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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 129 109
Rank change year-on-year -27 -20 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 590 562 828
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 2.16% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 14.18% 17.48% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 368 523
10th Percentile £301 £263 £275
25th Percentile £401 £399 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £579 £623 £600
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 61
10th Percentile £36.12 £74.40 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.70 £88.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +86.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile £76.56 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year +7.69% +6.12% -5.77%

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 4,162 3,215 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.25% 12.33% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 2,108 3,014
10th Percentile £200 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £735 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 77 224
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.00 £17.64
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.41 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -28.98% +1.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +20.69% -33.71% +11.46%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -11 152 £500 -9.09% 79
London -79 129 £545 +3.81% 59
Midlands +7 116 £402 -33.77% 31
North of England -39 107 £433 +1.88% 55
West Midlands +3 88 £340 -45.60% 25
North West -12 69 £445 +1.71% 30
South West -44 68 £550 -4.35% 31
Yorkshire -28 47 £385 -14.44% 23
East of England -6 31 £475 +1.82% 17
East Midlands -5 28 £447 -14.86% 6
North East -19 2 £513 +46.43% 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 35 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.88%) Confluence
4 10 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.19%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.85%) IIS
6 5 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.88%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 177 (30.00%) Azure
2 140 (23.73%) AWS
3 55 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.97%) GCP
5 45 (7.63%) OpenShift
6 39 (6.61%) Entra ID
7 26 (4.41%) IaaS
8 24 (4.07%) Nutanix
9 19 (3.22%) GitHub
10 16 (2.71%) PaaS
11 14 (2.37%) Datadog
12 8 (1.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.85%) SaaS
15 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 174 (29.49%) DNS
2 142 (24.07%) Firewall
3 88 (14.92%) DHCP
4 58 (9.83%) VPN
5 55 (9.32%) TCP/IP
6 45 (7.63%) Network Security
6 45 (7.63%) SAN
7 38 (6.44%) VLAN
8 33 (5.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 33 (5.59%) VSAN
9 32 (5.42%) WAN
10 31 (5.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 30 (5.08%) LAN
12 26 (4.41%) BGP
12 26 (4.41%) BIG-IP
12 26 (4.41%) NAS
13 24 (4.07%) SSL
14 22 (3.73%) HTTP
14 22 (3.73%) Wireshark
15 20 (3.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.41%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.34%) DataStage
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.34%) Redis
5 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.17%) Power BI
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.07%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.88%) Git
3 16 (2.71%) JIRA
4 15 (2.54%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.54%) GitLab
5 11 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.36%) PVCS
6 8 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.19%) JMeter
7 7 (1.19%) JUnit
8 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.68%) RStudio
9 3 (0.51%) Subversion
10 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 143 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.64%) Finance
5 45 (7.63%) Banking
6 31 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.54%) Legal
9 14 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.36%) Electronics
11 8 (1.36%) Military
12 7 (1.19%) Police
13 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.85%) Local Government
15 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 107 (18.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 80 (13.56%) Architect
3 56 (9.49%) Analyst
4 38 (6.44%) Network Engineer
5 31 (5.25%) Senior
5 31 (5.25%) VMware Engineer
6 30 (5.08%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 30 (5.08%) Support Engineer
7 29 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (4.24%) Consultant
9 24 (4.07%) Infrastructure Architect
10 20 (3.39%) Lead
11 19 (3.22%) Storage Analyst
12 17 (2.88%) VMware Consultant
13 16 (2.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (2.71%) Web Engineer
13 16 (2.71%) Wintel Engineer
14 15 (2.54%) Infrastructure Support
14 15 (2.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 15 (2.54%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.05%) Flash
2 14 (2.37%) LDAP
3 10 (1.69%) SAML
4 8 (1.36%) Kafka
4 8 (1.36%) REST
5 7 (1.19%) Loki
5 7 (1.19%) Spring
6 6 (1.02%) Hibernate
7 5 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.85%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.68%) Middleware
8 4 (0.68%) OAuth
8 4 (0.68%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.68%) OpenID
9 3 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.51%) Swagger
10 2 (0.34%) .NET
10 2 (0.34%) RESTful
11 1 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.86%) Data Centre
2 58 (9.83%) Replication
3 44 (7.46%) PKI
4 36 (6.10%) Cloud Native
5 33 (5.59%) Management Information System
6 32 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (5.25%) Linux Command Line
8 27 (4.58%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.88%) Clustering
10 16 (2.71%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
13 10 (1.69%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.36%) Product Ownership
16 7 (1.19%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
17 6 (1.02%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 251 (42.54%) Windows
2 215 (36.44%) Linux
3 151 (25.59%) Windows Server
4 39 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (5.08%) Windows 10
6 21 (3.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (3.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (2.71%) VMS
9 15 (2.54%) Mac OS
9 15 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (2.37%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.69%) Unix
12 8 (1.36%) Solaris
13 7 (1.19%) CentOS
14 6 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.85%) AIX
16 4 (0.68%) CatOS
17 3 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
18 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
18 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 109 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (16.44%) Migration
4 88 (14.92%) Agile
5 73 (12.37%) CI/CD
5 73 (12.37%) Disaster Recovery
6 72 (12.20%) ITIL
7 66 (11.19%) DevOps
8 63 (10.68%) Load Balancing
9 61 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 60 (10.17%) High Availability
11 53 (8.98%) Containerisation
12 48 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
13 45 (7.63%) Data Protection
14 41 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (6.44%) Service Management
16 37 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (5.93%) Business Continuity
17 35 (5.93%) Network Virtualisation
18 34 (5.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (23.90%) PowerShell
2 113 (19.15%) Python
3 79 (13.39%) Bash
4 22 (3.73%) SQL
5 15 (2.54%) Perl
6 12 (2.03%) C
6 12 (2.03%) Java
7 11 (1.86%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.53%) C++
9 7 (1.19%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.19%) Embedded C++
10 4 (0.68%) Bicep
10 4 (0.68%) C#
10 4 (0.68%) Go
10 4 (0.68%) PHP
10 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.34%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 1 (0.17%) Rust
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 241 (40.85%) Security Cleared
2 158 (26.78%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.46%) Degree
5 42 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (6.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 30 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (4.58%) Azure Certification
9 24 (4.07%) CCNP
10 17 (2.88%) MCSE
11 16 (2.71%) VCAP
12 15 (2.54%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.37%) CCNA
14 12 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (2.03%) MCSA
15 11 (1.86%) CCIE
15 11 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.86%) Server+ Certification
16 7 (1.19%) Master's Degree
17 6 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.05%) GDPR
3 15 (2.54%) NIST
4 9 (1.53%) SLA
5 8 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.85%) QA
7 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.51%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) COBIT
10 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 172 (29.15%) Active Directory
2 126 (21.36%) vSphere
3 96 (16.27%) Hyper-V
4 87 (14.75%) VMware NSX
5 79 (13.39%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (9.32%) Docker
7 54 (9.15%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (5.76%) NFS
9 26 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (3.73%) Firmware
11 19 (3.22%) KVM
12 16 (2.71%) GPFS
13 7 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.85%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.68%) vCloud
16 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.51%) UAG
17 2 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (16.95%) Ansible
2 77 (13.05%) Terraform
3 72 (12.20%) vCenter Server
4 67 (11.36%) Kubernetes
5 58 (9.83%) SCCM
6 55 (9.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (8.47%) vRealize
8 22 (3.73%) Grafana
9 21 (3.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (3.39%) Argo
11 19 (3.22%) VxRail
12 16 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (2.37%) Prometheus
13 14 (2.37%) SCOM
14 13 (2.20%) vMotion
15 12 (2.03%) WSUS
16 11 (1.86%) Progress Chef
17 10 (1.69%) FortiGate
18 9 (1.53%) Puppet
19 8 (1.36%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 590 (100.00%) VMware
2 170 (28.81%) Microsoft
3 137 (23.22%) Cisco
4 61 (10.34%) Citrix
4 61 (10.34%) F5
5 57 (9.66%) Red Hat
6 41 (6.95%) IBM
7 40 (6.78%) SolarWinds
8 37 (6.27%) Dell
8 37 (6.27%) NetApp
9 32 (5.42%) Oracle
10 31 (5.25%) ServiceNow
10 31 (5.25%) Veeam
11 27 (4.58%) Palo Alto
12 24 (4.07%) Pure Storage
13 22 (3.73%) Commvault
14 17 (2.88%) Google
14 17 (2.88%) McAfee
15 16 (2.71%) Blue Coat
15 16 (2.71%) HP