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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 141 123
Rank change year-on-year -27 -18 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 633 484 688
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 2.01% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 15.12% 16.02% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 342 444
10th Percentile £318 £313 £263
25th Percentile £421 £433 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.03%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 29
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £46.25 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -30.00% -36.74%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £46.86
90th Percentile £74.26 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £67.70 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +141.79% -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 4,187 3,022 3,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.39% 12.53% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,835 2,086 2,779
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £384 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 68 209
10th Percentile £17.92 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.66 £17.45 £14.48
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.86% +34.31% -58.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £88.00 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.00% -58.52%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -2 178 £525 -8.70% 78
London -54 141 £525 - 43
North of England -13 131 £449 +12.25% 38
Midlands -14 98 £402 -26.91% 33
West Midlands -22 75 £398 -27.79% 21
North West -3 70 £449 +11.14% 22
Yorkshire -16 60 £420 +3.70% 11
South West -60 51 £540 -6.09% 24
East of England -22 39 £475 -13.64% 17
East Midlands -19 23 £443 -18.38% 12
North East -22 2 £575 +64.29% 6
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 36 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.26%) IIS
4 6 (0.95%) nginx
4 6 (0.95%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.63%) Confluence
7 3 (0.47%) CICS
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.32%) Apache
8 2 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 178 (28.12%) Azure
2 120 (18.96%) AWS
3 50 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 40 (6.32%) OpenShift
6 31 (4.90%) GCP
7 24 (3.79%) IaaS
8 22 (3.48%) GitHub
9 20 (3.16%) Nutanix
10 17 (2.69%) PaaS
11 11 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.26%) Rubrik
14 7 (1.11%) Datadog
15 6 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.95%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.95%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 177 (27.96%) DNS
2 145 (22.91%) Firewall
3 101 (15.96%) DHCP
4 68 (10.74%) VPN
5 66 (10.43%) SAN
6 60 (9.48%) VSAN
7 54 (8.53%) WAN
8 49 (7.74%) TCP/IP
9 48 (7.58%) Network Security
10 43 (6.79%) NAS
11 42 (6.64%) LAN
12 40 (6.32%) SSL
13 34 (5.37%) BIG-IP
14 32 (5.06%) HTTP
15 28 (4.42%) VLAN
15 28 (4.42%) Wireshark
16 26 (4.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 25 (3.95%) BGP
18 23 (3.63%) Cisco ASA
19 22 (3.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.79%) Power BI
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.47%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.47%) DataStage
5 3 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.47%) Redis
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (3.32%) Jenkins
1 21 (3.32%) JIRA
2 19 (3.00%) Fiddler
3 12 (1.90%) Git
3 12 (1.90%) GitLab
4 6 (0.95%) PVCS
4 6 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.47%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.32%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.32%) MSI
6 2 (0.32%) RStudio
7 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) GoCD
7 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 124 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 50 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (7.90%) Finance
3 46 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 39 (6.16%) Banking
5 23 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.48%) Legal
7 21 (3.32%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.74%) Police
9 9 (1.42%) Military
10 6 (0.95%) Electronics
10 6 (0.95%) Retail
11 5 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.79%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.79%) Law
11 5 (0.79%) Local Government
11 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 129 (20.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 84 (13.27%) Architect
3 62 (9.79%) Network Engineer
3 62 (9.79%) Senior
4 49 (7.74%) VMware Engineer
5 38 (6.00%) Analyst
6 28 (4.42%) Infrastructure Architect
6 28 (4.42%) Lead
7 22 (3.48%) Support Engineer
7 22 (3.48%) Wintel Engineer
8 21 (3.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 20 (3.16%) Consultant
10 19 (3.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 19 (3.00%) IP Network Engineer
10 19 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (3.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 19 (3.00%) Storage Engineer
10 19 (3.00%) Web Engineer
11 17 (2.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 17 (2.69%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.00%) LDAP
2 18 (2.84%) Flash
3 11 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.58%) SAML
5 7 (1.11%) Middleware
5 7 (1.11%) REST
