VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the South West

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 67 63
Rank change year-on-year +36 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 99 97 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.90% 3.03% 3.42%
As % of the System Software category 35.11% 27.09% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 72 82
10th Percentile £436 £400 £325
25th Percentile £506 £486 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £616 £613
90th Percentile £708 £736 £724
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 18
10th Percentile - - £59.94
25th Percentile - - £60.90
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% +9.97%
75th Percentile - £43.20 £65.00
90th Percentile - £71.25 £79.44
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +23 49 £575 +6.98% 10
Gloucestershire +32 22 £615 -6.64% 21
Bristol +13 16 £470 -6.00% 13
Dorset +12 10 £538 +17.81% 9
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 25 (25.25%) Confluence
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.02%) IIS
4 2 (2.02%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.01%) Apache
5 1 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (24.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.24%) Azure
2 20 (20.20%) AWS
3 14 (14.14%) OpenShift
4 10 (10.10%) PaaS
4 10 (10.10%) SaaS
5 8 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.03%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (27.27%) DNS
2 22 (22.22%) DHCP
3 17 (17.17%) TCP/IP
4 14 (14.14%) HTTP
4 14 (14.14%) VoIP
5 12 (12.12%) Firewall
6 10 (10.10%) PBX
7 7 (7.07%) BGP
7 7 (7.07%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (7.07%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (7.07%) DMVPN
7 7 (7.07%) OSPF
7 7 (7.07%) VPN
7 7 (7.07%) VXLAN
8 6 (6.06%) LAN
8 6 (6.06%) VLAN
8 6 (6.06%) VSAN
8 6 (6.06%) WAN
9 5 (5.05%) SAN
10 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.01%) MySQL
3 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (26.26%) JIRA
2 12 (12.12%) Bitbucket
3 11 (11.11%) Git
3 11 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.01%) GitLab
General
1 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 19 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.06%) Legal
5 6 (6.06%) Military
6 3 (3.03%) Billing
7 2 (2.02%) Advertising
7 2 (2.02%) Finance
8 1 (1.01%) Electronics
8 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.01%) Marketing
8 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (14.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Wintel Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Architect
8 3 (3.03%) Consultant
8 3 (3.03%) Lead
8 3 (3.03%) Project Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Project Leader
8 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.02%) Cloud Specialist
9 2 (2.02%) Desktop Support
9 2 (2.02%) Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (2.02%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.14%) Flash
2 11 (11.11%) REST
2 11 (11.11%) SOAP
3 5 (5.05%) Spine.js
4 4 (4.04%) Kafka
5 2 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.01%) .NET
6 1 (1.01%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.01%) LDAP
6 1 (1.01%) React
6 1 (1.01%) Vue
6 1 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Clustering
2 10 (10.10%) Blackberry
2 10 (10.10%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (8.08%) PKI
4 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) CESG
6 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 54 (54.55%) Windows
2 37 (37.37%) Windows Server
3 35 (35.35%) Linux
4 15 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (10.10%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (8.08%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.03%) VMS
9 1 (1.01%) Android
9 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.44%) Service Management
2 39 (39.39%) Validation
3 33 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (32.32%) Agile
5 29 (29.29%) System Testing
6 28 (28.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (27.27%) NsoIT
8 19 (19.19%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.16%) Critical Thinking
9 16 (16.16%) Network Virtualisation
10 15 (15.15%) High Availability
11 14 (14.14%) Computer Science
11 14 (14.14%) Power Management
12 13 (13.13%) Configuration Management
12 13 (13.13%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (13.13%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (12.12%) Migration
13 12 (12.12%) Waterfall
14 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
15 10 (10.10%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 35 (35.35%) Python
3 32 (32.32%) Bash
4 15 (15.15%) Java
5 5 (5.05%) SQL
6 2 (2.02%) VBScript
7 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (85.86%) Security Cleared
2 69 (69.70%) SC Cleared
3 43 (43.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 40 (40.40%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (32.32%) DV Cleared
6 30 (30.30%) CCNP
7 17 (17.17%) Degree
8 14 (14.14%) Master's Degree
9 13 (13.13%) CCNA
10 11 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (11.11%) OCA
10 11 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (10.10%) RHCA
11 10 (10.10%) RHCE
12 8 (8.08%) MCSE
13 7 (7.07%) MCSA
14 2 (2.02%) A+ Certification
14 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
15 1 (1.01%) CISSP
15 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) Def Stans
2 2 (2.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.01%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (24.24%) Hyper-V
2 22 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 20 (20.20%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (19.19%) Docker
4 19 (19.19%) VMware NSX
5 8 (8.08%) vSphere
6 5 (5.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.01%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.01%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 34 (34.34%) Ansible
2 33 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 25 (25.25%) Puppet
4 20 (20.20%) Kubernetes
5 18 (18.18%) Terraform
6 10 (10.10%) Progress Chef
7 8 (8.08%) SCCM
8 4 (4.04%) VxRail
9 3 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (3.03%) AppManager
9 3 (3.03%) PowerCLI
9 3 (3.03%) SCOM
9 3 (3.03%) vRealize
10 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (2.02%) WSUS
11 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (1.01%) Nessus
11 1 (1.01%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (1.01%) vMotion
Vendors
1 99 (100.00%) VMware
2 42 (42.42%) Cisco
3 22 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 22 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 18 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 13 (13.13%) F5
6 12 (12.12%) Oracle
7 10 (10.10%) Avaya
7 10 (10.10%) Ericsson
7 10 (10.10%) Juniper
7 10 (10.10%) Nokia
7 10 (10.10%) Palo Alto
7 10 (10.10%) Ribbon
8 4 (4.04%) NetApp
9 3 (3.03%) Citrix
9 3 (3.03%) Infoblox
9 3 (3.03%) Ivanti
9 3 (3.03%) Veeam
10 2 (2.02%) Broadcom
10 2 (2.02%) SolarWinds