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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 186 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 -62 -33
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 907 497 751
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.50% 1.98%
As % of the System Software category 16.82% 12.37% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 333 431
10th Percentile £325 £243 £308
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -63.93%
75th Percentile £89.50 £48.63 £44.00
90th Percentile £94.42 £59.80 £112.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.38% +195.56% -65.90%

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 5,391 4,017 4,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 12.13% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,552 2,819
10th Percentile £225 £208 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £670 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 123 96
10th Percentile £16.40 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.56 £20.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.77 £33.58
Median % change year-on-year +90.72% -2.42% -29.88%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.60 £84.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £60.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.36% +21.00% +25.00%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +4 800 £525 -4.55% 518
UK excluding London +9 639 £523 -5.00% 336
South East -11 204 £538 +2.38% 95
London -9 197 £550 +10.00% 180
Work from Home -28 176 £515 +3.00% 197
North of England +4 174 £478 +12.47% 64
Midlands -12 90 £450 -18.18% 54
North West -6 80 £448 +2.40% 34
Yorkshire +3 79 £525 +27.27% 21
South West -21 77 £644 +17.05% 57
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -21.40% 32
East of England -7 60 £600 +9.09% 35
Scotland +9 43 £438 -5.91% 28
East Midlands -7 22 £438 -9.33% 22
North East -27 16 £400 - 11
Wales - 11 £550 - 4

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 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.54%) Confluence
4 20 (2.21%) IIS
5 14 (1.54%) CMS
6 9 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.77%) JBoss
8 5 (0.55%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.44%) Apache
9 4 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.22%) Houdini
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.22%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 249 (27.45%) Azure
2 130 (14.33%) AWS
3 85 (9.37%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.39%) Entra ID
5 51 (5.62%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.19%) GCP
7 29 (3.20%) GitHub
7 29 (3.20%) IaaS
8 24 (2.65%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.09%) Rubrik
11 17 (1.87%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.76%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.43%) SaaS
14 12 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.32%) PaaS
15 8 (0.88%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (0.66%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 279 (30.76%) DNS
2 175 (19.29%) Firewall
3 173 (19.07%) DHCP
4 100 (11.03%) TCP/IP
5 73 (8.05%) VSAN
6 70 (7.72%) VPN
7 68 (7.50%) SAN
8 67 (7.39%) VLAN
9 58 (6.39%) Network Security
10 54 (5.95%) WAN
11 51 (5.62%) LAN
12 39 (4.30%) SSL
13 35 (3.86%) NAS
14 32 (3.53%) BGP
15 31 (3.42%) HTTP
16 27 (2.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 26 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.43%) NetScaler
19 21 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (2.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.40%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.87%) Power BI
4 11 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.99%) Big Data
7 8 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.22%) GIS
13 2 (0.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 46 (5.07%) JIRA
2 24 (2.65%) Git
3 22 (2.43%) GitLab
3 22 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.21%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.44%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.44%) PVCS
7 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 214 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 106 (11.69%) Finance
3 88 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
4 39 (4.30%) Public Sector
5 31 (3.42%) Banking
6 30 (3.31%) Legal
7 21 (2.32%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.21%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 9 (0.99%) Law
10 9 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (0.88%) Back Office
11 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.66%) Police
13 6 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 225 (24.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 140 (15.44%) Senior
3 86 (9.48%) Architect
4 84 (9.26%) VMware Engineer
5 59 (6.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 55 (6.06%) Network Engineer
7 53 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 53 (5.84%) Support Engineer
8 45 (4.96%) Lead
9 39 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
10 36 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 35 (3.86%) Storage Engineer
12 33 (3.64%) Consultant
13 32 (3.53%) Administrator
14 27 (2.98%) Server Engineer
15 25 (2.76%) Wintel Engineer
16 23 (2.54%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 23 (2.54%) VMware Consultant
16 23 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.43%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (13.45%) Terraform
