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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 171 112
Rank change year-on-year +8 -59 -29
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 797 450 689
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.61% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 17.39% 13.03% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 303 407
10th Percentile £315 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 3 8
10th Percentile £25.90 £24.40 £23.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £26.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £89.88 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £96.30 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +126.67% +26.05% -63.93%

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 4,583 3,454 3,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.94% 12.37% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,981 2,220 2,447
10th Percentile £218 £212 £220
25th Percentile £385 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £691 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 108 91
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £28.75 £22.38 £19.56
Median hourly rate £63.31 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.50% +15.00% -34.91%
75th Percentile £74.32 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.90 £89.74 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £28.75
% change year-on-year +87.21% +16.12% -39.93%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -12 203 £538 -0.19% 136
London -12 194 £545 +9.00% 184
North of England +12 174 £483 +13.65% 88
Midlands -11 92 £450 -18.18% 68
Yorkshire 0 80 £525 +27.27% 24
North West -1 79 £449 +2.63% 52
South West -28 75 £638 +14.86% 58
West Midlands -21 69 £450 -21.40% 42
East of England +3 61 £600 +9.09% 50
East Midlands -3 23 £438 -9.33% 26
North East -23 16 £400 - 14
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 41 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.01%) Confluence
3 16 (2.01%) IIS
4 14 (1.76%) CMS
5 9 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) JBoss
7 5 (0.63%) nginx
7 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.50%) Apache
8 4 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.50%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.25%) Houdini
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.25%) NUKE
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 226 (28.36%) Azure
2 120 (15.06%) AWS
3 83 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (8.03%) Entra ID
5 44 (5.52%) OpenShift
6 34 (4.27%) GCP
7 27 (3.39%) GitHub
8 24 (3.01%) IaaS
9 18 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (1.88%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.76%) Rubrik
12 13 (1.63%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.51%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.51%) PaaS
13 12 (1.51%) SaaS
14 8 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.00%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 260 (32.62%) DNS
2 166 (20.83%) DHCP
3 165 (20.70%) Firewall
4 98 (12.30%) TCP/IP
5 70 (8.78%) VSAN
6 68 (8.53%) SAN
7 65 (8.16%) VPN
8 61 (7.65%) VLAN
9 55 (6.90%) Network Security
10 54 (6.78%) WAN
11 51 (6.40%) LAN
12 39 (4.89%) NAS
13 37 (4.64%) SSL
14 30 (3.76%) BGP
14 30 (3.76%) HTTP
15 26 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 25 (3.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 21 (2.63%) NetScaler
17 21 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.77%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.63%) Power BI
4 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.13%) Big Data
6 8 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.75%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (4.27%) JIRA
2 22 (2.76%) Git
2 22 (2.76%) GitLab
3 20 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.38%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.50%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.50%) PVCS
7 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 186 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 87 (10.92%) Finance
3 85 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.39%) Banking
6 23 (2.89%) Legal
7 17 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.00%) Back Office
10 8 (1.00%) Law
10 8 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.75%) Police
11 6 (0.75%) Retail
12 5 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 196 (24.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (13.93%) Senior
3 77 (9.66%) VMware Engineer
4 63 (7.90%) Architect
5 54 (6.78%) Network Engineer
6 53 (6.65%) Support Engineer
7 50 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (5.77%) Lead
9 43 (5.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (4.39%) Storage Engineer
11 34 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (3.76%) Administrator
13 29 (3.64%) Consultant
14 24 (3.01%) Server Engineer
15 23 (2.89%) IT Engineer
15 23 (2.89%) Wintel Engineer
16 22 (2.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 22 (2.76%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.43%) Terraform
2 25 (3.14%) REST
3 21 (2.63%) JSON
4 17 (2.13%) Kafka
5 13 (1.63%) XMPP
6 12 (1.51%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.51%) YAML
7 11 (1.38%) LDAP
8 8 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.88%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.63%) .NET
