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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 154 122
Rank change year-on-year -22 -32 -21
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 753 549 823
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.85% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 15.32% 15.12% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 374 528
10th Percentile £325 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.05% -6.17%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £684 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 29
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £20.94 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £56.57 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.03% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £71.13 - £46.86
90th Percentile £74.00 - £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.13
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.22% -33.13%

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 4,914 3,630 4,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 12.26% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,272 2,391 3,274
10th Percentile £219 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £605
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 86 227
10th Percentile £15.96 £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% -55.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.38 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -36.60%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -30 655 £500 -9.09% 208
UK excluding London -34 520 £500 -9.09% 191
South East +4 191 £538 -6.52% 62
Work from Home -35 159 £500 -4.76% 70
London -38 151 £525 - 37
North of England -14 138 £459 +8.00% 44
Midlands -22 85 £438 -20.45% 32
North West -4 73 £458 +7.65% 28
West Midlands -32 67 £425 -32.00% 21
Yorkshire -22 64 £454 -4.53% 8
South West -61 55 £539 -6.30% 27
East of England -35 34 £475 -13.64% 21
Scotland -13 31 £450 -0.55% 4
East Midlands -17 18 £450 -18.18% 11
Wales -13 7 £600 +106.90% 6
North East -37 1 £675 +92.86% 8

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 38 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.73%) IIS
4 10 (1.33%) nginx
4 10 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.80%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (29.48%) Azure
2 134 (17.80%) AWS
3 49 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.24%) OpenShift
5 46 (6.11%) Entra ID
6 40 (5.31%) GCP
7 29 (3.85%) GitHub
7 29 (3.85%) Nutanix
8 24 (3.19%) IaaS
9 17 (2.26%) PaaS
10 14 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.59%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.46%) Rubrik
13 9 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.93%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.93%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 203 (26.96%) DNS
2 150 (19.92%) Firewall
3 122 (16.20%) DHCP
4 80 (10.62%) SAN
5 70 (9.30%) VPN
6 66 (8.76%) VSAN
6 66 (8.76%) WAN
7 52 (6.91%) Network Security
8 51 (6.77%) LAN
9 46 (6.11%) NAS
9 46 (6.11%) TCP/IP
10 45 (5.98%) SSL
11 37 (4.91%) VLAN
12 31 (4.12%) HTTP
13 29 (3.85%) BGP
13 29 (3.85%) BIG-IP
14 27 (3.59%) Wireshark
15 24 (3.19%) Cisco ASA
16 23 (3.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 21 (2.79%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.33%) Power BI
4 9 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.06%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.53%) DataStage
8 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.40%) Big Data
9 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.40%) GIS
9 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.27%) Redis
10 2 (0.27%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (4.12%) Jenkins
1 31 (4.12%) JIRA
2 17 (2.26%) Fiddler
2 17 (2.26%) GitLab
3 15 (1.99%) Git
4 3 (0.40%) PVCS
4 3 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
4 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.27%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.13%) GoCD
6 1 (0.13%) Postman
6 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 149 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.17%) Finance
3 51 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.65%) Banking
6 32 (4.25%) Legal
7 27 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.33%) Police
9 10 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.20%) Military
11 6 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.80%) Law
11 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.80%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.40%) Electronics
13 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (20.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 97 (12.88%) Architect
3 72 (9.56%) Senior
4 69 (9.16%) VMware Engineer
5 64 (8.50%) Network Engineer
6 39 (5.18%) Consultant
7 32 (4.25%) Infrastructure Architect
7 32 (4.25%) Support Engineer
8 28 (3.72%) Analyst
9 27 (3.59%) Lead
9 27 (3.59%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 27 (3.59%) Storage Engineer
10 26 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 26 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
11 25 (3.32%) VMware Consultant
12 23 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (2.92%) Administrator
13 22 (2.92%) VMware Architect
14 20 (2.66%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (2.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.26%) Flash
2 16 (2.12%) LDAP
