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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 187 114
Rank change year-on-year +26 -73 -24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 919 508 781
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.54% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 16.96% 13.13% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 330 476
10th Percentile £324 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £676 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 3 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.40 £20.94
25th Percentile £33.70 £29.00 £22.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% +26.05% -63.10%
75th Percentile £89.24 £48.63 £37.69
90th Percentile £93.79 £59.80 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £47.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +48.15% +110.00% -64.29%

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 5,419 3,869 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 11.72% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,443 2,969
10th Percentile £218 £225 £218
25th Percentile £400 £381 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £590 £589 £608
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £476
% change year-on-year - -0.21% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 112 118
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.80 £18.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.39 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year +87.21% +37.10% -51.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.35 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +136.36% -30.56%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +10 797 £525 -4.55% 353
UK excluding London +5 647 £518 -5.77% 275
South East -7 210 £538 -5.45% 93
London -5 191 £525 +5.00% 110
Work from Home -37 178 £510 -2.86% 141
North of England +9 174 £450 +4.35% 42
Midlands -12 97 £450 -18.18% 38
North West +15 90 £450 +2.86% 15
South West -28 82 £625 +12.61% 46
West Midlands -17 72 £450 -21.36% 22
Yorkshire -14 71 £525 +27.27% 14
East of England -19 51 £505 -8.18% 43
Scotland +15 45 £438 -20.45% 17
East Midlands -1 25 £425 -13.62% 16
North East -35 13 £400 -36.00% 14
Wales - 11 £550 - 3

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 50 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.18%) Confluence
3 20 (2.18%) IIS
4 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.76%) JBoss
5 7 (0.76%) nginx
5 7 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.44%) Apache
6 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
6 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.22%) CICS
8 2 (0.22%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.76%) 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 15 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (27.31%) Azure
2 142 (15.45%) AWS
3 85 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (7.07%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.68%) OpenShift
6 39 (4.24%) GCP
7 35 (3.81%) GitHub
8 29 (3.16%) IaaS
9 22 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.39%) Nutanix
10 20 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (1.96%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.63%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.52%) PaaS
15 13 (1.41%) Rubrik
15 13 (1.41%) SaaS
16 9 (0.98%) Azure Stack
17 8 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (0.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 285 (31.01%) DNS
2 182 (19.80%) Firewall
3 176 (19.15%) DHCP
4 95 (10.34%) TCP/IP
5 88 (9.58%) VSAN
6 73 (7.94%) VPN
7 72 (7.83%) SAN
8 71 (7.73%) VLAN
9 57 (6.20%) WAN
10 56 (6.09%) Network Security
11 46 (5.01%) SSL
12 45 (4.90%) LAN
13 42 (4.57%) NAS
14 34 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 31 (3.37%) HTTP
16 30 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 29 (3.16%) BGP
18 26 (2.83%) BIG-IP
19 24 (2.61%) Wireshark
20 19 (2.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.85%) Power BI
4 13 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (0.98%) Big Data
7 9 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.54%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 45 (4.90%) JIRA
2 30 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.61%) GitLab
4 23 (2.50%) Git
5 14 (1.52%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.44%) CppUnit
7 4 (0.44%) PVCS
8 3 (0.33%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.22%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) MSI
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.11%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 213 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 89 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (9.25%) Finance
4 43 (4.68%) Public Sector
5 35 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (3.26%) Banking
6 30 (3.26%) Legal
7 21 (2.29%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.87%) Law
12 8 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.76%) Retail
14 6 (0.65%) Back Office
15 5 (0.54%) Military
15 5 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 225 (24.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 142 (15.45%) Senior
3 104 (11.32%) VMware Engineer
4 81 (8.81%) Architect
5 67 (7.29%) Network Engineer
6 51 (5.55%) Support Engineer
7 50 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (5.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (4.35%) Lead
10 38 (4.13%) Consultant
11 35 (3.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 34 (3.70%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 34 (3.70%) Storage Engineer
13 33 (3.59%) Administrator
14 27 (2.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 26 (2.83%) VMware Consultant
16 25 (2.72%) Server Engineer
17 24 (2.61%) IT Engineer
17 24 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.15%) Terraform
2 23 (2.50%) REST
3 19 (2.07%) JSON
4 14 (1.52%) Middleware
5 13 (1.41%) LDAP
6 12 (1.31%) .NET
6 12 (1.31%) Kafka
7 11 (1.20%) 802.1X
8 9 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (0.98%) YAML
9 7 (0.76%) 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%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.54%) XML
12 4 (0.44%) Flash
13 3 (0.33%) Java SE
13 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 147 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 76 (8.27%) PKI
3 73 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 50 (5.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 45 (4.90%) Clustering
6 43 (4.68%) Replication
7 38 (4.13%) Private Cloud
8 34 (3.70%) Management Information System
9 32 (3.48%) Onboarding
10 30 (3.26%) Public Cloud
11 26 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (2.61%) Cloud Native
13 21 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (1.41%) Operational Technology
15 13 (1.41%) SCADA
16 12 (1.31%) Product Ownership
17 10 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 490 (53.32%) Windows
2 327 (35.58%) Windows Server
3 248 (26.99%) Linux
4 48 (5.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 47 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (3.16%) VMS
7 28 (3.05%) Windows 10
8 25 (2.72%) Unix
9 21 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.74%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
14 10 (1.09%) Solaris
15 9 (0.98%) AIX
16 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
16 8 (0.87%) CentOS
17 6 (0.65%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.44%) SUSE
18 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (32.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 172 (18.72%) ITIL
3 169 (18.39%) Migration
4 166 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (16.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 113 (12.30%) CI/CD
8 112 (12.19%) Technical Leadership
9 100 (10.88%) Change Management
9 100 (10.88%) High Availability
10 94 (10.23%) ITSM
10 94 (10.23%) Platform Engineering
11 89 (9.68%) DevOps
12 87 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 87 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
13 86 (9.36%) Agile
13 86 (9.36%) Network Virtualisation
14 85 (9.25%) Service Management
14 85 (9.25%) Validation
15 78 (8.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 226 (24.59%) PowerShell
2 137 (14.91%) Python
3 92 (10.01%) Bash
4 60 (6.53%) SQL
5 25 (2.72%) Java
6 9 (0.98%) C
6 9 (0.98%) Go
7 8 (0.87%) Bicep
8 7 (0.76%) C#
9 6 (0.65%) Perl
9 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.54%) C++
11 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.33%) Lua
12 3 (0.33%) VB
13 2 (0.22%) COBOL
13 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 2 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 440 (47.88%) Security Cleared
2 264 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 204 (22.20%) DV Cleared
4 66 (7.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (6.09%) Degree
6 44 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (4.68%) VCAP
8 41 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.83%) MCSE
11 20 (2.18%) CCNP
12 19 (2.07%) CCNA
13 18 (1.96%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.74%) MCSA
15 13 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
18 8 (0.87%) A+ Certification
18 8 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
19 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.94%) SLA
2 20 (2.18%) NIST
3 18 (1.96%) NCSC
3 18 (1.96%) QA
4 17 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.98%) GDPR
7 5 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.44%) GxP
9 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.22%) DICOM
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.22%) RMADS
11 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 311 (33.84%) Active Directory
2 222 (24.16%) vSphere
3 217 (23.61%) VMware ESXi
4 209 (22.74%) Hyper-V
5 159 (17.30%) VMware NSX
6 99 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
7 58 (6.31%) Docker
8 44 (4.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.92%) Firmware
10 20 (2.18%) NFS
11 19 (2.07%) KVM
12 13 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 10 (1.09%) Ceph
15 8 (0.87%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.87%) XenApp
15 8 (0.87%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.76%) oVirt
16 7 (0.76%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 178 (19.37%) Ansible
2 161 (17.52%) vCenter Server
3 134 (14.58%) Kubernetes
4 59 (6.42%) SCCM
4 59 (6.42%) SCOM
5 43 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (3.81%) VxRail
7 28 (3.05%) vRealize
8 25 (2.72%) Grafana
9 23 (2.50%) Prometheus
10 21 (2.29%) NetBackup
10 21 (2.29%) PowerCLI
11 18 (1.96%) Puppet
12 17 (1.85%) vMotion
13 16 (1.74%) WSUS
14 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
16 13 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
17 12 (1.31%) Argo
17 12 (1.31%) Avamar
Vendors
1 919 (100.00%) VMware
2 268 (29.16%) Microsoft
3 145 (15.78%) Cisco
4 68 (7.40%) Citrix
5 63 (6.86%) NetApp
6 61 (6.64%) Red Hat
7 54 (5.88%) Dell
8 48 (5.22%) Oracle
9 44 (4.79%) F5
9 44 (4.79%) ServiceNow
10 40 (4.35%) SolarWinds
11 35 (3.81%) Palo Alto
12 31 (3.37%) Veeam
13 29 (3.16%) Juniper
14 24 (2.61%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.50%) Broadcom
16 22 (2.39%) IBM
17 18 (1.96%) CyberArk
17 18 (1.96%) McAfee
17 18 (1.96%) Remedy