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

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 169 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 -61 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 794 466 720
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.68% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 17.08% 13.79% 18.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 310 448
10th Percentile £316 £300 £321
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +8.11% -3.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £680 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 2 6
10th Percentile £26.00 £33.58 £23.10
25th Percentile £40.10 £38.94 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.08% +102.73% -62.22%
75th Percentile £89.88 £57.94 £33.51
90th Percentile £96.30 £63.53 £43.37
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £48.25 £23.80
% change year-on-year +42.49% +102.73% -63.93%

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 4,649 3,380 3,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 12.17% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,030 2,173 2,567
10th Percentile £217 £214 £219
25th Percentile £387 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £609
90th Percentile £680 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 96 100
10th Percentile £17.70 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.50 £16.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% +47.84% -49.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.19 £90.75 £80.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £33.39 £24.35
% change year-on-year +89.11% +37.10% -51.30%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -10 205 £538 -2.27% 133
London -21 190 £525 +5.00% 216
North of England +4 177 £476 +10.38% 76
Midlands -16 98 £450 -18.18% 84
North West +11 86 £455 +3.89% 39
Yorkshire -17 77 £523 +26.67% 22
South West -29 76 £638 +12.83% 73
West Midlands -23 73 £450 -21.36% 57
East of England -10 53 £510 -7.27% 63
East Midlands 0 25 £425 -11.92% 27
North East -29 14 £400 -36.00% 16
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 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.02%) IIS
4 13 (1.64%) Confluence
5 9 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.88%) JBoss
6 7 (0.88%) nginx
6 7 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.50%) Apache
7 4 (0.50%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.50%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (1.01%) 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 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (28.09%) Azure
2 127 (15.99%) AWS
3 81 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (7.30%) Entra ID
5 39 (4.91%) OpenShift
6 33 (4.16%) GCP
7 31 (3.90%) GitHub
8 26 (3.27%) IaaS
9 18 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.76%) OneDrive
12 13 (1.64%) PaaS
12 13 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.64%) SaaS
13 11 (1.39%) Nutanix
13 11 (1.39%) Rubrik
14 9 (1.13%) Azure Stack
15 8 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 261 (32.87%) DNS
2 170 (21.41%) Firewall
3 164 (20.65%) DHCP
4 95 (11.96%) TCP/IP
5 80 (10.08%) VSAN
6 68 (8.56%) VPN
7 66 (8.31%) SAN
7 66 (8.31%) VLAN
8 53 (6.68%) Network Security
8 53 (6.68%) WAN
9 44 (5.54%) LAN
10 39 (4.91%) SSL
11 38 (4.79%) NAS
12 31 (3.90%) HTTP
13 30 (3.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 29 (3.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 28 (3.53%) BGP
16 23 (2.90%) Wireshark
17 22 (2.77%) BIG-IP
18 18 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.64%) Power BI
4 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.13%) Big Data
5 9 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.13%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.25%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) DataStage
10 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (4.16%) JIRA
2 24 (3.02%) Git
2 24 (3.02%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.77%) GitLab
4 13 (1.64%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.50%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.50%) PVCS
7 3 (0.38%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.13%) MSI
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 185 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 86 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (9.70%) Finance
4 35 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 30 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.53%) Banking
7 24 (3.02%) Legal
8 17 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.01%) Law
13 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.88%) Retail
14 6 (0.76%) Back Office
14 6 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.63%) Military
15 5 (0.63%) Police
16 4 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 192 (24.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (13.98%) Senior
3 83 (10.45%) VMware Engineer
4 65 (8.19%) Architect
5 59 (7.43%) Network Engineer
6 51 (6.42%) Support Engineer
7 49 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.04%) Lead
9 38 (4.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (4.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 34 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.16%) Storage Engineer
13 31 (3.90%) Administrator
14 28 (3.53%) Consultant
15 27 (3.40%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 24 (3.02%) IT Engineer
17 23 (2.90%) Virtualisation Engineer
18 22 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
19 21 (2.64%) Server Engineer
19 21 (2.64%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (14.74%) Terraform
2 24 (3.02%) REST
3 20 (2.52%) JSON
4 16 (2.02%) Kafka