2 28 (3.09%) REST
3 22 (2.43%) JSON
4 16 (1.76%) Kafka
5 13 (1.43%) XMPP
6 12 (1.32%) Middleware
6 12 (1.32%) YAML
7 11 (1.21%) .NET
7 11 (1.21%) 802.1X
7 11 (1.21%) LDAP
8 8 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.77%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.66%) Redfish
11 5 (0.55%) JDBC
11 5 (0.55%) ODBC
12 4 (0.44%) XML
13 3 (0.33%) Flash
13 3 (0.33%) Java SE
13 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 154 (16.98%) Data Centre
2 75 (8.27%) PKI
3 69 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 49 (5.40%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (5.18%) Private Cloud
6 44 (4.85%) Clustering
7 39 (4.30%) Replication
8 32 (3.53%) Management Information System
8 32 (3.53%) Onboarding
9 31 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (3.20%) Public Cloud
11 25 (2.76%) Cloud Native
12 24 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
14 17 (1.87%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.43%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.43%) SCADA
17 11 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 488 (53.80%) Windows
2 331 (36.49%) Windows Server
3 232 (25.58%) Linux
4 49 (5.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (5.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (2.87%) Unix
6 26 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 24 (2.65%) VMS
7 24 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.99%) AIX
10 9 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.88%) CentOS
11 8 (0.88%) Solaris
12 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.44%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (33.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 183 (20.18%) ITIL
3 171 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (18.63%) Migration
5 158 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 140 (15.44%) Disaster Recovery
7 126 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
8 117 (12.90%) CI/CD
9 114 (12.57%) Change Management
10 97 (10.69%) Project Delivery
10 97 (10.69%) Root Cause Analysis
11 96 (10.58%) ITSM
12 93 (10.25%) Validation
13 92 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (10.03%) Agile
14 91 (10.03%) Platform Engineering
15 90 (9.92%) Service Management
16 89 (9.81%) High Availability
17 84 (9.26%) DevOps
17 84 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 222 (24.48%) PowerShell
2 131 (14.44%) Python
3 78 (8.60%) Bash
4 52 (5.73%) SQL
5 24 (2.65%) Java
6 12 (1.32%) Perl
7 10 (1.10%) Bicep
8 9 (0.99%) C
9 7 (0.77%) C#
9 7 (0.77%) Go
10 4 (0.44%) C++
10 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.33%) Korn
11 3 (0.33%) Lua
11 3 (0.33%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) VBScript
13 1 (0.11%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 438 (48.29%) Security Cleared
2 262 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 192 (21.17%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.62%) Degree
4 60 (6.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 49 (5.40%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (4.41%) VCAP
8 29 (3.20%) CCNP
9 26 (2.87%) MCSE
10 25 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.54%) CCNA
12 21 (2.32%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.98%) MCSA
14 10 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.99%) A+ Certification
15 9 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.32%) SLA
2 20 (2.21%) QA
3 17 (1.87%) NIST
4 14 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.32%) NCSC
6 10 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.99%) GDPR
8 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.44%) GxP
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) DICOM
12 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 320 (35.28%) Active Directory
2 226 (24.92%) vSphere
3 204 (22.49%) VMware ESXi
4 201 (22.16%) Hyper-V
5 131 (14.44%) VMware NSX
6 91 (10.03%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (6.28%) Docker
8 46 (5.07%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.97%) Firmware
10 24 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (2.21%) NFS
12 16 (1.76%) KVM
13 14 (1.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 11 (1.21%) XenApp
15 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 10 (1.10%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.77%) oVirt
16 7 (0.77%) vCloud
17 6 (0.66%) Ceph
17 6 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 159 (17.53%) Ansible
2 144 (15.88%) Kubernetes
3 137 (15.10%) vCenter Server
4 66 (7.28%) SCCM
5 61 (6.73%) SCOM
6 49 (5.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (3.97%) VxRail
8 20 (2.21%) vRealize
9 19 (2.09%) Prometheus
10 18 (1.98%) Grafana
11 17 (1.87%) Cisco CUCM
11 17 (1.87%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.87%) Puppet
12 15 (1.65%) PowerCLI
13 14 (1.54%) Dell DRAC
13 14 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
13 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
13 14 (1.54%) WSUS
14 13 (1.43%) Avamar
15 12 (1.32%) vMotion
Vendors
1 907 (100.00%) VMware
2 282 (31.09%) Microsoft
3 150 (16.54%) Cisco
4 71 (7.83%) Citrix
5 66 (7.28%) Red Hat
6 60 (6.62%) NetApp
7 57 (6.28%) Dell
8 46 (5.07%) SolarWinds
9 45 (4.96%) Oracle
10 43 (4.74%) ServiceNow
11 37 (4.08%) Veeam
12 35 (3.86%) F5
13 30 (3.31%) Palo Alto
14 27 (2.98%) Juniper
15 25 (2.76%) Fortinet
16 21 (2.32%) Remedy
17 20 (2.21%) Broadcom
17 20 (2.21%) Commvault
18 19 (2.09%) IBM
19 18 (1.98%) McAfee