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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 194 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 -85 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 888 498 824
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.52% 2.12%
As % of the System Software category 16.68% 13.00% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 314 512
10th Percentile £321 £330 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.40 £21.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +110.45% +0.06% -52.41%
75th Percentile £74.00 £48.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £59.80 £71.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £47.25 £43.08
% change year-on-year +41.80% +9.67% -28.20%

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 5,323 3,831 4,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 11.71% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 2,424 3,026
10th Percentile £220 £227 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 110 139
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £24.19 £18.87 £16.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +75.24% +29.80% -51.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.68 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £71.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £63.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -5.51% +159.18% -9.26%

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 26 August 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 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 16 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 26 August 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 +17 773 £519 -5.64% 305
UK excluding London -2 616 £515 -6.36% 222
South East -5 215 £538 -6.52% 66
London -2 191 £525 - 106
Work from Home -20 174 £510 -7.27% 115
North of England -1 166 £450 +5.88% 40
Midlands -7 96 £450 -19.10% 30
North West +8 91 £466 +9.53% 21
South West -34 77 £613 +6.52% 48
West Midlands -23 74 £450 -21.40% 18
Yorkshire -22 66 £500 +16.35% 11
East of England -21 39 £500 -9.09% 29
Scotland +5 37 £438 -20.45% 15
East Midlands -5 22 £425 -18.43% 12
Wales -4 11 £550 - 2
North East -34 9 £350 -44.00% 10

