VMware Infrastructure Contracts in England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 108 125
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 677 1,124 1,471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.86% 2.33% 2.09%
As % of the System Software category 17.13% 18.00% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 789 1,087
10th Percentile £263 £313 £255
25th Percentile £375 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +15.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £590
90th Percentile £674 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £473
% change year-on-year -6.98% +13.76% +7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 53 28
10th Percentile £22.23 £44.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £54.56 £26.31
Median hourly rate £40.13 £63.23 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +30.57% -4.11%
75th Percentile £52.96 £75.75 £60.92
90th Percentile £82.63 £84.27 £67.66
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year -38.08% +34.23% -6.88%

All System Software Skills
England

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,952 6,243 9,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.87% 12.93% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,758 4,510 7,047
10th Percentile £200 £200 £198
25th Percentile £331 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 221 269
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.37
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.99 £52.85
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 -1 230 £501 -4.57% 96
London +1 198 £494 -10.23% 92
South West +1 94 £525 -4.55% 57
North of England -13 79 £350 -30.00% 80
North West -24 45 £325 -35.00% 49
Midlands -11 44 £544 +8.75% 74
West Midlands +4 33 £538 +16.22% 43
Yorkshire +26 29 £380 -11.63% 25
East of England -47 22 £650 - 45
East Midlands -13 10 £550 -15.38% 31
North East +8 5 £600 +14.29% 8
VMware Infrastructure
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VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 94 (13.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (6.50%) Confluence
3 34 (5.02%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.81%) Exchange Server 2010
5 15 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (1.03%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (0.74%) IIS
8 5 (0.74%) nginx
9 4 (0.59%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.59%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.59%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.30%) Traefik
11 1 (0.15%) Site Server
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.30%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.30%) RMDS
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.30%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Eikon
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 181 (26.74%) Azure
2 109 (16.10%) AWS
3 90 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (4.58%) GCP
4 31 (4.58%) IaaS
5 27 (3.99%) PaaS
6 24 (3.55%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.25%) Nutanix
8 21 (3.10%) SaaS
9 20 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.66%) GitHub
11 16 (2.36%) OCI
12 11 (1.62%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.48%) Mimecast
13 10 (1.48%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.18%) Rubrik
15 7 (1.03%) WhatsApp
16 5 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 163 (24.08%) DNS
2 155 (22.90%) Firewall
3 122 (18.02%) DHCP
4 102 (15.07%) SAN
5 77 (11.37%) WAN
6 71 (10.49%) LAN
7 69 (10.19%) VPN
8 46 (6.79%) TCP/IP
9 38 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (5.32%) NAS
11 34 (5.02%) VSAN
12 30 (4.43%) Wireless
13 29 (4.28%) VLAN
14 20 (2.95%) VoIP
15 19 (2.81%) MPLS
15 19 (2.81%) Network Security
16 16 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
17 13 (1.92%) Internet
17 13 (1.92%) SD-WAN
18 11 (1.62%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.65%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.77%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.18%) MySQL
5 7 (1.03%) Metadata
5 7 (1.03%) PowerPivot
5 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Power View
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.44%) Power BI
8 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
8 2 (0.30%) DB2
8 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.30%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 53 (7.83%) JIRA
2 20 (2.95%) Robot Framework
3 18 (2.66%) Git
4 17 (2.51%) GitLab
5 16 (2.36%) Jenkins
6 15 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (0.89%) Selenium
8 6 (0.89%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.44%) CppUnit
9 3 (0.44%) PVCS
9 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.15%) MSI
11 1 (0.15%) Subversion
11 1 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 198 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 87 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (8.86%) Public Sector
4 51 (7.53%) Finance
5 27 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.95%) Military
7 15 (2.22%) Banking
8 13 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.18%) Marketing
11 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.89%) Publishing
13 4 (0.59%) French Language
13 4 (0.59%) Legal
14 3 (0.44%) Advertising
14 3 (0.44%) Back Office
14 3 (0.44%) Electronics
14 3 (0.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 169 (24.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 76 (11.23%) Architect
3 49 (7.24%) Network Engineer
4 48 (7.09%) VMware Engineer
5 44 (6.50%) Support Engineer
6 36 (5.32%) Senior
7 35 (5.17%) Administrator
8 33 (4.87%) Analyst
9 31 (4.58%) Integration Engineer
10 27 (3.99%) Storage Engineer
11 26 (3.84%) Linux Engineer
12 24 (3.55%) Wintel Engineer
13 22 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (3.10%) Systems Administrator
15 20 (2.95%) Consultant
15 20 (2.95%) IT Engineer
15 20 (2.95%) Test Engineer
16 19 (2.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 19 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (2.66%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.36%) LDAP
2 14 (2.07%) .NET
3 9 (1.33%) CSS
3 9 (1.33%) HTML
4 6 (0.89%) Web Services
5 5 (0.74%) Flash
5 5 (0.74%) REST
6 4 (0.59%) EDI
6 4 (0.59%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.59%) YAML
7 3 (0.44%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.44%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.44%) Node.js
7 3 (0.44%) React
7 3 (0.44%) Vue
7 3 (0.44%) XMPP
8 2 (0.30%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.30%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 106 (15.66%) Data Centre
2 62 (9.16%) PKI
3 52 (7.68%) Clustering
4 31 (4.58%) Client/Server
5 24 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.40%) Replication
7 21 (3.10%) Private Cloud
8 18 (2.66%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.03%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.03%) NHS
12 7 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.89%) Blackberry
13 6 (0.89%) CMDB
13 6 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 5 (0.74%) Fat Client
14 5 (0.74%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 380 (56.13%) Windows
2 256 (37.81%) Windows Server
3 210 (31.02%) Linux
4 91 (13.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 77 (11.37%) Windows 10
6 70 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 67 (9.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 53 (7.83%) Unix
9 42 (6.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 30 (4.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 28 (4.14%) VMS
12 25 (3.69%) Solaris
13 24 (3.55%) Windows 7
14 17 (2.51%) Windows XP
15 16 (2.36%) Oracle Linux
16 13 (1.92%) Mac OS
17 10 (1.48%) Ubuntu
18 8 (1.18%) CentOS
19 4 (0.59%) Android
19 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (32.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 156 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (15.36%) ITIL
4 100 (14.77%) Agile
5 92 (13.59%) Migration
6 65 (9.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 58 (8.57%) DevOps
8 52 (7.68%) High Availability
9 48 (7.09%) Customer Service
10 46 (6.79%) Server Management
11 45 (6.65%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (6.06%) Computer Science
14 38 (5.61%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 37 (5.47%) Performance Tuning
16 35 (5.17%) Storage Management
17 34 (5.02%) Data Protection
17 34 (5.02%) Vulnerability Management
18 33 (4.87%) Change Management
19 32 (4.73%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (24.22%) PowerShell
2 90 (13.29%) Python
3 58 (8.57%) SQL
4 44 (6.50%) Bash
5 20 (2.95%) VBScript
6 19 (2.81%) Java
7 15 (2.22%) C#
8 12 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.48%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.03%) C++
10 7 (1.03%) Go
11 6 (0.89%) Ruby
12 5 (0.74%) C
13 3 (0.44%) PHP
13 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) Ada
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 277 (40.92%) Security Cleared
2 141 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 123 (18.17%) DV Cleared
4 107 (15.81%) Degree
5 62 (9.16%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (7.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 46 (6.79%) CCNA
7 46 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (4.58%) CCNP
9 29 (4.28%) MCSE
10 24 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (3.25%) MCSA
12 14 (2.07%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.62%) Azure Certification
15 8 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
16 6 (0.89%) A+ Certification
16 6 (0.89%) Chartered Engineer
16 6 (0.89%) VCAP
17 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.14%) SLA
2 13 (1.92%) GDPR
3 8 (1.18%) NIST
4 7 (1.03%) RMADS
5 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.74%) PMO
7 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.59%) QA
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 288 (42.54%) Active Directory
2 139 (20.53%) Hyper-V
3 105 (15.51%) vSphere
4 90 (13.29%) VMware NSX
5 77 (11.37%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (5.76%) Virtual Machines
7 36 (5.32%) Docker
8 29 (4.28%) Virtual Servers
9 26 (3.84%) KVM
10 18 (2.66%) XenApp
11 17 (2.51%) VMware Workstation
12 12 (1.77%) Firmware
12 12 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (1.48%) vCloud
14 6 (0.89%) BitLocker
14 6 (0.89%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.59%) Samba
15 4 (0.59%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 101 (14.92%) SCCM
2 92 (13.59%) vCenter Server
3 86 (12.70%) Ansible
4 68 (10.04%) Kubernetes
5 60 (8.86%) Terraform
6 52 (7.68%) WSUS
7 35 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (5.17%) SCOM
8 25 (3.69%) NetBackup
9 20 (2.95%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Clustering
10 12 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.48%) Nessus
11 10 (1.48%) VxRail
12 9 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
12 9 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (1.33%) Nagios
12 9 (1.33%) Rancher
12 9 (1.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 677 (100.00%) VMware
2 240 (35.45%) Microsoft
3 102 (15.07%) Cisco
4 62 (9.16%) Dell
5 60 (8.86%) Citrix
6 55 (8.12%) Red Hat
7 53 (7.83%) Oracle
8 47 (6.94%) Veeam
9 39 (5.76%) HP
10 35 (5.17%) EMC
11 26 (3.84%) Juniper
12 25 (3.69%) Palo Alto
13 23 (3.40%) SolarWinds
13 23 (3.40%) Splunk
14 21 (3.10%) IBM
15 20 (2.95%) Google
16 19 (2.81%) ServiceNow
17 17 (2.51%) Apple
17 17 (2.51%) Symantec
18 16 (2.36%) Atlassian