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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 161 110
Rank change year-on-year -11 -51 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 806 566 871
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.74% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 15.41% 14.59% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 371 555
10th Percentile £325 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.78% -5.47%
75th Percentile £590 £604 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.86% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 2 30
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.08
25th Percentile £26.00 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.97% -27.50% -36.51%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £91.14 £29.80 £71.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.33%

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 5,230 3,880 4,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 11.96% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 2,511 3,339
10th Percentile £213 £221 £210
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £670 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 102 211
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% +22.90% -54.67%
75th Percentile £73.38 £67.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.80 £91.23 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -11.69% +156.67% -17.43%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -14 697 £500 -9.09% 213
UK excluding London -26 564 £501 -8.86% 200
South East 0 201 £538 -6.93% 79
Work from Home -35 164 £500 -4.76% 86
London -31 160 £500 -4.76% 42
North of England -10 145 £480 +14.63% 33
Midlands -20 96 £450 -18.18% 28
North West -7 74 £459 +8.00% 20
West Midlands -30 72 £450 -31.51% 16
South West -47 70 £550 -4.35% 26
Yorkshire -22 69 £500 +11.11% 7
Scotland 0 34 £450 -0.50% 7
East of England -34 31 £500 -9.09% 19
East Midlands -11 24 £450 -17.09% 12
Wales -8 11 £550 +89.66% 12
North East -36 2 £588 +67.86% 7

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 45 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.61%) IIS
4 10 (1.24%) nginx
4 10 (1.24%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.87%) Confluence
5 7 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.74%) Apache
7 4 (0.50%) CICS
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) FactoryTalk
9 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.12%) Houdini
4 1 (0.12%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 228 (28.29%) Azure
2 136 (16.87%) AWS
3 58 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.20%) OpenShift
6 37 (4.59%) GCP
7 29 (3.60%) GitHub
8 26 (3.23%) Nutanix
9 19 (2.36%) IaaS
10 16 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.74%) Rubrik
12 12 (1.49%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.36%) PaaS
14 9 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.87%) Azure Stack
15 7 (0.87%) OneDrive
15 7 (0.87%) SaaS
16 6 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 225 (27.92%) DNS
2 159 (19.73%) Firewall
3 129 (16.00%) DHCP
4 84 (10.42%) SAN
5 75 (9.31%) VSAN
6 72 (8.93%) WAN
7 71 (8.81%) VPN
8 67 (8.31%) TCP/IP
9 57 (7.07%) LAN
9 57 (7.07%) Network Security
10 51 (6.33%) VLAN
11 48 (5.96%) NAS
12 47 (5.83%) SSL
13 32 (3.97%) BGP
13 32 (3.97%) HTTP
14 30 (3.72%) BIG-IP
15 29 (3.60%) Wireshark
16 28 (3.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 25 (3.10%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (2.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.24%) Power BI
4 8 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.50%) DataStage
7 4 (0.50%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.37%) Big Data
8 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.37%) GIS
8 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.25%) Redis
9 2 (0.25%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (3.97%) Jenkins
1 32 (3.97%) JIRA
2 17 (2.11%) Fiddler
3 16 (1.99%) GitLab
4 15 (1.86%) Git
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.25%) MSI
6 2 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.25%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) GoCD
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) RStudio
General
1 179 (22.21%) Social Skills
2 63 (7.82%) Finance
3 57 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.59%) Banking
6 32 (3.97%) Legal
7 30 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.23%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.49%) Military
11 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.99%) Police
12 7 (0.87%) Retail
13 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.74%) Law
14 4 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.37%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 180 (22.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (11.54%) Architect
3 87 (10.79%) Senior
4 76 (9.43%) VMware Engineer
5 70 (8.68%) Network Engineer
6 43 (5.33%) Consultant
7 37 (4.59%) Support Engineer
8 31 (3.85%) Lead
9 29 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 29 (3.60%) VMware Consultant
10 28 (3.47%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 28 (3.47%) Storage Engineer
11 27 (3.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 24 (2.98%) Analyst
12 24 (2.98%) Infrastructure Architect
12 24 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (2.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 22 (2.73%) Administrator
14 22 (2.73%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.99%) LDAP
