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

 6 months to
7 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 172 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 -62 -24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 812 452 682
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.62% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 17.40% 13.00% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 304 402
10th Percentile £316 £283 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £509
% change year-on-year -4.09% +7.60% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 3 8
10th Percentile £25.90 £24.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £26.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £89.88 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £96.30 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +126.67% +26.05% -63.93%

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 4,666 3,476 3,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.44% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,043 2,238 2,418
10th Percentile £218 £208 £220
25th Percentile £392 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 108 87
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £28.00 £22.38 £20.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.00% +11.29% -32.87%
75th Percentile £74.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.74 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £33.39 £30.50
% change year-on-year +85.71% +9.46% -36.32%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -5 210 £538 +0.09% 137
London -6 197 £550 +10.00% 201
North of England +8 177 £482 +13.29% 77
Midlands -11 94 £450 -18.18% 63
North West +7 82 £448 +2.40% 42
Yorkshire -3 80 £525 +27.27% 24
South West -33 76 £644 +15.99% 52
West Midlands -19 71 £450 -21.40% 42
East of England +2 61 £600 +9.09% 46
East Midlands -10 23 £438 -9.33% 21
North East -24 16 £400 - 13
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 41 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.97%) Confluence
3 16 (1.97%) IIS
4 14 (1.72%) CMS
5 9 (1.11%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.86%) JBoss
7 5 (0.62%) nginx
7 5 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.49%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.25%) Houdini
3 2 (0.25%) NUKE
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (28.20%) Azure
2 121 (14.90%) AWS
3 83 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 45 (5.54%) OpenShift
6 34 (4.19%) GCP
7 27 (3.33%) GitHub
8 24 (2.96%) IaaS
9 18 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (1.85%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.72%) Rubrik
12 13 (1.60%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.48%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.48%) PaaS
13 12 (1.48%) SaaS
14 8 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (0.99%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 264 (32.51%) DNS
2 168 (20.69%) DHCP
2 168 (20.69%) Firewall
3 101 (12.44%) TCP/IP
4 70 (8.62%) VSAN
5 68 (8.37%) SAN
5 68 (8.37%) VPN
6 63 (7.76%) VLAN
7 56 (6.90%) Network Security
7 56 (6.90%) WAN
8 53 (6.53%) LAN
9 39 (4.80%) NAS
10 38 (4.68%) SSL
11 31 (3.82%) HTTP
12 30 (3.69%) BGP
13 28 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 23 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (2.71%) Wireshark
17 21 (2.59%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.60%) Power BI
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.11%) Big Data
6 8 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
11 1 (0.12%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.12%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.12%) Redis
11 1 (0.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (4.31%) JIRA
2 22 (2.71%) Git
2 22 (2.71%) GitLab
3 20 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.48%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.49%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.49%) PVCS
7 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 188 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.21%) Finance
3 86 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 31 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.45%) Banking
7 24 (2.96%) Legal
8 17 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.99%) Back Office
11 8 (0.99%) Law
11 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.74%) Police
12 6 (0.74%) Retail
13 5 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 198 (24.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 112 (13.79%) Senior
3 77 (9.48%) VMware Engineer
4 67 (8.25%) Architect
5 55 (6.77%) Network Engineer
6 54 (6.65%) Support Engineer
7 50 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (5.67%) Lead
9 43 (5.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 35 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (4.31%) Storage Engineer
11 30 (3.69%) Administrator
12 29 (3.57%) Consultant
13 24 (2.96%) Server Engineer
14 23 (2.83%) IT Engineer
14 23 (2.83%) Wintel Engineer
15 22 (2.71%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 22 (2.71%) Systems Engineer
15 22 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.16%) Terraform
2 25 (3.08%) REST
3 21 (2.59%) JSON
4 17 (2.09%) Kafka
5 13 (1.60%) XMPP
6 12 (1.48%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.48%) YAML
7 11 (1.35%) LDAP
8 8 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.86%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.74%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.62%) .NET
11 5 (0.62%) Middleware
12 4 (0.49%) Flash
12 4 (0.49%) Redfish
13 3 (0.37%) Java SE
13 3 (0.37%) XML
14 2 (0.25%) OAuth
14 2 (0.25%) Qt
14 2 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.00%) PKI
4 47 (5.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (5.05%) Clustering
6 35 (4.31%) Replication
7 33 (4.06%) Private Cloud
8 31 (3.82%) Management Information System
9 28 (3.45%) Onboarding
10 26 (3.20%) Public Cloud
11 24 (2.96%) Cloud Native
12 20 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
13 19 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.85%) Operational Technology
16 13 (1.60%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.60%) SCADA
17 12 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 444 (54.68%) Windows
2 300 (36.95%) Windows Server
3 201 (24.75%) Linux
4 46 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.20%) Windows 10
7 21 (2.59%) Unix
8 20 (2.46%) VMS
9 18 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (1.48%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
13 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.99%) Solaris
14 7 (0.86%) CentOS
15 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.62%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.49%) AIX
18 3 (0.37%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (33.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (20.57%) ITIL
3 157 (19.33%) Migration
4 156 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 123 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
7 116 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 102 (12.56%) CI/CD
9 101 (12.44%) Change Management
10 86 (10.59%) ITSM
11 85 (10.47%) High Availability
11 85 (10.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 83 (10.22%) Agile
13 82 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (9.98%) Platform Engineering
15 80 (9.85%) Project Delivery
16 77 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
16 77 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (9.11%) Service Management
18 68 (8.37%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 193 (23.77%) PowerShell
2 110 (13.55%) Python
3 67 (8.25%) Bash
4 48 (5.91%) SQL
5 18 (2.22%) Java
6 9 (1.11%) Bicep
6 9 (1.11%) C
7 4 (0.49%) C++
7 4 (0.49%) Go
7 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.37%) Korn
8 3 (0.37%) Lua
8 3 (0.37%) VB
9 2 (0.25%) VBScript
10 1 (0.12%) C#
10 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 409 (50.37%) Security Cleared
2 239 (29.43%) SC Cleared
3 190 (23.40%) DV Cleared
4 60 (7.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (7.02%) Degree
6 47 (5.79%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (5.05%) VCAP
8 34 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.33%) CCNP
10 25 (3.08%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.46%) CCNA
11 20 (2.46%) MCSE
12 17 (2.09%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.97%) MCSA
14 11 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.99%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.99%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.34%) QA
1 19 (2.34%) SLA
2 17 (2.09%) NIST
3 13 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.35%) NCSC
5 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.49%) GxP
6 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.37%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.25%) GDPR
8 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) DICOM
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 293 (36.08%) Active Directory
2 200 (24.63%) vSphere
3 193 (23.77%) VMware ESXi
4 180 (22.17%) Hyper-V
5 119 (14.66%) VMware NSX
6 83 (10.22%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (6.40%) Docker
8 44 (5.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (3.94%) Firmware
10 21 (2.59%) NFS
11 20 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
12 13 (1.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 13 (1.60%) KVM
13 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 10 (1.23%) XenApp
14 9 (1.11%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.86%) oVirt
15 7 (0.86%) vCloud
16 6 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 134 (16.50%) vCenter Server
2 133 (16.38%) Kubernetes
3 131 (16.13%) Ansible
4 56 (6.90%) SCCM
5 55 (6.77%) SCOM
6 46 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (4.43%) VxRail
8 21 (2.59%) vRealize
9 19 (2.34%) Prometheus
10 18 (2.22%) Grafana
11 17 (2.09%) Cisco CUCM
12 16 (1.97%) Puppet
13 13 (1.60%) Avamar
13 13 (1.60%) NetBackup
13 13 (1.60%) PowerCLI
14 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (1.48%) Nagios
14 12 (1.48%) WSUS
15 11 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
15 11 (1.35%) vMotion
Vendors
1 812 (100.00%) VMware
2 255 (31.40%) Microsoft
3 149 (18.35%) Cisco
4 64 (7.88%) Citrix
5 57 (7.02%) NetApp
6 55 (6.77%) Red Hat
7 53 (6.53%) Dell
8 44 (5.42%) SolarWinds
9 41 (5.05%) ServiceNow
10 37 (4.56%) F5
11 35 (4.31%) Veeam
12 30 (3.69%) Oracle
13 27 (3.33%) Juniper
13 27 (3.33%) Palo Alto
14 24 (2.96%) Fortinet
15 21 (2.59%) Remedy
16 20 (2.46%) Broadcom
17 19 (2.34%) McAfee
18 18 (2.22%) Commvault
19 17 (2.09%) Meraki
592 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England