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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 152 131
Rank change year-on-year -23 -21 -28
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 730 554 751
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.90% 1.77%
As % of the System Software category 15.19% 15.35% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 378 487
10th Percentile £318 £325 £273
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.89% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.28
25th Percentile £26.50 - £38.22
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -38.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £74.00 - £80.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -29.56%

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 4,807 3,608 4,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 12.40% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 2,440 3,175
10th Percentile £220 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £606 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 83 229
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £51.75 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.45% +28.89% -58.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £79.45 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £19.18
% change year-on-year +36.00% +95.52% -56.16%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -30 632 £500 -9.09% 232
UK excluding London -30 511 £500 -9.09% 217
South East +5 180 £538 -6.52% 87
Work from Home -29 157 £500 -4.76% 86
London -58 135 £525 - 42
North of England -7 134 £450 +12.50% 40
Midlands -18 96 £402 -26.91% 35
West Midlands -23 74 £402 -27.04% 20
North West -6 71 £450 +11.38% 23
Yorkshire -11 61 £420 -11.58% 11
South West -60 53 £539 -6.30% 23
East of England -27 36 £475 -13.64% 15
Scotland -4 27 £450 -3.07% 7
East Midlands -19 22 £443 -18.38% 15
Wales -9 7 £600 +106.90% 11
North East -26 2 £575 +64.29% 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 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.78%) IIS
4 9 (1.23%) nginx
5 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.96%) Confluence
7 5 (0.68%) Apache
7 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) CICS
9 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 210 (28.77%) Azure
2 130 (17.81%) AWS
3 54 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.71%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.89%) OpenShift
6 37 (5.07%) GCP
7 26 (3.56%) GitHub
7 26 (3.56%) IaaS
8 24 (3.29%) Nutanix
9 19 (2.60%) PaaS
10 14 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.51%) Power Platform
12 10 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (1.37%) Rubrik
13 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.96%) Datadog
15 6 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.82%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 198 (27.12%) DNS
2 157 (21.51%) Firewall
3 113 (15.48%) DHCP
4 77 (10.55%) VPN
5 72 (9.86%) SAN
6 66 (9.04%) WAN
7 65 (8.90%) VSAN
8 54 (7.40%) LAN
9 52 (7.12%) Network Security
10 46 (6.30%) TCP/IP
11 43 (5.89%) NAS
11 43 (5.89%) SSL
12 34 (4.66%) HTTP
13 33 (4.52%) BIG-IP
13 33 (4.52%) VLAN
14 29 (3.97%) Wireshark
15 28 (3.84%) BGP
16 24 (3.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 23 (3.15%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (3.01%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.25%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (1.23%) Power BI
4 8 (1.10%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.55%) DataStage
8 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.41%) Redis
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.27%) GIS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (3.97%) JIRA
2 26 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.47%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.33%) GitLab
5 13 (1.78%) Git
6 6 (0.82%) PVCS
6 6 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) GoCD
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 144 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.40%) Finance
3 52 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.21%) Banking
6 28 (3.84%) Legal
7 26 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.37%) Police
10 9 (1.23%) Military
11 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.82%) Electronics
12 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Law
13 5 (0.68%) Local Government
13 5 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.68%) Retail
14 3 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 143 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (13.01%) Architect
3 66 (9.04%) Network Engineer
4 64 (8.77%) Senior
5 61 (8.36%) VMware Engineer
6 37 (5.07%) Analyst
6 37 (5.07%) Consultant
7 30 (4.11%) Infrastructure Architect
8 29 (3.97%) Lead
9 25 (3.42%) Support Engineer
9 25 (3.42%) Wintel Engineer
10 24 (3.29%) VMware Architect
11 23 (3.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 23 (3.15%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 23 (3.15%) VMware Consultant
12 22 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (3.01%) Storage Engineer
13 18 (2.47%) Administrator
13 18 (2.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 18 (2.47%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.88%) LDAP
2 19 (2.60%) Flash
3 11 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.37%) SAML
5 9 (1.23%) Middleware
6 7 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.96%) REST
7 5 (0.68%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.68%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.55%) Redfish