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 49 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.58%) Confluence
4 13 (1.46%) IIS
5 9 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.79%) JBoss
6 7 (0.79%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.23%) Houdini
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.23%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 245 (27.59%) Azure
2 149 (16.78%) AWS
3 80 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (6.53%) Entra ID
5 42 (4.73%) GCP
5 42 (4.73%) OpenShift
6 35 (3.94%) GitHub
7 30 (3.38%) IaaS
8 23 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (2.59%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.14%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (1.80%) PaaS
11 16 (1.80%) Rubrik
12 15 (1.69%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.58%) SaaS
14 9 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.01%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 279 (31.42%) DNS
2 184 (20.72%) Firewall
3 171 (19.26%) DHCP
4 92 (10.36%) VSAN
5 90 (10.14%) TCP/IP
6 78 (8.78%) VPN
7 67 (7.55%) SAN
7 67 (7.55%) VLAN
8 62 (6.98%) WAN
9 58 (6.53%) Network Security
10 49 (5.52%) SSL
11 48 (5.41%) LAN
12 40 (4.50%) NAS
13 37 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 32 (3.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 31 (3.49%) BIG-IP
16 29 (3.27%) BGP
17 27 (3.04%) HTTP
18 26 (2.93%) Wireshark
19 20 (2.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.91%) Power BI
4 14 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (1.01%) Big Data
7 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.79%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.68%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.34%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 38 (4.28%) JIRA
2 31 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.59%) GitLab
4 20 (2.25%) Git
5 16 (1.80%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.45%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.23%) CppUnit
9 2 (0.23%) MSI
9 2 (0.23%) PVCS
9 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.23%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 204 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 86 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (9.12%) Finance
4 45 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.17%) Banking
6 33 (3.72%) Legal
7 31 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.91%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.90%) Retail
14 7 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.79%) Military
15 6 (0.68%) Law
16 5 (0.56%) Police
17 4 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 210 (23.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 128 (14.41%) Senior
3 99 (11.15%) VMware Engineer
4 80 (9.01%) Architect
5 73 (8.22%) Network Engineer
6 48 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 42 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (4.50%) Consultant
8 40 (4.50%) Lead
8 40 (4.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
10 36 (4.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 34 (3.83%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 34 (3.83%) Storage Engineer
12 32 (3.60%) Administrator
13 27 (3.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 26 (2.93%) VMware Consultant
15 25 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
16 24 (2.70%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.19%) Terraform
2 18 (2.03%) REST
3 14 (1.58%) Middleware
4 12 (1.35%) JSON
5 11 (1.24%) .NET
6 10 (1.13%) 802.1X
6 10 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (1.01%) YAML
8 8 (0.90%) Flash
8 8 (0.90%) Kafka
9 7 (0.79%) LDAP
10 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (0.68%) Redfish
11 5 (0.56%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.56%) JDBC
11 5 (0.56%) ODBC
11 5 (0.56%) XML
12 3 (0.34%) Java SE
12 3 (0.34%) NETCONF
12 3 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (15.09%) Data Centre
2 70 (7.88%) PKI
3 68 (7.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (6.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (5.29%) Clustering
5 47 (5.29%) Replication
6 34 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.38%) Public Cloud
8 28 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.15%) Private Cloud
9 26 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (2.70%) Cloud Native
11 19 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.35%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.24%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.24%) SCADA
15 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 466 (52.48%) Windows
2 308 (34.68%) Windows Server
3 255 (28.72%) Linux
4 48 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 47 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (3.38%) VMS
7 24 (2.70%) Windows 10
7 24 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (2.59%) Unix
9 21 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.03%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (1.46%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.01%) Solaris
14 8 (0.90%) AIX
14 8 (0.90%) CentOS
15 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.68%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.45%) SUSE
17 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (31.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 165 (18.58%) Migration
3 161 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (16.89%) ITIL
5 136 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (13.96%) Disaster Recovery
7 110 (12.39%) High Availability
8 109 (12.27%) CI/CD
9 105 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
10 93 (10.47%) Change Management
11 89 (10.02%) DevOps
12 84 (9.46%) Agile
12 84 (9.46%) ITSM
12 84 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
12 84 (9.46%) Validation
13 83 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (9.35%) Network Virtualisation
14 76 (8.56%) Service Management
15 75 (8.45%) Project Delivery
16 70 (7.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 208 (23.42%) PowerShell
2 131 (14.75%) Python
3 92 (10.36%) Bash
4 54 (6.08%) SQL
5 24 (2.70%) Java
6 9 (1.01%) Go
7 7 (0.79%) Bicep
7 7 (0.79%) C
8 6 (0.68%) C#
8 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.45%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.45%) Perl
9 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.34%) C++
10 3 (0.34%) Lua
10 3 (0.34%) VB
10 3 (0.34%) VBScript
11 2 (0.23%) COBOL
11 2 (0.23%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 411 (46.28%) Security Cleared
2 250 (28.15%) SC Cleared
3 187 (21.06%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (5.86%) Degree
6 44 (4.95%) VCAP
7 40 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.27%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.82%) MCSE
11 20 (2.25%) CCNP
12 19 (2.14%) CCNA
13 16 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.80%) MCSA
14 14 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.79%) A+ Certification
16 7 (0.79%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.04%) SLA
2 19 (2.14%) NIST
3 17 (1.91%) QA
4 16 (1.80%) NCSC
5 15 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.01%) GDPR
7 5 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.45%) GxP
9 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.23%) DICOM
10 2 (0.23%) ISA99
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.23%) RMADS
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 283 (31.87%) Active Directory
2 215 (24.21%) vSphere
3 203 (22.86%) VMware ESXi
4 192 (21.62%) Hyper-V
5 166 (18.69%) VMware NSX
6 89 (10.02%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (6.53%) Docker
8 40 (4.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (4.05%) Firmware
10 20 (2.25%) KVM
11 18 (2.03%) NFS
12 12 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.13%) Ceph
13 10 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.01%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.79%) GPFS
16 7 (0.79%) vCloud
16 7 (0.79%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 182 (20.50%) Ansible
2 154 (17.34%) vCenter Server
3 122 (13.74%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.08%) SCCM
5 50 (5.63%) SCOM
6 41 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (3.94%) VxRail
8 33 (3.72%) vRealize
9 26 (2.93%) Grafana
10 23 (2.59%) Prometheus
11 21 (2.36%) NetBackup
12 19 (2.14%) PowerCLI
12 19 (2.14%) Puppet
12 19 (2.14%) WSUS
13 17 (1.91%) vMotion
14 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.58%) Argo
16 13 (1.46%) Avamar
16 13 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
17 11 (1.24%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 888 (100.00%) VMware
2 251 (28.27%) Microsoft
3 148 (16.67%) Cisco
4 67 (7.55%) Citrix
5 65 (7.32%) NetApp
6 60 (6.76%) Red Hat
7 49 (5.52%) Oracle
8 48 (5.41%) Dell
8 48 (5.41%) F5
9 44 (4.95%) ServiceNow
10 38 (4.28%) Palo Alto
11 37 (4.17%) SolarWinds
12 31 (3.49%) Veeam
13 30 (3.38%) Juniper
14 25 (2.82%) IBM
15 24 (2.70%) Fortinet
16 20 (2.25%) Broadcom
17 19 (2.14%) CheckPoint
18 18 (2.03%) McAfee
18 18 (2.03%) Splunk