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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 189 107
Rank change year-on-year +20 -82 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 878 495 829
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.51% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 16.45% 12.98% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 308 526
10th Percentile £325 £344 £321
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +5.52% -0.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +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 5,337 3,813 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 11.60% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,424 3,072
10th Percentile £223 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £387 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £592 £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 217 108 142
10th Percentile £15.79 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.41 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.64 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +63.52% +39.10% -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 £64.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +133.64% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +6 766 £518 -5.91% 187
UK excluding London +1 605 £514 -6.55% 177
South East -4 219 £538 -6.52% 69
London +3 190 £525 - 39
Work from Home -6 176 £500 -9.09% 76
North of England -6 161 £480 +10.09% 34
Midlands -18 90 £450 -18.18% 19
North West +7 86 £480 +12.94% 19
South West -32 75 £588 +2.17% 25
West Midlands -17 70 £450 -20.35% 14
Yorkshire -23 67 £500 +11.48% 6
East of England -20 39 £500 -9.09% 22
Scotland +6 34 £438 -11.57% 12
East Midlands -11 20 £450 -13.63% 5
Wales -8 11 £550 - 3
North East -33 8 £275 -56.00% 12

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 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.71%) Confluence
4 14 (1.59%) IIS
5 9 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.91%) nginx
6 8 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.80%) JBoss
8 4 (0.46%) Apache
8 4 (0.46%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.46%) 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 (1.14%) 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 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 245 (27.90%) Azure
2 150 (17.08%) AWS
3 75 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.90%) GCP
5 43 (4.90%) OpenShift
6 35 (3.99%) GitHub
7 30 (3.42%) IaaS
8 23 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (2.28%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.28%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.94%) Rubrik
11 16 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (1.82%) PaaS
12 15 (1.71%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.59%) SaaS
14 9 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.03%) Azure Stack
14 9 (1.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 272 (30.98%) DNS
2 182 (20.73%) Firewall
3 170 (19.36%) DHCP
4 92 (10.48%) VSAN
5 90 (10.25%) TCP/IP
6 78 (8.88%) VPN
7 70 (7.97%) SAN
8 65 (7.40%) VLAN
9 63 (7.18%) WAN
10 56 (6.38%) Network Security
11 50 (5.69%) SSL
12 48 (5.47%) LAN
13 39 (4.44%) NAS
14 36 (4.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 31 (3.53%) BGP
15 31 (3.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 30 (3.42%) BIG-IP
17 28 (3.19%) HTTP
18 26 (2.96%) Wireshark
19 20 (2.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (2.05%) Power BI
4 14 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (1.03%) Big Data
8 9 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.91%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.57%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.57%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.34%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 40 (4.56%) JIRA
2 35 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.73%) GitLab
4 20 (2.28%) Git
5 16 (1.82%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.46%) 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
1 200 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 87 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (9.23%) Finance
4 49 (5.58%) Public Sector
5 40 (4.56%) Banking
6 34 (3.87%) Legal
7 31 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.91%) Military
13 8 (0.91%) Retail
14 7 (0.80%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Law
16 5 (0.57%) Police
17 4 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 208 (23.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 125 (14.24%) Senior
3 93 (10.59%) VMware Engineer
4 83 (9.45%) Architect
5 74 (8.43%) Network Engineer
6 48 (5.47%) Support Engineer
7 41 (4.67%) Consultant
8 40 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (4.33%) Lead
9 38 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 35 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
11 34 (3.87%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 34 (3.87%) Storage Engineer
12 30 (3.42%) Administrator
13 28 (3.19%) VMware Consultant
14 24 (2.73%) Senior Network Engineer
14 24 (2.73%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 23 (2.62%) IT Engineer
15 23 (2.62%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.05%) REST
2 14 (1.59%) Middleware
3 12 (1.37%) JSON
4 11 (1.25%) .NET
