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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 137 129
Rank change year-on-year -34 -8 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 738 610 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.07% 1.83%
As % of the System Software category 15.11% 16.32% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 417 516
10th Percentile £318 £313 £267
25th Percentile £421 £420 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £589
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.78% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 35
10th Percentile £43.17 £31.70 £22.08
25th Percentile £52.11 £37.25 £38.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +6.07% -32.55%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £74.48 £61.30 £85.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +150.00% -35.21% -33.52%

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 4,885 3,737 4,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.52% 12.65% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,309 2,558 3,226
10th Percentile £213 £213 £195
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £620 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £460
% change year-on-year -0.42% +3.70% -5.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 92 234
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.46% +25.36% -56.31%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £87.83 £71.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% +74.42% -45.71%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -38 645 £500 -9.09% 214
UK excluding London -26 510 £500 -9.09% 193
Work from Home -25 173 £510 -2.86% 73
South East -12 167 £525 -8.70% 76
London -63 148 £525 -2.33% 49
North of England -13 135 £458 +10.24% 43
Midlands -14 107 £402 -26.91% 22
West Midlands -19 81 £340 -38.29% 17
North West -5 74 £456 +7.29% 16
Yorkshire -19 62 £454 -2.47% 18
South West -59 54 £550 -4.35% 22
East of England -3 43 £475 +0.53% 18
East Midlands -22 26 £415 -23.54% 5
Scotland 0 25 £450 -3.07% 7
Wales -13 4 £463 +59.48% 10
North East -21 3 £550 +57.14% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8

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 44 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.36%) Confluence
4 9 (1.22%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.54%) CICS
6 4 (0.54%) IIS
7 3 (0.41%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 198 (26.83%) Azure
2 131 (17.75%) AWS
3 55 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.78%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.37%) OpenShift
6 37 (5.01%) GCP
7 27 (3.66%) IaaS
8 26 (3.52%) GitHub
8 26 (3.52%) Nutanix
9 20 (2.71%) PaaS
10 12 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.36%) Datadog
11 10 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (0.95%) Power Platform
13 7 (0.95%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.81%) Cohesity
14 6 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 191 (25.88%) DNS
2 171 (23.17%) Firewall
3 106 (14.36%) DHCP
4 72 (9.76%) SAN
4 72 (9.76%) VPN
5 65 (8.81%) VSAN
6 60 (8.13%) WAN
7 54 (7.32%) Network Security
8 51 (6.91%) LAN
9 50 (6.78%) TCP/IP
10 44 (5.96%) NAS
11 43 (5.83%) SSL
12 36 (4.88%) BIG-IP
13 35 (4.74%) HTTP
14 34 (4.61%) VLAN
15 30 (4.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (4.07%) Wireshark
16 29 (3.93%) BGP
17 26 (3.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.98%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.12%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.68%) Power BI
5 4 (0.54%) DataStage
5 4 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.41%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.41%) Redis
7 2 (0.27%) GIS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 32 (4.34%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.98%) JIRA
3 19 (2.57%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.30%) Git
4 17 (2.30%) GitLab
5 8 (1.08%) PVCS
5 8 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 3 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) RStudio
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) GoCD
9 1 (0.14%) MSI
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 153 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.86%) Finance
5 44 (5.96%) Banking
6 30 (4.07%) Legal
7 28 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (3.12%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.36%) Military
10 9 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.22%) Police
10 9 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.08%) Electronics
11 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.68%) Local Government
14 4 (0.54%) Law
14 4 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 146 (19.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 103 (13.96%) Architect
3 67 (9.08%) Senior
4 64 (8.67%) VMware Engineer
5 59 (7.99%) Network Engineer
6 47 (6.37%) Analyst
7 35 (4.74%) Consultant
8 34 (4.61%) Lead
9 32 (4.34%) Infrastructure Architect
10 27 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (3.12%) VMware Architect
11 23 (3.12%) VMware Consultant
12 22 (2.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (2.98%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 21 (2.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 21 (2.85%) Wintel Engineer
14 19 (2.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 19 (2.57%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 19 (2.57%) Support Engineer
14 19 (2.57%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.71%) LDAP
2 19 (2.57%) Flash
