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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 143 112
Rank change year-on-year -27 -31 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 658 492 748
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.97% 1.99%
As % of the System Software category 15.21% 15.67% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 344 486
10th Percentile £325 £350 £299
25th Percentile £425 £465 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -7.22%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £659
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £502
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.49% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 28
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £28.50 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile £72.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £75.90
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% -38.46%

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 4,326 3,140 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.98% 12.57% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 2,088 2,892
10th Percentile £213 £215 £206
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 73 208
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.04 £21.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £52.75 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.90% +28.89% -55.00%
75th Percentile £73.25 £72.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.60 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.25 £24.34
% change year-on-year +80.53% +16.06% -54.93%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 0 182 £538 -6.52% 57
London -47 153 £519 -1.19% 28
North of England -9 144 £459 +4.91% 36
Midlands -16 89 £450 -18.18% 38
North West -3 71 £453 +3.54% 26
Yorkshire -16 71 £485 +2.05% 6
West Midlands -27 69 £425 -32.00% 19
South West -59 57 £538 -6.52% 21
East of England -35 33 £475 -13.64% 22
East Midlands -11 20 £450 -18.18% 19
North East -38 2 £588 +67.86% 4
VMware Infrastructure
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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 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.37%) IIS
4 8 (1.22%) nginx
4 8 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 6 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.46%) CICS
6 3 (0.46%) Confluence
6 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.30%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 188 (28.57%) Azure
2 123 (18.69%) AWS
3 46 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.84%) OpenShift
5 42 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 35 (5.32%) GCP
7 24 (3.65%) GitHub
8 19 (2.89%) IaaS
9 17 (2.58%) Nutanix
10 13 (1.98%) PaaS
11 11 (1.67%) Rubrik
12 10 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.06%) Azure Stack
14 7 (1.06%) Cohesity
14 7 (1.06%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.06%) SaaS
15 6 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (28.12%) DNS
2 140 (21.28%) Firewall
3 107 (16.26%) DHCP
4 73 (11.09%) SAN
5 68 (10.33%) VPN
6 63 (9.57%) VSAN
6 63 (9.57%) WAN
7 52 (7.90%) Network Security
8 47 (7.14%) LAN
9 45 (6.84%) TCP/IP
10 43 (6.53%) NAS
11 41 (6.23%) SSL
12 37 (5.62%) VLAN
13 29 (4.41%) BIG-IP
14 28 (4.26%) BGP
14 28 (4.26%) HTTP
15 25 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
15 25 (3.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (3.80%) Wireshark
16 24 (3.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.34%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.91%) Power BI
5 5 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.46%) Big Data
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.46%) DataStage
7 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 27 (4.10%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.80%) JIRA
3 17 (2.58%) Fiddler
4 14 (2.13%) Git
5 12 (1.82%) GitLab
6 3 (0.46%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.30%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.30%) MSI
7 2 (0.30%) PVCS
7 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) GoCD
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 139 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 52 (7.90%) Finance
3 48 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.32%) Banking
6 24 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.34%) Legal
8 18 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.52%) Police
10 9 (1.37%) Military
10 9 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.91%) Law
11 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.91%) Retail
12 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Local Government
13 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 147 (22.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 76 (11.55%) Architect
3 64 (9.73%) Network Engineer
3 64 (9.73%) Senior
4 51 (7.75%) VMware Engineer
5 33 (5.02%) Support Engineer
6 27 (4.10%) Lead
7 26 (3.95%) Analyst
8 25 (3.80%) Consultant
9 24 (3.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 24 (3.65%) Storage Engineer
10 23 (3.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 22 (3.34%) Wintel Engineer
12 21 (3.19%) Administrator
13 20 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.04%) Infrastructure Architect
14 18 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (2.74%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 17 (2.58%) VMware Consultant
15 17 (2.58%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) Flash
2 15 (2.28%) LDAP
3 11 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.67%) REST
4 9 (1.37%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.06%) SAML
6 6 (0.91%) Middleware
7 5 (0.76%) .NET
7 5 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.76%) JSON
8 4 (0.61%) Redfish
8 4 (0.61%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.30%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.30%) Java SE
9 2 (0.30%) OAuth
9 2 (0.30%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.30%) OpenID
9 2 (0.30%) Qt
9 2 (0.30%) XML
9 2 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (14.44%) Data Centre
2 58 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (8.05%) Replication
4 46 (6.99%) PKI
5 41 (6.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 34 (5.17%) Clustering
7 29 (4.41%) Cloud Native
8 24 (3.65%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.50%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (2.89%) Private Cloud
12 18 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.67%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.22%) Security Posture
17 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 320 (48.63%) Windows
2 217 (32.98%) Windows Server
3 196 (29.79%) Linux
4 40 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (5.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.04%) VMS
8 17 (2.58%) Data ONTAP
8 17 (2.58%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.43%) Unix
9 16 (2.43%) Windows 10
10 12 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.67%) Solaris
12 8 (1.22%) CentOS
12 8 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (1.06%) CoreOS
14 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.76%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.61%) AIX
16 4 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 141 (21.43%) Migration
3 105 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (15.35%) High Availability
5 84 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 82 (12.46%) ITIL
7 71 (10.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (10.49%) CI/CD
9 63 (9.57%) Capacity Planning
10 61 (9.27%) Agile
10 61 (9.27%) DevOps
11 58 (8.81%) Load Balancing
12 57 (8.66%) Network Virtualisation
13 54 (8.21%) Change Management
13 54 (8.21%) Validation
14 53 (8.05%) ITSM
15 46 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
16 43 (6.53%) Data Protection
16 43 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
17 41 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 87 (13.22%) Python
3 45 (6.84%) Bash
4 29 (4.41%) SQL
5 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.91%) Java
6 6 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.76%) Bicep
7 5 (0.76%) C
8 4 (0.61%) PHP
8 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.46%) COBOL
10 2 (0.30%) C#
10 2 (0.30%) C++
10 2 (0.30%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.30%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.30%) VBScript
11 1 (0.15%) Go
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 286 (43.47%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 127 (19.30%) DV Cleared
4 60 (9.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 41 (6.23%) Degree
6 33 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (4.71%) VCAP
8 30 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.04%) Azure Certification
9 20 (3.04%) MCSE
10 19 (2.89%) CCNP
11 17 (2.58%) MCSA
12 15 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (2.28%) CCNA
13 10 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (1.37%) OCP
15 7 (1.06%) ISTQB
15 7 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 6 (0.91%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.80%) NIST
2 22 (3.34%) SLA
3 20 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.82%) NCSC
6 7 (1.06%) QA
7 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) ISA99
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) DICOM
10 1 (0.15%) GDPR
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 195 (29.64%) Active Directory
2 175 (26.60%) VMware ESXi
3 153 (23.25%) vSphere
4 135 (20.52%) VMware NSX
5 132 (20.06%) Hyper-V
6 90 (13.68%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (5.32%) Docker
7 35 (5.32%) NFS
8 34 (5.17%) Firmware
9 32 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 26 (3.95%) KVM
11 12 (1.82%) GPFS
11 12 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.67%) vCloud
13 10 (1.52%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.76%) SRDF
16 4 (0.61%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 126 (19.15%) vCenter Server
2 125 (19.00%) Ansible
3 77 (11.70%) Terraform
4 69 (10.49%) Kubernetes
5 42 (6.38%) SCCM
6 37 (5.62%) vRealize
7 33 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (4.41%) SCOM
9 22 (3.34%) Grafana
9 22 (3.34%) vMotion
10 20 (3.04%) Argo
11 18 (2.74%) PowerCLI
12 16 (2.43%) VxRail
13 15 (2.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (2.13%) WSUS
15 13 (1.98%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.98%) NetBackup
15 13 (1.98%) Puppet
16 12 (1.82%) SnapMirror
17 11 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 658 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.44%) Microsoft
3 146 (22.19%) Cisco
4 58 (8.81%) Citrix
5 52 (7.90%) NetApp
6 48 (7.29%) Red Hat
7 40 (6.08%) F5
8 39 (5.93%) ServiceNow
9 38 (5.78%) Dell
10 35 (5.32%) Palo Alto
11 33 (5.02%) Oracle
12 32 (4.86%) Pure Storage
13 28 (4.26%) Juniper
14 25 (3.80%) IBM
14 25 (3.80%) SolarWinds
15 24 (3.65%) Veeam
16 23 (3.50%) CheckPoint
17 20 (3.04%) McAfee
18 18 (2.74%) Blue Coat
18 18 (2.74%) Fortinet
185 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England