VMware Infrastructure Contracts

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 101 138
Rank change year-on-year -8 +37 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 831 1,323 1,742
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.07% 2.43% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 18.28% 18.64% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 864 1,281
10th Percentile £311 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £600
90th Percentile £660 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 58 38
10th Percentile £22.11 £35.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £48.40 £38.16
Median hourly rate £29.98 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.03% +31.58% +5.14%
75th Percentile £55.31 £67.50 £60.93
90th Percentile £77.33 £80.00 £66.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £59.80 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.11% +34.38% +9.59%

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 4,545 7,097 11,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.32% 13.06% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,157 4,879 8,493
10th Percentile £213 £200 £200
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 255 282
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.21 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +132.56% +13.16%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.29 £27.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.56% +36.25% +14.29%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 Contract 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 26 July 2024. 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 -4 766 £525 - 264
UK excluding London -7 552 £525 +5.00% 261
South East +6 277 £550 +10.00% 61
London -6 227 £450 -18.18% 41
Work from Home -38 202 £500 -3.85% 108
South West +10 115 £538 +4.88% 36
Midlands 0 85 £550 +22.22% 40
West Midlands +1 61 £582 +29.33% 30
North of England -8 60 £350 -22.22% 75
North West -1 41 £325 -27.78% 40
Scotland +10 27 £438 -11.96% 18
East Midlands +6 24 £450 +19.87% 10
East of England -31 21 £550 -15.38% 21
Yorkshire +17 16 £535 +9.74% 26
Wales -17 4 £220 -63.33% 3
North East -3 3 £300 -29.41% 12
Northern Ireland -2 1 £525 +23.53% 12

