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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 190 123
Rank change year-on-year +18 -67 -33
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 905 490 745
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.48% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 16.75% 12.24% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 325 430
10th Percentile £325 £226 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £508
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £629 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £68.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +126.67% +26.05% -63.93%
75th Percentile £89.75 £48.63 £44.00
90th Percentile £95.05 £59.80 £112.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.38% +195.56% -65.90%

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 5,404 4,003 4,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 12.11% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 2,537 2,804
10th Percentile £225 £212 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 122 98
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.03 £20.13
Median hourly rate £62.25 £33.39 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.46% +9.46% -36.28%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.19 £69.92
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.68 £83.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £60.00 £43.08
% change year-on-year +5.23% +39.27% +7.71%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +10 799 £525 -4.55% 553
UK excluding London +13 636 £525 -4.55% 389
South East -2 205 £538 +2.38% 127
London -8 198 £550 +10.00% 178
Work from Home -35 176 £516 +3.20% 208
North of England +13 173 £479 +12.71% 76
Midlands -19 89 £450 -18.18% 58
North West +1 81 £448 +2.40% 42
Yorkshire -7 77 £525 +27.27% 23
South West -29 76 £644 +15.99% 53
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -21.40% 37
East of England -8 60 £600 +9.09% 43
Scotland +11 42 £425 -0.29% 28
East Midlands -7 21 £425 -11.92% 21
North East -24 16 £400 - 13
Wales - 11 £550 - 6

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 (4.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.54%) Confluence
4 20 (2.21%) IIS
5 14 (1.55%) CMS
6 9 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.77%) JBoss
8 5 (0.55%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.44%) Apache
9 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.22%) Houdini
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.22%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 248 (27.40%) Azure
2 130 (14.36%) AWS
3 85 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.40%) Entra ID
5 51 (5.64%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.20%) GCP
7 28 (3.09%) GitHub
7 28 (3.09%) IaaS
8 24 (2.65%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (1.99%) Rubrik
11 17 (1.88%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.77%) OneDrive
13 12 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.33%) PaaS
13 12 (1.33%) SaaS
14 8 (0.88%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 276 (30.50%) DNS
2 175 (19.34%) Firewall
3 171 (18.90%) DHCP
4 99 (10.94%) TCP/IP
5 74 (8.18%) VSAN
6 70 (7.73%) VPN
7 67 (7.40%) SAN
8 65 (7.18%) VLAN
9 58 (6.41%) Network Security
10 55 (6.08%) WAN
11 52 (5.75%) LAN
12 39 (4.31%) SSL
13 35 (3.87%) NAS
14 33 (3.65%) BGP
15 31 (3.43%) HTTP
16 27 (2.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 26 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.43%) NetScaler
18 22 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (2.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.88%) Power BI
4 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.99%) Big Data
7 8 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.22%) GIS
13 2 (0.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 46 (5.08%) JIRA
2 24 (2.65%) Git
3 23 (2.54%) GitLab
3 23 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.22%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.44%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.44%) PVCS
7 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 213 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.49%) Finance
3 88 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
4 39 (4.31%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.20%) Banking
5 29 (3.20%) Legal
6 21 (2.32%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 9 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 9 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (0.88%) Back Office
10 8 (0.88%) Law
10 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.66%) Police
12 6 (0.66%) Retail
13 5 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 223 (24.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 141 (15.58%) Senior
3 87 (9.61%) VMware Engineer
4 86 (9.50%) Architect
5 59 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 56 (6.19%) Network Engineer
7 54 (5.97%) Support Engineer
8 53 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 45 (4.97%) Lead
10 40 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
11 36 (3.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 35 (3.87%) Storage Engineer
13 34 (3.76%) Consultant
14 32 (3.54%) Administrator
15 27 (2.98%) Server Engineer
16 25 (2.76%) Wintel Engineer
17 24 (2.65%) Senior VMware Engineer
17 24 (2.65%) VMware Consultant
18 23 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
19 22 (2.43%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (13.48%) Terraform
