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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 130 117
Rank change year-on-year -38 -13 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 645 532 721
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.16% 1.93%
As % of the System Software category 15.02% 16.83% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 373 469
10th Percentile £316 £313 £263
25th Percentile £414 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 32
10th Percentile £43.17 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £52.11 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.53% -38.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £74.48 £61.30 £87.88
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +50.54% +6.07% -32.55%

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 4,295 3,161 4,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.82% 12.86% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,928 2,195 2,826
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 77 209
10th Percentile £16.83 £15.05 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.66 £19.97 £14.48
Median hourly rate £57.63 £28.41 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.86% +35.29% -57.10%
75th Percentile £74.07 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.95 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year +91.46% +25.36% -56.31%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -12 167 £525 -8.70% 75
London -63 148 £525 -2.33% 47
North of England -13 135 £458 +10.24% 48
Midlands -14 107 £402 -26.91% 24
West Midlands -19 81 £340 -38.29% 17
North West -5 74 £456 +7.29% 17
Yorkshire -19 62 £454 -2.47% 21
South West -59 54 £550 -4.35% 25
East of England -3 43 £475 +0.53% 20
East Midlands -22 26 £415 -23.54% 6
North East -21 3 £550 +57.14% 13
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 (6.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.24%) Confluence
4 6 (0.93%) nginx
4 6 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.62%) IIS
6 3 (0.47%) CICS
6 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 175 (27.13%) Azure
2 123 (19.07%) AWS
3 50 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.98%) Entra ID
4 45 (6.98%) OpenShift
5 33 (5.12%) GCP
6 25 (3.88%) IaaS
7 23 (3.57%) GitHub
8 22 (3.41%) Nutanix
9 18 (2.79%) PaaS
10 11 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.55%) Datadog
12 8 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.09%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.93%) Cohesity
14 6 (0.93%) SaaS
15 5 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 170 (26.36%) DNS
2 151 (23.41%) Firewall
3 93 (14.42%) DHCP
4 66 (10.23%) SAN
5 64 (9.92%) VPN
6 60 (9.30%) VSAN
7 51 (7.91%) Network Security
7 51 (7.91%) WAN
8 48 (7.44%) TCP/IP
9 42 (6.51%) NAS
10 41 (6.36%) LAN
11 39 (6.05%) SSL
12 36 (5.58%) BIG-IP
13 32 (4.96%) HTTP
14 30 (4.65%) VLAN
15 29 (4.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 28 (4.34%) BGP
16 28 (4.34%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.47%) DataStage
5 3 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.47%) Redis
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.10%) JIRA
3 19 (2.95%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.64%) Git
5 14 (2.17%) GitLab
6 8 (1.24%) PVCS
6 8 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.47%) JMeter
8 3 (0.47%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.16%) GoCD
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 139 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (8.53%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.22%) Finance
5 44 (6.82%) Banking
6 25 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.57%) Legal
8 10 (1.55%) Military
9 9 (1.40%) Police
10 8 (1.24%) Electronics
10 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.78%) Local Government
11 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.62%) Law
12 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 92 (14.26%) Architect
3 56 (8.68%) Network Engineer
4 55 (8.53%) Senior
5 52 (8.06%) VMware Engineer
6 46 (7.13%) Analyst
7 34 (5.27%) Lead
8 31 (4.81%) Infrastructure Architect
9 21 (3.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 21 (3.26%) Wintel Engineer
10 20 (3.10%) Consultant
11 19 (2.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) IP Network Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) Support Engineer
11 19 (2.95%) Web Engineer
12 18 (2.79%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 18 (2.79%) Storage Analyst
13 17 (2.64%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.95%) Flash
2 18 (2.79%) LDAP
3 12 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.71%) SAML
5 7 (1.09%) Middleware
5 7 (1.09%) REST
6 6 (0.93%) Kafka
7 5 (0.78%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.47%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.47%) OAuth
8 3 (0.47%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.47%) OpenID
8 3 (0.47%) Spring
9 2 (0.31%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.31%) JSON
9 2 (0.31%) XML
10 1 (0.16%) EJB
10 1 (0.16%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.16%) Data Centre
