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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 119 111
Rank change year-on-year -54 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 582 568 780
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.28% 2.05%
As % of the System Software category 13.88% 17.53% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 385 491
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £403 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £595
90th Percentile £670 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -6.63% +7.10% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 46
10th Percentile £22.00 £74.40 £22.04
25th Percentile £67.70 £88.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £112.00 £48.14
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +132.68% -25.95%
75th Percentile - - £75.94
90th Percentile £76.56 - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 4,193 3,240 4,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.65% 13.01% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 2,198 2,896
10th Percentile £205 £206 £188
25th Percentile £400 £390 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 80 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.46 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% +36.67% -37.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £88.00 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £31.38
% change year-on-year +29.05% +3.59% -21.56%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -6 149 £523 -7.11% 88
London -85 128 £550 +2.33% 53
North of England -36 115 £441 +3.65% 66
Midlands -7 113 £401 -27.22% 30
West Midlands -8 85 £340 -43.99% 20
North West -18 68 £441 +3.65% 37
South West -58 60 £550 -4.35% 44
Yorkshire -27 54 £425 -6.08% 25
East of England -14 31 £475 +1.82% 20
East Midlands -17 28 £447 -14.86% 9
North East -16 2 £513 +46.43% 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 37 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.58%) Confluence
4 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.86%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 171 (29.38%) Azure
2 130 (22.34%) AWS
3 58 (9.97%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.25%) OpenShift
5 45 (7.73%) GCP
6 44 (7.56%) Entra ID
7 27 (4.64%) IaaS
8 26 (4.47%) Nutanix
9 18 (3.09%) GitHub
10 17 (2.92%) PaaS
11 14 (2.41%) Datadog
12 7 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (1.03%) Rubrik
14 5 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.86%) Cohesity
15 4 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 163 (28.01%) DNS
2 140 (24.05%) Firewall
3 79 (13.57%) DHCP
4 58 (9.97%) VPN
5 53 (9.11%) SAN
6 48 (8.25%) TCP/IP
7 42 (7.22%) Network Security
8 41 (7.04%) VSAN
9 34 (5.84%) WAN
10 32 (5.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 30 (5.15%) BIG-IP
11 30 (5.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 30 (5.15%) LAN
11 30 (5.15%) SSL
12 28 (4.81%) NAS
12 28 (4.81%) VLAN
13 27 (4.64%) HTTP
14 25 (4.30%) Wireshark
15 23 (3.95%) BGP
16 17 (2.92%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.52%) Redis
5 2 (0.34%) DataStage
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) Power BI
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.09%) Fiddler
2 18 (3.09%) JIRA
3 15 (2.58%) Git
4 13 (2.23%) GitLab
5 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.37%) PVCS
6 8 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.20%) JMeter
7 7 (1.20%) JUnit
8 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.52%) RStudio
9 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.34%) Subversion
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 140 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.31%) Public Sector
3 58 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.28%) Finance
5 52 (8.93%) Banking
6 27 (4.64%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.78%) Legal
9 14 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.89%) Military
11 10 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Electronics
13 7 (1.20%) Police
14 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.86%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.86%) Local Government
16 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.52%) Social Science
18 2 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 105 (18.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (14.60%) Architect
3 57 (9.79%) Analyst
4 44 (7.56%) Network Engineer
5 33 (5.67%) Senior
6 32 (5.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 30 (5.15%) VMware Engineer
8 28 (4.81%) Infrastructure Architect
9 27 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (4.12%) Lead
11 23 (3.95%) Consultant
11 23 (3.95%) Support Engineer
12 22 (3.78%) Storage Analyst
13 19 (3.26%) Web Engineer
14 18 (3.09%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 18 (3.09%) IP Network Engineer
15 17 (2.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.92%) Wintel Engineer
16 16 (2.75%) VMware Consultant
17 15 (2.58%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.61%) Flash
2 14 (2.41%) LDAP
3 10 (1.72%) SAML
4 9 (1.55%) Kafka
5 7 (1.20%) Loki
5 7 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.20%) Spring
6 6 (1.03%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.03%) REST
