VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 95 87
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 98 67 101
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.07% 1.89% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 13.92% 14.44% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 85
10th Percentile £326 £242 £271
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +6.25% -6.32%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £500
90th Percentile £634 £623 £565
England median daily rate £513 £508 £513
% change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £66.60 - -
25th Percentile £67.88 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £70.38 - £43.75
75th Percentile £72.51 - £46.88
90th Percentile £73.56 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year -20.90% +34.13% +1.51%

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 704 464 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.88% 13.11% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 280 505
10th Percentile £185 £175 £185
25th Percentile £330 £263 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -4.49%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £611 £638
England median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 44
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.44 £16.83
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +16.26% -15.56%
75th Percentile £44.86 £24.18 £25.63
90th Percentile £74.26 £29.00 £61.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +63.79% -28.08% +61.30%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure

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 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure

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 22 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
North West -9 67 £458 +7.76% 21
Yorkshire -16 43 £413 -8.84% 22
North East -6 3 £513 - 10
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (4.08%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) CICS
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
3 2 (2.04%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.04%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.02%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.59%) Azure
2 24 (24.49%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) GCP
4 10 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.10%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.06%) SaaS
8 2 (2.04%) GitHub
8 2 (2.04%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.04%) PaaS
9 1 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.02%) IaaS
9 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 43 (43.88%) DNS
2 35 (35.71%) Firewall
3 30 (30.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 30 (30.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 24 (24.49%) DMZ
5 22 (22.45%) Network Security
5 22 (22.45%) TCP/IP
6 11 (11.22%) BIG-IP
6 11 (11.22%) SSL
6 11 (11.22%) VLAN
7 9 (9.18%) HTTP
7 9 (9.18%) SAN
7 9 (9.18%) Wireshark
8 5 (5.10%) iSCSI
8 5 (5.10%) VPN
8 5 (5.10%) VSAN
9 4 (4.08%) DHCP
9 4 (4.08%) NAS
9 4 (4.08%) SNMP
9 4 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Fiddler
2 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.10%) Git
4 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 3 (3.06%) JIRA
5 2 (2.04%) Postman
6 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (33.67%) Banking
2 23 (23.47%) Investment Banking
3 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Finance
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (16.33%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 12 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Architect
4 9 (9.18%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) IP Network Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Web Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) NetBackup Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Consultant
8 5 (5.10%) Senior
8 5 (5.10%) Server Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Lead
10 3 (3.06%) Lead Architect
10 3 (3.06%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Migration Specialist
10 3 (3.06%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Middleware
2 3 (3.06%) LDAP
3 1 (1.02%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.02%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.31%) Data Centre
3 13 (13.27%) Replication
4 9 (9.18%) Clustering
5 6 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.10%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.04%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.02%) Digital Signage
10 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.02%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (1.02%) IBM XIV
10 1 (1.02%) PKI
10 1 (1.02%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.80%) Windows
2 34 (34.69%) Linux
3 18 (18.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.08%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.06%) Solaris
6 3 (3.06%) VMS
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.04%) zOS
8 1 (1.02%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.76%) Load Balancing
2 31 (31.63%) Business Strategy
3 24 (24.49%) Containerisation
4 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 14 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 14 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (13.27%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.27%) DevOps
6 13 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (11.22%) High Availability
7 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.20%) Business Continuity
8 10 (10.20%) Migration
9 9 (9.18%) Data Loss Prevention
9 9 (9.18%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 9 (9.18%) Project Delivery
9 9 (9.18%) Task Automation
9 9 (9.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.73%) PowerShell
2 30 (30.61%) Python
3 27 (27.55%) Bash
4 8 (8.16%) Perl
5 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.04%) Java
7 1 (1.02%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) MCSA
4 4 (4.08%) MCSE
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.08%) VCAP
4 4 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (3.06%) CCDP
5 3 (3.06%) CCNA
5 3 (3.06%) CCNP
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.02%) CCA
7 1 (1.02%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) GDPR
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (21.43%) Docker
1 21 (21.43%) vSphere
2 20 (20.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.18%) Firmware
4 8 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (8.16%) VMware NSX
5 6 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.10%) Hyper-V
7 4 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (3.06%) UAG
9 2 (2.04%) KVM
9 2 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (1.02%) NFS
10 1 (1.02%) SRDF
10 1 (1.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (1.02%) Xen
10 1 (1.02%) XenApp
10 1 (1.02%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) Ansible
2 18 (18.37%) Terraform
3 15 (15.31%) Kubernetes
4 13 (13.27%) vCenter Server
5 10 (10.20%) SCCM
6 7 (7.14%) NetBackup
6 7 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (5.10%) vRealize
8 3 (3.06%) Puppet
9 2 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.04%) PowerCLI
9 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (1.02%) Argo
10 1 (1.02%) Grafana
10 1 (1.02%) Podman
10 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 98 (100.00%) VMware
2 44 (44.90%) F5
3 19 (19.39%) Cisco
4 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
4 18 (18.37%) NetApp
5 11 (11.22%) Citrix
5 11 (11.22%) Google
5 11 (11.22%) Red Hat
6 9 (9.18%) Blue Coat
6 9 (9.18%) McAfee
6 9 (9.18%) Oracle
6 9 (9.18%) Veeam
7 7 (7.14%) CyberArk
7 7 (7.14%) Veritas
8 6 (6.12%) Dell
9 5 (5.10%) Palo Alto
10 4 (4.08%) Juniper
10 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.04%) EMC
11 2 (2.04%) IBM