VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 170 156
Rank change year-on-year -99 -14 +49
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 115 232 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.54% 1.58%
As % of the System Software category 7.01% 14.83% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 131 197
10th Percentile £387 £275 £313
25th Percentile £500 £391 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £640 £606 £650
90th Percentile £708 £700 £723
England median daily rate £513 £506 £501
% change year-on-year +1.23% +1.05% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £24.40 - £22.00
25th Percentile £26.50 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £112.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -73.21% +124.54% +14.39%
75th Percentile £48.85 - £65.00
90th Percentile £60.16 - £71.02
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.49% +1.51%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,640 1,564 2,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 10.41% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,033 1,504
10th Percentile £325 £263 £213
25th Percentile £428 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £649 £663 £644
90th Percentile £738 £788 £745
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.75 £25.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -45.71% +66.99%
75th Percentile £26.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.85 £103.50 £74.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year +55.74% -30.35% +75.17%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in London

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in London

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in London

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Central London -6 15 £550 +27.17% 9
West London -12 6 £525 +40.00% 4
South London - 4 - - 4
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.87%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.87%) Traefik
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.17%) Azure
2 16 (13.91%) AWS
2 16 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.57%) GitHub
4 10 (8.70%) Nutanix
5 8 (6.96%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.96%) GCP
6 5 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (4.35%) IaaS
7 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.74%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.74%) PaaS
9 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.87%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.61%) Firewall
2 22 (19.13%) DNS
3 14 (12.17%) VPN
4 13 (11.30%) SAN
5 11 (9.57%) DHCP
6 9 (7.83%) WAN
7 8 (6.96%) LAN
7 8 (6.96%) NAS
8 7 (6.09%) Network Security
8 7 (6.09%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.22%) VSAN
10 4 (3.48%) BGP
10 4 (3.48%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (3.48%) VLAN
10 4 (3.48%) VXLAN
11 3 (2.61%) DKIM
11 3 (2.61%) DMARC
11 3 (2.61%) Ethernet VPN
12 2 (1.74%) Calico
12 2 (1.74%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.87%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.87%) MySQL
4 1 (0.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.87%) Redis
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Git
2 5 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.35%) Subversion
3 4 (3.48%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (3.48%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.61%) RStudio
5 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.74%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) JMeter
5 2 (1.74%) JUnit
6 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.87%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.26%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Social Science
8 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.74%) Police
10 1 (0.87%) Electronics
10 1 (0.87%) French Language
10 1 (0.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (16.52%) Architect
2 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Administrator
3 13 (11.30%) VMware Engineer
4 10 (8.70%) Consultant
5 9 (7.83%) Linux Administrator
5 9 (7.83%) Windows Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (4.35%) Senior
8 5 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.35%) VMware Consultant
9 4 (3.48%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Lead
9 4 (3.48%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (1.74%) EDI
2 2 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.74%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.74%) Kafka
2 2 (1.74%) RESTful
2 2 (1.74%) Spring
3 1 (0.87%) .NET
3 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.87%) JSON
3 1 (0.87%) LAMP
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.87%) Node.js
3 1 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.87%) pytest
3 1 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.87%) web3js
3 1 (0.87%) XML
3 1 (0.87%) YAML
3 1 (0.87%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Data Centre
1 14 (12.17%) Replication
2 9 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.96%) Hedge funds
4 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.22%) Clustering
5 6 (5.22%) PKI
5 6 (5.22%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.61%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.74%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.74%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (34.78%) Windows
2 39 (33.91%) Linux
3 28 (24.35%) Windows Server
4 19 (16.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.96%) Ubuntu
6 6 (5.22%) CentOS
6 6 (5.22%) Solaris
7 5 (4.35%) VMS
8 3 (2.61%) Unix
8 3 (2.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.74%) AIX
9 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.87%) Android
10 1 (0.87%) Debian
10 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.87%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.74%) Migration
2 24 (20.87%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
3 18 (15.65%) DevOps
3 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (13.04%) High Availability
4 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (11.30%) ITIL
7 11 (9.57%) Data Protection
8 9 (7.83%) Task Automation
9 8 (6.96%) Containerisation
9 8 (6.96%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (6.96%) Security Hardening
9 8 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (6.09%) Business Continuity
10 7 (6.09%) Project Delivery
10 7 (6.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 6 (5.22%) Patch Management
11 6 (5.22%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 34 (29.57%) Python
2 31 (26.96%) PowerShell
3 19 (16.52%) Bash
4 9 (7.83%) SQL
5 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.22%) Perl
6 4 (3.48%) Java
6 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.74%) C++
7 2 (1.74%) Go
7 2 (1.74%) PHP
8 1 (0.87%) C
8 1 (0.87%) C#
8 1 (0.87%) Korn
8 1 (0.87%) Rust
8 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (7.83%) CCNP
4 9 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.96%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.09%) Degree
7 6 (5.22%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.48%) CCNA
10 2 (1.74%) CCIE
10 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.74%) HP ASE
10 2 (1.74%) RHCE
10 2 (1.74%) RHCSA
10 2 (1.74%) VCAP
10 2 (1.74%) VCDX
11 1 (0.87%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.87%) CCSM
11 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (4.35%) GDPR
3 3 (2.61%) NIST
4 2 (1.74%) QA
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) NCSC
5 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.65%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (13.04%) vSphere
4 14 (12.17%) Hyper-V
5 13 (11.30%) Docker
6 12 (10.43%) VMware NSX
7 9 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (6.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (4.35%) KVM
10 4 (3.48%) NFS
10 4 (3.48%) Veritas File System
10 4 (3.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (3.48%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.87%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.87%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.87%) etcd
11 1 (0.87%) Firmware
11 1 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.87%) Postfix
11 1 (0.87%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (23.48%) Ansible
2 18 (15.65%) SCCM
3 17 (14.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (11.30%) Kubernetes
4 13 (11.30%) Terraform
5 11 (9.57%) vCenter Server
6 8 (6.96%) vRealize
7 6 (5.22%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 5 (4.35%) Puppet
9 4 (3.48%) Grafana
9 4 (3.48%) QRadar
9 4 (3.48%) SCOM
10 3 (2.61%) FortiGate
10 3 (2.61%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.61%) PowerCLI
10 3 (2.61%) Rancher
11 2 (1.74%) Argo
11 2 (1.74%) Istio
11 2 (1.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 115 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
3 20 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 15 (13.04%) Cisco
5 14 (12.17%) Citrix
6 11 (9.57%) NetApp
7 7 (6.09%) CyberArk
8 6 (5.22%) Oracle
8 6 (5.22%) Splunk
8 6 (5.22%) Veeam
9 5 (4.35%) Dell
9 5 (4.35%) Google
10 4 (3.48%) Qualys
10 4 (3.48%) SaltStack
11 3 (2.61%) Arista
11 3 (2.61%) F5
11 3 (2.61%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.61%) Veritas
12 2 (1.74%) ProCurve
12 2 (1.74%) Trend Micro