2 15 (1.86%) Flash
3 12 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.36%) REST
5 10 (1.24%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.12%) Middleware
7 7 (0.87%) .NET
7 7 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.87%) SAML
8 6 (0.74%) Redfish
9 5 (0.62%) JSON
10 4 (0.50%) Java SE
10 4 (0.50%) Software Packaging
10 4 (0.50%) XML
10 4 (0.50%) YAML
11 3 (0.37%) EJB
11 3 (0.37%) JSP
12 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.25%) OAuth
12 2 (0.25%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 110 (13.65%) Data Centre
2 64 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (7.20%) PKI
4 57 (7.07%) Replication
5 43 (5.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 33 (4.09%) Clustering
7 30 (3.72%) Cloud Native
8 28 (3.47%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (2.73%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.48%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.99%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.49%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (1.12%) Operational Technology
16 9 (1.12%) SCADA
16 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 401 (49.75%) Windows
2 265 (32.88%) Windows Server
3 232 (28.78%) Linux
4 53 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (5.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.23%) VMS
6 26 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.36%) Data ONTAP
7 19 (2.36%) Windows 10
8 18 (2.23%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.23%) Unix
9 16 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.86%) Solaris
11 11 (1.36%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.99%) CentOS
12 8 (0.99%) CoreOS
13 6 (0.74%) AIX
13 6 (0.74%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 160 (19.85%) Migration
3 129 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (13.65%) High Availability
5 104 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 98 (12.16%) ITIL
7 95 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 90 (11.17%) CI/CD
9 79 (9.80%) DevOps
10 75 (9.31%) Change Management
10 75 (9.31%) Validation
11 74 (9.18%) Agile
12 73 (9.06%) Network Virtualisation
13 67 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 64 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
15 63 (7.82%) Load Balancing
15 63 (7.82%) Platform Engineering
16 62 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
17 60 (7.44%) ITSM
18 57 (7.07%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 183 (22.70%) PowerShell
2 121 (15.01%) Python
3 73 (9.06%) Bash
4 37 (4.59%) SQL
5 16 (1.99%) Java
6 9 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.74%) Go
7 6 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.62%) Bicep
8 5 (0.62%) C
8 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.50%) COBOL
9 4 (0.50%) PHP
10 3 (0.37%) C#
10 3 (0.37%) Perl
11 2 (0.25%) Lua
11 2 (0.25%) VBScript
12 1 (0.12%) Korn
12 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 355 (44.04%) Security Cleared
2 215 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 157 (19.48%) DV Cleared
4 64 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (5.71%) Degree
6 39 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.97%) VCAP
9 26 (3.23%) MCSE
10 22 (2.73%) CCNP
11 21 (2.61%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (2.36%) MCSA
13 16 (1.99%) CCNA
14 11 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.24%) OCP
16 9 (1.12%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.87%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.23%) NIST
2 24 (2.98%) SLA
3 20 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.86%) NCSC
6 7 (0.87%) QA
7 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.50%) GDPR
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.25%) DICOM
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) GxP
10 2 (0.25%) ISA99
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.25%) RMADS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 251 (31.14%) Active Directory
2 201 (24.94%) vSphere
3 194 (24.07%) VMware ESXi
4 163 (20.22%) VMware NSX
5 158 (19.60%) Hyper-V
6 96 (11.91%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (5.83%) Docker
8 41 (5.09%) Virtual Desktop
9 37 (4.59%) NFS
10 36 (4.47%) Firmware
11 27 (3.35%) KVM
12 11 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (1.24%) GPFS
14 9 (1.12%) BitLocker
14 9 (1.12%) vCloud
15 7 (0.87%) Ceph
15 7 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.62%) SRDF
18 4 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 165 (20.47%) Ansible
2 141 (17.49%) vCenter Server
3 102 (12.66%) Terraform
4 97 (12.03%) Kubernetes
5 48 (5.96%) SCCM
6 42 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 40 (4.96%) vRealize
8 36 (4.47%) SCOM
9 32 (3.97%) Grafana
10 26 (3.23%) vMotion
11 22 (2.73%) VxRail
12 21 (2.61%) PowerCLI
13 20 (2.48%) Argo
14 18 (2.23%) Prometheus
15 16 (1.99%) NetBackup
16 15 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (1.86%) Puppet
16 15 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (1.86%) WSUS
17 14 (1.74%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 806 (100.00%) VMware
2 211 (26.18%) Microsoft
3 151 (18.73%) Cisco
4 67 (8.31%) Citrix
5 62 (7.69%) NetApp
6 61 (7.57%) Red Hat
7 50 (6.20%) Dell
8 43 (5.33%) F5
9 40 (4.96%) Oracle
10 36 (4.47%) ServiceNow
11 33 (4.09%) Palo Alto
12 32 (3.97%) Juniper
13 31 (3.85%) SolarWinds
14 30 (3.72%) Pure Storage
14 30 (3.72%) Veeam
15 27 (3.35%) IBM
16 23 (2.85%) CheckPoint
17 21 (2.61%) Commvault
18 20 (2.48%) Broadcom
18 20 (2.48%) McAfee