VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 68 83
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 513 798 921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.52% 3.40% 3.01%
As % of the System Software category 21.28% 22.51% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 567 676
10th Percentile £260 £313 £250
25th Percentile £363 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £434
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +21.04% +2.06%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £676 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 30
10th Percentile £38.10 £38.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.13 £28.41
Median hourly rate £46.18 £63.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.70% +32.63% -
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.75 £60.07
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.82 £67.55
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £49.84
% change year-on-year -38.08% +30.42% -4.15%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,411 3,545 4,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.83% 15.08% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,622 2,562 3,279
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £280 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +7.26% +6.16%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 187 240
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £46.11 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +151.84% +4.02%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.81
90th Percentile £79.80 £71.50 £51.95
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
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 VMware Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
South East -1 226 £500 -3.85% 104
South West -1 93 £535 -2.73% 71
North of England -2 84 £350 -30.00% 79
Midlands -13 44 £544 +7.67% 70
North West -23 43 £325 -35.00% 51
Scotland +29 38 £453 -2.58% 8
Yorkshire +36 34 £378 -20.94% 20
West Midlands +9 33 £538 +13.16% 40
East of England -51 23 £650 - 53
East Midlands -8 10 £550 -14.73% 30
North East +13 7 £600 +14.29% 10
Wales -2 5 £285 -46.98% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 - 1
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.04%) Confluence
3 23 (4.48%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.56%) IIS
5 7 (1.36%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.36%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.97%) nginx
7 4 (0.78%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.39%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.39%) Traefik
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.19%) Site Server
Applications
1 31 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.39%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.39%) RMDS
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 119 (23.20%) Azure
2 59 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (10.33%) AWS
4 21 (4.09%) IaaS
5 18 (3.51%) PaaS
6 16 (3.12%) GCP
7 15 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.92%) OCI
8 14 (2.73%) Entra ID
9 11 (2.14%) OpenShift
10 10 (1.95%) GitHub
10 10 (1.95%) SaaS
11 8 (1.56%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.58%) Azure Event Grid
14 3 (0.58%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.58%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.58%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 131 (25.54%) DNS
2 121 (23.59%) Firewall
3 109 (21.25%) DHCP
4 75 (14.62%) SAN
5 63 (12.28%) WAN
6 62 (12.09%) LAN
7 50 (9.75%) VPN
8 37 (7.21%) TCP/IP
9 36 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (5.85%) VSAN
11 20 (3.90%) NAS
12 19 (3.70%) VLAN
12 19 (3.70%) Wireless
13 15 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (2.73%) MPLS
14 14 (2.73%) VoIP
15 11 (2.14%) Internet
15 11 (2.14%) Network Security
16 10 (1.95%) Fibre Channel
17 9 (1.75%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.56%) MySQL
4 7 (1.36%) Metadata
4 7 (1.36%) PowerPivot
4 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Power View
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.58%) Power BI
8 2 (0.39%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.19%) Big Data
9 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (7.80%) JIRA
2 20 (3.90%) Robot Framework
3 15 (2.92%) GitLab
4 14 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.36%) Git
6 7 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.17%) Selenium
8 4 (0.78%) CppUnit
8 4 (0.78%) PVCS
9 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.19%) MSI
11 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 169 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 26 (5.07%) Finance
5 20 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.31%) Military
7 15 (2.92%) Banking
8 13 (2.53%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.17%) Publishing
12 5 (0.97%) Billing
12 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.97%) Marketing
13 3 (0.58%) Back Office
13 3 (0.58%) Digital Economy
13 3 (0.58%) Front Office
14 2 (0.39%) Advertising
14 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (27.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (10.53%) Architect
3 41 (7.99%) Network Engineer
4 35 (6.82%) Support Engineer
4 35 (6.82%) VMware Engineer
5 33 (6.43%) Analyst
6 28 (5.46%) Integration Engineer
7 27 (5.26%) Senior
8 24 (4.68%) Storage Engineer
9 21 (4.09%) Wintel Engineer
10 19 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 19 (3.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 18 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
11 18 (3.51%) Test Engineer
12 17 (3.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (3.12%) IT Engineer
