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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 153 104
Rank change year-on-year -16 -49 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 708 484 787
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.76% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 15.79% 14.66% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 323 513
10th Percentile £325 £329 £307
25th Percentile £425 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +5.26% -0.48%
75th Percentile £590 £616 £588
90th Percentile £650 £673 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 20
10th Percentile £21.28 £28.20 £22.28
25th Percentile £30.17 £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 £74.20 £29.50 £41.55
90th Percentile £96.93 £29.80 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +68.97% -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 4,484 3,302 4,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.99% 12.04% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,162 2,853
10th Percentile £213 £214 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 87 178
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -46.63%
75th Percentile £74.20 £79.35 £58.64
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £22.45
% change year-on-year +60.21% +45.97% -55.10%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 215 £538 -6.93% 60
London -34 164 £500 -4.76% 40
North of England -12 145 £481 +14.87% 32
Midlands -6 91 £450 -17.09% 21
North West -7 72 £459 +18.45% 21
Yorkshire -25 71 £500 +11.11% 7
West Midlands -27 68 £450 -18.18% 11
South West -46 66 £550 -4.35% 26
East of England -20 33 £500 -9.09% 15
East Midlands -6 23 £450 -15.97% 10
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 39 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.27%) IIS
4 8 (1.13%) nginx
4 8 (1.13%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.85%) 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 (1.27%) 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 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (27.12%) Azure
2 124 (17.51%) AWS
3 53 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.64%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.50%) OpenShift
6 30 (4.24%) GCP
7 24 (3.39%) GitHub
8 19 (2.68%) IaaS
9 16 (2.26%) Nutanix
10 12 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.69%) Rubrik
11 11 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.55%) PaaS
12 9 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.13%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.13%) SaaS
14 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.99%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (29.10%) DNS
2 154 (21.75%) Firewall
3 122 (17.23%) DHCP
4 77 (10.88%) VSAN
5 76 (10.73%) SAN
6 73 (10.31%) TCP/IP
7 65 (9.18%) VPN
8 60 (8.47%) WAN
9 52 (7.34%) Network Security
10 49 (6.92%) VLAN
11 46 (6.50%) NAS
12 45 (6.36%) LAN
13 43 (6.07%) SSL
14 29 (4.10%) BGP
15 28 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 27 (3.81%) HTTP
17 26 (3.67%) Wireshark
18 25 (3.53%) BIG-IP
19 23 (3.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
20 22 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.85%) Power BI
4 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle BI EE
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%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
9 1 (0.14%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.14%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 27 (3.81%) Jenkins
1 27 (3.81%) JIRA
2 16 (2.26%) Fiddler
2 16 (2.26%) Git
3 12 (1.69%) GitLab
4 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.28%) MSI
5 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.28%) Subversion
6 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 156 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (8.19%) Finance
3 46 (6.50%) Public Sector
4 35 (4.94%) Banking
5 21 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (2.97%) Legal
6 17 (2.40%) Investment Banking
7 13 (1.84%) Military
8 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.99%) Police
10 7 (0.99%) Retail
11 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.85%) Law
12 5 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Advertising
14 2 (0.28%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 169 (23.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 80 (11.30%) Senior
3 68 (9.60%) Network Engineer
4 67 (9.46%) Architect
5 65 (9.18%) VMware Engineer
6 38 (5.37%) Support Engineer
7 35 (4.94%) Lead
8 31 (4.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 31 (4.38%) Storage Engineer
9 29 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (3.95%) Consultant
11 26 (3.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 24 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (3.39%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 22 (3.11%) Administrator
13 22 (3.11%) Wintel Engineer
14 21 (2.97%) Senior Network Engineer
15 20 (2.82%) VMware Consultant
16 18 (2.54%) Data Centre Engineer
16 18 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.69%) Flash
2 11 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.55%) REST
