VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 124 124
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 713 641 837
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.20% 1.89%
As % of the System Software category 14.67% 16.85% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 436 535
10th Percentile £318 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.03%
75th Percentile £590 £623 £598
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.92% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 39
10th Percentile £45.20 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £56.32 £37.25 £38.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +0.69% -28.95%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £75.83 £61.30 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -33.52%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,860 3,805 4,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 13.09% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 2,597 3,273
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £595 £624 £600
90th Percentile £688 £706 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +0.42% +3.26% -3.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 91 226
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £15.82
Median hourly rate £49.36 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% +16.00% -49.49%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £85.70 £86.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £26.08
% change year-on-year +33.33% +43.82% -3.39%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 March 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
England -52 627 £505 -8.18% 258
UK excluding London -35 506 £500 -9.09% 236
Work from Home -46 171 £505 -3.81% 96
South East -13 164 £535 -6.43% 71
London -90 137 £528 -4.09% 44
North of England -34 127 £445 +7.23% 71
Midlands -3 119 £400 -26.30% 28
West Midlands -1 95 £340 -38.29% 18
North West -12 77 £445 +4.71% 46
South West -56 57 £550 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire -28 55 £425 -6.59% 22
East of England -15 39 £475 +1.17% 25
Scotland +2 25 £464 +1.92% 7
East Midlands -26 24 £415 +0.61% 10
Wales -13 5 £413 +42.24% 9
North East -15 2 £513 +46.43% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

VMware Infrastructure
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:

Application Platforms
1 41 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.24%) Confluence
4 7 (0.98%) nginx
5 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.42%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 211 (29.59%) Azure
2 149 (20.90%) AWS
3 59 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (7.15%) OpenShift
5 48 (6.73%) Entra ID
6 42 (5.89%) GCP
7 33 (4.63%) IaaS
8 28 (3.93%) Nutanix
9 21 (2.95%) GitHub
10 20 (2.81%) PaaS
11 15 (2.10%) Datadog
12 11 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (1.26%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.12%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.84%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 188 (26.37%) DNS
2 176 (24.68%) Firewall
3 94 (13.18%) DHCP
4 78 (10.94%) VPN
5 69 (9.68%) VSAN
6 65 (9.12%) SAN
7 55 (7.71%) WAN
8 53 (7.43%) TCP/IP
9 51 (7.15%) Network Security
10 49 (6.87%) LAN
11 39 (5.47%) SSL
12 38 (5.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 37 (5.19%) BIG-IP
14 35 (4.91%) NAS
15 34 (4.77%) HTTP
16 32 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 32 (4.49%) VLAN
17 30 (4.21%) BGP
17 30 (4.21%) Wireshark
18 24 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.98%) Power BI
5 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
5 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.28%) DataStage
6 2 (0.28%) GIS
6 2 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.14%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 34 (4.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (2.81%) Fiddler
2 20 (2.81%) JIRA
3 15 (2.10%) Git
4 13 (1.82%) GitLab
5 8 (1.12%) PVCS
5 8 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.56%) JMeter
7 4 (0.56%) JUnit
8 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.28%) RStudio
10 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.14%) GoCD
10 1 (0.14%) MSI
10 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 157 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 69 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 60 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.85%) Finance
5 49 (6.87%) Banking
6 34 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (4.35%) Legal
8 27 (3.79%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.40%) Military
10 10 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.12%) Electronics
12 7 (0.98%) Police
13 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.70%) Local Government
15 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (17.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 108 (15.15%) Architect
3 59 (8.27%) Network Engineer
4 57 (7.99%) Senior
5 56 (7.85%) Analyst
6 52 (7.29%) VMware Engineer
7 33 (4.63%) Consultant
7 33 (4.63%) Infrastructure Architect
8 31 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 30 (4.21%) Lead
10 29 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (3.09%) Storage Analyst
11 22 (3.09%) VMware Architect
11 22 (3.09%) VMware Consultant
12 21 (2.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (2.95%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 21 (2.95%) Web Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) IP Network Engineer
14 17 (2.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.95%) Flash
2 18 (2.52%) LDAP
3 12 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.54%) SAML
5 7 (0.98%) Loki
5 7 (0.98%) Middleware
6 6 (0.84%) Kafka
7 5 (0.70%) REST
7 5 (0.70%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.56%) OAuth
8 4 (0.56%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.56%) OpenID
8 4 (0.56%) Spring
9 3 (0.42%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.28%) EJB
10 2 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.28%) Java SE
10 2 (0.28%) JSP
10 2 (0.28%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.28%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.92%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.84%) Replication
3 48 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 47 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 46 (6.45%) PKI
6 32 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (4.35%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.65%) Clustering
9 25 (3.51%) Private Cloud
10 20 (2.81%) Enterprise Storage
10 20 (2.81%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (2.10%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.82%) SCADA
14 11 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.40%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.40%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
17 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 301 (42.22%) Windows
2 237 (33.24%) Linux
3 191 (26.79%) Windows Server
4 59 (8.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (5.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (3.23%) Windows 10
8 22 (3.09%) VMS
9 18 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.38%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.82%) Data ONTAP
12 11 (1.54%) Solaris
13 10 (1.40%) Mac OS
14 9 (1.26%) Unix
15 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.84%) CentOS
16 6 (0.84%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.56%) AIX
17 4 (0.56%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (23.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 133 (18.65%) Migration
3 114 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 92 (12.90%) Agile
6 91 (12.76%) High Availability
7 84 (11.78%) CI/CD
8 81 (11.36%) Load Balancing
9 80 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (10.80%) DevOps
11 72 (10.10%) ITIL
12 60 (8.42%) Containerisation
13 59 (8.27%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (7.99%) Network Virtualisation
15 54 (7.57%) Data Protection
16 50 (7.01%) Roadmaps
17 48 (6.73%) Capacity Planning
18 46 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
19 45 (6.31%) Change Management
19 45 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 166 (23.28%) PowerShell
2 118 (16.55%) Python
3 80 (11.22%) Bash
4 23 (3.23%) SQL
5 12 (1.68%) Perl
6 11 (1.54%) C
7 9 (1.26%) C++
7 9 (1.26%) Java
7 9 (1.26%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.98%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.98%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.84%) Bicep
10 4 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.56%) PHP
10 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.42%) C#
11 3 (0.42%) Go
12 2 (0.28%) COBOL
12 2 (0.28%) Korn
12 2 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 273 (38.29%) Security Cleared
2 184 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 89 (12.48%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 44 (6.17%) Degree
6 29 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (3.51%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.37%) VCAP
9 21 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.66%) CCNP
12 15 (2.10%) MCSE
13 13 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
14 11 (1.54%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.54%) MCSA
15 10 (1.40%) OCP
16 9 (1.26%) CCNA
17 8 (1.12%) CCIE
18 7 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.81%) NIST
3 14 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.82%) GDPR
5 11 (1.54%) SLA
6 9 (1.26%) NCSC
7 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) QA
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.28%) ISA99
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.28%) RMADS
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.14%) DICOM
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 195 (27.35%) Active Directory
2 180 (25.25%) vSphere
3 154 (21.60%) VMware NSX
4 116 (16.27%) Hyper-V
4 116 (16.27%) VMware ESXi
5 62 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
6 57 (7.99%) Docker
7 40 (5.61%) NFS
8 32 (4.49%) Firmware
9 27 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
10 18 (2.52%) KVM
11 16 (2.24%) GPFS
12 8 (1.12%) BitLocker
12 8 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.56%) vCloud
15 3 (0.42%) Ceph
15 3 (0.42%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.42%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 125 (17.53%) Ansible
2 92 (12.90%) Terraform
2 92 (12.90%) vCenter Server
3 77 (10.80%) Kubernetes
4 60 (8.42%) SCCM
5 56 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 53 (7.43%) vRealize
7 31 (4.35%) Grafana
8 27 (3.79%) Argo
9 24 (3.37%) VxRail
10 21 (2.95%) PowerCLI
10 21 (2.95%) vMotion
11 19 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (1.96%) Prometheus
14 13 (1.82%) Progress Chef
14 13 (1.82%) SCOM
15 12 (1.68%) WSUS
16 11 (1.54%) FortiGate
17 10 (1.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 713 (100.00%) VMware
2 172 (24.12%) Microsoft
3 146 (20.48%) Cisco
4 66 (9.26%) Red Hat
5 65 (9.12%) F5
6 63 (8.84%) Citrix
7 57 (7.99%) NetApp
8 46 (6.45%) IBM
9 43 (6.03%) Dell
10 40 (5.61%) ServiceNow
11 36 (5.05%) Oracle
11 36 (5.05%) Pure Storage
11 36 (5.05%) SolarWinds
12 35 (4.91%) Palo Alto
13 28 (3.93%) Commvault
14 24 (3.37%) McAfee
14 24 (3.37%) Veeam
15 21 (2.95%) Blue Coat
15 21 (2.95%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.66%) HP