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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 116 88
Rank change year-on-year -49 -28 +31
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 533 624 928
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 2.18% 2.52%
As % of the System Software category 13.61% 18.18% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 383 599
10th Percentile £300 £275 £300
25th Percentile £407 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -2.38%
75th Percentile £582 £612 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £511 £513
% change year-on-year -1.21% -0.26% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 54
10th Percentile £25.10 £54.50 £25.90
25th Percentile £50.08 £61.25 £46.05
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +34.13% +1.51%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.28 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +21.74% -12.85% +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 3,916 3,433 4,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.47% 11.98% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 2,220 3,270
10th Percentile £213 £206 £195
25th Percentile £400 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 77 205
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.05 £18.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% -28.08% +61.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £90.00 £76.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £27.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +72.73% -40.06% +83.52%

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 22 December 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 22 December 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 22 December 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 -22 138 £500 -8.47% 86
London -97 113 £545 +8.97% 59
Midlands +19 110 £436 -5.73% 31
North of England -15 98 £437 +2.76% 56
West Midlands +24 90 £400 -27.27% 20
North West -9 67 £458 +7.76% 24
South West -29 59 £550 +3.77% 39
Yorkshire -16 43 £413 -8.84% 23
East of England -3 29 £500 +42.86% 19
East Midlands -11 20 £450 +20.00% 11
North East -6 3 £513 - 11
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 34 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.38%) Confluence
4 11 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.31%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.94%) IIS
6 5 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.38%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Traefik
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.63%) 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
1 161 (30.21%) Azure
2 128 (24.02%) AWS
3 59 (11.07%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (9.19%) GCP
5 35 (6.57%) Entra ID
6 33 (6.19%) OpenShift
7 23 (4.32%) IaaS
8 21 (3.94%) GitHub
9 19 (3.56%) Nutanix
10 18 (3.38%) SaaS
11 14 (2.63%) Datadog
12 13 (2.44%) PaaS
13 11 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
17 4 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
17 4 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 164 (30.77%) DNS
2 133 (24.95%) Firewall
3 76 (14.26%) DHCP
4 62 (11.63%) TCP/IP
5 46 (8.63%) VPN
6 45 (8.44%) VLAN
7 40 (7.50%) SAN
8 37 (6.94%) Network Security
9 36 (6.75%) VSAN
10 34 (6.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 32 (6.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 29 (5.44%) WAN
13 27 (5.07%) LAN
14 26 (4.88%) DMZ
15 23 (4.32%) NAS
16 19 (3.56%) BGP
16 19 (3.56%) Wireless
17 15 (2.81%) BIG-IP
17 15 (2.81%) iSCSI
17 15 (2.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.38%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.25%) Jenkins
2 22 (4.13%) Git
3 16 (3.00%) GitLab
3 16 (3.00%) JIRA
4 10 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (1.69%) Fiddler
6 7 (1.31%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.31%) JMeter
6 7 (1.31%) JUnit
7 6 (1.13%) PVCS
7 6 (1.13%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.94%) Subversion
9 4 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.56%) RStudio
11 2 (0.38%) Postman
12 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 150 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 68 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.63%) Banking
5 45 (8.44%) Finance
6 29 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.25%) Legal
10 9 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.31%) Law
12 6 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.13%) Electronics
13 5 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.75%) Military
14 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.56%) Social Science
16 2 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 90 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (15.95%) Architect
3 42 (7.88%) Analyst
4 32 (6.00%) Consultant
5 31 (5.82%) Senior
6 30 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 28 (5.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 28 (5.25%) Network Engineer
8 26 (4.88%) Infrastructure Architect
8 26 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (4.69%) VMware Engineer
10 18 (3.38%) VMware Consultant
11 16 (3.00%) Administrator
11 16 (3.00%) Infrastructure Support
11 16 (3.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 16 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (2.81%) IT Engineer
12 15 (2.81%) Operations Engineer
12 15 (2.81%) Wintel Engineer
13 14 (2.63%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.25%) Flash
2 8 (1.50%) Kafka
2 8 (1.50%) Middleware
3 7 (1.31%) Loki
3 7 (1.31%) REST
3 7 (1.31%) Spring
4 6 (1.13%) Hibernate
4 6 (1.13%) LDAP
4 6 (1.13%) SAML
5 4 (0.75%) RESTful
6 3 (0.56%) .NET
6 3 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.56%) OAuth
6 3 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.56%) OpenID
6 3 (0.56%) Swagger
7 2 (0.38%) EDI
7 2 (0.38%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.19%) XML
8 1 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.38%) Data Centre
2 51 (9.57%) Replication
3 36 (6.75%) Management Information System
4 35 (6.57%) PKI
5 28 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (5.07%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (4.88%) Cloud Native
8 23 (4.32%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.81%) Clustering
10 11 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.69%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.50%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.31%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.13%) NHS
15 6 (1.13%) SCADA
16 4 (0.75%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 231 (43.34%) Windows
2 189 (35.46%) Linux
3 133 (24.95%) Windows Server
4 46 (8.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (7.50%) Windows 10
6 20 (3.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (3.00%) Mac OS
9 15 (2.81%) VMS
10 11 (2.06%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.88%) Solaris
12 9 (1.69%) CentOS
13 7 (1.31%) Unix
14 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.56%) AIX
15 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.38%) CatOS
16 2 (0.38%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 99 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (14.45%) Agile
4 71 (13.32%) ITIL
5 69 (12.95%) CI/CD
6 66 (12.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 66 (12.38%) Migration
7 61 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 60 (11.26%) DevOps
9 54 (10.13%) Load Balancing
10 50 (9.38%) Containerisation
11 47 (8.82%) Business Strategy
12 44 (8.26%) Data Protection
12 44 (8.26%) High Availability
13 38 (7.13%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (6.75%) Service Management
15 35 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (6.00%) Zero Trust
18 30 (5.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 135 (25.33%) PowerShell
2 109 (20.45%) Python
3 85 (15.95%) Bash
4 37 (6.94%) SQL
5 16 (3.00%) Java
5 16 (3.00%) Perl
6 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.50%) C
7 8 (1.50%) C++
8 7 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.94%) Embedded C
9 5 (0.94%) Embedded C++
10 4 (0.75%) Go
11 3 (0.56%) Bicep
11 3 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.19%) Korn
12 1 (0.19%) Rust
12 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 203 (38.09%) Security Cleared
2 139 (26.08%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.44%) DV Cleared
4 48 (9.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (7.69%) Degree
6 39 (7.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 32 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (5.07%) Azure Certification
9 24 (4.50%) CCNP
10 19 (3.56%) MCSE
11 16 (3.00%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.44%) CCNA
13 12 (2.25%) CCIE
13 12 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (2.06%) Master's Degree
14 11 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (2.06%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (1.88%) VCAP
16 9 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (1.69%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.63%) GDPR
2 19 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.50%) SLA
4 7 (1.31%) NIST
4 7 (1.31%) QA
5 6 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.75%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 163 (30.58%) Active Directory
2 109 (20.45%) vSphere
3 80 (15.01%) Hyper-V
4 66 (12.38%) VMware NSX
5 63 (11.82%) VMware ESXi
6 53 (9.94%) Docker
7 42 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (5.07%) NFS
9 21 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (2.25%) GPFS
11 11 (2.06%) Firmware
11 11 (2.06%) KVM
12 9 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.13%) Dovecot
13 6 (1.13%) Postfix
13 6 (1.13%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.94%) UAG
14 5 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 96 (18.01%) Ansible
2 74 (13.88%) Terraform
3 62 (11.63%) vCenter Server
4 57 (10.69%) SCCM
5 55 (10.32%) Kubernetes
6 46 (8.63%) vRealize
7 44 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (3.94%) VxRail
9 17 (3.19%) Grafana
10 16 (3.00%) Argo
11 15 (2.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (2.63%) Prometheus
13 12 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (2.25%) WSUS
14 11 (2.06%) Progress Chef
15 10 (1.88%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.88%) NetBackup
16 9 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (1.69%) Puppet
16 9 (1.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 533 (100.00%) VMware
2 166 (31.14%) Microsoft
3 117 (21.95%) Cisco
4 64 (12.01%) F5
5 60 (11.26%) Citrix
6 57 (10.69%) Red Hat
7 43 (8.07%) NetApp
8 39 (7.32%) SolarWinds
8 39 (7.32%) Veeam
9 34 (6.38%) IBM
9 34 (6.38%) Oracle
10 33 (6.19%) Dell
11 23 (4.32%) Broadcom
12 21 (3.94%) Palo Alto
12 21 (3.94%) ServiceNow
13 20 (3.75%) Google
14 18 (3.38%) Splunk
15 16 (3.00%) HP
16 15 (2.81%) Commvault
17 14 (2.63%) Juniper