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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 151 132
Rank change year-on-year -20 -19 -28
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 729 554 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.89% 1.75%
As % of the System Software category 15.09% 15.27% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 382 486
10th Percentile £318 £321 £268
25th Percentile £421 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -10.45% +9.78% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.28
25th Percentile £45.15 - £38.22
Median hourly rate £67.70 £28.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +141.79% -30.43% -38.08%
75th Percentile £73.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £74.18 - £80.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -30.30%

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 4,832 3,627 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.04% 12.35% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,244 2,456 3,160
10th Percentile £219 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +2.45% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £610 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 86 229
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.21 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% +26.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £91.00 £88.38 £78.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £36.65 £19.17
% change year-on-year +43.27% +91.16% -57.33%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -30 636 £500 -9.09% 232
UK excluding London -28 504 £493 -10.45% 212
South East -2 183 £525 -8.70% 84
Work from Home -15 163 £500 -4.76% 80
London -53 142 £525 - 43
North of England -12 131 £449 +12.25% 41
Midlands -26 94 £402 -26.91% 30
West Midlands -26 72 £382 -30.60% 21
North West -7 70 £449 +11.14% 23
Yorkshire -21 59 £420 -4.55% 13
South West -57 52 £539 -6.30% 25
East of England -25 37 £475 -13.64% 17
Scotland -1 26 £450 -3.07% 7
East Midlands -16 22 £443 -18.38% 9
Wales -16 3 £375 +29.31% 11
North East -23 2 £575 +64.29% 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 39 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.51%) IIS
4 9 (1.23%) nginx
5 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.82%) Confluence
7 5 (0.69%) Apache
7 5 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.55%) CICS
9 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 206 (28.26%) Azure
2 132 (18.11%) AWS
3 54 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.90%) OpenShift
6 36 (4.94%) GCP
7 27 (3.70%) IaaS
8 26 (3.57%) GitHub
9 24 (3.29%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.61%) PaaS
11 14 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (1.37%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.10%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.96%) Datadog
16 6 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.82%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 198 (27.16%) DNS
2 163 (22.36%) Firewall
3 115 (15.78%) DHCP
4 76 (10.43%) VPN
5 74 (10.15%) SAN
6 67 (9.19%) VSAN
7 64 (8.78%) WAN
8 53 (7.27%) LAN
9 51 (7.00%) TCP/IP
10 49 (6.72%) Network Security
11 46 (6.31%) NAS
12 43 (5.90%) SSL
13 34 (4.66%) HTTP
13 34 (4.66%) VLAN
14 33 (4.53%) BIG-IP
15 29 (3.98%) Wireshark
16 26 (3.57%) BGP
17 24 (3.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 23 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (3.16%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.10%) Power BI
4 7 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
4 7 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.55%) DataStage
7 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.41%) Redis
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.27%) GIS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 26 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 26 (3.57%) JIRA
2 18 (2.47%) Fiddler
3 17 (2.33%) GitLab
4 12 (1.65%) Git
5 6 (0.82%) PVCS
5 6 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.27%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) GoCD
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 139 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (7.27%) Finance
4 51 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.21%) Banking
6 29 (3.98%) Legal
7 25 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.61%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.51%) Police
10 9 (1.23%) Military
11 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.82%) Electronics
13 6 (0.82%) Retail
14 5 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.69%) Law
14 5 (0.69%) Local Government
14 5 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 146 (20.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (12.76%) Architect
3 68 (9.33%) Senior
4 66 (9.05%) Network Engineer
5 62 (8.50%) VMware Engineer
6 40 (5.49%) Analyst
7 35 (4.80%) Consultant
8 29 (3.98%) Lead
9 28 (3.84%) Infrastructure Architect
10 25 (3.43%) Wintel Engineer
11 23 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.16%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 23 (3.16%) Support Engineer
11 23 (3.16%) VMware Architect
11 23 (3.16%) VMware Consultant
12 22 (3.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 22 (3.02%) Storage Engineer
13 18 (2.47%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 18 (2.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 18 (2.47%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.88%) LDAP
2 20 (2.74%) Flash
3 11 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.37%) SAML
