VMware Infrastructure Contracts

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 129 110
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 +25
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 581 784 1,368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.99% 1.80% 2.29%
As % of the System Software category 15.86% 16.71% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 504 954
10th Percentile £313 £272 £319
25th Percentile £425 £377 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.68% +15.26%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +9.78% -4.57% +17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 34 77
10th Percentile £31.70 £22.08 £46.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £37.63 £59.80
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% -38.08% +30.21%
75th Percentile £55.75 £67.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £61.30 £86.13 £82.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £43.22 £63.23
% change year-on-year -35.21% -31.65% +33.12%

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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 16 Contract 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 April 2025. 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 -13 505 £550 +10.00% 433
UK excluding London -7 375 £550 +9.78% 352
Work from Home +29 162 £525 +10.53% 248
London -6 151 £525 +5.00% 106
South West +35 100 £575 +6.98% 59
South East -21 100 £575 +15.00% 93
North of England +7 72 £400 +14.29% 85
Midlands +33 52 £550 - 71
North West +6 42 £425 +30.77% 41
West Midlands +24 38 £551 +0.18% 37
Scotland -1 29 £465 -0.54% 17
Yorkshire +3 26 £405 +8.72% 34
East of England +24 20 £473 -27.31% 25
East Midlands +14 14 £543 -1.32% 34
Wales +8 8 £290 +1.75% 7
North East -3 5 £350 -39.13% 13

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 75 (12.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (9.12%) SharePoint
3 34 (5.85%) Confluence
4 10 (1.72%) IIS
5 9 (1.55%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.86%) Apache
7 4 (0.69%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 50 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 173 (29.78%) Azure
2 108 (18.59%) AWS
3 102 (17.56%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (9.29%) IaaS
5 47 (8.09%) OpenShift
6 45 (7.75%) Entra ID
7 40 (6.88%) PaaS
8 38 (6.54%) SaaS
9 29 (4.99%) GCP
10 25 (4.30%) OneDrive
11 18 (3.10%) Nutanix
12 16 (2.75%) GitHub
13 11 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.03%) Azure Stack
16 4 (0.69%) Amazon S3
16 4 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 4 (0.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 122 (21.00%) DNS
2 110 (18.93%) Firewall
3 89 (15.32%) DHCP
4 62 (10.67%) TCP/IP
5 50 (8.61%) VPN
6 49 (8.43%) Network Security
7 46 (7.92%) SAN
8 42 (7.23%) VSAN
9 38 (6.54%) WAN
10 35 (6.02%) LAN
11 32 (5.51%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (5.16%) VLAN
13 28 (4.82%) VoIP
14 27 (4.65%) BGP
15 26 (4.48%) NAS
15 26 (4.48%) OSPF
16 19 (3.27%) HTTP
17 18 (3.10%) Cisco IOS
17 18 (3.10%) Intrusion Detection
18 17 (2.93%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 14 (2.41%) Oracle Database
4 12 (2.07%) Big Data
5 11 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.38%) Couchbase
7 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.69%) MySQL
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.52%) OLTP
9 3 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.34%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.34%) Power BI
10 2 (0.34%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (6.88%) JIRA
2 33 (5.68%) Git
2 33 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.10%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.55%) GitLab
5 8 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (1.20%) Subversion
7 6 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.34%) MSI
9 2 (0.34%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.17%) Introscope
10 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.17%) Newman
10 1 (0.17%) Serena SBM
10 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 133 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 61 (10.50%) Finance
4 40 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 21 (3.61%) Legal
7 20 (3.44%) Banking
8 11 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.03%) Military
12 5 (0.86%) Law
13 4 (0.69%) Marketing
14 3 (0.52%) Billing
14 3 (0.52%) Electronics
15 2 (0.34%) Advertising
15 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (19.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 89 (15.32%) Architect
3 44 (7.57%) Senior
3 44 (7.57%) VMware Engineer
4 39 (6.71%) Support Engineer
5 35 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
6 31 (5.34%) Consultant
7 30 (5.16%) Network Engineer
8 26 (4.48%) Infrastructure Architect
9 24 (4.13%) Lead
9 24 (4.13%) Technical Architect
10 23 (3.96%) Administrator
11 21 (3.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 19 (3.27%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 17 (2.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (2.93%) VMware Architect
13 17 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.75%) REST
2 14 (2.41%) Flash
3 12 (2.07%) Kafka
4 11 (1.89%) SOAP
5 9 (1.55%) .NET
6 7 (1.20%) Middleware
7 6 (1.03%) ASP.NET
8 5 (0.86%) HTML
8 5 (0.86%) LDAP
8 5 (0.86%) Loki
8 5 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (0.86%) SAML
8 5 (0.86%) Spine.js
9 4 (0.69%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.69%) CSS
9 4 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (0.52%) React
11 2 (0.34%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.32%) Data Centre
2 44 (7.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (7.06%) Clustering
4 38 (6.54%) PKI
5 29 (4.99%) Data Protection Act
6 28 (4.82%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.96%) Video Conferencing
8 16 (2.75%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.41%) Replication
10 12 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.89%) Blackberry
11 11 (1.89%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.38%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (1.20%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.20%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.03%) Product Ownership
16 5 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 287 (49.40%) Windows
2 183 (31.50%) Linux
3 179 (30.81%) Windows Server
4 62 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (9.29%) Windows 10
6 45 (7.75%) Unix
7 37 (6.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (5.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (3.44%) CentOS
11 16 (2.75%) Ubuntu
12 13 (2.24%) AIX
12 13 (2.24%) Solaris
13 12 (2.07%) VMS
14 8 (1.38%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (1.03%) Android
15 6 (1.03%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.86%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.69%) HPUX
17 4 (0.69%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (24.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (14.80%) Agile
4 84 (14.46%) Migration
5 81 (13.94%) High Availability
6 73 (12.56%) ITIL
7 66 (11.36%) Service Management
8 61 (10.50%) DevOps
9 55 (9.47%) Containerisation
10 48 (8.26%) CI/CD
11 45 (7.75%) Roadmaps
12 44 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
12 44 (7.57%) Network Virtualisation
13 39 (6.71%) Validation
14 38 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (6.20%) Customer Service
15 36 (6.20%) Disaster Recovery
16 35 (6.02%) ITSM
16 35 (6.02%) Project Delivery
17 34 (5.85%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 130 (22.38%) PowerShell
2 108 (18.59%) Python
3 57 (9.81%) Bash
4 41 (7.06%) SQL
5 21 (3.61%) Java
6 20 (3.44%) Shell Script
7 18 (3.10%) Perl
8 11 (1.89%) VBScript
9 7 (1.20%) C#
9 7 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.86%) Erlang
10 5 (0.86%) Prolog
10 5 (0.86%) VB
11 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.52%) Scala
12 2 (0.34%) C
12 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.17%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.17%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 258 (44.41%) Security Cleared
2 180 (30.98%) SC Cleared
3 90 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 80 (13.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 64 (11.02%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (8.26%) CCNP
7 46 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (7.40%) Degree
9 28 (4.82%) MCSE
10 20 (3.44%) Azure Certification
10 20 (3.44%) CCNA
11 15 (2.58%) Oracle Certification
12 14 (2.41%) Master's Degree
13 12 (2.07%) CCIE
13 12 (2.07%) RHCE
14 11 (1.89%) OCA
15 10 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (1.72%) RHCA
16 9 (1.55%) VCAP
17 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.27%) SLA
2 18 (3.10%) NIST
3 15 (2.58%) NCSC
4 13 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.89%) GDPR
6 7 (1.20%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.86%) QA
8 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 199 (34.25%) Active Directory
2 101 (17.38%) vSphere
3 94 (16.18%) VMware ESXi
4 93 (16.01%) Hyper-V
5 87 (14.97%) VMware NSX
6 71 (12.22%) Docker
7 34 (5.85%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (2.58%) Microsoft App-V
10 14 (2.41%) BitLocker
11 13 (2.24%) NFS
12 11 (1.89%) Terminal Services
13 10 (1.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 10 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.03%) DFS Replication
14 6 (1.03%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.86%) KVM
16 4 (0.69%) Veritas File System
16 4 (0.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
17 3 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 140 (24.10%) Ansible
2 87 (14.97%) vCenter Server
3 81 (13.94%) Kubernetes
4 68 (11.70%) Terraform
5 50 (8.61%) SCCM
6 49 (8.43%) Puppet
7 38 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (4.99%) Progress Chef
9 20 (3.44%) VxRail
10 18 (3.10%) WSUS
11 17 (2.93%) vRealize
12 15 (2.58%) vMotion
13 14 (2.41%) PowerCLI
14 13 (2.24%) AppManager
15 12 (2.07%) Nagios
16 11 (1.89%) FortiGate
16 11 (1.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
17 10 (1.72%) Prometheus
18 9 (1.55%) Nessus
18 9 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 581 (100.00%) VMware
2 194 (33.39%) Microsoft
3 131 (22.55%) Cisco
4 80 (13.77%) Red Hat
5 46 (7.92%) Oracle
6 43 (7.40%) Citrix
7 33 (5.68%) Palo Alto
8 27 (4.65%) SolarWinds
9 25 (4.30%) Splunk
10 23 (3.96%) NetApp
11 22 (3.79%) Atlassian
11 22 (3.79%) F5
12 20 (3.44%) Broadcom
13 19 (3.27%) Google
14 18 (3.10%) Dell
15 17 (2.93%) HP
15 17 (2.93%) Juniper
16 16 (2.75%) Symantec
17 15 (2.58%) Veeam
18 14 (2.41%) Fortinet