2 27 (2.98%) REST
3 22 (2.43%) JSON
4 16 (1.77%) Kafka
5 13 (1.44%) XMPP
6 12 (1.33%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.33%) Middleware
6 12 (1.33%) YAML
7 11 (1.22%) .NET
7 11 (1.22%) LDAP
8 8 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.77%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.66%) Redfish
11 5 (0.55%) JDBC
11 5 (0.55%) ODBC
12 4 (0.44%) XML
13 3 (0.33%) Flash
13 3 (0.33%) Java SE
13 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 153 (16.91%) Data Centre
2 75 (8.29%) PKI
3 69 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (5.30%) Enterprise Storage
5 46 (5.08%) Private Cloud
6 44 (4.86%) Clustering
7 38 (4.20%) Replication
8 32 (3.54%) Onboarding
9 31 (3.43%) Management Information System
10 30 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
11 29 (3.20%) Public Cloud
12 26 (2.87%) Cloud Native
13 25 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (1.88%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (1.44%) Product Ownership
17 13 (1.44%) SCADA
18 11 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 484 (53.48%) Windows
2 326 (36.02%) Windows Server
3 231 (25.52%) Linux
4 49 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (2.87%) Unix
6 26 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 23 (2.54%) VMS
8 22 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.44%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (0.99%) AIX
11 9 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
12 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.88%) CentOS
12 8 (0.88%) Solaris
13 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.33%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (33.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 181 (20.00%) ITIL
3 170 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (18.67%) Migration
5 157 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (15.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 127 (14.03%) Technical Leadership
8 116 (12.82%) CI/CD
9 113 (12.49%) Change Management
10 96 (10.61%) Project Delivery
10 96 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
11 94 (10.39%) ITSM
12 92 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
12 92 (10.17%) Validation
13 91 (10.06%) Agile
14 87 (9.61%) High Availability
14 87 (9.61%) Service Management
15 84 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
16 83 (9.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 221 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 130 (14.36%) Python
3 79 (8.73%) Bash
4 51 (5.64%) SQL
5 24 (2.65%) Java
6 11 (1.22%) Perl
7 10 (1.10%) Bicep
8 9 (0.99%) C
9 7 (0.77%) C#
9 7 (0.77%) Go
10 4 (0.44%) C++
10 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.33%) Korn
11 3 (0.33%) Lua
11 3 (0.33%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) VBScript
13 1 (0.11%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 440 (48.62%) Security Cleared
2 265 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 193 (21.33%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.52%) Degree
6 49 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (4.53%) VCAP
8 30 (3.31%) CCNP
9 25 (2.76%) Azure Certification
9 25 (2.76%) MCSE
10 22 (2.43%) CCNA
11 21 (2.32%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.99%) MCSA
13 10 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (0.88%) A+ Certification
14 8 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.88%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.32%) SLA
2 19 (2.10%) QA
3 17 (1.88%) NIST
4 14 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.33%) NCSC
6 10 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.99%) GDPR
8 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.44%) GxP
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 316 (34.92%) Active Directory
2 225 (24.86%) vSphere
3 205 (22.65%) VMware ESXi
4 201 (22.21%) Hyper-V
5 134 (14.81%) VMware NSX
6 90 (9.94%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (6.19%) Docker
8 47 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.98%) Firmware
10 23 (2.54%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (2.21%) NFS
12 16 (1.77%) KVM
13 14 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 11 (1.22%) XenApp
15 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 10 (1.10%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.77%) oVirt
16 7 (0.77%) vCloud
17 6 (0.66%) Ceph
17 6 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 158 (17.46%) Ansible
2 144 (15.91%) Kubernetes
3 139 (15.36%) vCenter Server
4 64 (7.07%) SCCM
5 61 (6.74%) SCOM
6 48 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (3.98%) VxRail
8 21 (2.32%) vRealize
9 19 (2.10%) Prometheus
10 18 (1.99%) Grafana
11 17 (1.88%) Cisco CUCM
11 17 (1.88%) Puppet
12 16 (1.77%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.66%) PowerCLI
14 14 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
14 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
14 14 (1.55%) WSUS
15 13 (1.44%) Avamar
15 13 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
16 12 (1.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 905 (100.00%) VMware
2 278 (30.72%) Microsoft
3 151 (16.69%) Cisco
4 72 (7.96%) Citrix
5 66 (7.29%) Red Hat
6 60 (6.63%) NetApp
7 57 (6.30%) Dell
8 46 (5.08%) SolarWinds
9 43 (4.75%) Oracle
9 43 (4.75%) ServiceNow
10 36 (3.98%) F5
10 36 (3.98%) Veeam
11 31 (3.43%) Palo Alto
12 27 (2.98%) Juniper
13 25 (2.76%) Fortinet
14 21 (2.32%) Broadcom
14 21 (2.32%) Remedy
15 20 (2.21%) Commvault
16 19 (2.10%) IBM
17 18 (1.99%) McAfee