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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 193 123
Rank change year-on-year +22 -70 -33
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 916 491 740
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.50% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 16.93% 12.43% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 327 428
10th Percentile £325 £230 £312
25th Percentile £425 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.11% -3.10%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.35 £26.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +126.67% +26.05% -63.93%
75th Percentile £89.24 £48.63 £44.00
90th Percentile £93.79 £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 5,412 3,949 4,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 12.03% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,554 2,504 2,788
10th Percentile £225 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £669 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 121 101
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.75 £19.64
Median hourly rate £61.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.88% +23.64% -42.58%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.75 £83.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.82 £60.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +4.70% +93.55% -22.11%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +14 807 £525 -4.55% 623
UK excluding London +1 649 £520 -5.55% 443
South East -7 209 £538 -0.19% 139
London -14 195 £550 +10.00% 207
Work from Home -33 178 £516 +3.20% 245
North of England +7 177 £482 +13.29% 86
Midlands -10 94 £450 -18.18% 66
North West 0 82 £448 +2.40% 49
Yorkshire -5 80 £525 +27.27% 26
South West -27 75 £638 +14.86% 61
West Midlands -17 71 £450 -21.40% 43
East of England 0 61 £600 +9.09% 50
Scotland +7 43 £425 -0.29% 31
East Midlands -1 23 £438 -9.33% 23
North East -22 16 £400 - 14
Wales - 11 £550 - 9

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 47 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.71%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.40%) Confluence
4 20 (2.18%) IIS
5 14 (1.53%) CMS
6 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.76%) JBoss
8 5 (0.55%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.44%) Apache
9 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.87%) 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 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (27.29%) Azure
2 132 (14.41%) AWS
3 87 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (7.75%) Entra ID
5 52 (5.68%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.15%) GCP
7 31 (3.38%) GitHub
8 27 (2.95%) IaaS
9 24 (2.62%) Nutanix
10 21 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (1.97%) Rubrik
12 17 (1.86%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.75%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.31%) PaaS
14 12 (1.31%) SaaS
15 8 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.87%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 285 (31.11%) DNS
2 177 (19.32%) DHCP
3 174 (19.00%) Firewall
4 101 (11.03%) TCP/IP
5 76 (8.30%) VSAN
6 71 (7.75%) SAN
7 70 (7.64%) VPN
8 66 (7.21%) VLAN
9 59 (6.44%) Network Security
10 55 (6.00%) WAN
11 52 (5.68%) LAN
12 43 (4.69%) SSL
13 39 (4.26%) NAS
14 33 (3.60%) BGP
15 32 (3.49%) HTTP
16 28 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 27 (2.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 23 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
19 22 (2.40%) Wireshark
20 21 (2.29%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.86%) Power BI
4 11 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.98%) Big Data
7 8 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.22%) GIS
13 2 (0.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 44 (4.80%) JIRA
2 25 (2.73%) GitLab
2 25 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.62%) Git
4 12 (1.31%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.44%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.44%) 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
1 215 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 103 (11.24%) Finance
3 90 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (4.37%) Public Sector
5 39 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (3.28%) Banking
7 28 (3.06%) Legal
8 23 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.87%) Back Office
13 8 (0.87%) Law
13 8 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.66%) Police
15 6 (0.66%) Retail
16 5 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 226 (24.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 141 (15.39%) Senior
3 90 (9.83%) VMware Engineer
4 88 (9.61%) Architect
5 59 (6.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 58 (6.33%) Network Engineer
7 53 (5.79%) Support Engineer
8 52 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (5.02%) Lead
10 42 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
11 37 (4.04%) Storage Engineer
12 35 (3.82%) Consultant
13 34 (3.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 32 (3.49%) Administrator
15 27 (2.95%) Server Engineer
16 25 (2.73%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 25 (2.73%) VMware Consultant
16 25 (2.73%) Wintel Engineer
17 23 (2.51%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 23 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (13.76%) Terraform
