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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 184 117
Rank change year-on-year +25 -67 -26
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 929 508 763
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.54% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 17.05% 12.92% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 331 457
10th Percentile £319 £263 £318
25th Percentile £425 £419 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £590
90th Percentile £701 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.64% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 3 12
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.37
25th Percentile £32.52 £26.50 £23.45
Median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £88.99 £48.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £93.16 £59.80 £105.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.38 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +195.56% -65.90%

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 5,450 3,932 4,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 11.93% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,575 2,479 2,887
10th Percentile £221 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £601
90th Percentile £679 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 121 108
10th Percentile £15.95 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £18.04
Median hourly rate £62.82 £32.77 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.69% +19.16% -45.00%
75th Percentile £74.32 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £91.48 £90.00 £81.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £62.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.98% +107.50% -24.24%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +15 815 £525 -4.55% 606
UK excluding London +2 651 £519 -5.64% 444
South East -8 203 £538 -2.27% 131
London -10 199 £525 +5.00% 180
North of England +14 180 £482 +13.29% 80
Work from Home -31 177 £501 +0.20% 245
Midlands -13 97 £450 -18.18% 81
North West +2 85 £455 +3.89% 46
Yorkshire -4 79 £525 +27.27% 23
South West -24 77 £638 +14.86% 60
West Midlands -14 72 £450 -21.36% 55
East of England -4 62 £563 +2.27% 55
Scotland +2 41 £425 -22.73% 35
East Midlands -11 25 £438 -9.33% 26
North East -28 17 £400 - 11
Wales - 11 £550 - 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 49 (5.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.26%) Confluence
4 20 (2.15%) IIS
5 13 (1.40%) CMS
6 9 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.75%) JBoss
7 7 (0.75%) nginx
7 7 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) Apache
8 4 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.32%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.22%) Houdini
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) NUKE
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 246 (26.48%) Azure
2 133 (14.32%) AWS
3 87 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (7.10%) Entra ID
5 49 (5.27%) OpenShift
6 37 (3.98%) GCP
7 34 (3.66%) GitHub
8 29 (3.12%) IaaS
9 23 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.48%) Nutanix
10 20 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (1.83%) Power Platform
12 15 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (1.61%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.61%) Rubrik
13 14 (1.51%) PaaS
14 13 (1.40%) SaaS
15 9 (0.97%) Azure Stack
16 8 (0.86%) Cohesity
16 8 (0.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 281 (30.25%) DNS
2 179 (19.27%) Firewall
3 177 (19.05%) DHCP
4 97 (10.44%) TCP/IP
5 80 (8.61%) VSAN
6 71 (7.64%) VLAN
6 71 (7.64%) VPN
7 70 (7.53%) SAN
8 58 (6.24%) Network Security
9 56 (6.03%) WAN
10 47 (5.06%) LAN
11 41 (4.41%) SSL
12 40 (4.31%) NAS
13 31 (3.34%) BGP
13 31 (3.34%) HTTP
14 28 (3.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (2.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 22 (2.37%) Wireshark
17 21 (2.26%) BIG-IP
18 19 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.83%) Power BI
4 11 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.97%) Big Data
6 9 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.22%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.22%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 44 (4.74%) JIRA
2 27 (2.91%) Git
2 27 (2.91%) GitLab
2 27 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.29%) Fiddler
4 7 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.43%) CppUnit
5 4 (0.43%) PVCS
6 3 (0.32%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.22%) MSI
7 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
8 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.11%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 221 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 95 (10.23%) Finance
3 93 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 38 (4.09%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.34%) Banking
7 29 (3.12%) Legal
8 24 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.08%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.86%) Law
12 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.75%) Back Office
14 6 (0.65%) Police
14 6 (0.65%) Retail
15 5 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 227 (24.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 146 (15.72%) Senior
3 98 (10.55%) VMware Engineer
4 87 (9.36%) Architect
5 59 (6.35%) Network Engineer
6 56 (6.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (5.71%) Support Engineer
8 52 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (4.95%) Lead
10 45 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
11 36 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 36 (3.88%) Consultant
11 36 (3.88%) Storage Engineer
12 34 (3.66%) Administrator
13 30 (3.23%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 26 (2.80%) VMware Consultant
15 24 (2.58%) IT Engineer
