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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 108 87
Rank change year-on-year -52 -21 +41
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 537 712 1,022
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 2.29% 2.60%
As % of the System Software category 13.75% 19.19% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 432 656
10th Percentile £300 £310 £307
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £628
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £515
% change year-on-year - +1.94% +0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 57
10th Percentile £22.25 £23.24 £29.80
25th Percentile £28.25 £29.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £68.25 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +36.50% -24.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £75.70 £88.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.80 £112.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £68.25 £37.08 £65.98
% change year-on-year +84.05% -43.80% +1.51%

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 3,905 3,710 5,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.79% 11.94% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,560 2,384 3,535
10th Percentile £213 £214 £198
25th Percentile £400 £383 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +3.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £709 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 82 235
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.51 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.86 £43.08 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% -1.53% +75.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.77 £67.94
90th Percentile £89.93 £75.00 £77.11
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £46.09
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.49% +84.36%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -28 135 £513 -6.82% 127
London -102 121 £525 +5.00% 110
North of England -2 101 £442 -2.27% 38
Midlands -10 96 £458 -21.39% 48
West Midlands +1 79 £500 -16.67% 29
South West -29 71 £550 -3.51% 52
North West +1 58 £475 +11.76% 19
Yorkshire +3 56 £413 -13.61% 14
East of England -1 25 £488 +8.33% 36
East Midlands -18 17 £450 +20.00% 19
North East -10 2 £550 +83.33% 5
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 38 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (5.03%) Confluence
3 23 (4.28%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.86%) Apache
4 10 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.68%) IIS
6 7 (1.30%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.56%) nginx
8 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.37%) CICS
9 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.19%) Traefik
10 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 152 (28.31%) Azure
2 115 (21.42%) AWS
3 48 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.82%) GCP
5 32 (5.96%) OpenShift
6 27 (5.03%) Entra ID
7 24 (4.47%) GitHub
8 21 (3.91%) IaaS
8 21 (3.91%) SaaS
9 16 (2.98%) Nutanix
10 11 (2.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (2.05%) PaaS
11 10 (1.86%) Datadog
12 8 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
16 3 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
16 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 164 (30.54%) DNS
2 135 (25.14%) Firewall
3 77 (14.34%) TCP/IP
4 72 (13.41%) DHCP
5 50 (9.31%) VLAN
6 44 (8.19%) VPN
7 41 (7.64%) SAN
8 34 (6.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 33 (6.15%) Network Security
9 33 (6.15%) VSAN
10 30 (5.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 29 (5.40%) WAN
12 27 (5.03%) DMZ
13 26 (4.84%) BGP
14 25 (4.66%) LAN
15 23 (4.28%) NAS
16 20 (3.72%) iSCSI
16 20 (3.72%) MPLS
17 17 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
18 16 (2.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.37%) MySQL
4 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 34 (6.33%) Git
3 22 (4.10%) JIRA
4 17 (3.17%) GitLab
5 16 (2.98%) Postman
6 14 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.49%) Subversion
8 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.30%) Fiddler
8 7 (1.30%) JMeter
8 7 (1.30%) JUnit
9 5 (0.93%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.74%) MSI
10 4 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.56%) RStudio
12 2 (0.37%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.37%) PVCS
12 2 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 159 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 53 (9.87%) Finance
5 43 (8.01%) Banking
6 30 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.91%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.23%) Legal
10 12 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Law
11 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.74%) Electronics
13 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Military
14 3 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 86 (16.01%) Architect
2 83 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (7.64%) Senior
4 34 (6.33%) Consultant
5 32 (5.96%) Analyst
6 31 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 30 (5.59%) Network Engineer
8 27 (5.03%) Infrastructure Architect
9 23 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (3.72%) Administrator
10 20 (3.72%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 19 (3.54%) Windows Engineer
12 18 (3.35%) VMware Engineer
13 17 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support