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 69 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (4.09%) Confluence
3 30 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.29%) OpenStack
5 10 (1.20%) IIS
6 9 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2013
7 8 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.60%) nginx
9 4 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.24%) Apache
10 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.24%) Site Server
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 38 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.24%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.12%) Eikon
3 1 (0.12%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 210 (25.27%) Azure
2 144 (17.33%) AWS
3 111 (13.36%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (4.09%) GCP
5 31 (3.73%) Entra ID
6 30 (3.61%) IaaS
7 26 (3.13%) PaaS
8 18 (2.17%) GitHub
9 15 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (1.81%) OCI
9 15 (1.81%) SaaS
10 13 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (1.56%) Nutanix
10 13 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.08%) Mimecast
12 8 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (0.72%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.60%) Google Workspace
14 5 (0.60%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 164 (19.74%) Firewall
2 149 (17.93%) DNS
3 117 (14.08%) DHCP
4 86 (10.35%) SAN
5 85 (10.23%) WAN
6 75 (9.03%) LAN
7 70 (8.42%) VPN
8 53 (6.38%) TCP/IP
9 49 (5.90%) SD-WAN
10 46 (5.54%) Wireless
11 42 (5.05%) VLAN
11 42 (5.05%) VSAN
12 35 (4.21%) Network Security
13 33 (3.97%) Remote Desktop
14 29 (3.49%) NAS
15 22 (2.65%) NX-OS
16 21 (2.53%) MPLS
16 21 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
17 18 (2.17%) VoIP
18 15 (1.81%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (1.81%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (1.56%) Couchbase
5 13 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 10 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.84%) OLTP
10 6 (0.72%) MySQL
11 3 (0.36%) DB2
12 2 (0.24%) Big Data
12 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.24%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.24%) Power BI
12 2 (0.24%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (6.38%) JIRA
2 31 (3.73%) GitLab
3 28 (3.37%) Git
4 25 (3.01%) Robot Framework
5 22 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (1.81%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.96%) MSI
8 4 (0.48%) Toad
9 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.24%) Subversion
11 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 181 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 85 (10.23%) Public Sector
3 82 (9.87%) Finance
4 64 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.21%) Banking
6 29 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.93%) Military
9 15 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.08%) Electronics
12 9 (1.08%) Legal
12 9 (1.08%) Marketing
13 7 (0.84%) Billing
13 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.84%) Local Government
14 6 (0.72%) Advertising
15 3 (0.36%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 167 (20.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 146 (17.57%) Architect
3 51 (6.14%) Network Engineer
4 47 (5.66%) Support Engineer
5 42 (5.05%) Wintel Engineer
6 41 (4.93%) VMware Engineer
7 40 (4.81%) Analyst
7 40 (4.81%) Consultant
8 37 (4.45%) Senior
9 31 (3.73%) Administrator
9 31 (3.73%) Integration Engineer
10 28 (3.37%) Network Architect
11 25 (3.01%) Lead
11 25 (3.01%) Security Architect
12 24 (2.89%) Infrastructure Architect
13 23 (2.77%) IT Engineer
14 22 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
15 21 (2.53%) Storage Engineer
15 21 (2.53%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.65%) YAML
2 15 (1.81%) .NET
3 10 (1.20%) LDAP
3 10 (1.20%) Web Services
4 9 (1.08%) Kafka
4 9 (1.08%) Middleware
5 8 (0.96%) REST
6 6 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.72%) ModSecurity
6 6 (0.72%) Software Packaging
7 5 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.48%) Flash
8 4 (0.48%) Node.js
9 3 (0.36%) J2EE
9 3 (0.36%) JSON
9 3 (0.36%) React
10 2 (0.24%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.24%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.24%) OAuth
10 2 (0.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 132 (15.88%) Data Centre
2 79 (9.51%) PKI
3 38 (4.57%) Clustering
4 30 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.01%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.01%) Replication
6 24 (2.89%) Private Cloud
7 19 (2.29%) Client/Server
8 16 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.56%) Fat Client
10 13 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (1.56%) Thin Client
11 12 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.96%) Security Posture
13 8 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 445 (53.55%) Windows
2 275 (33.09%) Windows Server
3 228 (27.44%) Linux
4 94 (11.31%) Windows Server 2012
5 89 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 81 (9.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 80 (9.63%) Windows 10
8 61 (7.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 44 (5.29%) Unix
10 33 (3.97%) VMS
11 28 (3.37%) Solaris
12 17 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
13 14 (1.68%) Mac OS
13 14 (1.68%) Windows 7
14 13 (1.56%) Windows XP
15 12 (1.44%) CentOS
15 12 (1.44%) Ubuntu
16 11 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
17 6 (0.72%) AIX
18 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (25.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 152 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (13.72%) Agile
4 110 (13.24%) Migration
5 91 (10.95%) ITIL
6 79 (9.51%) DevOps
7 75 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 63 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 58 (6.98%) High Availability
10 55 (6.62%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 54 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
12 52 (6.26%) Task Automation
13 50 (6.02%) Infrastructure Automation
14 47 (5.66%) Performance Tuning
14 47 (5.66%) Validation
15 44 (5.29%) Containerisation
16 42 (5.05%) Change Management
16 42 (5.05%) Computer Science
16 42 (5.05%) Network Virtualisation
16 42 (5.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 229 (27.56%) PowerShell
2 115 (13.84%) Python
3 62 (7.46%) SQL
4 34 (4.09%) Bash
5 30 (3.61%) Java
6 15 (1.81%) C#
6 15 (1.81%) Shell Script
6 15 (1.81%) VBScript
7 8 (0.96%) Go
8 7 (0.84%) Scala
9 5 (0.60%) Perl
10 4 (0.48%) Ruby
10 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.48%) VB
11 3 (0.36%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.36%) PHP
12 2 (0.24%) C
12 2 (0.24%) C++
12 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 390 (46.93%) Security Cleared
2 220 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 131 (15.76%) DV Cleared
4 85 (10.23%) Degree
5 53 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 52 (6.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 44 (5.29%) CCNA
8 39 (4.69%) MCSE
9 28 (3.37%) CCNP
10 25 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (2.89%) MCSA
12 16 (1.93%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.44%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.08%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
16 6 (0.72%) VCAP
17 5 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.81%) SLA
2 13 (1.56%) NIST
3 12 (1.44%) GDPR
4 11 (1.32%) PMO
4 11 (1.32%) RMADS
5 8 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.24%) QA
9 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.12%) FINRA
9 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 318 (38.27%) Active Directory
2 177 (21.30%) Hyper-V
3 152 (18.29%) vSphere
4 130 (15.64%) VMware NSX
5 104 (12.52%) VMware ESXi
6 63 (7.58%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (5.17%) Docker
8 37 (4.45%) XenApp
9 26 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (3.13%) XenDesktop
10 25 (3.01%) KVM
11 20 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (1.81%) vCloud
13 11 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.08%) Firmware
15 8 (0.96%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 6 (0.72%) VMFS
16 6 (0.72%) VMware Server
16 6 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 130 (15.64%) Ansible
2 118 (14.20%) SCCM
3 97 (11.67%) Terraform
3 97 (11.67%) vCenter Server
4 82 (9.87%) Kubernetes
5 57 (6.86%) WSUS
6 43 (5.17%) SCOM
7 39 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (3.97%) Puppet
9 24 (2.89%) Progress Chef
10 22 (2.65%) vRealize
11 21 (2.53%) NetBackup
12 19 (2.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 17 (2.05%) Salt
14 16 (1.93%) VxRail
15 15 (1.81%) CSIRT
15 15 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
15 15 (1.81%) Nessus
15 15 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
16 14 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 831 (100.00%) VMware
2 289 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 150 (18.05%) Cisco
4 100 (12.03%) Citrix
5 67 (8.06%) Red Hat
6 65 (7.82%) Dell
7 52 (6.26%) Oracle
8 41 (4.93%) HP
9 40 (4.81%) Veeam
10 33 (3.97%) Juniper
11 32 (3.85%) EMC
12 28 (3.37%) SolarWinds
13 26 (3.13%) Palo Alto
14 24 (2.89%) F5
15 23 (2.77%) Avaya
15 23 (2.77%) Google
16 19 (2.29%) Symantec
17 18 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
18 17 (2.05%) Qualys
18 17 (2.05%) SaltStack