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

 6 months to
1 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 163 104
Rank change year-on-year -10 -59 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 720 462 760
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.67% 2.25%
As % of the System Software category 15.85% 14.03% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 309 498
10th Percentile £331 £346 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +5.01% -0.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £659 £650 £661
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -6.55% +7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 2 8
10th Percentile £25.86 £28.20 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -3.28% -49.95%
75th Percentile £74.20 £29.50 £72.94
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £57.32 £29.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +97.65% -3.28% -52.41%

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 4,542 3,293 3,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.98% 11.93% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,156 2,723
10th Percentile £218 £219 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 85 144
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.92 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £57.63 £37.50 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year +53.69% +68.92% -44.50%
75th Percentile £74.07 £80.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £84.63 £90.90 £71.07
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +6 218 £538 -6.52% 79
London -18 175 £519 -1.19% 69
North of England -7 138 £485 +8.50% 41
Midlands -18 90 £450 -18.18% 28
West Midlands -30 70 £450 -20.84% 17
South West -45 69 £553 -3.91% 41
North West -11 68 £476 +36.00% 28
Yorkshire -17 68 £500 +11.11% 8
East of England -17 37 £500 -9.09% 24
East Midlands -9 20 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -39 2 £588 -6.00% 7
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 39 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.39%) Confluence
4 9 (1.25%) IIS
5 8 (1.11%) nginx
5 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.56%) Apache
7 4 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.56%) JBoss
8 3 (0.42%) CICS
8 3 (0.42%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.28%) Houdini
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.28%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (26.67%) Azure
2 133 (18.47%) AWS
3 54 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 41 (5.69%) OpenShift
6 34 (4.72%) GCP
7 29 (4.03%) GitHub
8 22 (3.06%) IaaS
9 16 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.94%) PaaS
11 13 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (1.81%) Rubrik
12 12 (1.67%) SaaS
13 11 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.53%) OneDrive
13 11 (1.53%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.39%) Nutanix
15 9 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.11%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 224 (31.11%) DNS
2 161 (22.36%) Firewall
3 134 (18.61%) DHCP
4 83 (11.53%) VSAN
5 81 (11.25%) TCP/IP
6 68 (9.44%) SAN
6 68 (9.44%) VPN
7 59 (8.19%) WAN
8 54 (7.50%) VLAN
9 51 (7.08%) Network Security
10 44 (6.11%) SSL
11 43 (5.97%) LAN
12 38 (5.28%) NAS
13 29 (4.03%) BGP
13 29 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (3.75%) HTTP
15 26 (3.61%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.47%) BIG-IP
17 24 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 21 (2.92%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.39%) Power BI
3 10 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.83%) Big Data
5 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.42%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.42%) DataStage
8 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.28%) Redis
10 1 (0.14%) GIS
10 1 (0.14%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 31 (4.31%) JIRA
2 30 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.36%) Git
4 16 (2.22%) Fiddler
5 15 (2.08%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.42%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.28%) MSI
8 2 (0.28%) PVCS
8 2 (0.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 161 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 64 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (8.47%) Finance
4 49 (6.81%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.00%) Banking
6 23 (3.19%) Legal
7 18 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.67%) Military
11 11 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Retail
13 6 (0.83%) Law
13 6 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.69%) Police
15 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.42%) Games
16 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 174 (24.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 89 (12.36%) Senior
3 71 (9.86%) Network Engineer
4 70 (9.72%) VMware Engineer
5 64 (8.89%) Architect
6 45 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 38 (5.28%) Lead
8 35 (4.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 34 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 31 (4.31%) Storage Engineer
11 30 (4.17%) Consultant
12 29 (4.03%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 27 (3.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (3.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 23 (3.19%) Administrator
16 21 (2.92%) IT Engineer
16 21 (2.92%) Senior Network Engineer
16 21 (2.92%) VMware Consultant
17 20 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 18 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.67%) Flash
2 11 (1.53%) REST
