VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Leeds

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 56 73
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +15
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 21 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.11% 0.72% 1.11%
As % of the System Software category 16.67% 5.88% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile £366 £460 £357
25th Percentile £378 £475 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +20.48% +3.75%
75th Percentile £453 £538 £488
90th Percentile £500 £560 £541
West Yorkshire median daily rate £395 £500 £380
% change year-on-year -21.00% +31.58% -15.56%

All System Software Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 126 85 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 18.67% 12.32% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 65 99
10th Percentile £225 £288 £214
25th Percentile £302 £381 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £515
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -17.48% +3.00%
75th Percentile £500 £515 £619
90th Percentile £573 £585 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 - £17.64
% change year-on-year - - -17.95%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Leeds

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Leeds

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) DMZ
1 9 (42.86%) DNS
1 9 (42.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 9 (42.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 9 (42.86%) Network Security
2 8 (38.10%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (71.43%) Banking
2 9 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) NetBackup Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Veritas Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Business Strategy
2 9 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 9 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 7 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (33.33%) RBAC
3 7 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 7 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (9.52%) Security Hardening
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (4.76%) Migration
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (4.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 7 (33.33%) Bash
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) vRealize
3 2 (9.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (42.86%) F5
3 7 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 7 (33.33%) Google
3 7 (33.33%) Oracle
3 7 (33.33%) Veritas
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat