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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 131 118
Rank change year-on-year -30 -13 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 646 521 715
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.12% 1.92%
As % of the System Software category 15.04% 16.58% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 365 460
10th Percentile £315 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £661 £683 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 33
10th Percentile £27.13 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £47.38 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.53% -38.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £61.30 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £42.05
% change year-on-year +50.54% +10.60% -35.32%

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 4,295 3,143 4,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.77% 12.78% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 2,179 2,817
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 77 210
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.85 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.89% +30.23% -56.57%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £56.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.95 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.70% +24.31% -56.84%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -13 169 £531 -7.61% 76
London -70 150 £525 - 42
North of England -19 136 £450 +8.43% 37
Midlands -9 106 £402 -26.91% 22
West Midlands -17 80 £340 -38.29% 16
North West -13 72 £449 +5.65% 15
Yorkshire -23 65 £425 -8.60% 15
South West -70 52 £551 -4.13% 23
East of England -17 42 £475 +0.53% 16
East Midlands -22 26 £415 -23.54% 6
North East -21 2 £575 +64.29% 10
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 38 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.24%) Confluence
4 7 (1.08%) IIS
5 6 (0.93%) nginx
5 6 (0.93%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) CICS
7 3 (0.46%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 175 (27.09%) Azure
2 123 (19.04%) AWS
3 49 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (7.12%) OpenShift
5 44 (6.81%) Entra ID
6 32 (4.95%) GCP
7 25 (3.87%) IaaS
8 23 (3.56%) GitHub
9 22 (3.41%) Nutanix
10 18 (2.79%) PaaS
11 11 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.55%) Datadog
13 8 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.08%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.93%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.93%) SaaS
16 5 (0.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 171 (26.47%) DNS
2 146 (22.60%) Firewall
3 94 (14.55%) DHCP
4 67 (10.37%) SAN
5 65 (10.06%) VPN
6 63 (9.75%) VSAN
7 52 (8.05%) Network Security
8 51 (7.89%) WAN
9 48 (7.43%) TCP/IP
10 42 (6.50%) NAS
11 41 (6.35%) LAN
12 40 (6.19%) SSL
13 36 (5.57%) BIG-IP
14 32 (4.95%) HTTP
15 29 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 28 (4.33%) Wireshark
17 26 (4.02%) VLAN
18 25 (3.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 24 (3.72%) BGP
20 22 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.41%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.62%) Power BI
6 3 (0.46%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.46%) DataStage
6 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (0.46%) Redis
6 3 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (4.33%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.56%) JIRA
3 19 (2.94%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.48%) Git
5 13 (2.01%) GitLab
6 8 (1.24%) PVCS
6 8 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) RStudio
10 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 137 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.51%) Public Sector
3 54 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (8.36%) Finance
4 45 (6.97%) Banking
5 25 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (3.56%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.41%) Legal
8 10 (1.55%) Military
9 9 (1.39%) Police
10 8 (1.24%) Electronics
10 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.62%) Law
13 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (19.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 92 (14.24%) Architect
3 57 (8.82%) Network Engineer
3 57 (8.82%) Senior
4 53 (8.20%) VMware Engineer
5 45 (6.97%) Analyst
6 34 (5.26%) Lead
7 31 (4.80%) Infrastructure Architect
8 21 (3.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 21 (3.25%) Wintel Engineer
9 20 (3.10%) Consultant
9 20 (3.10%) Support Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) IP Network Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 19 (2.94%) Storage Analyst
10 19 (2.94%) Web Engineer
11 17 (2.63%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.10%) Flash
2 18 (2.79%) LDAP
3 12 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.55%) SAML
5 7 (1.08%) Middleware
5 7 (1.08%) REST
6 6 (0.93%) Kafka
7 5 (0.77%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.46%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.46%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.46%) Spring
9 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.31%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.31%) JSON
9 2 (0.31%) OAuth
9 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.31%) OpenID
9 2 (0.31%) Redfish
9 2 (0.31%) XML
10 1 (0.15%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 67 (10.37%) Replication
3 45 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (6.81%) PKI
5 39 (6.04%) Cloud Native
6 36 (5.57%) Clustering
7 27 (4.18%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
8 26 (4.02%) Management Information System
9 24 (3.72%) Private Cloud
10 20 (3.10%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.70%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.24%) SCADA
16 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 6 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 292 (45.20%) Windows
2 204 (31.58%) Linux
3 194 (30.03%) Windows Server
4 43 (6.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (5.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (4.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (3.72%) VMS
8 21 (3.25%) Windows 10
9 20 (3.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.79%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.48%) Data ONTAP
12 11 (1.70%) Unix
13 10 (1.55%) Mac OS
13 10 (1.55%) Solaris
14 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (1.08%) CentOS
15 7 (1.08%) CoreOS
16 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.77%) AIX
18 4 (0.62%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (25.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (19.81%) Migration
3 104 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (14.86%) High Availability
5 86 (13.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 76 (11.76%) ITIL
7 74 (11.46%) Agile
8 65 (10.06%) Capacity Planning
9 64 (9.91%) DevOps
10 63 (9.75%) CI/CD
11 62 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (9.29%) Load Balancing
13 56 (8.67%) Network Virtualisation
14 45 (6.97%) Data Protection
15 43 (6.66%) Performance Tuning
16 42 (6.50%) Containerisation
16 42 (6.50%) Platform Engineering
17 39 (6.04%) Change Management
18 37 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (5.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.83%) PowerShell
2 80 (12.38%) Python
3 50 (7.74%) Bash
4 20 (3.10%) SQL
5 11 (1.70%) C
6 8 (1.24%) C++
7 7 (1.08%) Embedded C
7 7 (1.08%) Embedded C++
7 7 (1.08%) Java
7 7 (1.08%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
9 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.62%) PHP
9 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.46%) C#
10 3 (0.46%) COBOL
10 3 (0.46%) Perl
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 263 (40.71%) Security Cleared
2 168 (26.01%) SC Cleared
3 101 (15.63%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 37 (5.73%) Degree
6 31 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (4.64%) VCAP
8 20 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (3.10%) MCSE
9 18 (2.79%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (2.79%) MCSA
10 13 (2.01%) CCNP
11 12 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (1.39%) OCP
13 8 (1.24%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.08%) CCNA
15 6 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (0.77%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.79%) NIST
2 18 (2.79%) SLA
3 14 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.55%) NCSC
5 8 (1.24%) GDPR
6 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.62%) QA
7 2 (0.31%) ISA99
7 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.15%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) DICOM
8 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (28.17%) Active Directory
2 149 (23.07%) vSphere
3 140 (21.67%) VMware ESXi
4 129 (19.97%) VMware NSX
5 117 (18.11%) Hyper-V
6 78 (12.07%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (6.35%) Docker
8 39 (6.04%) NFS
9 34 (5.26%) Firmware
10 27 (4.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (3.41%) KVM
12 15 (2.32%) GPFS
13 9 (1.39%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.77%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.62%) vCloud
15 4 (0.62%) XenApp
16 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.46%) UAG
Systems Management
1 123 (19.04%) Ansible
2 103 (15.94%) vCenter Server
3 73 (11.30%) Terraform
4 66 (10.22%) Kubernetes
5 56 (8.67%) SCCM
6 49 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 44 (6.81%) vRealize
8 22 (3.41%) Argo
8 22 (3.41%) Grafana
9 20 (3.10%) VxRail
10 19 (2.94%) vMotion
11 18 (2.79%) PowerCLI
12 17 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (2.63%) SCOM
13 16 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (2.32%) WSUS
15 12 (1.86%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.86%) Puppet
16 11 (1.70%) EMC VPLEX
16 11 (1.70%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 646 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.93%) Microsoft
3 133 (20.59%) Cisco
4 62 (9.60%) Citrix
5 57 (8.82%) NetApp
6 54 (8.36%) Red Hat
7 52 (8.05%) F5
8 39 (6.04%) IBM
9 38 (5.88%) ServiceNow
10 35 (5.42%) Oracle
11 33 (5.11%) Dell
12 31 (4.80%) Palo Alto
12 31 (4.80%) Pure Storage
13 27 (4.18%) Veeam
14 23 (3.56%) McAfee
14 23 (3.56%) SolarWinds
15 20 (3.10%) CheckPoint
15 20 (3.10%) Commvault
16 19 (2.94%) Blue Coat
16 19 (2.94%) Broadcom
201 VMware Infrastructure jobs in England