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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 157 120
Rank change year-on-year -23 -37 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 770 549 820
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.79% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 15.34% 14.78% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 367 528
10th Percentile £325 £329 £299
25th Percentile £425 £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -4.03%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £22.63 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £48.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% -36.74%
75th Percentile £72.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £71.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.22%

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 5,020 3,714 4,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 12.14% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,327 2,424 3,283
10th Percentile £216 £225 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 87 220
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.49 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +16.72% -55.03%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £59.20
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.85 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £41.45 £24.34
% change year-on-year +23.04% +70.30% -27.34%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -21 667 £500 -9.09% 183
UK excluding London -28 533 £500 -9.09% 172
South East -4 184 £538 -6.93% 58
Work from Home -33 159 £500 -4.76% 67
London -58 155 £500 -4.76% 36
North of England -5 146 £460 +8.24% 34
Midlands -19 95 £450 -18.18% 30
North West -1 73 £458 +7.65% 24
Yorkshire -17 71 £488 +2.63% 7
West Midlands -22 70 £438 -33.41% 16
South West -53 58 £539 -6.30% 22
East of England -34 32 £475 -13.64% 20
Scotland -8 31 £450 -0.55% 7
East Midlands -5 25 £450 -18.18% 14
Wales -8 10 £538 +85.34% 9
North East -37 2 £588 +67.86% 3

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 43 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.69%) IIS
4 10 (1.30%) nginx
4 10 (1.30%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.91%) Confluence
6 6 (0.78%) Apache
6 6 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.52%) CICS
8 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (28.83%) Azure
2 132 (17.14%) AWS
3 55 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.49%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.10%) OpenShift
6 40 (5.19%) GCP
7 29 (3.77%) GitHub
8 27 (3.51%) Nutanix
9 21 (2.73%) IaaS
10 15 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.82%) PaaS
12 12 (1.56%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.43%) Rubrik
14 10 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.04%) SaaS
17 7 (0.91%) Azure Stack
18 6 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
18 6 (0.78%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 207 (26.88%) DNS
2 148 (19.22%) Firewall
3 119 (15.45%) DHCP
4 84 (10.91%) SAN
5 74 (9.61%) WAN
6 69 (8.96%) VPN
7 67 (8.70%) VSAN
8 60 (7.79%) LAN
9 52 (6.75%) Network Security
10 49 (6.36%) TCP/IP
11 47 (6.10%) NAS
12 46 (5.97%) SSL
13 43 (5.58%) VLAN
14 31 (4.03%) HTTP
15 29 (3.77%) BGP
15 29 (3.77%) BIG-IP
16 27 (3.51%) Wireshark
17 26 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 25 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
18 25 (3.25%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.30%) Power BI
4 9 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.04%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.52%) DataStage
8 4 (0.52%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.39%) Big Data
9 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.39%) GIS
9 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
10 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 33 (4.29%) JIRA
2 32 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.21%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.08%) GitLab
5 13 (1.69%) Git
6 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.26%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) GoCD
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) PVCS
8 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 162 (21.04%) Social Skills
2 55 (7.14%) Finance
3 52 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (6.75%) Public Sector
4 35 (4.55%) Banking
5 33 (4.29%) Legal
6 27 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.30%) Police
10 9 (1.17%) Military
11 7 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.91%) Retail
12 6 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.78%) Law
12 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.65%) Local Government
14 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 168 (21.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (12.08%) Architect
3 78 (10.13%) Senior
4 72 (9.35%) VMware Engineer
5 69 (8.96%) Network Engineer
6 41 (5.32%) Consultant
7 33 (4.29%) Support Engineer
8 28 (3.64%) Lead
9 27 (3.51%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 27 (3.51%) VMware Consultant
10 26 (3.38%) Infrastructure Architect
10 26 (3.38%) Storage Engineer
11 25 (3.25%) Analyst
12 24 (3.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 24 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (2.86%) Administrator
14 22 (2.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 22 (2.86%) Wintel Engineer
