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

 6 months to
18 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -54 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 600 562 757
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.29% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 14.19% 17.47% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 385 479
10th Percentile £313 £300 £263
25th Percentile £406 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £595
90th Percentile £650 £681 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 41
10th Percentile £22.75 £39.10 £22.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +91.64% -28.95%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.83 - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £46.29
% change year-on-year -20.90% +91.21% -28.79%

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 4,228 3,217 4,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 13.13% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,894 2,205 2,866
10th Percentile £208 £209 £188
25th Percentile £400 £400 £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 £694 £738 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 81 208
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.25 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.69 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.19% +28.89% -42.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.80 £88.00 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.75 £30.45
% change year-on-year +46.34% +0.99% -24.84%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -12 158 £525 -7.65% 81
London -77 135 £550 +4.76% 35
North of England -31 121 £433 +1.88% 56
Midlands -6 110 £382 -30.60% 28
West Midlands -11 89 £326 -46.35% 19
North West -21 73 £435 +2.24% 37
South West -51 60 £550 -4.35% 30
Yorkshire -29 54 £425 -6.08% 17
East of England -9 31 £475 +0.53% 11
East Midlands -29 21 £415 -20.95% 9
North East -16 2 £513 +46.43% 4
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 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.33%) Confluence
4 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.67%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.33%) CICS
7 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.83%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 177 (29.50%) Azure
2 130 (21.67%) AWS
3 53 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (8.17%) OpenShift
5 43 (7.17%) Entra ID
6 37 (6.17%) GCP
7 28 (4.67%) IaaS
8 26 (4.33%) Nutanix
9 18 (3.00%) GitHub
9 18 (3.00%) PaaS
10 14 (2.33%) Datadog
11 7 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (1.00%) Rubrik
13 5 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.83%) Cohesity
13 5 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 164 (27.33%) DNS
2 149 (24.83%) Firewall
3 79 (13.17%) DHCP
4 65 (10.83%) VPN
5 55 (9.17%) SAN
6 49 (8.17%) VSAN
7 48 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 47 (7.83%) Network Security
9 42 (7.00%) WAN
10 37 (6.17%) LAN
11 36 (6.00%) BIG-IP
11 36 (6.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 34 (5.67%) SSL
13 30 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 30 (5.00%) NAS
14 29 (4.83%) BGP
14 29 (4.83%) HTTP
15 27 (4.50%) Wireshark
16 25 (4.17%) VLAN
17 24 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (0.50%) Redis
4 2 (0.33%) DataStage
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.33%) Power BI
5 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.17%) Fiddler
2 19 (3.17%) JIRA
3 14 (2.33%) Git
4 12 (2.00%) GitLab
5 8 (1.33%) PVCS
5 8 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.67%) JMeter
7 4 (0.67%) JUnit
8 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.50%) RStudio
9 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.17%) GoCD
10 1 (0.17%) MSI
10 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 134 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.33%) Public Sector
3 56 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.33%) Finance
5 48 (8.00%) Banking
6 28 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (4.50%) Investment Banking
8 22 (3.67%) Legal
9 11 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.83%) Military
10 10 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.33%) Electronics
12 7 (1.17%) Police
13 5 (0.83%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.83%) Local Government
14 4 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.50%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 113 (18.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 92 (15.33%) Architect
3 57 (9.50%) Analyst
4 54 (9.00%) Network Engineer
5 42 (7.00%) Senior
6 38 (6.33%) VMware Engineer
7 32 (5.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 31 (5.17%) Infrastructure Architect
9 28 (4.67%) Lead
10 26 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.83%) Consultant
12 22 (3.67%) Storage Analyst
13 20 (3.33%) Web Engineer
14 19 (3.17%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (3.17%) IP Network Engineer
14 19 (3.17%) Support Engineer
15 18 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (2.83%) VMware Architect
17 16 (2.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 16 (2.67%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.50%) Flash
2 15 (2.50%) LDAP
3 11 (1.83%) SAML
4 10 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.17%) Loki
6 6 (1.00%) Kafka
7 5 (0.83%) Middleware
7 5 (0.83%) REST
7 5 (0.83%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.67%) OAuth
8 4 (0.67%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.67%) OpenID
8 4 (0.67%) Spring
9 3 (0.50%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.33%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.67%) Data Centre
2 57 (9.50%) Replication
3 43 (7.17%) PKI
4 39 (6.50%) Cloud Native
5 36 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.83%) Private Cloud
8 22 (3.67%) Clustering
9 18 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
10 17 (2.83%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.33%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.67%) Operational Technology
15 8 (1.33%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.17%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.17%) SCADA
17 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 256 (42.67%) Windows
2 204 (34.00%) Linux
3 162 (27.00%) Windows Server
4 43 (7.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (4.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (3.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.50%) Windows 10
8 18 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.67%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.67%) VMS
10 10 (1.67%) Mac OS
11 9 (1.50%) Data ONTAP
12 8 (1.33%) Unix
13 7 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (1.00%) Solaris
15 5 (0.83%) CentOS
15 5 (0.83%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.67%) AIX
16 4 (0.67%) CatOS
17 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (24.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 114 (19.00%) Migration
3 99 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (14.17%) Agile
5 79 (13.17%) High Availability
6 74 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 73 (12.17%) Load Balancing
8 71 (11.83%) CI/CD
9 67 (11.17%) DevOps
9 67 (11.17%) ITIL
10 61 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 50 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 50 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (7.67%) Data Protection
13 42 (7.00%) Capacity Planning
14 40 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
15 39 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (6.17%) Change Management
18 36 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (23.17%) PowerShell
2 101 (16.83%) Python
3 66 (11.00%) Bash
4 17 (2.83%) SQL
5 11 (1.83%) C
6 10 (1.67%) Perl
7 8 (1.33%) C++
8 7 (1.17%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.17%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.83%) Bicep
9 5 (0.83%) Java
9 5 (0.83%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.67%) PHP
10 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.50%) C#
12 2 (0.33%) COBOL
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 237 (39.50%) Security Cleared
2 155 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 77 (12.83%) DV Cleared
4 43 (7.17%) Degree
5 39 (6.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 28 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.83%) Azure Certification
8 22 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (3.50%) CCNP
10 18 (3.00%) VCAP
11 13 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (2.17%) MCSE
12 12 (2.00%) MCSA
13 11 (1.83%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.83%) CCNA
13 11 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (1.33%) OCP
15 6 (1.00%) CCDP
15 6 (1.00%) CCIE
15 6 (1.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.00%) NIST
3 12 (2.00%) GDPR
4 9 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (1.50%) SLA
5 5 (0.83%) NCSC
6 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.67%) QA
7 2 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.33%) ISA99
7 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 172 (28.67%) Active Directory
2 144 (24.00%) vSphere
3 107 (17.83%) VMware NSX
4 98 (16.33%) VMware ESXi
5 96 (16.00%) Hyper-V
6 54 (9.00%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (8.33%) Docker
8 38 (6.33%) NFS
9 28 (4.67%) Firmware
10 25 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (2.67%) GPFS
11 16 (2.67%) KVM
12 8 (1.33%) BitLocker
12 8 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.67%) vCloud
14 3 (0.50%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.50%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.33%) Sendmail
15 2 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 105 (17.50%) Ansible
2 82 (13.67%) Terraform
3 78 (13.00%) vCenter Server
4 72 (12.00%) Kubernetes
5 52 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (8.67%) SCCM
6 48 (8.00%) vRealize
7 26 (4.33%) Grafana
8 25 (4.17%) Argo
9 22 (3.67%) VxRail
10 18 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (2.50%) vMotion
12 14 (2.33%) PowerCLI
12 14 (2.33%) Prometheus
13 13 (2.17%) SCOM
14 12 (2.00%) Progress Chef
15 11 (1.83%) FortiGate
16 10 (1.67%) Puppet
17 9 (1.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 600 (100.00%) VMware
2 162 (27.00%) Microsoft
3 127 (21.17%) Cisco
4 63 (10.50%) F5
5 59 (9.83%) Citrix
5 59 (9.83%) Red Hat
6 48 (8.00%) NetApp
7 42 (7.00%) IBM
8 36 (6.00%) Dell
8 36 (6.00%) ServiceNow
9 33 (5.50%) Palo Alto
9 33 (5.50%) Pure Storage
10 32 (5.33%) SolarWinds
11 29 (4.83%) Oracle
12 24 (4.00%) Commvault
12 24 (4.00%) Veeam
13 23 (3.83%) McAfee
14 20 (3.33%) Blue Coat
15 18 (3.00%) HP
16 15 (2.50%) Juniper
225 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England