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

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 138 124
Rank change year-on-year -27 -14 -17
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 651 484 700
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.98% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 15.21% 15.73% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 337 448
10th Percentile £317 £313 £274
25th Percentile £421 £440 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.97%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 30
10th Percentile £20.13 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £46.38 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.89% -38.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £65.15
90th Percentile £74.23 £61.30 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £68.85 £46.50 £40.25
% change year-on-year +48.06% +15.53% -38.08%

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 4,280 3,077 4,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.53% 12.61% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,906 2,132 2,801
10th Percentile £213 £213 £193
25th Percentile £400 £393 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 73 210
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.66 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £57.77 £28.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.30% +33.33% -58.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.65 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +89.49% +24.31% -58.33%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +4 178 £525 -8.70% 87
London -41 148 £525 -2.33% 54
North of England -6 132 £449 +12.25% 42
Midlands -25 100 £402 -26.91% 36
West Midlands -19 76 £371 -32.67% 25
North West -11 71 £449 +5.65% 21
Yorkshire -23 61 £420 +4.35% 16
South West -61 54 £550 -4.35% 28
East of England -11 44 £475 -2.31% 15
East Midlands -19 24 £436 -19.67% 11
North East -22 2 £575 +64.29% 7
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 38 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.23%) Confluence
3 8 (1.23%) IIS
4 6 (0.92%) nginx
4 6 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) CICS
6 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 177 (27.19%) Azure
2 124 (19.05%) AWS
3 50 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.91%) Entra ID
5 42 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 31 (4.76%) GCP
7 26 (3.99%) GitHub
8 24 (3.69%) IaaS
9 22 (3.38%) Nutanix
10 17 (2.61%) PaaS
11 11 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.38%) Datadog
12 9 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.23%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.92%) Cohesity
14 6 (0.92%) SaaS
15 5 (0.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 175 (26.88%) DNS
2 143 (21.97%) Firewall
3 98 (15.05%) DHCP
4 66 (10.14%) SAN
4 66 (10.14%) VPN
5 61 (9.37%) VSAN
6 53 (8.14%) WAN
7 49 (7.53%) Network Security
8 47 (7.22%) TCP/IP
9 42 (6.45%) NAS
10 41 (6.30%) LAN
11 40 (6.14%) SSL
12 34 (5.22%) BIG-IP
13 32 (4.92%) HTTP
14 28 (4.30%) Wireshark
15 27 (4.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (4.15%) VLAN
16 25 (3.84%) BGP
17 23 (3.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (3.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (0.61%) Power BI
5 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.46%) DataStage
6 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.46%) Redis
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (4.30%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.84%) JIRA
3 19 (2.92%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.46%) Git
5 13 (2.00%) GitLab
6 8 (1.23%) PVCS
6 8 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) JUnit
8 3 (0.46%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) MSI
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 135 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.14%) Public Sector
3 52 (7.99%) Finance
4 50 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.14%) Banking
6 24 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.38%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.38%) Legal
8 10 (1.54%) Military
8 10 (1.54%) Police
9 8 (1.23%) Electronics
10 6 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Law
11 5 (0.77%) Local Government
11 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (13.36%) Architect
3 62 (9.52%) Senior
4 60 (9.22%) Network Engineer
5 52 (7.99%) VMware Engineer
6 41 (6.30%) Analyst
7 32 (4.92%) Lead
8 29 (4.45%) Infrastructure Architect
9 22 (3.38%) Wintel Engineer
10 21 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 21 (3.23%) Consultant
10 21 (3.23%) Support Engineer
11 19 (2.92%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 19 (2.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 19 (2.92%) IP Network Engineer
11 19 (2.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (2.92%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 19 (2.92%) Storage Engineer
11 19 (2.92%) Web Engineer
12 17 (2.61%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.76%) Flash
1 18 (2.76%) LDAP
2 12 (1.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (1.54%) SAML
4 7 (1.08%) Middleware
4 7 (1.08%) REST
5 6 (0.92%) Kafka
6 5 (0.77%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.46%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.46%) Keycloak
7 3 (0.46%) Spring
