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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 148 128
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 -21
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 732 563 773
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.92% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 14.98% 15.44% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 382 493
10th Percentile £318 £313 £280
25th Percentile £421 £425 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £589 £614 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.78% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 2 34
10th Percentile £19.25 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £46.00 £37.25 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +15.53% -38.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £67.19
90th Percentile £74.21 £61.30 £86.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -31.40%

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 4,888 3,646 4,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 12.45% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,484 3,195
10th Percentile £213 £215 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £461
% change year-on-year -0.84% +3.85% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 90 234
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.97 £15.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.75 £27.97 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.59% +24.31% -57.88%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £92.50 £88.00 £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £28.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +84.21% +32.56% -46.25%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -25 639 £500 -9.09% 240
UK excluding London -27 505 £500 -9.09% 207
South East -9 171 £525 -8.70% 80
Work from Home -24 163 £520 -0.95% 77
London -58 147 £525 - 54
North of England -11 131 £448 +12.00% 41
Midlands -25 101 £402 -26.91% 33
West Midlands -21 77 £356 -35.48% 21
North West -7 71 £449 +5.65% 17
Yorkshire -16 60 £415 +3.11% 17
South West -58 52 £551 -4.13% 26
East of England -13 44 £475 +0.53% 18
Scotland -10 26 £450 -3.07% 5
East Midlands -23 24 £436 -19.67% 12
Wales -16 4 £463 +59.48% 10
North East -22 2 £575 +64.29% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 43 (5.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.37%) Confluence
4 9 (1.23%) IIS
4 9 (1.23%) nginx
5 8 (1.09%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.55%) CICS
6 4 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.41%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 194 (26.50%) Azure
2 127 (17.35%) AWS
3 55 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (6.56%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.87%) OpenShift
6 35 (4.78%) GCP
7 27 (3.69%) GitHub
8 26 (3.55%) IaaS
8 26 (3.55%) Nutanix
9 19 (2.60%) PaaS
10 12 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.23%) Datadog
12 9 (1.23%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.09%) Rubrik
14 7 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.82%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 191 (26.09%) DNS
2 162 (22.13%) Firewall
3 107 (14.62%) DHCP
4 73 (9.97%) VPN
5 70 (9.56%) SAN
6 64 (8.74%) VSAN
7 61 (8.33%) WAN
8 52 (7.10%) Network Security
9 50 (6.83%) LAN
10 49 (6.69%) TCP/IP
11 44 (6.01%) SSL
12 42 (5.74%) NAS
13 35 (4.78%) HTTP
14 34 (4.64%) BIG-IP
15 30 (4.10%) VLAN
15 30 (4.10%) Wireshark
16 28 (3.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 26 (3.55%) BGP
18 24 (3.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 21 (2.87%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.96%) Power BI
5 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.68%) Oracle BI EE
5 5 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.55%) DataStage
7 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.41%) Redis
8 2 (0.27%) GIS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 28 (3.83%) JIRA
3 19 (2.60%) Fiddler
4 15 (2.05%) Git
4 15 (2.05%) GitLab
5 8 (1.09%) PVCS
5 8 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 3 (0.41%) JUnit
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
8 2 (0.27%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) GoCD
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 147 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 59 (8.06%) Public Sector
3 56 (7.65%) Finance
4 55 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (5.46%) Banking
6 29 (3.96%) Legal
7 26 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.01%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.37%) Military
9 10 (1.37%) Police
9 10 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.09%) Electronics
10 8 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.82%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.68%) Law
12 5 (0.68%) Local Government
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 142 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (13.11%) Architect
3 70 (9.56%) Senior
4 63 (8.61%) VMware Engineer
5 62 (8.47%) Network Engineer
6 43 (5.87%) Analyst
7 36 (4.92%) Consultant
8 31 (4.23%) Lead
9 30 (4.10%) Infrastructure Architect
10 24 (3.28%) VMware Consultant
11 23 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.14%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 23 (3.14%) VMware Architect
12 22 (3.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (2.87%) Wintel Engineer
14 20 (2.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 20 (2.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 20 (2.73%) Support Engineer
15 19 (2.60%) IP Network Engineer
15 19 (2.60%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.73%) LDAP
2 19 (2.60%) Flash
