VMware Infrastructure Contracts in England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 120 110
Rank change year-on-year -21 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 496 704 1,160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.04% 1.89% 2.30%
As % of the System Software category 16.06% 17.46% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 454 823
10th Percentile £313 £265 £313
25th Percentile £425 £376 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £548
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.68% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 31 58
10th Percentile £31.70 £22.08 £46.38
25th Percentile £37.25 £30.71 £57.03
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -38.46% +30.42%
75th Percentile £55.75 £59.06 £71.94
90th Percentile £61.30 £88.75 £80.41
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £40.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.53% -38.08% +30.21%

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 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
London -13 145 £525 +5.00% 127
South East -20 100 £575 +15.00% 117
South West +36 99 £575 +6.98% 68
North of England -1 70 £400 +14.29% 84
Midlands +31 52 £550 - 80
North West +12 41 £425 +30.77% 43
West Midlands +22 38 £551 +0.18% 41
Yorkshire -5 25 £403 +8.05% 32
East of England +21 20 £473 -27.31% 43
East Midlands +14 14 £543 -1.32% 34
North East -3 5 £350 -39.13% 12
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 67 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (9.07%) SharePoint
3 34 (6.85%) Confluence
4 8 (1.61%) IIS
5 7 (1.41%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.01%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.81%) Apache
8 2 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 47 (9.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 149 (30.04%) Azure
2 94 (18.95%) AWS
2 94 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (9.68%) IaaS
4 44 (8.87%) Entra ID
5 41 (8.27%) OpenShift
6 39 (7.86%) PaaS
7 36 (7.26%) SaaS
8 23 (4.64%) GCP
8 23 (4.64%) OneDrive
9 18 (3.63%) Nutanix
10 16 (3.23%) GitHub
11 9 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.21%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.81%) Rubrik
15 3 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 109 (21.98%) DNS
2 92 (18.55%) Firewall
3 78 (15.73%) DHCP
4 52 (10.48%) TCP/IP
5 44 (8.87%) SAN
6 40 (8.06%) VPN
7 37 (7.46%) VSAN
7 37 (7.46%) WAN
8 35 (7.06%) Network Security
9 34 (6.85%) LAN
10 29 (5.85%) VLAN
10 29 (5.85%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (5.65%) VoIP
12 24 (4.84%) NAS
13 18 (3.63%) BGP
13 18 (3.63%) HTTP
13 18 (3.63%) OSPF
14 14 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (2.82%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (2.62%) MongoDB
4 13 (2.62%) Oracle Database
5 12 (2.42%) Big Data
6 10 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.41%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.60%) MySQL
9 3 (0.60%) OLTP
10 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.40%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.40%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (8.06%) JIRA
2 27 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.44%) Git
4 15 (3.02%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.61%) GitLab
6 7 (1.41%) Subversion
7 6 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.20%) Introscope
11 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.20%) Serena SBM
General
1 110 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 51 (10.28%) Finance
4 33 (6.65%) Telecoms
5 32 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.83%) Legal
7 17 (3.43%) Banking
8 10 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.41%) Military
11 6 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.01%) Law
13 4 (0.81%) Marketing
14 3 (0.60%) Billing
14 3 (0.60%) Electronics
15 2 (0.40%) Advertising
15 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 77 (15.52%) Architect
3 38 (7.66%) Senior
4 35 (7.06%) Support Engineer
5 33 (6.65%) VMware Engineer
6 29 (5.85%) Linux Engineer
7 22 (4.44%) Administrator
7 22 (4.44%) Consultant
7 22 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
8 21 (4.23%) Lead
9 20 (4.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 20 (4.03%) Network Engineer
10 19 (3.83%) Technical Architect
11 18 (3.63%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 18 (3.63%) VMware Architect
12 17 (3.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (3.02%) 3rd Line Support
15 14 (2.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.02%) REST
2 14 (2.82%) Flash
3 11 (2.22%) Kafka
3 11 (2.22%) SOAP
4 8 (1.61%) .NET
5 6 (1.21%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.01%) LDAP
6 5 (1.01%) Middleware
6 5 (1.01%) Spine.js
7 4 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.81%) HTML
7 4 (0.81%) SAML
8 3 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.60%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (0.60%) CSS
8 3 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.60%) React
9 1 (0.20%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (13.51%) Data Centre