2 67 (10.39%) Replication
3 45 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (6.67%) PKI
5 39 (6.05%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.58%) Clustering
7 26 (4.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 26 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 26 (4.03%) Private Cloud
8 20 (3.10%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.33%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.24%) SCADA
13 7 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 294 (45.58%) Windows
2 204 (31.63%) Linux
3 197 (30.54%) Windows Server
4 46 (7.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (4.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (3.72%) VMS
8 21 (3.26%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.79%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.48%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (1.55%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.55%) Solaris
12 10 (1.55%) Unix
13 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (1.09%) CentOS
14 7 (1.09%) CoreOS
15 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.78%) AIX
17 4 (0.62%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (26.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (20.00%) Migration
3 109 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (15.19%) High Availability
5 87 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
6 73 (11.32%) Agile
6 73 (11.32%) ITIL
7 65 (10.08%) DevOps
8 64 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 63 (9.77%) Capacity Planning
10 62 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (9.61%) Load Balancing
11 55 (8.53%) Network Virtualisation
12 46 (7.13%) Data Protection
12 46 (7.13%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (6.82%) Containerisation
14 41 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (6.36%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (6.05%) Change Management
16 38 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 145 (22.48%) PowerShell
2 84 (13.02%) Python
3 54 (8.37%) Bash
4 19 (2.95%) SQL
5 11 (1.71%) C
6 8 (1.24%) C++
7 7 (1.09%) Embedded C
7 7 (1.09%) Embedded C++
7 7 (1.09%) Java
7 7 (1.09%) Perl
7 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.78%) Bicep
9 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.62%) PHP
9 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.47%) C#
10 3 (0.47%) COBOL
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) VBScript
12 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 265 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 170 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 100 (15.50%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 41 (6.36%) Degree
6 32 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (4.65%) VCAP
8 21 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (3.10%) MCSE
10 18 (2.79%) Azure Certification
10 18 (2.79%) MCSA
11 16 (2.48%) CCNP
12 12 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (1.55%) CCNA
14 9 (1.40%) OCP
15 8 (1.24%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
17 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.64%) NIST
2 17 (2.64%) SLA
3 13 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.40%) GDPR
4 9 (1.40%) NCSC
5 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.62%) QA
6 2 (0.31%) ISA99
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) COBIT
7 1 (0.16%) DICOM
7 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.16%) HL7
7 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 184 (28.53%) Active Directory
2 147 (22.79%) vSphere
3 137 (21.24%) VMware ESXi
4 127 (19.69%) VMware NSX
5 117 (18.14%) Hyper-V
6 76 (11.78%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (6.36%) Docker
8 37 (5.74%) NFS
9 33 (5.12%) Firmware
10 27 (4.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (3.26%) KVM
12 14 (2.17%) GPFS
13 9 (1.40%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.78%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.62%) vCloud
15 4 (0.62%) XenApp
16 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.47%) UAG
Systems Management
1 124 (19.22%) Ansible
2 101 (15.66%) vCenter Server
3 75 (11.63%) Terraform
4 64 (9.92%) Kubernetes
5 56 (8.68%) SCCM
6 49 (7.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (6.51%) vRealize
8 23 (3.57%) Grafana
9 22 (3.41%) Argo
10 19 (2.95%) VxRail
11 18 (2.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (2.79%) PowerCLI
11 18 (2.79%) vMotion
12 17 (2.64%) SCOM
12 17 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (2.17%) WSUS
14 12 (1.86%) Progress Chef
14 12 (1.86%) Puppet
15 11 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
15 11 (1.71%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 645 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.98%) Microsoft
3 134 (20.78%) Cisco
4 66 (10.23%) Citrix
5 57 (8.84%) NetApp
5 57 (8.84%) Red Hat
6 53 (8.22%) F5
7 38 (5.89%) IBM
8 36 (5.58%) ServiceNow
9 33 (5.12%) Dell
10 32 (4.96%) Oracle
11 31 (4.81%) Palo Alto
11 31 (4.81%) Pure Storage
12 27 (4.19%) Veeam
13 23 (3.57%) McAfee
13 23 (3.57%) SolarWinds
14 21 (3.26%) CheckPoint
15 20 (3.10%) Commvault
16 19 (2.95%) Blue Coat
16 19 (2.95%) Broadcom