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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 128 115
Rank change year-on-year -32 -13 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 647 539 734
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.20% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 15.04% 17.08% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 376 472
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £411 £425 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 34
10th Percentile £41.49 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.53% -38.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.71 £61.30 £86.13
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +50.54% +6.07% -32.55%

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 4,302 3,155 4,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.91% 12.88% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,939 2,190 2,822
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.36% -7.71%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.14% -7.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 76 208
10th Percentile £16.72 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.47 £20.74 £14.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.71 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.60% +36.69% -49.85%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.55 £87.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £28.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year +83.77% +27.58% -55.00%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -9 164 £538 -6.52% 77
London -60 146 £525 -4.55% 55
North of England -25 127 £456 +9.88% 55
Midlands -10 121 £394 -28.41% 22
West Midlands -13 96 £333 -39.59% 13
North West -22 67 £450 +5.88% 21
Yorkshire -24 62 £454 -2.47% 25
South West -61 55 £550 -4.35% 25
East of England -7 44 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -24 25 £415 -22.50% 8
North East -15 3 £550 +57.14% 13
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 38 (5.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.70%) Confluence
4 6 (0.93%) nginx
4 6 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.46%) CICS
5 3 (0.46%) IIS
5 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.46%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.31%) WordPress
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 182 (28.13%) Azure
2 138 (21.33%) AWS
3 50 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.26%) OpenShift
5 46 (7.11%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.56%) GCP
7 26 (4.02%) IaaS
8 23 (3.55%) GitHub
9 22 (3.40%) Nutanix
10 18 (2.78%) PaaS
11 16 (2.47%) Datadog
12 9 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.08%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.93%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 175 (27.05%) DNS
2 156 (24.11%) Firewall
3 95 (14.68%) DHCP
4 68 (10.51%) VPN
5 65 (10.05%) SAN
5 65 (10.05%) VSAN
6 53 (8.19%) WAN
7 52 (8.04%) Network Security
8 49 (7.57%) TCP/IP
9 43 (6.65%) LAN
10 41 (6.34%) NAS
11 38 (5.87%) SSL
12 36 (5.56%) BIG-IP
13 32 (4.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 32 (4.95%) HTTP
14 31 (4.79%) BGP
14 31 (4.79%) VLAN
15 28 (4.33%) Wireshark
16 26 (4.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 25 (3.86%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.46%) DataStage
5 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.46%) Redis
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (4.64%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.09%) JIRA
3 19 (2.94%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.63%) Git
5 15 (2.32%) GitLab
6 8 (1.24%) PVCS
6 8 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 141 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (8.81%) Finance
4 56 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.96%) Banking
6 26 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.71%) Investment Banking
7 24 (3.71%) Legal
8 12 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.55%) Military
9 10 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.24%) Electronics
10 8 (1.24%) Police
11 5 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.77%) Local Government
11 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.62%) Retail
13 3 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 128 (19.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 97 (14.99%) Architect
3 55 (8.50%) Analyst
3 55 (8.50%) Network Engineer
4 53 (8.19%) Senior
5 51 (7.88%) VMware Engineer
6 33 (5.10%) Lead
7 31 (4.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 31 (4.79%) Infrastructure Architect
8 23 (3.55%) Storage Analyst
9 20 (3.09%) Consultant
10 19 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) IP Network Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) Web Engineer
11 18 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (2.78%) Support Engineer
12 17 (2.63%) Storage Engineer
12 17 (2.63%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 17 (2.63%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.40%) Flash
2 18 (2.78%) LDAP
3 13 (2.01%) SAML
4 12 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (1.24%) REST
6 7 (1.08%) Middleware
7 6 (0.93%) Kafka
8 5 (0.77%) OAuth
8 5 (0.77%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.77%) OpenID
8 5 (0.77%) Software Packaging
9 3 (0.46%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.46%) Loki
9 3 (0.46%) Spring
10 2 (0.31%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.31%) JSON
11 1 (0.15%) EDI
11 1 (0.15%) JavaBeans
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.59%) Data Centre
2 65 (10.05%) Replication
3 44 (6.80%) PKI
4 43 (6.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 42 (6.49%) Cloud Native
6 35 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
7 29 (4.48%) Clustering
8 28 (4.33%) Private Cloud
9 27 (4.17%) Management Information System
10 26 (4.02%) Enterprise Storage
11 20 (3.09%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (2.32%) Product Ownership
13 14 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
15 8 (1.24%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.24%) SCADA
15 8 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 282 (43.59%) Windows
2 215 (33.23%) Linux
3 189 (29.21%) Windows Server
4 46 (7.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (4.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (3.86%) VMS
8 20 (3.09%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.78%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.47%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (1.55%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.55%) Solaris
12 10 (1.55%) Unix
13 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (1.08%) CentOS
15 6 (0.93%) CoreOS
15 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.77%) AIX
17 4 (0.62%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (26.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (19.78%) Migration
3 111 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (14.22%) High Availability
5 85 (13.14%) Agile
6 81 (12.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 72 (11.13%) ITIL
8 69 (10.66%) Load Balancing
9 67 (10.36%) CI/CD
9 67 (10.36%) DevOps
10 65 (10.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (8.50%) Capacity Planning
12 51 (7.88%) Network Virtualisation
13 48 (7.42%) Data Protection
13 48 (7.42%) Platform Engineering
14 45 (6.96%) Containerisation
15 42 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (6.34%) Change Management
16 41 (6.34%) Cybersecurity
17 40 (6.18%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.79%) PowerShell
2 90 (13.91%) Python
3 57 (8.81%) Bash
4 18 (2.78%) SQL
5 11 (1.70%) C
6 8 (1.24%) C++
7 7 (1.08%) Embedded C
7 7 (1.08%) Embedded C++
7 7 (1.08%) Java
7 7 (1.08%) Perl
7 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
9 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.62%) PHP
9 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.46%) C#
10 3 (0.46%) COBOL
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 259 (40.03%) Security Cleared
2 163 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 99 (15.30%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.96%) Degree
4 45 (6.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (3.55%) VCAP
7 22 (3.40%) Azure Certification
8 19 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.78%) CCNP
10 14 (2.16%) MCSE
11 12 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.70%) MCSA
13 10 (1.55%) CCNA
14 9 (1.39%) OCP
15 6 (0.93%) CCIE
15 6 (0.93%) CISSP
15 6 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.09%) NIST
3 14 (2.16%) SLA
4 13 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.85%) GDPR
6 9 (1.39%) NCSC
7 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.62%) QA
9 2 (0.31%) ISA99
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 183 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 153 (23.65%) vSphere
3 131 (20.25%) VMware ESXi
3 131 (20.25%) VMware NSX
4 114 (17.62%) Hyper-V
5 67 (10.36%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (6.49%) Docker
7 40 (6.18%) NFS
8 33 (5.10%) Firmware
9 26 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (3.25%) KVM
11 17 (2.63%) GPFS
12 9 (1.39%) BitLocker
12 9 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.77%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.62%) vCloud
14 4 (0.62%) XenApp
15 3 (0.46%) SRDF
15 3 (0.46%) UAG
Systems Management
1 121 (18.70%) Ansible
2 95 (14.68%) vCenter Server
3 80 (12.36%) Terraform
4 67 (10.36%) Kubernetes
5 56 (8.66%) SCCM
6 52 (8.04%) vRealize
7 50 (7.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (3.86%) VxRail
9 24 (3.71%) Argo
9 24 (3.71%) Grafana
10 20 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (2.78%) PowerCLI
12 18 (2.78%) vMotion
13 15 (2.32%) SCOM
14 13 (2.01%) WSUS
15 12 (1.85%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.85%) Puppet
16 11 (1.70%) EMC VPLEX
16 11 (1.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 647 (100.00%) VMware
2 167 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 138 (21.33%) Cisco
4 65 (10.05%) Citrix
5 59 (9.12%) Red Hat
6 57 (8.81%) F5
6 57 (8.81%) NetApp
7 47 (7.26%) IBM
8 38 (5.87%) Dell
9 37 (5.72%) ServiceNow
10 34 (5.26%) Oracle
11 33 (5.10%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.95%) Pure Storage
12 32 (4.95%) SolarWinds
13 27 (4.17%) Veeam
14 26 (4.02%) Commvault
15 23 (3.55%) McAfee
16 20 (3.09%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.94%) Blue Coat
17 19 (2.94%) HP