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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 108 89
Rank change year-on-year -54 -19 +38
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 537 691 992
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 2.24% 2.54%
As % of the System Software category 13.87% 18.95% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 418 635
10th Percentile £300 £275 £308
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -0.24% -0.21%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £631
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £513
% change year-on-year +1.20% +1.22% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 56
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.24 £28.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £29.69 £46.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -24.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £74.26 £88.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.20 £112.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £37.08 £65.98
% change year-on-year +88.77% -43.80% +1.51%

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 3,873 3,647 5,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.71% 11.81% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,544 2,333 3,514
10th Percentile £213 £213 £195
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £710 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 82 234
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.51 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.86 £50.00 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year -36.28% +24.49% +60.65%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £43.84
% change year-on-year -17.05% -17.51% +75.36%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -26 133 £513 -6.82% 110
London -89 121 £525 +5.00% 49
North of England -5 102 £442 -1.72% 26
Midlands -4 98 £450 -21.05% 37
West Midlands +13 81 £475 -18.66% 24
South West -31 69 £553 -0.45% 37
North West -3 58 £475 +11.76% 12
Yorkshire +10 57 £413 -9.34% 10
East of England -5 26 £488 +39.29% 30
East Midlands -18 17 £450 +20.00% 13
North East -8 2 £550 +83.33% 4
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 37 (6.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (5.03%) Confluence
3 23 (4.28%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.49%) Apache
5 8 (1.49%) IIS
6 7 (1.30%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) Traefik
10 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 155 (28.86%) Azure
2 115 (21.42%) AWS
3 50 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (8.01%) GCP
5 31 (5.77%) OpenShift
6 28 (5.21%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.47%) GitHub
8 21 (3.91%) IaaS
9 20 (3.72%) SaaS
10 16 (2.98%) Nutanix
11 11 (2.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (2.05%) PaaS
12 10 (1.86%) Datadog
13 8 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
17 3 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
17 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 164 (30.54%) DNS
2 135 (25.14%) Firewall
3 79 (14.71%) TCP/IP
4 71 (13.22%) DHCP
5 50 (9.31%) VLAN
6 45 (8.38%) VPN
7 40 (7.45%) SAN
8 34 (6.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 34 (6.33%) Network Security
9 33 (6.15%) VSAN
10 30 (5.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 29 (5.40%) WAN
12 27 (5.03%) DMZ
13 26 (4.84%) BGP
13 26 (4.84%) LAN
14 23 (4.28%) NAS
15 20 (3.72%) MPLS
16 18 (3.35%) iSCSI
17 16 (2.98%) Fibre Channel
17 16 (2.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.37%) MySQL
4 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 35 (6.52%) Git
3 23 (4.28%) JIRA
4 17 (3.17%) GitLab
5 16 (2.98%) Postman
6 13 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.49%) Subversion
8 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.30%) Fiddler
8 7 (1.30%) JMeter
8 7 (1.30%) JUnit
9 4 (0.74%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.56%) MSI
10 3 (0.56%) PVCS
10 3 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.56%) RStudio
11 2 (0.37%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 158 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 74 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 55 (10.24%) Finance
5 45 (8.38%) Banking
6 30 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.91%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.23%) Legal
10 12 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Law
11 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.93%) Electronics
12 5 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Military
14 3 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 86 (16.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (15.83%) Architect
3 42 (7.82%) Senior
4 34 (6.33%) Consultant
5 32 (5.96%) Analyst
6 31 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 30 (5.59%) Network Engineer
8 26 (4.84%) Infrastructure Architect
9 23 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (3.91%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 20 (3.72%) Windows Engineer
12 19 (3.54%) VMware Engineer
13 18 (3.35%) Administrator
14 17 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support
14 17 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 17 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.17%) VMware Consultant
15 16 (2.98%) VMware Architect
16 15 (2.79%) IT Engineer
16 15 (2.79%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.86%) Flash
1 10 (1.86%) REST
2 8 (1.49%) Middleware
3 7 (1.30%) Kafka
3 7 (1.30%) Loki
3 7 (1.30%) NETCONF
3 7 (1.30%) RESTCONF
3 7 (1.30%) Spring
4 6 (1.12%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.74%) RESTful
5 4 (0.74%) YAML
6 3 (0.56%) .NET
6 3 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.56%) LDAP
6 3 (0.56%) OAuth
6 3 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.56%) OpenID
6 3 (0.56%) SAML
6 3 (0.56%) Swagger
7 2 (0.37%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 67 (12.48%) Data Centre
2 46 (8.57%) PKI
3 44 (8.19%) Replication
4 34 (6.33%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 22 (4.10%) Private Cloud
7 21 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.86%) Clustering
9 10 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.49%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.12%) NHS
12 6 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 237 (44.13%) Windows
2 193 (35.94%) Linux
3 128 (23.84%) Windows Server
4 54 (10.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (6.70%) Windows 10
6 21 (3.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (2.98%) CentOS
8 16 (2.98%) VMS
9 14 (2.61%) Ubuntu
9 14 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (2.42%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.42%) Solaris
11 11 (2.05%) Unix
12 6 (1.12%) AIX
13 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 96 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (15.83%) Agile
4 76 (14.15%) DevOps
5 71 (13.22%) CI/CD
5 71 (13.22%) Migration
6 65 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 60 (11.17%) ITIL
8 59 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 48 (8.94%) Load Balancing
11 46 (8.57%) High Availability
12 44 (8.19%) Business Strategy
13 42 (7.82%) Service Management
14 40 (7.45%) Data Protection
15 35 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (6.52%) Validation
16 32 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (5.77%) Configuration Management
17 31 (5.77%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 139 (25.88%) Python
2 129 (24.02%) PowerShell
3 83 (15.46%) Bash
4 41 (7.64%) SQL
5 18 (3.35%) Java
5 18 (3.35%) Perl
6 11 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.49%) C++
7 8 (1.49%) PHP
8 7 (1.30%) Go
8 7 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.93%) C
10 2 (0.37%) C#
10 2 (0.37%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.37%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.19%) Korn
11 1 (0.19%) Rust
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 204 (37.99%) Security Cleared
2 141 (26.26%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.29%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.75%) Degree
4 47 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (7.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 33 (6.15%) CCNP
8 27 (5.03%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.72%) MCSE
10 16 (2.98%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.98%) CCNA
11 13 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.23%) CCIE
12 12 (2.23%) Master's Degree
13 11 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (2.05%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (1.86%) VCAP
15 9 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.49%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.66%) GDPR
2 14 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.05%) QA
4 9 (1.68%) SLA
5 7 (1.30%) NIST
6 6 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.74%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 160 (29.80%) Active Directory
2 101 (18.81%) vSphere
3 78 (14.53%) Hyper-V
3 78 (14.53%) VMware ESXi
4 60 (11.17%) VMware NSX
5 50 (9.31%) Docker
6 39 (7.26%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (5.40%) NFS
8 21 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (2.05%) Firmware
9 11 (2.05%) KVM
9 11 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (1.86%) GPFS
11 7 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 6 (1.12%) Dovecot
12 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (1.12%) Postfix
12 6 (1.12%) Terminal Services
12 6 (1.12%) UAG
13 5 (0.93%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 123 (22.91%) Ansible
2 80 (14.90%) Terraform
3 62 (11.55%) vCenter Server
4 56 (10.43%) SCCM
5 49 (9.12%) Kubernetes
6 38 (7.08%) vRealize
7 36 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (5.03%) Puppet
9 17 (3.17%) VxRail
10 16 (2.98%) Grafana
11 15 (2.79%) Argo
12 13 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.42%) Progress Chef
12 13 (2.42%) Prometheus
13 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (2.05%) WSUS
15 10 (1.86%) NetBackup
16 9 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (1.68%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 537 (100.00%) VMware
2 171 (31.84%) Microsoft
3 113 (21.04%) Cisco
4 60 (11.17%) F5
5 58 (10.80%) Red Hat
6 54 (10.06%) Citrix
7 43 (8.01%) NetApp
8 42 (7.82%) Veeam
9 33 (6.15%) SolarWinds
10 32 (5.96%) Dell
10 32 (5.96%) Oracle
11 26 (4.84%) IBM
12 23 (4.28%) Broadcom
13 22 (4.10%) Splunk
14 19 (3.54%) Palo Alto
15 17 (3.17%) MuleSoft
16 15 (2.79%) Google
16 15 (2.79%) Juniper
16 15 (2.79%) ServiceNow
17 14 (2.61%) Fortinet
260 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England