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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 129 105
Rank change year-on-year -31 -24 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 586 557 802
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.17% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 13.90% 17.11% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 371 505
10th Percentile £303 £263 £285
25th Percentile £403 £404 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £608
90th Percentile £661 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 56
10th Percentile £22.00 £74.40 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.70 £88.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +86.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile £76.56 - £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 4,217 3,256 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.90% 12.67% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,894 2,160 2,942
10th Percentile £205 £205 £188
25th Percentile £400 £381 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £698 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £480
% change year-on-year -4.31% +8.85% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 213
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.41 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.10 £16.92
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -5.38% -15.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £83.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £38.47 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.37% -18.75% -

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -4 150 £500 -9.17% 51
London -86 131 £540 +2.86% 29
Midlands +6 115 £401 -27.22% 19
North of England -40 109 £456 +7.29% 46
West Midlands -3 87 £326 -46.35% 17
North West -17 67 £441 +3.82% 29
South West -47 66 £550 -3.30% 31
Yorkshire -32 50 £485 +7.72% 16
East of England -10 31 £475 +1.82% 9
East Midlands -8 28 £447 -14.86% 2
North East -21 2 £513 +46.43% 2
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 (6.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.73%) Confluence
4 8 (1.37%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.37%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.34%) CICS
6 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.34%) WordPress
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.73%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 179 (30.55%) Azure
2 137 (23.38%) AWS
3 58 (9.90%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.19%) OpenShift
5 44 (7.51%) Entra ID
6 43 (7.34%) GCP
7 26 (4.44%) Nutanix
8 25 (4.27%) IaaS
9 21 (3.58%) GitHub
10 16 (2.73%) PaaS
11 14 (2.39%) Datadog
12 8 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.68%) SaaS
15 4 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (0.51%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 177 (30.20%) DNS
2 140 (23.89%) Firewall
3 90 (15.36%) DHCP
4 57 (9.73%) VPN
5 56 (9.56%) TCP/IP
6 51 (8.70%) SAN
7 42 (7.17%) Network Security
8 39 (6.66%) VLAN
9 37 (6.31%) VSAN
10 32 (5.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 32 (5.46%) WAN
11 30 (5.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 30 (5.12%) LAN
12 29 (4.95%) BIG-IP
12 29 (4.95%) SSL
13 28 (4.78%) NAS
14 26 (4.44%) HTTP
15 25 (4.27%) BGP
16 24 (4.10%) Wireshark
17 17 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) DataStage
5 2 (0.34%) Power BI
5 2 (0.34%) Redis
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.90%) Fiddler
2 17 (2.90%) JIRA
3 16 (2.73%) Git
4 12 (2.05%) GitLab
5 9 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.37%) PVCS
6 8 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.19%) JMeter
7 7 (1.19%) JUnit
8 4 (0.68%) RStudio
9 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) Subversion
10 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 70 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.87%) Finance
5 50 (8.53%) Banking
6 29 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (4.61%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.07%) Legal
9 14 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.54%) Military
12 8 (1.37%) Electronics
13 7 (1.19%) Police
14 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.85%) Local Government
16 4 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.68%) Social Science
17 3 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 106 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (13.99%) Architect
3 57 (9.73%) Analyst
4 42 (7.17%) Network Engineer
5 32 (5.46%) Support Engineer
6 31 (5.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 30 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
8 29 (4.95%) Senior
8 29 (4.95%) VMware Engineer
9 26 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
10 23 (3.92%) Consultant
10 23 (3.92%) Lead
11 20 (3.41%) Storage Analyst
12 18 (3.07%) Web Engineer
12 18 (3.07%) Wintel Engineer
13 17 (2.90%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 17 (2.90%) IP Network Engineer
13 17 (2.90%) VMware Consultant
14 15 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 15 (2.56%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.41%) Flash
2 14 (2.39%) LDAP
3 10 (1.71%) SAML
4 8 (1.37%) Kafka
