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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 119 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 574 560 802
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.21% 2.11%
As % of the System Software category 13.77% 17.39% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 373 502
10th Percentile £309 £263 £278
25th Percentile £405 £403 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -5.66%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £608
90th Percentile £670 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 52
10th Percentile £22.00 £74.40 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.70 £88.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £112.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +103.86% -15.48%
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile £76.56 - £83.93
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 4,168 3,221 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.80% 12.72% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,861 2,143 2,953
10th Percentile £205 £205 £188
25th Percentile £400 £382 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £740 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £480
% change year-on-year -4.40% +8.96% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 213
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.41 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.10 £16.54
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -2.38% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.78 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £38.47 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.37% -18.75% -

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -11 144 £513 -6.90% 98
London -93 129 £540 +2.86% 56
Midlands -4 113 £401 -27.22% 32
North of England -43 108 £456 +7.29% 63
West Midlands -6 85 £326 -46.35% 23
North West -24 66 £441 +0.86% 33
South West -47 64 £550 -2.22% 54
Yorkshire -34 49 £485 +7.13% 26
East of England -8 31 £475 +1.82% 29
East Midlands -15 28 £447 -14.86% 9
North East -16 2 £513 +46.43% 5
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 37 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.79%) Confluence
4 7 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.05%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.35%) CICS
7 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.79%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 172 (29.97%) Azure
2 129 (22.47%) AWS
3 58 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (8.19%) OpenShift
5 44 (7.67%) Entra ID
6 43 (7.49%) GCP
7 26 (4.53%) Nutanix
8 25 (4.36%) IaaS
9 20 (3.48%) GitHub
10 16 (2.79%) PaaS
11 14 (2.44%) Datadog
12 8 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.70%) Cohesity
15 4 (0.70%) Rubrik
15 4 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 167 (29.09%) DNS
2 139 (24.22%) Firewall
3 83 (14.46%) DHCP
4 57 (9.93%) VPN
5 51 (8.89%) SAN
6 49 (8.54%) TCP/IP
7 41 (7.14%) Network Security
8 37 (6.45%) VSAN
9 33 (5.75%) VLAN
10 31 (5.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 31 (5.40%) WAN
11 29 (5.05%) BIG-IP
11 29 (5.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 29 (5.05%) LAN
11 29 (5.05%) SSL
12 28 (4.88%) NAS
13 26 (4.53%) HTTP
14 24 (4.18%) BGP
14 24 (4.18%) Wireshark
15 17 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.35%) DataStage
5 2 (0.35%) Power BI
5 2 (0.35%) Redis
6 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.96%) Fiddler
2 17 (2.96%) JIRA
3 15 (2.61%) Git
4 12 (2.09%) GitLab
5 9 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.39%) PVCS
6 8 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.22%) JMeter
7 7 (1.22%) JUnit
8 4 (0.70%) RStudio
9 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.35%) Subversion
11 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 140 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 63 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 52 (9.06%) Finance
5 47 (8.19%) Banking
6 27 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.53%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.14%) Legal
9 14 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.74%) Military
10 10 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.39%) Electronics
12 7 (1.22%) Police
13 6 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.87%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.87%) Local Government
15 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.70%) Social Science
16 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 100 (17.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (14.29%) Architect
3 57 (9.93%) Analyst
4 42 (7.32%) Network Engineer
5 31 (5.40%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 30 (5.23%) Senior
7 29 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (5.05%) VMware Engineer
8 26 (4.53%) Infrastructure Architect
9 25 (4.36%) Support Engineer
10 23 (4.01%) Consultant
10 23 (4.01%) Lead
11 20 (3.48%) Storage Analyst
12 18 (3.14%) Web Engineer
13 17 (2.96%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 17 (2.96%) IP Network Engineer
13 17 (2.96%) VMware Consultant
13 17 (2.96%) Wintel Engineer
14 15 (2.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 15 (2.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.31%) Flash
2 14 (2.44%) LDAP
3 10 (1.74%) SAML
4 8 (1.39%) Kafka
5 7 (1.22%) Loki
