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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 128 115
Rank change year-on-year -46 -13 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 657 643 895
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.11% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 13.73% 16.76% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 423 562
10th Percentile £300 £265 £300
25th Percentile £403 £407 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 58
10th Percentile £22.00 £27.95 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.70 £38.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £76.56 - £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £22.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +211.11% -65.90% +1.51%

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 4,786 3,836 4,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.59% 12.59% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 2,521 3,373
10th Percentile £205 £205 £190
25th Percentile £400 £381 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +5.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 89 237
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.46 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £70.64 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.80 £78.50 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £40.25
% change year-on-year +11.84% -6.83% +54.81%

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 25 February 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 25 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 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 25 February 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 -39 585 £500 -6.80% 235
UK excluding London -25 463 £490 -6.67% 220
Work from Home -44 173 £500 -2.20% 85
South East -8 149 £500 -9.17% 78
London -94 129 £540 +2.86% 50
Midlands +1 113 £402 -30.57% 27
North of England -40 109 £456 +7.29% 56
West Midlands -9 85 £333 -45.22% 25
South West -49 67 £550 -3.30% 32
North West -28 66 £441 +3.82% 31
Yorkshire -25 51 £485 +7.72% 23
East of England -2 31 £475 +1.82% 13
East Midlands -11 28 £447 -14.86% 2
Scotland -1 17 £464 -4.58% 11
Wales -5 5 £413 +42.24% 4
North East -20 2 £513 +46.43% 4
Northern Ireland -3 1 - -

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 40 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.74%) Confluence
4 8 (1.22%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.22%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.76%) nginx
5 5 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Traefik
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 14 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 197 (29.98%) Azure
2 148 (22.53%) AWS
3 58 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (7.46%) OpenShift
5 45 (6.85%) Entra ID
6 44 (6.70%) GCP
7 33 (5.02%) Nutanix
8 28 (4.26%) IaaS
9 21 (3.20%) GitHub
10 18 (2.74%) PaaS
11 13 (1.98%) Datadog
12 8 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.07%) Power Platform
14 6 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.61%) SaaS
16 4 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 195 (29.68%) DNS
2 163 (24.81%) Firewall
3 98 (14.92%) DHCP
4 61 (9.28%) VPN
5 59 (8.98%) TCP/IP
6 55 (8.37%) SAN
7 46 (7.00%) Network Security
7 46 (7.00%) VSAN
8 39 (5.94%) VLAN
9 37 (5.63%) LAN
9 37 (5.63%) WAN
10 33 (5.02%) HTTP
11 32 (4.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 30 (4.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 29 (4.41%) NAS
14 28 (4.26%) SSL
15 27 (4.11%) BIG-IP
16 26 (3.96%) BGP
17 24 (3.65%) Wireshark
18 17 (2.59%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.07%) Power BI
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.30%) DataStage
6 2 (0.30%) GIS
6 2 (0.30%) Redis
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.65%) JIRA
3 22 (3.35%) Git
4 16 (2.44%) Fiddler
5 13 (1.98%) GitLab
6 9 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.22%) PVCS
7 8 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.07%) JMeter
8 7 (1.07%) JUnit
9 4 (0.61%) RStudio
10 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.46%) Subversion
11 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.15%) GoCD
12 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 158 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.52%) Finance
5 47 (7.15%) Banking
6 37 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 21 (3.20%) Legal
9 14 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.52%) Military
10 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.22%) Electronics
12 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.07%) Police
13 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.76%) Local Government
14 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Social Science
15 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 119 (18.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (13.85%) Architect
3 56 (8.52%) Analyst
4 43 (6.54%) Network Engineer
5 35 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
5 35 (5.33%) VMware Engineer
6 33 (5.02%) Consultant
7 31 (4.72%) Senior
7 31 (4.72%) Support Engineer
8 30 (4.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 26 (3.96%) Infrastructure Architect
10 25 (3.81%) VMware Consultant
11 23 (3.50%) Lead
12 19 (2.89%) Storage Analyst
13 18 (2.74%) VMware Architect
13 18 (2.74%) Wintel Engineer
14 17 (2.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (2.59%) Web Engineer
15 16 (2.44%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 16 (2.44%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.20%) LDAP
2 19 (2.89%) Flash
3 10 (1.52%) SAML
4 8 (1.22%) Kafka
5 7 (1.07%) Loki
5 7 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.07%) REST
5 7 (1.07%) Spring
6 6 (0.91%) Hibernate
6 6 (0.91%) Middleware
7 5 (0.76%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.61%) OAuth
8 4 (0.61%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.61%) OpenID
9 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.30%) EJB
10 2 (0.30%) Java SE
10 2 (0.30%) JSP
10 2 (0.30%) OpenLayers
11 1 (0.15%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.42%) Data Centre
2 57 (8.68%) Replication
3 50 (7.61%) PKI
4 40 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 38 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.41%) Management Information System
7 28 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (3.50%) Private Cloud
9 19 (2.89%) Clustering
10 17 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 14 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
15 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.52%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.52%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.22%) Driving Licence
16 8 (1.22%) SCADA
16 8 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 283 (43.07%) Windows
2 226 (34.40%) Linux
3 169 (25.72%) Windows Server
4 51 (7.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (4.72%) Windows 10
5 31 (4.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (2.74%) VMS
8 17 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (2.28%) Mac OS
10 13 (1.98%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.83%) Solaris
12 11 (1.67%) Unix
13 7 (1.07%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.91%) CentOS
15 5 (0.76%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.61%) AIX
16 4 (0.61%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (22.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 124 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (16.89%) Migration
4 97 (14.76%) Agile
5 87 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 82 (12.48%) CI/CD
7 77 (11.72%) ITIL
8 72 (10.96%) DevOps
9 71 (10.81%) High Availability
9 71 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 64 (9.74%) Load Balancing
11 57 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (8.52%) Containerisation
13 51 (7.76%) Data Protection
14 47 (7.15%) Service Management
15 45 (6.85%) Network Virtualisation
16 43 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (6.54%) Roadmaps
17 41 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 40 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 160 (24.35%) PowerShell
2 117 (17.81%) Python
3 81 (12.33%) Bash
4 21 (3.20%) SQL
5 16 (2.44%) Perl
6 11 (1.67%) C
7 10 (1.52%) Java
8 8 (1.22%) C++
8 8 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.07%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.07%) Embedded C++
10 6 (0.91%) Bicep
11 4 (0.61%) C#
11 4 (0.61%) Go
11 4 (0.61%) PHP
11 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) COBOL
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
13 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 253 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 174 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.72%) DV Cleared
4 47 (7.15%) Degree
5 45 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (6.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 32 (4.87%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (4.57%) Azure Certification
9 27 (4.11%) CCNP
10 19 (2.89%) MCSE
11 15 (2.28%) CCNA
11 15 (2.28%) VCAP
12 13 (1.98%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.83%) MCSA
14 11 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.67%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (1.52%) CCIE
16 9 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
17 7 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.74%) GDPR
3 16 (2.44%) NIST
4 10 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.07%) SLA
6 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.61%) QA
7 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 199 (30.29%) Active Directory
2 149 (22.68%) vSphere
3 120 (18.26%) VMware NSX
4 104 (15.83%) Hyper-V
5 88 (13.39%) VMware ESXi
6 57 (8.68%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (8.52%) Docker
8 37 (5.63%) NFS
9 28 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 23 (3.50%) Firmware
11 18 (2.74%) KVM
12 15 (2.28%) GPFS
13 7 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.76%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.61%) vCloud
16 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.46%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 112 (17.05%) Ansible
2 82 (12.48%) Terraform
3 78 (11.87%) vCenter Server
4 69 (10.50%) Kubernetes
5 64 (9.74%) SCCM
6 57 (8.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (7.46%) vRealize
8 27 (4.11%) Grafana
9 23 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (3.35%) Argo
11 21 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (2.89%) VxRail
13 16 (2.44%) vMotion
14 15 (2.28%) FortiGate
15 14 (2.13%) SCOM
16 13 (1.98%) Progress Chef
16 13 (1.98%) Prometheus
17 11 (1.67%) PowerCLI
17 11 (1.67%) WSUS
18 10 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 657 (100.00%) VMware
2 181 (27.55%) Microsoft
3 148 (22.53%) Cisco
4 63 (9.59%) Citrix
4 63 (9.59%) Red Hat
5 59 (8.98%) F5
6 44 (6.70%) SolarWinds
7 43 (6.54%) Dell
7 43 (6.54%) IBM
7 43 (6.54%) NetApp
8 40 (6.09%) ServiceNow
9 33 (5.02%) Oracle
10 31 (4.72%) Veeam
11 29 (4.41%) Palo Alto
12 28 (4.26%) Commvault
12 28 (4.26%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.89%) McAfee
14 17 (2.59%) Blue Coat
14 17 (2.59%) Google
14 17 (2.59%) HP