VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 96 107
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 70 92 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.12% 1.93% 2.16%
As % of the System Software category 13.83% 16.46% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 68 89
10th Percentile £243 £213 £305
25th Percentile £320 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £510 £541 £631
90th Percentile £538 £616 £675
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 11
10th Percentile - - £31.25
25th Percentile - £37.63 £47.47
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - -11.41% -
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.25% -38.46% +30.42%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +12 41 £425 +30.77% 43
Yorkshire -5 25 £403 +8.05% 32
North East -3 5 £350 -39.13% 12
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.43%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.29%) Azure
2 26 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (27.14%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.86%) OneDrive
5 8 (11.43%) IaaS
6 7 (10.00%) AWS
7 3 (4.29%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.86%) OCI
8 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.43%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 22 (31.43%) DNS
2 16 (22.86%) DHCP
3 11 (15.71%) SAN
4 10 (14.29%) Firewall
4 10 (14.29%) Network Security
5 9 (12.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (10.00%) NAS
6 7 (10.00%) WAN
7 6 (8.57%) LAN
8 5 (7.14%) Skype
8 5 (7.14%) VLAN
8 5 (7.14%) VoIP
8 5 (7.14%) VPN
8 5 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.86%) VSAN
10 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.71%) Couchbase
3 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.43%) GIS
4 1 (1.43%) MSDE
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.71%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.57%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Legal
4 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Aviation
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Military
6 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (11.43%) Support Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Administrator
4 6 (8.57%) VMWare Administrator
4 6 (8.57%) Wintel Administrator
5 5 (7.14%) Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Database Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) DBA
5 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (5.71%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Unix Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) .NET
2 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.29%) Clustering
5 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.86%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.43%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.43%) NHS
7 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) PKI
7 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (62.86%) Windows
2 33 (47.14%) Windows Server
3 18 (25.71%) Linux
4 14 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (18.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (11.43%) Unix
8 6 (8.57%) Windows 10
9 4 (5.71%) CentOS
9 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (4.29%) AIX
11 2 (2.86%) HPUX
11 2 (2.86%) Solaris
11 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
11 2 (2.86%) VMS
12 1 (1.43%) Android
12 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
12 1 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (24.29%) High Availability
2 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (22.86%) Migration
4 12 (17.14%) Project Delivery
5 11 (15.71%) Business Continuity
5 11 (15.71%) Patch Management
6 10 (14.29%) Change Management
6 10 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (12.86%) Customer Service
7 9 (12.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.43%) ITIL
8 8 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.00%) Data Protection
9 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (10.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.86%) Python
2 9 (12.86%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.86%) Bash
3 2 (2.86%) Perl
4 1 (1.43%) SQL
4 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.43%) VB
4 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) SC Cleared
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (12.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (12.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (7.14%) MCSE
5 4 (5.71%) OCP
5 4 (5.71%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (4.29%) Degree
7 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.86%) MCP
8 1 (1.43%) CCNA
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.43%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 21 (30.00%) vSphere
3 16 (22.86%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (18.57%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (15.71%) VMware NSX
6 7 (10.00%) Docker
6 7 (10.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.86%) KVM
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.43%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Ansible
2 17 (24.29%) vCenter Server
3 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (17.14%) SCCM
5 10 (14.29%) WSUS
6 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
7 5 (7.14%) AppManager
7 5 (7.14%) vRealize
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (4.29%) NetApp OnCommand
8 3 (4.29%) Puppet
8 3 (4.29%) Terraform
8 3 (4.29%) vMotion
9 2 (2.86%) Nagios
9 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.86%) VxRail
9 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.43%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 35 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.86%) Oracle
4 6 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 5 (7.14%) Citrix
5 5 (7.14%) Ivanti
5 5 (7.14%) Wyse
6 3 (4.29%) Dell
6 3 (4.29%) IBM
6 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco
7 2 (2.86%) HP
7 2 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.86%) Veeam
8 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.43%) EMC
8 1 (1.43%) NetApp
8 1 (1.43%) Splunk
8 1 (1.43%) Symantec
8 1 (1.43%) Veritas