5 7 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.22%) Spring
6 6 (1.05%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.05%) REST
7 5 (0.87%) Middleware
7 5 (0.87%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.70%) OAuth
8 4 (0.70%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.70%) OpenID
9 2 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.17%) React
10 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.28%) Data Centre
2 56 (9.76%) Replication
3 44 (7.67%) PKI
4 36 (6.27%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
6 28 (4.88%) Management Information System
7 23 (4.01%) Private Cloud
8 19 (3.31%) Clustering
9 16 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.61%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.09%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
13 10 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.74%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.57%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.39%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.22%) Driving Licence
17 5 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 248 (43.21%) Windows
2 203 (35.37%) Linux
3 153 (26.66%) Windows Server
4 42 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (5.05%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.96%) VMS
8 17 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.61%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.26%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.74%) Unix
12 8 (1.39%) Solaris
13 7 (1.22%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (1.05%) CentOS
15 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.70%) AIX
16 4 (0.70%) CatOS
16 4 (0.70%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (22.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (18.12%) Migration
3 99 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (14.46%) Agile
5 75 (13.07%) CI/CD
6 70 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 68 (11.85%) DevOps
8 65 (11.32%) High Availability
8 65 (11.32%) ITIL
8 65 (11.32%) Load Balancing
9 57 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 52 (9.06%) Containerisation
11 50 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (8.01%) Data Protection
13 40 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
15 36 (6.27%) Roadmaps
16 34 (5.92%) Change Management
16 34 (5.92%) Service Management
16 34 (5.92%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.87%) PowerShell
2 103 (17.94%) Python
3 73 (12.72%) Bash
4 17 (2.96%) SQL
5 13 (2.26%) Perl
6 11 (1.92%) C
7 8 (1.39%) C++
7 8 (1.39%) Java
8 7 (1.22%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.22%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.87%) Bicep
10 4 (0.70%) C#
10 4 (0.70%) PHP
10 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.35%) COBOL
11 2 (0.35%) Korn
11 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 226 (39.37%) Security Cleared
2 150 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 74 (12.89%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.67%) Degree
5 40 (6.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 35 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (4.01%) CCNP
9 22 (3.83%) Azure Certification
10 16 (2.79%) MCSE
11 14 (2.44%) CCNA
11 14 (2.44%) VCAP
12 12 (2.09%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (2.09%) MCSA
13 8 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (1.22%) CCIE
15 6 (1.05%) CCDP
15 6 (1.05%) CISSP
15 6 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.96%) GDPR
3 16 (2.79%) NIST
4 9 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.57%) SLA
5 4 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.70%) QA
6 3 (0.52%) NCSC
6 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 176 (30.66%) Active Directory
2 128 (22.30%) vSphere
3 94 (16.38%) Hyper-V
4 89 (15.51%) VMware NSX
5 85 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (9.58%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (9.06%) Docker
8 36 (6.27%) NFS
9 26 (4.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (4.36%) Firmware
11 18 (3.14%) KVM
12 15 (2.61%) GPFS
13 6 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.87%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.70%) vCloud
16 3 (0.52%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.52%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.35%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 94 (16.38%) Ansible
2 73 (12.72%) Terraform
3 69 (12.02%) vCenter Server
4 68 (11.85%) Kubernetes
5 59 (10.28%) SCCM
6 58 (10.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 44 (7.67%) vRealize
8 23 (4.01%) Grafana
9 22 (3.83%) Argo
10 20 (3.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (3.48%) VxRail
11 17 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (2.44%) SCOM
13 13 (2.26%) Progress Chef
13 13 (2.26%) Prometheus
14 12 (2.09%) vMotion
15 11 (1.92%) FortiGate
16 10 (1.74%) Puppet
17 9 (1.57%) EMC VPLEX
17 9 (1.57%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 574 (100.00%) VMware
2 166 (28.92%) Microsoft
3 127 (22.13%) Cisco
4 62 (10.80%) Citrix
5 59 (10.28%) Red Hat
6 58 (10.10%) F5
7 41 (7.14%) IBM
7 41 (7.14%) NetApp
8 38 (6.62%) Dell
9 36 (6.27%) SolarWinds
10 30 (5.23%) ServiceNow
11 29 (5.05%) Oracle
12 28 (4.88%) Palo Alto
12 28 (4.88%) Pure Storage
13 27 (4.70%) Veeam
14 24 (4.18%) Commvault
15 20 (3.48%) McAfee
16 18 (3.14%) Blue Coat
17 17 (2.96%) HP
18 15 (2.61%) Google