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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 149 133
Rank change year-on-year -26 -16 -29
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 726 554 758
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.91% 1.77%
As % of the System Software category 15.20% 15.47% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 381 487
10th Percentile £318 £313 £268
25th Percentile £422 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £588
90th Percentile £648 £675 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 31
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £45.15 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £67.70 £28.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +141.79% -30.43% -38.08%
75th Percentile £73.38 - £52.50
90th Percentile £74.18 - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -30.30%

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 4,775 3,580 4,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 12.35% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,204 2,430 3,165
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £393 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 84 232
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.41 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +25.00% -58.52%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.19
90th Percentile £91.50 £88.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.32 £19.18
% change year-on-year +62.43% +68.52% -51.81%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -27 633 £500 -9.09% 230
UK excluding London -32 504 £500 -9.09% 203
South East -2 178 £525 -8.70% 75
Work from Home -21 165 £510 -2.86% 71
London -54 141 £525 - 45
North of England -13 131 £449 +12.25% 41
Midlands -14 98 £402 -26.91% 35
West Midlands -22 75 £398 -27.79% 23
North West -3 70 £449 +11.14% 25
Yorkshire -16 60 £420 +3.70% 11
South West -60 51 £540 -6.09% 26
East of England -22 39 £475 -13.64% 15
Scotland +3 26 £450 -3.07% 4
East Midlands -19 23 £443 -18.38% 12
Wales -13 5 £490 +68.97% 8
North East -22 2 £575 +64.29% 6

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 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.52%) IIS
4 9 (1.24%) nginx
5 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.83%) Confluence
7 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) Apache
8 4 (0.55%) CICS
9 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.28%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) CloudStack
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.69%) Azure
2 127 (17.49%) AWS
3 55 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (7.02%) Entra ID
5 42 (5.79%) OpenShift
6 35 (4.82%) GCP
7 26 (3.58%) GitHub
7 26 (3.58%) IaaS
8 24 (3.31%) Nutanix
9 19 (2.62%) PaaS
10 12 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.38%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.10%) Rubrik
13 7 (0.96%) Datadog
14 6 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 198 (27.27%) DNS
2 164 (22.59%) Firewall
3 114 (15.70%) DHCP
4 75 (10.33%) VPN
5 73 (10.06%) SAN
6 65 (8.95%) VSAN
7 63 (8.68%) WAN
8 52 (7.16%) LAN
9 51 (7.02%) TCP/IP
10 50 (6.89%) Network Security
11 45 (6.20%) NAS
12 44 (6.06%) SSL
13 35 (4.82%) HTTP
14 34 (4.68%) BIG-IP
15 32 (4.41%) VLAN
16 30 (4.13%) Wireshark
17 26 (3.58%) BGP
17 26 (3.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 23 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.10%) Power BI
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
4 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.55%) DataStage
7 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.41%) Redis
8 2 (0.28%) GIS
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 26 (3.58%) JIRA
2 25 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.62%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.20%) GitLab
5 12 (1.65%) Git
6 6 (0.83%) PVCS
6 6 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.28%) MSI
8 2 (0.28%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) GoCD
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 138 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (7.16%) Finance
3 52 (7.16%) Public Sector
4 39 (5.37%) Banking
5 29 (3.99%) Legal
6 27 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.89%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.52%) Police
9 9 (1.24%) Military
10 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.83%) Electronics
12 6 (0.83%) Retail
13 5 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Law
13 5 (0.69%) Local Government
13 5 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 146 (20.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (12.81%) Architect
3 74 (10.19%) Senior
4 66 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 62 (8.54%) VMware Engineer
6 39 (5.37%) Analyst
7 34 (4.68%) Consultant
8 28 (3.86%) Infrastructure Architect
8 28 (3.86%) Lead
9 23 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (3.17%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 23 (3.17%) VMware Architect
10 22 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (3.03%) Support Engineer
10 22 (3.03%) VMware Consultant
10 22 (3.03%) Wintel Engineer
11 21 (2.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 21 (2.89%) Storage Engineer
12 19 (2.62%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 19 (2.62%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.89%) LDAP
2 18 (2.48%) Flash
3 11 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.38%) SAML
5 9 (1.24%) Middleware
6 7 (0.96%) REST
7 6 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.69%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.55%) XML