8 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.31%) JSON
8 2 (0.31%) OAuth
8 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.31%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.31%) OpenID
8 2 (0.31%) Qt
8 2 (0.31%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.67%) Data Centre
2 64 (9.83%) Replication
3 47 (7.22%) PKI
4 46 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (5.68%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.53%) Clustering
7 30 (4.61%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (3.84%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.84%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
10 21 (3.23%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.69%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.38%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.23%) SCADA
16 8 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 296 (45.47%) Windows
2 199 (30.57%) Windows Server
3 198 (30.41%) Linux
4 39 (5.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 38 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.38%) VMS
8 19 (2.92%) Windows 10
9 18 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.61%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.46%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (1.54%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.54%) Solaris
12 10 (1.54%) Unix
13 7 (1.08%) CentOS
13 7 (1.08%) CoreOS
13 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.61%) CatOS
16 3 (0.46%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (25.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 123 (18.89%) Migration
3 108 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (14.90%) High Availability
5 85 (13.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 78 (11.98%) ITIL
7 75 (11.52%) Agile
8 67 (10.29%) CI/CD
9 66 (10.14%) Capacity Planning
10 64 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 62 (9.52%) DevOps
12 61 (9.37%) Load Balancing
13 54 (8.29%) Network Virtualisation
14 45 (6.91%) Change Management
15 44 (6.76%) Data Protection
16 43 (6.61%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (6.30%) Containerisation
17 41 (6.30%) Performance Tuning
18 36 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
19 35 (5.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 147 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 82 (12.60%) Python
3 51 (7.83%) Bash
4 26 (3.99%) SQL
5 11 (1.69%) C
6 8 (1.23%) C++
6 8 (1.23%) Java
7 7 (1.08%) Embedded C
7 7 (1.08%) Embedded C++
7 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.77%) 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%) Perl
11 2 (0.31%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 272 (41.78%) Security Cleared
2 171 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 110 (16.90%) DV Cleared
4 55 (8.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 37 (5.68%) Degree
6 34 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (4.61%) VCAP
8 21 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.23%) MCSE
9 19 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 18 (2.76%) MCSA
11 14 (2.15%) CCNP
12 12 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (1.54%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.38%) OCP
15 8 (1.23%) CCNA
16 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.92%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.92%) SLA
3 18 (2.76%) NIST
4 15 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.54%) NCSC
6 7 (1.08%) GDPR
7 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.46%) 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%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 189 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 145 (22.27%) vSphere
3 138 (21.20%) VMware ESXi
4 129 (19.82%) VMware NSX
5 122 (18.74%) Hyper-V
6 84 (12.90%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (6.61%) Docker
8 36 (5.53%) NFS
9 34 (5.22%) Firmware
10 25 (3.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (3.53%) KVM
12 13 (2.00%) GPFS
13 11 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.38%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.92%) vCloud
16 5 (0.77%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
17 4 (0.61%) XenApp
18 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
18 3 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 123 (18.89%) Ansible
2 105 (16.13%) vCenter Server
3 76 (11.67%) Terraform
4 67 (10.29%) Kubernetes
5 52 (7.99%) SCCM
6 46 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (6.45%) vRealize
8 21 (3.23%) Argo
8 21 (3.23%) Grafana
9 19 (2.92%) vMotion
9 19 (2.92%) VxRail
10 18 (2.76%) PowerCLI
10 18 (2.76%) SCOM
11 17 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (2.30%) WSUS
14 12 (1.84%) Progress Chef
14 12 (1.84%) Puppet
15 11 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
15 11 (1.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 651 (100.00%) VMware
2 179 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 136 (20.89%) Cisco
4 64 (9.83%) Citrix
5 57 (8.76%) NetApp
6 49 (7.53%) F5
7 47 (7.22%) Red Hat
8 36 (5.53%) IBM
8 36 (5.53%) ServiceNow
9 35 (5.38%) Dell
9 35 (5.38%) Oracle
10 32 (4.92%) Palo Alto
10 32 (4.92%) Pure Storage
11 26 (3.99%) Veeam
12 23 (3.53%) McAfee
13 22 (3.38%) CheckPoint
14 21 (3.23%) SolarWinds
15 20 (3.07%) Commvault
16 19 (2.92%) Blue Coat
16 19 (2.92%) Broadcom
248 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England