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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 152 122
Rank change year-on-year -24 -30 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 759 548 809
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 1.87% 1.85%
As % of the System Software category 15.58% 15.20% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 373 522
10th Percentile £325 £333 £298
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -5.81%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £20.94 - £27.26
Median hourly rate £56.57 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.03% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £71.13 - £49.22
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -33.31%

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 4,872 3,605 4,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 12.27% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 2,387 3,299
10th Percentile £213 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £386 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £697 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 85 226
10th Percentile £15.94 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.45 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -43.18%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -28 660 £500 -9.09% 218
UK excluding London -25 527 £500 -9.09% 195
South East +6 192 £538 -6.52% 63
Work from Home -25 161 £500 -4.76% 83
London -46 149 £525 - 42
North of England -14 140 £458 +7.65% 42
Midlands -28 89 £431 -21.73% 32
North West +3 76 £456 +7.29% 29
West Midlands -24 68 £425 -27.72% 22
Yorkshire -24 63 £454 -4.53% 6
South West -57 55 £539 -6.30% 28
East of England -29 35 £475 -13.64% 22
Scotland -10 31 £450 -2.12% 5
East Midlands -20 21 £436 -19.67% 10
Wales -12 7 £600 +62.16% 8
North East -27 1 £675 +92.86% 7

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 38 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.71%) IIS
4 10 (1.32%) nginx
4 10 (1.32%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.79%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 227 (29.91%) Azure
2 138 (18.18%) AWS
3 53 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.59%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.19%) OpenShift
6 43 (5.67%) GCP
7 29 (3.82%) Nutanix
8 28 (3.69%) GitHub
9 23 (3.03%) IaaS
10 16 (2.11%) PaaS
11 13 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.58%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.45%) Rubrik
14 9 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.92%) Azure Stack
15 7 (0.92%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 207 (27.27%) DNS
2 152 (20.03%) Firewall
3 124 (16.34%) DHCP
4 79 (10.41%) SAN
5 71 (9.35%) VPN
6 67 (8.83%) VSAN
7 66 (8.70%) WAN
8 52 (6.85%) Network Security
9 51 (6.72%) LAN
10 48 (6.32%) TCP/IP
11 46 (6.06%) NAS
11 46 (6.06%) SSL
12 38 (5.01%) VLAN
13 32 (4.22%) HTTP
14 30 (3.95%) BIG-IP
15 29 (3.82%) BGP
16 28 (3.69%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
17 24 (3.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 21 (2.77%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.32%) Power BI
4 9 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.53%) DataStage
7 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.40%) GIS
8 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.26%) Big Data
9 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.26%) Redis
9 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 30 (3.95%) Jenkins
1 30 (3.95%) JIRA
2 18 (2.37%) Fiddler
3 17 (2.24%) GitLab
4 15 (1.98%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) PVCS
5 3 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GoCD
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 153 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.11%) Finance
3 53 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.74%) Banking
6 31 (4.08%) Legal
7 28 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.32%) Police
9 10 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.19%) Military
11 7 (0.92%) Law
12 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.79%) Retail
13 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Electronics
14 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 103 (13.57%) Architect
3 73 (9.62%) Senior
4 67 (8.83%) VMware Engineer
5 65 (8.56%) Network Engineer
6 39 (5.14%) Consultant
7 33 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
8 32 (4.22%) Support Engineer
9 28 (3.69%) Lead
10 27 (3.56%) Analyst
10 27 (3.56%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 27 (3.56%) Storage Engineer
11 26 (3.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 26 (3.43%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (3.29%) VMware Consultant
13 24 (3.16%) VMware Architect
14 23 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.90%) Administrator
16 20 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (2.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.24%) Flash
2 16 (2.11%) LDAP
3 11 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.45%) REST
4 9 (1.19%) Middleware
5 7 (0.92%) 802.1X
5 7 (0.92%) SAML
6 6 (0.79%) .NET
6 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.79%) Redfish
7 5 (0.66%) JSON
8 4 (0.53%) Java SE
