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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 119 92
Rank change year-on-year -51 -27 +35
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 526 636 941
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 2.17% 2.49%
As % of the System Software category 13.47% 18.08% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 389 608
10th Percentile £300 £263 £309
25th Percentile £406 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -2.38%
75th Percentile £584 £611 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £704
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 55
10th Percentile £24.40 £28.99 £27.20
25th Percentile £44.86 £39.19 £46.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -12.85% +1.51%
75th Percentile - £100.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.85 £112.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £44.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -33.31% +1.51%

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 3,906 3,518 4,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.56% 11.99% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,599 2,275 3,330
10th Percentile £213 £206 £195
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 79 218
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +60.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £45.09 £29.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year +55.49% -33.85% +75.35%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 14 December 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
South East -20 130 £500 -9.09% 92
London -92 117 £541 +8.25% 53
Midlands +19 111 £436 -5.73% 32
North of England -10 95 £435 -0.69% 54
West Midlands +17 90 £400 -27.27% 22
North West -2 63 £438 +2.94% 23
South West -35 58 £550 +4.76% 38
Yorkshire -17 44 £413 -8.84% 25
East of England -8 27 £513 +46.50% 26
East Midlands -11 21 £450 +20.00% 10
North East -10 3 £513 - 9
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 (6.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.80%) Confluence
4 11 (2.09%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.33%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.95%) IIS
6 5 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.38%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Traefik
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.66%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 155 (29.47%) Azure
2 127 (24.14%) AWS
3 59 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (9.13%) GCP
5 35 (6.65%) Entra ID
6 33 (6.27%) OpenShift
7 22 (4.18%) GitHub
8 19 (3.61%) IaaS
9 18 (3.42%) SaaS
10 17 (3.23%) Nutanix
11 14 (2.66%) Datadog
12 12 (2.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.90%) PaaS
14 8 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
17 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
18 3 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 159 (30.23%) DNS
2 127 (24.14%) Firewall
3 72 (13.69%) DHCP
4 65 (12.36%) TCP/IP
5 47 (8.94%) VLAN
6 44 (8.37%) VPN
7 38 (7.22%) VSAN
8 36 (6.84%) Network Security
9 35 (6.65%) SAN
10 34 (6.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 32 (6.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 31 (5.89%) WAN
13 28 (5.32%) LAN
14 27 (5.13%) DMZ
15 21 (3.99%) NAS
16 19 (3.61%) Wireless
17 18 (3.42%) BGP
18 17 (3.23%) SSL
19 16 (3.04%) iSCSI
20 15 (2.85%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.38%) MySQL
4 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.38%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (5.89%) Jenkins
2 27 (5.13%) Git
3 17 (3.23%) GitLab
4 16 (3.04%) JIRA
5 11 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.71%) Fiddler
7 8 (1.52%) Subversion
8 7 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.33%) JMeter
8 7 (1.33%) JUnit
9 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.95%) PVCS
9 5 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.57%) Postman
11 3 (0.57%) RStudio
12 2 (0.38%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.19%) MSI
General
1 152 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 67 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.94%) Finance
5 46 (8.75%) Banking
6 31 (5.89%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (4.37%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.28%) Legal
9 12 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.33%) Electronics
11 7 (1.33%) Law
12 6 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.76%) Military
14 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 86 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 83 (15.78%) Architect
3 41 (7.79%) Analyst
4 33 (6.27%) Consultant
5 32 (6.08%) Senior
6 30 (5.70%) Support Engineer
7 29 (5.51%) Network Engineer
8 28 (5.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 24 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (4.37%) Infrastructure Architect
11 18 (3.42%) Administrator
11 18 (3.42%) VMware Consultant
11 18 (3.42%) VMware Engineer
12 16 (3.04%) Infrastructure Support
12 16 (3.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 16 (3.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (2.85%) IT Engineer
13 15 (2.85%) Operations Engineer
14 14 (2.66%) Storage Analyst
14 14 (2.66%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.28%) Flash
2 10 (1.90%) REST
3 8 (1.52%) Kafka
