VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 89 66
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 +40
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 52 45 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.59% 1.68% 2.88%
As % of the System Software category 20.80% 18.15% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 61
10th Percentile £285 £200 £363
25th Percentile £453 £299 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £689 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £804 £715
England median daily rate £550 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £19.95 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.25% -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.13 £63.12
% change year-on-year -30.22% -36.43% +30.75%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 250 248 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.47% 9.24% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 186 330
10th Percentile £165 £150 £157
25th Percentile £271 £213 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £358 £445
Median % change year-on-year +30.94% -19.55% +18.67%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £569
90th Percentile £700 £644 £690
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 26
10th Percentile £15.16 £14.77 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.16 £17.98 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -20.11% +34.33%
75th Percentile £18.13 £22.80 £48.13
90th Percentile £30.05 £37.83 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.10% -58.00% +167.74%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
West Midlands +8 38 £551 +2.51% 50
East Midlands +13 14 £543 +0.98% 37
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) AWS
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
3 2 (3.85%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) SAN
2 6 (11.54%) LAN
3 5 (9.62%) NAS
4 4 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (7.69%) Firewall
4 4 (7.69%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.85%) WAN
6 1 (1.92%) DHCP
6 1 (1.92%) DNS
6 1 (1.92%) HTTP
6 1 (1.92%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Introscope
1 1 (1.92%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Law
4 1 (1.92%) Legal
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) VMware Architect
5 4 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Administrator
7 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Linux Support
7 2 (3.85%) Linux Support Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.85%) Unix Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) .NET
1 1 (1.92%) HTML
1 1 (1.92%) J2EE
1 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) SCADA
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (42.31%) Windows
2 11 (21.15%) Windows Server
3 10 (19.23%) Linux
4 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (7.69%) AIX
5 4 (7.69%) Unix
5 4 (7.69%) VMS
5 4 (7.69%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.77%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.77%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
2 11 (21.15%) Service Management
3 10 (19.23%) ITSM
3 10 (19.23%) Storage Management
4 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (11.54%) ITIL
5 6 (11.54%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (7.69%) Storage Virtualisation
8 3 (5.77%) Change Control
8 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (1.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.92%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Modelling
9 1 (1.92%) High Availability
9 1 (1.92%) Non-Functional Testing
9 1 (1.92%) Portfolio Management
9 1 (1.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (1.92%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.85%) Python
3 1 (1.92%) Bash
3 1 (1.92%) C
3 1 (1.92%) Java
3 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 27 (51.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.85%) RHCE
4 2 (3.85%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.85%) vSphere
6 1 (1.92%) Docker
6 1 (1.92%) Firmware
6 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) SCCM
2 7 (13.46%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) SCOM
3 2 (3.85%) SELinux
3 2 (3.85%) Tivoli
3 2 (3.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.92%) CA Wily
4 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.92%) Podman
4 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (23.08%) Broadcom
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (11.54%) Cisco
5 5 (9.62%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.69%) Dell
6 4 (7.69%) Foundry
7 3 (5.77%) Veeam
8 2 (3.85%) Google
8 2 (3.85%) IBM
8 2 (3.85%) Oracle
8 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.92%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.92%) Splunk