VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.70% - 2.45%
As % of the System Software category 10.71% - 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £378
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.70%
75th Percentile £438 - £597
90th Percentile - - £614
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 14 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.91% 15.38% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 22
10th Percentile £227 £346 £128
25th Percentile £239 £406 £129
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £419 £145
Median % change year-on-year -34.33% +188.79% -63.75%
75th Percentile £428 £491 £463
90th Percentile £464 £500 £538
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £21.40 - -
25th Percentile £23.02 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.44 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.39%
75th Percentile £27.52 - £48.75
90th Percentile £27.74 - £49.50
South East median hourly rate £78.00 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +35.06% -7.60% +30.55%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Oxford - 2 £413 -
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Head of IT
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware