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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 124 116
Rank change year-on-year -35 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 641 545 728
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.23% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 14.90% 17.29% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 378 469
10th Percentile £315 £312 £263
25th Percentile £412 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 34
10th Percentile £39.80 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £56.32 £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 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.93 £61.30 £86.13
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 4,301 3,152 4,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.97% 12.92% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,944 2,185 2,805
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £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 £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 82 203
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.16 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.97 £21.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.75 £29.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.90% +38.10% -52.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £84.88 £85.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year +81.03% +29.46% -55.20%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -20 165 £537 -6.61% 73
London -76 141 £525 -4.55% 61
North of England -21 131 £456 +7.29% 70
Midlands -7 118 £394 -28.41% 27
West Midlands -12 93 £333 -39.59% 15
North West -12 75 £450 +5.88% 28
Yorkshire -24 58 £482 +3.66% 32
South West -61 56 £550 -4.35% 32
East of England -6 42 £475 +1.17% 31
East Midlands -19 25 £415 -21.74% 12
North East -21 3 £550 +57.14% 14
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 38 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.87%) Confluence
4 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.62%) nginx
5 4 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.47%) CICS
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%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 187 (29.17%) Azure
2 144 (22.46%) AWS
3 53 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (7.49%) OpenShift
5 45 (7.02%) Entra ID
6 38 (5.93%) GCP
7 30 (4.68%) IaaS
8 23 (3.59%) Nutanix
9 22 (3.43%) GitHub
10 18 (2.81%) PaaS
11 16 (2.50%) Datadog
12 9 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.09%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.94%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 171 (26.68%) DNS
2 159 (24.80%) Firewall
3 89 (13.88%) DHCP
4 71 (11.08%) VPN
5 64 (9.98%) SAN
6 62 (9.67%) VSAN
7 51 (7.96%) Network Security
8 50 (7.80%) WAN
9 49 (7.64%) TCP/IP
10 41 (6.40%) LAN
11 39 (6.08%) NAS
12 38 (5.93%) SSL
13 36 (5.62%) BIG-IP
14 34 (5.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 31 (4.84%) BGP
15 31 (4.84%) HTTP
15 31 (4.84%) VLAN
16 28 (4.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 27 (4.21%) Wireshark
18 24 (3.74%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
4 3 (0.47%) DataStage
4 3 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.47%) Redis
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.31%) Power BI
6 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (5.30%) Jenkins
2 19 (2.96%) Fiddler
2 19 (2.96%) JIRA
3 17 (2.65%) Git
4 15 (2.34%) GitLab
5 8 (1.25%) PVCS
5 8 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.47%) JMeter
7 3 (0.47%) JUnit
8 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.31%) RStudio
9 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.16%) GoCD
9 1 (0.16%) MSI
9 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 139 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 57 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 56 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.42%) Finance
5 46 (7.18%) Banking
6 25 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 24 (3.74%) Legal
8 12 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.56%) Military
9 10 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.25%) Electronics
11 7 (1.09%) Police
12 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.78%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.78%) Local Government
13 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (19.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 99 (15.44%) Architect
3 59 (9.20%) Network Engineer
4 55 (8.58%) Analyst
5 49 (7.64%) VMware Engineer
6 48 (7.49%) Senior
7 31 (4.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 31 (4.84%) Infrastructure Architect
7 31 (4.84%) Lead
8 23 (3.59%) Storage Analyst
9 22 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (3.12%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 20 (3.12%) Web Engineer
11 19 (2.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 19 (2.96%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 19 (2.96%) Consultant
11 19 (2.96%) IP Network Engineer
12 17 (2.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (2.65%) Storage Engineer
12 17 (2.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.43%) Flash
2 16 (2.50%) LDAP
3 12 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.72%) SAML
5 7 (1.09%) Middleware
