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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 178 107
Rank change year-on-year +4 -71 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 837 513 833
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.56% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 15.89% 13.25% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 329 530
10th Percentile £349 £346 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +6.18% -1.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £593
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 49 2 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £21.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -3.28% -52.41%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £65.94
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £28.00 £51.83
% change year-on-year +126.71% -45.98% -13.32%

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 5,269 3,872 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 11.76% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,462 2,489 3,092
10th Percentile £220 £225 £217
25th Percentile £400 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £499
% change year-on-year - -4.81% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 103 147
10th Percentile £15.78 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.94 £15.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.77 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% +37.69% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.35 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.25 £91.50 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £61.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year -14.63% +154.34% -10.44%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +2 725 £515 -6.45% 296
UK excluding London -13 577 £514 -6.55% 230
South East +6 219 £538 -6.52% 78
London -8 177 £525 - 90
Work from Home -30 166 £500 -6.32% 110
North of England -7 138 £484 +15.58% 54
Midlands -19 88 £450 -18.18% 23
North West -8 70 £482 +37.57% 34
South West -48 69 £553 -3.91% 41
West Midlands -27 68 £450 -20.84% 13
Yorkshire -27 65 £500 +11.48% 12
East of England -18 38 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland +11 34 £450 -3.12% 10
East Midlands -1 20 £450 -18.18% 10
Wales +1 13 £550 +22.22% 7
North East -39 3 £500 -20.00% 10

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 46 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.79%) Confluence
4 13 (1.55%) IIS
5 8 (0.96%) nginx
5 8 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.48%) Apache
6 4 (0.48%) FactoryTalk
6 4 (0.48%) JBoss
7 3 (0.36%) CICS
7 3 (0.36%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.36%) 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 13 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (26.76%) Azure
2 144 (17.20%) AWS
3 61 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (5.97%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.14%) OpenShift
6 40 (4.78%) GCP
7 32 (3.82%) GitHub
8 24 (2.87%) IaaS
9 21 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.27%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.27%) Power Platform
11 18 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.03%) Rubrik
13 15 (1.79%) PaaS
14 12 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.43%) SaaS
15 11 (1.31%) OneDrive
16 9 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (0.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 252 (30.11%) DNS
2 173 (20.67%) Firewall
3 152 (18.16%) DHCP
4 88 (10.51%) VSAN
5 86 (10.27%) TCP/IP
6 74 (8.84%) VPN
7 70 (8.36%) SAN
8 62 (7.41%) WAN
9 61 (7.29%) VLAN
10 56 (6.69%) Network Security
11 50 (5.97%) SSL
12 47 (5.62%) LAN
13 40 (4.78%) NAS
14 32 (3.82%) BGP
15 31 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 28 (3.35%) HTTP
16 28 (3.35%) Wireshark
17 26 (3.11%) BIG-IP
17 26 (3.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.63%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (2.03%) Power BI
4 13 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (0.72%) Big Data
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.60%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.36%) DataStage
11 3 (0.36%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 40 (4.78%) JIRA
2 34 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.27%) GitLab
4 18 (2.15%) Git
5 16 (1.91%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.36%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.24%) CppUnit
9 2 (0.24%) MSI
9 2 (0.24%) PVCS
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 186 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 73 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (7.77%) Finance
4 52 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.30%) Banking
6 31 (3.70%) Legal
7 28 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.43%) Military
11 9 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.96%) Retail
13 7 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.72%) Law
15 5 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Police
16 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 200 (23.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (13.26%) Senior
3 89 (10.63%) VMware Engineer
4 79 (9.44%) Architect
5 76 (9.08%) Network Engineer
6 46 (5.50%) Support Engineer
7 43 (5.14%) Consultant
8 38 (4.54%) Lead
9 36 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (4.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 34 (4.06%) Storage Engineer
12 33 (3.94%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 32 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
13 32 (3.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 29 (3.46%) VMware Consultant
