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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 171 108
Rank change year-on-year +5 -63 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 786 459 718
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.68% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 16.98% 13.86% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 305 449
10th Percentile £316 £300 £321
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £682 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 2 6
10th Percentile £26.00 £33.58 £23.10
25th Percentile £33.70 £38.94 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.08% +102.73% -62.22%
75th Percentile £90.00 £57.94 £33.51
90th Percentile £97.56 £63.53 £43.37
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £48.25 £23.80
% change year-on-year +40.93% +102.73% -63.93%

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 4,628 3,311 3,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 12.10% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,127 2,563
10th Percentile £213 £216 £221
25th Percentile £388 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £597 £600 £608
90th Percentile £680 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 93 101
10th Percentile £17.63 £15.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £23.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.50 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +54.96% -49.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.38 £91.20 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £24.20
% change year-on-year +85.69% +40.50% -51.60%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -10 204 £538 -5.45% 129
London -18 187 £525 +5.00% 227
North of England +12 177 £476 +8.80% 78
Midlands -11 96 £450 -18.18% 83
North West +10 86 £455 +3.89% 37
Yorkshire -2 77 £523 +21.58% 26
South West -32 76 £638 +14.86% 85
West Midlands -22 71 £450 -21.36% 53
East of England -12 52 £505 -8.18% 61
East Midlands -3 25 £425 -13.27% 30
North East -26 14 £400 -36.00% 16
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 43 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.04%) IIS
4 12 (1.53%) Confluence
5 9 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.89%) JBoss
6 7 (0.89%) nginx
6 7 (0.89%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.51%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (1.02%) 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 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 218 (27.74%) Azure
2 125 (15.90%) AWS
3 81 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (7.25%) Entra ID
5 39 (4.96%) OpenShift
6 32 (4.07%) GCP
7 29 (3.69%) GitHub
8 25 (3.18%) IaaS
9 18 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.78%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.65%) PaaS
12 13 (1.65%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.65%) SaaS
13 11 (1.40%) Nutanix
14 9 (1.15%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.15%) Rubrik
15 8 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (32.70%) DNS
2 169 (21.50%) Firewall
3 162 (20.61%) DHCP
4 92 (11.70%) TCP/IP
5 82 (10.43%) VSAN
6 70 (8.91%) VPN
7 67 (8.52%) SAN
8 65 (8.27%) VLAN
9 54 (6.87%) Network Security
10 53 (6.74%) WAN
11 41 (5.22%) LAN
12 39 (4.96%) NAS
13 37 (4.71%) SSL
14 30 (3.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 29 (3.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (3.69%) HTTP
16 24 (3.05%) BGP
17 23 (2.93%) Wireshark
18 22 (2.80%) BIG-IP
19 18 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.65%) Power BI
4 10 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.15%) Big Data
5 9 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) DataStage
10 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (4.20%) JIRA
2 24 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.80%) Git
4 20 (2.54%) GitLab
5 13 (1.65%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.51%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.51%) PVCS
8 3 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 186 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (9.67%) Finance
4 35 (4.45%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.56%) Banking
5 28 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (3.18%) Legal
7 15 (1.91%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.02%) Law
12 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Retail
13 6 (0.76%) Back Office
13 6 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.64%) Military
14 5 (0.64%) Police
15 4 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 192 (24.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 110 (13.99%) Senior
3 83 (10.56%) VMware Engineer
4 61 (7.76%) Architect
5 59 (7.51%) Network Engineer
6 50 (6.36%) Support Engineer
7 48 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.09%) Lead
9 38 (4.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (4.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 31 (3.94%) Administrator
12 31 (3.94%) Storage Engineer
13 27 (3.44%) Consultant
13 27 (3.44%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 24 (3.05%) IT Engineer
15 23 (2.93%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 22 (2.80%) Server Engineer
16 22 (2.80%) Systems Engineer
17 21 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.01%) Terraform
2 22 (2.80%) REST
3 18 (2.29%) JSON
