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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 145 110
Rank change year-on-year -23 -35 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 662 475 737
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.97% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 15.45% 15.61% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 334 485
10th Percentile £325 £350 £284
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £594
90th Percentile £650 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -5.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 28
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £41.50 - £34.17
Median hourly rate £65.42 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.63% -30.00% -36.51%
75th Percentile £72.13 - £46.51
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.60
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.13
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.22% -38.27%

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 4,285 3,042 4,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.21% 12.63% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 2,051 2,863
10th Percentile £213 £214 £204
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £608
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 72 201
10th Percentile £17.37 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.72 £17.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.46 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +86.26% +28.47% -57.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.46 £24.18
% change year-on-year +84.50% +17.68% -55.90%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +12 193 £538 -6.52% 72
London -39 150 £525 - 48
North of England -10 142 £456 +9.88% 42
Midlands -19 86 £431 -21.73% 28
North West +2 76 £456 +12.87% 25
West Midlands -28 65 £425 -22.87% 18
Yorkshire -15 64 £425 -12.82% 10
South West -61 55 £539 -6.30% 30
East of England -32 34 £475 -13.64% 25
East Midlands -17 21 £436 -19.67% 10
North East -31 2 £575 +64.29% 8
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 37 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.36%) IIS
4 8 (1.21%) nginx
4 8 (1.21%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.21%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.45%) Apache
5 3 (0.45%) CICS
5 3 (0.45%) Confluence
5 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (29.31%) Azure
2 127 (19.18%) AWS
3 49 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (6.95%) OpenShift
5 45 (6.80%) Entra ID
6 39 (5.89%) GCP
7 25 (3.78%) IaaS
8 24 (3.63%) GitHub
9 21 (3.17%) Nutanix
10 18 (2.72%) PaaS
11 13 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.66%) Rubrik
13 9 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.06%) Azure Stack
15 7 (1.06%) Cohesity
15 7 (1.06%) Power Platform
16 6 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 187 (28.25%) DNS
2 141 (21.30%) Firewall
3 113 (17.07%) DHCP
4 71 (10.73%) SAN
4 71 (10.73%) VPN
5 63 (9.52%) VSAN
6 58 (8.76%) WAN
7 54 (8.16%) Network Security
8 46 (6.95%) TCP/IP
9 43 (6.50%) NAS
10 41 (6.19%) LAN
11 37 (5.59%) SSL
12 33 (4.98%) VLAN
13 29 (4.38%) BGP
13 29 (4.38%) BIG-IP
14 28 (4.23%) HTTP
15 25 (3.78%) Wireshark
16 24 (3.63%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (3.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 21 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.91%) Power BI
5 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.45%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.45%) DataStage
7 3 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.93%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.63%) JIRA
3 17 (2.57%) Fiddler
4 14 (2.11%) Git
4 14 (2.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.60%) PVCS
5 4 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.30%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) GoCD
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 137 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.85%) Finance
3 51 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.29%) Banking
6 23 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.17%) Legal
8 18 (2.72%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.51%) Police
10 9 (1.36%) Military
11 7 (1.06%) Law
12 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.91%) Retail
12 6 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.76%) Local Government
14 4 (0.60%) Electronics
14 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 143 (21.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (13.29%) Architect
3 63 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 63 (9.52%) Senior
4 52 (7.85%) VMware Engineer
5 31 (4.68%) Support Engineer
6 29 (4.38%) Lead
7 27 (4.08%) Analyst
8 26 (3.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (3.93%) Infrastructure Architect
8 26 (3.93%) Storage Engineer
8 26 (3.93%) Wintel Engineer
9 23 (3.47%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 22 (3.32%) Consultant
11 21 (3.17%) Administrator
12 18 (2.72%) VMware Architect
13 17 (2.57%) IP Network Engineer
13 17 (2.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 17 (2.57%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.57%) Flash
2 15 (2.27%) LDAP
3 11 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.66%) REST
4 7 (1.06%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.06%) Middleware
4 7 (1.06%) SAML
5 5 (0.76%) .NET
5 5 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (0.76%) JSON
