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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 158 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 -57 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 712 479 782
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.75% 2.21%
As % of the System Software category 15.81% 14.65% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 323 511
10th Percentile £325 £329 £308
25th Percentile £425 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £590 £603 £591
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -8.18% +7.58% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 2 18
10th Percentile £21.95 £28.20 £22.23
25th Percentile £31.35 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -27.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.13 £29.50 £44.64
90th Percentile £96.30 £29.80 £75.90
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.41% -27.50% -36.51%

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 4,504 3,269 4,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 11.98% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,987 2,138 2,837
10th Percentile £213 £220 £219
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 88 172
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.17 £22.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £56.25 £37.07 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +51.73% +66.81% -44.44%
75th Percentile £74.20 £79.03 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.19 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.64 £23.15
% change year-on-year +56.09% +45.29% -53.70%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +1 217 £538 -7.33% 60
London -32 167 £500 -4.76% 46
North of England -12 143 £483 +17.09% 31
Midlands -15 92 £450 -18.18% 23
Yorkshire -19 71 £500 +11.11% 6
North West -4 70 £472 +34.86% 21
West Midlands -24 70 £450 -20.35% 12
South West -51 65 £550 -4.35% 31
East of England -24 34 £500 -9.09% 20
East Midlands -4 22 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -39 2 £588 +62.07% 5
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 40 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.26%) IIS
4 8 (1.12%) nginx
4 8 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.84%) Confluence
7 4 (0.56%) Apache
8 3 (0.42%) CICS
8 3 (0.42%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.42%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.28%) Houdini
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.28%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (27.25%) Azure
2 127 (17.84%) AWS
3 56 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.88%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.46%) OpenShift
6 32 (4.49%) GCP
7 28 (3.93%) GitHub
8 20 (2.81%) IaaS
9 14 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.97%) Nutanix
10 12 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (1.69%) PaaS
10 12 (1.69%) Rubrik
11 11 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.26%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.12%) SaaS
14 7 (0.98%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 210 (29.49%) DNS
2 155 (21.77%) Firewall
3 125 (17.56%) DHCP
4 77 (10.81%) SAN
4 77 (10.81%) VSAN
5 74 (10.39%) TCP/IP
6 67 (9.41%) VPN
7 60 (8.43%) WAN
8 53 (7.44%) Network Security
9 51 (7.16%) VLAN
10 46 (6.46%) NAS
11 44 (6.18%) LAN
12 43 (6.04%) SSL
13 30 (4.21%) BGP
14 28 (3.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (3.79%) HTTP
16 26 (3.65%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.51%) BIG-IP
18 23 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 22 (3.09%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.84%) Power BI
4 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.42%) Big Data
7 3 (0.42%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.42%) DataStage
7 3 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.28%) Redis
8 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
9 1 (0.14%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.14%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 30 (4.21%) Jenkins
2 27 (3.79%) JIRA
3 17 (2.39%) Git
4 16 (2.25%) Fiddler
5 14 (1.97%) GitLab
6 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.28%) MSI
7 2 (0.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 158 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 60 (8.43%) Finance
3 59 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.92%) Banking
6 21 (2.95%) Legal
7 20 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.83%) Military
10 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.98%) Police
12 7 (0.98%) Retail
13 6 (0.84%) Law
14 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.42%) Games
16 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.28%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 170 (23.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 81 (11.38%) Senior
3 69 (9.69%) Network Engineer
4 68 (9.55%) Architect
5 64 (8.99%) VMware Engineer
6 40 (5.62%) Support Engineer
7 36 (5.06%) Lead
8 31 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 31 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
9 29 (4.07%) Consultant
10 26 (3.65%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 24 (3.37%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 23 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (3.09%) Administrator
14 21 (2.95%) Senior Network Engineer
14 21 (2.95%) VMware Consultant
15 18 (2.53%) Data Centre Engineer
15 18 (2.53%) IT Engineer
15 18 (2.53%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.69%) Flash
2 11 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.54%) REST
3 10 (1.40%) 802.1X
4 9 (1.26%) LDAP
5 8 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.84%) Middleware
7 5 (0.70%) .NET
7 5 (0.70%) JSON
8 4 (0.56%) Redfish
8 4 (0.56%) YAML
9 3 (0.42%) Kafka
9 3 (0.42%) SAML
9 3 (0.42%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.28%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.28%) Java SE
10 2 (0.28%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.28%) Qt
10 2 (0.28%) Unreal Engine
10 2 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (14.33%) Data Centre
2 60 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (8.15%) PKI
4 50 (7.02%) Replication
5 46 (6.46%) Enterprise Storage
6 33 (4.63%) Clustering
7 27 (3.79%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.37%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.23%) Cloud Native
10 18 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (2.39%) Private Cloud
12 16 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.40%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.40%) SCADA
15 10 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.40%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 359 (50.42%) Windows
2 228 (32.02%) Windows Server
3 204 (28.65%) Linux
4 44 (6.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (6.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (3.37%) VMS
6 24 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (2.39%) Data ONTAP
7 17 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 16 (2.25%) Unix
8 16 (2.25%) Windows 10
9 12 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (1.54%) Solaris
11 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.98%) CentOS
12 7 (0.98%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.56%) AIX
14 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.56%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (31.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 144 (20.22%) Migration
3 121 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (15.73%) High Availability
5 91 (12.78%) ITIL
6 90 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 86 (12.08%) CI/CD
7 86 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (10.11%) Network Virtualisation
9 67 (9.41%) DevOps
10 66 (9.27%) Agile
11 63 (8.85%) Change Management
11 63 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
12 60 (8.43%) Load Balancing
13 59 (8.29%) Capacity Planning
13 59 (8.29%) Validation
14 57 (8.01%) ITSM
15 55 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (6.74%) Performance Tuning
17 47 (6.60%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (22.19%) PowerShell
2 106 (14.89%) Python
3 67 (9.41%) Bash
4 34 (4.78%) SQL
5 15 (2.11%) Java
6 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.84%) C
8 5 (0.70%) Bicep
8 5 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.42%) COBOL
9 3 (0.42%) Go
9 3 (0.42%) Lua
9 3 (0.42%) PHP
10 2 (0.28%) VBScript
11 1 (0.14%) C#
11 1 (0.14%) Korn
11 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.14%) Perl
11 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 341 (47.89%) Security Cleared
2 192 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 169 (23.74%) DV Cleared
4 60 (8.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 45 (6.32%) Degree
6 35 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (4.78%) VCAP
8 31 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (3.09%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.81%) CCNP
11 19 (2.67%) MCSE
12 16 (2.25%) CCNA
12 16 (2.25%) MCSA
13 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.40%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (1.26%) OCP
16 7 (0.98%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 7 (0.98%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.37%) NIST
2 21 (2.95%) SLA
3 18 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.69%) NCSC
6 7 (0.98%) QA
7 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.42%) GxP
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) ISA99
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.14%) DICOM
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 224 (31.46%) Active Directory
2 187 (26.26%) VMware ESXi
3 176 (24.72%) vSphere
4 145 (20.37%) VMware NSX
5 134 (18.82%) Hyper-V
6 89 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (7.02%) Docker
8 39 (5.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.49%) Firmware
10 31 (4.35%) NFS
11 24 (3.37%) KVM
12 11 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.12%) BitLocker
13 8 (1.12%) vCloud
14 7 (0.98%) GPFS
15 6 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.70%) SRDF
17 4 (0.56%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 146 (20.51%) vCenter Server
2 142 (19.94%) Ansible
3 98 (13.76%) Terraform
4 93 (13.06%) Kubernetes
5 41 (5.76%) SCCM
6 38 (5.34%) SCOM
7 36 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (4.63%) vRealize
9 26 (3.65%) Grafana
9 26 (3.65%) VxRail
10 21 (2.95%) vMotion
11 20 (2.81%) Argo
12 18 (2.53%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.39%) Puppet
14 16 (2.25%) Prometheus
15 14 (1.97%) NetBackup
15 14 (1.97%) WSUS
16 13 (1.83%) EMC VPLEX
17 12 (1.69%) Avamar
17 12 (1.69%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 712 (100.00%) VMware
2 189 (26.54%) Microsoft
3 137 (19.24%) Cisco
4 57 (8.01%) Citrix
4 57 (8.01%) NetApp
5 52 (7.30%) Red Hat
6 44 (6.18%) Dell
7 40 (5.62%) F5
8 32 (4.49%) Juniper
8 32 (4.49%) Palo Alto
8 32 (4.49%) SolarWinds
9 31 (4.35%) Pure Storage
9 31 (4.35%) ServiceNow
10 28 (3.93%) Veeam
11 27 (3.79%) Oracle
12 24 (3.37%) Broadcom
13 21 (2.95%) IBM
14 20 (2.81%) Commvault
15 19 (2.67%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.67%) McAfee