15 26 (3.11%) Administrator
16 25 (2.99%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 23 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 22 (2.63%) IT Engineer
18 22 (2.63%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.43%) REST
2 11 (1.31%) Flash
2 11 (1.31%) Middleware
3 10 (1.19%) .NET
3 10 (1.19%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (0.96%) LDAP
4 8 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (0.72%) Redfish
5 6 (0.72%) YAML
6 5 (0.60%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.60%) JSON
7 4 (0.48%) JDBC
7 4 (0.48%) ODBC
7 4 (0.48%) XML
8 3 (0.36%) Kafka
8 3 (0.36%) NETCONF
8 3 (0.36%) SAML
9 2 (0.24%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.24%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 121 (14.46%) Data Centre
2 69 (8.24%) PKI
3 66 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (5.73%) Replication
5 47 (5.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 44 (5.26%) Clustering
7 31 (3.70%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.11%) Cloud Native
8 26 (3.11%) Public Cloud
9 23 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.15%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 11 (1.31%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.31%) SCADA
13 10 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 426 (50.90%) Windows
2 274 (32.74%) Windows Server
3 240 (28.67%) Linux
4 51 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 46 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (3.82%) VMS
7 25 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (2.39%) Unix
9 17 (2.03%) Data ONTAP
9 17 (2.03%) Windows 10
10 16 (1.91%) Ubuntu
11 15 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (1.31%) Solaris
14 8 (0.96%) AIX
15 7 (0.84%) CentOS
16 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.72%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.48%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (31.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 164 (19.59%) Migration
3 142 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (13.98%) High Availability
5 115 (13.74%) ITIL
6 111 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 108 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 99 (11.83%) CI/CD
9 89 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
10 87 (10.39%) Change Management
11 84 (10.04%) Network Virtualisation
12 81 (9.68%) DevOps
13 79 (9.44%) Agile
14 77 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 73 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
15 73 (8.72%) Validation
16 71 (8.48%) ITSM
17 62 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
17 62 (7.41%) Load Balancing
17 62 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (23.89%) PowerShell
2 127 (15.17%) Python
3 89 (10.63%) Bash
4 52 (6.21%) SQL
5 22 (2.63%) Java
6 9 (1.08%) Go
7 7 (0.84%) Bicep
7 7 (0.84%) C
7 7 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.60%) C#
9 5 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.36%) C++
10 3 (0.36%) COBOL
10 3 (0.36%) Lua
10 3 (0.36%) Perl
11 2 (0.24%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.24%) VBScript
12 1 (0.12%) MUMPS
12 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 399 (47.67%) Security Cleared
2 241 (28.79%) SC Cleared
3 185 (22.10%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.21%) Degree
6 43 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (4.66%) VCAP
9 26 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.99%) MCSE
11 23 (2.75%) CCNP
12 22 (2.63%) CCNA
13 16 (1.91%) MCSA
14 15 (1.79%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
16 8 (0.96%) OCP
17 7 (0.84%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 7 (0.84%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.99%) SLA
2 21 (2.51%) NIST
3 16 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.91%) NCSC
4 14 (1.67%) QA
5 8 (0.96%) GDPR
6 5 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.48%) GxP
7 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.24%) DICOM
9 2 (0.24%) ISA99
9 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.24%) RMADS
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 272 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 204 (24.37%) vSphere
3 195 (23.30%) VMware ESXi
4 175 (20.91%) Hyper-V
5 165 (19.71%) VMware NSX
6 92 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (6.69%) Docker
8 36 (4.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (4.06%) Firmware
10 23 (2.75%) KVM
10 23 (2.75%) NFS
11 11 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
12 9 (1.08%) Ceph
13 8 (0.96%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.84%) GPFS
14 7 (0.84%) vCloud
14 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.60%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 173 (20.67%) Ansible
2 150 (17.92%) vCenter Server
3 118 (14.10%) Terraform
4 110 (13.14%) Kubernetes
5 47 (5.62%) SCOM
6 43 (5.14%) SCCM
7 34 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (4.06%) vRealize
8 31 (3.70%) VxRail
9 27 (3.23%) Grafana
10 22 (2.63%) NetBackup
10 22 (2.63%) Prometheus
11 20 (2.39%) Puppet
12 18 (2.15%) vMotion
13 17 (2.03%) WSUS
14 16 (1.91%) Argo
14 16 (1.91%) PowerCLI
15 14 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (1.55%) Avamar
17 12 (1.43%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 837 (100.00%) VMware
2 222 (26.52%) Microsoft
3 140 (16.73%) Cisco
4 62 (7.41%) NetApp
5 59 (7.05%) Citrix
6 57 (6.81%) Red Hat
7 49 (5.85%) Dell
8 46 (5.50%) Oracle
9 42 (5.02%) F5
10 38 (4.54%) SolarWinds
11 36 (4.30%) Palo Alto
12 35 (4.18%) ServiceNow
13 34 (4.06%) Juniper
14 31 (3.70%) Veeam
15 23 (2.75%) Broadcom
15 23 (2.75%) IBM
16 19 (2.27%) Fortinet
16 19 (2.27%) McAfee
16 19 (2.27%) Pure Storage
17 18 (2.15%) Splunk