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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 182 106
Rank change year-on-year +5 -76 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 851 505 829
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.52% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 15.97% 13.02% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 318 526
10th Percentile £350 £344 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 2 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £21.98
25th Percentile £29.00 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -3.28% -52.41%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £65.94
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £28.00 £51.83
% change year-on-year +126.71% -45.98% -11.20%

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 5,329 3,878 4,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.70% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 2,484 3,077
10th Percentile £225 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 104 144
10th Percentile £15.80 £14.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.64 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.09% +39.10% -51.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £58.98
90th Percentile £80.20 £91.50 £70.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £24.20
% change year-on-year -16.00% +158.26% -6.92%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -4 739 £515 -6.36% 282
UK excluding London +1 589 £515 -6.36% 219
South East +3 225 £538 -6.93% 80
London -33 179 £525 - 89
Work from Home -32 171 £500 -7.41% 105
North of England -5 140 £483 +13.65% 52
Midlands -20 88 £450 -18.18% 21
South West -37 73 £575 - 34
North West -3 71 £482 +24.26% 32
West Midlands -22 68 £450 -20.84% 12
Yorkshire -20 65 £500 +11.48% 11
East of England -17 38 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland +6 34 £450 -3.12% 10
East Midlands -4 20 £450 -18.18% 9
Wales -6 13 £550 +22.22% 6
North East -41 4 £350 -44.00% 11

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 47 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.76%) Confluence
4 14 (1.65%) IIS
5 8 (0.94%) nginx
5 8 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.94%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.71%) JBoss
7 4 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.35%) CICS
8 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.24%) Houdini
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 238 (27.97%) Azure
2 146 (17.16%) AWS
3 65 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 45 (5.29%) OpenShift
6 41 (4.82%) GCP
7 34 (4.00%) GitHub
8 28 (3.29%) IaaS
9 22 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.23%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.23%) Power Platform
11 17 (2.00%) Rubrik
12 16 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (1.88%) PaaS
13 13 (1.53%) SaaS
14 12 (1.41%) OneDrive
15 9 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (1.06%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 261 (30.67%) DNS
2 177 (20.80%) Firewall
3 159 (18.68%) DHCP
4 91 (10.69%) VSAN
5 90 (10.58%) TCP/IP
6 76 (8.93%) VPN
7 71 (8.34%) SAN
8 64 (7.52%) WAN
9 62 (7.29%) VLAN
10 55 (6.46%) Network Security
11 50 (5.88%) SSL
12 49 (5.76%) LAN
13 40 (4.70%) NAS
14 32 (3.76%) BGP
15 31 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 28 (3.29%) HTTP
16 28 (3.29%) Wireshark
17 26 (3.06%) BIG-IP
17 26 (3.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (2.00%) Power BI
4 14 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (0.94%) Big Data
8 8 (0.94%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.59%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.59%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.35%) DataStage
11 3 (0.35%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 40 (4.70%) JIRA
2 35 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.47%) GitLab
4 18 (2.12%) Git
5 16 (1.88%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.35%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.24%) CppUnit
9 2 (0.24%) MSI
9 2 (0.24%) PVCS
9 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 191 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 83 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (7.87%) Finance
4 54 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.35%) Banking
6 33 (3.88%) Legal
7 28 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.41%) Military
11 9 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.94%) Retail
13 6 (0.71%) Law
14 5 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Police
15 4 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 202 (23.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 118 (13.87%) Senior
3 87 (10.22%) VMware Engineer
4 81 (9.52%) Architect
5 76 (8.93%) Network Engineer
6 47 (5.52%) Support Engineer
7 42 (4.94%) Consultant
8 39 (4.58%) Lead
9 37 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (4.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 33 (3.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 33 (3.88%) Storage Engineer
13 32 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (3.29%) Administrator
14 28 (3.29%) VMware Consultant
15 25 (2.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 23 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.59%) IT Engineer
17 22 (2.59%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.76%) Middleware
2 13 (1.53%) REST
3 11 (1.29%) .NET
3 11 (1.29%) Flash
