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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 138 124
Rank change year-on-year -33 -14 -16
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 634 480 677
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.98% 1.86%
As % of the System Software category 14.96% 15.88% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 339 442
10th Percentile £316 £313 £263
25th Percentile £417 £440 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.93%
75th Percentile £576 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 28
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £46.25 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -30.22% -36.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £52.96
90th Percentile £74.26 - £82.63
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 4,237 3,023 3,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.33% 12.46% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 2,088 2,758
10th Percentile £213 £212 £200
25th Percentile £400 £381 £331
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 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 68 208
10th Percentile £18.03 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.66 £17.45 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.43% +34.31% -58.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £94.10 £88.23 £72.38
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -8 182 £525 -8.70% 86
London -56 141 £525 - 40
North of England -10 131 £449 +12.25% 40
Midlands -27 94 £402 -26.91% 32
West Midlands -28 72 £382 -30.60% 21
North West -4 70 £449 +11.14% 23
Yorkshire -19 59 £420 -4.55% 12
South West -65 52 £539 -6.30% 25
East of England -27 37 £475 -13.64% 18
East Midlands -17 22 £443 -18.38% 11
North East -24 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 34 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.52%) 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%) Apache
7 3 (0.47%) CICS
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.32%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 183 (28.86%) Azure
2 125 (19.72%) AWS
3 49 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (7.57%) Entra ID
5 41 (6.47%) OpenShift
6 32 (5.05%) GCP
7 25 (3.94%) IaaS
8 22 (3.47%) GitHub
9 20 (3.15%) Nutanix
10 17 (2.68%) PaaS
11 13 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.26%) Rubrik
14 7 (1.10%) Datadog
14 7 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.95%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.95%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.95%) Power Platform
15 6 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (28.08%) DNS
2 144 (22.71%) Firewall
3 103 (16.25%) DHCP
4 69 (10.88%) VPN
5 67 (10.57%) SAN
6 62 (9.78%) VSAN
7 55 (8.68%) WAN
8 49 (7.73%) TCP/IP
9 47 (7.41%) Network Security
10 44 (6.94%) NAS
11 43 (6.78%) LAN
12 39 (6.15%) SSL
13 33 (5.21%) BIG-IP
14 31 (4.89%) HTTP
15 30 (4.73%) VLAN
16 27 (4.26%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.94%) BGP
18 24 (3.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 23 (3.63%) Cisco ASA
20 21 (3.31%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.89%) 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%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (3.47%) Jenkins
2 21 (3.31%) JIRA
3 18 (2.84%) Fiddler
4 13 (2.05%) GitLab
5 12 (1.89%) Git
6 6 (0.95%) PVCS
6 6 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.47%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.32%) MSI
9 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.16%) GoCD
9 1 (0.16%) Postman
9 1 (0.16%) RStudio
General
1 124 (19.56%) Social Skills
2 51 (8.04%) Finance
3 49 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.10%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.99%) Banking
6 22 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.47%) Legal
7 19 (3.00%) 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%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.79%) Law
11 5 (0.79%) Local Government
11 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 130 (20.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 84 (13.25%) Architect
3 61 (9.62%) Network Engineer
4 58 (9.15%) Senior
5 49 (7.73%) VMware Engineer
6 39 (6.15%) Analyst
7 28 (4.42%) Infrastructure Architect
7 28 (4.42%) Lead
8 25 (3.94%) Wintel Engineer
9 23 (3.63%) Support Engineer
10 21 (3.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 20 (3.15%) Consultant
11 20 (3.15%) Storage Engineer
12 19 (3.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 18 (2.84%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 18 (2.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 18 (2.84%) IP Network Engineer
13 18 (2.84%) Web Engineer
14 17 (2.68%) Storage Analyst
14 17 (2.68%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.15%) Flash
2 19 (3.00%) LDAP
3 11 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.58%) SAML
5 7 (1.10%) Middleware
5 7 (1.10%) REST
6 5 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.79%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.47%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.47%) JSON