2 40 (8.06%) Clustering
2 40 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (7.46%) PKI
4 23 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 22 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
6 20 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.82%) Replication
8 12 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.22%) Blackberry
10 8 (1.61%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.41%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.41%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.21%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.21%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.01%) SCADA
14 4 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 261 (52.62%) Windows
2 164 (33.06%) Windows Server
3 153 (30.85%) Linux
4 52 (10.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (10.08%) Windows 10
6 33 (6.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 27 (5.44%) Unix
8 27 (5.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (3.83%) CentOS
10 14 (2.82%) Ubuntu
11 12 (2.42%) Solaris
12 11 (2.22%) VMS
13 9 (1.81%) AIX
14 6 (1.21%) Android
14 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
14 6 (1.21%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (1.01%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (26.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 118 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (15.73%) Agile
4 66 (13.31%) Migration
5 65 (13.10%) Service Management
6 64 (12.90%) ITIL
7 61 (12.30%) High Availability
8 56 (11.29%) DevOps
9 52 (10.48%) Containerisation
10 44 (8.87%) CI/CD
11 41 (8.27%) Network Virtualisation
12 40 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (8.06%) Roadmaps
13 39 (7.86%) Validation
14 36 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (6.85%) Customer Service
16 33 (6.65%) ITSM
17 31 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
17 31 (6.25%) Project Delivery
18 29 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 120 (24.19%) PowerShell
2 89 (17.94%) Python
3 53 (10.69%) Bash
4 33 (6.65%) SQL
5 20 (4.03%) Java
6 14 (2.82%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.42%) Perl
8 10 (2.02%) VBScript
9 7 (1.41%) C#
10 6 (1.21%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.81%) VB
12 3 (0.60%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) C
13 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.20%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.20%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.20%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 231 (46.57%) Security Cleared
2 162 (32.66%) SC Cleared
3 86 (17.34%) DV Cleared
4 82 (16.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 54 (10.89%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (9.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (7.86%) CCNP
8 35 (7.06%) Degree
9 30 (6.05%) MCSE
10 18 (3.63%) CCNA
11 17 (3.43%) Azure Certification
12 15 (3.02%) Oracle Certification
13 14 (2.82%) Master's Degree
14 12 (2.42%) RHCE
15 11 (2.22%) OCA
16 10 (2.02%) RHCA
17 9 (1.81%) MCSA
17 9 (1.81%) VCAP
18 8 (1.61%) CCIE
19 7 (1.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.63%) SLA
2 16 (3.23%) NIST
3 14 (2.82%) NCSC
4 13 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (2.22%) GDPR
6 6 (1.21%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.81%) QA
7 4 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 180 (36.29%) Active Directory
2 89 (17.94%) vSphere
3 83 (16.73%) VMware ESXi
4 78 (15.73%) VMware NSX
5 73 (14.72%) Hyper-V
6 63 (12.70%) Docker
7 29 (5.85%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (2.82%) BitLocker
10 13 (2.62%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (2.22%) NFS
12 10 (2.02%) Terminal Services
13 9 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.21%) DFS Replication
14 6 (1.21%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (1.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 4 (0.81%) KVM
16 4 (0.81%) Veritas File System
16 4 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
17 3 (0.60%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 117 (23.59%) Ansible
2 80 (16.13%) vCenter Server
3 73 (14.72%) Kubernetes
4 53 (10.69%) Terraform
5 45 (9.07%) Puppet
6 44 (8.87%) SCCM
7 31 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (4.64%) Progress Chef
9 20 (4.03%) VxRail
10 16 (3.23%) WSUS
11 14 (2.82%) vMotion
11 14 (2.82%) vRealize
12 13 (2.62%) AppManager
13 12 (2.42%) Nagios
14 9 (1.81%) PowerCLI
14 9 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (1.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 8 (1.61%) Nessus
16 7 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (1.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 496 (100.00%) VMware
2 173 (34.88%) Microsoft
3 112 (22.58%) Cisco
4 71 (14.31%) Red Hat
5 40 (8.06%) Oracle
6 34 (6.85%) Citrix
7 28 (5.65%) Palo Alto
8 23 (4.64%) NetApp
9 22 (4.44%) Atlassian
9 22 (4.44%) SolarWinds
10 20 (4.03%) F5
11 19 (3.83%) Splunk
12 17 (3.43%) Dell
12 17 (3.43%) Juniper
13 16 (3.23%) Broadcom
13 16 (3.23%) HP
13 16 (3.23%) Symantec
14 15 (3.02%) Veeam
15 14 (2.82%) EMC
15 14 (2.82%) Google