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

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 138 126
Rank change year-on-year -32 -12 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 739 598 793
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.03% 1.82%
As % of the System Software category 15.12% 16.13% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 408 508
10th Percentile £318 £313 £263
25th Percentile £415 £424 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £503
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.34% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 2 36
10th Percentile £19.25 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £42.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +10.60% -35.32%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £74.26 £61.30 £84.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -33.52%

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 4,887 3,708 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.48% 12.56% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,300 2,537 3,218
10th Percentile £213 £213 £197
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £460
% change year-on-year -1.86% +5.22% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 92 234
10th Percentile £16.19 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.97 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.70% +24.31% -56.84%
75th Percentile £74.13 £64.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.83 £73.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £36.65 £21.00
% change year-on-year +43.27% +74.50% -47.50%

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 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 25 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 25 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 -30 646 £500 -9.09% 202
UK excluding London -31 510 £500 -9.09% 186
Work from Home -15 172 £514 -2.10% 164
South East -13 169 £531 -7.61% 77
London -70 150 £525 - 40
North of England -19 136 £450 +8.43% 37
Midlands -9 106 £402 -26.91% 23
West Midlands -17 80 £340 -38.29% 17
North West -13 72 £449 +5.65% 15
Yorkshire -23 65 £425 -8.60% 15
South West -70 52 £551 -4.13% 24
East of England -17 42 £475 +0.53% 16
Scotland +4 26 £450 -3.07% 4
East Midlands -22 26 £415 -23.54% 6
Wales -12 4 £463 +59.48% 10
North East -21 2 £575 +64.29% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 (5.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.35%) Confluence
4 9 (1.22%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) IIS
5 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.54%) CICS
6 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.41%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 198 (26.79%) Azure
2 131 (17.73%) AWS
3 54 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.63%) Entra ID
5 48 (6.50%) OpenShift
6 36 (4.87%) GCP
7 27 (3.65%) IaaS
8 26 (3.52%) GitHub
8 26 (3.52%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.71%) PaaS
10 12 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.35%) Datadog
11 10 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.22%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.95%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.81%) Cohesity
14 6 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 192 (25.98%) DNS
2 166 (22.46%) Firewall
3 107 (14.48%) DHCP
4 73 (9.88%) SAN
4 73 (9.88%) VPN
5 67 (9.07%) VSAN
6 60 (8.12%) WAN
7 55 (7.44%) Network Security
8 51 (6.90%) LAN
9 50 (6.77%) TCP/IP
10 44 (5.95%) NAS
10 44 (5.95%) SSL
11 36 (4.87%) BIG-IP
12 35 (4.74%) HTTP
13 30 (4.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 30 (4.06%) VLAN
13 30 (4.06%) Wireshark
14 26 (3.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 25 (3.38%) BGP
16 22 (2.98%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.95%) Power BI
5 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.54%) DataStage
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
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%) GIS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (4.19%) Jenkins
2 26 (3.52%) JIRA
3 19 (2.57%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.17%) Git
4 16 (2.17%) GitLab
5 8 (1.08%) PVCS
5 8 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 3 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) GoCD
9 1 (0.14%) MSI
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 152 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 61 (8.25%) Public Sector
3 59 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.85%) Finance
5 45 (6.09%) Banking
6 29 (3.92%) Legal
7 27 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.35%) Military
9 10 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.22%) Police
11 8 (1.08%) Electronics
11 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.68%) Local Government
14 4 (0.54%) Law
14 4 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 146 (19.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 103 (13.94%) Architect
3 69 (9.34%) Senior
4 64 (8.66%) VMware Engineer
5 60 (8.12%) Network Engineer
6 46 (6.22%) Analyst
7 36 (4.87%) Consultant
8 34 (4.60%) Lead
9 32 (4.33%) Infrastructure Architect
10 24 (3.25%) VMware Consultant
11 23 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 23 (3.11%) VMware Architect
12 22 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (2.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 21 (2.84%) Wintel Engineer
14 20 (2.71%) Support Engineer
15 19 (2.57%) IP Network Engineer
15 19 (2.57%) Storage Analyst