5 7 (1.09%) REST
6 6 (0.94%) Kafka
7 5 (0.78%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.62%) OpenID
9 3 (0.47%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.47%) Loki
9 3 (0.47%) Spring
10 2 (0.31%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
11 1 (0.16%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.16%) Jinja
11 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.86%) Data Centre
2 65 (10.14%) Replication
3 42 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (6.40%) PKI
5 40 (6.24%) Cloud Native
6 34 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
7 27 (4.21%) Clustering
7 27 (4.21%) Management Information System
8 26 (4.06%) Private Cloud
9 25 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
10 20 (3.12%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.34%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.56%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.25%) SCADA
15 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 275 (42.90%) Windows
2 221 (34.48%) Linux
3 177 (27.61%) Windows Server
4 44 (6.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.43%) VMS
8 20 (3.12%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.65%) Ubuntu
9 17 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
11 10 (1.56%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.56%) Unix
12 9 (1.40%) Solaris
13 8 (1.25%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.94%) CentOS
15 5 (0.78%) AIX
15 5 (0.78%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.62%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (25.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (19.66%) Migration
3 108 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (13.88%) High Availability
5 83 (12.95%) Agile
6 79 (12.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 77 (12.01%) Load Balancing
8 74 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 73 (11.39%) DevOps
10 67 (10.45%) ITIL
11 66 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 56 (8.74%) Containerisation
13 51 (7.96%) Platform Engineering
14 49 (7.64%) Capacity Planning
15 47 (7.33%) Data Protection
15 47 (7.33%) Network Virtualisation
16 41 (6.40%) Change Management
17 40 (6.24%) Roadmaps
18 39 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
19 38 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (22.46%) PowerShell
2 99 (15.44%) Python
3 68 (10.61%) Bash
4 18 (2.81%) SQL
5 11 (1.72%) C
6 10 (1.56%) Perl
7 8 (1.25%) C++
8 7 (1.09%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.09%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.78%) Bicep
9 5 (0.78%) Java
10 4 (0.62%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) C#
11 3 (0.47%) COBOL
11 3 (0.47%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) VBScript
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 259 (40.41%) Security Cleared
2 166 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 95 (14.82%) DV Cleared
4 45 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 42 (6.55%) Degree
6 26 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.43%) VCAP
9 21 (3.28%) Azure Certification
10 19 (2.96%) CCNP
11 18 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (2.03%) MCSE
13 12 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
14 11 (1.72%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.72%) MCSA
15 10 (1.56%) CCNA
16 9 (1.40%) OCP
17 6 (0.94%) CCIE
17 6 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.81%) NIST
3 14 (2.18%) SLA
4 13 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.87%) GDPR
6 6 (0.94%) NCSC
7 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.62%) QA
8 2 (0.31%) ISA99
8 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.16%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 176 (27.46%) Active Directory
2 156 (24.34%) vSphere
3 130 (20.28%) VMware NSX
4 125 (19.50%) VMware ESXi
5 111 (17.32%) Hyper-V
6 65 (10.14%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (8.42%) Docker
8 40 (6.24%) NFS
9 31 (4.84%) Firmware
10 26 (4.06%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (3.12%) KVM
12 17 (2.65%) GPFS
13 9 (1.40%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.62%) vCloud
15 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.47%) SRDF
15 3 (0.47%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 120 (18.72%) Ansible
2 95 (14.82%) vCenter Server
3 85 (13.26%) Terraform
4 72 (11.23%) Kubernetes
5 54 (8.42%) SCCM
6 50 (7.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (7.64%) vRealize
8 26 (4.06%) Argo
9 25 (3.90%) VxRail
10 24 (3.74%) Grafana
11 19 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (2.81%) PowerCLI
12 18 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (2.81%) vMotion
13 15 (2.34%) SCOM
14 12 (1.87%) Progress Chef
15 11 (1.72%) EMC VPLEX
15 11 (1.72%) Prometheus
15 11 (1.72%) SnapMirror
15 11 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 641 (100.00%) VMware
2 164 (25.59%) Microsoft
3 139 (21.68%) Cisco
4 63 (9.83%) Citrix
5 62 (9.67%) F5
6 59 (9.20%) Red Hat
7 58 (9.05%) NetApp
8 46 (7.18%) IBM
9 38 (5.93%) Dell
10 36 (5.62%) Palo Alto
10 36 (5.62%) Pure Storage
10 36 (5.62%) ServiceNow
11 33 (5.15%) Oracle
12 31 (4.84%) SolarWinds
13 26 (4.06%) Veeam
14 25 (3.90%) Commvault
15 23 (3.59%) McAfee
16 20 (3.12%) Blue Coat
17 19 (2.96%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.96%) HP