4 16 (2.04%) Kafka
5 12 (1.53%) LDAP
6 11 (1.40%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.15%) YAML
8 8 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.89%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.76%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.76%) Middleware
11 5 (0.64%) .NET
12 4 (0.51%) Flash
12 4 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.51%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
13 3 (0.38%) XML
14 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
14 2 (0.25%) OAuth
14 2 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.16%) Data Centre
2 71 (9.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.27%) PKI
4 46 (5.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 42 (5.34%) Clustering
6 37 (4.71%) Replication
7 34 (4.33%) Private Cloud
8 31 (3.94%) Management Information System
9 29 (3.69%) Onboarding
10 28 (3.56%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.54%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.91%) SCADA
16 13 (1.65%) Operational Technology
16 13 (1.65%) Product Ownership
17 10 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 435 (55.34%) Windows
2 291 (37.02%) Windows Server
3 211 (26.84%) Linux
4 45 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (3.44%) Windows 10
7 24 (3.05%) VMS
8 19 (2.42%) Unix
9 17 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.91%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.15%) Solaris
14 8 (1.02%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.89%) CentOS
16 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.51%) SUSE
18 3 (0.38%) AIX
18 3 (0.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (33.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 158 (20.10%) ITIL
3 152 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
4 145 (18.45%) Migration
5 135 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 112 (14.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 104 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
8 103 (13.10%) CI/CD
9 91 (11.58%) High Availability
10 90 (11.45%) Change Management
11 85 (10.81%) ITSM
12 77 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 75 (9.54%) Agile
13 75 (9.54%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 73 (9.29%) Network Virtualisation
15 71 (9.03%) Service Management
16 69 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
17 68 (8.65%) Capacity Planning
17 68 (8.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 195 (24.81%) PowerShell
2 115 (14.63%) Python
3 76 (9.67%) Bash
4 53 (6.74%) SQL
5 19 (2.42%) Java
6 9 (1.15%) C
7 8 (1.02%) Bicep
8 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.51%) C++
10 4 (0.51%) Go
10 4 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.38%) Lua
11 3 (0.38%) VB
12 2 (0.25%) Korn
12 2 (0.25%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 393 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 228 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 191 (24.30%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.62%) Degree
6 43 (5.47%) VCAP
7 38 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.56%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.67%) MCSE
11 17 (2.16%) CCNP
12 16 (2.04%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.04%) CCNA
12 16 (2.04%) MCSA
13 12 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.05%) SLA
2 18 (2.29%) QA
3 17 (2.16%) NIST
4 14 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.78%) NCSC
5 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.51%) GxP
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.25%) GDPR
8 2 (0.25%) ISA99
8 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 275 (34.99%) Active Directory
2 195 (24.81%) VMware ESXi
3 189 (24.05%) vSphere
4 172 (21.88%) Hyper-V
5 136 (17.30%) VMware NSX
6 91 (11.58%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (6.87%) Docker
8 39 (4.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.94%) Firmware
10 19 (2.42%) NFS
11 15 (1.91%) KVM
12 13 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (1.15%) XenApp
15 8 (1.02%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.89%) oVirt
16 7 (0.89%) vCloud
17 6 (0.76%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 147 (18.70%) vCenter Server
2 144 (18.32%) Ansible
3 122 (15.52%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.87%) SCCM
5 53 (6.74%) SCOM
6 43 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (4.58%) VxRail
8 22 (2.80%) Grafana
8 22 (2.80%) vRealize
9 19 (2.42%) Prometheus
10 17 (2.16%) PowerCLI
10 17 (2.16%) Puppet
11 15 (1.91%) Microsoft Clustering
11 15 (1.91%) WSUS
12 14 (1.78%) vMotion
13 13 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (1.53%) Argo
14 12 (1.53%) Avamar
15 11 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
15 11 (1.40%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 786 (100.00%) VMware
2 238 (30.28%) Microsoft
3 135 (17.18%) Cisco
4 60 (7.63%) Citrix
5 54 (6.87%) NetApp
6 49 (6.23%) Dell
6 49 (6.23%) Red Hat
7 40 (5.09%) F5
8 38 (4.83%) ServiceNow
9 36 (4.58%) SolarWinds
10 33 (4.20%) Oracle
11 29 (3.69%) Juniper
11 29 (3.69%) Palo Alto
11 29 (3.69%) Veeam
12 25 (3.18%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.80%) Broadcom
14 18 (2.29%) IBM
14 18 (2.29%) McAfee
14 18 (2.29%) Remedy
15 16 (2.04%) CheckPoint
662 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England