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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 173 105
Rank change year-on-year +10 -68 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 773 455 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.65% 2.30%
As % of the System Software category 16.80% 13.78% 19.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 298 483
10th Percentile £317 £331 £321
25th Percentile £425 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.26% -0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.92% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 7
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.40 £23.24
25th Percentile £33.70 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% +26.05% -60.33%
75th Percentile £76.50 £48.63 £43.37
90th Percentile £98.82 £59.80 £58.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +110.45% +26.05% -62.22%

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 4,601 3,302 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.06% 11.97% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,024 2,127 2,650
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £392 £378 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £686 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 95 125
10th Percentile £16.60 £15.03 £14.06
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.75 £15.76
Median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +65.33% +57.56% -45.60%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.50 £59.88
90th Percentile £89.85 £91.50 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £23.99
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.05% -52.02%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -2 215 £538 -6.52% 108
London 0 191 £525 +2.44% 161
North of England +6 165 £450 +5.88% 63
Midlands -11 95 £450 -20.00% 32
North West +9 90 £466 +9.53% 27
South West -33 78 £613 +6.52% 61
West Midlands -13 73 £450 -21.40% 20
Yorkshire -29 66 £500 +16.35% 19
East of England -19 39 £500 -9.09% 45
East Midlands -5 22 £425 -18.43% 12
North East -34 9 £350 -44.00% 21
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 42 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.16%) Confluence
3 9 (1.16%) IIS
3 9 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.91%) JBoss
4 7 (0.91%) nginx
4 7 (0.91%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.52%) Apache
5 4 (0.52%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.26%) CMS
7 2 (0.26%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.26%) Houdini
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.26%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 13 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 215 (27.81%) Azure
2 138 (17.85%) AWS
3 72 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.73%) Entra ID
5 38 (4.92%) OpenShift
6 35 (4.53%) GCP
7 30 (3.88%) GitHub
8 27 (3.49%) IaaS
9 18 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (1.94%) PaaS
12 14 (1.81%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 13 (1.68%) SaaS
14 12 (1.55%) Nutanix
14 12 (1.55%) Rubrik
15 9 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.16%) Azure Stack
16 8 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 255 (32.99%) DNS
2 175 (22.64%) Firewall
3 160 (20.70%) DHCP
4 89 (11.51%) TCP/IP
5 88 (11.38%) VSAN
6 72 (9.31%) VPN
7 64 (8.28%) SAN
8 61 (7.89%) VLAN
9 58 (7.50%) WAN
10 56 (7.24%) Network Security
11 45 (5.82%) LAN
12 40 (5.17%) SSL
13 39 (5.05%) NAS
14 36 (4.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 31 (4.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 29 (3.75%) BIG-IP
17 28 (3.62%) BGP
18 25 (3.23%) HTTP
19 24 (3.10%) Wireshark
20 19 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.68%) Power BI
2 13 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (1.16%) Big Data
5 9 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
11 1 (0.13%) DataStage
11 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.13%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 29 (3.75%) JIRA
2 24 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.59%) Git
3 20 (2.59%) GitLab
4 15 (1.94%) Fiddler
5 5 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.39%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) CppUnit
7 2 (0.26%) MSI
7 2 (0.26%) PVCS
7 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.26%) Subversion
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 177 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 79 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (9.44%) Finance
4 39 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.14%) Banking
6 25 (3.23%) Legal
7 23 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.03%) Retail
12 7 (0.91%) Military
13 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.78%) Law
14 5 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.65%) Police
15 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 191 (24.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (13.45%) Senior
3 83 (10.74%) VMware Engineer
4 68 (8.80%) Network Engineer
5 60 (7.76%) Architect
6 48 (6.21%) Support Engineer
7 42 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.17%) Lead
9 36 (4.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 33 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (4.14%) Storage Engineer
12 30 (3.88%) Administrator
12 30 (3.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 29 (3.75%) Consultant
14 28 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.36%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 24 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 23 (2.98%) IT Engineer
17 23 (2.98%) Senior Network Engineer