5 7 (1.19%) Loki
5 7 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.19%) REST
5 7 (1.19%) Spring
6 6 (1.02%) Hibernate
7 5 (0.85%) Middleware
7 5 (0.85%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.68%) OAuth
8 4 (0.68%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.68%) OpenID
9 2 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.17%) React
10 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.24%) Data Centre
2 58 (9.90%) Replication
3 46 (7.85%) PKI
4 36 (6.14%) Cloud Native
4 36 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
5 29 (4.95%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.92%) Private Cloud
7 19 (3.24%) Clustering
8 15 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
10 10 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 10 (1.71%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.19%) Driving Licence
14 5 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 256 (43.69%) Windows
2 212 (36.18%) Linux
3 154 (26.28%) Windows Server
4 43 (7.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (5.29%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.90%) VMS
8 17 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.56%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.22%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.71%) Unix
12 9 (1.54%) Solaris
13 6 (1.02%) CentOS
13 6 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.68%) AIX
15 4 (0.68%) CatOS
15 4 (0.68%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 106 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (17.75%) Migration
4 84 (14.33%) Agile
5 78 (13.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 76 (12.97%) CI/CD
7 72 (12.29%) ITIL
8 68 (11.60%) DevOps
9 66 (11.26%) Load Balancing
10 65 (11.09%) High Availability
11 57 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (8.87%) Containerisation
13 51 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
14 46 (7.85%) Data Protection
15 40 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (6.83%) Service Management
16 37 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (5.97%) Roadmaps
17 35 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 34 (5.80%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (23.55%) PowerShell
2 105 (17.92%) Python
3 74 (12.63%) Bash
4 18 (3.07%) SQL
5 14 (2.39%) Perl
6 11 (1.88%) C
7 8 (1.37%) C++
7 8 (1.37%) Java
8 7 (1.19%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.19%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.85%) Bicep
10 4 (0.68%) C#
10 4 (0.68%) PHP
10 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.34%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 233 (39.76%) Security Cleared
2 155 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.97%) DV Cleared
4 45 (7.68%) Degree
5 42 (7.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (6.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 29 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (4.78%) Azure Certification
9 24 (4.10%) CCNP
10 17 (2.90%) MCSE
11 15 (2.56%) CCNA
12 14 (2.39%) VCAP
13 13 (2.22%) AWS Certification
14 12 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (2.05%) MCSA
15 11 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.88%) Server+ Certification
16 8 (1.37%) CCIE
16 8 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.07%) GDPR
3 16 (2.73%) NIST
4 9 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.54%) SLA
5 4 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.68%) QA
5 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.51%) NCSC
7 2 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 178 (30.38%) Active Directory
2 128 (21.84%) vSphere
3 98 (16.72%) Hyper-V
4 91 (15.53%) VMware NSX
5 85 (14.51%) VMware ESXi
6 56 (9.56%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (8.87%) Docker
8 37 (6.31%) NFS
9 27 (4.61%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (4.10%) Firmware
11 17 (2.90%) KVM
12 16 (2.73%) GPFS
13 7 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.85%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.68%) vCloud
16 3 (0.51%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.51%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.34%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 96 (16.38%) Ansible
2 74 (12.63%) Terraform
3 71 (12.12%) vCenter Server
4 67 (11.43%) Kubernetes
5 60 (10.24%) SCCM
6 58 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (7.68%) vRealize
8 23 (3.92%) Grafana
9 22 (3.75%) Argo
10 21 (3.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (3.41%) VxRail
12 17 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (2.39%) SCOM
14 13 (2.22%) Progress Chef
14 13 (2.22%) Prometheus
15 12 (2.05%) vMotion
16 11 (1.88%) FortiGate
17 10 (1.71%) Puppet
18 9 (1.54%) EMC VPLEX
18 9 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 586 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (29.69%) Microsoft
3 132 (22.53%) Cisco
4 63 (10.75%) Citrix
5 60 (10.24%) F5
5 60 (10.24%) Red Hat
6 42 (7.17%) IBM
7 40 (6.83%) NetApp
8 38 (6.48%) Dell
8 38 (6.48%) SolarWinds
9 31 (5.29%) Oracle
9 31 (5.29%) ServiceNow
10 29 (4.95%) Veeam
11 28 (4.78%) Palo Alto
11 28 (4.78%) Pure Storage
12 24 (4.10%) Commvault
13 20 (3.41%) McAfee
14 18 (3.07%) Blue Coat
15 17 (2.90%) HP
16 16 (2.73%) Splunk