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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 106 87
Rank change year-on-year -64 -19 +43
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 517 719 1,035
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 2.30% 2.62%
As % of the System Software category 13.52% 19.26% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 431 670
10th Percentile £300 £313 £308
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £636
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 57
10th Percentile £21.75 £23.24 £35.00
25th Percentile £24.75 £29.69 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.25 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -24.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £69.31 £88.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £72.13 £112.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £48.25 £37.08 £65.98
% change year-on-year +30.12% -43.80% +1.51%

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 3,825 3,734 5,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.65% 11.96% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,496 2,400 3,574
10th Percentile £213 £220 £198
25th Percentile £395 £385 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £703 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 80 237
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +14.05% +80.78%
75th Percentile £72.50 £69.77 £67.25
90th Percentile £88.15 £75.00 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £37.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -23.14% -19.70% +87.53%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -32 124 £525 -4.55% 128
London -83 118 £505 +1.00% 114
North of England -1 98 £447 -1.76% 34
Midlands -18 87 £450 -21.74% 59
West Midlands -12 71 £475 -20.83% 29
South West -33 71 £550 -3.93% 48
Yorkshire +8 55 £413 -21.43% 14
North West -6 55 £513 +20.59% 16
East of England -2 30 £550 +10.00% 37
East Midlands -22 16 £450 +9.22% 30
North East -12 2 £550 +83.33% 4
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 36 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (5.22%) Confluence
3 21 (4.06%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.93%) Apache
4 10 (1.93%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.74%) IIS
6 7 (1.35%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.58%) nginx
9 2 (0.39%) CICS
9 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.19%) Traefik
10 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 148 (28.63%) Azure
2 111 (21.47%) AWS
3 46 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (7.93%) GCP
5 32 (6.19%) OpenShift
6 25 (4.84%) Entra ID
7 23 (4.45%) GitHub
8 21 (4.06%) SaaS
9 20 (3.87%) IaaS
10 16 (3.09%) Nutanix
11 11 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (2.13%) PaaS
12 10 (1.93%) Datadog
13 9 (1.74%) Cohesity
14 8 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
17 4 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
17 4 (0.77%) OneDrive
18 3 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 159 (30.75%) DNS
2 123 (23.79%) Firewall
3 70 (13.54%) TCP/IP
4 62 (11.99%) DHCP
5 49 (9.48%) VLAN
6 45 (8.70%) SAN
6 45 (8.70%) VPN
7 33 (6.38%) VSAN
8 32 (6.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 32 (6.19%) Network Security
9 29 (5.61%) WAN
10 28 (5.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 26 (5.03%) BGP
11 26 (5.03%) DMZ
12 25 (4.84%) LAN
13 21 (4.06%) iSCSI
14 20 (3.87%) NAS
15 19 (3.68%) MPLS
16 18 (3.48%) Fibre Channel
17 16 (3.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.39%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.39%) MySQL
4 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (8.90%) Jenkins
2 34 (6.58%) Git
3 22 (4.26%) JIRA
4 17 (3.29%) GitLab
5 16 (3.09%) Postman
6 14 (2.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.55%) Subversion
8 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.35%) JMeter
8 7 (1.35%) JUnit
9 6 (1.16%) Fiddler
10 5 (0.97%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.77%) MSI
11 4 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.39%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.39%) PVCS
12 2 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.39%) RStudio
12 2 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 154 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (10.64%) Finance
3 55 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 41 (7.93%) Banking
5 29 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (3.68%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.13%) Legal
11 6 (1.16%) Law
11 6 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.77%) Electronics
13 4 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.58%) Military
15 2 (0.39%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 83 (16.05%) Architect
2 75 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (6.77%) Senior
4 32 (6.19%) Consultant
5 31 (6.00%) Support Engineer
6 29 (5.61%) Network Engineer
7 27 (5.22%) Analyst
8 25 (4.84%) Infrastructure Architect
9 22 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (3.87%) Administrator
11 19 (3.68%) Windows Engineer
12 18 (3.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 18 (3.48%) VMware Architect
13 17 (3.29%) Infrastructure Support
13 17 (3.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 17 (3.29%) VMware Engineer