13 17 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 17 (3.17%) VMware Architect
13 17 (3.17%) VMware Consultant
14 16 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.79%) Operations Engineer
16 14 (2.61%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.05%) REST
2 10 (1.86%) Flash
3 8 (1.49%) Middleware
4 7 (1.30%) Kafka
4 7 (1.30%) Loki
4 7 (1.30%) NETCONF
4 7 (1.30%) RESTCONF
4 7 (1.30%) Spring
5 6 (1.12%) Hibernate
6 5 (0.93%) YAML
7 4 (0.74%) RESTful
8 3 (0.56%) .NET
8 3 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.56%) OAuth
8 3 (0.56%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.56%) OpenID
8 3 (0.56%) SAML
8 3 (0.56%) Swagger
9 2 (0.37%) EDI
9 2 (0.37%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.29%) Data Centre
2 48 (8.94%) PKI
3 43 (8.01%) Replication
4 35 (6.52%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 22 (4.10%) Private Cloud
7 21 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.86%) Clustering
9 10 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.49%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.12%) NHS
12 6 (1.12%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 238 (44.32%) Windows
2 194 (36.13%) Linux
3 128 (23.84%) Windows Server
4 55 (10.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (6.70%) Windows 10
6 23 (4.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (3.17%) CentOS
9 16 (2.98%) VMS
10 13 (2.42%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.42%) Solaris
10 13 (2.42%) Ubuntu
10 13 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (2.05%) Unix
12 6 (1.12%) AIX
13 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 98 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (16.39%) Agile
4 78 (14.53%) DevOps
5 71 (13.22%) CI/CD
5 71 (13.22%) Migration
6 65 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 60 (11.17%) ITIL
8 59 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 47 (8.75%) Load Balancing
11 44 (8.19%) Business Strategy
12 43 (8.01%) High Availability
12 43 (8.01%) Service Management
13 40 (7.45%) Data Protection
14 39 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (6.52%) Validation
16 31 (5.77%) Configuration Management
16 31 (5.77%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (25.88%) Python
2 128 (23.84%) PowerShell
3 82 (15.27%) Bash
4 41 (7.64%) SQL
5 18 (3.35%) Java
5 18 (3.35%) Perl
6 11 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.68%) PHP
8 7 (1.30%) C++
8 7 (1.30%) Go
8 7 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.74%) C
10 2 (0.37%) C#
11 1 (0.19%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.19%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.19%) Korn
11 1 (0.19%) Rust
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 207 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 141 (26.26%) SC Cleared
3 69 (12.85%) DV Cleared
4 48 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (8.38%) Degree
6 42 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (7.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 33 (6.15%) CCNP
9 26 (4.84%) Azure Certification
10 21 (3.91%) MCSE
11 16 (2.98%) CCNA
12 15 (2.79%) AWS Certification
13 12 (2.23%) CCIE
13 12 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (2.23%) Master's Degree
14 11 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (2.05%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (1.86%) VCAP
16 8 (1.49%) JNCIE
16 8 (1.49%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.66%) GDPR
2 14 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.23%) QA
4 9 (1.68%) SLA
5 7 (1.30%) NIST
6 6 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.74%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 162 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 102 (18.99%) vSphere
3 81 (15.08%) VMware ESXi
4 77 (14.34%) Hyper-V
5 60 (11.17%) VMware NSX
6 48 (8.94%) Docker
7 38 (7.08%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (5.59%) NFS
9 20 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (2.05%) Firmware
10 11 (2.05%) KVM
10 11 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (1.86%) GPFS
12 7 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 6 (1.12%) Dovecot
13 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (1.12%) Postfix
13 6 (1.12%) Terminal Services
13 6 (1.12%) UAG
14 5 (0.93%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 126 (23.46%) Ansible
2 81 (15.08%) Terraform
3 62 (11.55%) vCenter Server
4 54 (10.06%) SCCM
5 49 (9.12%) Kubernetes
6 38 (7.08%) vRealize
7 34 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (5.03%) Puppet
9 17 (3.17%) VxRail
10 16 (2.98%) Grafana
11 15 (2.79%) Argo
12 13 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.42%) Progress Chef
12 13 (2.42%) Prometheus
13 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (2.05%) WSUS
15 10 (1.86%) NetBackup
16 9 (1.68%) FortiGate
16 9 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (1.68%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 537 (100.00%) VMware
2 172 (32.03%) Microsoft
3 113 (21.04%) Cisco
4 59 (10.99%) F5
4 59 (10.99%) Red Hat
5 52 (9.68%) Citrix
6 43 (8.01%) NetApp
7 42 (7.82%) Veeam
8 33 (6.15%) SolarWinds
9 32 (5.96%) Dell
9 32 (5.96%) Oracle
10 25 (4.66%) IBM
11 23 (4.28%) Broadcom
11 23 (4.28%) Splunk
12 19 (3.54%) Palo Alto
13 17 (3.17%) MuleSoft
14 15 (2.79%) Google
14 15 (2.79%) Juniper
14 15 (2.79%) ServiceNow
15 14 (2.61%) Fortinet
391 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England