8 4 (0.55%) XML
9 3 (0.41%) .NET
9 3 (0.41%) EJB
9 3 (0.41%) JSON
9 3 (0.41%) JSP
9 3 (0.41%) Kafka
9 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.27%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.27%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 98 (13.42%) Data Centre
2 66 (9.04%) Replication
3 57 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (6.03%) PKI
5 38 (5.21%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.93%) Clustering
7 34 (4.66%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (3.42%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
10 23 (3.15%) Management Information System
11 21 (2.88%) Public Cloud
12 18 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.64%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.51%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.23%) SCADA
16 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
17 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 348 (47.67%) Windows
2 238 (32.60%) Windows Server
3 221 (30.27%) Linux
4 50 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 29 (3.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (3.15%) VMS
6 23 (3.15%) Windows 10
7 20 (2.74%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.47%) Data ONTAP
9 16 (2.19%) Unix
9 16 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (1.78%) Solaris
11 10 (1.37%) Mac OS
12 9 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.10%) CentOS
13 8 (1.10%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.68%) AIX
16 4 (0.55%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (25.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (18.90%) Migration
3 108 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (13.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 100 (13.70%) High Availability
5 94 (12.88%) ITIL
6 77 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (10.27%) Agile
8 69 (9.45%) Capacity Planning
8 69 (9.45%) DevOps
9 66 (9.04%) CI/CD
9 66 (9.04%) Network Virtualisation
10 62 (8.49%) Change Management
10 62 (8.49%) Load Balancing
11 56 (7.67%) Platform Engineering
12 52 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (7.12%) Data Protection
13 50 (6.85%) Validation
14 43 (5.89%) ITSM
14 43 (5.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 161 (22.05%) PowerShell
2 94 (12.88%) Python
3 56 (7.67%) Bash
4 34 (4.66%) SQL
5 9 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.10%) Bicep
6 8 (1.10%) C
6 8 (1.10%) Java
7 7 (0.96%) C++
8 6 (0.82%) Embedded C
8 6 (0.82%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.55%) COBOL
10 4 (0.55%) Go
10 4 (0.55%) PHP
11 3 (0.41%) C#
11 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.41%) Perl
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
13 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 291 (39.86%) Security Cleared
2 186 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 120 (16.44%) DV Cleared
4 54 (7.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 39 (5.34%) Degree
6 32 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.25%) VCAP
8 26 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (2.88%) MCSE
11 20 (2.74%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.47%) CCNP
13 16 (2.19%) MCSA
14 11 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.37%) CCNA
15 10 (1.37%) OCP
16 6 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.82%) RHCA
17 5 (0.68%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (3.01%) SLA
2 19 (2.60%) NIST
3 16 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.78%) NCSC
5 7 (0.96%) GDPR
6 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.27%) DICOM
7 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.27%) ISA99
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.27%) QA
7 2 (0.27%) RMADS
8 1 (0.14%) COBIT
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) HL7
8 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 176 (24.11%) vSphere
3 157 (21.51%) VMware NSX
4 152 (20.82%) VMware ESXi
5 149 (20.41%) Hyper-V
6 91 (12.47%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (5.75%) Docker
8 39 (5.34%) NFS
9 35 (4.79%) Firmware
10 31 (4.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (3.56%) KVM
12 14 (1.92%) GPFS
13 11 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.23%) BitLocker
14 9 (1.23%) vCloud
15 6 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.68%) Ceph
16 5 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.68%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.41%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 133 (18.22%) Ansible
2 109 (14.93%) vCenter Server
3 77 (10.55%) Kubernetes
3 77 (10.55%) Terraform
4 50 (6.85%) SCCM
5 44 (6.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 42 (5.75%) vRealize
7 28 (3.84%) Grafana
8 24 (3.29%) vMotion
9 23 (3.15%) SCOM
10 20 (2.74%) Argo
11 18 (2.47%) VxRail
12 17 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (2.33%) PowerCLI
12 17 (2.33%) WSUS
13 16 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (1.78%) SnapMirror
15 12 (1.64%) Prometheus
15 12 (1.64%) Puppet
16 11 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 730 (100.00%) VMware
2 192 (26.30%) Microsoft
3 146 (20.00%) Cisco
4 64 (8.77%) Citrix
5 60 (8.22%) NetApp
6 52 (7.12%) Red Hat
7 48 (6.58%) F5
8 41 (5.62%) Dell
9 38 (5.21%) Oracle
10 36 (4.93%) IBM
10 36 (4.93%) ServiceNow
11 34 (4.66%) Palo Alto
12 31 (4.25%) Pure Storage
13 29 (3.97%) Veeam
14 25 (3.42%) CheckPoint
15 24 (3.29%) Commvault
16 22 (3.01%) Juniper
16 22 (3.01%) McAfee
16 22 (3.01%) SolarWinds
17 20 (2.74%) Broadcom