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

 6 months to
21 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 167 103
Rank change year-on-year +5 -64 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 774 453 767
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.64% 2.30%
As % of the System Software category 16.83% 13.69% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 296 492
10th Percentile £318 £330 £325
25th Percentile £425 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -5.55% +5.01% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 3 9
10th Percentile £25.92 £28.40 £23.52
25th Percentile £33.70 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.31 £30.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +111.03% -17.05% -39.09%
75th Percentile £75.88 £48.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £98.82 £59.80 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +110.45% -17.05% -42.60%

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 4,600 3,308 3,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 12.00% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,036 2,135 2,656
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £393 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £682 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 95 130
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.03 £14.06
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.75 £15.82
Median hourly rate £60.33 £37.50 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% +56.32% -39.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £80.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.80 £91.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £24.18
% change year-on-year +75.24% +29.80% -49.75%

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 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -7 215 £538 -6.52% 76
London -6 189 £525 - 40
North of England -3 163 £480 +12.94% 35
Midlands -12 93 £450 -18.18% 23
North West +11 85 £480 +12.94% 20
South West -31 82 £600 +4.35% 25
West Midlands -21 71 £450 -21.36% 15
Yorkshire -22 69 £500 +16.35% 6
East of England -10 40 £500 -9.09% 23
East Midlands -8 22 £425 -18.43% 8
North East -29 9 £350 -44.00% 12
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 43 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.42%) Confluence
4 10 (1.29%) IIS
5 9 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.90%) JBoss
6 7 (0.90%) nginx
6 7 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.52%) Apache
7 4 (0.52%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.52%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.26%) Houdini
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.26%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 13 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 216 (27.91%) Azure
2 140 (18.09%) AWS
3 72 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.46%) Entra ID
5 39 (5.04%) OpenShift
6 37 (4.78%) GCP
7 29 (3.75%) GitHub
7 29 (3.75%) IaaS
8 18 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (2.07%) PaaS
10 15 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (1.94%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.81%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.81%) SaaS
12 13 (1.68%) Nutanix
12 13 (1.68%) Rubrik
13 9 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.16%) Azure Stack
13 9 (1.16%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 252 (32.56%) DNS
2 177 (22.87%) Firewall
3 159 (20.54%) DHCP
4 91 (11.76%) VSAN
5 88 (11.37%) TCP/IP
6 74 (9.56%) VPN
7 67 (8.66%) SAN
8 62 (8.01%) VLAN
9 59 (7.62%) WAN
10 55 (7.11%) Network Security
11 44 (5.68%) LAN
12 41 (5.30%) SSL
13 38 (4.91%) NAS
14 35 (4.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (3.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 29 (3.75%) BIG-IP
17 27 (3.49%) BGP
18 25 (3.23%) HTTP
19 24 (3.10%) Wireshark
20 20 (2.58%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.81%) Power BI
2 14 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.16%) Big Data
5 9 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
11 1 (0.13%) DataStage
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 32 (4.13%) JIRA
2 27 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.45%) Git
3 19 (2.45%) GitLab
4 15 (1.94%) Fiddler
5 5 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.52%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.26%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.26%) MSI
8 2 (0.26%) PVCS
8 2 (0.26%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 177 (22.87%) Social Skills
2 80 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (9.56%) Finance
4 41 (5.30%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.78%) Banking
6 25 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (3.23%) Legal
7 16 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.03%) Retail
12 7 (0.90%) Military
13 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.78%) Law
14 5 (0.65%) Police
15 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.52%) Games
15 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (24.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (13.44%) Senior
3 81 (10.47%) VMware Engineer
4 69 (8.91%) Network Engineer
5 61 (7.88%) Architect
6 48 (6.20%) Support Engineer
7 40 (5.17%) Lead
8 39 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 33 (4.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
12 30 (3.88%) Administrator
12 30 (3.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 29 (3.75%) Consultant
14 28 (3.62%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 26 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.10%) Senior Network Engineer
16 24 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 23 (2.97%) IT Engineer
18 21 (2.71%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.25%) Terraform
2 18 (2.33%) REST
3 11 (1.42%) JSON
4 10 (1.29%) 802.1X
4 10 (1.29%) Flash
5 9 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (1.03%) YAML
7 7 (0.90%) Kafka
8 6 (0.78%) LDAP
8 6 (0.78%) Middleware
9 5 (0.65%) .NET
9 5 (0.65%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.52%) Redfish
11 3 (0.39%) Java SE
11 3 (0.39%) SAML
11 3 (0.39%) XML
12 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.26%) OpenGL
12 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.50%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (8.27%) PKI
4 50 (6.46%) Clustering
4 50 (6.46%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (5.30%) Replication
6 30 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 29 (3.75%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.10%) Private Cloud
9 20 (2.58%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.45%) Cloud Native
10 19 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.42%) SCADA
13 10 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.29%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.16%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.03%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 412 (53.23%) Windows
2 269 (34.75%) Windows Server
3 224 (28.94%) Linux
4 48 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (5.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (3.49%) VMS
7 23 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.84%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.45%) Unix
10 17 (2.20%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.94%) Data ONTAP
12 13 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.03%) CentOS
13 8 (1.03%) Solaris
14 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.78%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.65%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.52%) SUSE
17 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (32.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 147 (18.99%) Migration
3 146 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (17.70%) ITIL
5 125 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (14.34%) Disaster Recovery
7 107 (13.82%) High Availability
8 99 (12.79%) CI/CD
9 93 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
10 79 (10.21%) Agile
11 78 (10.08%) Change Management
11 78 (10.08%) ITSM
12 76 (9.82%) Network Virtualisation
13 75 (9.69%) DevOps
14 67 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (8.53%) Service Management
16 64 (8.27%) Load Balancing
17 63 (8.14%) Capacity Planning
17 63 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 61 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 192 (24.81%) PowerShell
2 113 (14.60%) Python
3 77 (9.95%) Bash
4 49 (6.33%) SQL
5 17 (2.20%) Java
6 7 (0.90%) Bicep
6 7 (0.90%) C
7 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.52%) Go
9 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.39%) Lua
10 3 (0.39%) VB
10 3 (0.39%) VBScript
11 2 (0.26%) C++
11 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.26%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) C#
12 1 (0.13%) COBOL
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 378 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 221 (28.55%) SC Cleared
3 183 (23.64%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 53 (6.85%) Degree
6 44 (5.68%) VCAP
7 38 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.62%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.58%) MCSE
11 18 (2.33%) CCNP
12 17 (2.20%) CCNA
13 16 (2.07%) MCSA
14 15 (1.94%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.90%) A+ Certification
16 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 7 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.23%) SLA
2 18 (2.33%) NIST
3 17 (2.20%) QA
4 15 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.68%) NCSC
6 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.52%) GxP
8 3 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 2 (0.26%) ISA99
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 249 (32.17%) Active Directory
2 194 (25.06%) VMware ESXi
3 190 (24.55%) vSphere
4 157 (20.28%) Hyper-V
5 155 (20.03%) VMware NSX
6 85 (10.98%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (7.11%) Docker
8 37 (4.78%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.13%) Firmware
10 19 (2.45%) NFS
11 17 (2.20%) KVM
12 11 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.16%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.90%) GPFS
15 7 (0.90%) vCloud
16 6 (0.78%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 6 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.78%) XenDesktop
17 5 (0.65%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 160 (20.67%) Ansible
2 151 (19.51%) vCenter Server
3 109 (14.08%) Kubernetes
4 49 (6.33%) SCCM
5 46 (5.94%) SCOM
6 38 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.52%) VxRail
8 31 (4.01%) vRealize
9 23 (2.97%) Grafana
10 22 (2.84%) Puppet
11 19 (2.45%) PowerCLI
11 19 (2.45%) Prometheus
12 18 (2.33%) NetBackup
12 18 (2.33%) WSUS
13 16 (2.07%) vMotion
14 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.81%) Argo
16 13 (1.68%) Avamar
16 13 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
17 10 (1.29%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 774 (100.00%) VMware
2 225 (29.07%) Microsoft
3 146 (18.86%) Cisco
4 60 (7.75%) NetApp
5 58 (7.49%) Citrix
6 50 (6.46%) Red Hat
7 45 (5.81%) Dell
7 45 (5.81%) F5
8 42 (5.43%) ServiceNow
9 35 (4.52%) Oracle
9 35 (4.52%) Palo Alto
10 33 (4.26%) SolarWinds
11 30 (3.88%) Juniper
12 29 (3.75%) Veeam
13 22 (2.84%) Broadcom
13 22 (2.84%) Fortinet
14 21 (2.71%) IBM
15 18 (2.33%) CheckPoint
15 18 (2.33%) McAfee
16 16 (2.07%) Remedy
198 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England