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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 9 37 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 9.18% 21.39% 6.78%
As % of the System Software category 81.82% 52.11% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 5
10th Percentile £434 £526 £333
25th Percentile £491 £582 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £610 £388
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +57.42% -11.83%
75th Percentile £519 £640 £450
90th Percentile £543 £675 £578
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £575 £506
% change year-on-year - +13.58% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £60.00

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 11 71 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 11.22% 41.04% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 52 21
10th Percentile £444 £518 £250
25th Percentile - £525 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £584 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +3.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £519 £655 £588
90th Percentile £535 £675 £663
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.86% +25.67% +1.27%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure 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 26 September 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 and Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Runbook
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) UAG
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 4 (44.44%) Rundeck
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Proxmox
3 3 (33.33%) Salt
4 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) vRealize
5 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) NetIQ
3 1 (11.11%) Dell