5 12 (1.51%) LDAP
6 11 (1.39%) 802.1X
6 11 (1.39%) YAML
7 8 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (0.88%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.76%) ARM Templates
9 6 (0.76%) Middleware
10 5 (0.63%) .NET
11 4 (0.50%) Flash
11 4 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.50%) Redfish
12 3 (0.38%) Java SE
12 3 (0.38%) XML
13 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
13 2 (0.25%) OpenGL
13 2 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (16.37%) Data Centre
2 71 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (8.19%) PKI
4 48 (6.05%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (5.54%) Clustering
6 37 (4.66%) Replication
7 34 (4.28%) Private Cloud
8 31 (3.90%) Management Information System
9 29 (3.65%) Onboarding
10 28 (3.53%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.64%) Cloud Native
12 18 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.64%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.64%) SCADA
16 12 (1.51%) Operational Technology
16 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
18 9 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 443 (55.79%) Windows
2 298 (37.53%) Windows Server
3 211 (26.57%) Linux
4 46 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (3.40%) Windows 10
7 23 (2.90%) VMS
8 19 (2.39%) Unix
9 17 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.76%) Ubuntu
12 13 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (1.51%) Data ONTAP
14 9 (1.13%) Solaris
15 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
16 7 (0.88%) CentOS
17 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.50%) SUSE
19 3 (0.38%) AIX
19 3 (0.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (33.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 160 (20.15%) ITIL
3 154 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
4 148 (18.64%) Migration
5 136 (17.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 118 (14.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 105 (13.22%) CI/CD
7 105 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
8 95 (11.96%) Change Management
9 92 (11.59%) High Availability
10 87 (10.96%) ITSM
11 78 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 77 (9.70%) Agile
12 77 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 75 (9.45%) Platform Engineering
14 73 (9.19%) Service Management
15 72 (9.07%) Network Virtualisation
16 70 (8.82%) DevOps
17 69 (8.69%) Capacity Planning
17 69 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 195 (24.56%) PowerShell
2 116 (14.61%) Python
3 76 (9.57%) Bash
4 53 (6.68%) SQL
5 19 (2.39%) Java
6 9 (1.13%) C
7 8 (1.01%) Bicep
8 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.50%) C++
10 4 (0.50%) Go
10 4 (0.50%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.38%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.38%) Lua
11 3 (0.38%) VB
12 2 (0.25%) Korn
12 2 (0.25%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) C#
13 1 (0.13%) COBOL
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 395 (49.75%) Security Cleared
2 226 (28.46%) SC Cleared
3 194 (24.43%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 54 (6.80%) Degree
6 44 (5.54%) VCAP
7 41 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.65%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.64%) MCSE
11 19 (2.39%) CCNP
12 18 (2.27%) CCNA
13 17 (2.14%) AWS Certification
14 16 (2.02%) MCSA
15 12 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 11 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
18 8 (1.01%) A+ Certification
18 8 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
19 7 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.02%) SLA
2 18 (2.27%) NIST
2 18 (2.27%) QA
3 14 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.64%) NCSC
5 5 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.50%) GxP
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.25%) GDPR
8 2 (0.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) DICOM
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 281 (35.39%) Active Directory
2 198 (24.94%) VMware ESXi
3 195 (24.56%) vSphere
4 175 (22.04%) Hyper-V
5 137 (17.25%) VMware NSX
6 93 (11.71%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (7.05%) Docker
8 39 (4.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (4.28%) Firmware
10 21 (2.64%) NFS
11 15 (1.89%) KVM
12 13 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (1.13%) XenApp
15 8 (1.01%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.88%) oVirt
16 7 (0.88%) vCloud
17 6 (0.76%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 149 (18.77%) vCenter Server
2 145 (18.26%) Ansible
3 122 (15.37%) Kubernetes
4 55 (6.93%) SCCM
4 55 (6.93%) SCOM
5 43 (5.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (4.41%) VxRail
7 23 (2.90%) vRealize
8 22 (2.77%) Grafana
9 19 (2.39%) Prometheus
10 17 (2.14%) PowerCLI
10 17 (2.14%) Puppet
11 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
12 14 (1.76%) vMotion
12 14 (1.76%) WSUS
13 13 (1.64%) Avamar
13 13 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (1.51%) Argo
15 11 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
15 11 (1.39%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 794 (100.00%) VMware
2 241 (30.35%) Microsoft
3 136 (17.13%) Cisco
4 60 (7.56%) Citrix
5 57 (7.18%) NetApp
6 51 (6.42%) Red Hat
7 49 (6.17%) Dell
8 40 (5.04%) ServiceNow
9 39 (4.91%) F5
10 38 (4.79%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.16%) Oracle
12 31 (3.90%) Veeam
13 29 (3.65%) Palo Alto
14 28 (3.53%) Juniper
15 23 (2.90%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.77%) Broadcom
17 19 (2.39%) IBM
17 19 (2.39%) Remedy
18 18 (2.27%) McAfee
19 16 (2.02%) CheckPoint
647 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England