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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 148 119
Rank change year-on-year -26 -29 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 763 551 819
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.83% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 15.34% 14.94% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 371 527
10th Percentile £325 £350 £299
25th Percentile £425 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.19% -6.29%
75th Percentile £588 £621 £592
90th Percentile £650 £688 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 31
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £22.63 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £48.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £70.75 - £46.52
90th Percentile £74.00 - £75.00
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 4,974 3,688 4,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 12.25% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,416 3,296
10th Percentile £213 £223 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 85 227
10th Percentile £14.15 £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% -55.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £90.40 £72.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £39.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.20% +43.55% -30.56%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -30 662 £500 -9.09% 190
UK excluding London -28 528 £500 -9.09% 181
South East -4 183 £538 -6.52% 60
Work from Home -31 160 £500 -4.76% 69
London -38 153 £519 -1.19% 33
North of England -11 145 £459 +4.91% 35
Midlands -22 92 £450 -18.18% 36
North West -1 72 £453 +3.54% 25
Yorkshire -18 71 £485 +2.05% 6
West Midlands -26 70 £425 -32.00% 19
South West -72 58 £539 -6.30% 22
East of England -35 33 £475 -13.64% 21
Scotland -6 31 £450 -0.55% 1
East Midlands -9 22 £450 -18.18% 17
Wales -7 9 £550 +89.66% 11
North East -38 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 41 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.70%) IIS
4 10 (1.31%) nginx
4 10 (1.31%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.92%) Confluence
6 6 (0.79%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.52%) CICS
9 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 220 (28.83%) Azure
2 133 (17.43%) AWS
3 53 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.16%) OpenShift
6 40 (5.24%) GCP
7 29 (3.80%) GitHub
8 27 (3.54%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.62%) IaaS
10 15 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.83%) PaaS
12 12 (1.57%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.44%) Rubrik
14 10 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.05%) SaaS
17 7 (0.92%) Azure Stack
17 7 (0.92%) Cohesity
18 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (27.00%) DNS
2 146 (19.13%) Firewall
3 119 (15.60%) DHCP
4 82 (10.75%) SAN
5 72 (9.44%) WAN
6 70 (9.17%) VPN
7 67 (8.78%) VSAN
8 58 (7.60%) LAN
9 52 (6.82%) Network Security
10 47 (6.16%) TCP/IP
11 46 (6.03%) SSL
12 45 (5.90%) NAS
13 42 (5.50%) VLAN
14 31 (4.06%) HTTP
15 29 (3.80%) BGP
15 29 (3.80%) BIG-IP
16 27 (3.54%) Wireshark
17 26 (3.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 25 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
18 25 (3.28%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.31%) Power BI
4 9 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.52%) DataStage
8 4 (0.52%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.39%) Big Data
9 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.39%) GIS
9 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
10 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 33 (4.33%) JIRA
2 32 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.23%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.10%) GitLab
5 14 (1.83%) Git
6 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.26%) MSI
7 2 (0.26%) PVCS
7 2 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) GoCD
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 160 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 55 (7.21%) Finance
3 51 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (6.68%) Public Sector
4 35 (4.59%) Banking
5 33 (4.33%) Legal
6 28 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.36%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.10%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.31%) Police
10 9 (1.18%) Military
11 7 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.92%) Retail
12 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Law
12 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.66%) Local Government
14 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 165 (21.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 92 (12.06%) Architect
3 77 (10.09%) Senior
4 70 (9.17%) VMware Engineer
5 68 (8.91%) Network Engineer
6 40 (5.24%) Consultant
7 33 (4.33%) Support Engineer
8 27 (3.54%) Analyst
8 27 (3.54%) Infrastructure Architect
8 27 (3.54%) Lead
8 27 (3.54%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 26 (3.41%) Storage Engineer
9 26 (3.41%) VMware Consultant
10 24 (3.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 22 (2.88%) Administrator
11 22 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (2.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (2.88%) Wintel Engineer
12 21 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (2.75%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.23%) Flash
2 16 (2.10%) LDAP
3 11 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.31%) 802.1X
4 10 (1.31%) REST
5 8 (1.05%) Middleware
6 7 (0.92%) SAML
7 6 (0.79%) .NET
7 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.79%) Redfish
8 5 (0.66%) JSON
9 4 (0.52%) Java SE
9 4 (0.52%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.52%) XML
10 3 (0.39%) EJB
10 3 (0.39%) JSP
10 3 (0.39%) YAML
11 2 (0.26%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) OpenGL
11 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 107 (14.02%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (7.47%) Replication
4 52 (6.82%) PKI
5 42 (5.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 34 (4.46%) Clustering
7 33 (4.33%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.28%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (3.01%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.62%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.57%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 373 (48.89%) Windows
2 254 (33.29%) Windows Server
3 225 (29.49%) Linux
4 50 (6.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (6.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.28%) VMS
6 25 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.49%) Data ONTAP
7 19 (2.49%) Windows 10
8 18 (2.36%) Unix
9 17 (2.23%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.97%) Solaris
11 14 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.05%) CentOS
13 8 (1.05%) CoreOS
14 6 (0.79%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
16 4 (0.52%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (27.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 158 (20.71%) Migration
3 115 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (13.63%) High Availability
5 101 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 93 (12.19%) ITIL
7 85 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (10.09%) CI/CD
9 74 (9.70%) DevOps
10 73 (9.57%) Agile
11 68 (8.91%) Validation
12 65 (8.52%) Change Management
13 63 (8.26%) Network Virtualisation
14 62 (8.13%) Capacity Planning
15 61 (7.99%) Load Balancing
16 55 (7.21%) Data Protection
16 55 (7.21%) ITSM
17 52 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
18 51 (6.68%) Continuous Improvement
19 49 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (21.76%) PowerShell
2 107 (14.02%) Python
3 58 (7.60%) Bash
4 36 (4.72%) SQL
5 9 (1.18%) Java
5 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.66%) Bicep
7 5 (0.66%) C
7 5 (0.66%) Go
7 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.52%) COBOL
8 4 (0.52%) PHP
9 3 (0.39%) C++
9 3 (0.39%) Perl
10 2 (0.26%) C#
10 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.26%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.26%) VBScript
11 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 320 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 202 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 133 (17.43%) DV Cleared
4 63 (8.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (5.64%) Degree
6 35 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.06%) VCAP
8 24 (3.15%) MCSE
9 21 (2.75%) CCNP
10 20 (2.62%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.23%) MCSA
13 16 (2.10%) CCNA
14 11 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.31%) OCP
16 7 (0.92%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.92%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.41%) NIST
2 23 (3.01%) SLA
3 20 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.97%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) QA
7 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.39%) GDPR
11 2 (0.26%) DICOM
11 2 (0.26%) ISA99
11 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) RMADS
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (30.28%) Active Directory
2 186 (24.38%) VMware ESXi
3 181 (23.72%) vSphere
4 156 (20.45%) Hyper-V
5 155 (20.31%) VMware NSX
6 97 (12.71%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (5.24%) Docker
8 37 (4.85%) Firmware
8 37 (4.85%) NFS
9 34 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 30 (3.93%) KVM
11 12 (1.57%) GPFS
11 12 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.44%) vCloud
13 10 (1.31%) 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 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 151 (19.79%) Ansible
2 130 (17.04%) vCenter Server
3 87 (11.40%) Terraform
4 82 (10.75%) Kubernetes
5 45 (5.90%) SCCM
6 40 (5.24%) vRealize
7 37 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.80%) SCOM
9 28 (3.67%) Grafana
10 27 (3.54%) vMotion
11 20 (2.62%) Argo
11 20 (2.62%) PowerCLI
12 16 (2.10%) VxRail
13 15 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.97%) WSUS
14 14 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (1.83%) SnapMirror
15 13 (1.70%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.70%) NetBackup
15 13 (1.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 763 (100.00%) VMware
2 195 (25.56%) Microsoft
3 152 (19.92%) Cisco
4 62 (8.13%) Citrix
5 59 (7.73%) NetApp
6 56 (7.34%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.16%) Dell
8 43 (5.64%) Oracle
9 41 (5.37%) F5
10 39 (5.11%) ServiceNow
11 35 (4.59%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.19%) Pure Storage
13 29 (3.80%) Juniper
14 28 (3.67%) IBM
15 27 (3.54%) Veeam
16 26 (3.41%) SolarWinds
17 23 (3.01%) CheckPoint
18 20 (2.62%) Commvault
18 20 (2.62%) McAfee
19 18 (2.36%) Blue Coat