2 27 (2.95%) REST
3 22 (2.40%) JSON
4 17 (1.86%) Kafka
5 13 (1.42%) XMPP
6 12 (1.31%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.31%) Middleware
6 12 (1.31%) YAML
7 11 (1.20%) .NET
7 11 (1.20%) LDAP
8 9 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.76%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.66%) Redfish
11 5 (0.55%) JDBC
11 5 (0.55%) ODBC
11 5 (0.55%) XML
12 4 (0.44%) Flash
13 3 (0.33%) Java SE
13 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 155 (16.92%) Data Centre
2 75 (8.19%) PKI
3 69 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (5.57%) Enterprise Storage
5 45 (4.91%) Private Cloud
6 44 (4.80%) Clustering
7 41 (4.48%) Replication
8 33 (3.60%) Onboarding
9 32 (3.49%) Management Information System
10 29 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (3.17%) Public Cloud
11 26 (2.84%) Cloud Native
11 26 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (2.18%) Video Conferencing
13 17 (1.86%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (1.42%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.42%) SCADA
16 12 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 490 (53.49%) Windows
2 331 (36.14%) Windows Server
3 235 (25.66%) Linux
4 48 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (5.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.95%) Windows 10
7 26 (2.84%) Unix
8 24 (2.62%) VMS
9 22 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (1.42%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (0.98%) AIX
14 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.87%) CentOS
14 8 (0.87%) Solaris
15 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.33%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (33.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 179 (19.54%) ITIL
3 175 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (18.78%) Migration
5 159 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (14.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 127 (13.86%) Technical Leadership
8 118 (12.88%) CI/CD
9 113 (12.34%) Change Management
10 96 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
11 95 (10.37%) Project Delivery
12 93 (10.15%) Agile
12 93 (10.15%) ITSM
12 93 (10.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 92 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 92 (10.04%) Validation
14 89 (9.72%) High Availability
15 87 (9.50%) DevOps
16 85 (9.28%) Service Management
17 82 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 222 (24.24%) PowerShell
2 132 (14.41%) Python
3 80 (8.73%) Bash
4 50 (5.46%) SQL
5 24 (2.62%) Java
6 10 (1.09%) Bicep
6 10 (1.09%) Perl
7 9 (0.98%) C
8 8 (0.87%) Go
9 7 (0.76%) C#
10 4 (0.44%) C++
10 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.33%) Korn
11 3 (0.33%) Lua
11 3 (0.33%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) VBScript
13 1 (0.11%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 444 (48.47%) Security Cleared
2 268 (29.26%) SC Cleared
3 195 (21.29%) DV Cleared
4 64 (6.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.44%) Degree
6 50 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.48%) VCAP
9 30 (3.28%) CCNP
10 26 (2.84%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.84%) MCSE
11 23 (2.51%) CCNA
12 21 (2.29%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.97%) MCSA
14 11 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.87%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.40%) SLA
2 19 (2.07%) QA
3 18 (1.97%) NIST
4 14 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.31%) NCSC
6 11 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.87%) GDPR
8 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.44%) 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
1 321 (35.04%) Active Directory
2 226 (24.67%) vSphere
3 210 (22.93%) VMware ESXi
4 207 (22.60%) Hyper-V
5 135 (14.74%) VMware NSX
6 92 (10.04%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (6.22%) Docker
8 48 (5.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 37 (4.04%) Firmware
10 22 (2.40%) NFS
10 22 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
11 17 (1.86%) KVM
12 13 (1.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 10 (1.09%) XenApp
14 9 (0.98%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.76%) oVirt
15 7 (0.76%) vCloud
16 6 (0.66%) Ceph
16 6 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (17.79%) Ansible
2 147 (16.05%) Kubernetes
3 142 (15.50%) vCenter Server
4 63 (6.88%) SCCM
5 61 (6.66%) SCOM
6 47 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (4.04%) VxRail
8 23 (2.51%) vRealize
9 22 (2.40%) Prometheus
10 20 (2.18%) Grafana
11 18 (1.97%) NetBackup
12 17 (1.86%) Cisco CUCM
12 17 (1.86%) Puppet
13 15 (1.64%) PowerCLI
13 15 (1.64%) WSUS
14 14 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
14 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (1.42%) Avamar
15 13 (1.42%) Dell DRAC
16 12 (1.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 916 (100.00%) VMware
2 282 (30.79%) Microsoft
3 156 (17.03%) Cisco
4 72 (7.86%) Citrix
5 68 (7.42%) Red Hat
6 64 (6.99%) NetApp
7 57 (6.22%) Dell
8 48 (5.24%) SolarWinds
9 44 (4.80%) ServiceNow
10 42 (4.59%) Oracle
11 39 (4.26%) Veeam
12 37 (4.04%) F5
13 31 (3.38%) Palo Alto
14 27 (2.95%) Juniper
15 25 (2.73%) Fortinet
16 21 (2.29%) Broadcom
16 21 (2.29%) Commvault
16 21 (2.29%) Remedy
17 20 (2.18%) IBM
18 19 (2.07%) McAfee