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

 6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 166 107
Rank change year-on-year +4 -59 -17
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 781 464 723
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.68% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 16.98% 13.94% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 309 452
10th Percentile £316 £300 £322
25th Percentile £425 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.72% -2.74%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £589
90th Percentile £682 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.72% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 3 6
10th Percentile £26.20 £28.40 £23.10
25th Percentile £43.30 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +135.00% +26.05% -62.22%
75th Percentile £90.00 £48.63 £33.51
90th Percentile £98.19 £59.80 £43.37
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +130.00% +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 4,600 3,329 3,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.00% 12.08% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,002 2,139 2,583
10th Percentile £213 £219 £221
25th Percentile £389 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £610
90th Percentile £680 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 94 103
10th Percentile £17.54 £16.05 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.80 £23.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% +48.88% -49.48%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £92.46 £91.05 £78.65
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £33.39 £24.18
% change year-on-year +89.11% +38.07% -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -7 204 £538 -5.45% 114
London -13 188 £525 +5.00% 200
North of England +2 173 £459 +4.91% 52
Midlands -11 96 £450 -18.18% 54
North West +3 86 £455 +3.89% 20
South West -31 76 £638 +14.86% 67
Yorkshire -8 73 £525 +22.16% 18
West Midlands -15 71 £450 -21.36% 34
East of England -14 51 £505 -8.18% 51
East Midlands -8 25 £425 -13.27% 20
North East -27 14 £400 -36.00% 15
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 43 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.05%) IIS
4 12 (1.54%) Confluence
5 9 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.90%) JBoss
6 7 (0.90%) nginx
6 7 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.51%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.26%) Houdini
2 2 (0.26%) NUKE
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 215 (27.53%) Azure
2 124 (15.88%) AWS
3 80 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (7.30%) Entra ID
5 38 (4.87%) OpenShift
6 31 (3.97%) GCP
7 29 (3.71%) GitHub
8 25 (3.20%) IaaS
9 17 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.66%) PaaS
12 13 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.66%) SaaS
13 11 (1.41%) Nutanix
14 9 (1.15%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.15%) Rubrik
15 8 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 256 (32.78%) DNS
2 168 (21.51%) Firewall
3 161 (20.61%) DHCP
4 90 (11.52%) TCP/IP
5 82 (10.50%) VSAN
6 69 (8.83%) VPN
7 67 (8.58%) SAN
8 65 (8.32%) VLAN
9 53 (6.79%) Network Security
10 51 (6.53%) WAN
11 39 (4.99%) LAN
11 39 (4.99%) NAS
12 37 (4.74%) SSL
13 30 (3.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 29 (3.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 29 (3.71%) HTTP
15 24 (3.07%) BGP
16 23 (2.94%) Wireshark
17 22 (2.82%) BIG-IP
18 18 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.66%) Power BI
4 10 (1.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.15%) Big Data
5 9 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.26%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) DataStage
10 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (4.10%) JIRA
2 23 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.69%) Git
4 20 (2.56%) GitLab
5 13 (1.66%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.51%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.51%) PVCS
8 3 (0.38%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 184 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (9.73%) Finance
4 35 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.46%) Banking
7 25 (3.20%) Legal
8 15 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.02%) Law
13 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.90%) Retail
14 6 (0.77%) Back Office
15 5 (0.64%) Military
15 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.64%) Police
16 4 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 192 (24.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 108 (13.83%) Senior
3 83 (10.63%) VMware Engineer
4 59 (7.55%) Architect
4 59 (7.55%) Network Engineer
5 50 (6.40%) Support Engineer
6 48 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (5.12%) Lead
8 38 (4.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 33 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 31 (3.97%) Administrator
11 31 (3.97%) Storage Engineer
12 27 (3.46%) Consultant
12 27 (3.46%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 24 (3.07%) IT Engineer
14 23 (2.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 22 (2.82%) Server Engineer
15 22 (2.82%) Systems Engineer
16 21 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (15.11%) Terraform
2 22 (2.82%) REST
3 18 (2.30%) JSON
4 13 (1.66%) Kafka
5 12 (1.54%) LDAP
6 11 (1.41%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.15%) YAML
8 8 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.90%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.77%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.77%) Middleware
11 5 (0.64%) .NET
12 4 (0.51%) Flash
12 4 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.51%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
13 3 (0.38%) XML
14 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
14 2 (0.26%) OAuth
14 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 127 (16.26%) Data Centre
2 70 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.32%) PKI
4 46 (5.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 42 (5.38%) Clustering
6 37 (4.74%) Replication
7 31 (3.97%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.97%) Private Cloud
8 28 (3.59%) Public Cloud
9 27 (3.46%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.56%) Cloud Native
11 18 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.92%) SCADA
14 13 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.66%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.41%) Product Ownership
16 10 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 433 (55.44%) Windows
2 289 (37.00%) Windows Server
3 211 (27.02%) Linux
4 45 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (3.46%) Windows 10
7 24 (3.07%) VMS
8 19 (2.43%) Unix
9 17 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.92%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.15%) Solaris
14 8 (1.02%) Apple iOS
15 7 (0.90%) CentOS
16 6 (0.77%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.51%) SUSE
18 3 (0.38%) AIX
18 3 (0.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (33.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 157 (20.10%) ITIL
3 151 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
4 144 (18.44%) Migration
5 132 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (14.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 102 (13.06%) Technical Leadership
8 100 (12.80%) CI/CD
9 91 (11.65%) High Availability
10 86 (11.01%) Change Management
11 84 (10.76%) ITSM
12 76 (9.73%) Root Cause Analysis
13 73 (9.35%) Agile
13 73 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (9.35%) Network Virtualisation
14 72 (9.22%) Platform Engineering
15 71 (9.09%) Service Management
16 67 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
17 66 (8.45%) DevOps
18 65 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (24.84%) PowerShell
2 114 (14.60%) Python
3 76 (9.73%) Bash
4 53 (6.79%) SQL
5 18 (2.30%) Java
6 9 (1.15%) C
7 8 (1.02%) Bicep
8 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.51%) C++
10 4 (0.51%) Go
10 4 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.38%) Lua
11 3 (0.38%) VB
12 2 (0.26%) Korn
12 2 (0.26%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 392 (50.19%) Security Cleared
2 227 (29.07%) SC Cleared
3 191 (24.46%) DV Cleared
4 62 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 51 (6.53%) Degree
6 42 (5.38%) VCAP
7 38 (4.87%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.46%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.69%) MCSE
11 17 (2.18%) CCNP
12 16 (2.05%) CCNA
12 16 (2.05%) MCSA
13 15 (1.92%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.02%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.07%) SLA
2 18 (2.30%) QA
3 17 (2.18%) NIST
4 14 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.79%) NCSC
5 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.51%) GxP
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
8 2 (0.26%) ISA99
8 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.13%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 273 (34.96%) Active Directory
2 194 (24.84%) VMware ESXi
3 187 (23.94%) vSphere
4 171 (21.90%) Hyper-V
5 135 (17.29%) VMware NSX
6 91 (11.65%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (6.91%) Docker
8 39 (4.99%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.97%) Firmware
10 19 (2.43%) NFS
11 15 (1.92%) KVM
12 13 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (1.02%) XenApp
14 8 (1.02%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.90%) oVirt
15 7 (0.90%) vCloud
16 6 (0.77%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 146 (18.69%) vCenter Server
2 143 (18.31%) Ansible
3 119 (15.24%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.91%) SCCM
5 53 (6.79%) SCOM
6 42 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (4.74%) VxRail
8 22 (2.82%) Grafana
8 22 (2.82%) vRealize
9 19 (2.43%) Prometheus
10 17 (2.18%) PowerCLI
10 17 (2.18%) Puppet
11 15 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
11 15 (1.92%) WSUS
12 14 (1.79%) vMotion
13 13 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (1.54%) Argo
14 12 (1.54%) Avamar
15 11 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
15 11 (1.41%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 781 (100.00%) VMware
2 236 (30.22%) Microsoft
3 135 (17.29%) Cisco
4 59 (7.55%) Citrix
5 54 (6.91%) NetApp
6 49 (6.27%) Dell
6 49 (6.27%) Red Hat
7 40 (5.12%) F5
8 38 (4.87%) ServiceNow
9 36 (4.61%) SolarWinds
10 33 (4.23%) Oracle
11 29 (3.71%) Juniper
11 29 (3.71%) Palo Alto
11 29 (3.71%) Veeam
12 25 (3.20%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.82%) Broadcom
14 18 (2.30%) IBM
14 18 (2.30%) McAfee
14 18 (2.30%) Remedy
15 16 (2.05%) CheckPoint
521 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England