3 10 (1.39%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (0.97%) LDAP
6 6 (0.83%) Middleware
7 5 (0.69%) .NET
7 5 (0.69%) JSON
8 4 (0.56%) Redfish
8 4 (0.56%) YAML
9 3 (0.42%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.42%) Kafka
9 3 (0.42%) SAML
9 3 (0.42%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.28%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.28%) Java SE
10 2 (0.28%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.28%) Qt
10 2 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (15.28%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.75%) PKI
3 62 (8.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 45 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
5 43 (5.97%) Replication
6 40 (5.56%) Clustering
7 28 (3.89%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.19%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.22%) Private Cloud
12 15 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.53%) SCADA
15 10 (1.39%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.39%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.39%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
17 8 (1.11%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 367 (50.97%) Windows
2 229 (31.81%) Windows Server
3 210 (29.17%) Linux
4 46 (6.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (6.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (3.61%) VMS
6 24 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (2.36%) Data ONTAP
8 16 (2.22%) Ubuntu
8 16 (2.22%) Unix
8 16 (2.22%) Windows 10
9 12 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 12 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (1.53%) Solaris
11 7 (0.97%) CentOS
11 7 (0.97%) CoreOS
12 6 (0.83%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.56%) AIX
14 4 (0.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (31.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 142 (19.72%) Migration
3 130 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (15.56%) High Availability
5 99 (13.75%) ITIL
6 95 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 94 (13.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 90 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 77 (10.69%) Network Virtualisation
10 74 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
11 68 (9.44%) Agile
11 68 (9.44%) Change Management
11 68 (9.44%) DevOps
12 62 (8.61%) ITSM
13 59 (8.19%) Load Balancing
14 58 (8.06%) Capacity Planning
14 58 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (7.78%) Validation
16 52 (7.22%) Service Management
17 50 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (23.19%) PowerShell
2 107 (14.86%) Python
3 73 (10.14%) Bash
4 42 (5.83%) SQL
5 16 (2.22%) Java
6 7 (0.97%) C
6 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.69%) Bicep
7 5 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.56%) Go
9 3 (0.42%) COBOL
9 3 (0.42%) Lua
10 2 (0.28%) C++
10 2 (0.28%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.28%) VBScript
11 1 (0.14%) C#
11 1 (0.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 358 (49.72%) Security Cleared
2 201 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 176 (24.44%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (6.94%) Degree
6 39 (5.42%) VCAP
7 38 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (3.33%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.78%) CCNP
10 20 (2.78%) MCSE
11 19 (2.64%) CCNA
12 15 (2.08%) MCSA
13 14 (1.94%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (1.25%) OCP
17 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 7 (0.97%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.19%) SLA
2 22 (3.06%) NIST
3 16 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.81%) NCSC
6 11 (1.53%) QA
7 4 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.56%) GxP
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) GDPR
9 2 (0.28%) ISA99
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 234 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 186 (25.83%) VMware ESXi
3 178 (24.72%) vSphere
4 149 (20.69%) VMware NSX
5 138 (19.17%) Hyper-V
6 86 (11.94%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (7.22%) Docker
8 37 (5.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (4.17%) Firmware
10 24 (3.33%) NFS
11 20 (2.78%) KVM
12 11 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.11%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.97%) GPFS
14 7 (0.97%) vCloud
15 6 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.69%) SRDF
16 5 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
17 4 (0.56%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 149 (20.69%) Ansible
2 147 (20.42%) vCenter Server
3 106 (14.72%) Terraform
4 97 (13.47%) Kubernetes
5 42 (5.83%) SCOM
6 41 (5.69%) SCCM
7 34 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (4.58%) vRealize
9 32 (4.44%) VxRail
10 26 (3.61%) Grafana
11 20 (2.78%) Puppet
12 19 (2.64%) Argo
13 17 (2.36%) NetBackup
13 17 (2.36%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.36%) Prometheus
13 17 (2.36%) vMotion
14 15 (2.08%) WSUS
15 13 (1.81%) Avamar
16 12 (1.67%) SnapMirror
17 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 720 (100.00%) VMware
2 193 (26.81%) Microsoft
3 137 (19.03%) Cisco
4 58 (8.06%) NetApp
5 55 (7.64%) Citrix
6 53 (7.36%) Red Hat
7 45 (6.25%) Dell
8 39 (5.42%) F5
9 34 (4.72%) Juniper
9 34 (4.72%) SolarWinds
10 33 (4.58%) Palo Alto
10 33 (4.58%) ServiceNow
11 30 (4.17%) Oracle
12 28 (3.89%) Veeam
13 23 (3.19%) Broadcom
13 23 (3.19%) Pure Storage
14 21 (2.92%) IBM
15 19 (2.64%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.64%) McAfee
16 18 (2.50%) Commvault
267 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England