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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 192 110
Rank change year-on-year +25 -82 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 887 491 832
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.50% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 16.58% 12.87% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 305 526
10th Percentile £325 £339 £321
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.52% -0.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.40 £22.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +110.45% -17.05% -42.60%
75th Percentile £74.00 £48.63 £60.63
90th Percentile £98.82 £59.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.24 £47.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.07% -5.50% -14.34%

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 5,349 3,814 4,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.99% 11.62% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,424 3,071
10th Percentile £225 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 109 142
10th Percentile £15.79 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.41 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +42.68% -49.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £59.58
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £73.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.37 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.67% +136.36% +11.70%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +15 774 £519 -5.64% 325
UK excluding London -3 612 £515 -6.36% 236
South East -6 218 £538 -6.52% 88
London -1 191 £525 - 127
Work from Home -21 176 £500 -9.09% 120
North of England -5 162 £483 +10.78% 43
Midlands -5 92 £450 -18.18% 29
North West +1 85 £480 +12.94% 23
South West -32 78 £600 +4.35% 35
West Midlands -25 71 £450 -20.84% 19
Yorkshire -19 69 £500 +11.48% 10
East of England -23 40 £500 -9.09% 28
Scotland +5 34 £438 -5.81% 17
East Midlands -6 21 £450 -13.63% 10
Wales -5 11 £550 - 4
North East -32 8 £275 -56.00% 13

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 49 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.69%) Confluence
4 14 (1.58%) IIS
5 9 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.90%) nginx
6 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.79%) JBoss
8 4 (0.45%) Apache
8 4 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.45%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.23%) Houdini
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.23%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 249 (28.07%) Azure
2 151 (17.02%) AWS
3 77 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (6.31%) Entra ID
5 44 (4.96%) OpenShift
6 43 (4.85%) GCP
7 35 (3.95%) GitHub
8 30 (3.38%) IaaS
9 23 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.37%) Nutanix
11 20 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.25%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.92%) Rubrik
13 16 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (1.80%) PaaS
14 15 (1.69%) OneDrive
15 14 (1.58%) SaaS
16 9 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.01%) Azure Stack
16 9 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 276 (31.12%) DNS
2 184 (20.74%) Firewall
3 172 (19.39%) DHCP
4 95 (10.71%) VSAN
5 89 (10.03%) TCP/IP
6 78 (8.79%) VPN
7 71 (8.00%) SAN
8 66 (7.44%) VLAN
9 63 (7.10%) WAN
10 57 (6.43%) Network Security
11 49 (5.52%) SSL
12 48 (5.41%) LAN
13 40 (4.51%) NAS
14 35 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 31 (3.49%) BGP
16 30 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 29 (3.27%) BIG-IP
18 27 (3.04%) HTTP
19 25 (2.82%) Wireshark
20 20 (2.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (2.03%) Power BI
4 14 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (1.01%) Big Data
8 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.90%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.34%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 40 (4.51%) JIRA
2 35 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.71%) GitLab
4 20 (2.25%) Git
5 15 (1.69%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.45%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.23%) CppUnit
9 2 (0.23%) MSI
9 2 (0.23%) PVCS
9 2 (0.23%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 203 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (9.13%) Finance
4 49 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 39 (4.40%) Banking
6 34 (3.83%) Legal
7 32 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.90%) Military
13 8 (0.90%) Retail
14 7 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Law
16 5 (0.56%) Police
17 4 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 210 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 125 (14.09%) Senior
3 95 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
4 82 (9.24%) Architect
5 73 (8.23%) Network Engineer
6 48 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 42 (4.74%) Consultant
8 41 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 39 (4.40%) Lead
10 38 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 36 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 34 (3.83%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 34 (3.83%) Storage Engineer
14 30 (3.38%) Administrator
15 28 (3.16%) VMware Consultant
16 27 (3.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 24 (2.71%) Senior Network Engineer
17 24 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 23 (2.59%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.03%) REST
2 14 (1.58%) Middleware
