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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 193 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 -72 -29
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 923 497 740
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.50% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 16.97% 12.53% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 326 432
10th Percentile £321 £219 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £708 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £30.17 £26.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -63.93%
75th Percentile £89.50 £48.63 £44.00
90th Percentile £94.42 £59.80 £112.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.38% +195.56% -65.90%

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 5,438 3,965 4,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.99% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,561 2,507 2,839
10th Percentile £225 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £602
90th Percentile £682 £669 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 119 102
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.56 £19.30
Median hourly rate £62.82 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.76% +23.64% -42.50%
75th Percentile £74.00 £69.88 £68.20
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.70 £83.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £58.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.51% +91.80% -20.88%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +11 809 £525 -4.55% 521
UK excluding London +9 649 £515 -6.36% 373
South East -2 204 £538 -0.19% 103
London -7 197 £533 +6.50% 154
North of England +16 179 £479 +12.71% 77
Work from Home -25 178 £500 - 199
Midlands -21 92 £450 -18.18% 60
Yorkshire -2 82 £525 +27.27% 24
North West -1 81 £450 +2.86% 41
South West -25 77 £638 +14.86% 57
West Midlands -13 69 £450 -21.40% 42
East of England +2 62 £600 +9.09% 41
Scotland +9 43 £425 -30.61% 30
East Midlands -9 23 £438 -10.71% 18
North East -21 17 £400 - 13
Wales - 11 £550 - 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 49 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.38%) Confluence
4 20 (2.17%) IIS
5 14 (1.52%) CMS
6 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.76%) JBoss
8 5 (0.54%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.43%) Apache
9 4 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.22%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.22%) Houdini
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) NUKE
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 247 (26.76%) Azure
2 130 (14.08%) AWS
3 87 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 52 (5.63%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.12%) GCP
7 33 (3.58%) GitHub
8 28 (3.03%) IaaS
9 24 (2.60%) Nutanix
10 22 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (1.84%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.84%) Rubrik
13 16 (1.73%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.41%) PaaS
15 12 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (1.30%) SaaS
16 8 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.87%) Cohesity
17 7 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 286 (30.99%) DNS
2 178 (19.28%) DHCP
2 178 (19.28%) Firewall
3 97 (10.51%) TCP/IP
4 77 (8.34%) VSAN
5 70 (7.58%) SAN
6 69 (7.48%) VPN
7 66 (7.15%) VLAN
8 57 (6.18%) Network Security
9 55 (5.96%) WAN
10 50 (5.42%) LAN
11 41 (4.44%) SSL
12 38 (4.12%) NAS
13 33 (3.58%) BGP
14 30 (3.25%) HTTP
15 26 (2.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 25 (2.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 21 (2.28%) Wireshark
18 20 (2.17%) BIG-IP
18 20 (2.17%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.84%) Power BI
4 11 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.98%) Big Data
6 9 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.22%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.22%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 45 (4.88%) JIRA
2 27 (2.93%) GitLab
3 26 (2.82%) Git
3 26 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.19%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.43%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.43%) PVCS
7 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 216 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 101 (10.94%) Finance
3 90 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (4.33%) Public Sector
5 39 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (3.14%) Banking
7 27 (2.93%) Legal
8 24 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.87%) Law
12 8 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.76%) Back Office
14 6 (0.65%) Police
14 6 (0.65%) Retail
15 5 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 231 (25.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 144 (15.60%) Senior
3 95 (10.29%) VMware Engineer
4 84 (9.10%) Architect
5 59 (6.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 58 (6.28%) Network Engineer
7 53 (5.74%) Support Engineer
8 52 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 45 (4.88%) Lead
10 43 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
11 38 (4.12%) Storage Engineer
12 37 (4.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 36 (3.90%) Consultant
14 32 (3.47%) Administrator
15 27 (2.93%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 27 (2.93%) Server Engineer
16 26 (2.82%) VMware Consultant
17 25 (2.71%) Wintel Engineer
18 23 (2.49%) IT Engineer
