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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 168 108
Rank change year-on-year -5 -60 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 821 537 846
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.65% 2.05%
As % of the System Software category 15.76% 14.01% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 351 544
10th Percentile £350 £331 £307
25th Percentile £425 £435 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +7.58% -2.62%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 2 20
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.08
25th Percentile £27.00 £28.50 £23.45
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.41% -27.50% -36.51%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £47.14
90th Percentile £93.79 £29.80 £75.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.22%

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 5,211 3,834 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 11.75% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 2,463 3,245
10th Percentile £220 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 104 188
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.06 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.64 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +56.09% +45.29% -53.70%
75th Percentile £74.00 £68.38 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.45 £90.94 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.75 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +161.36% -18.52%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -8 712 £505 -8.18% 209
UK excluding London -14 571 £513 -6.82% 183
South East +1 217 £538 -7.33% 69
Work from Home -27 167 £500 -4.76% 81
London -32 167 £500 -4.76% 49
North of England -12 143 £483 +17.09% 33
Midlands -15 92 £450 -18.18% 24
Yorkshire -19 71 £500 +11.11% 6
North West -4 70 £472 +34.86% 22
West Midlands -24 70 £450 -20.35% 13
South West -51 65 £550 -4.35% 28
East of England -24 34 £500 -9.09% 21
Scotland -12 30 £450 - 7
East Midlands -4 22 £450 -18.18% 11
Wales -6 13 £550 +22.22% 11
North East -39 2 £588 +62.07% 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 46 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.58%) IIS
4 10 (1.22%) nginx
4 10 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 9 (1.10%) Confluence
6 7 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.73%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) CICS
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.24%) Houdini
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (27.28%) Azure
2 138 (16.81%) AWS
3 62 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (6.58%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.09%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.63%) GCP
7 33 (4.02%) GitHub
8 22 (2.68%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.44%) IaaS
10 19 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.71%) Rubrik
13 12 (1.46%) PaaS
13 12 (1.46%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (1.10%) OneDrive
16 8 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.97%) SaaS
17 7 (0.85%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 231 (28.14%) DNS
2 162 (19.73%) Firewall
3 136 (16.57%) DHCP
4 82 (9.99%) SAN
5 80 (9.74%) VSAN
6 76 (9.26%) TCP/IP
7 69 (8.40%) VPN
8 66 (8.04%) WAN
9 55 (6.70%) Network Security
9 55 (6.70%) VLAN
10 51 (6.21%) LAN
11 48 (5.85%) NAS
11 48 (5.85%) SSL
12 30 (3.65%) BGP
12 30 (3.65%) HTTP
13 28 (3.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 28 (3.41%) Wireshark
14 25 (3.05%) BIG-IP
15 23 (2.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 22 (2.68%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.22%) Power BI
4 10 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (0.97%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.97%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.49%) DataStage
7 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.37%) Big Data
8 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.37%) GIS
8 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (4.38%) Jenkins
2 34 (4.14%) JIRA
3 18 (2.19%) Git
3 18 (2.19%) GitLab
4 16 (1.95%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 182 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 65 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (7.92%) Finance
3 53 (6.46%) Public Sector
4 37 (4.51%) Banking
5 30 (3.65%) Legal
6 26 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.19%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.58%) Military
10 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.85%) Police
11 7 (0.85%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.73%) Law
13 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 190 (23.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 98 (11.94%) Senior
3 87 (10.60%) Architect
4 78 (9.50%) VMware Engineer
5 71 (8.65%) Network Engineer
6 44 (5.36%) Consultant
7 40 (4.87%) Support Engineer
8 36 (4.38%) Lead
9 34 (4.14%) Storage Engineer
10 33 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (3.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (3.65%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 30 (3.65%) VMware Consultant
13 27 (3.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (3.05%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 24 (2.92%) Administrator
16 23 (2.80%) Infrastructure Architect
