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

 6 months to
26 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 167 110
Rank change year-on-year +5 -57 -23
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 815 462 713
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.65% 2.18%
As % of the System Software category 17.49% 13.44% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 304 435
10th Percentile £313 £283 £321
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £591
90th Percentile £705 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 3 8
10th Percentile £25.92 £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 £89.81 £48.63 £65.50
90th Percentile £95.68 £59.80 £112.00
UK median hourly rate £68.38 £30.00 £29.98
% change year-on-year +127.92% +0.06% -54.56%

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 4,661 3,437 3,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 12.30% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,033 2,200 2,527
10th Percentile £213 £213 £220
25th Percentile £385 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.19% +0.73%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 103 95
10th Percentile £17.73 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £29.28 £22.50 £17.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -41.29%
75th Percentile £74.32 £80.00 £69.84
90th Percentile £92.11 £89.93 £84.42
UK median hourly rate £62.82 £33.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.16% +21.40% -45.00%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -10 206 £538 -2.27% 138
London -4 197 £525 +5.00% 191
North of England +8 180 £480 +12.94% 79
Midlands -17 94 £450 -18.18% 76
North West +5 83 £450 +2.86% 45
Yorkshire -12 81 £525 +27.27% 22
South West -26 77 £638 +14.86% 63
West Midlands -18 70 £450 -21.36% 53
East of England -5 64 £563 +2.27% 53
East Midlands -9 24 £438 -9.33% 23
North East -23 17 £400 - 12
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 43 (5.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.96%) IIS
4 15 (1.84%) Confluence
5 13 (1.60%) CMS
6 9 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.86%) JBoss
7 7 (0.86%) nginx
7 7 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.49%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.25%) Houdini
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.25%) NUKE
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (27.24%) Azure
2 122 (14.97%) AWS
3 82 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (7.73%) Entra ID
5 42 (5.15%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.05%) GCP
7 27 (3.31%) GitHub
8 25 (3.07%) IaaS
9 18 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.72%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.60%) PaaS
12 13 (1.60%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.60%) Rubrik
13 12 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.47%) Nutanix
13 12 (1.47%) SaaS
14 8 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (0.98%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 263 (32.27%) DNS
2 171 (20.98%) Firewall
3 168 (20.61%) DHCP
4 98 (12.02%) TCP/IP
5 72 (8.83%) VSAN
6 68 (8.34%) SAN
7 66 (8.10%) VPN
8 62 (7.61%) VLAN
9 56 (6.87%) Network Security
9 56 (6.87%) WAN
10 51 (6.26%) LAN
11 39 (4.79%) NAS
12 37 (4.54%) SSL
13 32 (3.93%) HTTP
14 30 (3.68%) BGP
15 28 (3.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 27 (3.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 22 (2.70%) Wireshark
18 21 (2.58%) BIG-IP
19 20 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.60%) Power BI
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.10%) Big Data
5 9 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.12%) DataStage
10 1 (0.12%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.12%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (4.17%) JIRA
2 25 (3.07%) Git
3 23 (2.82%) GitLab
4 20 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.47%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.49%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.49%) PVCS
8 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 188 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 86 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (10.43%) Finance
4 33 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
4 33 (4.05%) Public Sector
5 28 (3.44%) Banking
6 24 (2.94%) Legal
7 18 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.98%) Law
11 8 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.86%) Back Office
12 7 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Police
13 6 (0.74%) Retail
14 5 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 201 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 114 (13.99%) Senior
3 82 (10.06%) VMware Engineer
4 64 (7.85%) Architect
5 57 (6.99%) Network Engineer
6 53 (6.50%) Support Engineer
7 50 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (5.64%) Lead
9 41 (5.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (4.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 36 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
11 36 (4.42%) Storage Engineer
12 32 (3.93%) Administrator
13 29 (3.56%) Consultant
14 25 (3.07%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 24 (2.94%) IT Engineer
16 23 (2.82%) Wintel Engineer
17 22 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
18 21 (2.58%) Server Engineer
18 21 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (14.11%) Terraform
2 26 (3.19%) REST
3 21 (2.58%) JSON
4 17 (2.09%) Kafka
5 12 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 12 (1.47%) LDAP
5 12 (1.47%) XMPP
5 12 (1.47%) YAML
