VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 138 155 244
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.13% 4.32% 4.90%
As % of the System Software category 25.99% 28.28% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 117 136
10th Percentile £219 £318 £281
25th Percentile £400 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £562 £615 £606
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £511 £513
% change year-on-year +0.26% -0.26% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £49.89 - £22.91
25th Percentile £57.43 - £52.02
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £71.90
75th Percentile £83.00 - £76.53
90th Percentile £84.80 - £77.85
England median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year -20.90% +34.13% +1.51%

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 531 548 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.04% 15.27% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 382 498
10th Percentile £190 £200 £158
25th Percentile £313 £350 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £579
90th Percentile £640 £669 £638
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 56
10th Percentile £45.69 £45.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £70.00 £54.63 £39.06
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.48% -6.53% +68.97%
75th Percentile £89.63 £71.25 £71.90
90th Percentile £102.20 £81.00 £77.02
England median hourly rate £48.11 £28.71 £46.18
% change year-on-year +67.60% -37.84% +84.72%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware Infrastructure

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 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 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
Hampshire -13 57 £525 -8.70% 48
Thames Valley -31 54 £425 -16.86% 39
Berkshire -23 49 £450 +12.50% 19
Kent +8 9 £425 +31.78% 18
West Sussex -5 8 £525 - 6
Surrey -18 7 £400 +14.29% 22
East Sussex +5 3 £170 +4.62% 3
Oxfordshire - 3 £425 - 7
Buckinghamshire -21 2 - - 13
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.35%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.45%) WordPress
5 1 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.23%) Azure
2 46 (33.33%) AWS
3 23 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 16 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.97%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.25%) GCP
6 10 (7.25%) IaaS
7 5 (3.62%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.90%) GitHub
8 4 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.45%) PaaS
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.72%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.72%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 52 (37.68%) DNS
2 35 (25.36%) DHCP
3 30 (21.74%) Firewall
4 25 (18.12%) TCP/IP
5 18 (13.04%) VLAN
6 10 (7.25%) SAN
7 9 (6.52%) LAN
7 9 (6.52%) VPN
7 9 (6.52%) WAN
8 8 (5.80%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (5.07%) iSCSI
9 7 (5.07%) MPLS
9 7 (5.07%) SNMP
9 7 (5.07%) VSAN
9 7 (5.07%) Wireless
10 6 (4.35%) BGP
10 6 (4.35%) FTP
10 6 (4.35%) NAS
10 6 (4.35%) OSPF
10 6 (4.35%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.62%) GitLab
3 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
3 4 (2.90%) JMeter
3 4 (2.90%) JUnit
3 4 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.72%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 41 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Finance
5 5 (3.62%) Legal
6 4 (2.90%) Law
6 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Back Office
8 2 (1.45%) Front Office
8 2 (1.45%) Military
9 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (26.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (23.19%) Architect
3 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure Architect
3 19 (13.77%) Support Engineer
4 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support
4 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 13 (9.42%) Senior
6 9 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
7 7 (5.07%) Analyst
7 7 (5.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.07%) VMware Architect
8 6 (4.35%) Designer
8 6 (4.35%) IP Designer
8 6 (4.35%) Wintel Analyst
9 5 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (2.90%) Service Desk Officer
10 4 (2.90%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) Loki
2 5 (3.62%) Kafka
3 4 (2.90%) Spring
4 3 (2.17%) Hibernate
4 3 (2.17%) Swagger
5 2 (1.45%) Middleware
5 2 (1.45%) RESTful
6 1 (0.72%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.72%) OAuth
6 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.72%) OpenID
6 1 (0.72%) REST
6 1 (0.72%) SAML
6 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.42%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (7.25%) PKI
5 8 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.07%) Private Cloud
6 7 (5.07%) Replication
6 7 (5.07%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.72%) FlexPod
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 69 (50.00%) Windows
2 57 (41.30%) Linux
3 35 (25.36%) Windows Server
4 14 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (8.70%) Windows 10
6 9 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (5.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.90%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.17%) CentOS
10 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.17%) Unix
11 1 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (19.57%) ITIL
4 26 (18.84%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.39%) Agile
6 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (10.87%) Preventative Maintenance
9 14 (10.14%) Containerisation
9 14 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (10.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 13 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.42%) DevOps
10 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure Management
11 12 (8.70%) Observability
11 12 (8.70%) Service Management
12 10 (7.25%) Migration
13 9 (6.52%) Roadmaps
13 9 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.91%) Python
2 28 (20.29%) PowerShell
3 26 (18.84%) Bash
4 13 (9.42%) SQL
5 9 (6.52%) Java
6 4 (2.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.17%) Go
7 3 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (53.62%) Security Cleared
2 47 (34.06%) SC Cleared
3 25 (18.12%) DV Cleared
4 21 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (10.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (8.70%) Azure Certification
7 11 (7.97%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (7.97%) Server+ Certification
8 10 (7.25%) AWS Certification
9 8 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (5.07%) CCIE
11 6 (4.35%) JNCIE
11 6 (4.35%) MCSE
12 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.90%) Degree
13 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
13 3 (2.17%) VCAP
13 3 (2.17%) VCP5
13 3 (2.17%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.52%) GDPR
2 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.90%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) SLA
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) JSP 440
System Software
1 43 (31.16%) Active Directory
2 33 (23.91%) vSphere
3 29 (21.01%) Hyper-V
4 16 (11.59%) VMware NSX
5 14 (10.14%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (9.42%) Docker
7 9 (6.52%) NFS
8 7 (5.07%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (2.90%) Terminal Services
10 3 (2.17%) DFS Replication
10 3 (2.17%) KVM
10 3 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.45%) UAG
11 2 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.72%) Firmware
12 1 (0.72%) RHEV
12 1 (0.72%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.72%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (19.57%) Ansible
2 23 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.22%) Terraform
4 17 (12.32%) vCenter Server
5 13 (9.42%) Argo
6 11 (7.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (7.97%) SCCM
7 8 (5.80%) Grafana
7 8 (5.80%) Prometheus
8 7 (5.07%) Kustomize
9 6 (4.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.90%) Proxmox
10 4 (2.90%) Rundeck
10 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.90%) vRealize
11 3 (2.17%) Salt
11 3 (2.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 3 (2.17%) VxRail
12 2 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (1.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 138 (100.00%) VMware
2 56 (40.58%) Microsoft
3 22 (15.94%) Citrix
4 20 (14.49%) Red Hat
5 12 (8.70%) NetApp
6 11 (7.97%) Cisco
7 9 (6.52%) F5
8 8 (5.80%) Fortinet
9 7 (5.07%) Juniper
10 6 (4.35%) Splunk
10 6 (4.35%) Veeam
11 5 (3.62%) Pure Storage
11 5 (3.62%) ServiceNow
12 4 (2.90%) Dell
13 2 (1.45%) Aruba
13 2 (1.45%) EMC
13 2 (1.45%) NetIQ
13 2 (1.45%) Oracle
13 2 (1.45%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.45%) SolarWinds