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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 128 107
Rank change year-on-year -42 -21 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 647 655 963
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 2.08% 2.15%
As % of the System Software category 13.83% 17.08% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 413 608
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £577 £623 £608
90th Percentile £652 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 66
10th Percentile £33.93 £29.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.21 £41.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -6.12% -5.77%
75th Percentile - £100.25 £76.46
90th Percentile £77.13 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £36.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +93.10% -45.06% +1.51%

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 4,678 3,836 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 12.20% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,186 2,480 3,599
10th Percentile £206 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.06% -6.19%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +2.21% +3.28% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 91 242
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.15 £17.84
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.62% -37.20% +25.66%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.70 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.50 £37.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +56.00% -21.05% +115.91%

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 31 January 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 31 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 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 31 January 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 -35 575 £500 -4.76% 234
UK excluding London -18 459 £475 -9.52% 214
Work from Home -41 171 £500 -4.76% 82
South East -16 145 £500 -9.09% 78
London -84 122 £540 +2.86% 65
Midlands +13 113 £400 -33.33% 33
North of England -27 106 £425 - 39
West Midlands +2 85 £325 -46.46% 22
North West -17 71 £441 +0.86% 15
South West -36 69 £550 -0.09% 37
Yorkshire -17 46 £371 -13.33% 23
East of England +2 31 £475 +8.57% 13
East Midlands -3 28 £447 -0.67% 11
Scotland -4 17 £464 -6.69% 15
Wales -4 3 £550 +89.66% 3
North East -18 2 £513 +57.69% 5
Northern Ireland 0 1 - -

