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

 6 months to
30 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 166 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 -65 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 711 460 770
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.67% 2.26%
As % of the System Software category 15.78% 14.04% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 308 504
10th Percentile £328 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £658 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £514
% change year-on-year -6.55% +7.06% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 2 10
10th Percentile £23.86 £28.20 £22.37
25th Percentile £30.17 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -3.28% -50.03%
75th Percentile £74.20 £29.50 £63.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.20
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +68.97% -3.28% -52.03%

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 4,507 3,277 3,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.97% 11.91% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,975 2,142 2,736
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £692 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 88 148
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.66 £22.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% +59.70% -44.31%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £59.64
90th Percentile £83.75 £90.45 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +72.50% +26.05% -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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +2 216 £538 -6.52% 73
London -20 172 £525 - 58
North of England -8 139 £485 +17.58% 38
Midlands -23 91 £450 -18.18% 25
West Midlands -32 70 £450 -20.84% 15
North West -6 69 £476 +36.00% 28
Yorkshire -22 68 £500 +8.11% 7
South West -44 66 £550 -4.35% 29
East of England -17 34 £500 -9.09% 25
East Midlands -4 21 £450 -18.18% 10
North East -48 2 £588 +62.07% 5
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 39 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.27%) Confluence
3 9 (1.27%) IIS
4 8 (1.13%) nginx
4 8 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.56%) Apache
6 4 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
6 4 (0.56%) JBoss
7 3 (0.42%) CICS
7 3 (0.42%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.27%) 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 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 191 (26.86%) Azure
2 130 (18.28%) AWS
3 54 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (6.19%) Entra ID
5 42 (5.91%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.64%) GCP
7 29 (4.08%) GitHub
8 22 (3.09%) IaaS
9 16 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.97%) PaaS
11 13 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.69%) Nutanix
12 12 (1.69%) Rubrik
13 11 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.55%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.55%) SaaS
14 10 (1.41%) OneDrive
15 9 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 220 (30.94%) DNS
2 157 (22.08%) Firewall
3 131 (18.42%) DHCP
4 81 (11.39%) VSAN
5 80 (11.25%) TCP/IP
6 69 (9.70%) SAN
7 67 (9.42%) VPN
8 59 (8.30%) WAN
9 53 (7.45%) VLAN
10 51 (7.17%) Network Security
11 43 (6.05%) LAN
11 43 (6.05%) SSL
12 39 (5.49%) NAS
13 29 (4.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 28 (3.94%) BGP
15 27 (3.80%) HTTP
16 26 (3.66%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.52%) BIG-IP
18 24 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 20 (2.81%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.41%) Power BI
3 10 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.84%) Big Data
5 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.70%) 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 30 (4.22%) Jenkins
1 30 (4.22%) JIRA
2 17 (2.39%) Git
3 16 (2.25%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.11%) GitLab
5 3 (0.42%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.28%) MSI
6 2 (0.28%) Subversion
7 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 159 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 63 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (8.72%) Finance
4 47 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.06%) Banking
6 21 (2.95%) Legal
7 18 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.83%) Military
9 13 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Retail
12 6 (0.84%) Law
12 6 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.70%) Police
14 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.42%) Games
15 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 172 (24.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (12.24%) Senior
3 69 (9.70%) Network Engineer
4 67 (9.42%) VMware Engineer
5 64 (9.00%) Architect
6 43 (6.05%) Support Engineer
7 38 (5.34%) Lead
8 34 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 33 (4.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 32 (4.50%) Storage Engineer
11 30 (4.22%) Consultant
12 28 (3.94%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 26 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (3.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 23 (3.23%) Administrator
16 21 (2.95%) Senior Network Engineer
16 21 (2.95%) VMware Consultant
17 19 (2.67%) IT Engineer
17 19 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 17 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.69%) Flash
2 11 (1.55%) REST
3 10 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (0.98%) LDAP
6 6 (0.84%) Middleware
7 5 (0.70%) .NET
7 5 (0.70%) 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
1 108 (15.19%) Data Centre
2 61 (8.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 61 (8.58%) PKI
3 44 (6.19%) Enterprise Storage
3 44 (6.19%) Replication
4 40 (5.63%) Clustering
5 28 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.23%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.39%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.55%) SCADA
13 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.41%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.27%) Operational Technology
15 8 (1.13%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 363 (51.05%) Windows
2 229 (32.21%) Windows Server
3 204 (28.69%) Linux
4 46 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (6.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (3.80%) VMS
7 24 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.39%) Data ONTAP
9 16 (2.25%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.25%) Unix
10 15 (2.11%) Windows 10
11 12 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.55%) Solaris
12 11 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.98%) CentOS
13 7 (0.98%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.56%) AIX
15 4 (0.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (31.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 142 (19.97%) Migration
3 126 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (15.89%) High Availability
5 96 (13.50%) ITIL
6 95 (13.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 93 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 89 (12.52%) CI/CD
9 75 (10.55%) Network Virtualisation
10 70 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
11 67 (9.42%) Change Management
11 67 (9.42%) DevOps
12 66 (9.28%) Agile
13 60 (8.44%) ITSM
13 60 (8.44%) Load Balancing
14 58 (8.16%) Capacity Planning
14 58 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 58 (8.16%) Validation
15 51 (7.17%) Performance Tuning
16 49 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (23.21%) PowerShell
2 106 (14.91%) Python
3 70 (9.85%) Bash
4 42 (5.91%) SQL
5 16 (2.25%) Java
6 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.70%) Bicep
7 5 (0.70%) C
7 5 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.56%) Go
9 3 (0.42%) COBOL
9 3 (0.42%) Lua
10 2 (0.28%) VBScript
11 1 (0.14%) C#
11 1 (0.14%) Korn
11 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 350 (49.23%) Security Cleared
2 196 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 173 (24.33%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 48 (6.75%) Degree
6 37 (5.20%) VCAP
7 36 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (3.38%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.81%) CCNP
11 19 (2.67%) MCSE
12 17 (2.39%) CCNA
13 15 (2.11%) MCSA
14 13 (1.83%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
17 9 (1.27%) OCP
18 7 (0.98%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 7 (0.98%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.23%) SLA
2 22 (3.09%) NIST
3 16 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.69%) NCSC
6 11 (1.55%) 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
1 231 (32.49%) Active Directory
2 185 (26.02%) VMware ESXi
3 177 (24.89%) vSphere
4 147 (20.68%) VMware NSX
5 137 (19.27%) Hyper-V
6 85 (11.95%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (7.31%) Docker
8 38 (5.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (4.08%) Firmware
10 25 (3.52%) NFS
11 21 (2.95%) KVM
12 11 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.13%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.98%) GPFS
14 7 (0.98%) vCloud
15 6 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.70%) SRDF
16 5 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
17 4 (0.56%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 147 (20.68%) Ansible
2 146 (20.53%) vCenter Server
3 104 (14.63%) Terraform
4 96 (13.50%) Kubernetes
5 41 (5.77%) SCCM
6 40 (5.63%) SCOM
7 34 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (4.64%) vRealize
9 30 (4.22%) VxRail
10 26 (3.66%) Grafana
11 20 (2.81%) Puppet
12 19 (2.67%) Argo
13 18 (2.53%) PowerCLI
14 17 (2.39%) Prometheus
14 17 (2.39%) vMotion
15 16 (2.25%) NetBackup
16 15 (2.11%) WSUS
17 13 (1.83%) Avamar
18 12 (1.69%) SnapMirror
19 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 711 (100.00%) VMware
2 192 (27.00%) Microsoft
3 133 (18.71%) Cisco
4 58 (8.16%) NetApp
5 53 (7.45%) Citrix
6 52 (7.31%) Red Hat
7 43 (6.05%) Dell
8 40 (5.63%) F5
9 33 (4.64%) Juniper
10 32 (4.50%) Palo Alto
10 32 (4.50%) SolarWinds
11 30 (4.22%) ServiceNow
12 29 (4.08%) Oracle
12 29 (4.08%) Veeam
13 23 (3.23%) Broadcom
13 23 (3.23%) Pure Storage
14 21 (2.95%) IBM
15 19 (2.67%) Commvault
15 19 (2.67%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.67%) McAfee
230 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England