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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 150 124
Rank change year-on-year -28 -26 -21
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 755 552 811
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.88% 1.86%
As % of the System Software category 15.38% 15.24% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 376 524
10th Percentile £325 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -5.58%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £595
90th Percentile £650 £681 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £20.94 - £27.26
Median hourly rate £56.57 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.03% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £71.13 - £49.22
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -32.92%

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 4,909 3,621 4,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 12.30% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,387 3,298
10th Percentile £219 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 85 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.75 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.82% +15.80% -55.68%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.45 £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -37.14%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -26 656 £500 -9.09% 194
UK excluding London -21 522 £500 -9.09% 186
South East -1 192 £538 -6.52% 59
Work from Home -36 160 £500 -4.76% 73
London -38 150 £525 - 30
North of England -13 139 £459 +8.00% 42
Midlands -30 86 £438 -20.45% 32
North West +6 74 £458 +7.65% 27
West Midlands -28 68 £425 -32.00% 21
Yorkshire -23 64 £454 -4.53% 7
South West -58 55 £539 -6.30% 25
East of England -28 34 £475 -13.64% 20
Scotland -6 31 £450 -2.12% 5
East Midlands -17 18 £450 -18.18% 11
Wales -14 7 £600 +62.16% 7
North East -38 1 £675 +92.86% 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 37 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.72%) IIS
4 10 (1.32%) nginx
4 10 (1.32%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.79%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (29.54%) Azure
2 134 (17.75%) AWS
3 49 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (6.09%) Entra ID
4 46 (6.09%) OpenShift
5 40 (5.30%) GCP
6 29 (3.84%) GitHub
7 28 (3.71%) Nutanix
8 23 (3.05%) IaaS
9 16 (2.12%) PaaS
10 14 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.59%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.46%) Rubrik
13 9 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.93%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.93%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 204 (27.02%) DNS
2 151 (20.00%) Firewall
3 121 (16.03%) DHCP
4 80 (10.60%) SAN
5 70 (9.27%) VPN
6 66 (8.74%) VSAN
6 66 (8.74%) WAN
7 52 (6.89%) Network Security
8 51 (6.75%) LAN
9 47 (6.23%) TCP/IP
10 46 (6.09%) NAS
10 46 (6.09%) SSL
11 37 (4.90%) VLAN
12 32 (4.24%) HTTP
13 30 (3.97%) BIG-IP
14 29 (3.84%) BGP
15 28 (3.71%) Wireshark
16 24 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (3.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 21 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.32%) Power BI
4 9 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.06%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.53%) DataStage
7 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.40%) GIS
8 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.26%) Big Data
9 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.26%) Redis
9 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (4.11%) Jenkins
1 31 (4.11%) JIRA
2 18 (2.38%) Fiddler
3 17 (2.25%) GitLab
4 15 (1.99%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) PVCS
5 3 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GoCD
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 149 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.15%) Finance
3 51 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.77%) Banking
6 31 (4.11%) Legal
7 27 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.32%) Police
9 10 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.19%) Military
11 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.79%) Law
11 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.79%) Retail
12 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.40%) Electronics
13 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (20.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 100 (13.25%) Architect
3 72 (9.54%) Senior
4 69 (9.14%) VMware Engineer
5 65 (8.61%) Network Engineer
6 39 (5.17%) Consultant
7 33 (4.37%) Infrastructure Architect
8 31 (4.11%) Support Engineer
9 28 (3.71%) Analyst
10 27 (3.58%) Lead
10 27 (3.58%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 27 (3.58%) Storage Engineer
11 26 (3.44%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (3.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 25 (3.31%) VMware Consultant
13 24 (3.18%) VMware Architect
14 23 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.91%) Administrator
16 20 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (2.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.25%) Flash
2 16 (2.12%) LDAP
3 11 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.46%) REST
4 9 (1.19%) Middleware
5 7 (0.93%) 802.1X
5 7 (0.93%) SAML
6 6 (0.79%) .NET
6 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.79%) Redfish
7 5 (0.66%) JSON
8 4 (0.53%) Java SE
8 4 (0.53%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.53%) XML
9 3 (0.40%) EJB
9 3 (0.40%) JSP
9 3 (0.40%) YAML
10 2 (0.26%) OAuth
10 2 (0.26%) OpenID
10 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.51%) Data Centre
2 63 (8.34%) Replication
3 61 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (6.75%) PKI
5 40 (5.30%) Enterprise Storage
6 38 (5.03%) Cloud Native
6 38 (5.03%) Clustering
7 26 (3.44%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.18%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.18%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.32%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.06%) EMC VMAX
14 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 370 (49.01%) Windows
2 251 (33.25%) Windows Server
3 223 (29.54%) Linux
4 49 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (3.18%) VMS
7 19 (2.52%) Data ONTAP
8 18 (2.38%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.38%) Unix
9 17 (2.25%) Windows 10
10 15 (1.99%) Solaris
11 14 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.06%) CentOS
13 8 (1.06%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
15 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (26.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 148 (19.60%) Migration
3 109 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (13.77%) High Availability
5 103 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 88 (11.66%) ITIL
7 87 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 78 (10.33%) DevOps
9 77 (10.20%) CI/CD
10 72 (9.54%) Agile
11 69 (9.14%) Capacity Planning
12 67 (8.87%) Network Virtualisation
13 65 (8.61%) Change Management
14 63 (8.34%) Load Balancing
15 58 (7.68%) Validation
16 57 (7.55%) Platform Engineering
17 55 (7.28%) ITSM
18 52 (6.89%) Data Protection
19 49 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 48 (6.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (21.99%) PowerShell
2 106 (14.04%) Python
3 58 (7.68%) Bash
4 36 (4.77%) SQL
5 10 (1.32%) Java
6 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.79%) C
8 5 (0.66%) Bicep
8 5 (0.66%) Go
8 5 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.53%) C++
9 4 (0.53%) COBOL
9 4 (0.53%) PHP
10 3 (0.40%) Embedded C
10 3 (0.40%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.26%) C#
11 2 (0.26%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 317 (41.99%) Security Cleared
2 199 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 131 (17.35%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 39 (5.17%) Degree
6 35 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (4.64%) VCAP
7 31 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (3.31%) MCSE
9 20 (2.65%) MCSA
10 19 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.25%) CCNP
13 14 (1.85%) CCNA
14 11 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.32%) OCP
16 7 (0.93%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.31%) NIST
1 25 (3.31%) SLA
2 19 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.85%) NCSC
5 7 (0.93%) QA
6 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) DICOM
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
8 2 (0.26%) ISA99
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.26%) RMADS
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 223 (29.54%) Active Directory
2 184 (24.37%) vSphere
3 181 (23.97%) VMware ESXi
4 159 (21.06%) VMware NSX
5 155 (20.53%) Hyper-V
6 99 (13.11%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (5.30%) Docker
8 37 (4.90%) Firmware
8 37 (4.90%) NFS
9 32 (4.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 27 (3.58%) KVM
11 12 (1.59%) GPFS
11 12 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
12 11 (1.46%) vCloud
13 10 (1.32%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.79%) Ceph
15 6 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.66%) SRDF
17 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 152 (20.13%) Ansible
2 128 (16.95%) vCenter Server
3 87 (11.52%) Terraform
4 84 (11.13%) Kubernetes
5 43 (5.70%) SCCM
6 39 (5.17%) vRealize
7 37 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.84%) SCOM
9 28 (3.71%) Grafana
10 27 (3.58%) vMotion
11 20 (2.65%) Argo
11 20 (2.65%) PowerCLI
12 16 (2.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.99%) VxRail
13 15 (1.99%) WSUS
14 14 (1.85%) SnapMirror
15 13 (1.72%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.72%) Puppet
16 12 (1.59%) NetBackup
16 12 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 755 (100.00%) VMware
2 193 (25.56%) Microsoft
3 150 (19.87%) Cisco
4 60 (7.95%) Citrix
4 60 (7.95%) NetApp
5 55 (7.28%) Red Hat
6 47 (6.23%) Dell
7 41 (5.43%) F5
7 41 (5.43%) ServiceNow
8 40 (5.30%) Oracle
9 35 (4.64%) Palo Alto
10 32 (4.24%) Pure Storage
11 29 (3.84%) IBM
12 27 (3.58%) Veeam
13 26 (3.44%) Juniper
14 23 (3.05%) CheckPoint
14 23 (3.05%) SolarWinds
15 21 (2.78%) McAfee
16 20 (2.65%) Commvault
17 19 (2.52%) Blue Coat