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

 6 months to
5 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 173 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 -69 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 789 448 731
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.64% 2.25%
As % of the System Software category 17.07% 13.68% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 298 455
10th Percentile £317 £313 £316
25th Percentile £425 £429 £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 £662
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 3 7
10th Percentile £26.20 £28.40 £23.24
25th Percentile £42.92 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -61.37%
75th Percentile £89.81 £48.63 £43.37
90th Percentile £98.19 £59.80 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £65.24 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +117.47% +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 4,623 3,274 3,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 11.95% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,033 2,099 2,585
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £682 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 94 112
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.05 £14.07
25th Percentile £33.70 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £63.48 £38.75 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +63.82% +60.19% -47.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.05 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £60.92 £33.39 £24.19
% change year-on-year +82.46% +38.01% -51.62%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -9 213 £538 -6.52% 106
London -5 192 £525 +5.00% 153
North of England +7 171 £466 +9.53% 68
Midlands -13 95 £450 -20.00% 46
North West -1 88 £466 +7.94% 25
South West -15 83 £625 +9.89% 56
West Midlands -16 71 £450 -21.40% 27
Yorkshire -18 71 £523 +26.67% 25
East of England -16 44 £500 -9.09% 47
East Midlands -5 24 £438 -16.03% 19
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 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.77%) IIS
4 11 (1.39%) Confluence
5 9 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.89%) JBoss
6 7 (0.89%) nginx
6 7 (0.89%) 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 (28.01%) Azure
2 132 (16.73%) AWS
3 78 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (7.35%) Entra ID
5 40 (5.07%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.18%) GCP
7 31 (3.93%) GitHub
8 26 (3.30%) IaaS
9 18 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (2.03%) 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
1 259 (32.83%) DNS
2 174 (22.05%) Firewall
3 163 (20.66%) DHCP
4 92 (11.66%) TCP/IP
5 87 (11.03%) VSAN
6 72 (9.13%) VPN
7 67 (8.49%) SAN
8 63 (7.98%) VLAN
9 56 (7.10%) WAN
10 54 (6.84%) Network Security
11 44 (5.58%) LAN
12 40 (5.07%) NAS
13 39 (4.94%) SSL
14 35 (4.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (3.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 29 (3.68%) HTTP
17 28 (3.55%) BGP
17 28 (3.55%) BIG-IP
18 23 (2.92%) Wireshark
19 19 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.65%) Power BI
4 10 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.27%) 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 (4.06%) JIRA
2 25 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.66%) 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 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (9.38%) Finance
4 36 (4.56%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.42%) Banking
5 27 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.92%) 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 (0.89%) Law
13 6 (0.76%) Military
14 5 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.63%) Police
15 4 (0.51%) Back Office
15 4 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 194 (24.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (14.07%) Senior
3 87 (11.03%) VMware Engineer
4 66 (8.37%) Network Engineer
5 61 (7.73%) Architect
6 49 (6.21%) Support Engineer
7 45 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.07%) Lead
9 37 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 34 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (3.93%) Administrator
12 31 (3.93%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 31 (3.93%) Storage Engineer
13 27 (3.42%) Consultant
14 26 (3.30%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 24 (3.04%) IT Engineer
16 23 (2.92%) Server Engineer
17 22 (2.79%) Senior Network Engineer
17 22 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (15.34%) Terraform
2 21 (2.66%) REST
3 16 (2.03%) JSON
4 11 (1.39%) Kafka
4 11 (1.39%) LDAP
5 10 (1.27%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.14%) YAML
7 6 (0.76%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.76%) Middleware
8 5 (0.63%) .NET
8 5 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.63%) Regular Expression
9 4 (0.51%) Flash
9 4 (0.51%) Redfish
10 3 (0.38%) Java SE
10 3 (0.38%) SAML
10 3 (0.38%) XML
11 2 (0.25%) OAuth
11 2 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.10%) Data Centre
2 69 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (8.11%) PKI
4 46 (5.83%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (5.58%) Clustering
6 38 (4.82%) Replication
7 32 (4.06%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.68%) Private Cloud
8 29 (3.68%) Public Cloud
9 26 (3.30%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.66%) 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 (1.27%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.14%) Virtual Team
17 8 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 430 (54.50%) Windows
2 286 (36.25%) Windows Server
3 214 (27.12%) Linux
4 44 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (5.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (3.04%) VMS
5 24 (3.04%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.41%) Unix
7 18 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.03%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
12 9 (1.14%) Solaris
13 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.76%) CentOS
14 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.51%) SUSE
15 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (33.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 154 (19.52%) ITIL
3 152 (19.26%) Migration
4 149 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 115 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 102 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
8 101 (12.80%) CI/CD
9 99 (12.55%) High Availability
10 87 (11.03%) Change Management
11 83 (10.52%) ITSM
12 75 (9.51%) Network Virtualisation
13 74 (9.38%) Agile
14 73 (9.25%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (9.25%) Service Management
15 72 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 71 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
17 70 (8.87%) DevOps
18 67 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 65 (8.24%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 198 (25.10%) PowerShell
2 113 (14.32%) Python
3 78 (9.89%) Bash
4 53 (6.72%) SQL
5 18 (2.28%) Java
6 8 (1.01%) Bicep
7 7 (0.89%) 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
1 389 (49.30%) Security Cleared
2 225 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 190 (24.08%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.59%) Degree
6 44 (5.58%) VCAP
7 37 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.68%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.66%) MCSE
11 18 (2.28%) CCNP
12 16 (2.03%) CCNA
12 16 (2.03%) MCSA
13 15 (1.90%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.01%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (0.89%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.17%) 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 (1.65%) 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
1 266 (33.71%) Active Directory
2 199 (25.22%) VMware ESXi
3 192 (24.33%) vSphere
4 170 (21.55%) Hyper-V
5 147 (18.63%) VMware NSX
6 89 (11.28%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (6.97%) Docker
8 39 (4.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.93%) Firmware
10 17 (2.15%) NFS
11 16 (2.03%) 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 (0.89%) vCloud
15 7 (0.89%) XenApp
15 7 (0.89%) XenDesktop
16 6 (0.76%) oVirt
16 6 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 152 (19.26%) Ansible
2 151 (19.14%) vCenter Server
3 119 (15.08%) Kubernetes
4 52 (6.59%) SCCM
5 51 (6.46%) SCOM
6 41 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (4.31%) VxRail
8 26 (3.30%) vRealize
9 24 (3.04%) Grafana
10 20 (2.53%) Prometheus
11 19 (2.41%) PowerCLI
12 18 (2.28%) Puppet
13 17 (2.15%) NetBackup
13 17 (2.15%) WSUS
14 16 (2.03%) vMotion
15 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (1.65%) Argo
16 13 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
17 12 (1.52%) Avamar
18 11 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 789 (100.00%) VMware
2 231 (29.28%) Microsoft
3 141 (17.87%) Cisco
4 59 (7.48%) Citrix
5 55 (6.97%) NetApp
6 51 (6.46%) Red Hat
7 47 (5.96%) Dell
8 45 (5.70%) F5
9 40 (5.07%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.44%) Palo Alto
10 35 (4.44%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.18%) Oracle
12 30 (3.80%) Veeam
13 29 (3.68%) Juniper
14 23 (2.92%) Fortinet
15 20 (2.53%) Broadcom
16 18 (2.28%) CheckPoint
16 18 (2.28%) IBM
17 17 (2.15%) Remedy
18 16 (2.03%) McAfee
457 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England