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

 6 months to
22 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 126 118
Rank change year-on-year -37 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 654 535 718
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.18% 1.94%
As % of the System Software category 15.22% 16.85% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 374 468
10th Percentile £316 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 31
10th Percentile £43.17 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £52.11 £37.25 £38.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.53% -38.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £74.48 £61.30 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £45.01
% change year-on-year +50.54% +3.31% -30.75%

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 4,298 3,176 4,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.84% 12.95% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 2,202 2,798
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £396 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 77 207
10th Percentile £16.90 £15.05 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.47 £19.97 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.41 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.99% +35.29% -57.58%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £88.70 £86.95 £70.26
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.02% +25.36% -56.84%

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 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -11 166 £525 -8.70% 78
London -62 148 £525 -4.55% 53
North of England -20 134 £456 +9.88% 49
Midlands -9 117 £402 -26.91% 30
West Midlands -11 91 £340 -38.29% 23
North West -12 73 £456 +7.29% 18
Yorkshire -24 62 £454 -2.47% 21
South West -65 55 £550 -4.35% 27
East of England -8 43 £475 +0.53% 20
East Midlands -23 26 £415 -22.50% 6
North East -21 3 £550 +57.14% 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 39 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.68%) Confluence
4 6 (0.92%) nginx
4 6 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.61%) IIS
6 3 (0.46%) CICS
6 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 182 (27.83%) Azure
2 133 (20.34%) AWS
3 50 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.88%) Entra ID
4 45 (6.88%) OpenShift
5 36 (5.50%) GCP
6 25 (3.82%) IaaS
7 23 (3.52%) GitHub
8 22 (3.36%) Nutanix
9 18 (2.75%) PaaS
10 14 (2.14%) Datadog
11 11 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.07%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.92%) Cohesity
14 6 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 172 (26.30%) DNS
2 153 (23.39%) Firewall
3 95 (14.53%) DHCP
4 67 (10.24%) VPN
5 66 (10.09%) SAN
6 64 (9.79%) VSAN
7 54 (8.26%) WAN
8 51 (7.80%) Network Security
9 48 (7.34%) TCP/IP
10 44 (6.73%) LAN
11 42 (6.42%) NAS
12 39 (5.96%) SSL
13 36 (5.50%) BIG-IP
14 32 (4.89%) HTTP
14 32 (4.89%) VLAN
15 31 (4.74%) BGP
15 31 (4.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 28 (4.28%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.82%) Cisco ASA
17 25 (3.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.46%) DataStage
5 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.46%) Redis
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.43%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.06%) JIRA
3 19 (2.91%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.60%) Git
5 14 (2.14%) GitLab
6 8 (1.22%) PVCS
6 8 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 142 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 59 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.41%) Finance
5 44 (6.73%) Banking
6 26 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.52%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.52%) Legal
8 11 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.53%) Military
9 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.38%) Police
11 8 (1.22%) Electronics
12 5 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.76%) Local Government
12 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.61%) Law
13 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (14.53%) Architect
3 55 (8.41%) Network Engineer
3 55 (8.41%) Senior
4 53 (8.10%) Analyst
5 52 (7.95%) VMware Engineer
6 34 (5.20%) Lead
7 31 (4.74%) Infrastructure Architect
8 28 (4.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 22 (3.36%) Storage Analyst
10 21 (3.21%) Consultant
11 20 (3.06%) Wintel Engineer
12 19 (2.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 19 (2.91%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 19 (2.91%) IP Network Engineer
12 19 (2.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (2.91%) Support Engineer
12 19 (2.91%) Web Engineer
13 18 (2.75%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 17 (2.60%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.21%) Flash
2 18 (2.75%) LDAP
3 12 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.68%) SAML
5 7 (1.07%) Middleware
5 7 (1.07%) REST
6 6 (0.92%) Kafka
7 5 (0.76%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.46%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.46%) OAuth
8 3 (0.46%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.46%) OpenID
8 3 (0.46%) Spring
9 2 (0.31%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.31%) JSON
9 2 (0.31%) XML
10 1 (0.15%) EJB
10 1 (0.15%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.47%) Data Centre
2 68 (10.40%) Replication
3 45 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (6.57%) PKI
5 39 (5.96%) Cloud Native
6 35 (5.35%) Clustering
7 32 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
8 26 (3.98%) Enterprise Storage
8 26 (3.98%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.98%) Private Cloud
9 20 (3.06%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.29%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.53%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.22%) SCADA
14 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.92%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 293 (44.80%) Windows
2 210 (32.11%) Linux
3 196 (29.97%) Windows Server
4 46 (7.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (5.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (3.67%) VMS
8 21 (3.21%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.75%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.45%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (1.53%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.53%) Solaris
12 10 (1.53%) Unix
13 8 (1.22%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (1.07%) CentOS
14 7 (1.07%) CoreOS
15 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.76%) AIX
17 4 (0.61%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (25.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (19.72%) Migration
3 112 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (14.83%) High Availability
5 86 (13.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (12.23%) Agile
7 75 (11.47%) ITIL
8 65 (9.94%) DevOps
8 65 (9.94%) Load Balancing
9 64 (9.79%) CI/CD
10 63 (9.63%) Capacity Planning
11 62 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (8.72%) Network Virtualisation
13 49 (7.49%) Data Protection
14 46 (7.03%) Platform Engineering
15 44 (6.73%) Containerisation
16 41 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (6.27%) Performance Tuning
16 41 (6.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 144 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 87 (13.30%) Python
3 54 (8.26%) Bash
4 19 (2.91%) SQL
5 11 (1.68%) C
6 8 (1.22%) C++
7 7 (1.07%) Embedded C
7 7 (1.07%) Embedded C++
7 7 (1.07%) Java
7 7 (1.07%) Perl
7 7 (1.07%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.76%) Bicep
9 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.61%) PHP
9 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.46%) C#
10 3 (0.46%) COBOL
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 266 (40.67%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 100 (15.29%) DV Cleared
4 51 (7.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (7.03%) Degree
6 31 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (4.43%) VCAP
8 23 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (3.21%) Azure Certification
10 20 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.91%) MCSE
12 18 (2.75%) CCNP
13 17 (2.60%) MCSA
14 12 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
15 11 (1.68%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.53%) CCNA
17 9 (1.38%) OCP
18 6 (0.92%) CCIE
18 6 (0.92%) CISSP
18 6 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.06%) NIST
3 16 (2.45%) SLA
4 13 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.83%) GDPR
6 9 (1.38%) NCSC
7 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.61%) QA
9 2 (0.31%) ISA99
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) DICOM
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 184 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 153 (23.39%) vSphere
3 137 (20.95%) VMware ESXi
4 131 (20.03%) VMware NSX
5 117 (17.89%) Hyper-V
6 75 (11.47%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (6.27%) Docker
8 39 (5.96%) NFS
9 33 (5.05%) Firmware
10 27 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (3.21%) KVM
12 16 (2.45%) GPFS
13 9 (1.38%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.76%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.61%) vCloud
15 4 (0.61%) XenApp
16 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.46%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 126 (19.27%) Ansible
2 100 (15.29%) vCenter Server
3 78 (11.93%) Terraform
4 64 (9.79%) Kubernetes
5 56 (8.56%) SCCM
6 49 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 49 (7.49%) vRealize
7 23 (3.52%) Grafana
7 23 (3.52%) VxRail
8 22 (3.36%) Argo
9 18 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (2.75%) PowerCLI
9 18 (2.75%) vMotion
10 17 (2.60%) SCOM
10 17 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (2.14%) WSUS
12 12 (1.83%) Progress Chef
12 12 (1.83%) Puppet
13 11 (1.68%) EMC VPLEX
13 11 (1.68%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 654 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.61%) Microsoft
3 142 (21.71%) Cisco
4 66 (10.09%) Citrix
5 57 (8.72%) NetApp
5 57 (8.72%) Red Hat
6 56 (8.56%) F5
7 44 (6.73%) IBM
8 37 (5.66%) Dell
8 37 (5.66%) ServiceNow
9 34 (5.20%) Oracle
10 33 (5.05%) Palo Alto
11 31 (4.74%) Pure Storage
12 30 (4.59%) SolarWinds
13 27 (4.13%) Veeam
14 24 (3.67%) Commvault
15 23 (3.52%) McAfee
16 20 (3.06%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.91%) Blue Coat
17 19 (2.91%) Broadcom
242 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England