3 10 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.41%) LDAP
4 6 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (0.85%) Middleware
5 5 (0.71%) .NET
5 5 (0.71%) JSON
6 4 (0.56%) Redfish
7 3 (0.42%) Kafka
7 3 (0.42%) SAML
7 3 (0.42%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.42%) YAML
8 2 (0.28%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.28%) Java SE
8 2 (0.28%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.28%) Qt
8 2 (0.28%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (14.41%) Data Centre
2 58 (8.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (8.19%) PKI
3 54 (7.63%) Replication
4 45 (6.36%) Enterprise Storage
5 37 (5.23%) Clustering
6 27 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 24 (3.39%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (2.40%) Private Cloud
10 16 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.55%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.41%) SCADA
13 10 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.13%) EMC VMAX
15 8 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 358 (50.56%) Windows
2 227 (32.06%) Windows Server
3 200 (28.25%) Linux
4 44 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (5.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (3.39%) VMS
6 24 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (2.40%) Data ONTAP
7 17 (2.40%) Windows 10
8 15 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 15 (2.12%) Unix
9 12 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (1.55%) Solaris
11 8 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.99%) CentOS
12 7 (0.99%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.71%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (30.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 144 (20.34%) Migration
3 120 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (16.10%) High Availability
5 91 (12.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 90 (12.71%) ITIL
7 83 (11.72%) CI/CD
8 82 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 74 (10.45%) Network Virtualisation
10 66 (9.32%) DevOps
11 65 (9.18%) Agile
12 63 (8.90%) Capacity Planning
12 63 (8.90%) Change Management
13 60 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (8.33%) Load Balancing
15 58 (8.19%) Validation
16 57 (8.05%) ITSM
17 55 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (6.64%) Performance Tuning
18 47 (6.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (22.74%) PowerShell
2 102 (14.41%) Python
3 63 (8.90%) Bash
4 33 (4.66%) SQL
5 13 (1.84%) Java
6 7 (0.99%) C
6 7 (0.99%) PL/SQL
7 5 (0.71%) Bicep
7 5 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.42%) COBOL
8 3 (0.42%) Lua
8 3 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.28%) VBScript
10 1 (0.14%) C#
10 1 (0.14%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Korn
10 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.14%) Perl
10 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 338 (47.74%) Security Cleared
2 190 (26.84%) SC Cleared
3 166 (23.45%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (6.50%) Degree
6 37 (5.23%) VCAP
7 33 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (2.97%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.97%) MCSE
9 19 (2.68%) CCNP
9 19 (2.68%) MCSA
10 15 (2.12%) CCNA
11 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (1.27%) OCP
14 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.99%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.25%) NIST
2 21 (2.97%) SLA
3 17 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.69%) NCSC
6 7 (0.99%) QA
7 5 (0.71%) 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
1 222 (31.36%) Active Directory
2 188 (26.55%) VMware ESXi
3 179 (25.28%) vSphere
4 144 (20.34%) VMware NSX
5 131 (18.50%) Hyper-V
6 92 (12.99%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (6.78%) Docker
8 38 (5.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.52%) Firmware
10 31 (4.38%) NFS
11 24 (3.39%) KVM
12 11 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.27%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.27%) vCloud
14 7 (0.99%) GPFS
15 6 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.71%) SRDF
17 4 (0.56%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 148 (20.90%) vCenter Server
2 141 (19.92%) Ansible
3 93 (13.14%) Terraform
4 89 (12.57%) Kubernetes
5 42 (5.93%) SCCM
6 37 (5.23%) SCOM
7 36 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (4.52%) vRealize
9 25 (3.53%) Grafana
9 25 (3.53%) VxRail
10 21 (2.97%) vMotion
11 20 (2.82%) Argo
12 18 (2.54%) PowerCLI
13 16 (2.26%) Puppet
14 14 (1.98%) NetBackup
14 14 (1.98%) Prometheus
14 14 (1.98%) WSUS
15 13 (1.84%) EMC VPLEX
16 12 (1.69%) Avamar
16 12 (1.69%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 708 (100.00%) VMware
2 187 (26.41%) Microsoft
3 140 (19.77%) Cisco
4 58 (8.19%) Citrix
5 56 (7.91%) NetApp
6 52 (7.34%) Red Hat
7 45 (6.36%) Dell
8 39 (5.51%) F5
9 32 (4.52%) Juniper
10 31 (4.38%) Palo Alto
10 31 (4.38%) ServiceNow
10 31 (4.38%) SolarWinds
11 30 (4.24%) Pure Storage
12 28 (3.95%) Veeam
13 26 (3.67%) Oracle
14 23 (3.25%) Broadcom
15 21 (2.97%) IBM
16 20 (2.82%) Commvault
17 19 (2.68%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.68%) McAfee