5 5 (0.76%) Software Packaging
6 4 (0.60%) Redfish
7 2 (0.30%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.30%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.30%) Blazor
7 2 (0.30%) Java SE
7 2 (0.30%) Kafka
7 2 (0.30%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.30%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 93 (14.05%) Data Centre
2 60 (9.06%) Replication
3 57 (8.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 49 (7.40%) PKI
5 39 (5.89%) Clustering
5 39 (5.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 33 (4.98%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.93%) Public Cloud
8 25 (3.78%) Private Cloud
9 22 (3.32%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.66%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.51%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.36%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.21%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 327 (49.40%) Windows
2 217 (32.78%) Windows Server
3 196 (29.61%) Linux
4 41 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (6.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (3.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (3.17%) Windows 10
7 20 (3.02%) VMS
8 18 (2.72%) Ubuntu
9 17 (2.57%) Data ONTAP
10 16 (2.42%) Unix
11 15 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.66%) Solaris
13 10 (1.51%) Mac OS
14 8 (1.21%) CentOS
14 8 (1.21%) Windows Server 2003
14 8 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (1.06%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.60%) AIX
16 4 (0.60%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (27.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (20.54%) Migration
3 102 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (14.95%) High Availability
5 87 (13.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 83 (12.54%) ITIL
7 72 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 70 (10.57%) Capacity Planning
9 67 (10.12%) CI/CD
10 65 (9.82%) DevOps
11 61 (9.21%) Agile
11 61 (9.21%) Load Balancing
12 60 (9.06%) Network Virtualisation
13 56 (8.46%) Change Management
14 51 (7.70%) ITSM
15 44 (6.65%) Data Protection
16 43 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (6.50%) Performance Tuning
16 43 (6.50%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (6.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 150 (22.66%) PowerShell
2 82 (12.39%) Python
3 50 (7.55%) Bash
4 28 (4.23%) SQL
5 7 (1.06%) C
5 7 (1.06%) Java
5 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.91%) Bicep
7 4 (0.60%) C++
7 4 (0.60%) Embedded C
7 4 (0.60%) Embedded C++
7 4 (0.60%) PHP
7 4 (0.60%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.45%) C#
8 3 (0.45%) COBOL
8 3 (0.45%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.30%) VBScript
10 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.15%) Perl
10 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 285 (43.05%) Security Cleared
2 167 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 127 (19.18%) DV Cleared
4 60 (9.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.74%) Degree
6 34 (5.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (5.14%) VCAP
7 30 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.47%) MCSE
9 20 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.02%) MCSA
10 17 (2.57%) CCNP
11 15 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.96%) CCNA
13 10 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (1.36%) OCP
15 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 6 (0.91%) RHCA
16 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.63%) NIST
1 24 (3.63%) SLA
2 23 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.66%) NCSC
5 6 (0.91%) GDPR
5 6 (0.91%) QA
6 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.30%) ISA99
8 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) DICOM
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 199 (30.06%) Active Directory
2 167 (25.23%) VMware ESXi
3 158 (23.87%) vSphere
4 135 (20.39%) VMware NSX
5 133 (20.09%) Hyper-V
6 90 (13.60%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (5.59%) Docker
8 35 (5.29%) NFS
9 33 (4.98%) Firmware
10 30 (4.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (3.63%) KVM
12 13 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (1.81%) GPFS
14 11 (1.66%) BitLocker
14 11 (1.66%) vCloud
15 6 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.76%) SRDF
17 4 (0.60%) XenDesktop
18 3 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 126 (19.03%) Ansible
2 125 (18.88%) vCenter Server
3 78 (11.78%) Terraform
4 74 (11.18%) Kubernetes
5 48 (7.25%) SCCM
6 39 (5.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (4.98%) vRealize
8 29 (4.38%) SCOM
9 23 (3.47%) vMotion
10 22 (3.32%) Grafana
11 20 (3.02%) Argo
12 18 (2.72%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (2.11%) Puppet
14 14 (2.11%) VxRail
14 14 (2.11%) WSUS
15 13 (1.96%) EMC VPLEX
16 12 (1.81%) NetBackup
16 12 (1.81%) SnapMirror
17 10 (1.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 662 (100.00%) VMware
2 182 (27.49%) Microsoft
3 142 (21.45%) Cisco
4 65 (9.82%) Citrix
5 55 (8.31%) NetApp
6 51 (7.70%) Red Hat
7 42 (6.34%) F5
8 41 (6.19%) ServiceNow
9 38 (5.74%) Dell
10 34 (5.14%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.83%) Pure Storage
12 31 (4.68%) Oracle
13 27 (4.08%) IBM
14 26 (3.93%) Veeam
15 24 (3.63%) Juniper
16 23 (3.47%) CheckPoint
16 23 (3.47%) SolarWinds
17 20 (3.02%) McAfee
18 18 (2.72%) Blue Coat
18 18 (2.72%) Fortinet
240 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England