VMware Infrastructure Contracts in England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 107 102
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 490 766 1,124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 2.05% 2.37%
As % of the System Software category 15.28% 18.25% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 498 755
10th Percentile £331 £299 £313
25th Percentile £463 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £545
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -6.19% +14.74%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £508 £530
% change year-on-year +8.37% -4.25% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 27 44
10th Percentile - £22.21 £35.00
25th Percentile - £23.80 £48.40
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £61.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -34.80% +28.33%
75th Percentile - £46.18 £76.12
90th Percentile - £72.75 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £63.23
% change year-on-year -30.00% -36.74% +32.05%

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 3,207 4,198 6,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.41% 11.25% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 2,916 4,321
10th Percentile £224 £210 £200
25th Percentile £379 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £603 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 197 217
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.48 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -55.40% +150.00%
75th Percentile £69.25 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.45 £70.00 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 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
London -24 129 £525 +16.67% 461
South West +20 97 £575 +6.93% 132
South East -30 94 £575 +6.98% 301
North of England +4 70 £425 +21.43% 232
Midlands -25 50 £550 - 156
East of England +34 39 £550 -4.68% 130
Yorkshire +12 36 £475 -4.52% 89
West Midlands -12 36 £657 +14.06% 84
North West -6 30 £425 +30.77% 125
East Midlands -9 14 £550 +22.22% 71
North East -1 5 £350 -41.67% 19
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (11.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (8.16%) Confluence
3 24 (4.90%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.86%) Apache
5 10 (2.04%) IIS
6 4 (0.82%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 124 (25.31%) Azure
2 69 (14.08%) AWS
3 57 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (9.18%) Entra ID
5 39 (7.96%) IaaS
6 30 (6.12%) PaaS
7 24 (4.90%) GCP
8 23 (4.69%) OpenShift
9 20 (4.08%) Cohesity
10 18 (3.67%) SaaS
11 16 (3.27%) Nutanix
12 15 (3.06%) GitHub
13 8 (1.63%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.02%) Asana
15 5 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 3 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (0.61%) Amazon S3
16 3 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 125 (25.51%) DNS
2 99 (20.20%) Firewall
3 66 (13.47%) DHCP
3 66 (13.47%) SAN
4 51 (10.41%) TCP/IP
5 39 (7.96%) VPN
6 29 (5.92%) VSAN
7 28 (5.71%) LAN
8 27 (5.51%) WAN
9 24 (4.90%) NAS
10 22 (4.49%) Fibre Channel
10 22 (4.49%) Network Security
11 21 (4.29%) iSCSI
12 18 (3.67%) VLAN
12 18 (3.67%) VoIP
13 17 (3.47%) BGP
14 15 (3.06%) SMTP
15 12 (2.45%) MPLS
16 11 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (2.04%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.45%) Big Data
2 12 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (2.45%) Oracle Database
3 11 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.82%) MariaDB
5 4 (0.82%) MySQL
5 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.20%) Power BI
8 1 (0.20%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 46 (9.39%) JIRA
2 44 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 35 (7.14%) Git
4 18 (3.67%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.86%) Postman
6 10 (2.04%) GitLab
7 7 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.43%) Subversion
8 4 (0.82%) MSI
8 4 (0.82%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.41%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 119 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 56 (11.43%) Finance
3 53 (10.82%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (5.31%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.67%) Legal
7 17 (3.47%) Banking
8 13 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.63%) Military
10 6 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Law
12 4 (0.82%) Billing
12 4 (0.82%) Marketing
13 3 (0.61%) Electronics
13 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.41%) Advertising
14 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 70 (14.29%) Architect
3 32 (6.53%) Linux Engineer
3 32 (6.53%) VMware Engineer
4 28 (5.71%) Support Engineer
5 26 (5.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 26 (5.31%) Consultant
6 25 (5.10%) VMware Architect
7 23 (4.69%) Infrastructure Architect
7 23 (4.69%) Network Engineer
7 23 (4.69%) Senior
8 19 (3.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (3.67%) Lead
10 17 (3.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 17 (3.47%) Windows Engineer
11 16 (3.27%) 3rd Line Support
11 16 (3.27%) Administrator
11 16 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.47%) REST
2 11 (2.24%) Flash
2 11 (2.24%) SOAP
3 8 (1.63%) Kafka
4 7 (1.43%) NETCONF
4 7 (1.43%) RESTCONF
5 6 (1.22%) Middleware
6 5 (1.02%) .NET
6 5 (1.02%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.02%) Spine.js
7 4 (0.82%) LDAP
7 4 (0.82%) YAML
8 3 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.61%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.61%) CSS
8 3 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.61%) HTML
8 3 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.61%) RESTful
9 2 (0.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 40 (8.16%) PKI
3 36 (7.35%) Clustering
4 22 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
7 11 (2.24%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.24%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.04%) Blackberry
8 10 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.04%) Replication
9 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.43%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.22%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.02%) SCADA
13 4 (0.82%) EMC VMAX
13 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 257 (52.45%) Windows
2 158 (32.24%) Windows Server
3 149 (30.41%) Linux
4 56 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 54 (11.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (7.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (7.14%) Windows 10
8 26 (5.31%) Unix
9 23 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (3.88%) CentOS
11 13 (2.65%) Ubuntu
12 12 (2.45%) VMS
13 10 (2.04%) Solaris
14 8 (1.63%) AIX
14 8 (1.63%) Mac OS
15 6 (1.22%) Windows 7
15 6 (1.22%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.61%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (23.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (16.33%) Agile
4 64 (13.06%) Migration
5 63 (12.86%) DevOps
6 60 (12.24%) Service Management
7 55 (11.22%) High Availability
8 52 (10.61%) ITIL
9 49 (10.00%) Validation
10 43 (8.78%) Deployment Automation
11 38 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (7.76%) Network Virtualisation
12 37 (7.55%) Roadmaps
13 33 (6.73%) System Testing
14 32 (6.53%) Configuration Management
15 31 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (6.33%) NsoIT
16 30 (6.12%) Data Protection
17 29 (5.92%) Containerisation
18 27 (5.51%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 129 (26.33%) PowerShell
2 94 (19.18%) Python
3 47 (9.59%) Bash
4 31 (6.33%) SQL
5 11 (2.24%) Java
5 11 (2.24%) Shell Script
6 9 (1.84%) Perl
6 9 (1.84%) PHP
7 7 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.22%) C#
9 4 (0.82%) Go
10 3 (0.61%) C++
10 3 (0.61%) VBScript
11 2 (0.41%) VB
12 1 (0.20%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.20%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 229 (46.73%) Security Cleared
2 146 (29.80%) SC Cleared
3 99 (20.20%) DV Cleared
4 77 (15.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (11.22%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (8.57%) CCNP
6 42 (8.57%) Degree
7 37 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (4.49%) MCSE
9 18 (3.67%) CCNA
10 15 (3.06%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (2.86%) Azure Certification
11 14 (2.86%) VCAP
12 13 (2.65%) Master's Degree
13 11 (2.24%) OCA
13 11 (2.24%) RHCE
13 11 (2.24%) VCP5
13 11 (2.24%) VCP6
14 10 (2.04%) RHCA
15 7 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.67%) SLA
2 12 (2.45%) GDPR
3 7 (1.43%) QA
4 6 (1.22%) Def Stans
4 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) RMADS
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 192 (39.18%) Active Directory
2 103 (21.02%) VMware ESXi
3 87 (17.76%) vSphere
4 63 (12.86%) Hyper-V
5 58 (11.84%) VMware NSX
6 44 (8.98%) Docker
7 38 (7.76%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (5.92%) Virtual Servers
9 22 (4.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 21 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (3.06%) NFS
12 11 (2.24%) BitLocker
12 11 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (2.24%) Terminal Services
12 11 (2.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 9 (1.84%) DFS Replication
14 5 (1.02%) Firmware
14 5 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.61%) UAG
15 3 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 137 (27.96%) Ansible
2 78 (15.92%) vCenter Server
3 60 (12.24%) SCCM
4 53 (10.82%) Puppet
5 44 (8.98%) Kubernetes
6 41 (8.37%) Terraform
7 33 (6.73%) WSUS
8 24 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (3.88%) Progress Chef
10 16 (3.27%) VxRail
11 14 (2.86%) vMotion
12 13 (2.65%) Nagios
13 12 (2.45%) vRealize
14 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (2.24%) PowerCLI
15 7 (1.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 6 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
17 5 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
17 5 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (1.02%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 490 (100.00%) VMware
2 182 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 88 (17.96%) Cisco
4 48 (9.80%) NetApp
5 46 (9.39%) Citrix
5 46 (9.39%) Red Hat
6 43 (8.78%) Splunk
7 38 (7.76%) Oracle
8 26 (5.31%) F5
9 25 (5.10%) Atlassian
10 24 (4.90%) Veeam
11 19 (3.88%) Dell
12 15 (3.06%) Google
12 15 (3.06%) Juniper
12 15 (3.06%) MuleSoft
12 15 (3.06%) SolarWinds
13 14 (2.86%) HP
14 13 (2.65%) Palo Alto
14 13 (2.65%) Veritas
15 12 (2.45%) Ericsson