15 21 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.08%) Flash
1 16 (2.08%) LDAP
2 11 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.30%) REST
4 8 (1.04%) Middleware
5 7 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (0.91%) SAML
6 6 (0.78%) .NET
6 6 (0.78%) Redfish
7 5 (0.65%) JSON
8 4 (0.52%) Java SE
8 4 (0.52%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.52%) XML
9 3 (0.39%) EJB
9 3 (0.39%) JSP
9 3 (0.39%) YAML
10 2 (0.26%) OAuth
10 2 (0.26%) OpenID
10 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.16%) Data Centre
2 64 (8.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (7.27%) Replication
4 53 (6.88%) PKI
5 42 (5.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 34 (4.42%) Clustering
7 32 (4.16%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.25%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.99%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (2.60%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.56%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.56%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.04%) EMC VMAX
15 8 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 376 (48.83%) Windows
2 257 (33.38%) Windows Server
3 224 (29.09%) Linux
4 50 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (6.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.25%) VMS
6 25 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.47%) Data ONTAP
7 19 (2.47%) Windows 10
8 18 (2.34%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.34%) Unix
9 16 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.95%) Solaris
11 11 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.04%) CentOS
12 8 (1.04%) CoreOS
13 6 (0.78%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.65%) AIX
15 4 (0.52%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (28.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 159 (20.65%) Migration
3 115 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (13.77%) High Availability
5 102 (13.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 95 (12.34%) ITIL
7 86 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 75 (9.74%) DevOps
10 72 (9.35%) Agile
11 69 (8.96%) Validation
12 64 (8.31%) Change Management
13 63 (8.18%) Capacity Planning
13 63 (8.18%) Network Virtualisation
14 61 (7.92%) Load Balancing
15 55 (7.14%) Data Protection
15 55 (7.14%) ITSM
16 53 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (6.75%) Platform Engineering
18 51 (6.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (21.56%) PowerShell
2 107 (13.90%) Python
3 58 (7.53%) Bash
4 36 (4.68%) SQL
5 9 (1.17%) Java
5 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.65%) Bicep
7 5 (0.65%) Go
7 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.52%) C
8 4 (0.52%) COBOL
8 4 (0.52%) PHP
9 3 (0.39%) Perl
10 2 (0.26%) C#
10 2 (0.26%) C++
10 2 (0.26%) VBScript
11 1 (0.13%) Korn
11 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 327 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 207 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 135 (17.53%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (5.58%) Degree
6 37 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (4.03%) VCAP
9 26 (3.38%) MCSE
10 22 (2.86%) CCNP
11 21 (2.73%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (2.34%) MCSA
14 16 (2.08%) CCNA
15 11 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
16 10 (1.30%) OCP
17 8 (1.04%) AWS Certification
18 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.91%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.38%) NIST
2 24 (3.12%) SLA
3 20 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.95%) NCSC
6 7 (0.91%) QA
7 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.39%) GDPR
11 2 (0.26%) DICOM
11 2 (0.26%) ISA99
11 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) RMADS
12 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 235 (30.52%) Active Directory
2 186 (24.16%) VMware ESXi
2 186 (24.16%) vSphere
3 157 (20.39%) VMware NSX
4 153 (19.87%) Hyper-V
5 96 (12.47%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (5.19%) Docker
7 37 (4.81%) Firmware
7 37 (4.81%) NFS
8 36 (4.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 29 (3.77%) KVM
10 12 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
11 11 (1.43%) GPFS
11 11 (1.43%) vCloud
12 10 (1.30%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
14 6 (0.78%) Ceph
14 6 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.65%) SRDF
16 4 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 150 (19.48%) Ansible
2 131 (17.01%) vCenter Server
3 86 (11.17%) Terraform
4 84 (10.91%) Kubernetes
5 45 (5.84%) SCCM
6 40 (5.19%) vRealize
7 38 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.77%) Grafana
8 29 (3.77%) SCOM
9 27 (3.51%) vMotion
10 20 (2.60%) Argo
10 20 (2.60%) PowerCLI
11 19 (2.47%) VxRail
12 15 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (1.95%) WSUS
13 14 (1.82%) Prometheus
13 14 (1.82%) SnapMirror
14 13 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
14 13 (1.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 770 (100.00%) VMware
2 201 (26.10%) Microsoft
3 153 (19.87%) Cisco
4 63 (8.18%) Citrix
5 60 (7.79%) NetApp
6 56 (7.27%) Red Hat
7 48 (6.23%) Dell
8 41 (5.32%) F5
8 41 (5.32%) Oracle
9 38 (4.94%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.55%) Palo Alto
11 31 (4.03%) Pure Storage
12 30 (3.90%) Juniper
13 28 (3.64%) Veeam
14 26 (3.38%) IBM
14 26 (3.38%) SolarWinds
15 23 (2.99%) CheckPoint
16 21 (2.73%) Commvault
17 20 (2.60%) McAfee
18 19 (2.47%) Fortinet