VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 17 15 2
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 11.26% 14.56% 1.60%
As % of the System Software category 68.00% 50.00% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 1
10th Percentile £408 £525 -
25th Percentile £446 £568 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £300
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +95.00% -48.94%
75th Percentile £541 £638 -
90th Percentile £613 £658 -
Hampshire median daily rate £531 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -7.65% +11.65% -14.17%

All System Software Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 30 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 16.56% 29.13% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 20
10th Percentile £355 £493 £261
25th Percentile £411 £545 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £519 £666 £595
90th Percentile £609 £729 £680
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £74.00
25th Percentile - £77.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile - £82.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £65.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -25.05% +14.14% +137.29%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Farnborough

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Farnborough over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Farnborough

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
1 4 (23.53%) JMeter
1 4 (23.53%) JUnit
1 4 (23.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
1 4 (23.53%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
2 3 (17.65%) Swagger
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
2 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Epics
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Observability
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
4 4 (23.53%) User Stories
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Change Control
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.76%) Operational Stability
7 1 (5.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) Go
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) UAG
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Progress Chef
2 4 (23.53%) Rundeck
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Proxmox
3 3 (17.65%) Salt
3 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.76%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
4 2 (11.76%) vRealize
5 1 (5.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Aruba
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.76%) NetIQ
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto