VMware Infrastructure Contracts in England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 101 92
Rank change year-on-year -61 -9 +43
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 463 763 1,128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.67% 2.29% 2.49%
As % of the System Software category 13.98% 19.74% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 498 747
10th Percentile £346 £313 £313
25th Percentile £463 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £592 £638
90th Percentile £650 £658 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 40
10th Percentile £28.20 £23.38 £34.10
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £29.98 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -50.03% +26.74%
75th Percentile £29.50 £72.94 £66.99
90th Percentile £29.80 £78.60 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £29.98 £63.00
% change year-on-year -3.28% -52.41% +32.63%

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 3,312 3,866 5,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.92% 11.59% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,167 2,702 4,077
10th Percentile £218 £225 £200
25th Percentile £375 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £640
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 135 215
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.06 £14.56
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.48 £17.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.56% -40.50% +86.05%
75th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.90 £72.45 £75.79
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.87% -52.40% +132.56%

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 3 August 2025.

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
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 3 August 2025. 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
London -82 119 £525 +10.53% 112
South East -39 102 £575 +4.55% 136
South West +3 80 £575 +6.98% 38
North of England +9 70 £447 +27.71% 78
Midlands -34 52 £550 - 55
Yorkshire +27 45 £450 -15.89% 22
West Midlands -24 38 £569 -2.32% 44
East of England +25 37 £550 - 54
North West -10 27 £350 +7.69% 47
East Midlands -13 14 £550 +22.49% 9
North East -4 2 £625 +108.33% 9
VMware Infrastructure
UK

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 45 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.70%) Confluence
3 17 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.02%) Apache
5 8 (1.73%) IIS
6 4 (0.86%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.43%) CICS
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) JBoss
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 30 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.38%) Azure
2 55 (11.88%) AWS
3 50 (10.80%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (8.86%) Entra ID
5 37 (7.99%) IaaS
6 30 (6.48%) SaaS
7 28 (6.05%) PaaS
8 24 (5.18%) GCP
9 20 (4.32%) Cohesity
10 17 (3.67%) OpenShift
11 14 (3.02%) GitHub
12 8 (1.73%) Nutanix
13 7 (1.51%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (1.08%) Asana
16 4 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
17 3 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
17 3 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
17 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
18 2 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 126 (27.21%) DNS
2 105 (22.68%) Firewall
3 62 (13.39%) SAN
4 51 (11.02%) DHCP
5 44 (9.50%) VPN
6 43 (9.29%) TCP/IP
7 33 (7.13%) VSAN
8 28 (6.05%) WAN
9 26 (5.62%) iSCSI
10 25 (5.40%) Fibre Channel
10 25 (5.40%) LAN
10 25 (5.40%) NAS
11 24 (5.18%) Network Security
12 20 (4.32%) SMTP
13 19 (4.10%) VLAN
13 19 (4.10%) VoIP
14 18 (3.89%) BGP
15 14 (3.02%) MPLS
16 11 (2.38%) OSPF
17 10 (2.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.59%) Big Data
2 12 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (2.59%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.16%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.86%) MySQL
4 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.22%) Power BI
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (11.02%) Jenkins
2 40 (8.64%) Git
3 38 (8.21%) JIRA
4 18 (3.89%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.46%) Postman
6 13 (2.81%) GitLab
7 8 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.30%) Subversion
9 5 (1.08%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.86%) MSI
11 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.43%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 48 (10.37%) Finance
2 48 (10.37%) Public Sector
3 39 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (5.40%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.46%) Legal
6 15 (3.24%) Banking
6 15 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.73%) Law
9 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.30%) Military
10 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.08%) Billing
11 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Marketing
13 3 (0.65%) Electronics
14 2 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 82 (17.71%) Architect
2 81 (17.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (6.48%) Consultant
3 30 (6.48%) VMware Architect
3 30 (6.48%) VMware Engineer
4 28 (6.05%) Infrastructure Architect
5 25 (5.40%) Senior
5 25 (5.40%) Support Engineer
6 23 (4.97%) Network Engineer
7 21 (4.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 21 (4.54%) Linux Engineer
8 16 (3.46%) Windows Engineer
9 15 (3.24%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 14 (3.02%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.02%) Administrator
10 14 (3.02%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (2.81%) 3rd Line Support
11 13 (2.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.46%) REST
2 11 (2.38%) Middleware
2 11 (2.38%) SOAP
3 9 (1.94%) Flash
4 8 (1.73%) Kafka
5 7 (1.51%) NETCONF
5 7 (1.51%) RESTCONF
6 6 (1.30%) .NET
7 5 (1.08%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.08%) Spine.js
8 4 (0.86%) YAML
9 3 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.65%) CSS
9 3 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.65%) HTML
9 3 (0.65%) LDAP
9 3 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.65%) RESTful
10 2 (0.43%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.53%) Data Centre
2 37 (7.99%) PKI
3 31 (6.70%) Clustering
4 23 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.59%) Private Cloud
6 12 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.59%) Replication
7 10 (2.16%) Blackberry
7 10 (2.16%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.30%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.65%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 238 (51.40%) Windows
2 148 (31.97%) Windows Server
3 133 (28.73%) Linux
4 54 (11.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 46 (9.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (6.05%) Windows 10
8 23 (4.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (3.67%) Unix
10 16 (3.46%) CentOS
11 12 (2.59%) Ubuntu
12 10 (2.16%) Solaris
13 8 (1.73%) Mac OS
13 8 (1.73%) VMS
14 7 (1.51%) AIX
15 6 (1.30%) Windows 7
16 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 3 (0.65%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (22.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 88 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (16.63%) Agile
4 59 (12.74%) Migration
5 55 (11.88%) DevOps
5 55 (11.88%) Validation
6 52 (11.23%) High Availability
7 45 (9.72%) ITIL
7 45 (9.72%) Service Management
8 38 (8.21%) Deployment Automation
8 38 (8.21%) Network Virtualisation
9 36 (7.78%) Configuration Management
10 33 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (6.91%) Roadmaps
12 30 (6.48%) System Testing
13 29 (6.26%) Data Protection
13 29 (6.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 29 (6.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (6.26%) NsoIT
14 26 (5.62%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 120 (25.92%) PowerShell
2 89 (19.22%) Python
3 38 (8.21%) Bash
4 36 (7.78%) SQL
5 10 (2.16%) Shell Script
6 9 (1.94%) PHP
7 7 (1.51%) Java
7 7 (1.51%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.30%) Perl
9 5 (1.08%) C#
10 4 (0.86%) C++
10 4 (0.86%) Go
11 2 (0.43%) VB
12 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.22%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 207 (44.71%) Security Cleared
2 127 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 97 (20.95%) DV Cleared
4 72 (15.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 53 (11.45%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (9.29%) CCNP
7 41 (8.86%) Degree
8 38 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (4.75%) MCSE
10 15 (3.24%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (3.02%) CCNA
11 14 (3.02%) VCAP
12 13 (2.81%) VCP5
12 13 (2.81%) VCP6
13 12 (2.59%) Master's Degree
14 11 (2.38%) OCA
15 10 (2.16%) Azure Certification
15 10 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (2.16%) RHCA
15 10 (2.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.46%) GDPR
2 14 (3.02%) SLA
3 8 (1.73%) QA
4 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.30%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.43%) NIST
6 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) RMADS
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 182 (39.31%) Active Directory
2 99 (21.38%) VMware ESXi
3 95 (20.52%) vSphere
4 60 (12.96%) Hyper-V
5 55 (11.88%) VMware NSX
6 38 (8.21%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (6.05%) Docker
7 28 (6.05%) Virtual Servers
8 21 (4.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 19 (4.10%) NFS
9 19 (4.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (3.24%) Terminal Services
11 10 (2.16%) BitLocker
11 10 (2.16%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 7 (1.51%) DFS Replication
14 6 (1.30%) Dovecot
14 6 (1.30%) Firmware
14 6 (1.30%) Postfix
15 5 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 126 (27.21%) Ansible
2 79 (17.06%) vCenter Server
3 56 (12.10%) SCCM
4 44 (9.50%) Puppet
5 34 (7.34%) Terraform
6 33 (7.13%) Kubernetes
7 27 (5.83%) WSUS
8 24 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (4.10%) VxRail
10 17 (3.67%) Progress Chef
11 15 (3.24%) vRealize
12 14 (3.02%) vMotion
13 13 (2.81%) Microsoft Clustering
13 13 (2.81%) PowerCLI
14 11 (2.38%) Nagios
15 7 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.51%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 4 (0.86%) AppManager
16 4 (0.86%) NetBackup
16 4 (0.86%) WMI
Vendors
1 463 (100.00%) VMware
2 173 (37.37%) Microsoft
3 87 (18.79%) Cisco
4 53 (11.45%) NetApp
5 51 (11.02%) Citrix
6 41 (8.86%) Splunk
7 36 (7.78%) F5
7 36 (7.78%) Red Hat
8 32 (6.91%) Oracle
9 29 (6.26%) Veeam
10 23 (4.97%) Broadcom
11 22 (4.75%) Atlassian
12 17 (3.67%) Dell
12 17 (3.67%) MuleSoft
13 16 (3.46%) Google
14 14 (3.02%) Palo Alto
15 13 (2.81%) HP
15 13 (2.81%) Juniper
16 12 (2.59%) Ericsson
16 12 (2.59%) Nokia