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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 138 110
Rank change year-on-year -28 -28 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 660 482 746
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.97% 1.99%
As % of the System Software category 15.47% 15.66% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 341 485
10th Percentile £325 £350 £284
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -6.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -5.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 27
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.21
25th Percentile £32.50 - £30.71
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -36.51%
75th Percentile £73.38 - £46.52
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.80
UK median hourly rate £56.57 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +102.03% -30.00% -38.46%

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 4,266 3,077 4,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.10% 12.58% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 2,068 2,909
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £687 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 71 202
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.72 £17.73 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +25.98% -57.37%
75th Percentile £73.00 £69.25 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.90%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +6 192 £538 -6.52% 63
London -46 149 £525 - 42
North of England -14 140 £458 +7.65% 41
Midlands -28 89 £431 -21.73% 32
North West +3 76 £456 +7.29% 28
West Midlands -24 68 £425 -27.72% 22
Yorkshire -24 63 £454 -4.53% 6
South West -57 55 £539 -6.30% 27
East of England -29 35 £475 -13.64% 22
East Midlands -20 21 £436 -19.67% 10
North East -27 1 £675 +92.86% 7
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 35 (5.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.36%) IIS
4 8 (1.21%) nginx
4 8 (1.21%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.21%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.45%) Apache
5 3 (0.45%) CICS
5 3 (0.45%) Confluence
5 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 197 (29.85%) Azure
2 128 (19.39%) AWS
3 47 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.82%) Entra ID
4 45 (6.82%) OpenShift
5 38 (5.76%) GCP
6 24 (3.64%) GitHub
7 23 (3.48%) IaaS
8 21 (3.18%) Nutanix
9 16 (2.42%) PaaS
10 11 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (1.67%) Rubrik
11 9 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.06%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.06%) Cohesity
12 7 (1.06%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (28.64%) DNS
2 138 (20.91%) Firewall
3 113 (17.12%) DHCP
4 72 (10.91%) SAN
5 68 (10.30%) VPN
6 63 (9.55%) VSAN
7 57 (8.64%) WAN
8 51 (7.73%) Network Security
9 46 (6.97%) TCP/IP
10 44 (6.67%) NAS
11 41 (6.21%) LAN
11 41 (6.21%) SSL
12 34 (5.15%) VLAN
13 30 (4.55%) BIG-IP
14 29 (4.39%) HTTP
15 28 (4.24%) BGP
16 26 (3.94%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.64%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 20 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.91%) Power BI
5 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.45%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.45%) DataStage
7 3 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.48%) JIRA
3 18 (2.73%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.27%) Git
5 14 (2.12%) GitLab
6 3 (0.45%) PVCS
6 3 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.30%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) GoCD
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 134 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.88%) Finance
3 50 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.45%) Banking
6 23 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.33%) Legal
8 19 (2.88%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.52%) Police
10 9 (1.36%) Military
11 7 (1.06%) Law
12 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.91%) Retail
12 6 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.76%) Local Government
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Electronics
15 3 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 143 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (12.88%) Architect
3 63 (9.55%) Senior
4 62 (9.39%) Network Engineer
5 53 (8.03%) VMware Engineer
6 32 (4.85%) Support Engineer
7 28 (4.24%) Lead
8 26 (3.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (3.94%) Analyst
8 26 (3.94%) Infrastructure Architect
8 26 (3.94%) Wintel Engineer
9 25 (3.79%) Storage Engineer
10 24 (3.64%) Consultant
11 23 (3.48%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 21 (3.18%) Administrator
13 18 (2.73%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 18 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (2.73%) IP Network Engineer
13 18 (2.73%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 18 (2.73%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) Flash
2 15 (2.27%) LDAP
3 11 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.67%) REST
4 7 (1.06%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.06%) Middleware
4 7 (1.06%) SAML
5 5 (0.76%) .NET
5 5 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (0.76%) JSON
6 4 (0.61%) Redfish