4 7 (1.33%) Loki
4 7 (1.33%) Middleware
4 7 (1.33%) Spring
5 6 (1.14%) Hibernate
5 6 (1.14%) LDAP
5 6 (1.14%) SAML
6 4 (0.76%) RESTful
7 3 (0.57%) .NET
7 3 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.57%) OAuth
7 3 (0.57%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.57%) OpenID
7 3 (0.57%) Swagger
8 2 (0.38%) EDI
8 2 (0.38%) LAMP
8 2 (0.38%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.93%) Data Centre
2 48 (9.13%) Replication
3 37 (7.03%) PKI
4 36 (6.84%) Management Information System
5 27 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
6 25 (4.75%) Cloud Native
7 19 (3.61%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.09%) Clustering
9 9 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.71%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.52%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.14%) NHS
12 6 (1.14%) SCADA
13 4 (0.76%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 226 (42.97%) Windows
2 194 (36.88%) Linux
3 126 (23.95%) Windows Server
4 49 (9.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (7.60%) Windows 10
6 19 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (3.04%) Mac OS
7 16 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (2.85%) VMS
9 12 (2.28%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.09%) CentOS
11 10 (1.90%) Solaris
12 7 (1.33%) Unix
13 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.57%) AIX
14 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.38%) Debian
15 2 (0.38%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (19.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 99 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (15.02%) Agile
4 72 (13.69%) CI/CD
5 69 (13.12%) Migration
6 66 (12.55%) ITIL
7 62 (11.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 59 (11.22%) DevOps
9 57 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 52 (9.89%) Load Balancing
11 50 (9.51%) Containerisation
12 47 (8.94%) Business Strategy
13 45 (8.56%) Data Protection
14 42 (7.98%) High Availability
15 36 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (6.65%) Service Management
17 34 (6.46%) Platform Engineering
18 33 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
19 29 (5.51%) Infrastructure Automation
19 29 (5.51%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 130 (24.71%) PowerShell
2 116 (22.05%) Python
3 87 (16.54%) Bash
4 39 (7.41%) SQL
5 18 (3.42%) Java
5 18 (3.42%) Perl
6 11 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.90%) C++
8 7 (1.33%) C
8 7 (1.33%) Go
8 7 (1.33%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.14%) PHP
10 4 (0.76%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.76%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.57%) C#
12 2 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.19%) Rust
13 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (36.88%) Security Cleared
2 131 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.60%) DV Cleared
4 46 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (7.98%) Degree
6 37 (7.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 36 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (5.32%) CCNP
9 26 (4.94%) Azure Certification
10 17 (3.23%) MCSE
11 16 (3.04%) AWS Certification
11 16 (3.04%) CCNA
12 13 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (2.28%) CCIE
14 11 (2.09%) Master's Degree
14 11 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (2.09%) Server+ Certification
15 9 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.52%) JNCIE
17 6 (1.14%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.70%) GDPR
2 19 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.71%) QA
4 7 (1.33%) NIST
5 6 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
7 4 (0.76%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 160 (30.42%) Active Directory
2 102 (19.39%) vSphere
3 80 (15.21%) Hyper-V
4 65 (12.36%) VMware ESXi
4 65 (12.36%) VMware NSX
5 54 (10.27%) Docker
6 38 (7.22%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (5.51%) NFS
8 20 (3.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (2.28%) GPFS
10 11 (2.09%) Firmware
10 11 (2.09%) KVM
11 10 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (1.14%) Dovecot
12 6 (1.14%) Postfix
12 6 (1.14%) Terminal Services
12 6 (1.14%) UAG
13 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 99 (18.82%) Ansible
2 76 (14.45%) Terraform
3 60 (11.41%) vCenter Server
4 57 (10.84%) SCCM
5 53 (10.08%) Kubernetes
6 45 (8.56%) vRealize
7 43 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (3.99%) VxRail
9 17 (3.23%) Grafana
10 16 (3.04%) Argo
11 15 (2.85%) Puppet
12 14 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (2.66%) Prometheus
13 13 (2.47%) Progress Chef
13 13 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (2.28%) WSUS
15 10 (1.90%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.90%) NetBackup
16 9 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (1.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 526 (100.00%) VMware
2 163 (30.99%) Microsoft
3 115 (21.86%) Cisco
4 63 (11.98%) F5
5 58 (11.03%) Citrix
6 57 (10.84%) Red Hat
7 44 (8.37%) NetApp
8 41 (7.79%) Veeam
9 39 (7.41%) SolarWinds
10 34 (6.46%) Dell
11 33 (6.27%) IBM
11 33 (6.27%) Oracle
12 23 (4.37%) Broadcom
13 20 (3.80%) Google
13 20 (3.80%) Palo Alto
13 20 (3.80%) Splunk
14 19 (3.61%) ServiceNow
15 16 (3.04%) HP
16 15 (2.85%) Commvault
17 14 (2.66%) Juniper