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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 126 120
Rank change year-on-year -52 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 671 653 846
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.22% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 13.99% 17.01% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 437 534
10th Percentile £314 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £411 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 44
10th Percentile £22.75 £39.10 £22.02
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +91.21% -28.79%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £75.31
90th Percentile £74.83 - £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £46.29
% change year-on-year +150.00% -39.51% -28.79%

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 4,796 3,840 4,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 13.08% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,588 3,273
10th Percentile £213 £210 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £596 £624 £600
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £450
% change year-on-year -0.42% +6.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 91 236
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.84 £32.50 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year +34.90% +6.73% -26.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.25 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% +20.41%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -52 595 £500 -9.09% 224
UK excluding London -33 473 £500 -9.09% 219
Work from Home -48 164 £500 -4.76% 102
South East -6 159 £525 -7.37% 81
London -87 133 £550 +4.76% 38
North of England -41 119 £436 +2.59% 54
Midlands -3 108 £397 -27.97% 24
West Midlands -20 87 £340 -43.99% 17
North West -19 72 £436 +2.59% 35
South West -51 60 £550 -4.35% 32
Yorkshire -26 53 £425 -6.08% 17
East of England -15 31 £475 +0.53% 11
East Midlands -22 21 £415 -20.95% 7
Scotland +3 20 £464 +1.92% 15
Wales -12 5 £413 +42.24% 8
North East -16 2 £513 +46.43% 4
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 42 (6.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.24%) Confluence
4 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.75%) nginx
6 4 (0.60%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 196 (29.21%) Azure
2 136 (20.27%) AWS
3 57 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (7.15%) OpenShift
5 47 (7.00%) Entra ID
6 40 (5.96%) GCP
7 31 (4.62%) IaaS
7 31 (4.62%) Nutanix
8 20 (2.98%) PaaS
9 16 (2.38%) GitHub
10 14 (2.09%) Datadog
11 8 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (1.19%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (1.04%) Rubrik
13 6 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.75%) Cohesity
14 5 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 183 (27.27%) DNS
2 171 (25.48%) Firewall
3 93 (13.86%) DHCP
4 73 (10.88%) VPN
5 60 (8.94%) SAN
6 57 (8.49%) VSAN
7 54 (8.05%) TCP/IP
8 50 (7.45%) Network Security
9 48 (7.15%) WAN
10 44 (6.56%) LAN
11 37 (5.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 36 (5.37%) BIG-IP
13 33 (4.92%) HTTP
14 32 (4.77%) SSL
15 31 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 31 (4.62%) NAS
16 29 (4.32%) BGP
16 29 (4.32%) Wireshark
17 27 (4.02%) VLAN
18 23 (3.43%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.04%) Power BI
5 3 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.45%) Redis
6 2 (0.30%) DataStage
6 2 (0.30%) GIS
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.15%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 21 (3.13%) JIRA
3 19 (2.83%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.38%) Git
5 13 (1.94%) GitLab
6 8 (1.19%) PVCS
6 8 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.60%) JMeter
8 4 (0.60%) JUnit
9 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.45%) RStudio
10 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.15%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.15%) GoCD
11 1 (0.15%) MSI
11 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 146 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 65 (9.69%) Public Sector
3 62 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.05%) Finance
5 48 (7.15%) Banking
6 35 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (4.32%) Legal
8 27 (4.02%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.64%) Military
10 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.19%) Electronics
12 7 (1.04%) Police
13 5 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.75%) Local Government
14 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Social Science
16 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (18.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 101 (15.05%) Architect
3 57 (8.49%) Analyst
3 57 (8.49%) Network Engineer
4 46 (6.86%) Senior
5 44 (6.56%) VMware Engineer
6 33 (4.92%) Consultant
7 32 (4.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 32 (4.77%) Infrastructure Architect
8 31 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (3.58%) Lead
9 24 (3.58%) VMware Consultant
10 22 (3.28%) Storage Analyst
10 22 (3.28%) VMware Architect
11 20 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (2.98%) Web Engineer
12 19 (2.83%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 19 (2.83%) IP Network Engineer
12 19 (2.83%) Support Engineer
13 17 (2.53%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.13%) Flash
2 18 (2.68%) LDAP
3 11 (1.64%) SAML
4 8 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.04%) Loki
