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

 6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 142 115
Rank change year-on-year -28 -27 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 654 480 739
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 2.01% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 15.41% 15.82% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 339 486
10th Percentile £325 £350 £287
25th Percentile £425 £463 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £668
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 29
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.26
25th Percentile £41.50 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.42 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.63% -30.00% -36.51%
75th Percentile £72.13 - £46.86
90th Percentile £74.00 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -38.08%

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 4,245 3,035 4,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.18% 12.68% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,854 2,064 2,873
10th Percentile £213 £214 £204
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £608
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 71 206
10th Percentile £17.18 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.44 £17.73 £14.48
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.41 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +86.55% +27.83% -57.37%
75th Percentile £72.77 £63.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.41 £24.18
% change year-on-year +84.79% +17.49% -55.97%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +10 189 £538 -6.52% 78
London -58 146 £525 - 56
North of England -15 141 £456 +12.59% 38
Midlands -18 90 £425 -22.73% 32
North West +1 77 £456 +19.05% 25
West Midlands -27 69 £425 -22.87% 22
Yorkshire -24 62 £454 -6.97% 7
South West -57 54 £539 -6.30% 29
East of England -35 34 £475 -13.64% 26
East Midlands -20 21 £436 -19.67% 10
North East -33 2 £575 +64.29% 7
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 35 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.38%) IIS
4 8 (1.22%) nginx
4 8 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.07%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.61%) Confluence
7 3 (0.46%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) CICS
7 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 190 (29.05%) Azure
2 126 (19.27%) AWS
3 46 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (6.73%) Entra ID
5 43 (6.57%) OpenShift
6 36 (5.50%) GCP
7 23 (3.52%) GitHub
7 23 (3.52%) IaaS
8 21 (3.21%) Nutanix
9 16 (2.45%) PaaS
10 12 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.68%) Rubrik
12 9 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.07%) Cohesity
14 7 (1.07%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.92%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 183 (27.98%) DNS
2 136 (20.80%) Firewall
3 108 (16.51%) DHCP
4 69 (10.55%) SAN
4 69 (10.55%) VPN
5 65 (9.94%) VSAN
6 58 (8.87%) WAN
7 54 (8.26%) Network Security
8 45 (6.88%) TCP/IP
9 44 (6.73%) NAS
10 42 (6.42%) LAN
11 39 (5.96%) SSL
12 31 (4.74%) BIG-IP
13 30 (4.59%) HTTP
13 30 (4.59%) VLAN
14 28 (4.28%) BGP
15 26 (3.98%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.82%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (3.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 21 (3.21%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.92%) Power BI
5 5 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.46%) DataStage
7 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.31%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 22 (3.36%) JIRA
3 18 (2.75%) Fiddler
4 14 (2.14%) Git
5 13 (1.99%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) PVCS
6 4 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.46%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.31%) MSI
9 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.15%) GoCD
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) RStudio
General
1 134 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 53 (8.10%) Finance
3 48 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.27%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.50%) Banking
6 23 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.21%) Legal
8 19 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.53%) Police
10 9 (1.38%) Military
11 7 (1.07%) Law
12 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.92%) Retail
13 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.76%) Local Government
13 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.61%) Electronics
14 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (13.30%) Architect
3 64 (9.79%) Network Engineer
4 62 (9.48%) Senior
5 52 (7.95%) VMware Engineer
6 29 (4.43%) Analyst
6 29 (4.43%) Lead
7 28 (4.28%) Support Engineer
8 27 (4.13%) Storage Engineer
9 26 (3.98%) Infrastructure Architect
9 26 (3.98%) Wintel Engineer
10 24 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 23 (3.52%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 22 (3.36%) Consultant
13 18 (2.75%) Administrator
13 18 (2.75%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 18 (2.75%) IP Network Engineer
13 18 (2.75%) VMware Architect
13 18 (2.75%) Web Engineer
14 17 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.75%) Flash
2 16 (2.45%) LDAP
3 11 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.53%) REST