5 10 (1.14%) 802.1X
5 10 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.14%) Flash
6 9 (1.03%) YAML
7 7 (0.80%) LDAP
8 6 (0.68%) Kafka
8 6 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.68%) Redfish
9 5 (0.57%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.57%) JDBC
9 5 (0.57%) ODBC
9 5 (0.57%) XML
10 3 (0.34%) Java SE
10 3 (0.34%) NETCONF
10 3 (0.34%) SAML
11 2 (0.23%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 131 (14.92%) Data Centre
2 73 (8.31%) PKI
3 67 (7.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 52 (5.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 49 (5.58%) Clustering
6 47 (5.35%) Replication
7 32 (3.64%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.42%) Public Cloud
9 25 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (2.85%) Onboarding
10 24 (2.73%) Cloud Native
11 23 (2.62%) Private Cloud
12 19 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.37%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.25%) SCADA
15 10 (1.14%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 460 (52.39%) Windows
2 301 (34.28%) Windows Server
3 254 (28.93%) Linux
4 51 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (5.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (3.64%) VMS
6 26 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.73%) Unix
8 22 (2.51%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (1.94%) Ubuntu
11 16 (1.82%) Data ONTAP
12 15 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (1.14%) Solaris
14 9 (1.03%) CentOS
15 8 (0.91%) AIX
16 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.68%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
19 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (31.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (19.02%) Migration
3 160 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
4 143 (16.29%) ITIL
5 126 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 116 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 112 (12.76%) High Availability
8 107 (12.19%) CI/CD
9 99 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
10 91 (10.36%) Change Management
11 86 (9.79%) DevOps
12 84 (9.57%) Network Virtualisation
13 83 (9.45%) ITSM
14 81 (9.23%) Agile
14 81 (9.23%) Validation
15 78 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
17 74 (8.43%) Service Management
18 71 (8.09%) Project Delivery
19 68 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (23.92%) PowerShell
2 132 (15.03%) Python
3 91 (10.36%) Bash
4 55 (6.26%) SQL
5 24 (2.73%) Java
6 9 (1.03%) Go
7 7 (0.80%) Bicep
7 7 (0.80%) C
7 7 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.68%) C#
8 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.46%) 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
1 410 (46.70%) Security Cleared
2 252 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 187 (21.30%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (6.26%) Degree
6 41 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (4.67%) VCAP
7 40 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 25 (2.85%) MCSE
10 21 (2.39%) CCNP
11 20 (2.28%) CCNA
12 16 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.82%) MCSA
13 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (0.80%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (0.80%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.08%) SLA
2 20 (2.28%) NIST
3 17 (1.94%) NCSC
3 17 (1.94%) QA
4 15 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.03%) GDPR
6 5 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
6 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.46%) GxP
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.23%) DICOM
9 2 (0.23%) ISA99
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.23%) RMADS
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 281 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 210 (23.92%) vSphere
3 199 (22.67%) VMware ESXi
4 189 (21.53%) Hyper-V
5 167 (19.02%) VMware NSX
6 93 (10.59%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (6.61%) Docker
8 39 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (3.76%) Firmware
10 20 (2.28%) KVM
10 20 (2.28%) NFS
11 11 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.03%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.03%) Ceph
14 7 (0.80%) GPFS
14 7 (0.80%) vCloud
15 6 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 6 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 181 (20.62%) Ansible
2 147 (16.74%) vCenter Server
3 124 (14.12%) Terraform
4 116 (13.21%) Kubernetes
5 51 (5.81%) SCCM
6 50 (5.69%) SCOM
7 37 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (3.99%) VxRail
9 33 (3.76%) vRealize
10 26 (2.96%) Grafana
11 23 (2.62%) Prometheus
12 22 (2.51%) NetBackup
12 22 (2.51%) Puppet
13 19 (2.16%) WSUS
14 16 (1.82%) vMotion
15 15 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
15 15 (1.71%) PowerCLI
16 14 (1.59%) Argo
17 13 (1.48%) Avamar
17 13 (1.48%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 878 (100.00%) VMware
2 251 (28.59%) Microsoft
3 149 (16.97%) Cisco
4 65 (7.40%) Citrix
4 65 (7.40%) NetApp
5 60 (6.83%) Red Hat
6 50 (5.69%) Oracle
7 49 (5.58%) Dell
8 47 (5.35%) F5
9 44 (5.01%) ServiceNow
10 39 (4.44%) Palo Alto
11 37 (4.21%) SolarWinds
12 31 (3.53%) Juniper
12 31 (3.53%) Veeam
13 26 (2.96%) IBM
14 24 (2.73%) Broadcom
15 21 (2.39%) Fortinet
16 19 (2.16%) CheckPoint
16 19 (2.16%) McAfee
17 18 (2.05%) CyberArk