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

 6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 176 112
Rank change year-on-year +9 -64 -27
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 795 450 695
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.60% 2.17%
As % of the System Software category 16.94% 12.67% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 304 408
10th Percentile £316 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £512
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% +5.21% -2.51%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £512
% change year-on-year - +2.57% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 3 8
10th Percentile £25.08 £24.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £26.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £90.00 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £98.19 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -63.93%

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 4,692 3,552 3,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.59% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 2,280 2,432
10th Percentile £215 £206 £220
25th Percentile £393 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 116 79
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £25.80 £21.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.82% +9.68% -34.74%
75th Percentile £74.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.19 £81.71
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £28.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -6.56% -39.00%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -11 205 £538 +2.38% 90
London -12 194 £550 +10.00% 133
North of England +6 174 £478 +12.47% 63
Midlands -22 86 £450 -18.18% 52
Yorkshire -2 80 £525 +27.27% 21
North West -7 79 £448 +3.88% 34
South West -20 79 £644 +17.05% 53
West Midlands -24 65 £450 -21.40% 29
East of England -1 59 £600 +9.09% 30
East Midlands +1 21 £438 -7.89% 23
North East -23 16 £400 - 10
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 38 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.01%) Confluence
4 14 (1.76%) CMS
4 14 (1.76%) IIS
5 9 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) JBoss
7 5 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.50%) Apache
8 4 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.50%) nginx
8 4 (0.50%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.25%) Houdini
3 2 (0.25%) NUKE
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 225 (28.30%) Azure
2 116 (14.59%) AWS
3 82 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (7.80%) Entra ID
5 45 (5.66%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.15%) GCP
7 26 (3.27%) GitHub
8 24 (3.02%) IaaS
9 18 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.01%) Rubrik
11 15 (1.89%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.64%) Nutanix
12 13 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.64%) SaaS
13 12 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.51%) PaaS
14 9 (1.13%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.75%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 251 (31.57%) DNS
2 167 (21.01%) Firewall
3 158 (19.87%) DHCP
4 100 (12.58%) TCP/IP
5 67 (8.43%) VLAN
6 66 (8.30%) SAN
6 66 (8.30%) VSAN
7 64 (8.05%) VPN
8 54 (6.79%) Network Security
9 52 (6.54%) WAN
10 50 (6.29%) LAN
11 34 (4.28%) NAS
12 33 (4.15%) SSL
13 29 (3.65%) BGP
14 28 (3.52%) HTTP
15 27 (3.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 26 (3.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 22 (2.77%) NetScaler
18 21 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (2.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.64%) Power BI
4 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.13%) Big Data
6 7 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.75%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.25%) GIS
12 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (4.40%) JIRA
2 23 (2.89%) Git
3 20 (2.52%) GitLab
4 19 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.38%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.50%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.50%) PVCS
7 4 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
9 1 (0.13%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 183 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.82%) Finance
3 86 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.03%) Public Sector
5 30 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.52%) Banking
7 25 (3.14%) Legal
8 17 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.13%) Law
10 9 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.01%) Back Office
11 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.75%) Police
13 6 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 191 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 107 (13.46%) Senior
3 77 (9.69%) VMware Engineer
4 67 (8.43%) Architect
5 53 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 51 (6.42%) Network Engineer
7 50 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (5.66%) Lead
9 42 (5.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (4.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 35 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.15%) Storage Engineer
13 28 (3.52%) Administrator
14 25 (3.14%) Consultant
14 25 (3.14%) Wintel Engineer
15 24 (3.02%) Server Engineer
16 23 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
17 22 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (2.64%) IT Engineer
18 21 (2.64%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (14.09%) Terraform
2 26 (3.27%) REST
3 20 (2.52%) JSON
4 16 (2.01%) Kafka
