VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Newport

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 6.58% 8.57% 2.17%
As % of the System Software category 38.46% 42.86% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £485 £285 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £290 £425
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -31.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £550 £295 £438
90th Percentile £588 - -
South Wales median daily rate £575 £290 £220
% change year-on-year +98.28% +31.82% -60.00%

All System Software Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 13 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 17.11% 20.00% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £424 £322 £154
25th Percentile £492 £377 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £470 £190
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% +147.37% -65.45%
75th Percentile £597 £553 £373
90th Percentile £669 £581 £412
South Wales median daily rate £525 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +75.00% -29.41% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.82 £33.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.63 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.99% - -
75th Percentile £24.45 £41.25 -
90th Percentile £24.93 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £21.13 £37.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.67% -25.00% +189.81%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Newport

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Newport

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Newport over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Newport

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Presales
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) MCSE
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SnapMirror
2 1 (20.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) BMC
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam