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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 184 110
Rank change year-on-year +2 -74 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 819 510 832
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.56% 2.09%
As % of the System Software category 15.73% 13.32% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 330 532
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £430 £450 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +7.06% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £591
90th Percentile £658 £650 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 2 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.40
25th Percentile £27.50 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £50.75 £29.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -19.81% -42.14%
75th Percentile £74.07 £29.50 £60.63
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -31.91%

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 5,208 3,830 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.81% 11.68% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 2,460 3,132
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 101 160
10th Percentile £15.04 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.75 £15.61
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% +37.69% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £78.70 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.20 £91.50 £70.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.00 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -9.57% +161.36% -18.52%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -11 710 £514 -6.55% 232
UK excluding London -11 566 £514 -6.55% 194
South East +1 216 £538 -6.52% 72
London -20 172 £525 - 59
Work from Home -23 164 £500 -5.21% 78
North of England -7 138 £485 +17.58% 38
Midlands -16 89 £450 -18.18% 25
West Midlands -29 70 £450 -20.84% 15
North West -10 68 £476 +36.00% 28
Yorkshire -25 68 £500 +8.11% 7
South West -45 68 £551 -4.13% 31
East of England -22 34 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland +4 32 £438 -5.81% 7
East Midlands -7 19 £450 -18.18% 10
Wales -5 13 £550 +22.22% 8
North East -46 2 £588 +62.07% 5

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 45 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.59%) IIS
4 12 (1.47%) Confluence
5 8 (0.98%) nginx
5 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.49%) Apache
7 4 (0.49%) CICS
7 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.49%) JBoss
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.24%) Houdini
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 219 (26.74%) Azure
2 141 (17.22%) AWS
3 59 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (5.86%) Entra ID
5 46 (5.62%) OpenShift
6 39 (4.76%) GCP
7 35 (4.27%) GitHub
8 22 (2.69%) IaaS
9 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (2.20%) Nutanix
11 16 (1.95%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.71%) PaaS
12 14 (1.71%) Rubrik
13 11 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.34%) SaaS
14 10 (1.22%) OneDrive
15 9 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (0.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 242 (29.55%) DNS
2 167 (20.39%) Firewall
3 143 (17.46%) DHCP
4 86 (10.50%) VSAN
5 83 (10.13%) TCP/IP
6 72 (8.79%) SAN
7 71 (8.67%) VPN
8 64 (7.81%) WAN
9 60 (7.33%) VLAN
10 53 (6.47%) Network Security
11 49 (5.98%) LAN
12 48 (5.86%) SSL
13 40 (4.88%) NAS
14 31 (3.79%) BGP
15 29 (3.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 28 (3.42%) HTTP
16 28 (3.42%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.05%) BIG-IP
18 24 (2.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 22 (2.69%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.25%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (1.71%) Power BI
4 13 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
7 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.73%) Big Data
8 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.49%) DataStage
10 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.37%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (4.52%) Jenkins
1 37 (4.52%) JIRA
2 19 (2.32%) GitLab
3 18 (2.20%) Git
4 16 (1.95%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.37%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 182 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 70 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (8.06%) Finance
4 53 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.64%) Banking
6 30 (3.66%) Legal
7 24 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.32%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.47%) Military
11 11 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.85%) Retail
14 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.73%) Law
14 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.61%) Police
16 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 191 (23.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 105 (12.82%) Senior
3 82 (10.01%) Architect
3 82 (10.01%) VMware Engineer
4 74 (9.04%) Network Engineer
5 44 (5.37%) Consultant
6 43 (5.25%) Support Engineer
7 38 (4.64%) Lead
8 36 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (4.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 33 (4.03%) Storage Engineer
11 32 (3.91%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 30 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (3.54%) VMware Consultant
14 27 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.05%) Administrator
16 24 (2.93%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 22 (2.69%) Infrastructure Architect
18 21 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
19 20 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.47%) Flash
1 12 (1.47%) Middleware
2 11 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.34%) REST
3 10 (1.22%) .NET
3 10 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (0.98%) LDAP
5 6 (0.73%) Redfish
6 5 (0.61%) JSON
6 5 (0.61%) YAML
7 4 (0.49%) JDBC
7 4 (0.49%) ODBC
7 4 (0.49%) XML
8 3 (0.37%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.37%) Kafka
8 3 (0.37%) SAML
8 3 (0.37%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.24%) Blazor
9 2 (0.24%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 120 (14.65%) Data Centre
2 69 (8.42%) PKI
3 65 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (5.86%) Replication
5 47 (5.74%) Enterprise Storage
6 40 (4.88%) Clustering
7 29 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.42%) Cloud Native
9 24 (2.93%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (2.08%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.08%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.34%) Operational Technology
13 11 (1.34%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.34%) SCADA
14 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 413 (50.43%) Windows
2 264 (32.23%) Windows Server
3 233 (28.45%) Linux
4 50 (6.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (3.91%) VMS
7 25 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.56%) Unix
9 19 (2.32%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (2.08%) Windows 10
11 16 (1.95%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (1.47%) Solaris
15 9 (1.10%) AIX
16 8 (0.98%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.85%) CentOS
18 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
18 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 159 (19.41%) Migration
3 138 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (14.16%) High Availability
5 108 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 108 (13.19%) ITIL
6 104 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 100 (12.21%) CI/CD
8 83 (10.13%) Network Virtualisation
9 82 (10.01%) Technical Leadership
10 81 (9.89%) Change Management
11 80 (9.77%) DevOps
12 77 (9.40%) Validation
13 74 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 73 (8.91%) Agile
15 67 (8.18%) Platform Engineering
16 65 (7.94%) ITSM
17 62 (7.57%) Capacity Planning
18 61 (7.45%) Load Balancing
19 57 (6.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 188 (22.95%) PowerShell
2 125 (15.26%) Python
3 84 (10.26%) Bash
4 47 (5.74%) SQL
5 22 (2.69%) Java
6 9 (1.10%) Go
7 7 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.61%) Bicep
9 5 (0.61%) C
9 5 (0.61%) C#
9 5 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.49%) COBOL
11 3 (0.37%) Lua
11 3 (0.37%) Perl
12 2 (0.24%) VBScript
13 1 (0.12%) C++
13 1 (0.12%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.12%) PHP
13 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 384 (46.89%) Security Cleared
2 227 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 181 (22.10%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (6.11%) Degree
6 40 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (4.76%) VCAP
8 38 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.93%) Azure Certification
9 24 (2.93%) MCSE
10 23 (2.81%) CCNP
11 21 (2.56%) CCNA
12 15 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.83%) MCSA
13 11 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (1.22%) OCP
15 7 (0.85%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 7 (0.85%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.05%) SLA
2 23 (2.81%) NIST
3 16 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.83%) NCSC
5 11 (1.34%) QA
6 8 (0.98%) GDPR
7 5 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.49%) GxP
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.24%) DICOM
10 2 (0.24%) ISA99
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) RMADS
11 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 264 (32.23%) Active Directory
2 204 (24.91%) vSphere
3 193 (23.57%) VMware ESXi
4 164 (20.02%) Hyper-V
4 164 (20.02%) VMware NSX
5 91 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (6.72%) Docker
7 38 (4.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 33 (4.03%) Firmware
9 26 (3.17%) NFS
10 24 (2.93%) KVM
11 11 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.98%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.85%) Ceph
13 7 (0.85%) GPFS
13 7 (0.85%) vCloud
14 6 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.61%) SRDF
15 5 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 173 (21.12%) Ansible
2 150 (18.32%) vCenter Server
3 117 (14.29%) Terraform
4 112 (13.68%) Kubernetes
5 43 (5.25%) SCOM
6 42 (5.13%) SCCM
7 36 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (4.27%) vRealize
9 32 (3.91%) VxRail
10 29 (3.54%) Grafana
11 21 (2.56%) Prometheus
12 20 (2.44%) Puppet
13 19 (2.32%) Argo
14 18 (2.20%) NetBackup
14 18 (2.20%) vMotion
15 17 (2.08%) PowerCLI
16 16 (1.95%) WSUS
17 14 (1.71%) SnapMirror
18 13 (1.59%) Avamar
19 11 (1.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 819 (100.00%) VMware
2 216 (26.37%) Microsoft
3 138 (16.85%) Cisco
4 64 (7.81%) NetApp
5 61 (7.45%) Red Hat
6 58 (7.08%) Citrix
7 50 (6.11%) Dell
8 43 (5.25%) Oracle
9 39 (4.76%) F5
10 35 (4.27%) SolarWinds
11 34 (4.15%) Juniper
11 34 (4.15%) Palo Alto
12 33 (4.03%) ServiceNow
13 30 (3.66%) Veeam
14 24 (2.93%) IBM
15 23 (2.81%) Broadcom
16 22 (2.69%) Pure Storage
17 19 (2.32%) Fortinet
17 19 (2.32%) McAfee
18 18 (2.20%) CheckPoint