15 19 (2.57%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.71%) Flash
1 20 (2.71%) LDAP
2 12 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (1.35%) SAML
4 9 (1.22%) Middleware
5 7 (0.95%) REST
6 6 (0.81%) Kafka
7 5 (0.68%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.54%) XML
9 3 (0.41%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.41%) EJB
9 3 (0.41%) JSP
9 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.41%) Spring
10 2 (0.27%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.27%) Java SE
10 2 (0.27%) JSON
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.64%) Data Centre
2 70 (9.47%) Replication
3 49 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 49 (6.63%) PKI
4 46 (6.22%) Cloud Native
5 36 (4.87%) Clustering
6 28 (3.79%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
7 27 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.38%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.71%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.76%) SCADA
13 12 (1.62%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.49%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.49%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 333 (45.06%) Windows
2 227 (30.72%) Linux
3 223 (30.18%) Windows Server
4 53 (7.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (4.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (3.79%) VMS
8 23 (3.11%) Windows 10
9 21 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.44%) Ubuntu
11 17 (2.30%) Data ONTAP
12 14 (1.89%) Solaris
13 13 (1.76%) Unix
14 10 (1.35%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.08%) CoreOS
15 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.95%) CentOS
17 6 (0.81%) AIX
18 4 (0.54%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (25.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 143 (19.35%) Migration
3 115 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (13.40%) High Availability
5 98 (13.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 82 (11.10%) Agile
6 82 (11.10%) ITIL
7 76 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (10.01%) DevOps
9 70 (9.47%) CI/CD
10 69 (9.34%) Network Virtualisation
11 66 (8.93%) Capacity Planning
12 63 (8.53%) Load Balancing
13 61 (8.25%) Platform Engineering
14 55 (7.44%) Data Protection
15 49 (6.63%) Containerisation
16 48 (6.50%) Roadmaps
17 46 (6.22%) Change Management
18 44 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (5.95%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.65%) PowerShell
2 96 (12.99%) Python
3 58 (7.85%) Bash
4 27 (3.65%) SQL
5 11 (1.49%) C
6 10 (1.35%) Java
7 9 (1.22%) C++
7 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.95%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.95%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
10 5 (0.68%) Perl
10 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.54%) COBOL
11 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.54%) PHP
12 3 (0.41%) C#
12 3 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Korn
13 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 289 (39.11%) Security Cleared
2 192 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 106 (14.34%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.14%) Degree
6 34 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.19%) VCAP
8 24 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.98%) MCSE
10 20 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.57%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.44%) MCSA
13 15 (2.03%) CCNP
14 13 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.35%) OCP
16 8 (1.08%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.95%) CCNA
17 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
19 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.57%) NIST
3 18 (2.44%) SLA
4 15 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.76%) NCSC
6 9 (1.22%) GDPR
7 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.54%) 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
1 212 (28.69%) Active Directory
2 172 (23.27%) vSphere
3 161 (21.79%) VMware NSX
4 147 (19.89%) VMware ESXi
5 138 (18.67%) Hyper-V
6 83 (11.23%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (6.09%) Docker
8 40 (5.41%) NFS
9 34 (4.60%) Firmware
10 29 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (3.25%) KVM
12 15 (2.03%) GPFS
13 9 (1.22%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.68%) Ceph
15 5 (0.68%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.54%) vCloud
16 4 (0.54%) XenApp
17 3 (0.41%) UAG
Systems Management
1 138 (18.67%) Ansible
2 105 (14.21%) vCenter Server
3 83 (11.23%) Terraform
4 75 (10.15%) Kubernetes
5 59 (7.98%) SCCM
6 53 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (6.36%) vRealize
8 28 (3.79%) Grafana
9 23 (3.11%) vMotion
10 22 (2.98%) Argo
11 20 (2.71%) PowerCLI
11 20 (2.71%) VxRail
12 18 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (2.30%) SCOM
13 17 (2.30%) WSUS
14 12 (1.62%) Progress Chef
14 12 (1.62%) Puppet
14 12 (1.62%) SnapMirror
15 11 (1.49%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 739 (100.00%) VMware
2 190 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 145 (19.62%) Cisco
4 65 (8.80%) Citrix
5 61 (8.25%) NetApp
6 59 (7.98%) Red Hat
7 53 (7.17%) F5
8 42 (5.68%) IBM
9 40 (5.41%) ServiceNow
10 39 (5.28%) Dell
10 39 (5.28%) Oracle
11 32 (4.33%) Palo Alto
12 31 (4.19%) Pure Storage
13 29 (3.92%) Veeam
14 26 (3.52%) SolarWinds
15 23 (3.11%) Broadcom
15 23 (3.11%) Commvault
15 23 (3.11%) McAfee
16 21 (2.84%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.57%) Blue Coat
236 VMware Infrastructure jobs Nationwide