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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 188 114
Rank change year-on-year +23 -74 -21
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 893 503 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.54% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 16.79% 13.12% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 318 495
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.59% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 3 9
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.40 £21.56
25th Percentile £32.52 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.31 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +111.03% +26.05% -62.22%
75th Percentile £74.63 £48.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £98.19 £59.80 £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £47.25 £36.17
% change year-on-year +41.80% +30.65% -39.73%

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 5,320 3,834 4,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 11.71% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,499 2,421 3,006
10th Percentile £218 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £383 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £602
90th Percentile £675 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 111 130
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +24.07% -51.64%
75th Percentile £74.75 £79.35 £59.58
90th Percentile £88.63 £91.50 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.92 £62.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.54% +127.27% -

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +11 773 £525 -4.55% 465
UK excluding London -2 625 £515 -6.36% 343
South East -6 217 £538 -6.52% 104
London -7 186 £525 +5.00% 169
Work from Home -14 176 £512 -6.91% 174
North of England +5 163 £455 +6.94% 68
Midlands -8 98 £450 -20.00% 45
North West +1 89 £466 +9.53% 29
South West -23 80 £613 +6.52% 56
West Midlands -16 74 £450 -21.40% 26
Yorkshire -18 64 £519 +25.82% 23
East of England -18 41 £500 -9.09% 47
Scotland +4 39 £425 -22.73% 20
East Midlands -2 24 £438 -16.03% 19
Wales - 11 £550 - 4
North East -37 10 £350 -44.00% 20

