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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 122 97
Rank change year-on-year -55 -25 +33
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 600 718 1,051
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.09% 2.40%
As % of the System Software category 13.34% 17.41% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 434 677
10th Percentile £291 £266 £300
25th Percentile £406 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £511 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +0.12% -2.34%
75th Percentile £584 £610 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 58
10th Percentile £24.40 £22.06 £31.10
25th Percentile £44.86 £32.29 £46.23
Median hourly rate £70.00 £44.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -33.31% +1.51%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.85 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £29.33 £65.98
% change year-on-year +138.64% -55.54% +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 4,499 4,125 5,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.23% 11.99% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,984 2,673 3,785
10th Percentile £213 £205 £198
25th Percentile £400 £368 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £613
90th Percentile £688 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 88 231
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.46 £18.39
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.71 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% -37.43% +83.52%
75th Percentile £72.13 £64.50 £67.94
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £31.00 £42.04
% change year-on-year +101.61% -26.26% +108.83%

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 17 December 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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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 -44 538 £513 +1.23% 339
UK excluding London -23 418 £500 -2.31% 332
Work from Home -53 168 £500 - 144
South East -24 137 £500 -9.09% 98
London -97 120 £543 +8.50% 52
Midlands +24 111 £436 -5.73% 59
North of England -19 96 £437 +2.76% 75
West Midlands +21 90 £400 -27.27% 36
North West -11 64 £456 +7.29% 30
South West -29 59 £550 +4.76% 44
Yorkshire -15 44 £413 -8.84% 39
East of England +1 27 £500 +42.86% 47
East Midlands -15 21 £450 +20.00% 20
Scotland -6 9 £483 -8.10% 12
Wales +1 3 £550 +131.58% 8
North East -7 3 £513 - 9
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 4

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 39 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.50%) Confluence
4 11 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
6 5 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.50%) Apache
8 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.33%) CICS
9 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 175 (29.17%) Azure
2 140 (23.33%) AWS
3 63 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.00%) GCP
5 38 (6.33%) Entra ID
6 33 (5.50%) OpenShift
7 25 (4.17%) Nutanix
8 23 (3.83%) IaaS
9 22 (3.67%) GitHub
10 18 (3.00%) SaaS
11 14 (2.33%) Datadog
12 13 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (2.17%) PaaS
13 8 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.17%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
17 4 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 185 (30.83%) DNS
2 154 (25.67%) Firewall
3 84 (14.00%) DHCP
4 70 (11.67%) TCP/IP
5 53 (8.83%) VPN
6 47 (7.83%) VLAN
6 47 (7.83%) VSAN
7 40 (6.67%) Network Security
8 38 (6.33%) SAN
9 35 (5.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 33 (5.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 33 (5.50%) WAN
11 28 (4.67%) LAN
12 26 (4.33%) DMZ
13 24 (4.00%) NAS
14 20 (3.33%) Wireless
15 19 (3.17%) BGP
15 19 (3.17%) HTTP
16 17 (2.83%) iSCSI
16 17 (2.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.00%) Power BI
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.33%) MySQL
5 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.33%) Redis
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (5.50%) Git
2 31 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.83%) JIRA
4 18 (3.00%) GitLab
5 11 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.50%) Fiddler
7 8 (1.33%) Subversion
8 7 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.17%) JMeter
8 7 (1.17%) JUnit
9 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.83%) PVCS
9 5 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.50%) Postman
11 3 (0.50%) RStudio
12 2 (0.33%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.33%) MSI
12 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 175 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 71 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.00%) Finance
5 46 (7.67%) Banking
6 38 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.83%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.00%) Legal
9 12 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.17%) Electronics
11 7 (1.17%) Law
12 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.67%) Military
14 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 97 (16.17%) Architect
1 97 (16.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (7.00%) Analyst
3 41 (6.83%) Consultant
4 36 (6.00%) Senior
5 30 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 30 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 30 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
6 28 (4.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 28 (4.67%) Infrastructure Architect
7 25 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (4.17%) VMware Consultant
