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

 6 months to
10 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 168 109
Rank change year-on-year +4 -59 -24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 800 455 691
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.62% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 17.32% 12.97% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 307 404
10th Percentile £314 £290 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.64% -3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 3 8
10th Percentile £25.25 £24.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £26.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £89.94 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £96.93 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -63.93%

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 4,618 3,508 3,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.98% 12.51% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 2,262 2,441
10th Percentile £218 £208 £220
25th Percentile £398 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 110 85
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +83.00% -4.60% -22.79%
75th Percentile £74.32 £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.77 £33.58
% change year-on-year +90.72% -2.42% -29.88%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -11 204 £538 +2.38% 105
London -9 197 £550 +10.00% 195
North of England +4 174 £478 +12.47% 69
Midlands -12 90 £450 -18.18% 58
North West -6 80 £448 +2.40% 34
Yorkshire +3 79 £525 +27.27% 24
South West -21 77 £644 +17.05% 64
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -21.40% 37
East of England -7 60 £600 +9.09% 36
East Midlands -7 22 £438 -9.33% 21
North East -27 16 £400 - 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 40 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.00%) Confluence
3 16 (2.00%) IIS
4 14 (1.75%) CMS
5 9 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) JBoss
7 5 (0.63%) nginx
7 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.50%) Apache
8 4 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.50%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.25%) Houdini
3 2 (0.25%) NUKE
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 227 (28.38%) Azure
2 118 (14.75%) AWS
3 82 (10.25%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (7.63%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.38%) OpenShift
6 34 (4.25%) GCP
7 26 (3.25%) GitHub
8 24 (3.00%) IaaS
9 18 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.88%) OneDrive
10 15 (1.88%) Rubrik
11 14 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.63%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.63%) SaaS
13 12 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.50%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.50%) PaaS
14 8 (1.00%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.75%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 258 (32.25%) DNS
2 167 (20.88%) Firewall
3 163 (20.38%) DHCP
4 100 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 67 (8.38%) VPN
5 67 (8.38%) VSAN
6 65 (8.13%) SAN
7 63 (7.88%) VLAN
8 55 (6.88%) Network Security
9 54 (6.75%) WAN
10 51 (6.38%) LAN
11 35 (4.38%) NAS
12 34 (4.25%) SSL
13 30 (3.75%) HTTP
14 29 (3.63%) BGP
15 27 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 26 (3.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 22 (2.75%) NetScaler
18 21 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.63%) Power BI
4 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.13%) Big Data
6 8 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.75%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (4.38%) JIRA
2 22 (2.75%) Git
3 20 (2.50%) GitLab
4 18 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.38%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.50%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.50%) PVCS
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 184 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 93 (11.63%) Finance
3 83 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.50%) Banking
6 26 (3.25%) Legal
7 18 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.13%) Law
11 8 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.00%) Back Office
11 8 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.75%) Police
13 6 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 196 (24.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 110 (13.75%) Senior
3 75 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
4 65 (8.13%) Architect
5 53 (6.63%) Support Engineer
6 52 (6.50%) Network Engineer
7 51 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (5.63%) Lead
9 42 (5.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (4.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 35 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
13 29 (3.63%) Administrator
14 28 (3.50%) Consultant
15 24 (3.00%) Server Engineer
16 23 (2.88%) Wintel Engineer
17 22 (2.75%) IT Engineer
17 22 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (2.63%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (14.00%) Terraform
2 26 (3.25%) REST
3 21 (2.63%) JSON
4 16 (2.00%) Kafka
5 13 (1.63%) XMPP
6 12 (1.50%) YAML
7 11 (1.38%) 802.1X
7 11 (1.38%) LDAP
8 8 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.88%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.63%) .NET
11 5 (0.63%) Middleware
12 4 (0.50%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Flash
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