3 12 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.49%) SAML
5 9 (1.22%) Middleware
6 7 (0.95%) REST
7 6 (0.81%) Kafka
8 5 (0.68%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.54%) XML
10 3 (0.41%) EJB
10 3 (0.41%) JSP
10 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.41%) OAuth
10 3 (0.41%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.41%) OpenID
10 3 (0.41%) Spring
11 2 (0.27%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.27%) Java SE
11 2 (0.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 89 (12.06%) Data Centre
2 70 (9.49%) Replication
3 49 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (6.50%) PKI
5 46 (6.23%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.88%) Clustering
7 27 (3.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.66%) Private Cloud
8 26 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.71%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.17%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.76%) SCADA
13 11 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 333 (45.12%) Windows
2 226 (30.62%) Linux
3 225 (30.49%) Windows Server
4 56 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (3.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (3.66%) VMS
8 23 (3.12%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.71%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.44%) Ubuntu
11 17 (2.30%) Data ONTAP
12 14 (1.90%) Solaris
13 12 (1.63%) Unix
14 10 (1.36%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.08%) CoreOS
15 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.95%) CentOS
17 6 (0.81%) AIX
18 4 (0.54%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (25.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 144 (19.51%) Migration
3 120 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (13.69%) High Availability
5 99 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 81 (10.98%) Agile
7 78 (10.57%) ITIL
8 76 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 75 (10.16%) DevOps
10 71 (9.62%) CI/CD
11 68 (9.21%) Network Virtualisation
12 65 (8.81%) Load Balancing
12 65 (8.81%) Platform Engineering
13 64 (8.67%) Capacity Planning
14 55 (7.45%) Data Protection
15 51 (6.91%) Containerisation
16 49 (6.64%) Roadmaps
17 48 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 45 (6.10%) Change Management
19 43 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.09%) PowerShell
2 100 (13.55%) Python
3 62 (8.40%) Bash
4 26 (3.52%) SQL
5 11 (1.49%) C
6 10 (1.36%) Java
7 9 (1.22%) C++
7 9 (1.22%) Perl
7 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.95%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.95%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
10 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.54%) COBOL
11 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.54%) PHP
12 3 (0.41%) C#
12 3 (0.41%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Korn
13 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 291 (39.43%) Security Cleared
2 194 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 105 (14.23%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 42 (5.69%) Degree
6 35 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (4.20%) VCAP
8 24 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (2.98%) MCSE
11 19 (2.57%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.44%) CCNP
12 18 (2.44%) MCSA
13 13 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (1.36%) CCNA
14 10 (1.36%) OCP
15 8 (1.08%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
17 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.44%) NIST
3 17 (2.30%) SLA
4 14 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.63%) NCSC
6 10 (1.36%) GDPR
7 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.54%) QA
8 2 (0.27%) DICOM
8 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.27%) ISA99
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.27%) RMADS
9 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 214 (29.00%) Active Directory
2 171 (23.17%) vSphere
3 160 (21.68%) VMware NSX
4 144 (19.51%) VMware ESXi
5 138 (18.70%) Hyper-V
6 81 (10.98%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (6.10%) Docker
8 38 (5.15%) NFS
9 33 (4.47%) Firmware
10 29 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (3.12%) KVM
12 14 (1.90%) GPFS
13 9 (1.22%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.68%) Ceph
15 5 (0.68%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.54%) vCloud
16 4 (0.54%) XenApp
17 3 (0.41%) UAG
Systems Management
1 138 (18.70%) Ansible
2 104 (14.09%) vCenter Server
3 85 (11.52%) Terraform
4 73 (9.89%) Kubernetes
5 60 (8.13%) SCCM
6 53 (7.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (6.10%) vRealize
8 29 (3.93%) Grafana
9 22 (2.98%) Argo
9 22 (2.98%) vMotion
10 20 (2.71%) PowerCLI
11 19 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
11 19 (2.57%) VxRail
12 18 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (2.30%) SCOM
14 16 (2.17%) WSUS
15 12 (1.63%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.63%) Prometheus
15 12 (1.63%) Puppet
15 12 (1.63%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 738 (100.00%) VMware
2 190 (25.75%) Microsoft
3 147 (19.92%) Cisco
4 69 (9.35%) Citrix
5 62 (8.40%) Red Hat
6 61 (8.27%) NetApp
7 54 (7.32%) F5
8 41 (5.56%) IBM
9 39 (5.28%) Dell
9 39 (5.28%) ServiceNow
10 35 (4.74%) Oracle
11 32 (4.34%) Palo Alto
12 31 (4.20%) Pure Storage
13 29 (3.93%) Veeam
14 27 (3.66%) SolarWinds
15 23 (3.12%) Broadcom
15 23 (3.12%) Commvault
15 23 (3.12%) McAfee
16 22 (2.98%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.57%) Blue Coat