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

 6 months to
8 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 176 113
Rank change year-on-year +10 -63 -30
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 799 449 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.60% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 17.23% 12.86% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 301 404
10th Percentile £314 £275 £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 £626 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £671
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £508
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 3 8
10th Percentile £25.87 £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 £90.00 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £97.56 £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 4,637 3,492 3,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 12.48% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,030 2,246 2,432
10th Percentile £219 £208 £220
25th Percentile £398 £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 £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 108 87
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £28.00 £22.38 £20.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.00% +11.29% -32.87%
75th Percentile £74.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.74 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £33.39 £30.50
% change year-on-year +86.46% +9.46% -36.28%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -2 205 £538 +2.38% 124
London -8 198 £550 +10.00% 175
North of England +13 173 £479 +12.71% 76
Midlands -19 89 £450 -18.18% 58
North West +1 81 £448 +2.40% 42
Yorkshire -7 77 £525 +27.27% 23
South West -29 76 £644 +15.99% 54
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -21.40% 37
East of England -8 60 £600 +9.09% 41
East Midlands -7 21 £425 -11.92% 21
North East -24 16 £400 - 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 39 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.00%) Confluence
3 16 (2.00%) IIS
4 14 (1.75%) 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 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.25%) Houdini
3 2 (0.25%) NUKE
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 226 (28.29%) Azure
2 118 (14.77%) AWS
3 82 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (7.63%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.38%) OpenShift
6 34 (4.26%) GCP
7 25 (3.13%) GitHub
8 24 (3.00%) IaaS
9 18 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.88%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.75%) Rubrik
12 13 (1.63%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.50%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.50%) PaaS
13 12 (1.50%) SaaS
14 8 (1.00%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.75%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 255 (31.91%) DNS
2 167 (20.90%) Firewall
3 161 (20.15%) DHCP
4 99 (12.39%) TCP/IP
5 68 (8.51%) VSAN
6 67 (8.39%) VPN
7 64 (8.01%) SAN
8 61 (7.63%) VLAN
9 55 (6.88%) Network Security
9 55 (6.88%) WAN
10 52 (6.51%) LAN
11 35 (4.38%) NAS
12 34 (4.26%) SSL
13 30 (3.75%) BGP
13 30 (3.75%) HTTP
14 27 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (3.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 22 (2.75%) NetScaler
16 22 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.75%) 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%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (4.38%) JIRA
2 22 (2.75%) Git
3 21 (2.63%) GitLab
4 19 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.38%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.50%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.50%) PVCS
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 184 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.39%) Finance
3 83 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 27 (3.38%) Banking
6 25 (3.13%) 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
1 195 (24.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 112 (14.02%) Senior
3 77 (9.64%) VMware Engineer
4 65 (8.14%) Architect
5 54 (6.76%) Support Engineer
6 53 (6.63%) Network Engineer
7 51 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 45 (5.63%) Lead
9 43 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 36 (4.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 35 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
13 29 (3.63%) Administrator
13 29 (3.63%) Consultant
14 24 (3.00%) Server Engineer
15 23 (2.88%) Wintel Engineer
16 22 (2.75%) IT Engineer
16 22 (2.75%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 22 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
16 22 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (14.02%) Terraform
2 25 (3.13%) REST
3 21 (2.63%) JSON
4 16 (2.00%) Kafka
5 13 (1.63%) XMPP
6 12 (1.50%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.50%) 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%) Redfish
13 3 (0.38%) Flash
13 3 (0.38%) Java SE
13 3 (0.38%) XML
14 2 (0.25%) EJB
14 2 (0.25%) JSP
14 2 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (17.15%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.14%) PKI
4 44 (5.51%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (5.13%) Clustering
6 33 (4.13%) Private Cloud
7 32 (4.01%) Replication
8 30 (3.75%) Management Information System
9 27 (3.38%) Onboarding
10 26 (3.25%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.88%) Cloud Native
12 20 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.88%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.63%) Product Ownership
17 13 (1.63%) SCADA
18 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
19 9 (1.13%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 437 (54.69%) Windows
2 294 (36.80%) Windows Server
3 196 (24.53%) Linux
4 46 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.25%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.50%) Unix
8 19 (2.38%) VMS
9 18 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (1.50%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
12 8 (1.00%) Solaris
13 7 (0.88%) CentOS
13 7 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.50%) AIX
17 3 (0.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (33.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 168 (21.03%) ITIL
3 153 (19.15%) Migration
4 151 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (17.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 123 (15.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 116 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
8 101 (12.64%) Change Management
9 100 (12.52%) CI/CD
10 86 (10.76%) ITSM
11 85 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 82 (10.26%) High Availability
13 81 (10.14%) Agile
14 80 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 80 (10.01%) Project Delivery
15 79 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
16 78 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
17 76 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 75 (9.39%) Service Management
19 64 (8.01%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 191 (23.90%) PowerShell
2 107 (13.39%) Python
3 65 (8.14%) Bash
4 48 (6.01%) SQL
5 18 (2.25%) 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
1 404 (50.56%) Security Cleared
2 236 (29.54%) SC Cleared
3 187 (23.40%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.13%) Degree
4 57 (7.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (5.13%) VCAP
7 32 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (3.38%) CCNP
9 24 (3.00%) Azure Certification
10 19 (2.38%) CCNA
10 19 (2.38%) MCSE
11 17 (2.13%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.00%) MCSA
13 10 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.00%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 8 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.38%) QA
2 18 (2.25%) SLA
3 16 (2.00%) NIST
4 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.38%) NCSC
6 10 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.50%) GxP
8 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.38%) GDPR
9 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 288 (36.05%) Active Directory
2 198 (24.78%) vSphere
3 186 (23.28%) VMware ESXi
4 175 (21.90%) Hyper-V
5 119 (14.89%) VMware NSX
6 80 (10.01%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (6.26%) Docker
8 43 (5.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (3.88%) Firmware
10 20 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (2.38%) NFS
12 14 (1.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 12 (1.50%) KVM
14 11 (1.38%) XenApp
15 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 10 (1.25%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.88%) oVirt
16 7 (0.88%) vCloud
17 6 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 130 (16.27%) Kubernetes
1 130 (16.27%) vCenter Server
2 126 (15.77%) Ansible
3 57 (7.13%) SCCM
4 55 (6.88%) SCOM
5 47 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (4.38%) VxRail
7 19 (2.38%) vRealize
8 17 (2.13%) Cisco CUCM
8 17 (2.13%) Prometheus
9 16 (2.00%) Grafana
9 16 (2.00%) Puppet
10 13 (1.63%) Avamar
10 13 (1.63%) PowerCLI
11 12 (1.50%) Microsoft Clustering
11 12 (1.50%) Nagios
12 11 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
12 11 (1.38%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.38%) vMotion
12 11 (1.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 799 (100.00%) VMware
2 251 (31.41%) Microsoft
3 144 (18.02%) Cisco
4 64 (8.01%) Citrix
5 53 (6.63%) NetApp
5 53 (6.63%) Red Hat
6 52 (6.51%) Dell
7 42 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 40 (5.01%) ServiceNow
9 36 (4.51%) F5
10 32 (4.01%) Veeam
11 29 (3.63%) Oracle
12 27 (3.38%) Juniper
12 27 (3.38%) Palo Alto
13 24 (3.00%) Fortinet
14 21 (2.63%) Remedy
15 20 (2.50%) Broadcom
16 18 (2.25%) McAfee
17 17 (2.13%) Commvault
18 16 (2.00%) Meraki
550 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England