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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 129 111
Rank change year-on-year -36 -18 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 654 636 936
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.06% 2.08%
As % of the System Software category 14.12% 16.91% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 408 594
10th Percentile £300 £263 £283
25th Percentile £401 £395 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £623 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 65
10th Percentile £36.12 £29.63 £22.17
25th Percentile £67.70 £41.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £100.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £76.56 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £36.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +93.10% -45.06% +1.51%

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 4,631 3,761 5,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 12.18% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,159 2,433 3,569
10th Percentile £205 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +6.19% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 91 254
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.15 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +44.62% -33.71% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72.54 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.11 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.29% -18.80% +92.42%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -34 582 £500 -4.76% 246
UK excluding London -19 460 £488 -7.14% 227
Work from Home -29 174 £500 -4.76% 103
South East -8 148 £500 -9.09% 77
London -79 128 £543 +3.33% 62
Midlands +16 115 £402 -33.77% 34
North of England -33 105 £433 +1.88% 51
West Midlands -1 87 £340 -45.60% 25
North West -8 68 £441 -1.94% 24
South West -40 68 £550 -4.35% 29
Yorkshire -29 46 £393 -12.78% 26
East of England -3 31 £475 +5.09% 14
East Midlands -7 28 £447 -14.86% 9
Scotland +1 17 £464 -6.69% 17
Wales -6 3 £550 +89.66% 7
North East -19 2 £513 +46.43% 3
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 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 34 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.75%) Confluence
4 10 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.07%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.76%) IIS
6 5 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.61%) nginx
8 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.31%) Apache
9 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 194 (29.66%) Azure
2 153 (23.39%) AWS
3 57 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.19%) GCP
5 45 (6.88%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.27%) Entra ID
7 33 (5.05%) Nutanix
8 28 (4.28%) IaaS
9 19 (2.91%) GitHub
10 18 (2.75%) PaaS
11 14 (2.14%) Datadog
12 8 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.92%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.76%) SaaS
15 4 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 191 (29.20%) DNS
2 163 (24.92%) Firewall
3 95 (14.53%) DHCP
4 62 (9.48%) VPN
5 58 (8.87%) TCP/IP
6 49 (7.49%) SAN
7 48 (7.34%) Network Security
8 42 (6.42%) VSAN
9 39 (5.96%) VLAN
10 37 (5.66%) WAN
11 34 (5.20%) LAN
12 33 (5.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 31 (4.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 29 (4.43%) HTTP
15 25 (3.82%) BGP
15 25 (3.82%) BIG-IP
15 25 (3.82%) NAS
16 23 (3.52%) SSL
17 20 (3.06%) Wireless
17 20 (3.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.13%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.92%) Power BI
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) GIS
6 2 (0.31%) Redis
7 1 (0.15%) DataStage
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.67%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.52%) Git
3 22 (3.36%) JIRA
4 16 (2.45%) GitLab
5 14 (2.14%) Fiddler
6 10 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.22%) PVCS
7 8 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.07%) JMeter
8 7 (1.07%) JUnit
9 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.61%) RStudio
10 3 (0.46%) Subversion
11 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.15%) GoCD
12 1 (0.15%) MSI
12 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 162 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.41%) Finance
5 44 (6.73%) Banking
6 38 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.67%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.60%) Legal
9 13 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.22%) Electronics
12 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.07%) Police
13 6 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.76%) Local Government
14 5 (0.76%) Military
15 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 115 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (13.46%) Architect
3 56 (8.56%) Analyst
4 37 (5.66%) Network Engineer
4 37 (5.66%) VMware Engineer
5 35 (5.35%) Consultant
5 35 (5.35%) Senior
6 34 (5.20%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (4.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 30 (4.59%) Support Engineer
8 26 (3.98%) VMware Consultant
9 25 (3.82%) Infrastructure Architect
10 20 (3.06%) Lead
11 19 (2.91%) Storage Analyst
