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

 6 months to
12 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 145 111
Rank change year-on-year -26 -34 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 656 485 748
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.98% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 15.27% 15.69% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 343 487
10th Percentile £325 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -6.31%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 27
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.21
25th Percentile £32.50 - £30.71
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -35.84%
75th Percentile £73.38 - £46.52
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.80
UK median hourly rate £56.57 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +102.03% -30.00% -38.46%

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 3,092 4,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 12.61% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 2,067 2,905
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £687 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 71 201
10th Percentile £16.20 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.44 £17.73 £14.48
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.00 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +89.29% +25.56% -55.40%
75th Percentile £73.00 £69.25 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +84.82% +15.80% -55.68%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -1 192 £538 -6.52% 59
London -38 150 £525 - 30
North of England -13 139 £459 +8.00% 42
Midlands -30 86 £438 -20.45% 32
North West +6 74 £458 +7.65% 27
West Midlands -28 68 £425 -32.00% 21
Yorkshire -23 64 £454 -4.53% 7
South West -58 55 £539 -6.30% 25
East of England -28 34 £475 -13.64% 20
East Midlands -17 18 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -38 1 £675 +92.86% 8
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 34 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.37%) IIS
4 8 (1.22%) nginx
4 8 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.46%) CICS
6 3 (0.46%) Confluence
6 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (29.27%) Azure
2 124 (18.90%) AWS
3 44 (6.71%) OpenShift
4 43 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 35 (5.34%) GCP
7 24 (3.66%) GitHub
8 23 (3.51%) IaaS
9 20 (3.05%) Nutanix
10 16 (2.44%) PaaS
11 11 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.68%) Rubrik
12 9 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.07%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.07%) Cohesity
13 7 (1.07%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (28.35%) DNS
2 138 (21.04%) Firewall
3 110 (16.77%) DHCP
4 73 (11.13%) SAN
5 67 (10.21%) VPN
6 62 (9.45%) VSAN
7 57 (8.69%) WAN
8 51 (7.77%) Network Security
9 45 (6.86%) TCP/IP
10 44 (6.71%) NAS
11 41 (6.25%) LAN
11 41 (6.25%) SSL
12 33 (5.03%) VLAN
13 30 (4.57%) BIG-IP
14 29 (4.42%) HTTP
15 28 (4.27%) BGP
16 26 (3.96%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.66%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (3.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 20 (3.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.91%) Power BI
5 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.46%) DataStage
7 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.66%) JIRA
3 18 (2.74%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.29%) Git
5 13 (1.98%) GitLab
6 3 (0.46%) PVCS
6 3 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.30%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) GoCD
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 130 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.93%) Finance
3 48 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.10%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.49%) Banking
6 22 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.35%) Legal
7 19 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.52%) Police
9 9 (1.37%) Military
10 6 (0.91%) Law
10 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.91%) Retail
10 6 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.76%) Local Government
12 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.46%) Electronics
13 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (21.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (12.50%) Architect
3 62 (9.45%) Network Engineer
3 62 (9.45%) Senior
4 54 (8.23%) VMware Engineer
5 31 (4.73%) Support Engineer
6 27 (4.12%) Analyst
6 27 (4.12%) Lead
7 26 (3.96%) Infrastructure Architect
7 26 (3.96%) Wintel Engineer
8 25 (3.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 25 (3.81%) Storage Engineer
9 24 (3.66%) Consultant
10 23 (3.51%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 21 (3.20%) Administrator
12 18 (2.74%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 18 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (2.74%) IP Network Engineer
12 18 (2.74%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 18 (2.74%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.59%) Flash
2 15 (2.29%) LDAP
3 11 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.68%) REST
4 7 (1.07%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.07%) Middleware
4 7 (1.07%) SAML
5 5 (0.76%) .NET
5 5 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (0.76%) JSON
6 4 (0.61%) Redfish
