VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 10 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.33% 3.39% 3.43%
As % of the System Software category 14.08% 15.63% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 6
10th Percentile £323 - £384
25th Percentile £350 £460 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +18.09% -4.08% +3.16%
75th Percentile £558 £480 £554
90th Percentile £900 £528 £581
South West median daily rate £555 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +3.26% +2.38% -

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 71 96 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.67% 21.67% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 61
10th Percentile £220 £460 £413
25th Percentile £325 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £18.95
25th Percentile - - £44.88
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.10%
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +30.08% +26.86%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Gloucestershire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Gloucestershire

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Gloucester -12 6 £425 -9.57% 3
Cheltenham +26 4 £555 +0.91% 4
VMware Infrastructure
South West

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Stack
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DHCP
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) WSUS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (20.00%) NetApp OnCommand
3 2 (20.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft