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

 6 months to
7 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 116 88
Rank change year-on-year -43 -28 +41
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 522 661 974
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 2.18% 2.53%
As % of the System Software category 13.43% 18.33% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 404 624
10th Percentile £299 £275 £308
25th Percentile £408 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £709
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £513
% change year-on-year - - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 56
10th Percentile £23.00 £28.99 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.43 £39.19 £46.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -12.85% +1.51%
75th Percentile £72.13 £100.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £112.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +84.21% -42.41% +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 3,888 3,606 4,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.56% 11.89% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 2,323 3,396
10th Percentile £206 £210 £195
25th Percentile £400 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £618
90th Percentile £688 £724 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 82 234
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.51 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £30.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year +9.46% -30.35% +73.44%

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 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 7 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 7 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 -28 132 £500 -9.09% 115
London -101 117 £525 +5.00% 57
Midlands +20 108 £449 -18.45% 48
North of England -13 93 £438 -2.78% 76
West Midlands +25 90 £406 -29.35% 33
North West +2 58 £475 +5.56% 37
South West -34 58 £550 +4.76% 49
Yorkshire -8 48 £413 -8.84% 33
East of England -2 26 £500 +42.86% 39
East Midlands -14 18 £458 +22.00% 14
North East -5 2 £550 +83.33% 9
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 34 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.21%) Confluence
2 22 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.34%) IIS
4 7 (1.34%) Skype for Business
5 6 (1.15%) Apache
6 5 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.57%) 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 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 152 (29.12%) Azure
2 122 (23.37%) AWS
3 50 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (8.05%) GCP
5 31 (5.94%) OpenShift
6 29 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 22 (4.21%) GitHub
8 19 (3.64%) IaaS
9 18 (3.45%) SaaS
10 16 (3.07%) Nutanix
11 14 (2.68%) Datadog
12 11 (2.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.92%) PaaS
14 8 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
17 4 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
17 4 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
18 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 158 (30.27%) DNS
2 127 (24.33%) Firewall
3 69 (13.22%) DHCP
4 67 (12.84%) TCP/IP
5 47 (9.00%) VLAN
6 39 (7.47%) VPN
7 38 (7.28%) SAN
8 36 (6.90%) VSAN
9 35 (6.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (6.51%) Network Security
11 31 (5.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 29 (5.56%) WAN
13 27 (5.17%) DMZ
13 27 (5.17%) LAN
14 23 (4.41%) NAS
15 19 (3.64%) Wireless
16 18 (3.45%) iSCSI
17 17 (3.26%) BGP
18 16 (3.07%) SSL
19 14 (2.68%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.38%) MySQL
4 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.38%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 27 (5.17%) Git
3 17 (3.26%) JIRA
4 16 (3.07%) GitLab
5 12 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.53%) Fiddler
6 8 (1.53%) Subversion
7 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.34%) JMeter
7 7 (1.34%) JUnit
8 6 (1.15%) Postman
9 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.77%) PVCS
10 4 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.57%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.57%) RStudio
12 2 (0.38%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.38%) MSI
12 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 146 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 64 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.58%) Finance
5 46 (8.81%) Banking
6 30 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (4.21%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.30%) Legal
11 6 (1.15%) Electronics
11 6 (1.15%) Law
11 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.77%) Military
14 3 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 86 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 79 (15.13%) Architect
3 40 (7.66%) Analyst
4 35 (6.70%) Consultant
4 35 (6.70%) Senior
5 30 (5.75%) Support Engineer
6 28 (5.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 26 (4.98%) Network Engineer
8 24 (4.60%) Infrastructure Architect
9 23 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (3.83%) VMware Engineer
11 18 (3.45%) Administrator
11 18 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
12 17 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.07%) Infrastructure Support
13 16 (3.07%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) IT Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) Operations Engineer
14 15 (2.87%) Windows Engineer
15 14 (2.68%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.30%) Flash
2 10 (1.92%) REST
3 8 (1.53%) Kafka
4 7 (1.34%) Loki
4 7 (1.34%) Middleware
4 7 (1.34%) Spring
5 6 (1.15%) Hibernate
5 6 (1.15%) LDAP
5 6 (1.15%) SAML
6 4 (0.77%) RESTful
7 3 (0.57%) .NET
7 3 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.57%) OAuth
7 3 (0.57%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.57%) OpenID
7 3 (0.57%) Swagger
7 3 (0.57%) YAML
8 2 (0.38%) EDI
8 2 (0.38%) LAMP
8 2 (0.38%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.45%) Data Centre
2 48 (9.20%) Replication
3 39 (7.47%) PKI
4 35 (6.70%) Management Information System
5 29 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
7 22 (4.21%) Cloud Native
8 19 (3.64%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.92%) Clustering
10 10 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.53%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.53%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.53%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.15%) NHS
13 6 (1.15%) SCADA
14 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 225 (43.10%) Windows
2 197 (37.74%) Linux
3 129 (24.71%) Windows Server
4 50 (9.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (6.51%) Windows 10
6 20 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (3.07%) VMS
9 15 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (2.49%) CentOS
10 13 (2.49%) Ubuntu
11 12 (2.30%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.92%) Solaris
13 8 (1.53%) Unix
14 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.57%) AIX
16 2 (0.38%) Debian
16 2 (0.38%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (19.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 96 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (16.28%) Agile
4 71 (13.60%) CI/CD
5 66 (12.64%) Migration
6 63 (12.07%) DevOps
7 62 (11.88%) ITIL
8 61 (11.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 57 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (9.58%) Containerisation
10 50 (9.58%) Load Balancing
11 44 (8.43%) High Availability
12 43 (8.24%) Business Strategy
13 41 (7.85%) Data Protection
14 35 (6.70%) Service Management
15 34 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (6.51%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
18 27 (5.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.95%) PowerShell
2 121 (23.18%) Python
3 83 (15.90%) Bash
4 41 (7.85%) SQL
5 18 (3.45%) Java
5 18 (3.45%) Perl
6 11 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.72%) C++
8 7 (1.34%) Go
8 7 (1.34%) PHP
8 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.15%) C
10 3 (0.57%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.57%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.38%) 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
1 196 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 132 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 64 (12.26%) DV Cleared
4 46 (8.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (8.05%) Degree
6 39 (7.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 35 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (4.98%) CCNP
9 25 (4.79%) Azure Certification
10 19 (3.64%) MCSE
11 16 (3.07%) AWS Certification
11 16 (3.07%) CCNA
12 13 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (2.30%) CCIE
13 12 (2.30%) Master's Degree
14 11 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (2.11%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.53%) JNCIE
16 8 (1.53%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.79%) GDPR
2 14 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.92%) QA
4 7 (1.34%) NIST
5 6 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.15%) SLA
6 5 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.77%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
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
1 155 (29.69%) Active Directory
2 104 (19.92%) vSphere
3 77 (14.75%) Hyper-V
4 69 (13.22%) VMware ESXi
5 64 (12.26%) VMware NSX
6 52 (9.96%) Docker
7 38 (7.28%) Virtual Machines
8 31 (5.94%) NFS
9 17 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (2.30%) GPFS
11 11 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.92%) Firmware
12 10 (1.92%) KVM
13 6 (1.15%) Dovecot
13 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (1.15%) Postfix
13 6 (1.15%) Terminal Services
13 6 (1.15%) UAG
14 5 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.77%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 104 (19.92%) Ansible
2 78 (14.94%) Terraform
3 62 (11.88%) vCenter Server
4 50 (9.58%) Kubernetes
4 50 (9.58%) SCCM
5 45 (8.62%) vRealize
6 35 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (4.02%) VxRail
8 17 (3.26%) Grafana
8 17 (3.26%) Puppet
9 16 (3.07%) Argo
10 14 (2.68%) Prometheus
11 13 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (2.49%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (2.30%) WSUS
13 10 (1.92%) NetBackup
14 9 (1.72%) FortiGate
14 9 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
14 9 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 522 (100.00%) VMware
2 162 (31.03%) Microsoft
3 114 (21.84%) Cisco
4 63 (12.07%) F5
5 55 (10.54%) Red Hat
6 50 (9.58%) Citrix
7 44 (8.43%) NetApp
8 42 (8.05%) Veeam
9 38 (7.28%) SolarWinds
10 35 (6.70%) Dell
11 33 (6.32%) Oracle
12 32 (6.13%) IBM
13 23 (4.41%) Broadcom
14 22 (4.21%) Splunk
15 20 (3.83%) Palo Alto
16 18 (3.45%) ServiceNow
17 16 (3.07%) HP
18 15 (2.87%) Commvault
18 15 (2.87%) Google
19 14 (2.68%) Fortinet
348 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England