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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 176 105
Rank change year-on-year +18 -71 -15
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 791 451 735
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.64% 2.24%
As % of the System Software category 17.09% 13.72% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 299 458
10th Percentile £317 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 3 7
10th Percentile £26.40 £28.40 £23.24
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +126.67% +26.05% -62.22%
75th Percentile £90.00 £48.63 £43.37
90th Percentile £97.56 £59.80 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +123.33% +26.05% -62.22%

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 4,629 3,287 3,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 11.93% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,038 2,110 2,614
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £681 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 94 113
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.05 £14.08
25th Percentile £33.80 £23.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £64.24 £38.75 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +65.78% +60.12% -47.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.05 £72.85
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £33.39 £24.20
% change year-on-year +84.21% +37.95% -51.60%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -4 214 £538 -6.52% 93
London +3 192 £525 +5.00% 117
North of England +6 171 £466 +9.53% 57
Midlands -15 95 £450 -20.00% 37
North West +2 88 £466 +7.94% 20
South West -18 83 £625 +9.89% 53
Yorkshire -10 71 £523 +26.67% 19
West Midlands -15 71 £450 -21.40% 22
East of England -16 45 £500 -9.09% 43
East Midlands -3 24 £438 -16.03% 15
North East -29 12 £375 -40.00% 21
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 44 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.90%) IIS
4 11 (1.39%) Confluence
5 9 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) JBoss
6 7 (0.88%) nginx
6 7 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.25%) Houdini
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.25%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 221 (27.94%) Azure
2 132 (16.69%) AWS
3 78 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (7.33%) Entra ID
5 40 (5.06%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.17%) GCP
7 31 (3.92%) GitHub
8 26 (3.29%) IaaS
9 18 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.90%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.77%) PaaS
13 14 (1.77%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.77%) SaaS
14 11 (1.39%) Nutanix
15 9 (1.14%) Azure Stack
15 9 (1.14%) Rubrik
16 8 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 260 (32.87%) DNS
2 174 (22.00%) Firewall
3 163 (20.61%) DHCP
4 92 (11.63%) TCP/IP
5 87 (11.00%) VSAN
6 72 (9.10%) VPN
7 67 (8.47%) SAN
8 63 (7.96%) VLAN
9 56 (7.08%) WAN
10 54 (6.83%) Network Security
11 44 (5.56%) LAN
12 40 (5.06%) NAS
13 39 (4.93%) SSL
14 35 (4.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (3.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 30 (3.79%) HTTP
16 28 (3.54%) BGP
16 28 (3.54%) BIG-IP
17 23 (2.91%) Wireshark
18 19 (2.40%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.64%) Power BI
4 10 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.14%) Big Data
5 9 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
11 1 (0.13%) DataStage
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (4.05%) JIRA
2 25 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.65%) Git
4 20 (2.53%) GitLab
5 14 (1.77%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.38%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) PVCS
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 180 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (9.36%) Finance
4 36 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.41%) Banking
5 27 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.91%) Legal
7 15 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.01%) Retail
12 7 (0.88%) Law
13 6 (0.76%) Military
14 5 (0.63%) Back Office
14 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.63%) Police
15 4 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 194 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (14.03%) Senior
3 87 (11.00%) VMware Engineer
4 66 (8.34%) Network Engineer
5 61 (7.71%) Architect
6 50 (6.32%) Support Engineer
7 46 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.06%) Lead
9 37 (4.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (4.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 34 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (3.92%) Administrator
12 31 (3.92%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 31 (3.92%) Storage Engineer
13 27 (3.41%) Consultant
14 26 (3.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 24 (3.03%) IT Engineer
16 23 (2.91%) Server Engineer
17 22 (2.78%) Senior Network Engineer
17 22 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (15.30%) Terraform
2 21 (2.65%) REST
3 17 (2.15%) JSON
4 12 (1.52%) LDAP
5 11 (1.39%) Kafka
6 10 (1.26%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (1.14%) YAML
8 6 (0.76%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.76%) Middleware
8 6 (0.76%) Regular Expression
9 5 (0.63%) .NET
9 5 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.51%) Flash
10 4 (0.51%) Redfish
11 3 (0.38%) Java SE
11 3 (0.38%) SAML
11 3 (0.38%) XML
12 2 (0.25%) OAuth
12 2 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.06%) Data Centre
2 69 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (8.09%) PKI
4 46 (5.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (5.56%) Clustering
6 38 (4.80%) Replication
7 32 (4.05%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.67%) Private Cloud
8 29 (3.67%) Public Cloud
9 26 (3.29%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.65%) Cloud Native
11 18 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.52%) SCADA
14 11 (1.39%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.26%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
16 9 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 432 (54.61%) Windows
2 286 (36.16%) Windows Server
3 214 (27.05%) Linux
4 45 (5.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (3.03%) VMS
6 24 (3.03%) Windows 10
7 19 (2.40%) Unix
8 18 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (2.02%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (1.26%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.14%) Solaris
14 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.76%) CentOS
15 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.51%) SUSE
16 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (33.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 155 (19.60%) ITIL
3 152 (19.22%) Migration
4 149 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (14.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 103 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
8 101 (12.77%) CI/CD
9 99 (12.52%) High Availability
10 87 (11.00%) Change Management
11 84 (10.62%) ITSM
12 76 (9.61%) Network Virtualisation
13 75 (9.48%) Agile
14 73 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (9.23%) Service Management
15 72 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 72 (9.10%) Root Cause Analysis
16 70 (8.85%) DevOps
17 67 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
18 65 (8.22%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 199 (25.16%) PowerShell
2 114 (14.41%) Python
3 78 (9.86%) Bash
4 53 (6.70%) SQL
5 18 (2.28%) Java
6 8 (1.01%) Bicep
7 7 (0.88%) C
8 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.51%) Go
10 4 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) Lua
11 3 (0.38%) VB
11 3 (0.38%) VBScript
12 2 (0.25%) C++
12 2 (0.25%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.25%) Korn
13 1 (0.13%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 390 (49.30%) Security Cleared
2 225 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 191 (24.15%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.57%) Degree
6 44 (5.56%) VCAP
7 37 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.67%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.65%) MCSE
11 18 (2.28%) CCNP
12 16 (2.02%) CCNA
12 16 (2.02%) MCSA
13 15 (1.90%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.01%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (0.88%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.16%) SLA
2 18 (2.28%) NIST
2 18 (2.28%) QA
3 15 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.64%) NCSC
6 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.51%) GxP
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.25%) GDPR
9 2 (0.25%) ISA99
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
System Software
1 268 (33.88%) Active Directory
2 200 (25.28%) VMware ESXi
3 192 (24.27%) vSphere
4 171 (21.62%) Hyper-V
5 147 (18.58%) VMware NSX
6 90 (11.38%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (6.95%) Docker
8 39 (4.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.92%) Firmware
10 18 (2.28%) NFS
11 16 (2.02%) KVM
12 11 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (1.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 9 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
14 8 (1.01%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.88%) vCloud
15 7 (0.88%) XenApp
15 7 (0.88%) XenDesktop
16 6 (0.76%) oVirt
16 6 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 152 (19.22%) Ansible
1 152 (19.22%) vCenter Server
2 119 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.57%) SCCM
3 52 (6.57%) SCOM
4 41 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (4.30%) VxRail
6 26 (3.29%) vRealize
7 24 (3.03%) Grafana
8 20 (2.53%) Prometheus
9 19 (2.40%) PowerCLI
10 18 (2.28%) Puppet
11 17 (2.15%) NetBackup
11 17 (2.15%) WSUS
12 16 (2.02%) vMotion
13 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
14 13 (1.64%) Argo
14 13 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
15 12 (1.52%) Avamar
16 11 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 791 (100.00%) VMware
2 231 (29.20%) Microsoft
3 141 (17.83%) Cisco
4 59 (7.46%) Citrix
5 55 (6.95%) NetApp
6 51 (6.45%) Red Hat
7 47 (5.94%) Dell
8 45 (5.69%) F5
9 40 (5.06%) ServiceNow
10 36 (4.55%) SolarWinds
11 35 (4.42%) Palo Alto
12 33 (4.17%) Oracle
13 30 (3.79%) Veeam
14 29 (3.67%) Juniper
15 23 (2.91%) Fortinet
16 21 (2.65%) Broadcom
17 18 (2.28%) CheckPoint
17 18 (2.28%) IBM
18 17 (2.15%) Remedy
19 16 (2.02%) McAfee
380 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England