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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 176 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 -68 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 817 519 831
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.58% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 15.74% 13.56% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 336 534
10th Percentile £350 £330 £311
25th Percentile £430 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% +7.06% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £593
90th Percentile £650 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 2 12
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.11
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.50 £23.45
Median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +68.97% -3.28% -52.03%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £55.31
90th Percentile £98.19 £29.80 £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.11%

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 5,190 3,827 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 11.69% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,413 2,457 3,156
10th Percentile £222 £225 £214
25th Percentile £400 £384 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 103 167
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.13 £17.33 £14.48
Median hourly rate £51.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +36.36% -56.00%
75th Percentile £73.88 £75.60 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.10 £91.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £20.29
% change year-on-year -11.30% +183.46% -26.24%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -5 709 £514 -6.55% 220
UK excluding London -13 567 £514 -6.55% 185
South East 0 214 £538 -6.93% 64
London -23 168 £525 - 59
Work from Home -32 163 £500 -4.76% 81
North of England -5 143 £485 +17.58% 40
Midlands -15 91 £450 -18.18% 24
Yorkshire -11 72 £500 +8.11% 9
West Midlands -21 70 £450 -20.84% 12
North West -3 69 £476 +36.00% 27
South West -43 66 £550 -4.35% 26
East of England -24 34 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland -5 30 £450 -3.07% 7
East Midlands -5 21 £450 -18.18% 12
Wales -4 13 £550 +22.22% 10
North East -44 2 £588 +62.07% 5

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 45 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.59%) IIS
4 11 (1.35%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) nginx
5 9 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.61%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) CICS
8 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.24%) Houdini
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 218 (26.68%) Azure
2 138 (16.89%) AWS
3 59 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.00%) Entra ID
5 48 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.65%) GCP
7 34 (4.16%) GitHub
8 21 (2.57%) IaaS
9 19 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.20%) Nutanix
11 17 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.84%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.71%) Rubrik
14 13 (1.59%) PaaS
15 11 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.22%) OneDrive
17 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
17 9 (1.10%) SaaS
18 8 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
19 7 (0.86%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 231 (28.27%) DNS
2 160 (19.58%) Firewall
3 136 (16.65%) DHCP
4 81 (9.91%) VSAN
5 79 (9.67%) TCP/IP
6 76 (9.30%) SAN
7 69 (8.45%) VPN
8 64 (7.83%) WAN
9 56 (6.85%) VLAN
10 55 (6.73%) Network Security
11 49 (6.00%) LAN
12 48 (5.88%) SSL
13 45 (5.51%) NAS
14 30 (3.67%) BGP
15 29 (3.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 29 (3.55%) HTTP
16 28 (3.43%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.06%) BIG-IP
18 24 (2.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 22 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.59%) Power BI
4 12 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.61%) Big Data
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (0.49%) DataStage
8 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (4.53%) Jenkins
2 36 (4.41%) JIRA
3 18 (2.20%) Git
3 18 (2.20%) GitLab
4 16 (1.96%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 181 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 68 (8.32%) Finance
3 67 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.53%) Banking
6 31 (3.79%) Legal
7 23 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.59%) Military
11 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.86%) Retail
14 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.73%) Law
14 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.73%) Police
15 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 188 (23.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 99 (12.12%) Senior
3 84 (10.28%) Architect
4 79 (9.67%) VMware Engineer
5 71 (8.69%) Network Engineer
6 44 (5.39%) Consultant
7 41 (5.02%) Support Engineer
8 36 (4.41%) Lead
9 34 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (4.04%) Storage Engineer
11 31 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (3.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 30 (3.67%) VMware Consultant
13 27 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 24 (2.94%) Administrator
17 22 (2.69%) Infrastructure Architect
18 21 (2.57%) Senior Network Engineer
19 19 (2.33%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.47%) Flash
1 12 (1.47%) Middleware
1 12 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.35%) REST
3 10 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.22%) LDAP
4 9 (1.10%) .NET
4 9 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.73%) Redfish
6 5 (0.61%) JSON
6 5 (0.61%) YAML
7 4 (0.49%) XML
8 3 (0.37%) Java SE
8 3 (0.37%) JDBC
8 3 (0.37%) Kafka
8 3 (0.37%) ODBC
8 3 (0.37%) SAML
8 3 (0.37%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.24%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.24%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 115 (14.08%) Data Centre
2 66 (8.08%) PKI
3 63 (7.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (6.49%) Replication
5 46 (5.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 38 (4.65%) Clustering
7 29 (3.55%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.43%) Cloud Native
9 24 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.94%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.08%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.35%) Operational Technology
12 11 (1.35%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.35%) SCADA
13 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 408 (49.94%) Windows
2 260 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 235 (28.76%) Linux
4 50 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (3.79%) VMS
7 25 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.57%) Unix
9 19 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (2.08%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.08%) Windows 10
11 14 (1.71%) Solaris
12 12 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.98%) AIX
14 8 (0.98%) CoreOS
15 7 (0.86%) CentOS
16 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.49%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (29.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 160 (19.58%) Migration
3 131 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (14.44%) High Availability
5 108 (13.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 105 (12.85%) ITIL
7 99 (12.12%) CI/CD
8 98 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (9.79%) Network Virtualisation
10 79 (9.67%) Change Management
10 79 (9.67%) DevOps
11 76 (9.30%) Validation
12 75 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
13 73 (8.94%) Agile
13 73 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (7.96%) Platform Engineering
15 63 (7.71%) ITSM
16 62 (7.59%) Capacity Planning
16 62 (7.59%) Load Balancing
17 57 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (22.89%) PowerShell
2 128 (15.67%) Python
3 82 (10.04%) Bash
4 44 (5.39%) SQL
5 21 (2.57%) Java
6 8 (0.98%) Go
6 8 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.61%) C
8 5 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.49%) Bicep
9 4 (0.49%) C#
9 4 (0.49%) COBOL
10 3 (0.37%) Lua
10 3 (0.37%) Perl
10 3 (0.37%) PHP
11 2 (0.24%) VBScript
12 1 (0.12%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 378 (46.27%) Security Cleared
2 229 (28.03%) SC Cleared
3 175 (21.42%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 48 (5.88%) Degree
6 37 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (4.28%) VCAP
9 24 (2.94%) MCSE
10 21 (2.57%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.57%) CCNP
11 18 (2.20%) CCNA
12 15 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.84%) MCSA
13 13 (1.59%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.22%) OCP
16 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.86%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.06%) NIST
2 23 (2.82%) SLA
3 18 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.84%) NCSC
6 10 (1.22%) QA
7 7 (0.86%) GDPR
8 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.49%) GxP
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) DICOM
10 2 (0.24%) ISA99
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) RMADS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 256 (31.33%) Active Directory
2 202 (24.72%) vSphere
3 194 (23.75%) VMware ESXi
4 162 (19.83%) Hyper-V
4 162 (19.83%) VMware NSX
5 95 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
6 54 (6.61%) Docker
7 39 (4.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 34 (4.16%) Firmware
9 30 (3.67%) NFS
10 28 (3.43%) KVM
11 11 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.98%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.86%) Ceph
13 7 (0.86%) GPFS
13 7 (0.86%) vCloud
14 6 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
14 6 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.61%) SRDF
16 4 (0.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 168 (20.56%) Ansible
2 148 (18.12%) vCenter Server
3 110 (13.46%) Terraform
4 108 (13.22%) Kubernetes
5 41 (5.02%) SCCM
5 41 (5.02%) SCOM
6 37 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 35 (4.28%) vRealize
8 29 (3.55%) Grafana
9 28 (3.43%) VxRail
10 20 (2.45%) Argo
10 20 (2.45%) Prometheus
11 19 (2.33%) Puppet
11 19 (2.33%) vMotion
12 18 (2.20%) PowerCLI
13 16 (1.96%) NetBackup
14 15 (1.84%) WSUS
15 14 (1.71%) SnapMirror
16 12 (1.47%) Avamar
17 11 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 817 (100.00%) VMware
2 212 (25.95%) Microsoft
3 136 (16.65%) Cisco
4 64 (7.83%) NetApp
5 62 (7.59%) Red Hat
6 60 (7.34%) Citrix
7 48 (5.88%) Dell
8 40 (4.90%) F5
8 40 (4.90%) Oracle
9 34 (4.16%) ServiceNow
10 33 (4.04%) SolarWinds
11 32 (3.92%) Juniper
11 32 (3.92%) Palo Alto
12 29 (3.55%) Veeam
13 27 (3.30%) Pure Storage
14 25 (3.06%) IBM
15 23 (2.82%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.33%) Commvault
16 19 (2.33%) Fortinet
16 19 (2.33%) Splunk