7 3 (0.47%) Kafka
7 3 (0.47%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.32%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth
8 2 (0.32%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.32%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.32%) OpenID
8 2 (0.32%) Qt
8 2 (0.32%) Redfish
8 2 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.30%) Data Centre
2 65 (10.25%) Replication
3 52 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (6.94%) PKI
5 36 (5.68%) Clustering
6 33 (5.21%) Cloud Native
7 31 (4.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
9 24 (3.79%) Private Cloud
10 21 (3.31%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.31%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.89%) 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%) Security Posture
17 7 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
18 6 (0.95%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 300 (47.32%) Windows
2 200 (31.55%) Windows Server
3 197 (31.07%) Linux
4 40 (6.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (5.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.31%) VMS
8 20 (3.15%) Ubuntu
8 20 (3.15%) Windows 10
9 16 (2.52%) Data ONTAP
10 14 (2.21%) Unix
10 14 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.58%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.58%) Solaris
12 8 (1.26%) CentOS
13 7 (1.10%) CoreOS
13 7 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.63%) CatOS
15 4 (0.63%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (26.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 120 (18.93%) Migration
3 104 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (15.77%) High Availability
5 86 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 81 (12.78%) ITIL
7 67 (10.57%) Capacity Planning
8 66 (10.41%) Agile
8 66 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (9.94%) CI/CD
10 59 (9.31%) DevOps
11 58 (9.15%) Load Balancing
12 52 (8.20%) Change Management
13 51 (8.04%) Network Virtualisation
14 43 (6.78%) Data Protection
15 42 (6.62%) Performance Tuning
16 41 (6.47%) Platform Engineering
17 40 (6.31%) Containerisation
18 39 (6.15%) ITSM
19 38 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 147 (23.19%) PowerShell
2 80 (12.62%) Python
3 51 (8.04%) Bash
4 29 (4.57%) SQL
5 8 (1.26%) C
6 7 (1.10%) Bicep
6 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.95%) C++
7 6 (0.95%) Embedded C
7 6 (0.95%) Embedded C++
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%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 264 (41.64%) Security Cleared
2 163 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 114 (17.98%) DV Cleared
4 53 (8.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 35 (5.52%) Degree
6 30 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (4.73%) VCAP
7 24 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 19 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (3.00%) MCSE
9 17 (2.68%) CCNP
10 16 (2.52%) MCSA
11 10 (1.58%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.42%) OCP
13 8 (1.26%) CCNA
14 6 (0.95%) CCSM
14 6 (0.95%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (3.47%) SLA
2 18 (2.84%) NIST
3 15 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.58%) NCSC
5 7 (1.10%) GDPR
6 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.47%) QA
8 2 (0.32%) ISA99
8 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
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
1 190 (29.97%) Active Directory
2 150 (23.66%) vSphere
3 144 (22.71%) VMware ESXi
4 127 (20.03%) VMware NSX
5 123 (19.40%) Hyper-V
6 84 (13.25%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (6.62%) Docker
8 39 (6.15%) NFS
9 32 (5.05%) Firmware
10 28 (4.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (3.63%) KVM
12 15 (2.37%) GPFS
13 11 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.42%) BitLocker
14 9 (1.42%) vCloud
15 5 (0.79%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
17 3 (0.47%) SRDF
17 3 (0.47%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 118 (18.61%) Ansible
2 108 (17.03%) vCenter Server
3 73 (11.51%) Terraform
4 69 (10.88%) Kubernetes
5 48 (7.57%) SCCM
6 44 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 41 (6.47%) vRealize
8 22 (3.47%) Grafana
8 22 (3.47%) SCOM
9 20 (3.15%) Argo
10 19 (3.00%) vMotion
11 18 (2.84%) VxRail
12 17 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (2.37%) PowerCLI
13 15 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (2.37%) WSUS
14 12 (1.89%) Puppet
15 11 (1.74%) EMC VPLEX
15 11 (1.74%) NetBackup
15 11 (1.74%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 634 (100.00%) VMware
2 178 (28.08%) Microsoft
3 137 (21.61%) Cisco
4 65 (10.25%) Citrix
5 57 (8.99%) NetApp
6 47 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 46 (7.26%) F5
8 38 (5.99%) ServiceNow
9 34 (5.36%) IBM
10 33 (5.21%) Dell
10 33 (5.21%) Oracle
10 33 (5.21%) Palo Alto
11 31 (4.89%) Pure Storage
12 27 (4.26%) Veeam
13 25 (3.94%) CheckPoint
14 22 (3.47%) Commvault
14 22 (3.47%) McAfee
15 20 (3.15%) SolarWinds
16 18 (2.84%) Blue Coat
17 16 (2.52%) Broadcom