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

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 173 103
Rank change year-on-year +5 -70 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 738 450 767
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.63% 2.30%
As % of the System Software category 16.09% 13.67% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 292 494
10th Percentile £325 £350 £321
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £673 £650 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £524
% change year-on-year -6.36% +5.01% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 2 9
10th Percentile £25.90 £28.20 £23.52
25th Percentile £33.70 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -19.81% -38.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +117.71% -19.81% -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 4,588 3,293 3,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.06% 11.92% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,142 2,691
10th Percentile £218 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £380 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £687 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 89 132
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £28.25 £23.00 £15.94
Median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.41% +65.43% -35.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £33.64 £24.18
% change year-on-year +56.83% +39.10% -50.04%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +1 220 £538 -6.52% 83
London -24 181 £525 - 93
North of England -8 141 £485 +14.12% 54
Midlands -23 89 £450 -18.18% 22
South West -29 74 £575 - 35
North West +6 72 £483 +13.65% 37
West Midlands -27 68 £450 -20.84% 13
Yorkshire -26 64 £500 +11.48% 8
East of England -17 38 £500 -9.09% 25
East Midlands -3 21 £450 -18.18% 9
North East -39 5 £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 41 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.49%) Confluence
4 10 (1.36%) IIS
5 8 (1.08%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.81%) JBoss
7 4 (0.54%) Apache
7 4 (0.54%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.54%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.41%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.27%) Houdini
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.27%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 12 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 210 (28.46%) Azure
2 136 (18.43%) AWS
3 60 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.37%) Entra ID
5 41 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 35 (4.74%) GCP
7 29 (3.93%) GitHub
8 27 (3.66%) IaaS
9 17 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.03%) PaaS
12 14 (1.90%) Power Platform
13 13 (1.76%) Rubrik
14 12 (1.63%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.63%) SaaS
15 11 (1.49%) Nutanix
16 9 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.22%) Azure Stack
17 8 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 240 (32.52%) DNS
2 167 (22.63%) Firewall
3 151 (20.46%) DHCP
4 89 (12.06%) TCP/IP
5 88 (11.92%) VSAN
6 72 (9.76%) VPN
7 67 (9.08%) SAN
8 60 (8.13%) WAN
9 59 (7.99%) VLAN
10 52 (7.05%) Network Security
11 45 (6.10%) LAN
12 44 (5.96%) SSL
13 38 (5.15%) NAS
14 31 (4.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 28 (3.79%) BGP
16 27 (3.66%) HTTP
17 26 (3.52%) BIG-IP
17 26 (3.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 25 (3.39%) Wireshark
19 20 (2.71%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.76%) Power BI
2 13 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.08%) Big Data
6 5 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.68%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.27%) Redis
10 1 (0.14%) DataStage
10 1 (0.14%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.14%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 32 (4.34%) JIRA
2 29 (3.93%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.44%) GitLab
4 17 (2.30%) Git
5 16 (2.17%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.41%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
8 2 (0.27%) PVCS
8 2 (0.27%) Subversion
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 166 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 75 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (8.40%) Finance
4 46 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.74%) Banking
6 24 (3.25%) Legal
7 21 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.36%) Military
12 8 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.08%) Retail
13 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Law
14 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.68%) Police
15 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.54%) Games
16 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 98 (13.28%) Senior
3 73 (9.89%) VMware Engineer
4 70 (9.49%) Network Engineer
5 61 (8.27%) Architect
6 47 (6.37%) Support Engineer
7 39 (5.28%) Lead
8 35 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (4.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 31 (4.20%) Consultant
10 31 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (4.20%) Storage Engineer
11 29 (3.93%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 26 (3.52%) Administrator
13 24 (3.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 23 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.98%) IT Engineer
15 22 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.85%) Senior Network Engineer
16 21 (2.85%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.76%) REST
2 11 (1.49%) Flash
3 9 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 9 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.08%) JSON
5 7 (0.95%) Middleware
