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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 141 124
Rank change year-on-year -27 -17 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 634 473 679
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.97% 1.87%
As % of the System Software category 15.11% 15.62% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 334 443
10th Percentile £318 £326 £275
25th Percentile £424 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.59%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £583
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 28
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £45.15 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.42 £28.00 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +133.63% -30.22% -36.31%
75th Percentile £71.13 - £52.96
90th Percentile £74.00 - £82.63
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -38.08%

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 4,197 3,028 3,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.16% 12.63% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 2,075 2,785
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% +0.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 66 207
10th Percentile £17.74 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.86 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% +34.31% -58.00%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.80 £88.00 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +82.14% +24.44% -58.33%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +2 182 £538 -6.52% 86
London -58 135 £513 -2.38% 38
North of England -8 134 £453 +12.55% 35
Midlands -28 94 £409 -25.73% 35
North West -11 72 £453 +12.13% 20
West Midlands -22 72 £402 -27.04% 20
Yorkshire -11 60 £420 -11.58% 9
South West -58 55 £540 -6.09% 22
East of England -31 35 £475 -13.64% 15
East Midlands -16 22 £443 -18.38% 15
North East -31 2 £575 +64.29% 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 34 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.42%) IIS
4 6 (0.95%) nginx
4 6 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.95%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.79%) Confluence
6 3 (0.47%) Apache
6 3 (0.47%) CICS
6 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.32%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 181 (28.55%) Azure
2 123 (19.40%) AWS
3 48 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (6.94%) Entra ID
5 42 (6.62%) OpenShift
6 34 (5.36%) GCP
7 24 (3.79%) IaaS
8 22 (3.47%) GitHub
9 20 (3.15%) Nutanix
10 17 (2.68%) PaaS
11 13 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.58%) Rubrik
13 9 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.10%) Datadog
14 7 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.95%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.95%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.95%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (28.23%) DNS
2 137 (21.61%) Firewall
3 101 (15.93%) DHCP
4 69 (10.88%) VPN
5 65 (10.25%) SAN
6 61 (9.62%) VSAN
7 57 (8.99%) WAN
8 51 (8.04%) Network Security
9 43 (6.78%) LAN
9 43 (6.78%) TCP/IP
10 41 (6.47%) NAS
11 38 (5.99%) SSL
12 33 (5.21%) BIG-IP
13 31 (4.89%) HTTP
14 29 (4.57%) VLAN
15 27 (4.26%) BGP
15 27 (4.26%) Wireshark
16 24 (3.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 23 (3.63%) Cisco ASA
18 21 (3.31%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.79%) Power BI
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.47%) DataStage
5 3 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.47%) Redis
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (3.47%) Jenkins
1 22 (3.47%) JIRA
2 18 (2.84%) Fiddler
3 13 (2.05%) GitLab
4 12 (1.89%) Git
5 5 (0.79%) PVCS
5 5 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.32%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.32%) MSI
8 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.16%) GoCD
8 1 (0.16%) Postman
8 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 126 (19.87%) Social Skills
2 50 (7.89%) Finance
3 48 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.68%) Banking
6 22 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.31%) Legal
8 19 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.58%) Police
10 9 (1.42%) Military
11 5 (0.79%) Electronics
11 5 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.79%) Law
11 5 (0.79%) Local Government
11 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.79%) Retail
11 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 126 (19.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 83 (13.09%) Architect
3 63 (9.94%) Network Engineer
4 55 (8.68%) Senior
5 48 (7.57%) VMware Engineer
6 35 (5.52%) Analyst
7 29 (4.57%) Lead
8 26 (4.10%) Infrastructure Architect
8 26 (4.10%) Support Engineer
8 26 (4.10%) Wintel Engineer
9 24 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 22 (3.47%) Consultant
11 21 (3.31%) Storage Engineer
12 20 (3.15%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 18 (2.84%) Administrator
13 18 (2.84%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 18 (2.84%) IP Network Engineer
13 18 (2.84%) VMware Architect
13 18 (2.84%) Web Engineer
14 17 (2.68%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.00%) Flash
2 18 (2.84%) LDAP
3 11 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.58%) SAML
5 7 (1.10%) Middleware
5 7 (1.10%) REST
6 5 (0.79%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.79%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.47%) JSON