7 5 (0.86%) Middleware
7 5 (0.86%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.69%) OAuth
8 4 (0.69%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.69%) OpenID
9 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.34%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.48%) Data Centre
2 57 (9.79%) Replication
3 42 (7.22%) PKI
4 37 (6.36%) Cloud Native
5 33 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.98%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (4.98%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.95%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.61%) Clustering
9 17 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
10 16 (2.75%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.41%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.89%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.72%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.20%) Driving Licence
16 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 5 (0.86%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 256 (43.99%) Windows
2 207 (35.57%) Linux
3 160 (27.49%) Windows Server
4 44 (7.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (4.47%) Windows 10
7 23 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.75%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.75%) VMS
10 15 (2.58%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.72%) Unix
12 9 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
13 7 (1.20%) CentOS
13 7 (1.20%) Solaris
14 6 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.86%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.69%) AIX
16 4 (0.69%) CatOS
17 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (23.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 105 (18.04%) Migration
3 97 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (15.12%) Agile
5 74 (12.71%) CI/CD
6 70 (12.03%) High Availability
7 69 (11.86%) DevOps
7 69 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 67 (11.51%) Load Balancing
9 62 (10.65%) ITIL
10 56 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (8.93%) Containerisation
12 49 (8.42%) Data Protection
12 49 (8.42%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (6.87%) Roadmaps
15 38 (6.53%) Capacity Planning
15 38 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (6.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (5.84%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 138 (23.71%) PowerShell
2 102 (17.53%) Python
3 72 (12.37%) Bash
4 15 (2.58%) SQL
5 13 (2.23%) Perl
6 11 (1.89%) C
7 8 (1.37%) C++
7 8 (1.37%) Java
8 7 (1.20%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.20%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.86%) Bicep
9 5 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.69%) C#
10 4 (0.69%) PHP
11 2 (0.34%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 226 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.71%) DV Cleared
4 43 (7.39%) Degree
5 38 (6.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 31 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (3.61%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.44%) CCNP
10 15 (2.58%) VCAP
11 14 (2.41%) MCSE
12 13 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (2.06%) CCNA
13 12 (2.06%) MCSA
14 11 (1.89%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.03%) CCDP
16 6 (1.03%) CCIE
16 6 (1.03%) CISSP
16 6 (1.03%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.92%) GDPR
3 16 (2.75%) NIST
4 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.20%) SLA
6 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.69%) QA
7 3 (0.52%) NCSC
7 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 177 (30.41%) Active Directory
2 134 (23.02%) vSphere
3 94 (16.15%) Hyper-V
4 93 (15.98%) VMware NSX
5 86 (14.78%) VMware ESXi
6 54 (9.28%) Docker
7 51 (8.76%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (6.70%) NFS
9 27 (4.64%) Firmware
10 26 (4.47%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (2.92%) KVM
12 16 (2.75%) GPFS
13 6 (1.03%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.86%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.69%) vCloud
15 4 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.52%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.52%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.34%) Sendmail
17 2 (0.34%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 100 (17.18%) Ansible
2 74 (12.71%) Terraform
3 70 (12.03%) Kubernetes
3 70 (12.03%) vCenter Server
4 58 (9.97%) SCCM
5 57 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (7.73%) vRealize
7 23 (3.95%) Grafana
8 22 (3.78%) Argo
9 20 (3.44%) VxRail
10 19 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (2.58%) Progress Chef
13 14 (2.41%) Prometheus
14 13 (2.23%) SCOM
14 13 (2.23%) vMotion
15 11 (1.89%) FortiGate
15 11 (1.89%) PowerCLI
15 11 (1.89%) Puppet
16 9 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 582 (100.00%) VMware
2 164 (28.18%) Microsoft
3 123 (21.13%) Cisco
4 62 (10.65%) Citrix
5 58 (9.97%) F5
5 58 (9.97%) Red Hat
6 45 (7.73%) NetApp
7 42 (7.22%) IBM
8 35 (6.01%) Dell
9 33 (5.67%) ServiceNow
9 33 (5.67%) SolarWinds
10 30 (5.15%) Pure Storage
11 29 (4.98%) Oracle
12 27 (4.64%) Palo Alto
13 24 (4.12%) Commvault
13 24 (4.12%) Veeam
14 22 (3.78%) McAfee
15 19 (3.26%) Blue Coat
16 17 (2.92%) HP
17 16 (2.75%) Google