5 9 (1.23%) Middleware
6 7 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.96%) REST
7 5 (0.69%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.55%) XML
9 3 (0.41%) .NET
9 3 (0.41%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.41%) EJB
9 3 (0.41%) JSON
9 3 (0.41%) JSP
9 3 (0.41%) Kafka
9 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.27%) OpenLayers
10 2 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (13.03%) Data Centre
2 69 (9.47%) Replication
3 56 (7.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (6.58%) PKI
5 41 (5.62%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.94%) Clustering
7 33 (4.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (3.43%) Private Cloud
9 22 (3.02%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.88%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.65%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.51%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.51%) SCADA
15 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.10%) Operational Technology
16 8 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 343 (47.05%) Windows
2 231 (31.69%) Windows Server
3 223 (30.59%) Linux
4 51 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (3.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (3.43%) VMS
8 23 (3.16%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.74%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.47%) Data ONTAP
11 16 (2.19%) Unix
12 15 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
13 14 (1.92%) Solaris
14 10 (1.37%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.10%) CentOS
15 8 (1.10%) CoreOS
15 8 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.69%) AIX
18 4 (0.55%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (25.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 134 (18.38%) Migration
3 113 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (14.13%) High Availability
5 97 (13.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 90 (12.35%) ITIL
7 78 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (10.15%) Agile
9 71 (9.74%) CI/CD
10 70 (9.60%) DevOps
11 68 (9.33%) Capacity Planning
12 63 (8.64%) Network Virtualisation
13 62 (8.50%) Change Management
14 61 (8.37%) Load Balancing
14 61 (8.37%) Platform Engineering
15 52 (7.13%) Data Protection
16 47 (6.45%) Containerisation
16 47 (6.45%) Validation
17 46 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (5.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.36%) PowerShell
2 96 (13.17%) Python
3 59 (8.09%) Bash
4 36 (4.94%) SQL
5 9 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.10%) Bicep
6 8 (1.10%) C
6 8 (1.10%) Java
7 7 (0.96%) C++
8 6 (0.82%) Embedded C
8 6 (0.82%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.55%) C#
10 4 (0.55%) COBOL
10 4 (0.55%) Go
10 4 (0.55%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.55%) Perl
10 4 (0.55%) PHP
11 2 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 291 (39.92%) Security Cleared
2 186 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 121 (16.60%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 37 (5.08%) Degree
6 33 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.25%) VCAP
8 26 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (2.88%) MCSE
11 20 (2.74%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.61%) CCNP
13 16 (2.19%) MCSA
14 11 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.37%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.37%) OCP
16 9 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.23%) CCNA
17 6 (0.82%) CCSM
17 6 (0.82%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (3.02%) SLA
2 19 (2.61%) NIST
3 16 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.78%) NCSC
5 8 (1.10%) GDPR
6 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.41%) QA
8 2 (0.27%) DICOM
8 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.27%) ISA99
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.27%) RMADS
9 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 220 (30.18%) Active Directory
2 173 (23.73%) vSphere
3 158 (21.67%) VMware NSX
4 152 (20.85%) VMware ESXi
5 144 (19.75%) Hyper-V
6 90 (12.35%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (6.31%) Docker
8 41 (5.62%) NFS
9 33 (4.53%) Firmware
10 30 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 25 (3.43%) KVM
12 15 (2.06%) GPFS
13 11 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.23%) BitLocker
14 9 (1.23%) vCloud
15 6 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.69%) Ceph
16 5 (0.69%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 133 (18.24%) Ansible
2 109 (14.95%) vCenter Server
3 80 (10.97%) Terraform
4 79 (10.84%) Kubernetes
5 49 (6.72%) SCCM
6 48 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 44 (6.04%) vRealize
8 28 (3.84%) Grafana
9 24 (3.29%) vMotion
10 23 (3.16%) SCOM
11 20 (2.74%) Argo
12 18 (2.47%) VxRail
13 17 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (2.33%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.33%) WSUS
14 16 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (1.78%) SnapMirror
16 12 (1.65%) Prometheus
16 12 (1.65%) Puppet
17 11 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 729 (100.00%) VMware
2 192 (26.34%) Microsoft
3 147 (20.16%) Cisco
4 68 (9.33%) Citrix
5 62 (8.50%) NetApp
6 53 (7.27%) Red Hat
7 46 (6.31%) F5
8 40 (5.49%) Dell
9 39 (5.35%) Oracle
9 39 (5.35%) ServiceNow
10 37 (5.08%) IBM
11 34 (4.66%) Palo Alto
12 31 (4.25%) Pure Storage
13 29 (3.98%) Veeam
14 25 (3.43%) CheckPoint
14 25 (3.43%) Commvault
15 22 (3.02%) McAfee
16 21 (2.88%) SolarWinds
17 20 (2.74%) Broadcom
18 18 (2.47%) Blue Coat