7 3 (0.47%) Kafka
7 3 (0.47%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.47%) Redfish
8 2 (0.32%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.32%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.32%) OpenID
8 2 (0.32%) Qt
8 2 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.93%) Data Centre
2 62 (9.78%) Replication
3 54 (8.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (6.47%) PKI
5 37 (5.84%) Clustering
6 32 (5.05%) Enterprise Storage
7 31 (4.89%) Cloud Native
8 24 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
8 24 (3.79%) Private Cloud
9 23 (3.63%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.31%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.74%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.58%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.26%) Security Posture
17 7 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
18 6 (0.95%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 304 (47.95%) Windows
2 206 (32.49%) Windows Server
3 193 (30.44%) Linux
4 42 (6.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 40 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (4.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.31%) Windows 10
8 19 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 19 (3.00%) VMS
9 16 (2.52%) Data ONTAP
9 16 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (2.21%) Unix
11 10 (1.58%) Mac OS
12 9 (1.42%) Solaris
13 8 (1.26%) CentOS
14 7 (1.10%) CoreOS
14 7 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.63%) AIX
16 4 (0.63%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (19.72%) Migration
3 100 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (15.14%) High Availability
5 85 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 82 (12.93%) ITIL
7 68 (10.73%) Capacity Planning
8 67 (10.57%) Agile
9 64 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (9.15%) CI/CD
10 58 (9.15%) Load Balancing
11 56 (8.83%) DevOps
11 56 (8.83%) Network Virtualisation
12 53 (8.36%) Change Management
13 44 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (6.78%) Data Protection
15 42 (6.62%) ITSM
16 41 (6.47%) Performance Tuning
17 40 (6.31%) Validation
18 37 (5.84%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (22.08%) PowerShell
2 75 (11.83%) Python
3 45 (7.10%) Bash
4 28 (4.42%) SQL
5 7 (1.10%) Bicep
5 7 (1.10%) C
5 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.79%) C++
6 5 (0.79%) Embedded C
6 5 (0.79%) Embedded C++
6 5 (0.79%) Java
7 4 (0.63%) PHP
7 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.47%) C#
8 3 (0.47%) COBOL
8 3 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.32%) VBScript
10 1 (0.16%) Go
10 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 265 (41.80%) Security Cleared
2 161 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 118 (18.61%) DV Cleared
4 51 (8.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 36 (5.68%) Degree
6 31 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (4.89%) VCAP
7 25 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (3.15%) MCSE
9 18 (2.84%) Azure Certification
10 17 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.68%) MCSA
11 16 (2.52%) CCNP
12 10 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (1.42%) CCNA
13 9 (1.42%) OCP
14 6 (0.95%) RHCA
15 5 (0.79%) GSEC
15 5 (0.79%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.79%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.47%) SLA
3 19 (3.00%) NIST
4 15 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.74%) NCSC
6 6 (0.95%) GDPR
7 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.32%) ISA99
8 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.32%) QA
9 1 (0.16%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) DICOM
9 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 189 (29.81%) Active Directory
2 157 (24.76%) vSphere
3 149 (23.50%) VMware ESXi
4 131 (20.66%) VMware NSX
5 125 (19.72%) Hyper-V
6 86 (13.56%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (5.84%) NFS
8 36 (5.68%) Docker
9 33 (5.21%) Firmware
10 28 (4.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (3.79%) KVM
12 14 (2.21%) GPFS
13 11 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (1.58%) vCloud
15 9 (1.42%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
17 4 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
17 4 (0.63%) XenDesktop
18 3 (0.47%) SRDF
18 3 (0.47%) UAG
Systems Management
1 115 (18.14%) Ansible
2 112 (17.67%) vCenter Server
3 70 (11.04%) Terraform
4 67 (10.57%) Kubernetes
5 48 (7.57%) SCCM
6 40 (6.31%) vRealize
7 39 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (3.94%) SCOM
9 22 (3.47%) Grafana
10 20 (3.15%) Argo
11 19 (3.00%) vMotion
12 18 (2.84%) VxRail
13 17 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (2.37%) PowerCLI
14 15 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (2.37%) WSUS
15 12 (1.89%) Puppet
16 11 (1.74%) EMC VPLEX
16 11 (1.74%) NetBackup
16 11 (1.74%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 634 (100.00%) VMware
2 176 (27.76%) Microsoft
3 138 (21.77%) Cisco
4 60 (9.46%) Citrix
5 55 (8.68%) NetApp
6 47 (7.41%) F5
6 47 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 35 (5.52%) Dell
7 35 (5.52%) ServiceNow
8 33 (5.21%) Palo Alto
9 32 (5.05%) IBM
10 31 (4.89%) Oracle
10 31 (4.89%) Pure Storage
11 26 (4.10%) Veeam
12 25 (3.94%) CheckPoint
13 22 (3.47%) McAfee
14 21 (3.31%) Commvault
14 21 (3.31%) Juniper
14 21 (3.31%) SolarWinds
15 19 (3.00%) Blue Coat