VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the South East

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 64 44 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 100 229 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.32% 4.12% 4.95%
As % of the System Software category 22.99% 29.32% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 143 212
10th Percentile £360 £331 £306
25th Percentile £525 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £629 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £675
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £29.40 £44.50
25th Percentile - £42.75 £48.40
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +19.15% -2.85%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £75.75
90th Percentile - £79.00 £86.27
England median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.25% -38.46% +30.42%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire -1 42 £575 +6.98% 41
Thames Valley -3 38 £580 +15.88% 39
Berkshire -14 23 £550 +9.78% 21
Buckinghamshire +21 14 £628 +25.61% 11
Kent +13 12 £451 +33.48% 9
West Sussex -10 4 £550 +20.55% 7
Surrey -3 2 £550 +44.74% 16
Oxfordshire -2 1 - - 10
East Sussex -3 1 £163 -65.79% 5
Sussex - 1 - - 4
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) Azure
2 25 (25.00%) IaaS
3 24 (24.00%) AWS
4 23 (23.00%) PaaS
5 19 (19.00%) SaaS
6 16 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (15.00%) OpenShift
8 10 (10.00%) GCP
9 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (26.00%) Firewall
2 23 (23.00%) DNS
3 18 (18.00%) DHCP
4 15 (15.00%) VSAN
5 13 (13.00%) VPN
6 11 (11.00%) SD-WAN
7 8 (8.00%) SMTP
7 8 (8.00%) WAN
8 7 (7.00%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (7.00%) NGFW
8 7 (7.00%) SAN
8 7 (7.00%) TCP/IP
9 6 (6.00%) BGP
9 6 (6.00%) iSCSI
9 6 (6.00%) MPLS
9 6 (6.00%) OSPF
10 5 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.00%) VLAN
11 3 (3.00%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (3.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (8.00%) Big Data
1 8 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) Subversion
3 1 (1.00%) GitLab
General
1 20 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Finance
5 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.00%) Electronics
6 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Law
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (37.00%) Architect
2 30 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (18.00%) Senior
4 13 (13.00%) Technical Architect
5 12 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 11 (11.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 11 (11.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) Senior Architect
6 11 (11.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 11 (11.00%) Support Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) VMware Architect
9 7 (7.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) Kafka
2 3 (3.00%) SAML
3 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 21 (21.00%) PKI
2 17 (17.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (13.00%) Public Cloud
4 8 (8.00%) Clustering
5 6 (6.00%) Client/Server
5 6 (6.00%) Driving Licence
6 5 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.00%) Replication
8 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (49.00%) Windows
2 34 (34.00%) Windows Server
3 33 (33.00%) Linux
4 9 (9.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (7.00%) CentOS
6 7 (7.00%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.00%) Unix
8 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (2.00%) Solaris
10 1 (1.00%) AIX
10 1 (1.00%) Android
10 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (24.00%) Agile
3 21 (21.00%) DevOps
3 21 (21.00%) DevSecOps
4 20 (20.00%) ITIL
5 19 (19.00%) TOGAF
6 18 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 14 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (14.00%) Migration
9 13 (13.00%) Application Packaging
10 12 (12.00%) Microservices
11 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.00%) Continuous Delivery
11 11 (11.00%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (11.00%) IT Strategy
11 11 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
13 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.00%) Python
3 8 (8.00%) SQL
4 6 (6.00%) VBScript
5 3 (3.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.00%) Perl
7 1 (1.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (62.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (36.00%) DV Cleared
3 28 (28.00%) SC Cleared
4 18 (18.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (16.00%) MCSE
7 9 (9.00%) Degree
8 4 (4.00%) VCP5
8 4 (4.00%) VCP6
9 3 (3.00%) CISSP
9 3 (3.00%) VCAP
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.00%) CCNP
10 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.00%) CISM
11 1 (1.00%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.00%) CCIE
11 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.00%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) NIST
2 12 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (12.00%) NCSC
3 6 (6.00%) SLA
4 3 (3.00%) Def Stans
5 2 (2.00%) GDPR
5 2 (2.00%) QA
6 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.00%) vSphere
3 25 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 22 (22.00%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (14.00%) Hyper-V
6 9 (9.00%) BitLocker
6 9 (9.00%) Docker
7 8 (8.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (8.00%) Terminal Services
8 6 (6.00%) DFS Replication
8 6 (6.00%) NFS
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (24.00%) Ansible
2 20 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 17 (17.00%) Kubernetes
4 11 (11.00%) Terraform
5 10 (10.00%) Puppet
6 8 (8.00%) Nagios
6 8 (8.00%) vMotion
7 7 (7.00%) Nessus
8 5 (5.00%) vRealize
9 4 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 3 (3.00%) SCCM
11 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
11 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.00%) SELinux
12 1 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (1.00%) PowerCLI
12 1 (1.00%) Rancher
12 1 (1.00%) yum
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) VMware
2 43 (43.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (20.00%) Cisco
4 17 (17.00%) Citrix
5 14 (14.00%) Palo Alto
6 10 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 10 (10.00%) Symantec
7 9 (9.00%) HP
8 8 (8.00%) Google
9 6 (6.00%) Veeam
10 5 (5.00%) NetApp
11 4 (4.00%) SolarWinds
11 4 (4.00%) Splunk
12 2 (2.00%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.00%) Juniper
12 2 (2.00%) SAP
12 2 (2.00%) Veritas
13 1 (1.00%) Dell
13 1 (1.00%) IBM
13 1 (1.00%) Oracle