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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 123 127
Rank change year-on-year -49 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 713 640 833
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.20% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 14.66% 16.83% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 435 535
10th Percentile £318 £304 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.95%
75th Percentile £590 £617 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 38
10th Percentile £45.20 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £56.32 £37.25 £38.22
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £45.01
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +3.31% -30.75%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £68.44
90th Percentile £75.83 £61.30 £82.63
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 4,863 3,803 4,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 13.08% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,328 2,591 3,275
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £594 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +0.53% +3.26% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 92 225
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.34 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £15.65
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.60% +36.67% -54.55%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £87.83 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +66.67% -16.64%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -48 629 £506 -7.95% 258
UK excluding London -37 504 £500 -9.09% 236
Work from Home -38 171 £510 -2.86% 96
South East -19 164 £535 -6.43% 71
London -85 139 £525 -4.55% 44
North of England -35 125 £451 +11.23% 71
Midlands -2 117 £400 -27.27% 28
West Midlands -10 93 £340 -38.29% 18
North West -14 75 £445 +4.71% 46
South West -54 58 £550 -4.35% 34
Yorkshire -31 54 £454 -0.33% 22
East of England -11 40 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -23 24 £415 -20.95% 10
Scotland +2 23 £469 +3.02% 7
Wales -13 5 £413 +42.24% 9
North East -16 2 £513 +46.43% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (6.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.24%) Confluence
4 7 (0.98%) nginx
5 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.42%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 209 (29.31%) Azure
2 149 (20.90%) AWS
3 59 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (7.29%) OpenShift
5 48 (6.73%) Entra ID
6 42 (5.89%) GCP
7 33 (4.63%) IaaS
8 28 (3.93%) Nutanix
9 22 (3.09%) GitHub
10 20 (2.81%) PaaS
11 15 (2.10%) Datadog
12 11 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (1.26%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.12%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 188 (26.37%) DNS
2 178 (24.96%) Firewall
3 96 (13.46%) DHCP
4 79 (11.08%) VPN
5 68 (9.54%) VSAN
6 66 (9.26%) SAN
7 55 (7.71%) WAN
8 50 (7.01%) Network Security
8 50 (7.01%) TCP/IP
9 49 (6.87%) LAN
10 38 (5.33%) SSL
11 36 (5.05%) BIG-IP
11 36 (5.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 36 (5.05%) NAS
12 33 (4.63%) HTTP
13 31 (4.35%) VLAN
14 30 (4.21%) BGP
14 30 (4.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (4.07%) Wireshark
16 24 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.98%) Power BI
5 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
5 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.28%) DataStage
6 2 (0.28%) GIS
6 2 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.14%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 34 (4.77%) Jenkins
2 21 (2.95%) JIRA
3 19 (2.66%) Fiddler
4 16 (2.24%) Git
5 14 (1.96%) GitLab
6 8 (1.12%) PVCS
6 8 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.56%) JMeter
8 4 (0.56%) JUnit
9 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.28%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.28%) RStudio
11 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.14%) GoCD
11 1 (0.14%) MSI
11 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 155 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 67 (9.40%) Public Sector
3 60 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (7.99%) Finance
5 47 (6.59%) Banking
6 33 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (4.35%) Legal
8 25 (3.51%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.40%) Military
10 10 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.12%) Electronics
12 7 (0.98%) Police
13 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.70%) Local Government
15 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 108 (15.15%) Architect
3 59 (8.27%) Network Engineer
4 55 (7.71%) Analyst
4 55 (7.71%) Senior
5 51 (7.15%) VMware Engineer
6 33 (4.63%) Infrastructure Architect
7 32 (4.49%) Consultant
8 30 (4.21%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 30 (4.21%) Lead
9 29 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (3.09%) Storage Analyst
10 22 (3.09%) VMware Architect
11 21 (2.95%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 21 (2.95%) VMware Consultant
12 20 (2.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (2.81%) Web Engineer
13 19 (2.66%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 19 (2.66%) IP Network Engineer
14 17 (2.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.95%) Flash
2 18 (2.52%) LDAP
3 12 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.54%) SAML
5 7 (0.98%) Loki
5 7 (0.98%) Middleware
6 6 (0.84%) Kafka
6 6 (0.84%) REST
7 5 (0.70%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.56%) OAuth