6 4 (0.61%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.30%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.30%) Java SE
7 2 (0.30%) OAuth
7 2 (0.30%) OpenGL
7 2 (0.30%) OpenID
7 2 (0.30%) Qt
7 2 (0.30%) XML
7 2 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (13.72%) Data Centre
2 59 (8.99%) Replication
3 57 (8.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (7.32%) PKI
5 39 (5.95%) Enterprise Storage
6 38 (5.79%) Clustering
7 31 (4.73%) Cloud Native
8 26 (3.96%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.51%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.51%) Private Cloud
10 21 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.68%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.37%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
15 8 (1.22%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 323 (49.24%) Windows
2 218 (33.23%) Windows Server
3 194 (29.57%) Linux
4 41 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 39 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.05%) VMS
8 18 (2.74%) Ubuntu
9 17 (2.59%) Data ONTAP
10 16 (2.44%) Unix
11 15 (2.29%) Windows 10
12 14 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (1.68%) Solaris
14 8 (1.22%) CentOS
14 8 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (1.07%) CoreOS
15 7 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.76%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.61%) AIX
17 4 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (28.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 134 (20.43%) Migration
3 101 (15.40%) High Availability
3 101 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (13.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 79 (12.04%) ITIL
6 74 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 69 (10.52%) Capacity Planning
7 69 (10.52%) CI/CD
8 65 (9.91%) DevOps
9 62 (9.45%) Agile
10 61 (9.30%) Load Balancing
11 59 (8.99%) Network Virtualisation
12 55 (8.38%) Change Management
13 52 (7.93%) ITSM
14 45 (6.86%) Validation
15 43 (6.55%) Performance Tuning
15 43 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
16 41 (6.25%) Data Protection
17 39 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 143 (21.80%) PowerShell
2 85 (12.96%) Python
3 45 (6.86%) Bash
4 29 (4.42%) SQL
5 7 (1.07%) Java
5 7 (1.07%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.91%) C
7 5 (0.76%) Bicep
7 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) PHP
8 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.46%) C++
9 3 (0.46%) COBOL
9 3 (0.46%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.46%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) VBScript
11 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 287 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 171 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 125 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 61 (9.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 37 (5.64%) Degree
6 34 (5.18%) VCAP
7 32 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.51%) MCSE
10 20 (3.05%) MCSA
11 19 (2.90%) Azure Certification
12 15 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (2.29%) CCNP
13 13 (1.98%) CCNA
14 10 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (1.37%) OCP
16 7 (1.07%) ISTQB
16 7 (1.07%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.91%) RHCA
18 5 (0.76%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.81%) SLA
2 24 (3.66%) NIST
3 19 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.68%) NCSC
6 7 (1.07%) QA
7 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) ISA99
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) DICOM
10 1 (0.15%) GDPR
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 193 (29.42%) Active Directory
2 172 (26.22%) VMware ESXi
3 159 (24.24%) vSphere
4 134 (20.43%) VMware NSX
5 132 (20.12%) Hyper-V
6 93 (14.18%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (5.34%) Docker
7 35 (5.34%) NFS
8 34 (5.18%) Firmware
9 30 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 23 (3.51%) KVM
11 12 (1.83%) GPFS
11 12 (1.83%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.68%) vCloud
13 10 (1.52%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.76%) SRDF
16 4 (0.61%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.46%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 127 (19.36%) Ansible
2 126 (19.21%) vCenter Server
3 78 (11.89%) Terraform
4 71 (10.82%) Kubernetes
5 42 (6.40%) SCCM
6 36 (5.49%) vRealize
7 33 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (4.42%) SCOM
9 22 (3.35%) Grafana
9 22 (3.35%) vMotion
10 20 (3.05%) Argo
11 18 (2.74%) PowerCLI
12 16 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (2.29%) VxRail
14 14 (2.13%) WSUS
15 13 (1.98%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.98%) Puppet
16 12 (1.83%) NetBackup
16 12 (1.83%) SnapMirror
17 11 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 656 (100.00%) VMware
2 176 (26.83%) Microsoft
3 142 (21.65%) Cisco
4 57 (8.69%) Citrix
5 55 (8.38%) NetApp
6 48 (7.32%) Red Hat
7 41 (6.25%) F5
8 40 (6.10%) ServiceNow
9 38 (5.79%) Dell
10 34 (5.18%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.88%) Pure Storage
12 31 (4.73%) Oracle
13 26 (3.96%) IBM
14 25 (3.81%) Juniper
15 24 (3.66%) Veeam
16 23 (3.51%) CheckPoint
17 22 (3.35%) SolarWinds
18 21 (3.20%) McAfee
19 19 (2.90%) Blue Coat
20 18 (2.74%) Fortinet
194 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England