3 12 (1.35%) JSON
4 11 (1.24%) .NET
5 10 (1.13%) 802.1X
5 10 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.13%) Flash
6 9 (1.01%) YAML
7 7 (0.79%) Kafka
7 7 (0.79%) LDAP
8 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.68%) Redfish
9 5 (0.56%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.56%) JDBC
9 5 (0.56%) ODBC
9 5 (0.56%) XML
10 3 (0.34%) Java SE
10 3 (0.34%) NETCONF
10 3 (0.34%) SAML
11 2 (0.23%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 132 (14.88%) Data Centre
2 72 (8.12%) PKI
3 70 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.98%) Enterprise Storage
5 49 (5.52%) Clustering
6 47 (5.30%) Replication
7 31 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.27%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (2.93%) Onboarding
10 25 (2.82%) Private Cloud
11 24 (2.71%) Cloud Native
12 19 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.35%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.24%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.24%) SCADA
16 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.90%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 464 (52.31%) Windows
2 305 (34.39%) Windows Server
3 255 (28.75%) Linux
4 51 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (3.61%) VMS
6 26 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.71%) Unix
8 23 (2.59%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (1.92%) Ubuntu
11 16 (1.80%) Data ONTAP
12 15 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (1.13%) Solaris
14 9 (1.01%) CentOS
15 8 (0.90%) AIX
16 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.68%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.56%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (31.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 168 (18.94%) Migration
3 161 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
4 145 (16.35%) ITIL
5 132 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 121 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 113 (12.74%) High Availability
8 111 (12.51%) CI/CD
9 102 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
10 93 (10.48%) Change Management
11 89 (10.03%) DevOps
12 84 (9.47%) Agile
12 84 (9.47%) Network Virtualisation
13 83 (9.36%) ITSM
14 82 (9.24%) Validation
15 81 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 80 (9.02%) Platform Engineering
17 74 (8.34%) Service Management
18 72 (8.12%) Project Delivery
19 68 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (24.01%) PowerShell
2 132 (14.88%) Python
3 92 (10.37%) Bash
4 55 (6.20%) SQL
5 24 (2.71%) Java
6 9 (1.01%) Go
7 7 (0.79%) Bicep
7 7 (0.79%) C
7 7 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.68%) C#
8 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.34%) C++
10 3 (0.34%) Lua
10 3 (0.34%) VB
10 3 (0.34%) VBScript
11 2 (0.23%) COBOL
11 2 (0.23%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.23%) Korn
11 2 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 412 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 252 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 189 (21.31%) DV Cleared
4 68 (7.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (6.20%) Degree
6 44 (4.96%) VCAP
7 41 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.27%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.82%) MCSE
11 21 (2.37%) CCNP
12 20 (2.25%) CCNA
13 16 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.80%) MCSA
14 14 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 7 (0.79%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 7 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.04%) SLA
2 19 (2.14%) NIST
3 17 (1.92%) QA
4 16 (1.80%) NCSC
5 15 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.01%) GDPR
8 5 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.45%) GxP
10 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.23%) DICOM
11 2 (0.23%) ISA99
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.23%) RMADS
12 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 283 (31.91%) Active Directory
2 216 (24.35%) vSphere
3 204 (23.00%) VMware ESXi
4 189 (21.31%) Hyper-V
5 170 (19.17%) VMware NSX
6 93 (10.48%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (6.54%) Docker
8 39 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (3.72%) Firmware
10 20 (2.25%) KVM
10 20 (2.25%) NFS
11 11 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.01%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.01%) Ceph
14 7 (0.79%) GPFS
14 7 (0.79%) vCloud
15 6 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 6 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 185 (20.86%) Ansible
2 153 (17.25%) vCenter Server
3 129 (14.54%) Terraform
4 121 (13.64%) Kubernetes
5 52 (5.86%) SCCM
6 50 (5.64%) SCOM
7 39 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (3.95%) VxRail
9 33 (3.72%) vRealize
10 26 (2.93%) Grafana
11 23 (2.59%) Prometheus
12 22 (2.48%) NetBackup
12 22 (2.48%) Puppet
13 19 (2.14%) WSUS
14 18 (2.03%) PowerCLI
15 17 (1.92%) vMotion
16 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
17 14 (1.58%) Argo
18 13 (1.47%) Avamar
18 13 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 887 (100.00%) VMware
2 253 (28.52%) Microsoft
3 149 (16.80%) Cisco
4 65 (7.33%) Citrix
4 65 (7.33%) NetApp
5 61 (6.88%) Red Hat
6 50 (5.64%) Dell
6 50 (5.64%) Oracle
7 46 (5.19%) F5
8 44 (4.96%) ServiceNow
9 38 (4.28%) Palo Alto
10 37 (4.17%) SolarWinds
11 31 (3.49%) Juniper
11 31 (3.49%) Veeam
12 26 (2.93%) IBM
13 24 (2.71%) Broadcom
14 21 (2.37%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.14%) CheckPoint
16 18 (2.03%) CyberArk
16 18 (2.03%) McAfee