6 4 (0.61%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.30%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.30%) Java SE
7 2 (0.30%) OAuth
7 2 (0.30%) OpenGL
7 2 (0.30%) OpenID
7 2 (0.30%) Qt
7 2 (0.30%) XML
7 2 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.48%) Data Centre
2 59 (8.94%) Replication
3 57 (8.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (7.27%) PKI
5 38 (5.76%) Clustering
5 38 (5.76%) Enterprise Storage
6 32 (4.85%) Cloud Native
7 27 (4.09%) Public Cloud
8 25 (3.79%) Private Cloud
9 23 (3.48%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.67%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.36%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.21%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 327 (49.55%) Windows
2 219 (33.18%) Windows Server
3 194 (29.39%) Linux
4 43 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 39 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (3.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.03%) VMS
8 18 (2.73%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.73%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.58%) Data ONTAP
10 16 (2.42%) Unix
11 15 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.67%) Solaris
13 8 (1.21%) CentOS
13 8 (1.21%) Mac OS
13 8 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (1.06%) CoreOS
14 7 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.61%) AIX
15 4 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (28.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (20.61%) Migration
3 102 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (15.30%) High Availability
5 88 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (12.12%) ITIL
7 74 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 70 (10.61%) CI/CD
9 69 (10.45%) Capacity Planning
10 67 (10.15%) DevOps
11 62 (9.39%) Agile
11 62 (9.39%) Load Balancing
12 59 (8.94%) Network Virtualisation
13 55 (8.33%) Change Management
14 52 (7.88%) ITSM
15 44 (6.67%) Data Protection
15 44 (6.67%) Validation
16 43 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
16 43 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
17 42 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 148 (22.42%) PowerShell
2 85 (12.88%) Python
3 48 (7.27%) Bash
4 29 (4.39%) SQL
5 7 (1.06%) Java
5 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.91%) C
7 5 (0.76%) Bicep
7 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) PHP
8 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.45%) C++
9 3 (0.45%) COBOL
9 3 (0.45%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.45%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) VBScript
11 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 286 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 125 (18.94%) DV Cleared
4 61 (9.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.76%) Degree
6 34 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (5.15%) VCAP
7 29 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.48%) MCSE
9 20 (3.03%) MCSA
10 19 (2.88%) Azure Certification
11 15 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (2.27%) CCNP
12 13 (1.97%) CCNA
13 10 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (1.36%) OCP
15 7 (1.06%) ISTQB
15 7 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 6 (0.91%) RHCA
17 5 (0.76%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.64%) NIST
1 24 (3.64%) SLA
2 22 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.67%) NCSC
5 7 (1.06%) QA
6 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.61%) GDPR
8 3 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) ISA99
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) DICOM
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 198 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 170 (25.76%) VMware ESXi
3 160 (24.24%) vSphere
4 135 (20.45%) VMware NSX
5 134 (20.30%) Hyper-V
6 93 (14.09%) Virtual Machines
7 36 (5.45%) Docker
8 35 (5.30%) NFS
9 34 (5.15%) Firmware
10 30 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (3.48%) KVM
12 12 (1.82%) GPFS
12 12 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
13 11 (1.67%) vCloud
14 10 (1.52%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.76%) SRDF
17 4 (0.61%) XenDesktop
18 3 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 127 (19.24%) Ansible
2 125 (18.94%) vCenter Server
3 78 (11.82%) Terraform
4 73 (11.06%) Kubernetes
5 46 (6.97%) SCCM
6 37 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (5.45%) vRealize
8 29 (4.39%) SCOM
9 22 (3.33%) Grafana
9 22 (3.33%) vMotion
10 20 (3.03%) Argo
11 18 (2.73%) PowerCLI
12 17 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (2.27%) VxRail
14 14 (2.12%) WSUS
15 13 (1.97%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.97%) Puppet
16 12 (1.82%) NetBackup
16 12 (1.82%) SnapMirror
17 11 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 660 (100.00%) VMware
2 181 (27.42%) Microsoft
3 142 (21.52%) Cisco
4 60 (9.09%) Citrix
5 55 (8.33%) NetApp
6 49 (7.42%) Red Hat
7 42 (6.36%) F5
8 40 (6.06%) ServiceNow
9 38 (5.76%) Dell
10 34 (5.15%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.85%) Pure Storage
12 31 (4.70%) Oracle
13 26 (3.94%) IBM
13 26 (3.94%) Veeam
14 24 (3.64%) Juniper
15 23 (3.48%) CheckPoint
16 22 (3.33%) SolarWinds
17 21 (3.18%) McAfee
18 19 (2.88%) Blue Coat
19 18 (2.73%) Fortinet
216 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England