3 11 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.46%) REST
4 9 (1.20%) Middleware
5 7 (0.93%) 802.1X
5 7 (0.93%) SAML
6 6 (0.80%) .NET
6 6 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.80%) Redfish
7 5 (0.66%) JSON
8 4 (0.53%) Java SE
8 4 (0.53%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.53%) XML
9 3 (0.40%) EJB
9 3 (0.40%) JSP
9 3 (0.40%) YAML
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth
10 2 (0.27%) OpenID
10 2 (0.27%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 101 (13.41%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.37%) Replication
3 61 (8.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 52 (6.91%) PKI
5 40 (5.31%) Enterprise Storage
6 39 (5.18%) Clustering
7 35 (4.65%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.32%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.19%) Private Cloud
10 23 (3.05%) Management Information System
11 21 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.59%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.33%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.06%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 371 (49.27%) Windows
2 252 (33.47%) Windows Server
3 224 (29.75%) Linux
4 49 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (6.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (3.32%) VMS
7 19 (2.52%) Data ONTAP
8 18 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.39%) Unix
9 17 (2.26%) Windows 10
10 15 (1.99%) Solaris
11 14 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.06%) CentOS
13 8 (1.06%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
15 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (27.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 149 (19.79%) Migration
3 110 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (13.81%) High Availability
5 103 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
6 88 (11.69%) ITIL
7 87 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (10.49%) DevOps
9 77 (10.23%) CI/CD
10 72 (9.56%) Agile
11 69 (9.16%) Capacity Planning
12 65 (8.63%) Change Management
12 65 (8.63%) Network Virtualisation
13 62 (8.23%) Load Balancing
14 59 (7.84%) Validation
15 57 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
16 55 (7.30%) ITSM
17 52 (6.91%) Data Protection
18 49 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 48 (6.37%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 167 (22.18%) PowerShell
2 106 (14.08%) Python
3 58 (7.70%) Bash
4 36 (4.78%) SQL
5 10 (1.33%) Java
6 9 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.80%) C
8 5 (0.66%) Bicep
8 5 (0.66%) Go
8 5 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.53%) C++
9 4 (0.53%) COBOL
9 4 (0.53%) PHP
10 3 (0.40%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.40%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.27%) C#
11 2 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 316 (41.97%) Security Cleared
2 197 (26.16%) SC Cleared
3 132 (17.53%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 40 (5.31%) Degree
6 35 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (4.65%) VCAP
7 31 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (3.32%) MCSE
9 20 (2.66%) MCSA
10 19 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.26%) CCNP
13 14 (1.86%) CCNA
14 11 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.33%) OCP
16 7 (0.93%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.80%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.32%) NIST
1 25 (3.32%) SLA
2 19 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.86%) NCSC
5 7 (0.93%) QA
6 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.27%) DICOM
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.27%) ISA99
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.27%) RMADS
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 224 (29.75%) Active Directory
2 184 (24.44%) vSphere
3 182 (24.17%) VMware ESXi
4 157 (20.85%) VMware NSX
5 155 (20.58%) Hyper-V
6 100 (13.28%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (5.44%) Docker
8 37 (4.91%) NFS
9 36 (4.78%) Firmware
10 32 (4.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (3.59%) KVM
12 13 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (1.59%) GPFS
14 11 (1.46%) BitLocker
14 11 (1.46%) vCloud
15 7 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.80%) Ceph
16 6 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.66%) SRDF
18 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 153 (20.32%) Ansible
2 129 (17.13%) vCenter Server
3 87 (11.55%) Terraform
4 85 (11.29%) Kubernetes
5 43 (5.71%) SCCM
6 39 (5.18%) vRealize
7 37 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.85%) SCOM
9 28 (3.72%) Grafana
9 28 (3.72%) vMotion
10 20 (2.66%) Argo
10 20 (2.66%) PowerCLI
11 16 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.99%) VxRail
12 15 (1.99%) WSUS
13 14 (1.86%) Puppet
13 14 (1.86%) SnapMirror
14 13 (1.73%) EMC VPLEX
15 12 (1.59%) NetBackup
15 12 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 753 (100.00%) VMware
2 194 (25.76%) Microsoft
3 148 (19.65%) Cisco
4 61 (8.10%) Citrix
5 59 (7.84%) NetApp
6 55 (7.30%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.24%) Dell
8 41 (5.44%) ServiceNow
9 40 (5.31%) F5
9 40 (5.31%) Oracle
10 35 (4.65%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.25%) Pure Storage
12 29 (3.85%) IBM
13 27 (3.59%) Veeam
14 26 (3.45%) Juniper
15 23 (3.05%) CheckPoint
15 23 (3.05%) SolarWinds
16 20 (2.66%) Commvault
16 20 (2.66%) McAfee
17 18 (2.39%) Blue Coat