18 21 (2.72%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (15.14%) Terraform
2 18 (2.33%) REST
3 11 (1.42%) JSON
4 10 (1.29%) 802.1X
5 9 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (1.16%) Kafka
5 9 (1.16%) YAML
6 7 (0.91%) Flash
7 6 (0.78%) LDAP
7 6 (0.78%) Middleware
8 5 (0.65%) .NET
8 5 (0.65%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.52%) Redfish
10 3 (0.39%) Java SE
10 3 (0.39%) SAML
10 3 (0.39%) XML
11 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.26%) OpenGL
11 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 122 (15.78%) Data Centre
2 66 (8.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (8.15%) PKI
4 51 (6.60%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (6.08%) Clustering
6 41 (5.30%) Replication
7 32 (4.14%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.88%) Public Cloud
9 27 (3.49%) Private Cloud
10 23 (2.98%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.46%) Cloud Native
11 19 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.42%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.42%) SCADA
15 10 (1.29%) Operational Technology
16 9 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.91%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 413 (53.43%) Windows
2 272 (35.19%) Windows Server
3 220 (28.46%) Linux
4 46 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (3.23%) VMS
7 22 (2.85%) Windows 10
8 21 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (2.33%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.20%) Unix
11 16 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
14 8 (1.03%) CentOS
14 8 (1.03%) Solaris
15 7 (0.91%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.78%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.52%) SUSE
19 3 (0.39%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (33.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 149 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (19.02%) Migration
4 140 (18.11%) ITIL
5 127 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 109 (14.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 104 (13.45%) High Availability
8 99 (12.81%) CI/CD
9 98 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
10 82 (10.61%) Change Management
11 79 (10.22%) ITSM
12 76 (9.83%) Agile
13 75 (9.70%) Network Virtualisation
14 73 (9.44%) DevOps
15 69 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
16 66 (8.54%) Service Management
17 65 (8.41%) Capacity Planning
17 65 (8.41%) Load Balancing
18 63 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (24.19%) PowerShell
2 110 (14.23%) Python
3 77 (9.96%) Bash
4 49 (6.34%) SQL
5 17 (2.20%) Java
6 7 (0.91%) Bicep
6 7 (0.91%) C
7 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.52%) Go
8 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.39%) Lua
9 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.39%) VB
9 3 (0.39%) VBScript
10 2 (0.26%) C++
10 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.26%) Korn
11 1 (0.13%) C#
11 1 (0.13%) COBOL
11 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 375 (48.51%) Security Cleared
2 217 (28.07%) SC Cleared
3 179 (23.16%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 51 (6.60%) Degree
6 44 (5.69%) VCAP
7 36 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.75%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.59%) MCSE
11 17 (2.20%) CCNP
12 16 (2.07%) CCNA
12 16 (2.07%) MCSA
13 15 (1.94%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (0.91%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 6 (0.78%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.98%) SLA
2 18 (2.33%) NIST
3 17 (2.20%) QA
4 15 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.68%) NCSC
7 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.52%) GxP
9 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.26%) GDPR
10 2 (0.26%) ISA99
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.26%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.13%) DICOM
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 250 (32.34%) Active Directory
2 193 (24.97%) VMware ESXi
3 188 (24.32%) vSphere
4 160 (20.70%) Hyper-V
5 150 (19.40%) VMware NSX
6 83 (10.74%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (7.24%) Docker
8 37 (4.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (4.14%) Firmware
10 17 (2.20%) KVM
11 16 (2.07%) NFS
12 11 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.16%) BitLocker
15 8 (1.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.91%) vCloud
17 6 (0.78%) GPFS
17 6 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.78%) XenApp
17 6 (0.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 154 (19.92%) Ansible
2 150 (19.40%) vCenter Server
3 110 (14.23%) Kubernetes
4 47 (6.08%) SCCM
4 47 (6.08%) SCOM
5 36 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (4.40%) VxRail
7 30 (3.88%) vRealize
8 23 (2.98%) Grafana
9 19 (2.46%) PowerCLI
9 19 (2.46%) Prometheus
9 19 (2.46%) Puppet
10 18 (2.33%) WSUS
11 17 (2.20%) NetBackup
12 16 (2.07%) vMotion
13 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Clustering
14 14 (1.81%) Argo
15 13 (1.68%) Avamar
15 13 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
16 10 (1.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 773 (100.00%) VMware
2 223 (28.85%) Microsoft
3 144 (18.63%) Cisco
4 59 (7.63%) Citrix
5 58 (7.50%) NetApp
6 50 (6.47%) Red Hat
7 46 (5.95%) F5
8 44 (5.69%) Dell
9 40 (5.17%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.53%) Palo Alto
11 34 (4.40%) SolarWinds
12 33 (4.27%) Oracle
13 30 (3.88%) Juniper
14 29 (3.75%) Veeam
15 23 (2.98%) Fortinet
16 20 (2.59%) Broadcom
16 20 (2.59%) IBM
17 18 (2.33%) CheckPoint
18 17 (2.20%) McAfee
19 16 (2.07%) Remedy
445 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England