8 4 (0.53%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.53%) XML
9 3 (0.40%) EJB
9 3 (0.40%) JSP
9 3 (0.40%) YAML
10 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.26%) OAuth
10 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.44%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.30%) Replication
3 61 (8.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (6.72%) PKI
5 39 (5.14%) Cloud Native
5 39 (5.14%) Enterprise Storage
6 38 (5.01%) Clustering
7 27 (3.56%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.43%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.16%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.58%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
15 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 374 (49.28%) Windows
2 252 (33.20%) Windows Server
3 222 (29.25%) Linux
4 51 (6.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (6.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (3.16%) VMS
8 20 (2.64%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
10 18 (2.37%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.37%) Unix
11 15 (1.98%) Solaris
11 15 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.05%) CentOS
13 8 (1.05%) CoreOS
13 8 (1.05%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
16 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (26.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 150 (19.76%) Migration
3 110 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (13.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 104 (13.70%) High Availability
5 89 (11.73%) ITIL
6 86 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (10.41%) DevOps
8 77 (10.14%) CI/CD
9 72 (9.49%) Agile
10 69 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
11 68 (8.96%) Network Virtualisation
12 65 (8.56%) Change Management
13 64 (8.43%) Load Balancing
14 57 (7.51%) Validation
15 56 (7.38%) Platform Engineering
16 55 (7.25%) Data Protection
16 55 (7.25%) ITSM
17 52 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 48 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.53%) PowerShell
2 105 (13.83%) Python
3 61 (8.04%) Bash
4 36 (4.74%) SQL
5 10 (1.32%) Java
6 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.79%) C
8 5 (0.66%) Bicep
8 5 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.53%) C++
9 4 (0.53%) COBOL
9 4 (0.53%) Go
9 4 (0.53%) PHP
10 3 (0.40%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.40%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.26%) C#
11 2 (0.26%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 317 (41.77%) Security Cleared
2 199 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 131 (17.26%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 40 (5.27%) Degree
6 37 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (4.61%) VCAP
8 31 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (3.29%) MCSE
10 20 (2.64%) MCSA
11 19 (2.50%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (2.24%) CCNP
14 14 (1.84%) CCNA
15 11 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
16 10 (1.32%) OCP
17 7 (0.92%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
18 6 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.29%) NIST
2 24 (3.16%) SLA
3 22 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) QA
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.66%) GDPR
7 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.26%) DICOM
9 2 (0.26%) ISA99
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.26%) RMADS
10 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 228 (30.04%) Active Directory
2 185 (24.37%) vSphere
3 179 (23.58%) VMware ESXi
4 161 (21.21%) VMware NSX
5 157 (20.69%) Hyper-V
6 99 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (5.40%) Docker
8 37 (4.87%) Firmware
8 37 (4.87%) NFS
9 32 (4.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 27 (3.56%) KVM
11 12 (1.58%) GPFS
11 12 (1.58%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.45%) vCloud
13 10 (1.32%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.79%) Ceph
15 6 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.66%) SRDF
17 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 151 (19.89%) Ansible
2 127 (16.73%) vCenter Server
3 86 (11.33%) Terraform
4 85 (11.20%) Kubernetes
5 47 (6.19%) SCCM
6 41 (5.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 39 (5.14%) vRealize
8 29 (3.82%) SCOM
9 28 (3.69%) Grafana
10 27 (3.56%) vMotion
11 20 (2.64%) Argo
11 20 (2.64%) PowerCLI
12 17 (2.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.98%) VxRail
13 15 (1.98%) WSUS
14 14 (1.84%) SnapMirror
15 13 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.71%) Puppet
16 12 (1.58%) NetBackup
16 12 (1.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 759 (100.00%) VMware
2 198 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 151 (19.89%) Cisco
4 63 (8.30%) Citrix
5 60 (7.91%) NetApp
6 56 (7.38%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.19%) Dell
8 42 (5.53%) F5
9 41 (5.40%) ServiceNow
10 40 (5.27%) Oracle
11 35 (4.61%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.22%) Pure Storage
13 29 (3.82%) IBM
13 29 (3.82%) Veeam
14 25 (3.29%) Juniper
15 23 (3.03%) CheckPoint
15 23 (3.03%) SolarWinds
16 21 (2.77%) McAfee
17 20 (2.64%) Broadcom
17 20 (2.64%) Commvault