VMFS Contract Job Trends

VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 636 523 -
Rank change year-on-year -113 - -
Contract jobs citing VMFS 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.003% -
As % of the System Software category 0.020% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 £610 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £620 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.97% - -
75th Percentile £495 £630 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,880 3,641 4,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 12.42% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,482 3,192
10th Percentile £213 £214 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £590 £618 £600
90th Percentile £681 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £460
% change year-on-year -0.11% +3.37% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 90 233
10th Percentile £16.33 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.73 £15.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £27.97 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.49% +24.31% -58.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £91.50 £88.00 £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £28.50 £20.98
% change year-on-year +84.21% +35.88% -53.31%

VMFS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMFS job vacancy trend in the UK

VMFS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VMFS
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

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 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
UK excluding London - 1 £490 - 1
Wales - 1 £490 - 1

VMFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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