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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 118 108
Rank change year-on-year -45 -10 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 582 554 797
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.21% 2.10%
As % of the System Software category 13.82% 17.39% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 371 502
10th Percentile £308 £263 £275
25th Percentile £405 £401 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £608
90th Percentile £669 £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 52
10th Percentile £22.00 £74.40 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.70 £88.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £112.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +103.86% -15.48%
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile £76.56 - £83.93
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 4,212 3,185 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 12.73% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,892 2,127 2,947
10th Percentile £205 £205 £188
25th Percentile £400 £385 £310
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 £700 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £480
% change year-on-year -4.40% +8.96% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 77 213
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.08 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +3.17% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.95 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +26.14% -16.88% -

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -2 144 £513 -6.99% 79
London -80 134 £535 +1.90% 53
Midlands -2 113 £401 -27.22% 24
North of England -41 110 £445 +4.71% 55
West Midlands -7 85 £326 -46.35% 18
North West -28 66 £441 +0.86% 30
South West -46 64 £550 -3.30% 38
Yorkshire -32 51 £454 +0.22% 23
East of England -6 31 £475 +1.82% 13
East Midlands -13 28 £447 -14.86% 6
North East -17 2 £513 +46.43% 3
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 (6.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.75%) Confluence
4 7 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 174 (29.90%) Azure
2 131 (22.51%) AWS
3 59 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (8.08%) OpenShift
5 44 (7.56%) Entra ID
6 43 (7.39%) GCP
7 27 (4.64%) Nutanix
8 25 (4.30%) IaaS
9 20 (3.44%) GitHub
10 16 (2.75%) PaaS
11 14 (2.41%) Datadog
12 8 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (1.03%) Rubrik
14 5 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.86%) Cohesity
15 4 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 167 (28.69%) DNS
2 141 (24.23%) Firewall
3 83 (14.26%) DHCP
4 57 (9.79%) VPN
5 52 (8.93%) SAN
6 49 (8.42%) TCP/IP
7 43 (7.39%) Network Security
8 37 (6.36%) VSAN
9 33 (5.67%) VLAN
10 31 (5.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (5.33%) WAN
11 29 (4.98%) BIG-IP
11 29 (4.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 29 (4.98%) LAN
11 29 (4.98%) NAS
11 29 (4.98%) SSL
12 26 (4.47%) HTTP
13 24 (4.12%) BGP
13 24 (4.12%) Wireshark
14 17 (2.92%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.52%) 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 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.26%) JIRA
3 17 (2.92%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.58%) Git
5 12 (2.06%) GitLab
6 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.37%) PVCS
7 8 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.20%) JMeter
8 7 (1.20%) JUnit
9 4 (0.69%) RStudio
10 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.34%) Subversion
12 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
12 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 142 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 63 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.28%) Finance
5 48 (8.25%) Banking
6 27 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.47%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.09%) Legal
9 14 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.72%) Military
10 10 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.37%) Electronics
12 7 (1.20%) Police
13 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.86%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.86%) Local Government
15 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.69%) Social Science
16 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 102 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 84 (14.43%) Architect
3 57 (9.79%) Analyst
4 42 (7.22%) Network Engineer
5 31 (5.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 30 (5.15%) Senior
7 29 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (4.98%) VMware Engineer
8 28 (4.81%) Infrastructure Architect
9 26 (4.47%) Support Engineer
10 23 (3.95%) Consultant
10 23 (3.95%) Lead
11 20 (3.44%) Storage Analyst
12 18 (3.09%) Web Engineer
13 17 (2.92%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 17 (2.92%) IP Network Engineer
13 17 (2.92%) VMware Consultant
13 17 (2.92%) Wintel Engineer
14 15 (2.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 15 (2.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.44%) Flash
2 14 (2.41%) LDAP
3 10 (1.72%) SAML
4 8 (1.37%) Kafka
5 7 (1.20%) Loki
5 7 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.20%) Spring
6 6 (1.03%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.03%) REST
7 5 (0.86%) Middleware
7 5 (0.86%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.69%) OAuth
8 4 (0.69%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.69%) 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 63 (10.82%) Data Centre
2 57 (9.79%) Replication
3 44 (7.56%) PKI
4 36 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (4.81%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.95%) Private Cloud
8 20 (3.44%) Clustering
9 16 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
12 13 (2.23%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.72%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.20%) Driving Licence
16 5 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 251 (43.13%) Windows
2 205 (35.22%) Linux
3 153 (26.29%) Windows Server
4 42 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (5.15%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.92%) VMS
8 17 (2.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.58%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.23%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.72%) Unix
12 8 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
12 8 (1.37%) Solaris
13 6 (1.03%) CentOS
14 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.69%) AIX
15 4 (0.69%) CatOS
15 4 (0.69%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (22.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 106 (18.21%) Migration
3 101 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (14.43%) Agile
5 75 (12.89%) CI/CD
6 71 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 68 (11.68%) DevOps
8 67 (11.51%) ITIL
9 66 (11.34%) High Availability
10 65 (11.17%) Load Balancing
11 57 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (8.93%) Containerisation
13 50 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
14 47 (8.08%) Data Protection
15 40 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (6.36%) Roadmaps
17 35 (6.01%) Capacity Planning
17 35 (6.01%) Change Management
17 35 (6.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (23.71%) PowerShell
2 104 (17.87%) Python
3 73 (12.54%) Bash
4 17 (2.92%) SQL
5 13 (2.23%) Perl
6 11 (1.89%) C
7 8 (1.37%) C++
7 8 (1.37%) Java
8 7 (1.20%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.20%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.86%) Bicep
10 4 (0.69%) C#
10 4 (0.69%) PHP
10 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.34%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) Go
12 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 226 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 150 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.71%) DV Cleared
4 45 (7.73%) Degree
5 40 (6.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 35 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.95%) Azure Certification
8 23 (3.95%) CCNP
9 16 (2.75%) MCSE
10 14 (2.41%) CCNA
10 14 (2.41%) VCAP
11 12 (2.06%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (2.06%) MCSA
12 8 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (1.20%) CCIE
14 6 (1.03%) CCDP
14 6 (1.03%) CISSP
14 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.92%) GDPR
3 16 (2.75%) NIST
4 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.55%) SLA
5 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.69%) QA
6 3 (0.52%) NCSC
6 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 177 (30.41%) Active Directory
2 129 (22.16%) vSphere
3 94 (16.15%) Hyper-V
4 89 (15.29%) VMware NSX
5 85 (14.60%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (9.45%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (8.93%) Docker
8 37 (6.36%) NFS
9 26 (4.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (4.30%) Firmware
11 18 (3.09%) KVM
12 15 (2.58%) GPFS
13 6 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.86%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.69%) vCloud
16 3 (0.52%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.52%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.34%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 95 (16.32%) Ansible
2 73 (12.54%) Terraform
3 70 (12.03%) vCenter Server
4 68 (11.68%) Kubernetes
5 60 (10.31%) SCCM
6 58 (9.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (7.73%) vRealize
8 23 (3.95%) Grafana
9 22 (3.78%) Argo
10 20 (3.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (3.44%) VxRail
11 17 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (2.41%) SCOM
13 13 (2.23%) Progress Chef
13 13 (2.23%) Prometheus
14 12 (2.06%) vMotion
15 11 (1.89%) FortiGate
16 10 (1.72%) PowerCLI
16 10 (1.72%) Puppet
17 9 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 582 (100.00%) VMware
2 167 (28.69%) Microsoft
3 129 (22.16%) Cisco
4 63 (10.82%) Citrix
5 59 (10.14%) Red Hat
6 58 (9.97%) F5
7 43 (7.39%) NetApp
8 41 (7.04%) IBM
9 38 (6.53%) Dell
10 36 (6.19%) SolarWinds
11 31 (5.33%) ServiceNow
12 29 (4.98%) Oracle
12 29 (4.98%) Pure Storage
13 28 (4.81%) Palo Alto
14 27 (4.64%) Veeam
15 24 (4.12%) Commvault
16 20 (3.44%) McAfee
17 18 (3.09%) Blue Coat
18 17 (2.92%) HP
19 15 (2.58%) Juniper