18 23 (2.49%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (13.87%) Terraform
2 28 (3.03%) REST
3 22 (2.38%) JSON
4 17 (1.84%) Kafka
5 14 (1.52%) Middleware
6 13 (1.41%) XMPP
7 12 (1.30%) 802.1X
7 12 (1.30%) YAML
8 11 (1.19%) .NET
8 11 (1.19%) LDAP
9 9 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.76%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.65%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.65%) Redfish
12 5 (0.54%) JDBC
12 5 (0.54%) ODBC
12 5 (0.54%) XML
13 4 (0.43%) Flash
14 3 (0.33%) Java SE
14 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 157 (17.01%) Data Centre
2 77 (8.34%) PKI
3 69 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.74%) Enterprise Storage
5 46 (4.98%) Private Cloud
6 45 (4.88%) Clustering
7 41 (4.44%) Replication
8 33 (3.58%) Onboarding
9 30 (3.25%) Management Information System
10 29 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (3.03%) Public Cloud
12 26 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (2.49%) Cloud Native
14 19 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (1.84%) Operational Technology
16 16 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (1.52%) Product Ownership
18 13 (1.41%) SCADA
19 11 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
20 9 (0.98%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 498 (53.95%) Windows
2 338 (36.62%) Windows Server
3 242 (26.22%) Linux
4 47 (5.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (4.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (3.03%) Unix
7 26 (2.82%) VMS
7 26 (2.82%) Windows 10
8 22 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
10 13 (1.41%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (1.19%) AIX
12 10 (1.08%) Solaris
13 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.87%) CentOS
14 6 (0.65%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.33%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (34.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 180 (19.50%) ITIL
3 177 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (18.53%) Migration
5 162 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 127 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
8 116 (12.57%) CI/CD
9 111 (12.03%) Change Management
10 98 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
11 95 (10.29%) Project Delivery
12 94 (10.18%) Validation
13 93 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (10.08%) ITSM
13 93 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
14 90 (9.75%) Agile
15 89 (9.64%) High Availability
16 86 (9.32%) DevOps
17 85 (9.21%) Service Management
18 81 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 225 (24.38%) PowerShell
2 134 (14.52%) Python
3 82 (8.88%) Bash
4 51 (5.53%) SQL
5 24 (2.60%) Java
6 10 (1.08%) Bicep
6 10 (1.08%) Perl
7 9 (0.98%) C
7 9 (0.98%) Go
8 7 (0.76%) C#
9 4 (0.43%) C++
9 4 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.33%) Korn
10 3 (0.33%) Lua
10 3 (0.33%) VB
11 2 (0.22%) COBOL
11 2 (0.22%) VBScript
12 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 445 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 265 (28.71%) SC Cleared
3 201 (21.78%) DV Cleared
4 66 (7.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.39%) Degree
6 50 (5.42%) Cisco Certification
7 44 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.44%) VCAP
9 29 (3.14%) CCNP
10 26 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.82%) MCSE
11 22 (2.38%) CCNA
12 21 (2.28%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.95%) MCSA
14 12 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.87%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.60%) SLA
2 19 (2.06%) QA
3 18 (1.95%) NIST
4 14 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.30%) NCSC
6 11 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.87%) GDPR
8 5 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.43%) GxP
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 328 (35.54%) Active Directory
2 229 (24.81%) vSphere
3 215 (23.29%) VMware ESXi
4 210 (22.75%) Hyper-V
5 143 (15.49%) VMware NSX
6 95 (10.29%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (6.28%) Docker
8 46 (4.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.90%) Firmware
10 22 (2.38%) NFS
10 22 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
11 18 (1.95%) KVM
12 13 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 10 (1.08%) XenApp
14 9 (0.98%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.76%) Ceph
15 7 (0.76%) oVirt
15 7 (0.76%) vCloud
16 6 (0.65%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 168 (18.20%) Ansible
2 147 (15.93%) vCenter Server
3 140 (15.17%) Kubernetes
4 64 (6.93%) SCCM
5 63 (6.83%) SCOM
6 46 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (4.01%) VxRail
8 23 (2.49%) vRealize
9 22 (2.38%) Prometheus
10 20 (2.17%) Grafana
11 18 (1.95%) NetBackup
11 18 (1.95%) Puppet
12 17 (1.84%) Cisco CUCM
13 15 (1.63%) PowerCLI
13 15 (1.63%) WSUS
14 14 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
14 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (1.41%) Avamar
15 13 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
15 13 (1.41%) vMotion
Vendors
1 923 (100.00%) VMware
2 285 (30.88%) Microsoft
3 156 (16.90%) Cisco
4 71 (7.69%) Citrix
5 67 (7.26%) Red Hat
6 65 (7.04%) NetApp
7 57 (6.18%) Dell
8 46 (4.98%) SolarWinds
9 44 (4.77%) ServiceNow
10 42 (4.55%) Oracle
11 40 (4.33%) Veeam
12 35 (3.79%) F5
13 32 (3.47%) Palo Alto
14 28 (3.03%) Juniper
15 26 (2.82%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.38%) IBM
17 21 (2.28%) Broadcom
17 21 (2.28%) Remedy
18 20 (2.17%) Commvault
19 18 (1.95%) McAfee