5.80%) LAN
10 40 (4.93%) NAS
11 36 (4.44%) SSL
12 30 (3.70%) HTTP
13 28 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (3.33%) BGP
14 27 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 22 (2.71%) Wireshark
16 21 (2.59%) BIG-IP
17 19 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.60%) Power BI
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.11%) Big Data
5 9 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.12%) DataStage
10 1 (0.12%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.12%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (4.07%) JIRA
2 24 (2.96%) Git
3 22 (2.71%) GitLab
4 20 (2.47%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.48%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.49%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.49%) PVCS
8 3 (0.37%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 189 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 88 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (10.11%) Finance
4 33 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
4 33 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.58%) Banking
6 24 (2.96%) Legal
7 17 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (0.99%) Law
12 7 (0.86%) Back Office
12 7 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Police
13 6 (0.74%) Retail
14 5 (0.62%) Military
15 4 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 197 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 115 (14.18%) Senior
3 83 (10.23%) VMware Engineer
4 64 (7.89%) Architect
5 56 (6.91%) Network Engineer
6 52 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 50 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (5.67%) Lead
9 40 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 35 (4.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 34 (4.19%) Storage Engineer
13 32 (3.95%) Administrator
14 28 (3.45%) Consultant
15 27 (3.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 25 (3.08%) IT Engineer
17 23 (2.84%) Wintel Engineer
18 22 (2.71%) Server Engineer
18 22 (2.71%) Systems Engineer
19 21 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.18%) Terraform
2 24 (2.96%) REST
3 20 (2.47%) JSON
4 17 (2.10%) Kafka
5 12 (1.48%) LDAP
5 12 (1.48%) XMPP
6 11 (1.36%) 802.1X
6 11 (1.36%) YAML
7 8 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (0.86%) Middleware
8 7 (0.86%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.74%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.62%) .NET
11 4 (0.49%) Flash
11 4 (0.49%) Redfish
12 3 (0.37%) Java SE
12 3 (0.37%) XML
13 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
13 2 (0.25%) EJB
13 2 (0.25%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 132 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 68 (8.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 67 (8.26%) PKI
4 48 (5.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 45 (5.55%) Clustering
6 38 (4.69%) Replication
7 37 (4.56%) Private Cloud
8 31 (3.82%) Management Information System
9 30 (3.70%) Onboarding
10 25 (3.08%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.34%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
15 15 (1.85%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.73%) Product Ownership
16 14 (1.73%) SCADA
17 12 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
18 10 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 454 (55.98%) Windows
2 306 (37.73%) Windows Server
3 212 (26.14%) Linux
4 49 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (5.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (3.33%) Windows 10
7 26 (3.21%) VMS
8 19 (2.34%) Unix
9 18 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.73%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.73%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (1.48%) Data ONTAP
13 11 (1.36%) Solaris
14 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.99%) CentOS
15 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.62%) AIX
17 4 (0.49%) SUSE
18 3 (0.37%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (33.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 168 (20.72%) ITIL
3 159 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (18.74%) Migration
5 138 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (14.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 114 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
8 99 (12.21%) Change Management
8 99 (12.21%) CI/CD
9 89 (10.97%) High Availability
10 86 (10.60%) ITSM
11 82 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
11 82 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
12 80 (9.86%) Agile
12 80 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 75 (9.25%) Service Management
14 73 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
15 72 (8.88%) Project Delivery
15 72 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 71 (8.75%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 198 (24.41%) PowerShell
2 112 (13.81%) Python
3 72 (8.88%) Bash
4 51 (6.29%) SQL
5 19 (2.34%) Java
6 9 (1.11%) Bicep
6 9 (1.11%) C
7 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.49%) C++
8 4 (0.49%) Go
8 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.37%) Korn
9 3 (0.37%) Lua
9 3 (0.37%) VB
10 2 (0.25%) VBScript
11 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 409 (50.43%) Security Cleared
2 236 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 194 (23.92%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (7.03%) Degree
6 45 (5.55%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (4.93%) VCAP
8 36 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.45%) Azure Certification
10 23 (2.84%) CCNP
11 21 (2.59%) MCSE
12 18 (2.22%) CCNA
13 17 (2.10%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.97%) MCSA
15 12 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.99%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.84%) SLA
2 18 (2.22%) QA
3 16 (1.97%) NIST
4 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.36%) NCSC
7 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.49%) GxP
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
9 3 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.25%) GDPR
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 289 (35.64%) Active Directory
2 200 (24.66%) VMware ESXi
2 200 (24.66%) vSphere
3 179 (22.07%) Hyper-V
4 128 (15.78%) VMware NSX
5 93 (11.47%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (6.78%) Docker
7 41 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (4.32%) Firmware
9 21 (2.59%) NFS
10 17 (2.10%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.85%) KVM
12 11 (1.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 9 (1.11%) XenApp
14 8 (0.99%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 7 (0.86%) oVirt
15 7 (0.86%) vCloud
16 6 (0.74%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 142 (17.51%) vCenter Server
2 140 (17.26%) Ansible
3 121 (14.92%) Kubernetes
4 58 (7.15%) SCCM
5 57 (7.03%) SCOM
6 44 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 38 (4.69%) VxRail
8 23 (2.84%) vRealize
9 19 (2.34%) Prometheus
10 18 (2.22%) Grafana
11 17 (2.10%) PowerCLI
11 17 (2.10%) Puppet
12 16 (1.97%) Cisco CUCM
13 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
13 15 (1.85%) WSUS
14 14 (1.73%) Failover Clustering
14 14 (1.73%) vMotion
15 13 (1.60%) Avamar
15 13 (1.60%) NetBackup
16 11 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 811 (100.00%) VMware
2 247 (30.46%) Microsoft
3 144 (17.76%) Cisco
4 62 (7.64%) Citrix
5 57 (7.03%) NetApp
6 53 (6.54%) Dell
6 53 (6.54%) Red Hat
7 40 (4.93%) ServiceNow
8 39 (4.81%) SolarWinds
9 37 (4.56%) F5
10 31 (3.82%) Oracle
10 31 (3.82%) Veeam
11 28 (3.45%) Juniper
12 27 (3.33%) Palo Alto
13 25 (3.08%) Fortinet
14 19 (2.34%) Broadcom
14 19 (2.34%) IBM
14 19 (2.34%) McAfee
14 19 (2.34%) Remedy
15 15 (1.85%) Commvault
561 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England