VMFS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VMFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMFS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £490 £620 -
% change year-on-year -20.97% - -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

VMFS 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,622 1,805 2,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.82% 14.12% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,790 1,244 1,647
10th Percentile £190 £190 £177
25th Percentile £350 £325 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £476 £460
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +3.37% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £583
90th Percentile £645 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 58 192
10th Percentile £15.54 £14.99 £14.01
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.36 £14.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.50 £20.98
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% +35.88% -53.31%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £89.00 £86.78 £79.80
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +89.49% +24.31% -58.33%

VMFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VMFS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VMFS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMFS

VMFS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMFS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Wales - 1 £490 - 1
VMFS
UK

VMFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (100.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware