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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 121 120
Rank change year-on-year -52 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 594 570 761
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.29% 2.01%
As % of the System Software category 14.00% 17.47% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 389 479
10th Percentile £313 £293 £263
25th Percentile £405 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.03%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £595
90th Percentile £650 £677 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -6.63% +7.10% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 41
10th Percentile £22.75 £39.10 £22.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +91.64% -28.95%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.83 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £46.29
% change year-on-year -20.90% +91.21% -28.79%

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 4,244 3,263 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 13.11% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,899 2,223 2,872
10th Percentile £206 £206 £188
25th Percentile £400 £393 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 82 208
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.74 £21.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% +36.67% -43.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.05 £87.83 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £32.50 £30.45
% change year-on-year +30.19% +6.73% -26.21%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -8 158 £525 -7.37% 82
London -89 130 £550 +4.76% 41
North of England -41 121 £436 +2.59% 52
Midlands -5 110 £400 -27.40% 26
West Midlands -16 88 £340 -43.99% 18
North West -16 73 £436 +2.59% 29
South West -54 62 £550 -4.35% 35
Yorkshire -25 55 £425 -6.08% 21
East of England -15 29 £475 +0.53% 14
East Midlands -20 22 £426 -18.95% 8
North East -17 2 £513 +46.43% 4
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 38 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.36%) Confluence
4 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.84%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 179 (30.13%) Azure
2 133 (22.39%) AWS
3 54 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.08%) OpenShift
5 44 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 42 (7.07%) GCP
7 28 (4.71%) IaaS
8 26 (4.38%) Nutanix
9 18 (3.03%) PaaS
10 17 (2.86%) GitHub
11 14 (2.36%) Datadog
12 7 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.01%) Rubrik
14 5 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.84%) Cohesity
14 5 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (28.28%) DNS
2 146 (24.58%) Firewall
3 83 (13.97%) DHCP
4 62 (10.44%) VPN
5 54 (9.09%) SAN
6 51 (8.59%) TCP/IP
7 46 (7.74%) VSAN
8 45 (7.58%) Network Security
9 40 (6.73%) WAN
10 37 (6.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 36 (6.06%) BIG-IP
11 36 (6.06%) LAN
12 32 (5.39%) SSL
13 31 (5.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 29 (4.88%) HTTP
14 29 (4.88%) NAS
15 28 (4.71%) BGP
16 27 (4.55%) Wireshark
17 26 (4.38%) VLAN
18 23 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (0.51%) Redis
5 2 (0.34%) DataStage
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) Power BI
6 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.20%) Fiddler
3 18 (3.03%) JIRA
4 14 (2.36%) Git
5 12 (2.02%) GitLab
6 8 (1.35%) PVCS
6 8 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.84%) JMeter
8 5 (0.84%) JUnit
9 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) RStudio
10 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
11 1 (0.17%) MSI
11 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 132 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (10.27%) Public Sector
3 59 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.75%) Banking
5 50 (8.42%) Finance
6 28 (4.71%) Investment Banking
7 27 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.70%) Legal
9 12 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.85%) Military
11 10 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.35%) Electronics
13 7 (1.18%) Police
14 5 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.84%) Local Government
15 4 (0.67%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.51%) Social Science
17 2 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 114 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (15.32%) Architect
3 57 (9.60%) Analyst
4 52 (8.75%) Network Engineer
5 40 (6.73%) Senior
6 36 (6.06%) VMware Engineer
7 32 (5.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 31 (5.22%) Infrastructure Architect
9 27 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (4.04%) Lead
11 23 (3.87%) Consultant
12 22 (3.70%) Storage Analyst
13 20 (3.37%) Support Engineer
13 20 (3.37%) Web Engineer
14 19 (3.20%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (3.20%) IP Network Engineer
15 18 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (2.86%) VMware Architect
16 17 (2.86%) Wintel Engineer
17 16 (2.69%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.54%) Flash
2 15 (2.53%) LDAP
3 11 (1.85%) SAML
4 8 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.18%) Kafka
5 7 (1.18%) Loki
6 5 (0.84%) Middleware
6 5 (0.84%) REST
6 5 (0.84%) Software Packaging
6 5 (0.84%) Spring
7 4 (0.67%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.67%) OAuth
7 4 (0.67%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.67%) OpenID
8 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.34%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 56 (9.43%) Replication
3 42 (7.07%) PKI
4 37 (6.23%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (5.05%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (3.87%) Private Cloud
9 22 (3.70%) Clustering
10 17 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
10 17 (2.86%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.36%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.35%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.18%) Driving Licence
16 6 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 255 (42.93%) Windows
2 205 (34.51%) Linux
3 161 (27.10%) Windows Server
4 43 (7.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (3.70%) Windows 10
6 22 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (2.86%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.53%) VMS
10 11 (1.85%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.68%) Unix
12 9 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
13 7 (1.18%) CentOS
13 7 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (1.01%) Solaris
15 5 (0.84%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.67%) AIX
16 4 (0.67%) CatOS
17 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (24.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 110 (18.52%) Migration
3 96 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (14.31%) Agile
5 75 (12.63%) High Availability
6 74 (12.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 70 (11.78%) CI/CD
7 70 (11.78%) Load Balancing
8 67 (11.28%) ITIL
9 65 (10.94%) DevOps
10 59 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (8.75%) Containerisation
12 51 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (8.25%) Data Protection
14 41 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
15 38 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (6.23%) Network Virtualisation
16 37 (6.23%) Roadmaps
16 37 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (23.74%) PowerShell
2 101 (17.00%) Python
3 69 (11.62%) Bash
4 16 (2.69%) SQL
5 12 (2.02%) Perl
6 11 (1.85%) C
7 8 (1.35%) C++
8 7 (1.18%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.18%) Embedded C++
9 6 (1.01%) Java
10 5 (0.84%) Bicep
10 5 (0.84%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.67%) PHP
12 3 (0.51%) C#
13 2 (0.34%) COBOL
13 2 (0.34%) Korn
13 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 231 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 149 (25.08%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.79%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.41%) Degree
5 39 (6.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 30 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.87%) Azure Certification
8 22 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (3.54%) CCNP
10 17 (2.86%) VCAP
11 14 (2.36%) MCSE
12 13 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (2.02%) CCNA
13 12 (2.02%) MCSA
14 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.01%) CCDP
16 6 (1.01%) CCIE
16 6 (1.01%) CISSP
16 6 (1.01%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.03%) NIST
3 13 (2.19%) GDPR
4 9 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.35%) SLA
6 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.67%) QA
7 3 (0.51%) NCSC
8 2 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 173 (29.12%) Active Directory
2 140 (23.57%) vSphere
3 103 (17.34%) VMware NSX
4 98 (16.50%) Hyper-V
5 96 (16.16%) VMware ESXi
6 54 (9.09%) Docker
7 52 (8.75%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (6.40%) NFS
9 28 (4.71%) Firmware
10 25 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (3.03%) KVM
12 16 (2.69%) GPFS
13 8 (1.35%) BitLocker
13 8 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.67%) vCloud
14 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.51%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.34%) SRDF
16 2 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 104 (17.51%) Ansible
2 78 (13.13%) Terraform
3 77 (12.96%) vCenter Server
4 71 (11.95%) Kubernetes
5 54 (9.09%) SCCM
6 53 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (8.08%) vRealize
8 24 (4.04%) Grafana
9 23 (3.87%) Argo
10 21 (3.54%) VxRail
11 18 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (2.53%) vMotion
13 14 (2.36%) PowerCLI
13 14 (2.36%) Progress Chef
13 14 (2.36%) Prometheus
14 13 (2.19%) SCOM
15 12 (2.02%) Puppet
16 11 (1.85%) FortiGate
17 10 (1.68%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 594 (100.00%) VMware
2 163 (27.44%) Microsoft
3 125 (21.04%) Cisco
4 63 (10.61%) F5
5 60 (10.10%) Citrix
6 59 (9.93%) Red Hat
7 48 (8.08%) NetApp
8 42 (7.07%) IBM
9 36 (6.06%) ServiceNow
10 35 (5.89%) Dell
11 33 (5.56%) SolarWinds
12 32 (5.39%) Palo Alto
13 31 (5.22%) Pure Storage
14 29 (4.88%) Oracle
15 25 (4.21%) Veeam
16 24 (4.04%) Commvault
17 23 (3.87%) McAfee
18 20 (3.37%) Blue Coat
19 18 (3.03%) HP
20 16 (2.69%) Google