17 21 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
18 19 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.46%) Flash
1 12 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.34%) Middleware
2 11 (1.34%) REST
3 10 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.22%) LDAP
4 9 (1.10%) .NET
4 9 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.73%) Redfish
6 5 (0.61%) JSON
6 5 (0.61%) YAML
7 4 (0.49%) Java SE
7 4 (0.49%) XML
8 3 (0.37%) EJB
8 3 (0.37%) JDBC
8 3 (0.37%) JSP
8 3 (0.37%) Kafka
8 3 (0.37%) ODBC
8 3 (0.37%) SAML
8 3 (0.37%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 111 (13.52%) Data Centre
2 64 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 64 (7.80%) PKI
3 55 (6.70%) Replication
4 48 (5.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 33 (4.02%) Clustering
6 28 (3.41%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (2.19%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.34%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.22%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.22%) SCADA
13 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 411 (50.06%) Windows
2 266 (32.40%) Windows Server
3 234 (28.50%) Linux
4 51 (6.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (3.65%) VMS
7 27 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.56%) Unix
9 19 (2.31%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (2.07%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.07%) Windows 10
11 15 (1.83%) Solaris
12 14 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.97%) AIX
14 8 (0.97%) CoreOS
15 7 (0.85%) CentOS
16 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.49%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (30.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 159 (19.37%) Migration
3 131 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (14.13%) High Availability
5 105 (12.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 102 (12.42%) ITIL
7 97 (11.81%) CI/CD
8 96 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (9.74%) DevOps
10 78 (9.50%) Network Virtualisation
11 77 (9.38%) Change Management
12 76 (9.26%) Validation
13 73 (8.89%) Agile
14 72 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
15 71 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 64 (7.80%) Platform Engineering
17 62 (7.55%) Capacity Planning
17 62 (7.55%) ITSM
17 62 (7.55%) Load Balancing
18 57 (6.94%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 183 (22.29%) PowerShell
2 127 (15.47%) Python
3 81 (9.87%) Bash
4 41 (4.99%) SQL
5 22 (2.68%) Java
6 9 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 8 (0.97%) Go
8 6 (0.73%) C
8 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.61%) Bicep
9 5 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.49%) C#
10 4 (0.49%) COBOL
11 3 (0.37%) Lua
11 3 (0.37%) Perl
11 3 (0.37%) PHP
12 2 (0.24%) VBScript
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 377 (45.92%) Security Cleared
2 226 (27.53%) SC Cleared
3 175 (21.32%) DV Cleared
4 63 (7.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 47 (5.72%) Degree
6 37 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.14%) VCAP
9 24 (2.92%) MCSE
10 22 (2.68%) Azure Certification
11 21 (2.56%) CCNP
12 17 (2.07%) CCNA
13 16 (1.95%) MCSA
14 15 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.34%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
16 10 (1.22%) OCP
17 7 (0.85%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 7 (0.85%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.05%) NIST
2 23 (2.80%) SLA
3 18 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.83%) NCSC
6 7 (0.85%) QA
7 6 (0.73%) GDPR
8 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.37%) GxP
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) ISA99
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) RMADS
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 257 (31.30%) Active Directory
2 202 (24.60%) vSphere
3 196 (23.87%) VMware ESXi
4 163 (19.85%) VMware NSX
5 160 (19.49%) Hyper-V
6 96 (11.69%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (6.70%) Docker
8 40 (4.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (4.26%) Firmware
10 33 (4.02%) NFS
11 28 (3.41%) KVM
12 11 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.97%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.97%) vCloud
14 7 (0.85%) Ceph
14 7 (0.85%) GPFS
14 7 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.61%) SRDF
17 4 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 168 (20.46%) Ansible
2 148 (18.03%) vCenter Server
3 109 (13.28%) Terraform
4 108 (13.15%) Kubernetes
5 43 (5.24%) SCCM
6 40 (4.87%) SCOM
7 39 (4.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (4.38%) vRealize
9 30 (3.65%) Grafana
10 26 (3.17%) VxRail
11 23 (2.80%) vMotion
12 20 (2.44%) Argo
12 20 (2.44%) Prometheus
13 18 (2.19%) PowerCLI
14 17 (2.07%) Puppet
15 16 (1.95%) NetBackup
16 15 (1.83%) WSUS
17 14 (1.71%) SnapMirror
18 13 (1.58%) EMC VPLEX
19 12 (1.46%) Avamar
Vendors
1 821 (100.00%) VMware
2 213 (25.94%) Microsoft
3 139 (16.93%) Cisco
4 64 (7.80%) NetApp
5 62 (7.55%) Citrix
5 62 (7.55%) Red Hat
6 51 (6.21%) Dell
7 41 (4.99%) Oracle
8 40 (4.87%) F5
9 35 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 33 (4.02%) ServiceNow
11 32 (3.90%) Juniper
11 32 (3.90%) Palo Alto
12 31 (3.78%) Pure Storage
13 30 (3.65%) Veeam
14 26 (3.17%) IBM
15 24 (2.92%) Broadcom
16 21 (2.56%) Commvault
17 19 (2.31%) McAfee
17 19 (2.31%) Splunk