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 50 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.79%) Confluence
4 13 (1.46%) IIS
5 9 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.78%) JBoss
6 7 (0.78%) nginx
6 7 (0.78%) 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 (0.22%) CICS
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) 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 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.22%) Houdini
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.22%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 249 (27.88%) Azure
2 147 (16.46%) AWS
3 80 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (7.05%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.82%) OpenShift
6 41 (4.59%) GCP
7 37 (4.14%) GitHub
8 29 (3.25%) IaaS
9 23 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.46%) Nutanix
11 21 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.13%) Power Platform
13 17 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 14 (1.57%) PaaS
16 13 (1.46%) Rubrik
16 13 (1.46%) SaaS
17 9 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (1.01%) Azure Stack
18 8 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 283 (31.69%) DNS
2 183 (20.49%) Firewall
3 172 (19.26%) DHCP
4 93 (10.41%) TCP/IP
5 90 (10.08%) VSAN
6 77 (8.62%) VPN
7 69 (7.73%) SAN
7 69 (7.73%) VLAN
8 59 (6.61%) WAN
9 56 (6.27%) Network Security
10 48 (5.38%) SSL
11 47 (5.26%) LAN
12 41 (4.59%) NAS
13 36 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 31 (3.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 30 (3.36%) BGP
16 29 (3.25%) BIG-IP
17 26 (2.91%) HTTP
18 25 (2.80%) Wireshark
19 19 (2.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.90%) Power BI
4 14 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (1.01%) Big Data
7 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.78%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.67%) 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 39 (4.37%) JIRA
2 32 (3.58%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.80%) GitLab
4 23 (2.58%) Git
5 15 (1.68%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.34%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) PVCS
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 206 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 89 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (8.85%) Finance
4 43 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 33 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (3.47%) Legal
7 30 (3.36%) Banking
8 21 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.90%) Retail
14 6 (0.67%) Law
14 6 (0.67%) Military
15 5 (0.56%) Police
16 4 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 215 (24.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 135 (15.12%) Senior
3 102 (11.42%) VMware Engineer
4 80 (8.96%) Architect
5 71 (7.95%) Network Engineer
6 47 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 47 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 46 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 40 (4.48%) Lead
9 39 (4.37%) Consultant
9 39 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 35 (3.92%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 34 (3.81%) Administrator
12 32 (3.58%) Storage Engineer
13 27 (3.02%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 26 (2.91%) Server Engineer
14 26 (2.91%) VMware Consultant
15 24 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (2.58%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (14.67%) Terraform
2 21 (2.35%) REST
3 14 (1.57%) Middleware
4 12 (1.34%) .NET
4 12 (1.34%) JSON
5 10 (1.12%) 802.1X
5 10 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.12%) YAML
6 9 (1.01%) Kafka
7 7 (0.78%) LDAP
8 6 (0.67%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.67%) Redfish
9 5 (0.56%) Flash
9 5 (0.56%) JDBC
9 5 (0.56%) ODBC
9 5 (0.56%) XML
10 3 (0.34%) NETCONF
10 3 (0.34%) OAuth
10 3 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 69 (7.73%) PKI
4 50 (5.60%) Enterprise Storage
5 45 (5.04%) Clustering
6 44 (4.93%) Replication
7 35 (3.92%) Management Information System
8 32 (3.58%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.58%) Public Cloud
9 28 (3.14%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.91%) Cloud Native
11 25 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.34%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.23%) SCADA
16 10 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.01%) Product Ownership
17 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
18 7 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 470 (52.63%) Windows
2 316 (35.39%) Windows Server
3 251 (28.11%) Linux
4 50 (5.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 47 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (3.25%) VMS
7 25 (2.80%) Unix
8 22 (2.46%) Windows 10
9 21 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (2.13%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
13 10 (1.12%) Solaris
14 9 (1.01%) AIX
15 8 (0.90%) CentOS
16 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.67%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.45%) SUSE
18 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (32.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 168 (18.81%) Migration
3 163 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
4 160 (17.92%) ITIL
5 144 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 126 (14.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 114 (12.77%) CI/CD
8 108 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
9 104 (11.65%) High Availability
10 97 (10.86%) Change Management
11 91 (10.19%) DevOps
12 88 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (9.85%) ITSM
13 87 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
14 85 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
15 83 (9.29%) Validation
16 82 (9.18%) Agile
17 79 (8.85%) Service Management
18 76 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
19 75 (8.40%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 212 (23.74%) PowerShell
2 130 (14.56%) Python
3 95 (10.64%) Bash
4 59 (6.61%) SQL
5 24 (2.69%) Java
6 9 (1.01%) Go
7 8 (0.90%) Bicep
8 7 (0.78%) C
8 7 (0.78%) C#
9 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.45%) Perl
11 3 (0.34%) C++
11 3 (0.34%) Lua
11 3 (0.34%) VB
11 3 (0.34%) VBScript
12 2 (0.22%) COBOL
12 2 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 423 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 256 (28.67%) SC Cleared
3 193 (21.61%) DV Cleared
4 66 (7.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 54 (6.05%) Degree
6 44 (4.93%) VCAP
7 43 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (3.36%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.80%) MCSE
11 20 (2.24%) CCNP
12 19 (2.13%) CCNA
13 18 (2.02%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.79%) MCSA
15 14 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
18 7 (0.78%) A+ Certification
18 7 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.02%) SLA
2 19 (2.13%) NIST
3 18 (2.02%) QA
4 17 (1.90%) NCSC
5 16 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.01%) GDPR
8 5 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.45%) GxP
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.22%) DICOM
11 2 (0.22%) ISA99
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.22%) RMADS
12 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 287 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 216 (24.19%) vSphere
3 205 (22.96%) VMware ESXi
4 199 (22.28%) Hyper-V
5 164 (18.37%) VMware NSX
6 88 (9.85%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (6.72%) Docker
8 39 (4.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 37 (4.14%) Firmware
10 20 (2.24%) KVM
11 14 (1.57%) NFS
12 12 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.12%) Ceph
14 9 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.90%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.78%) vCloud
17 6 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.67%) XenApp
17 6 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 184 (20.60%) Ansible
2 153 (17.13%) vCenter Server
3 127 (14.22%) Kubernetes
4 56 (6.27%) SCOM
5 52 (5.82%) SCCM
6 40 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (3.70%) VxRail
8 29 (3.25%) vRealize
9 28 (3.14%) Grafana
10 25 (2.80%) Prometheus
11 21 (2.35%) NetBackup
12 19 (2.13%) PowerCLI
12 19 (2.13%) Puppet
12 19 (2.13%) WSUS
13 17 (1.90%) vMotion
14 15 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.57%) Argo
15 14 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
16 12 (1.34%) Avamar
17 11 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 893 (100.00%) VMware
2 254 (28.44%) Microsoft
3 149 (16.69%) Cisco
4 64 (7.17%) Citrix
5 62 (6.94%) NetApp
5 62 (6.94%) Red Hat
6 51 (5.71%) Dell
7 49 (5.49%) Oracle
8 46 (5.15%) F5
9 43 (4.82%) ServiceNow
10 39 (4.37%) SolarWinds
11 38 (4.26%) Palo Alto
12 32 (3.58%) Veeam
13 28 (3.14%) Juniper
14 23 (2.58%) Fortinet
14 23 (2.58%) IBM
15 22 (2.46%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.13%) CheckPoint
16 19 (2.13%) Splunk
17 18 (2.02%) CyberArk