10 3 (0.41%) .NET
10 3 (0.41%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.41%) EJB
10 3 (0.41%) JSON
10 3 (0.41%) JSP
10 3 (0.41%) Kafka
10 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
11 2 (0.28%) NETCONF
11 2 (0.28%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.28%) OpenLayers
11 2 (0.28%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 95 (13.09%) Data Centre
2 67 (9.23%) Replication
3 53 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (7.02%) PKI
5 44 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.96%) Clustering
7 32 (4.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 26 (3.58%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.31%) Management Information System
10 22 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.75%) Public Cloud
12 17 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.79%) SCADA
15 12 (1.65%) Product Ownership
16 11 (1.52%) Onboarding
17 9 (1.24%) Operational Technology
17 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
18 8 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 338 (46.56%) Windows
2 227 (31.27%) Windows Server
3 218 (30.03%) Linux
4 50 (6.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (6.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (3.44%) VMS
8 21 (2.89%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.62%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.48%) Data ONTAP
11 16 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (1.93%) Solaris
13 12 (1.65%) Unix
14 10 (1.38%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.10%) CentOS
15 8 (1.10%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.69%) AIX
18 4 (0.55%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (25.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 134 (18.46%) Migration
3 112 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (13.91%) High Availability
5 97 (13.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 88 (12.12%) ITIL
7 78 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (10.19%) Agile
9 72 (9.92%) CI/CD
10 71 (9.78%) DevOps
11 66 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
12 65 (8.95%) Network Virtualisation
13 63 (8.68%) Load Balancing
14 61 (8.40%) Platform Engineering
15 57 (7.85%) Change Management
16 52 (7.16%) Data Protection
17 46 (6.34%) Containerisation
17 46 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (5.92%) Validation
19 42 (5.79%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.45%) PowerShell
2 97 (13.36%) Python
3 59 (8.13%) Bash
4 34 (4.68%) SQL
5 9 (1.24%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.10%) C
6 8 (1.10%) Java
7 7 (0.96%) C++
8 6 (0.83%) Bicep
8 6 (0.83%) Embedded C
8 6 (0.83%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.55%) C#
10 4 (0.55%) COBOL
10 4 (0.55%) Go
10 4 (0.55%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.55%) Perl
10 4 (0.55%) PHP
11 2 (0.28%) VBScript
12 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 289 (39.81%) Security Cleared
2 188 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 115 (15.84%) DV Cleared
4 55 (7.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 37 (5.10%) Degree
6 33 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (4.13%) VCAP
8 25 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.75%) MCSE
11 19 (2.62%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.48%) CCNP
13 15 (2.07%) MCSA
14 11 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.38%) OCP
16 9 (1.24%) AWS Certification
16 9 (1.24%) CCNA
17 8 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.83%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.75%) SLA
3 19 (2.62%) NIST
4 16 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.79%) NCSC
6 8 (1.10%) GDPR
7 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.28%) DICOM
8 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.28%) ISA99
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.28%) QA
8 2 (0.28%) RMADS
9 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 219 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 165 (22.73%) vSphere
3 158 (21.76%) VMware NSX
4 147 (20.25%) VMware ESXi
5 143 (19.70%) Hyper-V
6 88 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (6.34%) Docker
8 39 (5.37%) NFS
9 33 (4.55%) Firmware
10 27 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 25 (3.44%) KVM
12 13 (1.79%) GPFS
13 11 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.24%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.96%) vCloud
16 6 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
17 5 (0.69%) Ceph
17 5 (0.69%) XenDesktop
18 4 (0.55%) XenApp
19 3 (0.41%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 133 (18.32%) Ansible
2 104 (14.33%) vCenter Server
3 80 (11.02%) Terraform
4 77 (10.61%) Kubernetes
5 50 (6.89%) SCCM
6 48 (6.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (5.79%) vRealize
8 27 (3.72%) Grafana
9 23 (3.17%) vMotion
10 20 (2.75%) Argo
11 19 (2.62%) SCOM
12 18 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (2.34%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.34%) WSUS
14 16 (2.20%) VxRail
15 13 (1.79%) SnapMirror
16 12 (1.65%) Puppet
17 11 (1.52%) FortiGate
17 11 (1.52%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 726 (100.00%) VMware
2 189 (26.03%) Microsoft
3 146 (20.11%) Cisco
4 67 (9.23%) Citrix
5 62 (8.54%) NetApp
6 52 (7.16%) Red Hat
7 48 (6.61%) F5
8 38 (5.23%) Dell
9 37 (5.10%) Oracle
10 36 (4.96%) ServiceNow
11 35 (4.82%) IBM
12 34 (4.68%) Palo Alto
13 31 (4.27%) Pure Storage
14 29 (3.99%) Veeam
15 24 (3.31%) CheckPoint
16 23 (3.17%) Broadcom
16 23 (3.17%) Commvault
16 23 (3.17%) McAfee
17 20 (2.75%) SolarWinds
18 19 (2.62%) Blue Coat