8 4 (0.56%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.56%) OpenID
8 4 (0.56%) Spring
9 3 (0.42%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.28%) EJB
10 2 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.28%) Java SE
10 2 (0.28%) JSP
10 2 (0.28%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.28%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.92%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.84%) Replication
3 48 (6.73%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.73%) PKI
4 46 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (4.07%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.79%) Clustering
8 26 (3.65%) Private Cloud
9 23 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
10 20 (2.81%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (2.24%) Product Ownership
13 15 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.82%) SCADA
15 11 (1.54%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.40%) Operational Technology
16 10 (1.40%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
18 6 (0.84%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 303 (42.50%) Windows
2 236 (33.10%) Linux
3 194 (27.21%) Windows Server
4 59 (8.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (5.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (3.23%) Windows 10
8 22 (3.09%) VMS
9 18 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.38%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.96%) Data ONTAP
12 11 (1.54%) Solaris
13 10 (1.40%) Mac OS
14 9 (1.26%) Unix
15 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
17 6 (0.84%) CentOS
17 6 (0.84%) CoreOS
18 4 (0.56%) AIX
18 4 (0.56%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (23.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 135 (18.93%) Migration
3 115 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 92 (12.90%) Agile
5 92 (12.90%) High Availability
6 84 (11.78%) CI/CD
7 79 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (11.08%) Load Balancing
8 77 (10.80%) DevOps
9 74 (10.38%) ITIL
10 60 (8.42%) Containerisation
11 59 (8.27%) Platform Engineering
12 57 (7.99%) Network Virtualisation
13 54 (7.57%) Data Protection
14 50 (7.01%) Roadmaps
15 48 (6.73%) Capacity Planning
16 46 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
17 45 (6.31%) Change Management
17 45 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 116 (16.27%) Python
3 78 (10.94%) Bash
4 23 (3.23%) SQL
5 12 (1.68%) Perl
6 11 (1.54%) C
7 9 (1.26%) C++
7 9 (1.26%) Java
7 9 (1.26%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.98%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.98%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.84%) Bicep
10 4 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.56%) PHP
10 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.42%) C#
12 2 (0.28%) COBOL
12 2 (0.28%) Korn
12 2 (0.28%) VBScript
13 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 275 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 184 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 93 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.31%) Degree
4 45 (6.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 30 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.23%) VCAP
8 22 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (2.66%) CCNP
11 15 (2.10%) MCSE
12 13 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
13 11 (1.54%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.54%) MCSA
14 10 (1.40%) OCP
15 9 (1.26%) CCNA
16 8 (1.12%) CCIE
17 7 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (2.81%) NIST
3 14 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.82%) GDPR
5 12 (1.68%) SLA
6 9 (1.26%) NCSC
7 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) QA
9 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.28%) ISA99
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.28%) RMADS
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.14%) DICOM
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 199 (27.91%) Active Directory
2 178 (24.96%) vSphere
3 154 (21.60%) VMware NSX
4 119 (16.69%) VMware ESXi
5 118 (16.55%) Hyper-V
6 63 (8.84%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (8.13%) Docker
8 40 (5.61%) NFS
9 31 (4.35%) Firmware
10 27 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (2.52%) KVM
12 16 (2.24%) GPFS
13 9 (1.26%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (0.56%) Ceph
15 4 (0.56%) vCloud
16 3 (0.42%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.42%) Sendmail
16 3 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 125 (17.53%) Ansible
2 94 (13.18%) vCenter Server
3 90 (12.62%) Terraform
4 78 (10.94%) Kubernetes
5 60 (8.42%) SCCM
6 56 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 53 (7.43%) vRealize
8 31 (4.35%) Grafana
9 28 (3.93%) Argo
10 24 (3.37%) VxRail
11 22 (3.09%) vMotion
12 20 (2.81%) PowerCLI
13 19 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
14 17 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (1.96%) Prometheus
16 13 (1.82%) Progress Chef
16 13 (1.82%) SCOM
17 12 (1.68%) FortiGate
17 12 (1.68%) WSUS
18 11 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 713 (100.00%) VMware
2 175 (24.54%) Microsoft
3 147 (20.62%) Cisco
4 66 (9.26%) Red Hat
5 64 (8.98%) Citrix
6 63 (8.84%) F5
7 58 (8.13%) NetApp
8 46 (6.45%) IBM
9 43 (6.03%) Dell
10 40 (5.61%) ServiceNow
11 36 (5.05%) Oracle
11 36 (5.05%) SolarWinds
12 35 (4.91%) Palo Alto
12 35 (4.91%) Pure Storage
13 28 (3.93%) Commvault
14 24 (3.37%) Veeam
15 23 (3.23%) McAfee
16 21 (2.95%) Broadcom
17 20 (2.81%) Blue Coat
18 19 (2.66%) HP