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 36 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.94%) Confluence
4 12 (1.85%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.08%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.77%) IIS
6 5 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.62%) nginx
7 4 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.31%) Apache
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 195 (30.14%) Azure
2 157 (24.27%) AWS
3 56 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.26%) GCP
5 41 (6.34%) OpenShift
6 40 (6.18%) Entra ID
7 33 (5.10%) Nutanix
8 27 (4.17%) IaaS
9 19 (2.94%) GitHub
10 17 (2.63%) PaaS
11 14 (2.16%) Datadog
12 8 (1.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.93%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.93%) SaaS
13 6 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.62%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 191 (29.52%) DNS
2 163 (25.19%) Firewall
3 94 (14.53%) DHCP
4 61 (9.43%) VPN
5 60 (9.27%) TCP/IP
6 49 (7.57%) Network Security
6 49 (7.57%) SAN
7 44 (6.80%) VSAN
8 40 (6.18%) VLAN
9 38 (5.87%) WAN
10 35 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 35 (5.41%) LAN
11 33 (5.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 28 (4.33%) HTTP
13 26 (4.02%) BGP
14 25 (3.86%) NAS
15 24 (3.71%) BIG-IP
16 22 (3.40%) SSL
16 22 (3.40%) Wireless
17 19 (2.94%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.93%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.31%) GIS
5 2 (0.31%) Redis
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (3.86%) Git
2 24 (3.71%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.71%) JIRA
3 16 (2.47%) GitLab
4 13 (2.01%) Fiddler
5 11 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.24%) PVCS
6 8 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.08%) JMeter
7 7 (1.08%) JUnit
8 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.62%) RStudio
8 4 (0.62%) Subversion
9 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 160 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 78 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.19%) Finance
5 44 (6.80%) Banking
6 41 (6.34%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.86%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.16%) Legal
9 12 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.24%) Electronics
12 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.08%) Police
13 5 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.77%) Local Government
13 5 (0.77%) Military
14 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 113 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (13.60%) Architect
3 55 (8.50%) Analyst
4 37 (5.72%) Network Engineer
5 36 (5.56%) Senior
6 34 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
7 33 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (4.95%) Consultant
9 30 (4.64%) Support Engineer
10 29 (4.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 27 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
12 24 (3.71%) VMware Consultant
13 19 (2.94%) Lead
13 19 (2.94%) Storage Analyst
14 18 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
15 17 (2.63%) Storage Engineer
15 17 (2.63%) Wintel Engineer
16 15 (2.32%) Infrastructure Support
16 15 (2.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.40%) LDAP
2 17 (2.63%) Flash
3 10 (1.55%) SAML
4 9 (1.39%) REST
5 8 (1.24%) Kafka
6 7 (1.08%) Loki
6 7 (1.08%) Spring
7 6 (0.93%) Hibernate
7 6 (0.93%) Middleware
8 4 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth
8 4 (0.62%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.62%) OpenID
9 3 (0.46%) Swagger
10 2 (0.31%) Java SE
10 2 (0.31%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.31%) OpenLayers
10 2 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.31%) RESTful
10 2 (0.31%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.60%) Data Centre
2 65 (10.05%) Replication
3 48 (7.42%) PKI
4 37 (5.72%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (4.79%) Private Cloud
8 20 (3.09%) Clustering
9 17 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
13 10 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.55%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.24%) Driving Licence
14 8 (1.24%) Hedge funds
14 8 (1.24%) SCADA
15 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 273 (42.19%) Windows
2 219 (33.85%) Linux
3 158 (24.42%) Windows Server
4 43 (6.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (5.41%) Windows 10
6 29 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (2.01%) Mac OS
9 13 (2.01%) Ubuntu
9 13 (2.01%) VMS
10 12 (1.85%) Solaris
11 9 (1.39%) Unix
12 7 (1.08%) CentOS
13 6 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.62%) CatOS
16 3 (0.46%) AIX
17 2 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (21.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 123 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (16.07%) Agile
4 94 (14.53%) Migration
5 80 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 79 (12.21%) CI/CD
7 77 (11.90%) ITIL
8 74 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (10.97%) DevOps
10 61 (9.43%) Load Balancing
11 60 (9.27%) High Availability
12 53 (8.19%) Containerisation
13 51 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
14 49 (7.57%) Data Protection
15 45 (6.96%) Service Management
16 44 (6.80%) Network Virtualisation
17 41 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
19 39 (6.03%) Roadmaps
20 38 (5.87%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 161 (24.88%) PowerShell
2 120 (18.55%) Python
3 84 (12.98%) Bash
4 31 (4.79%) SQL
5 17 (2.63%) Java
5 17 (2.63%) Perl
6 12 (1.85%) C
7 11 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.39%) C++
9 7 (1.08%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.08%) Embedded C++
9 7 (1.08%) Go
10 5 (0.77%) Bicep
11 4 (0.62%) C#
11 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.46%) PHP
13 2 (0.31%) Korn
13 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.15%) Rust
14 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 246 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 170 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.44%) DV Cleared
4 44 (6.80%) Degree
5 43 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (6.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 34 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.48%) Azure Certification
8 26 (4.02%) CCNP
9 18 (2.78%) MCSE
10 17 (2.63%) VCAP
11 16 (2.47%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.16%) CCIE
13 12 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.85%) CCNA
13 12 (1.85%) MCSA
14 11 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.70%) Server+ Certification
15 8 (1.24%) JNCIE
16 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.09%) GDPR
1 20 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (1.85%) NIST
3 9 (1.39%) SLA
4 8 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.93%) QA
6 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.62%) NCSC
8 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 191 (29.52%) Active Directory
2 137 (21.17%) vSphere
3 113 (17.47%) VMware NSX
4 98 (15.15%) Hyper-V
5 82 (12.67%) VMware ESXi
6 57 (8.81%) Docker
7 51 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (5.10%) NFS
9 26 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (2.94%) Firmware
10 19 (2.94%) KVM
11 17 (2.63%) GPFS
12 8 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.62%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.62%) vCloud
14 4 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.46%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 110 (17.00%) Ansible
2 81 (12.52%) Terraform
3 76 (11.75%) vCenter Server
4 67 (10.36%) SCCM
5 63 (9.74%) Kubernetes
6 54 (8.35%) vRealize
7 52 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (3.55%) Grafana
8 23 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (3.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (2.94%) VxRail
11 17 (2.63%) Argo
12 14 (2.16%) FortiGate
12 14 (2.16%) Prometheus
12 14 (2.16%) SCOM
12 14 (2.16%) vMotion
13 13 (2.01%) WSUS
14 11 (1.70%) Progress Chef
15 10 (1.55%) Puppet
16 9 (1.39%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 647 (100.00%) VMware
2 173 (26.74%) Microsoft
3 157 (24.27%) Cisco
4 68 (10.51%) F5
5 58 (8.96%) Citrix
6 52 (8.04%) Red Hat
7 47 (7.26%) SolarWinds
8 43 (6.65%) IBM
8 43 (6.65%) ServiceNow
9 41 (6.34%) Dell
9 41 (6.34%) NetApp
10 39 (6.03%) Oracle
11 37 (5.72%) Veeam
12 28 (4.33%) Palo Alto
13 23 (3.55%) Commvault
14 19 (2.94%) Pure Storage
15 17 (2.63%) Juniper
16 16 (2.47%) Google
17 15 (2.32%) HP
17 15 (2.32%) McAfee