6 5 (0.79%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.47%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.47%) JSON
8 3 (0.47%) Kafka
8 3 (0.47%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.32%) .NET
9 2 (0.32%) OAuth
9 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.32%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.32%) OpenID
9 2 (0.32%) Qt
9 2 (0.32%) Redfish
9 2 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.32%) Data Centre
2 63 (9.95%) Replication
3 49 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 46 (7.27%) PKI
5 36 (5.69%) Cloud Native
5 36 (5.69%) Clustering
6 30 (4.74%) Enterprise Storage
7 25 (3.95%) Private Cloud
8 23 (3.63%) Management Information System
9 22 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (3.16%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.74%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.58%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.26%) SCADA
16 8 (1.26%) Security Posture
17 7 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 295 (46.60%) Windows
2 196 (30.96%) Windows Server
3 193 (30.49%) Linux
4 40 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (6.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.32%) VMS
8 19 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 19 (3.00%) Windows 10
9 16 (2.53%) Data ONTAP
10 15 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.58%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.58%) Solaris
11 10 (1.58%) Unix
12 8 (1.26%) CentOS
13 7 (1.11%) CoreOS
13 7 (1.11%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.63%) AIX
15 4 (0.63%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (25.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 120 (18.96%) Migration
3 104 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (15.48%) High Availability
5 85 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (12.64%) ITIL
7 66 (10.43%) Agile
7 66 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 65 (10.27%) Capacity Planning
9 64 (10.11%) CI/CD
10 60 (9.48%) DevOps
10 60 (9.48%) Load Balancing
11 53 (8.37%) Network Virtualisation
12 48 (7.58%) Change Management
13 43 (6.79%) Data Protection
14 41 (6.48%) Performance Tuning
14 41 (6.48%) Platform Engineering
15 39 (6.16%) Containerisation
16 38 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (5.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 145 (22.91%) PowerShell
2 81 (12.80%) Python
3 51 (8.06%) Bash
4 27 (4.27%) SQL
5 8 (1.26%) C
6 7 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.95%) C++
7 6 (0.95%) Embedded C
7 6 (0.95%) Embedded C++
8 5 (0.79%) Bicep
8 5 (0.79%) Java
9 4 (0.63%) C#
9 4 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.63%) PHP
9 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.47%) COBOL
11 2 (0.32%) Perl
11 2 (0.32%) VBScript
12 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 264 (41.71%) Security Cleared
2 165 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 110 (17.38%) DV Cleared
4 51 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 35 (5.53%) Degree
6 30 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (4.58%) VCAP
8 23 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (2.84%) Azure Certification
10 18 (2.84%) MCSE
11 16 (2.53%) CCNP
12 15 (2.37%) MCSA
13 10 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (1.42%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.42%) OCP
15 8 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.26%) CCNA
16 6 (0.95%) CCSM
16 6 (0.95%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.16%) SLA
3 18 (2.84%) NIST
4 15 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.58%) NCSC
6 7 (1.11%) GDPR
7 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.32%) ISA99
8 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.32%) QA
9 1 (0.16%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) DICOM
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 189 (29.86%) Active Directory
2 144 (22.75%) vSphere
3 140 (22.12%) VMware ESXi
4 128 (20.22%) VMware NSX
5 121 (19.12%) Hyper-V
6 83 (13.11%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (6.64%) Docker
8 37 (5.85%) NFS
9 33 (5.21%) Firmware
10 25 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (3.63%) KVM
12 13 (2.05%) GPFS
13 11 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.42%) BitLocker
15 7 (1.11%) vCloud
16 5 (0.79%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
17 4 (0.63%) XenApp
18 3 (0.47%) DFS Replication
18 3 (0.47%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 118 (18.64%) Ansible
2 104 (16.43%) vCenter Server
3 73 (11.53%) Terraform
4 67 (10.58%) Kubernetes
5 49 (7.74%) SCCM
6 44 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 39 (6.16%) vRealize
8 21 (3.32%) Grafana
9 20 (3.16%) Argo
10 19 (3.00%) SCOM
10 19 (3.00%) vMotion
11 17 (2.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (2.53%) VxRail
13 15 (2.37%) PowerCLI
13 15 (2.37%) WSUS
14 12 (1.90%) Puppet
15 11 (1.74%) EMC VPLEX
15 11 (1.74%) NetBackup
15 11 (1.74%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 633 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (27.49%) Microsoft
3 136 (21.48%) Cisco
4 64 (10.11%) Citrix
5 57 (9.00%) NetApp
6 48 (7.58%) F5
7 47 (7.42%) Red Hat
8 36 (5.69%) ServiceNow
9 33 (5.21%) Palo Alto
10 32 (5.06%) Dell
10 32 (5.06%) IBM
11 31 (4.90%) Oracle
11 31 (4.90%) Pure Storage
12 26 (4.11%) Veeam
13 24 (3.79%) CheckPoint
14 23 (3.63%) McAfee
15 20 (3.16%) Commvault
16 19 (3.00%) Blue Coat
16 19 (3.00%) Broadcom
16 19 (3.00%) SolarWinds