VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Kent

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 15 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 11.81% 1.54% 3.20%
As % of the System Software category 41.67% 21.43% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 6
10th Percentile - £171 £354
25th Percentile £153 £195 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £241 £431
Median % change year-on-year +76.32% -44.11% +18.15%
75th Percentile £603 £293 £613
90th Percentile £623 £320 £653
South East median daily rate £550 £540 £500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.40 -
South East median hourly rate - £29.28 £54.56
% change year-on-year - -46.33% +230.67%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 36 14 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 28.35% 7.18% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 8 33
10th Percentile £153 £150 £202
25th Percentile £256 £154 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £163 £365
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -55.48% +22.69%
75th Percentile £480 £201 £525
90th Percentile £603 £308 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £36.95 -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £54.88 £54.56
% change year-on-year +47.61% +0.58% +43.07%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Kent

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Kent over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Kent

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 19 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
Tonbridge - 5 £155 -
Chatham - 3 £480 - 1
Maidstone - 3 £615 - 3
West Malling - 1 £615 -
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) IaaS
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Asana
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) DNS
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) DHCP
3 5 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (33.33%) SAN
3 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (6.67%) VLAN
5 1 (6.67%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Law
1 5 (33.33%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Help Desk Officer
1 5 (33.33%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) IT Support
1 5 (33.33%) Service Desk Officer
1 5 (33.33%) Service Desk Support
1 5 (33.33%) Support Officer
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Desktop Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) VMware Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) CRM
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Security Patching
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity
7 1 (6.67%) Email Migration
7 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) SLA
2 5 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (33.33%) Terminal Services
2 5 (33.33%) vSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (66.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) HP