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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 184 106
Rank change year-on-year +13 -78 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 846 504 829
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.52% 2.14%
As % of the System Software category 16.01% 13.00% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 318 526
10th Percentile £350 £344 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +5.01% -0.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -6.36% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 2 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £29.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +117.71% -19.81% -42.60%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £60.63
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £28.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +126.71% -44.00% -14.34%

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 5,285 3,878 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.70% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,473 2,485 3,076
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 £607
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 215 104 145
10th Percentile £15.77 £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 £58.69
90th Percentile £81.60 £91.50 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +140.38% -1.89%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +6 734 £515 -6.36% 285
UK excluding London -4 584 £515 -6.36% 218
South East -4 222 £538 -6.52% 79
London -25 179 £525 - 92
Work from Home -15 169 £500 -7.62% 109
North of England -3 138 £485 +14.12% 51
Midlands -18 88 £450 -18.18% 20
South West -36 73 £575 - 36
North West 0 70 £483 +24.65% 33
West Midlands -22 68 £450 -20.84% 11
Yorkshire -23 64 £500 +11.48% 10
East of England -15 38 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland +5 34 £450 -3.12% 10
East Midlands -2 20 £450 -18.18% 9
Wales -5 13 £550 +22.22% 6
North East -40 4 £350 -44.00% 10

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 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.77%) Confluence
4 14 (1.65%) IIS
5 8 (0.95%) nginx
5 8 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.71%) JBoss
7 4 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) FactoryTalk
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%) CICS
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 9 (1.06%) 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 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 238 (28.13%) Azure
2 146 (17.26%) AWS
3 65 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 45 (5.32%) OpenShift
6 41 (4.85%) GCP
7 34 (4.02%) GitHub
8 28 (3.31%) IaaS
9 22 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.25%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.25%) Power Platform
11 17 (2.01%) Rubrik
12 16 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (1.89%) PaaS
13 13 (1.54%) SaaS
14 12 (1.42%) OneDrive
15 9 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (1.06%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 259 (30.61%) DNS
2 176 (20.80%) Firewall
3 159 (18.79%) DHCP
4 91 (10.76%) VSAN
5 90 (10.64%) TCP/IP
6 75 (8.87%) VPN
7 71 (8.39%) SAN
8 64 (7.57%) WAN
9 62 (7.33%) VLAN
10 54 (6.38%) Network Security
11 50 (5.91%) SSL
12 49 (5.79%) LAN
13 40 (4.73%) NAS
14 31 (3.66%) BGP
14 31 (3.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 28 (3.31%) HTTP
15 28 (3.31%) Wireshark
16 26 (3.07%) BIG-IP
16 26 (3.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 22 (2.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (2.01%) Power BI
4 14 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (0.95%) Big Data
8 8 (0.95%) 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%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.35%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 40 (4.73%) JIRA
2 35 (4.14%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.48%) GitLab
4 18 (2.13%) Git
5 16 (1.89%) 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
1 190 (22.46%) Social Skills
2 82 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (7.92%) Finance
4 53 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.37%) Banking
6 33 (3.90%) Legal
7 28 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.18%) Military
12 8 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.95%) 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 (23.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 118 (13.95%) Senior
3 87 (10.28%) VMware Engineer
4 81 (9.57%) Architect
5 75 (8.87%) Network Engineer
6 47 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 42 (4.96%) Consultant
8 39 (4.61%) Lead
9 37 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (4.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (4.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 33 (3.90%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 33 (3.90%) Storage Engineer
13 32 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (3.31%) Administrator
14 28 (3.31%) VMware Consultant
15 25 (2.96%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 23 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.60%) IT Engineer
17 22 (2.60%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.65%) Middleware
2 13 (1.54%) REST
3 11 (1.30%) .NET
3 11 (1.30%) Flash
4 10 (1.18%) 802.1X
4 10 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (0.95%) JSON
5 8 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (0.83%) LDAP
6 7 (0.83%) 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%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.42%) Data Centre
2 71 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (8.27%) PKI
4 47 (5.56%) Clustering
4 47 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 47 (5.56%) Replication
5 31 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 28 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 26 (3.07%) Cloud Native
8 23 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.42%) Operational Technology
11 11 (1.30%) SCADA
12 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 438 (51.77%) Windows
2 286 (33.81%) Windows Server
3 244 (28.84%) Linux
4 52 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (3.90%) VMS
7 26 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.60%) Unix
9 17 (2.01%) Data ONTAP
9 17 (2.01%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.77%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.77%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (1.18%) Solaris
12 8 (0.95%) AIX
13 7 (0.83%) CentOS
14 6 (0.71%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.71%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.47%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (31.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 165 (19.50%) Migration
3 148 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (14.54%) ITIL
5 120 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 116 (13.71%) High Availability
7 114 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 104 (12.29%) CI/CD
9 91 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
10 86 (10.17%) Change Management
11 85 (10.05%) DevOps
12 84 (9.93%) Network Virtualisation
13 80 (9.46%) Agile
14 77 (9.10%) Validation
15 76 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (8.63%) ITSM
17 72 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (7.68%) Project Delivery
19 64 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
20 62 (7.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (24.23%) PowerShell
2 127 (15.01%) Python
3 90 (10.64%) Bash
4 53 (6.26%) SQL
5 23 (2.72%) Java
6 9 (1.06%) Go
7 8 (0.95%) Bicep
8 7 (0.83%) C
8 7 (0.83%) 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%) Lua
12 2 (0.24%) COBOL
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
1 401 (47.40%) Security Cleared
2 244 (28.84%) SC Cleared
3 186 (21.99%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 51 (6.03%) Degree
6 42 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (4.73%) VCAP
9 26 (3.07%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.96%) MCSE
11 22 (2.60%) CCNP
12 21 (2.48%) CCNA
13 16 (1.89%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.89%) MCSA
14 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
16 8 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.95%) OCP
17 7 (0.83%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.96%) SLA
2 20 (2.36%) NIST
3 18 (2.13%) NCSC
4 16 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.77%) QA
6 9 (1.06%) GDPR
7 5 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.47%) GxP
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.24%) DICOM
9 2 (0.24%) ISA99
9 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.24%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.24%) RMADS
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 274 (32.39%) Active Directory
2 206 (24.35%) vSphere
3 194 (22.93%) VMware ESXi
4 179 (21.16%) Hyper-V
5 165 (19.50%) VMware NSX
6 94 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (6.74%) Docker
8 38 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (3.90%) Firmware
10 22 (2.60%) KVM
10 22 (2.60%) NFS
11 10 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
12 9 (1.06%) Ceph
12 9 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.83%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.83%) GPFS
13 7 (0.83%) vCloud
14 6 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.59%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 176 (20.80%) Ansible
2 148 (17.49%) vCenter Server
3 123 (14.54%) Terraform
4 113 (13.36%) Kubernetes
5 50 (5.91%) SCOM
6 45 (5.32%) SCCM
7 34 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (4.02%) VxRail
8 33 (3.90%) vRealize
9 28 (3.31%) Grafana
10 23 (2.72%) Prometheus
11 22 (2.60%) NetBackup
12 21 (2.48%) Puppet
13 18 (2.13%) WSUS
14 16 (1.89%) Argo
14 16 (1.89%) PowerCLI
14 16 (1.89%) vMotion
15 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (1.54%) Avamar
17 12 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 846 (100.00%) VMware
2 234 (27.66%) Microsoft
3 142 (16.78%) Cisco
4 62 (7.33%) NetApp
5 59 (6.97%) Citrix
6 58 (6.86%) Red Hat
7 49 (5.79%) Dell
8 47 (5.56%) Oracle
9 42 (4.96%) F5
10 38 (4.49%) Palo Alto
10 38 (4.49%) SolarWinds
11 37 (4.37%) ServiceNow
12 34 (4.02%) Juniper
13 31 (3.66%) Veeam
14 23 (2.72%) Broadcom
15 22 (2.60%) IBM
16 19 (2.25%) Fortinet
16 19 (2.25%) McAfee
17 18 (2.13%) CheckPoint
17 18 (2.13%) Splunk