6 8 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.86%) Middleware
7 7 (0.86%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.74%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.61%) .NET
10 4 (0.49%) Flash
10 4 (0.49%) Redfish
11 3 (0.37%) Java SE
11 3 (0.37%) XML
12 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.25%) OAuth
12 2 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 142 (17.42%) Data Centre
2 68 (8.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 67 (8.22%) PKI
4 49 (6.01%) Enterprise Storage
5 42 (5.15%) Clustering
6 37 (4.54%) Private Cloud
7 35 (4.29%) Replication
8 31 (3.80%) Management Information System
9 29 (3.56%) Onboarding
10 26 (3.19%) Public Cloud
11 19 (2.33%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.84%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.72%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.60%) SCADA
17 12 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.10%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 452 (55.46%) Windows
2 304 (37.30%) Windows Server
3 211 (25.89%) Linux
4 47 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (5.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.19%) Windows 10
7 21 (2.58%) VMS
8 20 (2.45%) Unix
9 18 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
12 12 (1.47%) Ubuntu
13 11 (1.35%) Solaris
14 8 (0.98%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.98%) CentOS
15 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.61%) AIX
17 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.37%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (34.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (20.49%) ITIL
3 159 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (18.40%) Migration
5 142 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (14.72%) Disaster Recovery
7 115 (14.11%) Technical Leadership
8 100 (12.27%) CI/CD
9 98 (12.02%) Change Management
10 86 (10.55%) High Availability
11 85 (10.43%) ITSM
12 83 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 82 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
14 81 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
15 80 (9.82%) Agile
16 78 (9.57%) Project Delivery
17 77 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
18 75 (9.20%) Service Management
19 74 (9.08%) Stakeholder Management
20 67 (8.22%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 193 (23.68%) PowerShell
2 111 (13.62%) Python
3 69 (8.47%) Bash
4 50 (6.13%) SQL
5 19 (2.33%) Java
6 9 (1.10%) Bicep
6 9 (1.10%) C
7 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.49%) C++
8 4 (0.49%) Go
8 4 (0.49%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.37%) Korn
9 3 (0.37%) Lua
9 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.37%) VB
10 2 (0.25%) VBScript
11 1 (0.12%) C#
11 1 (0.12%) COBOL
11 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 409 (50.18%) Security Cleared
2 235 (28.83%) SC Cleared
3 196 (24.05%) DV Cleared
4 62 (7.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (6.99%) Degree
6 47 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (4.91%) VCAP
8 35 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (3.19%) CCNP
10 25 (3.07%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.45%) MCSE
12 19 (2.33%) CCNA
13 17 (2.09%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.96%) MCSA
15 12 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.98%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.98%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.70%) SLA
2 18 (2.21%) QA
3 17 (2.09%) NIST
4 13 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.35%) NCSC
6 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.49%) GxP
7 4 (0.49%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.37%) GRC
9 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.25%) GDPR
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.12%) DICOM
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 294 (36.07%) Active Directory
2 200 (24.54%) vSphere
3 198 (24.29%) VMware ESXi
4 180 (22.09%) Hyper-V
5 126 (15.46%) VMware NSX
6 86 (10.55%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (6.87%) Docker
8 40 (4.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (3.93%) Firmware
10 21 (2.58%) NFS
11 19 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (1.84%) KVM
13 12 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 10 (1.23%) XenApp
15 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 9 (1.10%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.86%) oVirt
16 7 (0.86%) vCloud
17 6 (0.74%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 139 (17.06%) vCenter Server
2 136 (16.69%) Ansible
3 121 (14.85%) Kubernetes
4 57 (6.99%) SCCM
4 57 (6.99%) SCOM
5 44 (5.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (4.42%) VxRail
7 21 (2.58%) vRealize
8 19 (2.33%) Prometheus
9 18 (2.21%) Grafana
10 17 (2.09%) Puppet
11 16 (1.96%) Cisco CUCM
12 14 (1.72%) PowerCLI
13 13 (1.60%) Avamar
13 13 (1.60%) NetBackup
13 13 (1.60%) WSUS
14 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (1.47%) vMotion
15 11 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
15 11 (1.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 815 (100.00%) VMware
2 254 (31.17%) Microsoft
3 150 (18.40%) Cisco
4 61 (7.48%) Citrix
5 59 (7.24%) NetApp
6 56 (6.87%) Red Hat
7 52 (6.38%) Dell
8 42 (5.15%) SolarWinds
9 41 (5.03%) ServiceNow
10 37 (4.54%) F5
11 36 (4.42%) Veeam
12 30 (3.68%) Oracle
13 28 (3.44%) Juniper
13 28 (3.44%) Palo Alto
14 25 (3.07%) Fortinet
15 20 (2.45%) Broadcom
15 20 (2.45%) Remedy
16 19 (2.33%) IBM
16 19 (2.33%) McAfee
17 17 (2.09%) Commvault
613 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England