15 24 (2.58%) Server Engineer
16 23 (2.48%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 23 (2.48%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (13.78%) Terraform
2 27 (2.91%) REST
3 22 (2.37%) JSON
4 17 (1.83%) Kafka
5 15 (1.61%) Middleware
6 12 (1.29%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.29%) LDAP
6 12 (1.29%) XMPP
6 12 (1.29%) YAML
7 11 (1.18%) .NET
8 9 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.75%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.65%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.65%) Redfish
11 5 (0.54%) JDBC
11 5 (0.54%) ODBC
11 5 (0.54%) XML
12 4 (0.43%) Flash
13 3 (0.32%) Java SE
13 3 (0.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 151 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 76 (8.18%) PKI
3 72 (7.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (5.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 49 (5.27%) Private Cloud
6 46 (4.95%) Clustering
7 43 (4.63%) Replication
8 34 (3.66%) Onboarding
9 32 (3.44%) Management Information System
10 29 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (3.01%) Public Cloud
12 26 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (2.48%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.83%) Operational Technology
16 16 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
17 14 (1.51%) Product Ownership
17 14 (1.51%) SCADA
18 11 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
19 10 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 501 (53.93%) Windows
2 336 (36.17%) Windows Server
3 249 (26.80%) Linux
4 51 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (3.34%) VMS
7 28 (3.01%) Windows 10
8 27 (2.91%) Unix
9 22 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (1.61%) Ubuntu
11 15 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (1.40%) Data ONTAP
13 12 (1.29%) Solaris
14 11 (1.18%) AIX
15 9 (0.97%) CentOS
16 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.65%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.43%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (33.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 180 (19.38%) ITIL
2 180 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
3 171 (18.41%) Migration
4 158 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (14.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 125 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
7 118 (12.70%) CI/CD
8 111 (11.95%) Change Management
9 100 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
10 95 (10.23%) ITSM
10 95 (10.23%) Validation
11 93 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (10.01%) High Availability
12 92 (9.90%) Root Cause Analysis
13 91 (9.80%) Project Delivery
14 90 (9.69%) Agile
15 88 (9.47%) Service Management
16 86 (9.26%) DevOps
17 81 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 225 (24.22%) PowerShell
2 138 (14.85%) Python
3 85 (9.15%) Bash
4 54 (5.81%) SQL
5 25 (2.69%) Java
6 10 (1.08%) Perl
7 9 (0.97%) Bicep
7 9 (0.97%) C
7 9 (0.97%) Go
8 7 (0.75%) C#
9 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.43%) C++
10 4 (0.43%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.32%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.32%) Korn
11 3 (0.32%) Lua
11 3 (0.32%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) COBOL
12 2 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 449 (48.33%) Security Cleared
2 268 (28.85%) SC Cleared
3 200 (21.53%) DV Cleared
4 67 (7.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.35%) Degree
6 49 (5.27%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.41%) VCAP
9 29 (3.12%) Azure Certification
10 27 (2.91%) CCNP
11 25 (2.69%) MCSE
12 21 (2.26%) CCNA
13 20 (2.15%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.72%) MCSA
15 12 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.86%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.80%) SLA
2 18 (1.94%) QA
3 17 (1.83%) NIST
4 15 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.29%) NCSC
6 8 (0.86%) GDPR
7 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.43%) GxP
8 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.32%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 317 (34.12%) Active Directory
2 225 (24.22%) vSphere
3 219 (23.57%) VMware ESXi
4 207 (22.28%) Hyper-V
5 146 (15.72%) VMware NSX
6 100 (10.76%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (6.57%) Docker
8 45 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
9 39 (4.20%) Firmware
10 22 (2.37%) NFS
11 19 (2.05%) KVM
11 19 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
12 12 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 10 (1.08%) XenApp
14 9 (0.97%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.75%) Ceph
15 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 7 (0.75%) oVirt
15 7 (0.75%) vCloud
16 6 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 173 (18.62%) Ansible
2 151 (16.25%) vCenter Server
3 138 (14.85%) Kubernetes
4 63 (6.78%) SCCM
4 63 (6.78%) SCOM
5 44 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (4.20%) VxRail
7 25 (2.69%) vRealize
8 23 (2.48%) Prometheus
9 21 (2.26%) Grafana
10 18 (1.94%) PowerCLI
10 18 (1.94%) Puppet
11 17 (1.83%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
13 15 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
13 15 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
13 15 (1.61%) vMotion
13 15 (1.61%) WSUS
14 13 (1.40%) Avamar
14 13 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 929 (100.00%) VMware
2 275 (29.60%) Microsoft
3 153 (16.47%) Cisco
4 67 (7.21%) Citrix
4 67 (7.21%) Red Hat
5 63 (6.78%) NetApp
6 58 (6.24%) Dell
7 45 (4.84%) Oracle
8 44 (4.74%) ServiceNow
9 43 (4.63%) SolarWinds
10 37 (3.98%) F5
11 35 (3.77%) Veeam
12 31 (3.34%) Palo Alto
13 28 (3.01%) Juniper
14 26 (2.80%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.48%) IBM
16 20 (2.15%) Broadcom
16 20 (2.15%) Remedy
17 19 (2.05%) McAfee
18 18 (1.94%) CyberArk