11 5 (0.63%) Middleware
12 4 (0.50%) Flash
12 4 (0.50%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
13 3 (0.38%) XML
14 2 (0.25%) OpenGL
14 2 (0.25%) SAML
14 2 (0.25%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 138 (17.31%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.16%) PKI
4 47 (5.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (5.14%) Clustering
6 35 (4.39%) Replication
7 33 (4.14%) Private Cloud
8 29 (3.64%) Management Information System
9 28 (3.51%) Onboarding
10 26 (3.26%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.51%) Cloud Native
11 20 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
12 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.88%) Operational Technology
15 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.63%) SCADA
16 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.13%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 441 (55.33%) Windows
2 299 (37.52%) Windows Server
3 200 (25.09%) Linux
4 46 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.14%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.51%) Unix
7 20 (2.51%) VMS
8 18 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (1.51%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
12 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
12 8 (1.00%) Solaris
13 7 (0.88%) CentOS
14 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.50%) AIX
17 3 (0.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (34.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 165 (20.70%) ITIL
3 156 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (19.32%) Migration
5 142 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 122 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 116 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
8 101 (12.67%) Change Management
9 98 (12.30%) CI/CD
10 85 (10.66%) High Availability
10 85 (10.66%) ITSM
11 83 (10.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 81 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
13 80 (10.04%) Agile
14 79 (9.91%) Project Delivery
15 77 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
16 74 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (9.16%) Service Management
18 67 (8.41%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 192 (24.09%) PowerShell
2 110 (13.80%) Python
3 67 (8.41%) Bash
4 47 (5.90%) SQL
5 18 (2.26%) Java
6 9 (1.13%) Bicep
6 9 (1.13%) C
7 4 (0.50%) C++
7 4 (0.50%) Go
7 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
8 3 (0.38%) Korn
8 3 (0.38%) Lua
8 3 (0.38%) VB
9 2 (0.25%) VBScript
10 1 (0.13%) C#
10 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 400 (50.19%) Security Cleared
2 232 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 189 (23.71%) DV Cleared
4 60 (7.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (7.15%) Degree
6 47 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (5.14%) VCAP
8 34 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.39%) CCNP
10 25 (3.14%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.51%) CCNA
11 20 (2.51%) MCSE
12 17 (2.13%) AWS Certification
13 16 (2.01%) MCSA
14 11 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.00%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (1.00%) PMI Certification
16 8 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.38%) QA
1 19 (2.38%) SLA
2 17 (2.13%) NIST
3 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.38%) NCSC
5 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.50%) GxP
6 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.38%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.25%) GDPR
8 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 291 (36.51%) Active Directory
2 198 (24.84%) vSphere
3 192 (24.09%) VMware ESXi
4 180 (22.58%) Hyper-V
5 120 (15.06%) VMware NSX
6 81 (10.16%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (6.52%) Docker
8 43 (5.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.89%) Firmware
10 21 (2.63%) NFS
11 20 (2.51%) Virtual Servers
12 13 (1.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 13 (1.63%) KVM
13 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 10 (1.25%) XenApp
14 9 (1.13%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.88%) oVirt
15 7 (0.88%) vCloud
16 6 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 133 (16.69%) vCenter Server
2 131 (16.44%) Ansible
3 125 (15.68%) Kubernetes
4 55 (6.90%) SCCM
4 55 (6.90%) SCOM
5 45 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (4.52%) VxRail
7 21 (2.63%) vRealize
8 19 (2.38%) Prometheus
9 18 (2.26%) Grafana
10 17 (2.13%) Cisco CUCM
11 16 (2.01%) Puppet
12 13 (1.63%) Avamar
12 13 (1.63%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.63%) PowerCLI
13 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Clustering
13 12 (1.51%) Nagios
13 12 (1.51%) WSUS
14 11 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
14 11 (1.38%) vMotion
Vendors
1 797 (100.00%) VMware
2 253 (31.74%) Microsoft
3 148 (18.57%) Cisco
4 63 (7.90%) Citrix
5 55 (6.90%) NetApp
5 55 (6.90%) Red Hat
6 52 (6.52%) Dell
7 43 (5.40%) SolarWinds
8 41 (5.14%) ServiceNow
9 35 (4.39%) F5
10 34 (4.27%) Veeam
11 28 (3.51%) Oracle
12 27 (3.39%) Juniper
12 27 (3.39%) Palo Alto
13 24 (3.01%) Fortinet
14 21 (2.63%) Remedy
15 20 (2.51%) Broadcom
16 18 (2.26%) McAfee
17 17 (2.13%) Commvault
18 16 (2.01%) EMC
594 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England