VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 10 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.24% 4.03% 6.92%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 14.29% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £433 £402 £555
25th Percentile £500 £460 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £470 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -24.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £650
90th Percentile - £553 £673
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £501
% change year-on-year -8.70% +14.89% -16.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £21.00
75th Percentile £52.58 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All System Software Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 20 35 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.47% 28.23% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 20
10th Percentile £190 £200 £411
25th Percentile £233 £360 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -26.96% -
75th Percentile £544 £471 £641
90th Percentile £550 £564 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.70% -1.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 13
10th Percentile £45.00 £51.74 £20.09
25th Percentile £45.21 £60.53 £51.25
Median hourly rate £48.11 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.98% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £51.62 £70.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £52.20 £72.38 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.05% +13.04% +150.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Portsmouth

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) PCoIP
1 4 (40.00%) VSAN
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitOps
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Runbook
3 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (10.00%) Server Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (40.00%) vSphere
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Rancher
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Acronis
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec