VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 29 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 54 123 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 5.52% 9.35% 7.64%
As % of the System Software category 33.75% 48.62% 36.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 71 40
10th Percentile £500 £475 £296
25th Percentile £522 £525 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +13.58% -1.22%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £578
90th Percentile £650 £688 £639
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% +6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £73.50
90th Percentile - - £78.00
South East median hourly rate - £29.28 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -51.20% +263.64%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 160 253 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.34% 19.22% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 154 111
10th Percentile £256 £360 £250
25th Percentile £494 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.59% +1.62% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 42
10th Percentile - £24.65 £15.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £20.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +25.67% +1.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £56.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +42.74% +3.17% +44.22%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Hampshire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Hampshire

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Basingstoke +1 31 £600 +9.09% 6
Farnborough -13 9 £500 -18.03% 4
Portsmouth +2 6 £525 +6.33% 1
Fleet -5 5 £492 - 1
Southampton -1 1 £550 +4.76% 5
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.81%) Apache
3 4 (7.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) AWS
1 11 (20.37%) GCP
2 6 (11.11%) IaaS
2 6 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 5 (9.26%) Azure
3 5 (9.26%) PaaS
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) Fibre Channel
1 13 (24.07%) iSCSI
2 11 (20.37%) DNS
3 9 (16.67%) SMTP
4 8 (14.81%) Firewall
5 7 (12.96%) DHCP
6 5 (9.26%) VPN
7 3 (5.56%) VSAN
8 2 (3.70%) NAS
8 2 (3.70%) PCoIP
8 2 (3.70%) SAN
8 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (9.26%) Big Data
1 5 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (7.41%) GitLab
2 4 (7.41%) MSI
2 4 (7.41%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JMeter
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
General
1 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Architect
2 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure Architect
2 16 (29.63%) VMware Architect
3 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 5 (9.26%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (9.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Linux Specialist
7 2 (3.70%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) YAML
2 3 (5.56%) Swagger
3 2 (3.70%) RESTful
4 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) PKI
2 7 (12.96%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.26%) Clustering
4 3 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (62.96%) Windows
2 25 (46.30%) Windows Server
3 18 (33.33%) Linux
4 17 (31.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (11.11%) CentOS
6 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (7.41%) Mac OS
7 4 (7.41%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) DevOps
2 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (20.37%) Agile
5 9 (16.67%) Edge Virtualization
5 9 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
6 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.81%) Prototyping
7 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.11%) Operational Stability
9 5 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (9.26%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (9.26%) Machine Learning
9 5 (9.26%) Software Deployment
10 4 (7.41%) Application Packaging
10 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (7.41%) Time Management
10 4 (7.41%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) PowerShell
2 16 (29.63%) SQL
3 11 (20.37%) Python
4 9 (16.67%) Bash
5 4 (7.41%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.41%) PHP
6 3 (5.56%) Go
7 2 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 35 (64.81%) DV Cleared
3 16 (29.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
5 13 (24.07%) MCSE
6 12 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (16.67%) VCP5
7 9 (16.67%) VCP6
8 8 (14.81%) Degree
9 3 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
10 2 (3.70%) RHCE
10 2 (3.70%) RHCSA
11 1 (1.85%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) GDPR
2 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (38.89%) VMware ESXi
2 18 (33.33%) vSphere
3 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
4 13 (24.07%) NFS
5 8 (14.81%) Docker
6 5 (9.26%) BitLocker
6 5 (9.26%) Hyper-V
6 5 (9.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (9.26%) Terminal Services
7 2 (3.70%) KVM
7 2 (3.70%) UAG
7 2 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.85%) Firmware
8 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (38.89%) Ansible
2 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.81%) Terraform
3 8 (14.81%) vCenter Server
4 7 (12.96%) Puppet
5 5 (9.26%) Nagios
5 5 (9.26%) vMotion
6 4 (7.41%) Rundeck
6 4 (7.41%) SCCM
6 4 (7.41%) WMI
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.56%) Proxmox
7 3 (5.56%) Salt
7 3 (5.56%) vRealize
8 2 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (51.85%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.93%) NetApp
4 13 (24.07%) Splunk
4 13 (24.07%) Veeam
5 9 (16.67%) Citrix
6 5 (9.26%) Google
6 5 (9.26%) HP
6 5 (9.26%) Symantec
7 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.70%) EMC
8 2 (3.70%) NetIQ
9 1 (1.85%) Dell