5 8 (1.22%) SAML
6 7 (1.07%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.07%) Middleware
7 5 (0.76%) .NET
7 5 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.76%) JSON
7 5 (0.76%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.46%) Redfish
9 2 (0.31%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.31%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.31%) Blazor
9 2 (0.31%) Java SE
9 2 (0.31%) Kafka
9 2 (0.31%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.46%) Data Centre
2 62 (9.48%) Replication
3 57 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 45 (6.88%) PKI
5 37 (5.66%) Clustering
5 37 (5.66%) Enterprise Storage
6 32 (4.89%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.98%) Public Cloud
8 25 (3.82%) Private Cloud
9 23 (3.52%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.68%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.53%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 318 (48.62%) Windows
2 209 (31.96%) Windows Server
3 193 (29.51%) Linux
4 41 (6.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (6.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (3.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (3.21%) Windows 10
7 20 (3.06%) VMS
8 18 (2.75%) Data ONTAP
8 18 (2.75%) Ubuntu
9 15 (2.29%) Unix
9 15 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (1.68%) Solaris
11 10 (1.53%) Mac OS
12 8 (1.22%) CentOS
12 8 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (1.07%) CoreOS
13 7 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.61%) AIX
14 4 (0.61%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (26.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 135 (20.64%) Migration
3 100 (15.29%) High Availability
4 99 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (13.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 83 (12.69%) ITIL
7 70 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (10.55%) Capacity Planning
9 65 (9.94%) CI/CD
10 63 (9.63%) DevOps
11 62 (9.48%) Agile
12 60 (9.17%) Network Virtualisation
13 59 (9.02%) Load Balancing
14 56 (8.56%) Change Management
15 47 (7.19%) ITSM
16 45 (6.88%) Data Protection
17 44 (6.73%) Performance Tuning
18 43 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
19 41 (6.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 144 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 80 (12.23%) Python
3 49 (7.49%) Bash
4 28 (4.28%) SQL
5 7 (1.07%) C
5 7 (1.07%) Java
5 7 (1.07%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.92%) Bicep
7 4 (0.61%) C++
7 4 (0.61%) Embedded C
7 4 (0.61%) Embedded C++
7 4 (0.61%) PHP
7 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.46%) C#
8 3 (0.46%) COBOL
8 3 (0.46%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.31%) VBScript
10 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.15%) Perl
10 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 276 (42.20%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 123 (18.81%) DV Cleared
4 57 (8.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 36 (5.50%) Degree
6 34 (5.20%) VCAP
7 31 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (3.06%) MCSE
10 19 (2.91%) Azure Certification
11 17 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (2.60%) CCNP
11 17 (2.60%) MCSA
12 12 (1.83%) CCNA
13 10 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (1.38%) OCP
15 6 (0.92%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 6 (0.92%) RHCA
16 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (3.52%) NIST
1 23 (3.52%) SLA
2 15 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (1.68%) NCSC
4 6 (0.92%) GDPR
5 5 (0.76%) QA
6 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.31%) ISA99
8 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) DICOM
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 192 (29.36%) Active Directory
2 161 (24.62%) VMware ESXi
3 157 (24.01%) vSphere
4 135 (20.64%) VMware NSX
5 128 (19.57%) Hyper-V
6 88 (13.46%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (5.66%) NFS
8 35 (5.35%) Docker
9 33 (5.05%) Firmware
10 29 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (3.67%) KVM
12 13 (1.99%) GPFS
13 11 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
13 11 (1.68%) vCloud
14 9 (1.38%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.76%) SRDF
17 4 (0.61%) XenDesktop
18 3 (0.46%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 121 (18.50%) Ansible
2 119 (18.20%) vCenter Server
3 75 (11.47%) Terraform
4 69 (10.55%) Kubernetes
5 45 (6.88%) SCCM
6 36 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (5.35%) vRealize
8 26 (3.98%) SCOM
9 22 (3.36%) Grafana
10 20 (3.06%) Argo
11 19 (2.91%) vMotion
12 18 (2.75%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (2.45%) VxRail
15 14 (2.14%) WSUS
16 13 (1.99%) EMC VPLEX
16 13 (1.99%) SnapMirror
17 12 (1.83%) NetBackup
17 12 (1.83%) Puppet
18 11 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 654 (100.00%) VMware
2 177 (27.06%) Microsoft
3 143 (21.87%) Cisco
4 60 (9.17%) Citrix
5 57 (8.72%) NetApp
6 50 (7.65%) Red Hat
7 44 (6.73%) F5
8 39 (5.96%) Dell
9 38 (5.81%) ServiceNow
10 35 (5.35%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.89%) Oracle
11 32 (4.89%) Pure Storage
12 29 (4.43%) IBM
13 26 (3.98%) Veeam
14 24 (3.67%) CheckPoint
15 22 (3.36%) Juniper
15 22 (3.36%) SolarWinds
16 21 (3.21%) McAfee
17 19 (2.91%) Blue Coat
18 18 (2.75%) Fortinet
253 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England