3 12 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.37%) SAML
5 9 (1.23%) Middleware
6 7 (0.96%) REST
7 6 (0.82%) Kafka
8 5 (0.68%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.55%) XML
10 3 (0.41%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.41%) EJB
10 3 (0.41%) JSP
10 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.41%) Spring
11 2 (0.27%) .NET
11 2 (0.27%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.27%) Java SE
11 2 (0.27%) JSON
11 2 (0.27%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 88 (12.02%) Data Centre
2 66 (9.02%) Replication
3 51 (6.97%) PKI
4 49 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 44 (6.01%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.92%) Clustering
7 30 (4.10%) Enterprise Storage
8 26 (3.55%) Management Information System
9 25 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
9 25 (3.42%) Private Cloud
10 20 (2.73%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.78%) SCADA
14 12 (1.64%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.37%) Operational Technology
17 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (1.09%) Security Posture
18 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 331 (45.22%) Windows
2 225 (30.74%) Windows Server
3 218 (29.78%) Linux
4 48 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (6.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (3.55%) VMS
7 21 (2.87%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.32%) Data ONTAP
9 17 (2.32%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.91%) Solaris
11 12 (1.64%) Unix
12 10 (1.37%) Mac OS
13 8 (1.09%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.96%) CentOS
14 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.55%) AIX
15 4 (0.55%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (18.58%) Migration
3 114 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (13.39%) High Availability
5 96 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 82 (11.20%) ITIL
7 81 (11.07%) Agile
8 74 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (9.70%) DevOps
10 69 (9.43%) CI/CD
11 67 (9.15%) Network Virtualisation
12 66 (9.02%) Capacity Planning
13 63 (8.61%) Load Balancing
14 61 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
15 53 (7.24%) Data Protection
16 48 (6.56%) Change Management
16 48 (6.56%) Containerisation
17 45 (6.15%) Roadmaps
18 42 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 42 (5.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 161 (21.99%) PowerShell
2 95 (12.98%) Python
3 57 (7.79%) Bash
4 30 (4.10%) SQL
5 11 (1.50%) C
6 10 (1.37%) Java
7 9 (1.23%) C++
7 9 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.96%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.96%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.82%) Bicep
10 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.55%) COBOL
11 4 (0.55%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.55%) Perl
11 4 (0.55%) PHP
12 3 (0.41%) C#
12 3 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Korn
13 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 292 (39.89%) Security Cleared
2 193 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 111 (15.16%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 37 (5.05%) Degree
6 35 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.23%) VCAP
8 25 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (3.14%) MCSE
10 22 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (2.46%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.46%) MCSA
12 15 (2.05%) CCNP
13 13 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (1.37%) OCP
15 8 (1.09%) AWS Certification
15 8 (1.09%) CCNA
16 7 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
17 6 (0.82%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (2.60%) NIST
3 18 (2.46%) SLA
4 16 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.78%) NCSC
6 8 (1.09%) GDPR
7 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.41%) QA
9 2 (0.27%) DICOM
9 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) ISA99
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.27%) RMADS
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 215 (29.37%) Active Directory
2 166 (22.68%) vSphere
3 159 (21.72%) VMware NSX
4 144 (19.67%) VMware ESXi
5 141 (19.26%) Hyper-V
6 86 (11.75%) Virtual Machines
7 44 (6.01%) Docker
8 38 (5.19%) NFS
9 34 (4.64%) Firmware
10 25 (3.42%) KVM
10 25 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (1.91%) GPFS
12 9 (1.23%) BitLocker
12 9 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
14 5 (0.68%) Ceph
14 5 (0.68%) vCloud
14 5 (0.68%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.55%) XenApp
16 3 (0.41%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 136 (18.58%) Ansible
2 104 (14.21%) vCenter Server
3 82 (11.20%) Terraform
4 74 (10.11%) Kubernetes
5 53 (7.24%) SCCM
6 50 (6.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 46 (6.28%) vRealize
8 27 (3.69%) Grafana
9 23 (3.14%) vMotion
10 20 (2.73%) Argo
10 20 (2.73%) PowerCLI
11 19 (2.60%) VxRail
12 18 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (2.32%) WSUS
14 16 (2.19%) SCOM
15 12 (1.64%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.64%) Puppet
15 12 (1.64%) SnapMirror
16 11 (1.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 732 (100.00%) VMware
2 191 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 145 (19.81%) Cisco
4 67 (9.15%) Citrix
5 59 (8.06%) NetApp
6 52 (7.10%) Red Hat
7 50 (6.83%) F5
8 40 (5.46%) IBM
8 40 (5.46%) Oracle
9 39 (5.33%) Dell
9 39 (5.33%) ServiceNow
10 32 (4.37%) Palo Alto
11 31 (4.23%) Pure Storage
12 27 (3.69%) Veeam
13 23 (3.14%) Broadcom
13 23 (3.14%) McAfee
13 23 (3.14%) SolarWinds
14 22 (3.01%) Commvault
15 21 (2.87%) CheckPoint
16 19 (2.60%) Blue Coat