4 10 (1.18%) 802.1X
4 10 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (0.94%) JSON
5 8 (0.94%) LDAP
5 8 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (0.82%) YAML
7 6 (0.71%) Redfish
8 5 (0.59%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.59%) JDBC
8 5 (0.59%) ODBC
9 4 (0.47%) XML
10 3 (0.35%) Kafka
10 3 (0.35%) NETCONF
10 3 (0.35%) SAML
11 2 (0.24%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.24%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 123 (14.45%) Data Centre
2 71 (8.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 71 (8.34%) PKI
3 47 (5.52%) Clustering
3 47 (5.52%) Enterprise Storage
3 47 (5.52%) Replication
4 31 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 26 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 23 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.23%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.41%) Operational Technology
10 11 (1.29%) SCADA
11 10 (1.18%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 441 (51.82%) Windows
2 288 (33.84%) Windows Server
3 250 (29.38%) Linux
4 52 (6.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (3.88%) VMS
7 26 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (2.70%) Unix
9 17 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
9 17 (2.00%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.88%) Ubuntu
11 15 (1.76%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (1.29%) Solaris
13 9 (1.06%) AIX
14 7 (0.82%) CentOS
15 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.71%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.47%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (31.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 165 (19.39%) Migration
3 149 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (14.57%) ITIL
5 119 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 118 (13.87%) High Availability
7 113 (13.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 104 (12.22%) CI/CD
9 91 (10.69%) Technical Leadership
10 86 (10.11%) Change Management
11 85 (9.99%) DevOps
12 84 (9.87%) Network Virtualisation
13 80 (9.40%) Agile
14 77 (9.05%) Validation
15 76 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (8.58%) ITSM
17 72 (8.46%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (7.64%) Project Delivery
19 64 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
20 62 (7.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 206 (24.21%) PowerShell
2 129 (15.16%) Python
3 91 (10.69%) Bash
4 53 (6.23%) SQL
5 23 (2.70%) Java
6 9 (1.06%) Go
7 8 (0.94%) Bicep
8 7 (0.82%) C
8 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.71%) C#
9 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.47%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.35%) C++
11 3 (0.35%) COBOL
11 3 (0.35%) Lua
12 2 (0.24%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.24%) Korn
12 2 (0.24%) Perl
12 2 (0.24%) VBScript
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 404 (47.47%) Security Cleared
2 246 (28.91%) SC Cleared
3 188 (22.09%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.11%) Degree
6 42 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (4.70%) VCAP
9 26 (3.06%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.94%) MCSE
11 22 (2.59%) CCNP
12 21 (2.47%) CCNA
13 16 (1.88%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.88%) MCSA
14 15 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
16 8 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.94%) OCP
17 7 (0.82%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.94%) SLA
2 21 (2.47%) NIST
3 18 (2.12%) NCSC
4 17 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.76%) QA
7 9 (1.06%) GDPR
8 5 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.47%) GxP
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) ISA99
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.24%) RMADS
12 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 276 (32.43%) Active Directory
2 206 (24.21%) vSphere
3 195 (22.91%) VMware ESXi
4 182 (21.39%) Hyper-V
5 165 (19.39%) VMware NSX
6 95 (11.16%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (6.70%) Docker
8 38 (4.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (4.00%) Firmware
10 23 (2.70%) KVM
11 22 (2.59%) NFS
12 10 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.06%) Ceph
13 9 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.82%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.82%) GPFS
14 7 (0.82%) vCloud
15 6 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.59%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 177 (20.80%) Ansible
2 149 (17.51%) vCenter Server
3 123 (14.45%) Terraform
4 113 (13.28%) Kubernetes
5 50 (5.88%) SCOM
6 45 (5.29%) SCCM
7 34 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (4.00%) VxRail
8 33 (3.88%) vRealize
9 28 (3.29%) Grafana
10 23 (2.70%) Prometheus
11 22 (2.59%) NetBackup
12 21 (2.47%) Puppet
13 18 (2.12%) WSUS
14 16 (1.88%) Argo
14 16 (1.88%) PowerCLI
14 16 (1.88%) vMotion
15 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (1.53%) Avamar
17 12 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 851 (100.00%) VMware
2 236 (27.73%) Microsoft
3 143 (16.80%) Cisco
4 61 (7.17%) NetApp
5 59 (6.93%) Citrix
5 59 (6.93%) Red Hat
6 49 (5.76%) Dell
7 47 (5.52%) Oracle
8 42 (4.94%) F5
9 38 (4.47%) Palo Alto
9 38 (4.47%) SolarWinds
10 37 (4.35%) ServiceNow
11 34 (4.00%) Juniper
12 31 (3.64%) Veeam
13 23 (2.70%) Broadcom
13 23 (2.70%) IBM
14 19 (2.23%) Fortinet
14 19 (2.23%) McAfee
15 18 (2.12%) CheckPoint
15 18 (2.12%) Splunk