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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 157 103
Rank change year-on-year -16 -54 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 702 502 805
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.84% 2.19%
As % of the System Software category 15.40% 15.07% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 340 524
10th Percentile £318 £329 £302
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.11% -6.22%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 27
10th Percentile £19.93 £28.20 £22.21
25th Percentile £29.00 £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 £74.00 £29.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £92.25 £29.80 £72.75
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 4,557 3,331 4,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.11% 12.21% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,186 2,924
10th Percentile £207 £217 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 87 191
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.50 £14.99
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +54.71% -53.05%
75th Percentile £74.00 £75.60 £58.59
90th Percentile £81.20 £89.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £29.25 £24.18
% change year-on-year +74.36% +20.97% -51.64%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -4 205 £538 -6.93% 86
London -31 160 £500 -4.76% 53
North of England -11 146 £480 +14.63% 38
Midlands -8 96 £450 -18.18% 29
North West -3 74 £459 +8.00% 25
West Midlands -27 72 £450 -31.51% 18
Yorkshire -21 70 £500 +11.11% 7
South West -49 70 £550 -4.35% 49
East of England -32 31 £500 -9.09% 20
East Midlands -6 24 £450 -17.09% 11
North East -39 2 £588 +67.86% 7
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.28%) IIS
4 8 (1.14%) nginx
4 8 (1.14%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.57%) Apache
6 4 (0.57%) Confluence
7 3 (0.43%) CICS
7 3 (0.43%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Houdini
4 1 (0.14%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 197 (28.06%) Azure
2 124 (17.66%) AWS
3 52 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (7.12%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.55%) OpenShift
6 31 (4.42%) GCP
7 24 (3.42%) GitHub
8 19 (2.71%) IaaS
9 16 (2.28%) Nutanix
10 12 (1.71%) Rubrik
11 11 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.57%) PaaS
12 9 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.00%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.00%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.00%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.00%) SaaS
14 6 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 206 (29.34%) DNS
2 152 (21.65%) Firewall
3 118 (16.81%) DHCP
4 76 (10.83%) SAN
5 71 (10.11%) VSAN
6 68 (9.69%) VPN
7 65 (9.26%) TCP/IP
7 65 (9.26%) WAN
8 55 (7.83%) Network Security
9 49 (6.98%) LAN
10 47 (6.70%) VLAN
11 46 (6.55%) NAS
12 42 (5.98%) SSL
13 31 (4.42%) BGP
14 30 (4.27%) BIG-IP
15 29 (4.13%) HTTP
16 28 (3.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 27 (3.85%) Wireshark
18 25 (3.56%) Cisco ASA
19 23 (3.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.85%) Power BI
5 5 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.43%) Big Data
7 3 (0.43%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.43%) DataStage
7 3 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.28%) Redis
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 27 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.56%) JIRA
3 17 (2.42%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.14%) Git
5 12 (1.71%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.28%) MSI
7 2 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) GoCD
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 156 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 59 (8.40%) Finance
3 54 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.99%) Banking
6 24 (3.42%) Legal
7 23 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.71%) Military
10 11 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.14%) Police
12 7 (1.00%) Retail
13 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Law
14 4 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
15 3 (0.43%) Local Government
15 3 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (10.54%) Architect
2 74 (10.54%) Senior
3 67 (9.54%) Network Engineer
4 61 (8.69%) VMware Engineer
5 38 (5.41%) Support Engineer
6 33 (4.70%) Lead
7 29 (4.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 28 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (3.99%) Consultant
9 27 (3.85%) Storage Engineer
10 24 (3.42%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 22 (3.13%) Analyst
11 22 (3.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 22 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
12 21 (2.99%) Administrator
12 21 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (2.85%) VMware Consultant
14 18 (2.56%) Data Centre Engineer
14 18 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.14%) Flash
1 15 (2.14%) LDAP
2 11 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.57%) REST
3 10 (1.42%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.00%) SAML
5 6 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.85%) Middleware
6 5 (0.71%) .NET
