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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 135 125
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 -18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 735 623 816
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.12% 1.86%
As % of the System Software category 15.03% 16.66% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 423 522
10th Percentile £315 £313 £264
25th Percentile £413 £414 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.78% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 37
10th Percentile £41.49 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +6.07% -32.55%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.71 £61.30 £83.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% -30.43% -38.08%

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 4,890 3,740 4,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.63% 12.74% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,328 2,559 3,242
10th Percentile £213 £214 £195
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.02% -7.43%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £460
% change year-on-year -0.94% +4.24% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 92 232
10th Percentile £14.12 £15.10 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% +28.89% -55.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.35 £87.83 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +78.57% -46.22%

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 April 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 April 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 17 April 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 -36 641 £505 -8.18% 261
UK excluding London -35 509 £500 -9.09% 229
Work from Home -28 171 £505 -3.81% 100
South East -16 164 £538 -6.52% 81
London -85 144 £525 -4.55% 60
North of England -27 124 £456 +9.88% 61
Midlands -15 121 £394 -28.41% 25
West Midlands -5 96 £333 -39.59% 17
North West -10 67 £450 +5.88% 24
Yorkshire -25 59 £454 -2.47% 27
South West -65 55 £550 -4.35% 25
East of England -3 44 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -22 25 £415 -22.50% 8
Scotland -3 23 £457 -1.72% 8
Wales -13 4 £463 +59.48% 13
North East -20 3 £550 +57.14% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 43 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.77%) Confluence
4 9 (1.22%) nginx
5 8 (1.09%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.54%) CICS
7 3 (0.41%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.31%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 205 (27.89%) Azure
2 146 (19.86%) AWS
3 56 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (6.94%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.26%) OpenShift
6 40 (5.44%) GCP
7 28 (3.81%) IaaS
8 26 (3.54%) GitHub
9 25 (3.40%) Nutanix
10 20 (2.72%) PaaS
11 16 (2.18%) Datadog
12 11 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 7 (0.95%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.95%) Rubrik
17 6 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (0.82%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 193 (26.26%) DNS
2 174 (23.67%) Firewall
3 107 (14.56%) DHCP
4 76 (10.34%) VPN
5 71 (9.66%) SAN
6 70 (9.52%) VSAN
7 61 (8.30%) WAN
8 54 (7.35%) Network Security
9 52 (7.07%) LAN
10 50 (6.80%) TCP/IP
11 43 (5.85%) NAS
12 41 (5.58%) SSL
13 36 (4.90%) BIG-IP
14 35 (4.76%) VLAN
15 34 (4.63%) HTTP
16 33 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 32 (4.35%) BGP
18 30 (4.08%) Wireshark
19 27 (3.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
20 25 (3.40%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.68%) Power BI
5 4 (0.54%) DataStage
6 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.41%) Redis
7 2 (0.27%) GIS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 32 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.99%) JIRA
3 19 (2.59%) Fiddler
4 18 (2.45%) GitLab
5 16 (2.18%) Git
6 8 (1.09%) PVCS
6 8 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
8 3 (0.41%) JUnit
9 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.27%) RStudio
10 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.14%) GoCD
10 1 (0.14%) MSI
10 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 157 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 60 (8.16%) Finance
5 45 (6.12%) Banking
6 32 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (4.22%) Legal
8 24 (3.27%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.36%) Military
10 10 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.09%) Electronics
11 8 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.95%) Police
13 6 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.68%) Local Government
15 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 143 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 108 (14.69%) Architect
3 64 (8.71%) VMware Engineer
4 63 (8.57%) Senior
5 58 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 56 (7.62%) Analyst
7 36 (4.90%) Consultant
8 32 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
8 32 (4.35%) Lead
9 31 (4.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 28 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (3.40%) VMware Consultant
12 23 (3.13%) Storage Analyst
12 23 (3.13%) VMware Architect
13 21 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (2.72%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 19 (2.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 19 (2.59%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 19 (2.59%) IP Network Engineer
15 19 (2.59%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.99%) Flash
2 20 (2.72%) LDAP
3 13 (1.77%) SAML
4 12 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (1.22%) Middleware
6 8 (1.09%) REST
7 6 (0.82%) Kafka
8 5 (0.68%) OAuth
8 5 (0.68%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.68%) OpenID
8 5 (0.68%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.41%) EJB
10 3 (0.41%) JSP
10 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.41%) Loki
10 3 (0.41%) Spring
10 3 (0.41%) XML
11 2 (0.27%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.27%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.52%) Data Centre
2 67 (9.12%) Replication
3 49 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 48 (6.53%) PKI
5 47 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (4.63%) Linux Command Line
7 29 (3.95%) Clustering
7 29 (3.95%) Private Cloud
8 28 (3.81%) Management Information System
9 27 (3.67%) Enterprise Storage
10 20 (2.72%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (2.18%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.77%) SCADA
15 10 (1.36%) Operational Technology
16 9 (1.22%) Onboarding
17 8 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 7 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 316 (42.99%) Windows
2 234 (31.84%) Linux
3 213 (28.98%) Windows Server
4 54 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (5.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (3.67%) VMS
8 22 (2.99%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.45%) Ubuntu
11 17 (2.31%) Data ONTAP
12 14 (1.90%) Solaris
13 12 (1.63%) Unix
14 10 (1.36%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.95%) CentOS
17 6 (0.82%) AIX
17 6 (0.82%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.54%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 141 (19.18%) Migration
3 120 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (12.93%) High Availability
5 93 (12.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 92 (12.52%) Agile
7 78 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (10.34%) DevOps
9 75 (10.20%) ITIL
10 74 (10.07%) CI/CD
11 71 (9.66%) Load Balancing
12 66 (8.98%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (8.71%) Network Virtualisation
14 57 (7.76%) Data Protection
15 54 (7.35%) Capacity Planning
16 52 (7.07%) Containerisation
16 52 (7.07%) Roadmaps
17 47 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
19 44 (5.99%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (21.63%) PowerShell
2 103 (14.01%) Python
3 62 (8.44%) Bash
4 24 (3.27%) SQL
5 11 (1.50%) C
6 9 (1.22%) C++
6 9 (1.22%) Java
6 9 (1.22%) Perl
6 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.95%) Embedded C
7 7 (0.95%) Embedded C++
8 6 (0.82%) Bicep
9 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.54%) COBOL
10 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.54%) PHP
11 3 (0.41%) C#
12 2 (0.27%) Go
12 2 (0.27%) Korn
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 283 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 185 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 104 (14.15%) DV Cleared
4 48 (6.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (6.26%) Degree
6 30 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.27%) VCAP
9 22 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 22 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.72%) CCNP
11 16 (2.18%) MCSE
12 13 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
13 11 (1.50%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.50%) MCSA
14 10 (1.36%) CCNA
14 10 (1.36%) OCP
15 8 (1.09%) CCIE
16 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (2.86%) NIST
3 14 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (1.90%) SLA
4 13 (1.77%) GDPR
5 12 (1.63%) NCSC
6 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.54%) QA
7 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.27%) ISA99
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.27%) RMADS
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.14%) COBIT
8 1 (0.14%) DICOM
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 211 (28.71%) Active Directory
2 175 (23.81%) vSphere
3 165 (22.45%) VMware NSX
4 136 (18.50%) VMware ESXi
5 132 (17.96%) Hyper-V
6 69 (9.39%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (6.26%) Docker
8 41 (5.58%) NFS
9 33 (4.49%) Firmware
10 27 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (2.86%) KVM
12 17 (2.31%) GPFS
13 9 (1.22%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.68%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.54%) Ceph
16 4 (0.54%) vCloud
16 4 (0.54%) XenApp
17 3 (0.41%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 132 (17.96%) Ansible
2 97 (13.20%) vCenter Server
3 89 (12.11%) Terraform
4 73 (9.93%) Kubernetes
5 60 (8.16%) SCCM
6 54 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 54 (7.35%) vRealize
7 29 (3.95%) Grafana
8 25 (3.40%) VxRail
9 23 (3.13%) Argo
10 22 (2.99%) vMotion
11 20 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (2.72%) PowerCLI
11 20 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (2.04%) SCOM
12 15 (2.04%) WSUS
13 12 (1.63%) Progress Chef
13 12 (1.63%) Prometheus
13 12 (1.63%) Puppet
13 12 (1.63%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 735 (100.00%) VMware
2 182 (24.76%) Microsoft
3 151 (20.54%) Cisco
4 68 (9.25%) Citrix
5 63 (8.57%) Red Hat
6 61 (8.30%) NetApp
7 58 (7.89%) F5
8 50 (6.80%) IBM
9 44 (5.99%) Dell
10 40 (5.44%) ServiceNow
11 37 (5.03%) Oracle
12 36 (4.90%) SolarWinds
13 34 (4.63%) Palo Alto
14 32 (4.35%) Pure Storage
15 29 (3.95%) Commvault
16 28 (3.81%) Veeam
17 23 (3.13%) McAfee
18 22 (2.99%) Broadcom
19 21 (2.86%) CheckPoint
20 19 (2.59%) Blue Coat