12 18 (2.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.60%) Wintel Engineer
14 16 (2.45%) VMware Architect
15 15 (2.29%) Infrastructure Support
15 15 (2.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 15 (2.29%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.06%) LDAP
2 17 (2.60%) Flash
3 10 (1.53%) SAML
4 8 (1.22%) Kafka
4 8 (1.22%) REST
5 7 (1.07%) Loki
5 7 (1.07%) Spring
6 6 (0.92%) Hibernate
7 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.76%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.61%) Middleware
8 4 (0.61%) OAuth
8 4 (0.61%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.61%) OpenID
9 3 (0.46%) Swagger
10 2 (0.31%) .NET
10 2 (0.31%) Java SE
10 2 (0.31%) OpenLayers
10 2 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (12.69%) Data Centre
2 59 (9.02%) Replication
3 47 (7.19%) PKI
4 40 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (4.74%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.43%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.60%) Clustering
9 16 (2.45%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
11 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.22%) SCADA
14 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.92%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 272 (41.59%) Windows
2 219 (33.49%) Linux
3 161 (24.62%) Windows Server
4 45 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (4.89%) Windows 10
6 27 (4.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (2.45%) Mac OS
10 15 (2.29%) VMS
11 13 (1.99%) Ubuntu
12 10 (1.53%) Solaris
12 10 (1.53%) Unix
13 7 (1.07%) CentOS
14 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.61%) AIX
15 4 (0.61%) CatOS
15 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
17 2 (0.31%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (21.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (15.75%) Migration
4 101 (15.44%) Agile
5 83 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 79 (12.08%) CI/CD
7 75 (11.47%) ITIL
8 74 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (10.70%) DevOps
10 64 (9.79%) High Availability
11 62 (9.48%) Load Balancing
12 56 (8.56%) Containerisation
13 54 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
14 50 (7.65%) Data Protection
15 45 (6.88%) Network Virtualisation
15 45 (6.88%) Service Management
16 44 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
19 38 (5.81%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 161 (24.62%) PowerShell
2 122 (18.65%) Python
3 86 (13.15%) Bash
4 25 (3.82%) SQL
5 17 (2.60%) Perl
6 14 (2.14%) Java
7 12 (1.83%) C
7 12 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.38%) C++
9 7 (1.07%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.07%) Embedded C++
9 7 (1.07%) Go
10 5 (0.76%) Bicep
11 4 (0.61%) C#
11 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.46%) PHP
13 2 (0.31%) Korn
13 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.15%) Rust
14 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 255 (38.99%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.77%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.88%) Degree
4 45 (6.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.43%) Azure Certification
8 27 (4.13%) CCNP
9 18 (2.75%) MCSE
10 17 (2.60%) VCAP
11 14 (2.14%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.99%) CCNA
13 12 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.83%) CCIE
13 12 (1.83%) MCSA
14 11 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.68%) Server+ Certification
15 7 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.91%) GDPR
3 14 (2.14%) NIST
4 9 (1.38%) SLA
5 8 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.92%) QA
7 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 191 (29.20%) Active Directory
2 143 (21.87%) vSphere
3 117 (17.89%) VMware NSX
4 97 (14.83%) Hyper-V
5 80 (12.23%) VMware ESXi
6 58 (8.87%) Docker
7 53 (8.10%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (5.20%) NFS
9 29 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (2.91%) Firmware
11 18 (2.75%) KVM
12 16 (2.45%) GPFS
13 7 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.76%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.61%) vCloud
16 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.46%) Sendmail
16 3 (0.46%) UAG
Systems Management
1 111 (16.97%) Ansible
2 82 (12.54%) Terraform
3 77 (11.77%) vCenter Server
4 67 (10.24%) Kubernetes
5 66 (10.09%) SCCM
6 57 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 55 (8.41%) vRealize
8 26 (3.98%) Grafana
9 23 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (3.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (3.06%) Argo
12 19 (2.91%) VxRail
13 17 (2.60%) vMotion
14 14 (2.14%) FortiGate
14 14 (2.14%) Prometheus
14 14 (2.14%) SCOM
15 13 (1.99%) WSUS
16 11 (1.68%) Progress Chef
17 10 (1.53%) PowerCLI
18 9 (1.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 654 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.61%) Microsoft
3 153 (23.39%) Cisco
4 62 (9.48%) Citrix
4 62 (9.48%) F5
5 58 (8.87%) Red Hat
6 46 (7.03%) SolarWinds
7 42 (6.42%) IBM
7 42 (6.42%) ServiceNow
8 41 (6.27%) Dell
9 40 (6.12%) NetApp
10 35 (5.35%) Oracle
11 34 (5.20%) Veeam
12 28 (4.28%) Palo Alto
13 25 (3.82%) Commvault
14 23 (3.52%) Pure Storage
15 17 (2.60%) Google
16 16 (2.45%) McAfee
17 15 (2.29%) HP
17 15 (2.29%) Juniper