5 13 (1.64%) XMPP
6 12 (1.51%) YAML
7 11 (1.38%) 802.1X
8 10 (1.26%) LDAP
9 7 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.88%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.63%) .NET
11 5 (0.63%) Middleware
12 4 (0.50%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Flash
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
14 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
14 2 (0.25%) OAuth
14 2 (0.25%) Qt
14 2 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (17.23%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (7.92%) PKI
4 45 (5.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 39 (4.91%) Clustering
6 34 (4.28%) Replication
7 32 (4.03%) Private Cloud
8 30 (3.77%) Management Information System
9 26 (3.27%) Onboarding
9 26 (3.27%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.64%) Cloud Native
11 20 (2.52%) Video Conferencing
12 17 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (2.01%) Operational Technology
14 14 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.76%) SCADA
15 13 (1.64%) Product Ownership
16 10 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 435 (54.72%) Windows
2 294 (36.98%) Windows Server
3 194 (24.40%) Linux
4 46 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (5.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.14%) Windows 10
7 21 (2.64%) Unix
8 20 (2.52%) VMS
9 18 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (1.64%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.88%) CentOS
14 7 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
14 7 (0.88%) Solaris
15 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.63%) macOS
17 4 (0.50%) AIX
17 4 (0.50%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (21.01%) ITIL
3 151 (18.99%) Migration
4 150 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (15.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 112 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
8 101 (12.70%) Change Management
9 100 (12.58%) CI/CD
10 87 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
11 86 (10.82%) ITSM
12 82 (10.31%) High Availability
13 81 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 81 (10.19%) Project Delivery
14 80 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
14 80 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 79 (9.94%) Agile
16 78 (9.81%) Platform Engineering
17 76 (9.56%) Service Management
18 66 (8.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 194 (24.40%) PowerShell
2 108 (13.58%) Python
3 65 (8.18%) Bash
4 49 (6.16%) SQL
5 17 (2.14%) Java
6 9 (1.13%) Bicep
6 9 (1.13%) C
7 4 (0.50%) C++
7 4 (0.50%) Go
8 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.38%) Korn
8 3 (0.38%) Lua
8 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.38%) VB
9 2 (0.25%) VBScript
10 1 (0.13%) C#
10 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 400 (50.31%) Security Cleared
2 231 (29.06%) SC Cleared
3 185 (23.27%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.30%) Degree
5 56 (7.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 45 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (5.03%) VCAP
8 33 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (3.14%) CCNP
10 24 (3.02%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.52%) CCNA
11 20 (2.52%) MCSE
12 17 (2.14%) AWS Certification
13 16 (2.01%) MCSA
14 10 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.13%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.01%) ISTQB
16 8 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (1.01%) PMI Certification
16 8 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.64%) QA
2 17 (2.14%) SLA
3 15 (1.89%) NIST
4 13 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.13%) NCSC
7 5 (0.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.63%) GxP
7 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.50%) GDPR
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
System Software
1 287 (36.10%) Active Directory
2 201 (25.28%) vSphere
3 186 (23.40%) VMware ESXi
4 171 (21.51%) Hyper-V
5 112 (14.09%) VMware NSX
6 81 (10.19%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (6.29%) Docker
8 41 (5.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.03%) Firmware
10 20 (2.52%) NFS
10 20 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (1.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 13 (1.64%) KVM
13 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 9 (1.13%) XenApp
15 8 (1.01%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.88%) oVirt
16 7 (0.88%) vCloud
16 7 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.63%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 132 (16.60%) Kubernetes
2 129 (16.23%) vCenter Server
3 125 (15.72%) Ansible
4 56 (7.04%) SCCM
4 56 (7.04%) SCOM
5 48 (6.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (4.40%) VxRail
7 17 (2.14%) Cisco CUCM
7 17 (2.14%) Prometheus
8 16 (2.01%) Grafana
8 16 (2.01%) Puppet
8 16 (2.01%) vRealize
9 14 (1.76%) PowerCLI
10 13 (1.64%) Avamar
10 13 (1.64%) Dell DRAC
11 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Clustering
11 12 (1.51%) Nagios
11 12 (1.51%) vMotion
12 11 (1.38%) NetBackup
13 9 (1.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 795 (100.00%) VMware
2 251 (31.57%) Microsoft
3 139 (17.48%) Cisco
4 59 (7.42%) Citrix
5 54 (6.79%) Dell
6 53 (6.67%) NetApp
7 52 (6.54%) Red Hat
8 41 (5.16%) SolarWinds
9 39 (4.91%) ServiceNow
10 34 (4.28%) F5
10 34 (4.28%) Veeam
11 30 (3.77%) Oracle
12 26 (3.27%) Juniper
13 24 (3.02%) Fortinet
13 24 (3.02%) Palo Alto
14 21 (2.64%) Remedy
15 19 (2.39%) Broadcom
16 17 (2.14%) Commvault
16 17 (2.14%) McAfee
17 15 (1.89%) BMC
445 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England