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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 130 112
Rank change year-on-year -39 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 657 643 927
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.06% 2.08%
As % of the System Software category 14.03% 17.02% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 409 584
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £401 £395 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £578 £623 £600
90th Percentile £651 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 66
10th Percentile £33.93 £29.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.21 £41.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £100.25 £76.46
90th Percentile £77.13 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £36.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +93.10% -45.06% +1.51%

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 4,684 3,779 5,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.96% 12.13% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,187 2,448 3,548
10th Percentile £206 £200 £189
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +5.64% -7.14%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +1.60% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 92 251
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.20 £17.74
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -29.85% +25.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.60 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.61 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.96% -18.80% +109.91%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -34 585 £500 -4.76% 245
UK excluding London -20 463 £485 -7.62% 224
Work from Home -27 176 £500 -4.76% 93
South East -13 148 £500 -9.09% 83
London -81 128 £540 +2.86% 64
Midlands +12 117 £402 -33.39% 31
North of England -35 105 £425 - 45
West Midlands +8 89 £340 -43.99% 22
North West -14 70 £437 -2.94% 19
South West -34 70 £550 -0.18% 35
Yorkshire -27 45 £385 -14.44% 24
East of England -4 31 £475 +8.57% 14
East Midlands -3 28 £447 -14.86% 9
Scotland +4 17 £464 -6.69% 15
Wales -1 3 £550 +89.66% 4
North East -17 2 £513 +46.43% 4
Northern Ireland -2 1 - -

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 36 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.74%) Confluence
4 11 (1.67%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.07%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.76%) IIS
6 5 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.61%) nginx
8 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.30%) Apache
9 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.30%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 194 (29.53%) Azure
2 154 (23.44%) AWS
3 57 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.85%) GCP
5 44 (6.70%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.24%) Entra ID
7 34 (5.18%) Nutanix
8 27 (4.11%) IaaS
9 20 (3.04%) GitHub
10 17 (2.59%) PaaS
11 14 (2.13%) Datadog
12 8 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.91%) Power Platform
13 6 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.76%) SaaS
15 4 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 194 (29.53%) DNS
2 162 (24.66%) Firewall
3 95 (14.46%) DHCP
4 61 (9.28%) VPN
5 59 (8.98%) TCP/IP
6 47 (7.15%) Network Security
6 47 (7.15%) SAN
7 44 (6.70%) VSAN
8 39 (5.94%) VLAN
9 38 (5.78%) WAN
10 35 (5.33%) LAN
11 34 (5.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 32 (4.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 29 (4.41%) HTTP
14 25 (3.81%) BGP
14 25 (3.81%) BIG-IP
15 24 (3.65%) NAS
16 23 (3.50%) SSL
17 21 (3.20%) Wireless
18 20 (3.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.91%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.30%) GIS
5 2 (0.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.15%) DataStage
6 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.65%) Git
1 24 (3.65%) Jenkins
2 22 (3.35%) JIRA
3 16 (2.44%) GitLab
4 14 (2.13%) Fiddler
5 10 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.22%) PVCS
6 8 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.07%) JMeter
7 7 (1.07%) JUnit
8 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.61%) RStudio
8 4 (0.61%) Subversion
9 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 165 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 78 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 57 (8.68%) Finance
5 43 (6.54%) Banking
6 41 (6.24%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.44%) Legal
9 13 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.22%) Electronics
12 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.07%) Police
13 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.76%) Local Government
14 5 (0.76%) Military
15 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 115 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 91 (13.85%) Architect
3 56 (8.52%) Analyst
4 37 (5.63%) Network Engineer
5 35 (5.33%) Senior
5 35 (5.33%) VMware Engineer
6 33 (5.02%) Consultant
6 33 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (4.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 30 (4.57%) Support Engineer
8 26 (3.96%) Infrastructure Architect
9 24 (3.65%) VMware Consultant
10 20 (3.04%) Lead
11 19 (2.89%) Storage Analyst
12 18 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (2.59%) Windows Engineer
13 17 (2.59%) Wintel Engineer
14 16 (2.44%) VMware Architect
15 15 (2.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 15 (2.28%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.04%) LDAP
2 18 (2.74%) Flash
3 10 (1.52%) SAML
4 9 (1.37%) REST
5 8 (1.22%) Kafka
6 7 (1.07%) Loki
6 7 (1.07%) Spring
7 6 (0.91%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.76%) Middleware
8 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.76%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.61%) OAuth
9 4 (0.61%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.61%) OpenID
10 3 (0.46%) Swagger
11 2 (0.30%) Java SE
11 2 (0.30%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.30%) OpenLayers
11 2 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.39%) Data Centre
2 62 (9.44%) Replication
3 48 (7.31%) PKI
4 40 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 34 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (5.02%) Management Information System
7 32 (4.87%) Linux Command Line
8 31 (4.72%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.59%) Clustering
9 17 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
12 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.52%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 8 (1.22%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.22%) SCADA
14 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 276 (42.01%) Windows
2 220 (33.49%) Linux
3 160 (24.35%) Windows Server
4 44 (6.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (5.33%) Windows 10
6 30 (4.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (2.44%) Mac OS
10 13 (1.98%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.98%) VMS
11 11 (1.67%) Solaris
12 10 (1.52%) Unix
13 7 (1.07%) CentOS
14 6 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.61%) AIX
16 4 (0.61%) CatOS
17 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (21.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 127 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (15.68%) Agile
4 100 (15.22%) Migration
5 83 (12.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (12.18%) CI/CD
7 78 (11.87%) ITIL
8 74 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 73 (11.11%) DevOps
10 63 (9.59%) High Availability
10 63 (9.59%) Load Balancing
11 56 (8.52%) Containerisation
12 51 (7.76%) Platform Engineering
13 50 (7.61%) Data Protection
14 46 (7.00%) Service Management
15 45 (6.85%) Network Virtualisation
16 42 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 40 (6.09%) Roadmaps
19 39 (5.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 161 (24.51%) PowerShell
2 122 (18.57%) Python
3 86 (13.09%) Bash
4 30 (4.57%) SQL
5 17 (2.59%) Perl
6 15 (2.28%) Java
7 12 (1.83%) C
8 11 (1.67%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.37%) C++
10 7 (1.07%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.07%) Embedded C++
10 7 (1.07%) Go
11 5 (0.76%) Bicep
12 4 (0.61%) C#
12 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.46%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) Korn
14 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.15%) Rust
15 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 252 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 172 (26.18%) SC Cleared
3 76 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.85%) Degree
5 44 (6.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 43 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (4.41%) Azure Certification
9 26 (3.96%) CCNP
10 18 (2.74%) MCSE
11 17 (2.59%) VCAP
12 15 (2.28%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.98%) CCIE
14 12 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.83%) CCNA
14 12 (1.83%) MCSA
15 11 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.67%) Server+ Certification
16 7 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.04%) GDPR
1 20 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.13%) NIST
3 9 (1.37%) SLA
4 8 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.91%) QA
6 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 190 (28.92%) Active Directory
2 142 (21.61%) vSphere
3 116 (17.66%) VMware NSX
4 97 (14.76%) Hyper-V
5 83 (12.63%) VMware ESXi
6 57 (8.68%) Docker
7 52 (7.91%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (5.02%) NFS
9 29 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (2.89%) Firmware
11 18 (2.74%) KVM
12 17 (2.59%) GPFS
13 7 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.61%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.61%) vCloud
15 4 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
16 3 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.46%) Sendmail
16 3 (0.46%) UAG
Systems Management
1 110 (16.74%) Ansible
2 81 (12.33%) Terraform
3 80 (12.18%) vCenter Server
4 70 (10.65%) SCCM
5 64 (9.74%) Kubernetes
6 57 (8.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 55 (8.37%) vRealize
8 26 (3.96%) Grafana
9 23 (3.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 23 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (3.04%) Argo
11 19 (2.89%) VxRail
12 15 (2.28%) vMotion
13 14 (2.13%) FortiGate
13 14 (2.13%) Prometheus
13 14 (2.13%) SCOM
14 13 (1.98%) WSUS
15 11 (1.67%) Progress Chef
16 10 (1.52%) PowerCLI
17 8 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 657 (100.00%) VMware
2 176 (26.79%) Microsoft
3 155 (23.59%) Cisco
4 64 (9.74%) F5
5 62 (9.44%) Citrix
6 56 (8.52%) Red Hat
7 46 (7.00%) SolarWinds
8 43 (6.54%) Dell
8 43 (6.54%) IBM
8 43 (6.54%) ServiceNow
9 39 (5.94%) NetApp
10 37 (5.63%) Oracle
11 36 (5.48%) Veeam
12 28 (4.26%) Palo Alto
13 24 (3.65%) Commvault
14 22 (3.35%) Pure Storage
15 16 (2.44%) Juniper
15 16 (2.44%) McAfee
16 15 (2.28%) Blue Coat
16 15 (2.28%) HP