8 18 (3.00%) Administrator
8 18 (3.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (2.67%) Infrastructure Support
9 16 (2.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 16 (2.67%) IT Engineer
9 16 (2.67%) VMware Architect
9 16 (2.67%) Wintel Engineer
10 15 (2.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.17%) LDAP
2 12 (2.00%) Flash
3 10 (1.67%) REST
4 8 (1.33%) Kafka
4 8 (1.33%) Middleware
5 7 (1.17%) Loki
5 7 (1.17%) Spring
6 6 (1.00%) Hibernate
6 6 (1.00%) SAML
7 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.67%) RESTful
8 3 (0.50%) .NET
8 3 (0.50%) OAuth
8 3 (0.50%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.50%) OpenID
8 3 (0.50%) Swagger
9 2 (0.33%) EDI
9 2 (0.33%) LAMP
9 2 (0.33%) Node.js
9 2 (0.33%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.50%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.67%) Replication
3 42 (7.00%) PKI
4 36 (6.00%) Management Information System
5 31 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (4.83%) Cloud Native
7 27 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
8 24 (4.00%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.17%) Clustering
10 11 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.83%) SCADA
11 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.33%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.33%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.00%) CMDB
14 6 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 253 (42.17%) Windows
2 203 (33.83%) Linux
3 146 (24.33%) Windows Server
4 50 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (6.67%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (3.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 16 (2.67%) VMS
10 13 (2.17%) Ubuntu
11 12 (2.00%) CentOS
12 10 (1.67%) Solaris
13 7 (1.17%) Unix
14 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.50%) AIX
17 2 (0.33%) Debian
17 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 114 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (14.67%) Agile
4 80 (13.33%) Migration
5 76 (12.67%) CI/CD
6 75 (12.50%) ITIL
7 71 (11.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 67 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (10.50%) DevOps
10 54 (9.00%) Load Balancing
11 51 (8.50%) Containerisation
11 51 (8.50%) High Availability
12 47 (7.83%) Business Strategy
12 47 (7.83%) Data Protection
13 44 (7.33%) Service Management
14 38 (6.33%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (6.17%) Network Virtualisation
16 36 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (5.83%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 147 (24.50%) PowerShell
2 122 (20.33%) Python
3 90 (15.00%) Bash
4 40 (6.67%) SQL
5 19 (3.17%) Java
6 18 (3.00%) Perl
7 12 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.67%) C++
8 10 (1.67%) Go
9 7 (1.17%) C
9 7 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.00%) PHP
11 4 (0.67%) Bicep
11 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.67%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.50%) C#
13 1 (0.17%) Rust
13 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 226 (37.67%) Security Cleared
2 157 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 65 (10.83%) DV Cleared
4 52 (8.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (7.33%) Degree
6 41 (6.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 39 (6.50%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 30 (5.00%) CCNP
9 21 (3.50%) MCSE
10 17 (2.83%) CCNA
11 16 (2.67%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (2.17%) CCIE
14 11 (1.83%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.83%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.33%) JNCIE
16 8 (1.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.00%) GDPR
2 19 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.50%) QA
4 7 (1.17%) NIST
5 6 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.83%) SLA
7 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 190 (31.67%) Active Directory
2 122 (20.33%) vSphere
3 95 (15.83%) Hyper-V
4 87 (14.50%) VMware NSX
5 70 (11.67%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (9.17%) Docker
7 41 (6.83%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (4.83%) NFS
9 22 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (2.00%) GPFS
11 11 (1.83%) Firmware
11 11 (1.83%) KVM
12 10 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (1.17%) Terminal Services
14 6 (1.00%) Dovecot
14 6 (1.00%) Postfix
15 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.83%) UAG
15 5 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 111 (18.50%) Ansible
2 84 (14.00%) Terraform
3 70 (11.67%) vCenter Server
4 64 (10.67%) SCCM
5 54 (9.00%) Kubernetes
6 48 (8.00%) vRealize
7 44 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (3.67%) VxRail
9 20 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (2.83%) Grafana
11 16 (2.67%) Argo
12 15 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (2.50%) Puppet
13 14 (2.33%) FortiGate
13 14 (2.33%) Prometheus
14 13 (2.17%) Progress Chef
14 13 (2.17%) WSUS
15 10 (1.67%) NetBackup
16 9 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (1.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 600 (100.00%) VMware
2 177 (29.50%) Microsoft
3 130 (21.67%) Cisco
4 64 (10.67%) F5
5 60 (10.00%) Citrix
6 58 (9.67%) Red Hat
7 46 (7.67%) NetApp
8 44 (7.33%) SolarWinds
9 43 (7.17%) Veeam
10 35 (5.83%) Oracle
11 34 (5.67%) Dell
12 33 (5.50%) IBM
13 32 (5.33%) ServiceNow
14 27 (4.50%) Broadcom
15 21 (3.50%) Palo Alto
16 20 (3.33%) Google
16 20 (3.33%) Splunk
17 16 (2.67%) Commvault
17 16 (2.67%) HP
18 15 (2.50%) Juniper