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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 112 92
Rank change year-on-year -74 -20 +49
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 524 774 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 2.08% 2.55%
As % of the System Software category 12.71% 18.00% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 451 779
10th Percentile £265 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £672 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 62
10th Percentile £24.40 £20.94 £35.56
25th Percentile £26.50 £22.75 £50.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £29.98 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% -54.56% +48.60%
75th Percentile £48.63 £47.00 £76.46
90th Percentile £59.80 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £22.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +195.56% -65.90% +48.60%

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 4,123 4,300 6,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 11.57% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 2,783 4,220
10th Percentile £211 £213 £199
25th Percentile £381 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 88 260
10th Percentile £15.06 £16.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.20 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £48.89
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% -10.00% +117.28%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +102.53%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025. 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 -72 476 £525 +2.44% 298
UK excluding London -35 374 £540 +2.86% 292
Work from Home -48 148 £500 +0.81% 165
South East -30 121 £525 -2.55% 110
London -85 106 £500 +3.18% 59
North of England +10 86 £425 -5.56% 63
Midlands -32 72 £490 -14.41% 46
South West -23 66 £550 -3.93% 39
West Midlands -13 59 £525 -10.26% 33
Yorkshire +17 48 £413 -17.50% 18
North West -7 48 £456 +7.35% 36
East of England +10 33 £550 +7.32% 12
Scotland -2 14 £483 -3.21% 15
East Midlands -19 13 £470 +14.08% 13
Wales -1 1 £413 +87.50% 9
North East -9 1 - - 13

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 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (4.77%) Confluence
3 20 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.91%) Apache
4 10 (1.91%) IIS
4 10 (1.91%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.34%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.57%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) Gunicorn
8 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.19%) Traefik
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 23 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 152 (29.01%) Azure
2 105 (20.04%) AWS
3 47 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (7.06%) GCP
5 30 (5.73%) Entra ID
6 23 (4.39%) IaaS
6 23 (4.39%) OpenShift
7 21 (4.01%) SaaS
8 20 (3.82%) Cohesity
9 19 (3.63%) GitHub
9 19 (3.63%) Nutanix
10 11 (2.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 10 (1.91%) PaaS
12 7 (1.34%) Datadog
13 5 (0.95%) Asana
13 5 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
14 4 (0.76%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 175 (33.40%) DNS
2 122 (23.28%) Firewall
3 72 (13.74%) TCP/IP
4 63 (12.02%) DHCP
5 51 (9.73%) SAN
6 45 (8.59%) VLAN
6 45 (8.59%) VPN
7 36 (6.87%) VSAN
8 29 (5.53%) WAN
9 28 (5.34%) Network Security
10 27 (5.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 24 (4.58%) DMZ
12 23 (4.39%) BGP
12 23 (4.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 23 (4.39%) iSCSI
13 22 (4.20%) LAN
14 20 (3.82%) Fibre Channel
15 18 (3.44%) MPLS
15 18 (3.44%) NAS
16 15 (2.86%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.38%) MySQL
4 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.38%) Power BI
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (8.02%) Jenkins
2 37 (7.06%) Git
3 30 (5.73%) JIRA
4 16 (3.05%) Postman
5 14 (2.67%) GitLab
6 11 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.34%) Subversion
8 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.95%) MSI
8 5 (0.95%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.76%) Fiddler
9 4 (0.76%) JMeter
9 4 (0.76%) JUnit
9 4 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.38%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.38%) RStudio
10 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 159 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 62 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (10.11%) Finance
4 51 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.30%) Banking
5 33 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.72%) Legal
10 7 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.95%) Law
12 5 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Military
14 2 (0.38%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.38%) Billing
14 2 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 84 (16.03%) Architect
2 69 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (7.06%) Consultant
3 37 (7.06%) Senior
4 29 (5.53%) Support Engineer
5 28 (5.34%) Network Engineer
6 25 (4.77%) Infrastructure Architect
6 25 (4.77%) VMware Engineer
7 22 (4.20%) VMware Architect
8 21 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (3.63%) Administrator
10 18 (3.44%) VMware Consultant
11 17 (3.24%) Analyst
11 17 (3.24%) Infrastructure Support
11 17 (3.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 17 (3.24%) Windows Engineer
12 15 (2.86%) Wintel Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Linux Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Operations Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.91%) REST
2 9 (1.72%) Middleware
3 8 (1.53%) LDAP
4 7 (1.34%) Flash
4 7 (1.34%) NETCONF
4 7 (1.34%) RESTCONF
5 6 (1.15%) Loki
6 5 (0.95%) YAML
7 4 (0.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.76%) Kafka
7 4 (0.76%) RESTful
7 4 (0.76%) Spring
8 3 (0.57%) .NET
8 3 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.57%) Swagger
9 2 (0.38%) LAMP
9 2 (0.38%) OAuth
9 2 (0.38%) OpenID
9 2 (0.38%) SAML
9 2 (0.38%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.45%) Data Centre
2 40 (7.63%) PKI
3 32 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 32 (6.11%) Replication
4 21 (4.01%) Private Cloud
5 15 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.48%) Clustering
7 12 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.95%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.95%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 238 (45.42%) Windows
2 170 (32.44%) Linux
3 127 (24.24%) Windows Server
4 48 (9.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (8.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (7.25%) Windows 10
7 34 (6.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (3.24%) CentOS
10 14 (2.67%) Ubuntu
11 13 (2.48%) Mac OS
11 13 (2.48%) Unix
12 12 (2.29%) VMS
13 11 (2.10%) Solaris
14 4 (0.76%) AIX
14 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.38%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (15.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 81 (15.46%) Agile
4 70 (13.36%) DevOps
5 69 (13.17%) Migration
6 60 (11.45%) ITIL
7 59 (11.26%) CI/CD
7 59 (11.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (8.97%) High Availability
10 44 (8.40%) Service Management
11 40 (7.63%) Business Strategy
12 39 (7.44%) Containerisation
13 37 (7.06%) Load Balancing
14 35 (6.68%) Data Protection
15 34 (6.49%) Validation
16 33 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (6.11%) Configuration Management
18 29 (5.53%) Deployment Automation
19 28 (5.34%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (25.00%) Python
2 126 (24.05%) PowerShell
3 71 (13.55%) Bash
4 45 (8.59%) SQL
5 16 (3.05%) Perl
6 15 (2.86%) Java
7 11 (2.10%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.91%) Go
9 9 (1.72%) PHP
10 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.95%) C++
12 4 (0.76%) Erlang
12 4 (0.76%) Prolog
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) C#
13 1 (0.19%) Rust
13 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 203 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 129 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 81 (15.46%) DV Cleared
4 48 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (7.06%) Degree
7 36 (6.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 29 (5.53%) CCNP
9 25 (4.77%) Azure Certification
10 23 (4.39%) MCSE
11 15 (2.86%) CCNA
12 11 (2.10%) Master's Degree
12 11 (2.10%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (2.10%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (1.91%) CCIE
13 10 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.91%) VCAP
13 10 (1.91%) VCP5
13 10 (1.91%) VCP6
14 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.20%) GDPR
2 14 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.91%) SLA
4 8 (1.53%) QA
5 7 (1.34%) NIST
6 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.76%) NCSC
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 172 (32.82%) Active Directory
2 104 (19.85%) vSphere
3 82 (15.65%) VMware ESXi
4 75 (14.31%) Hyper-V
5 55 (10.50%) VMware NSX
6 39 (7.44%) Docker
6 39 (7.44%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (5.53%) Virtual Servers
8 27 (5.15%) NFS
9 25 (4.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 22 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (1.91%) Firmware
11 10 (1.91%) KVM
12 7 (1.34%) GPFS
12 7 (1.34%) Terminal Services
12 7 (1.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 6 (1.15%) Dovecot
13 6 (1.15%) Postfix
13 6 (1.15%) UAG
13 6 (1.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 133 (25.38%) Ansible
2 66 (12.60%) Terraform
3 64 (12.21%) SCCM
4 63 (12.02%) vCenter Server
5 39 (7.44%) Kubernetes
6 34 (6.49%) vRealize
7 31 (5.92%) WSUS
8 27 (5.15%) Puppet
9 24 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (2.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Clustering
10 13 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (2.48%) VxRail
11 12 (2.29%) Argo
11 12 (2.29%) Grafana
12 10 (1.91%) NetBackup
12 10 (1.91%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.91%) Prometheus
13 9 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
14 8 (1.53%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 524 (100.00%) VMware
2 181 (34.54%) Microsoft
3 98 (18.70%) Cisco
4 56 (10.69%) NetApp
5 49 (9.35%) F5
6 47 (8.97%) Citrix
7 46 (8.78%) Red Hat
8 43 (8.21%) Splunk
9 38 (7.25%) Veeam
10 27 (5.15%) Dell
10 27 (5.15%) Oracle
10 27 (5.15%) SolarWinds
11 19 (3.63%) Broadcom
11 19 (3.63%) ServiceNow
12 17 (3.24%) MuleSoft
13 16 (3.05%) IBM
14 15 (2.86%) Juniper
14 15 (2.86%) Palo Alto
15 14 (2.67%) CyberArk
16 13 (2.48%) Fortinet