6 6 (0.89%) Kafka
6 6 (0.89%) Middleware
7 5 (0.75%) REST
7 5 (0.75%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.60%) OAuth
8 4 (0.60%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.60%) OpenID
8 4 (0.60%) Spring
9 3 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.45%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.30%) EJB
10 2 (0.30%) Java SE
10 2 (0.30%) JSP
10 2 (0.30%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.30%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.52%) Data Centre
2 57 (8.49%) Replication
3 46 (6.86%) PKI
4 42 (6.26%) Cloud Native
5 36 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (4.32%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.43%) Private Cloud
8 22 (3.28%) Clustering
9 19 (2.83%) Enterprise Storage
10 17 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.53%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (2.09%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.49%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.49%) SCADA
14 8 (1.19%) Driving Licence
14 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.89%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 285 (42.47%) Windows
2 219 (32.64%) Linux
3 184 (27.42%) Windows Server
4 51 (7.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.28%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (2.68%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.53%) VMS
11 11 (1.64%) Unix
12 10 (1.49%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (1.49%) Mac OS
13 9 (1.34%) Solaris
14 7 (1.04%) CentOS
14 7 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.89%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.60%) AIX
17 4 (0.60%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (23.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 119 (17.73%) Migration
3 109 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (13.71%) Agile
5 85 (12.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (11.92%) High Availability
7 76 (11.33%) CI/CD
8 73 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (10.58%) Load Balancing
10 70 (10.43%) ITIL
11 69 (10.28%) DevOps
12 57 (8.49%) Platform Engineering
13 55 (8.20%) Containerisation
14 54 (8.05%) Data Protection
15 49 (7.30%) Network Virtualisation
16 46 (6.86%) Roadmaps
17 43 (6.41%) Capacity Planning
18 42 (6.26%) Cybersecurity
18 42 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 161 (23.99%) PowerShell
2 114 (16.99%) Python
3 73 (10.88%) Bash
4 18 (2.68%) SQL
5 14 (2.09%) Perl
6 11 (1.64%) C
7 8 (1.19%) C++
8 7 (1.04%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.04%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.04%) Java
9 6 (0.89%) Bicep
9 6 (0.89%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.60%) PHP
10 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.45%) C#
11 3 (0.45%) Go
12 2 (0.30%) COBOL
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 252 (37.56%) Security Cleared
2 171 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 78 (11.62%) DV Cleared
4 44 (6.56%) Degree
5 42 (6.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 31 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (3.28%) CCNP
9 18 (2.68%) VCAP
10 15 (2.24%) MCSE
11 14 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.79%) MCSA
13 11 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.64%) CCNA
14 10 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (1.19%) CCIE
16 7 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (1.04%) OCP
17 6 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.68%) NIST
3 13 (1.94%) GDPR
4 10 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.19%) SLA
6 7 (1.04%) NCSC
7 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.60%) QA
9 2 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.30%) ISA99
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.30%) RMADS
9 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 197 (29.36%) Active Directory
2 165 (24.59%) vSphere
3 135 (20.12%) VMware NSX
4 108 (16.10%) Hyper-V
5 100 (14.90%) VMware ESXi
6 56 (8.35%) Docker
7 53 (7.90%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (5.81%) NFS
9 28 (4.17%) Firmware
10 26 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (2.83%) KVM
12 16 (2.38%) GPFS
13 8 (1.19%) BitLocker
13 8 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.60%) vCloud
15 3 (0.45%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.45%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 114 (16.99%) Ansible
2 86 (12.82%) Terraform
3 81 (12.07%) vCenter Server
4 73 (10.88%) Kubernetes
5 59 (8.79%) SCCM
6 55 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 53 (7.90%) vRealize
8 28 (4.17%) Grafana
9 23 (3.43%) Argo
10 22 (3.28%) VxRail
11 21 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
12 19 (2.83%) vMotion
13 18 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (2.38%) PowerCLI
15 15 (2.24%) FortiGate
16 14 (2.09%) Prometheus
17 13 (1.94%) Progress Chef
17 13 (1.94%) SCOM
18 12 (1.79%) Puppet
19 11 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 671 (100.00%) VMware
2 172 (25.63%) Microsoft
3 142 (21.16%) Cisco
4 64 (9.54%) F5
5 62 (9.24%) Citrix
5 62 (9.24%) Red Hat
6 52 (7.75%) NetApp
7 44 (6.56%) IBM
8 43 (6.41%) ServiceNow
9 41 (6.11%) Dell
10 38 (5.66%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.92%) Palo Alto
12 31 (4.62%) Pure Storage
13 30 (4.47%) Oracle
14 28 (4.17%) Commvault
15 26 (3.87%) Veeam
16 23 (3.43%) McAfee
17 20 (2.98%) Blue Coat
18 18 (2.68%) HP
19 17 (2.53%) Juniper