14 15 (2.90%) VMware Consultant
15 14 (2.71%) Operations Engineer
16 12 (2.32%) Linux Administrator
16 12 (2.32%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.13%) REST
2 9 (1.74%) Flash
3 8 (1.55%) Middleware
4 7 (1.35%) Kafka
4 7 (1.35%) Loki
4 7 (1.35%) NETCONF
4 7 (1.35%) RESTCONF
4 7 (1.35%) Spring
5 6 (1.16%) Hibernate
6 5 (0.97%) YAML
7 4 (0.77%) RESTful
8 3 (0.58%) .NET
8 3 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.58%) OAuth
8 3 (0.58%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.58%) OpenID
8 3 (0.58%) SAML
8 3 (0.58%) Swagger
9 2 (0.39%) LDAP
9 2 (0.39%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.80%) Data Centre
2 40 (7.74%) PKI
3 39 (7.54%) Replication
4 33 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 31 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (4.06%) Private Cloud
7 20 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (3.09%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.13%) Clustering
9 11 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.55%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.16%) NHS
13 6 (1.16%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 235 (45.45%) Windows
2 189 (36.56%) Linux
3 127 (24.56%) Windows Server
4 55 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (7.16%) Windows 10
6 30 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (3.29%) CentOS
10 14 (2.71%) Ubuntu
10 14 (2.71%) VMS
11 13 (2.51%) Mac OS
12 12 (2.32%) Solaris
13 11 (2.13%) Unix
14 6 (1.16%) AIX
15 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.39%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (17.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (16.25%) Agile
4 74 (14.31%) DevOps
5 69 (13.35%) Migration
6 64 (12.38%) CI/CD
7 62 (11.99%) Disaster Recovery
8 59 (11.41%) ITIL
9 53 (10.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (9.09%) Containerisation
11 44 (8.51%) Load Balancing
12 43 (8.32%) Business Strategy
13 42 (8.12%) High Availability
14 41 (7.93%) Service Management
15 39 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (7.54%) Data Protection
16 35 (6.77%) Validation
17 31 (6.00%) Configuration Management
17 31 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (5.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.53%) Python
2 122 (23.60%) PowerShell
3 77 (14.89%) Bash
4 39 (7.54%) SQL
5 18 (3.48%) Java
6 17 (3.29%) Perl
7 10 (1.93%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.74%) PHP
9 7 (1.35%) C++
9 7 (1.35%) Go
9 7 (1.35%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.77%) C
11 1 (0.19%) C#
11 1 (0.19%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.19%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.19%) Korn
11 1 (0.19%) Rust
11 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (37.91%) Security Cleared
2 130 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 70 (13.54%) DV Cleared
4 46 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (8.12%) Degree
6 40 (7.74%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (6.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 31 (6.00%) CCNP
9 26 (5.03%) Azure Certification
10 21 (4.06%) MCSE
11 16 (3.09%) CCNA
12 11 (2.13%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.13%) Master's Degree
12 11 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (2.13%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (1.93%) CCIE
13 10 (1.93%) VCAP
14 8 (1.55%) JNCIE
14 8 (1.55%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.64%) GDPR
2 15 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.13%) QA
4 9 (1.74%) SLA
5 8 (1.55%) NIST
6 6 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) NCSC
9 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 157 (30.37%) Active Directory
2 100 (19.34%) vSphere
3 79 (15.28%) VMware ESXi
4 71 (13.73%) Hyper-V
5 54 (10.44%) VMware NSX
6 43 (8.32%) Docker
7 38 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (5.42%) NFS
9 20 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (3.68%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (2.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 12 (2.32%) Firmware
13 11 (2.13%) KVM
14 9 (1.74%) GPFS
15 7 (1.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 6 (1.16%) Dovecot
16 6 (1.16%) Postfix
16 6 (1.16%) Terminal Services
16 6 (1.16%) UAG
17 5 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 126 (24.37%) Ansible
2 75 (14.51%) Terraform
3 62 (11.99%) vCenter Server
4 61 (11.80%) SCCM
5 43 (8.32%) Kubernetes
6 36 (6.96%) vRealize
7 30 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (5.22%) Puppet
9 19 (3.68%) WSUS
10 17 (3.29%) VxRail
11 16 (3.09%) Grafana
12 15 (2.90%) Argo
13 13 (2.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (2.51%) Progress Chef
13 13 (2.51%) Prometheus
14 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (1.93%) NetBackup
15 10 (1.93%) PowerCLI
16 9 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
17 8 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 517 (100.00%) VMware
2 172 (33.27%) Microsoft
3 106 (20.50%) Cisco
4 58 (11.22%) Red Hat
5 57 (11.03%) F5
6 48 (9.28%) NetApp
7 47 (9.09%) Citrix
8 39 (7.54%) Veeam
9 32 (6.19%) Dell
9 32 (6.19%) SolarWinds
10 31 (6.00%) Splunk
11 30 (5.80%) Oracle
12 23 (4.45%) IBM
13 19 (3.68%) Broadcom
14 17 (3.29%) MuleSoft
14 17 (3.29%) Palo Alto
15 15 (2.90%) Juniper
16 14 (2.71%) Fortinet
16 14 (2.71%) Google
17 13 (2.51%) CyberArk