5 7 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (0.81%) LDAP
6 6 (0.81%) YAML
7 5 (0.68%) .NET
7 5 (0.68%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.54%) Redfish
9 3 (0.41%) Kafka
9 3 (0.41%) SAML
10 2 (0.27%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.27%) Java SE
10 2 (0.27%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.27%) Qt
10 2 (0.27%) Unreal Engine
10 2 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.18%) Data Centre
2 68 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (8.67%) PKI
4 47 (6.37%) Clustering
5 45 (6.10%) Enterprise Storage
6 42 (5.69%) Replication
7 29 (3.93%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.79%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.85%) Cloud Native
10 19 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (2.57%) Private Cloud
11 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.90%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.49%) SCADA
14 10 (1.36%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.08%) EMC VMAX
16 7 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 388 (52.57%) Windows
2 251 (34.01%) Windows Server
3 214 (29.00%) Linux
4 48 (6.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 46 (6.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (3.52%) VMS
7 25 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.44%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.30%) Unix
10 15 (2.03%) Data ONTAP
10 15 (2.03%) Ubuntu
10 15 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (1.22%) Solaris
13 7 (0.95%) CentOS
14 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.81%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.68%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.54%) SUSE
16 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (32.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 148 (20.05%) Migration
3 138 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (15.31%) ITIL
5 112 (15.18%) High Availability
5 112 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 100 (13.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 95 (12.87%) CI/CD
8 84 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
9 77 (10.43%) Network Virtualisation
10 74 (10.03%) Agile
11 72 (9.76%) Change Management
11 72 (9.76%) DevOps
12 69 (9.35%) ITSM
13 60 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 59 (7.99%) Load Balancing
14 59 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 56 (7.59%) Capacity Planning
15 56 (7.59%) Service Management
15 56 (7.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 182 (24.66%) PowerShell
2 107 (14.50%) Python
3 75 (10.16%) Bash
4 47 (6.37%) SQL
5 16 (2.17%) Java
6 8 (1.08%) Bicep
7 7 (0.95%) C
7 7 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.54%) Go
9 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.54%) VBScript
10 3 (0.41%) Lua
10 3 (0.41%) VB
11 2 (0.27%) C++
11 2 (0.27%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.27%) Korn
12 1 (0.14%) C#
12 1 (0.14%) COBOL
12 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 366 (49.59%) Security Cleared
2 211 (28.59%) SC Cleared
3 178 (24.12%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 49 (6.64%) Degree
6 40 (5.42%) VCAP
7 38 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (3.52%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.71%) MCSE
11 18 (2.44%) CCNP
12 17 (2.30%) CCNA
13 16 (2.17%) MCSA
14 14 (1.90%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
17 7 (0.95%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.95%) OCP
17 7 (0.95%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.12%) SLA
2 19 (2.57%) NIST
3 16 (2.17%) QA
4 15 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.90%) NCSC
6 5 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.54%) GxP
8 3 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.27%) GDPR
9 2 (0.27%) ISA99
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.27%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) DICOM
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 239 (32.38%) Active Directory
2 188 (25.47%) VMware ESXi
3 181 (24.53%) vSphere
4 149 (20.19%) VMware NSX
5 148 (20.05%) Hyper-V
6 87 (11.79%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (7.32%) Docker
8 37 (5.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (3.93%) Firmware
10 20 (2.71%) NFS
11 18 (2.44%) KVM
12 10 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.22%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.95%) GPFS
14 7 (0.95%) vCloud
15 6 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.68%) SRDF
17 4 (0.54%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 151 (20.46%) Ansible
2 145 (19.65%) vCenter Server
3 113 (15.31%) Terraform
4 100 (13.55%) Kubernetes
5 46 (6.23%) SCOM
6 43 (5.83%) SCCM
7 34 (4.61%) VxRail
8 31 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (4.20%) vRealize
9 25 (3.39%) Grafana
10 21 (2.85%) Puppet
11 19 (2.57%) Prometheus
12 18 (2.44%) NetBackup
13 17 (2.30%) WSUS
14 16 (2.17%) Argo
14 16 (2.17%) PowerCLI
15 15 (2.03%) vMotion
16 14 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
17 13 (1.76%) Avamar
18 12 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 738 (100.00%) VMware
2 212 (28.73%) Microsoft
3 139 (18.83%) Cisco
4 56 (7.59%) NetApp
5 52 (7.05%) Citrix
6 50 (6.78%) Red Hat
7 44 (5.96%) Dell
8 42 (5.69%) F5
9 37 (5.01%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.74%) Palo Alto
11 33 (4.47%) Juniper
11 33 (4.47%) Oracle
11 33 (4.47%) SolarWinds
12 29 (3.93%) Veeam
13 23 (3.12%) Broadcom
14 20 (2.71%) IBM
15 19 (2.57%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.57%) McAfee
16 18 (2.44%) Pure Storage
17 17 (2.30%) Blue Coat
295 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England