VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 45 34
Rank change year-on-year -45 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 25 89 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.51% 3.82% 5.69%
As % of the System Software category 12.02% 32.01% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 52 116
10th Percentile £177 £333 £263
25th Percentile £350 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +3.86% +1.10%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £613
90th Percentile £633 - £675
South East median daily rate £578 £550 £506
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.80% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £48.04
25th Percentile - £35.58 £48.40
Median hourly rate - £36.17 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year - -33.72% +172.80%
75th Percentile - £36.75 £57.59
90th Percentile - - £60.88
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £36.17 £54.56
% change year-on-year -22.58% -33.72% +172.80%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 208 278 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.54% 11.93% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 183 260
10th Percentile £208 £260 £185
25th Percentile £325 £413 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £573 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.66% +20.53% -1.04%
75th Percentile £645 £608 £576
90th Percentile £700 £651 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile £72.86 £31.67 £21.25
25th Percentile £75.66 £58.49 £47.95
Median hourly rate £83.32 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% +19.13% +230.67%
75th Percentile £87.97 - £60.94
90th Percentile £88.97 £65.94 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +4.78% +7.07% +156.25%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Thames Valley

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Berkshire -28 21 £525 -3.89% 11
Buckinghamshire -3 3 £525 +3.96% 6
Oxfordshire -12 1 - - 12
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) VSAN
3 4 (16.00%) MPLS
3 4 (16.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (12.00%) DNS
4 3 (12.00%) LAN
4 3 (12.00%) NAS
4 3 (12.00%) SAN
4 3 (12.00%) WAN
4 3 (12.00%) Wireless
5 2 (8.00%) BGP
5 2 (8.00%) DHCP
5 2 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.00%) OSPF
5 2 (8.00%) SNMP
5 2 (8.00%) TACACS
6 1 (4.00%) Internet
6 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Coordinator
4 2 (8.00%) Designer
4 2 (8.00%) IP Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Coordinator
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
3 2 (8.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 2 (8.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) FlexPod
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.00%) VMS
5 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.00%) CentOS
6 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (24.00%) Project Management
2 5 (20.00%) Agile
2 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.00%) Validation
4 3 (12.00%) Budget Management
4 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (12.00%) High Availability
4 3 (12.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (12.00%) Product Management
4 3 (12.00%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (8.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) CCIE
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) JNCIE
5 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (4.00%) MCP
5 1 (4.00%) MCSE
5 1 (4.00%) VCAP
5 1 (4.00%) VCP5
5 1 (4.00%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (32.00%) vSphere
3 7 (28.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (24.00%) VMware NSX
5 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.00%) NFS
6 1 (4.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
1 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (12.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (4.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.00%) Puppet
4 1 (4.00%) vRealize
4 1 (4.00%) yum
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.00%) F5
5 3 (12.00%) NetApp
5 3 (12.00%) Veeam
6 2 (8.00%) Citrix
6 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (8.00%) Intel
6 2 (8.00%) Juniper
7 1 (4.00%) Commvault
7 1 (4.00%) Dell
7 1 (4.00%) IBM
7 1 (4.00%) Isilon
7 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle
7 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.00%) Splunk