13 3 (0.38%) XML
14 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
14 2 (0.25%) OAuth
14 2 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 138 (17.25%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.13%) PKI
4 45 (5.63%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (5.13%) Clustering
6 33 (4.13%) Private Cloud
6 33 (4.13%) Replication
7 31 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 27 (3.38%) Onboarding
9 26 (3.25%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.75%) Cloud Native
11 20 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
12 17 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.88%) Operational Technology
14 14 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.63%) SCADA
16 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.13%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 440 (55.00%) Windows
2 298 (37.25%) Windows Server
3 196 (24.50%) Linux
4 46 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.25%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.50%) Unix
7 20 (2.50%) VMS
7 20 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.50%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.00%) Solaris
11 7 (0.88%) CentOS
11 7 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
12 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.50%) AIX
14 4 (0.50%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (34.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 170 (21.25%) ITIL
3 152 (19.00%) Migration
3 152 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 140 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (15.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 115 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
7 102 (12.75%) Change Management
8 100 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 87 (10.88%) ITSM
10 86 (10.75%) Root Cause Analysis
11 83 (10.38%) High Availability
12 81 (10.13%) Agile
12 81 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
12 81 (10.13%) Project Delivery
13 80 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 78 (9.75%) Platform Engineering
15 77 (9.63%) Service Management
16 76 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 64 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 192 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 107 (13.38%) Python
3 64 (8.00%) Bash
4 49 (6.13%) SQL
5 18 (2.25%) Java
6 9 (1.13%) Bicep
6 9 (1.13%) C
7 4 (0.50%) C++
7 4 (0.50%) Go
7 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.38%) Korn
8 3 (0.38%) Lua
8 3 (0.38%) VB
9 2 (0.25%) VBScript
10 1 (0.13%) C#
10 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 402 (50.25%) Security Cleared
2 233 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 186 (23.25%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.25%) Degree
5 56 (7.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 46 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (5.00%) VCAP
8 33 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (3.25%) CCNP
10 24 (3.00%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.50%) CCNA
11 20 (2.50%) MCSE
12 17 (2.13%) AWS Certification
13 16 (2.00%) MCSA
14 10 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.13%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.00%) ISTQB
16 8 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (1.00%) PMI Certification
16 8 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.50%) QA
2 18 (2.25%) SLA
3 16 (2.00%) NIST
4 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.38%) NCSC
6 10 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.50%) GxP
8 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.38%) GDPR
9 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
System Software
1 292 (36.50%) Active Directory
2 199 (24.88%) vSphere
3 184 (23.00%) VMware ESXi
4 175 (21.88%) Hyper-V
5 116 (14.50%) VMware NSX
6 80 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
7 51 (6.38%) Docker
8 42 (5.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.88%) Firmware
10 20 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (2.38%) NFS
12 14 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 12 (1.50%) KVM
14 11 (1.38%) XenApp
15 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 10 (1.25%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.88%) oVirt
16 7 (0.88%) vCloud
17 6 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 131 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 128 (16.00%) vCenter Server
3 126 (15.75%) Ansible
4 59 (7.38%) SCCM
5 55 (6.88%) SCOM
6 48 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.38%) VxRail
8 18 (2.25%) vRealize
9 17 (2.13%) Cisco CUCM
9 17 (2.13%) Prometheus
10 16 (2.00%) Grafana
10 16 (2.00%) Puppet
11 13 (1.63%) Avamar
11 13 (1.63%) PowerCLI
12 12 (1.50%) Dell DRAC
12 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Clustering
12 12 (1.50%) Nagios
12 12 (1.50%) NetBackup
13 11 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
13 11 (1.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 800 (100.00%) VMware
2 255 (31.88%) Microsoft
3 143 (17.88%) Cisco
4 63 (7.88%) Citrix
5 53 (6.63%) NetApp
5 53 (6.63%) Red Hat
6 52 (6.50%) Dell
7 42 (5.25%) SolarWinds
8 40 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 35 (4.38%) F5
10 33 (4.13%) Veeam
11 30 (3.75%) Oracle
12 27 (3.38%) Juniper
13 26 (3.25%) Palo Alto
14 24 (3.00%) Fortinet
15 21 (2.63%) Remedy
16 19 (2.38%) Broadcom
17 18 (2.25%) McAfee
18 17 (2.13%) Commvault
19 15 (1.88%) IBM
559 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England