6 5 (0.71%) JSON
7 4 (0.57%) Redfish
7 4 (0.57%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.43%) YAML
9 2 (0.28%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.28%) Java SE
9 2 (0.28%) OAuth
9 2 (0.28%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.28%) OpenID
9 2 (0.28%) Qt
9 2 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (14.10%) Data Centre
2 59 (8.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (7.55%) PKI
3 53 (7.55%) Replication
4 42 (5.98%) Enterprise Storage
5 33 (4.70%) Clustering
6 27 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.56%) Cloud Native
8 22 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (2.71%) Private Cloud
11 18 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.57%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.28%) SCADA
15 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.14%) EMC VMAX
17 7 (1.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 351 (50.00%) Windows
2 231 (32.91%) Windows Server
3 201 (28.63%) Linux
4 43 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (2.99%) VMS
7 18 (2.56%) Ubuntu
8 17 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
8 17 (2.42%) Windows 10
9 15 (2.14%) Unix
10 14 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.57%) Solaris
12 8 (1.14%) CentOS
12 8 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (1.00%) CoreOS
14 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.57%) AIX
16 4 (0.57%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (30.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 143 (20.37%) Migration
3 119 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (15.10%) High Availability
5 89 (12.68%) ITIL
6 86 (12.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 82 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 80 (11.40%) CI/CD
9 68 (9.69%) Network Virtualisation
10 64 (9.12%) Agile
10 64 (9.12%) DevOps
11 62 (8.83%) Change Management
12 61 (8.69%) Load Balancing
13 60 (8.55%) Capacity Planning
13 60 (8.55%) Validation
14 57 (8.12%) ITSM
15 56 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
16 52 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (6.27%) Containerisation
17 44 (6.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 155 (22.08%) PowerShell
2 99 (14.10%) Python
3 57 (8.12%) Bash
4 30 (4.27%) SQL
5 11 (1.57%) Java
6 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.71%) Bicep
8 5 (0.71%) C
9 4 (0.57%) PHP
9 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.43%) COBOL
11 2 (0.28%) C#
11 2 (0.28%) Lua
11 2 (0.28%) VBScript
12 1 (0.14%) Go
12 1 (0.14%) Korn
12 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.14%) Perl
12 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 325 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 184 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 155 (22.08%) DV Cleared
4 60 (8.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 44 (6.27%) Degree
6 34 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (4.42%) VCAP
9 21 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.99%) MCSE
10 20 (2.85%) CCNP
11 19 (2.71%) MCSA
12 16 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (2.14%) CCNA
14 10 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (1.28%) OCP
16 8 (1.14%) AWS Certification
17 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (1.00%) ISTQB
17 7 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.56%) NIST
2 22 (3.13%) SLA
3 20 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.71%) NCSC
6 7 (1.00%) QA
7 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) GxP
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%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) DICOM
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 220 (31.34%) Active Directory
2 186 (26.50%) VMware ESXi
3 174 (24.79%) vSphere
4 141 (20.09%) VMware NSX
5 132 (18.80%) Hyper-V
6 89 (12.68%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (5.98%) Docker
8 39 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (4.99%) NFS
10 33 (4.70%) Firmware
11 23 (3.28%) KVM
12 11 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (1.42%) GPFS
14 9 (1.28%) BitLocker
14 9 (1.28%) vCloud
15 6 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.71%) SRDF
17 4 (0.57%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 141 (20.09%) vCenter Server
2 137 (19.52%) Ansible
3 91 (12.96%) Terraform
4 83 (11.82%) Kubernetes
5 45 (6.41%) SCCM
6 38 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (5.13%) SCOM
8 35 (4.99%) vRealize
9 25 (3.56%) Grafana
10 22 (3.13%) VxRail
11 21 (2.99%) vMotion
12 20 (2.85%) Argo
13 19 (2.71%) PowerCLI
14 15 (2.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (2.14%) Puppet
15 14 (1.99%) NetBackup
15 14 (1.99%) Prometheus
15 14 (1.99%) WSUS
16 13 (1.85%) EMC VPLEX
17 12 (1.71%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 702 (100.00%) VMware
2 189 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 145 (20.66%) Cisco
4 62 (8.83%) Citrix
5 54 (7.69%) NetApp
6 51 (7.26%) Red Hat
7 44 (6.27%) Dell
8 43 (6.13%) F5
9 35 (4.99%) ServiceNow
10 32 (4.56%) Juniper
10 32 (4.56%) Palo Alto
11 30 (4.27%) Pure Storage
12 29 (4.13%) Oracle
12 29 (4.13%) SolarWinds
13 27 (3.85%) Veeam
14 23 (3.28%) CheckPoint
14 23 (3.28%) IBM
15 21 (2.99%) Broadcom
16 20 (2.85%) McAfee
17 19 (2.71%) Fortinet