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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 155 119
Rank change year-on-year -14 -36 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 782 561 843
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.79% 1.94%
As % of the System Software category 15.43% 14.84% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 374 540
10th Percentile £330 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £502
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.49% -5.22%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 30
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.08
25th Percentile £20.94 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% -27.50% -36.74%
75th Percentile £73.38 £29.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.03 £29.80 £71.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.33%

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 5,069 3,781 4,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 12.09% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,461 3,325
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £400 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £689 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 88 221
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.62 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.06 £16.86 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +17.65% -55.39%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.58 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £54.88 £24.18
% change year-on-year -7.06% +126.94% -22.00%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -20 676 £500 -9.09% 232
UK excluding London -28 539 £500 -9.09% 216
South East 0 190 £538 -6.52% 66
Work from Home -38 161 £500 -4.76% 92
London -43 161 £500 -4.76% 47
North of England -13 145 £472 +11.06% 34
Midlands -17 96 £450 -18.18% 35
North West +1 74 £458 +7.65% 22
West Midlands -26 72 £450 -31.51% 20
Yorkshire -19 69 £500 +5.26% 8
South West -54 58 £539 -6.30% 41
Scotland -1 32 £450 -0.55% 8
East of England -28 31 £488 -11.36% 23
East Midlands -5 24 £450 -17.09% 15
Wales -12 11 £550 +89.66% 15
North East -41 2 £588 +67.86% 4

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 44 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.66%) IIS
4 10 (1.28%) nginx
4 10 (1.28%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.90%) Confluence
6 6 (0.77%) Apache
6 6 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.51%) CICS
8 3 (0.38%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.38%) 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 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) Houdini
4 1 (0.13%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (28.52%) Azure
2 130 (16.62%) AWS
3 55 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (6.52%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.01%) OpenShift
6 39 (4.99%) GCP
7 29 (3.71%) GitHub
8 27 (3.45%) Nutanix
9 21 (2.69%) IaaS
10 15 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.79%) PaaS
11 14 (1.79%) Rubrik
12 12 (1.53%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.02%) SaaS
16 7 (0.90%) Azure Stack
17 6 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (0.77%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 215 (27.49%) DNS
2 144 (18.41%) Firewall
3 124 (15.86%) DHCP
4 84 (10.74%) SAN
5 75 (9.59%) WAN
6 68 (8.70%) VPN
7 67 (8.57%) VSAN
8 60 (7.67%) LAN
9 55 (7.03%) Network Security
10 51 (6.52%) TCP/IP
11 47 (6.01%) NAS
11 47 (6.01%) SSL
12 43 (5.50%) VLAN
13 32 (4.09%) HTTP
14 29 (3.71%) BGP
14 29 (3.71%) BIG-IP
15 27 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (3.45%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.20%) Cisco ASA
16 25 (3.20%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.28%) Power BI
4 8 (1.02%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.51%) DataStage
7 4 (0.51%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.38%) Big Data
8 3 (0.38%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.38%) GIS
8 3 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.26%) Redis
9 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (4.09%) Jenkins
1 32 (4.09%) JIRA
2 17 (2.17%) Fiddler
3 16 (2.05%) GitLab
4 14 (1.79%) Git
5 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
6 2 (0.26%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GoCD
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 168 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 57 (7.29%) Finance
3 54 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.48%) Banking
6 33 (4.22%) Legal
7 29 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 16 (2.05%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.28%) Military
11 9 (1.15%) Police
12 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.90%) Retail
13 6 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.77%) Law
13 6 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
14 4 (0.51%) Local Government
14 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 172 (21.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (11.64%) Architect
3 81 (10.36%) Senior
4 73 (9.34%) VMware Engineer
5 69 (8.82%) Network Engineer
6 42 (5.37%) Consultant
7 36 (4.60%) Support Engineer
8 29 (3.71%) Lead
9 28 (3.58%) VMware Consultant
10 27 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 27 (3.45%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 27 (3.45%) Storage Engineer
11 26 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 26 (3.32%) Infrastructure Architect
12 25 (3.20%) Analyst
13 24 (3.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (2.81%) Administrator