14 15 (2.92%) 2nd Line Support
14 15 (2.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 15 (2.92%) Test and Integration Engineer
15 14 (2.73%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.12%) .NET
2 10 (1.95%) HTML
3 9 (1.75%) CSS
4 7 (1.36%) Middleware
4 7 (1.36%) Web Services
5 5 (0.97%) Flash
6 4 (0.78%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.78%) REST
7 3 (0.58%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.58%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.58%) EDI
7 3 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.58%) J2EE
7 3 (0.58%) React
7 3 (0.58%) Vue
7 3 (0.58%) XMPP
8 2 (0.39%) ADSI
8 2 (0.39%) LDAP
8 2 (0.39%) Node.js
8 2 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.15%) Data Centre
2 55 (10.72%) PKI
3 42 (8.19%) Clustering
4 33 (6.43%) Client/Server
5 22 (4.29%) Private Cloud
6 15 (2.92%) Replication
7 14 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.36%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.78%) CCTV
13 4 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.78%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 3 (0.58%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 287 (55.95%) Windows
2 199 (38.79%) Windows Server
3 161 (31.38%) Linux
4 77 (15.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 63 (12.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 57 (11.11%) Windows 10
7 51 (9.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 43 (8.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 36 (7.02%) Unix
10 20 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (3.12%) Windows XP
12 13 (2.53%) CentOS
13 11 (2.14%) Ubuntu
13 11 (2.14%) VMS
14 10 (1.95%) Solaris
15 9 (1.75%) Windows 7
16 8 (1.56%) Mac OS
17 7 (1.36%) Debian
18 3 (0.58%) AIX
19 2 (0.39%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (34.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (17.35%) Agile
4 85 (16.57%) Migration
5 74 (14.42%) ITIL
6 52 (10.14%) DevOps
7 42 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (7.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 38 (7.41%) High Availability
10 35 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (6.24%) Customer Service
11 32 (6.24%) Server Management
11 32 (6.24%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 31 (6.04%) Containerisation
12 31 (6.04%) Decision-Making
13 30 (5.85%) Data Protection
13 30 (5.85%) Release Management
14 29 (5.65%) Test Automation
15 28 (5.46%) Computer Science
15 28 (5.46%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 122 (23.78%) PowerShell
2 70 (13.65%) Python
3 38 (7.41%) SQL
4 33 (6.43%) Bash
5 20 (3.90%) VBScript
6 13 (2.53%) C#
6 13 (2.53%) Java
7 10 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.95%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.56%) Perl
9 7 (1.36%) C++
10 6 (1.17%) Go
10 6 (1.17%) Ruby
11 4 (0.78%) C
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
12 3 (0.58%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.19%) Elixir
13 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 234 (45.61%) Security Cleared
2 117 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 106 (20.66%) DV Cleared
4 90 (17.54%) Degree
5 52 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (9.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 46 (8.97%) CCNA
8 45 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (6.43%) MCSE
10 25 (4.87%) CCNP
10 25 (4.87%) MCSA
11 13 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (2.34%) Master's Degree
13 11 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (1.36%) A+ Certification
15 7 (1.36%) DBS Check
16 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
16 6 (1.17%) RHCT
16 6 (1.17%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.70%) SLA
2 8 (1.56%) NIST
3 7 (1.36%) RMADS
4 5 (0.97%) GDPR
4 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.97%) PMO
4 5 (0.97%) QA
5 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 222 (43.27%) Active Directory
2 116 (22.61%) Hyper-V
3 84 (16.37%) vSphere
4 75 (14.62%) VMware NSX
5 72 (14.04%) VMware ESXi
6 34 (6.63%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (4.48%) Virtual Servers
8 21 (4.09%) Docker
8 21 (4.09%) VMware Workstation
9 19 (3.70%) KVM
10 15 (2.92%) XenApp
11 9 (1.75%) vCloud
12 6 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (1.17%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.78%) Firmware
13 4 (0.78%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.58%) SRDF
14 3 (0.58%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.39%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 91 (17.74%) vCenter Server
2 67 (13.06%) SCCM
3 59 (11.50%) Ansible
4 47 (9.16%) Kubernetes
5 45 (8.77%) WSUS
6 39 (7.60%) Terraform
7 26 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (4.87%) SCOM
9 22 (4.29%) NetBackup
10 14 (2.73%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Clustering
12 9 (1.75%) Nagios
12 9 (1.75%) vRealize
12 9 (1.75%) VxRail
13 8 (1.56%) Rancher
14 7 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (1.36%) Nessus
14 7 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 7 (1.36%) Puppet
14 7 (1.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 513 (100.00%) VMware
2 195 (38.01%) Microsoft
3 74 (14.42%) Cisco
4 49 (9.55%) Dell
5 41 (7.99%) Red Hat
6 39 (7.60%) Citrix
7 34 (6.63%) Veeam
8 32 (6.24%) Oracle
9 25 (4.87%) HP
10 24 (4.68%) EMC
11 22 (4.29%) Palo Alto
12 21 (4.09%) Juniper
13 17 (3.31%) SolarWinds
13 17 (3.31%) Symantec
14 14 (2.73%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.73%) Atlassian
14 14 (2.73%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (2.73%) Google
15 12 (2.34%) Splunk
16 11 (2.14%) Ivanti