14 22 (2.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 22 (2.81%) Wintel Engineer
15 21 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.05%) LDAP
2 15 (1.92%) Flash
3 11 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.28%) 802.1X
5 9 (1.15%) Middleware
5 9 (1.15%) REST
6 7 (0.90%) .NET
6 7 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.90%) SAML
7 6 (0.77%) Redfish
8 5 (0.64%) JSON
9 4 (0.51%) Java SE
9 4 (0.51%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.51%) XML
10 3 (0.38%) EJB
10 3 (0.38%) JSP
10 3 (0.38%) YAML
11 2 (0.26%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) OpenID
11 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 108 (13.81%) Data Centre
2 64 (8.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (7.03%) Replication
4 54 (6.91%) PKI
5 43 (5.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 34 (4.35%) Clustering
7 31 (3.96%) Cloud Native
8 28 (3.58%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.94%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.56%) Private Cloud
11 19 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.53%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.02%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 389 (49.74%) Windows
2 263 (33.63%) Windows Server
3 227 (29.03%) Linux
4 50 (6.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (6.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 26 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (3.20%) VMS
7 19 (2.43%) Data ONTAP
7 19 (2.43%) Unix
7 19 (2.43%) Windows 10
8 18 (2.30%) Ubuntu
9 16 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.92%) Solaris
11 11 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.02%) CentOS
12 8 (1.02%) CoreOS
13 6 (0.77%) AIX
13 6 (0.77%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.51%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (28.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 159 (20.33%) Migration
3 120 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (13.81%) High Availability
5 104 (13.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 95 (12.15%) ITIL
7 88 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (10.10%) CI/CD
9 76 (9.72%) DevOps
10 72 (9.21%) Agile
11 70 (8.95%) Validation
12 68 (8.70%) Change Management
13 65 (8.31%) Network Virtualisation
14 62 (7.93%) Capacity Planning
14 62 (7.93%) Load Balancing
15 59 (7.54%) ITSM
16 56 (7.16%) Data Protection
17 55 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
18 54 (6.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 173 (22.12%) PowerShell
2 108 (13.81%) Python
3 63 (8.06%) Bash
4 37 (4.73%) SQL
5 13 (1.66%) Java
6 9 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.64%) Bicep
8 5 (0.64%) Go
8 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.51%) COBOL
9 4 (0.51%) PHP
10 3 (0.38%) C
10 3 (0.38%) C#
10 3 (0.38%) Perl
11 2 (0.26%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.13%) MUMPS
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 340 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 212 (27.11%) SC Cleared
3 143 (18.29%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (5.50%) Degree
6 37 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (3.84%) VCAP
9 26 (3.32%) MCSE
10 22 (2.81%) CCNP
11 21 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (2.30%) MCSA
14 16 (2.05%) CCNA
15 11 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
16 10 (1.28%) OCP
17 8 (1.02%) AWS Certification
18 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.90%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.32%) NIST
2 24 (3.07%) SLA
3 20 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.92%) NCSC
6 7 (0.90%) QA
7 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.51%) GDPR
9 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) DICOM
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.26%) ISA99
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.26%) RMADS
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 243 (31.07%) Active Directory
2 192 (24.55%) VMware ESXi
3 189 (24.17%) vSphere
4 157 (20.08%) VMware NSX
5 155 (19.82%) Hyper-V
6 94 (12.02%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (5.12%) Docker
8 37 (4.73%) NFS
8 37 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (4.60%) Firmware
10 28 (3.58%) KVM
11 12 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.41%) vCloud
13 10 (1.28%) BitLocker
13 10 (1.28%) GPFS
14 7 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.77%) Ceph
15 6 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.64%) SRDF
17 4 (0.51%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 154 (19.69%) Ansible
2 139 (17.77%) vCenter Server
3 89 (11.38%) Terraform
4 87 (11.13%) Kubernetes
5 49 (6.27%) SCCM
6 39 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (4.99%) vRealize
7 35 (4.48%) SCOM
8 29 (3.71%) Grafana
9 27 (3.45%) vMotion
10 20 (2.56%) Argo
10 20 (2.56%) PowerCLI
11 19 (2.43%) VxRail
12 16 (2.05%) NetBackup
12 16 (2.05%) Puppet
13 15 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.92%) Prometheus
13 15 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (1.92%) WSUS
14 14 (1.79%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 782 (100.00%) VMware
2 206 (26.34%) Microsoft
3 151 (19.31%) Cisco
4 67 (8.57%) Citrix
5 62 (7.93%) NetApp
6 56 (7.16%) Red Hat
7 50 (6.39%) Dell
8 42 (5.37%) F5
9 41 (5.24%) Oracle
10 36 (4.60%) ServiceNow
11 34 (4.35%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.09%) SolarWinds
13 31 (3.96%) Juniper
13 31 (3.96%) Pure Storage
14 29 (3.71%) Veeam
15 25 (3.20%) IBM
16 23 (2.94%) CheckPoint
17 21 (2.69%) Commvault
18 20 (2.56%) Broadcom
18 20 (2.56%) McAfee