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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 189 121
Rank change year-on-year +21 -68 -31
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 921 493 740
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.49% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 16.91% 12.37% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 328 428
10th Percentile £325 £232 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £509
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +7.60% -3.10%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £31.35 £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 £89.24 £48.63 £44.00
90th Percentile £93.79 £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 5,446 3,986 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.92% 12.07% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,584 2,528 2,787
10th Percentile £225 £212 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £670 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 122 98
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.03 £20.13
Median hourly rate £62.00 £33.39 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% +9.46% -36.32%
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% +8.25%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +12 812 £525 -4.55% 593
UK excluding London +10 652 £520 -5.45% 408
South East -5 210 £538 +0.09% 138
London -6 197 £550 +10.00% 202
Work from Home -29 179 £517 +3.40% 221
North of England +8 177 £482 +13.29% 77
Midlands -11 94 £450 -18.18% 63
North West +7 82 £448 +2.40% 42
Yorkshire -3 80 £525 +27.27% 24
South West -33 76 £644 +15.99% 52
West Midlands -19 71 £450 -21.40% 42
East of England +2 61 £600 +9.09% 45
Scotland +9 44 £425 -0.29% 28
East Midlands -10 23 £438 -9.33% 21
North East -24 16 £400 - 13
Wales - 11 £550 - 7

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 47 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.39%) Confluence
4 20 (2.17%) IIS
5 14 (1.52%) CMS
6 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.76%) JBoss
8 5 (0.54%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.43%) Apache
9 4 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.43%) 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 (0.87%) 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 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 252 (27.36%) Azure
2 133 (14.44%) AWS
3 87 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (7.71%) Entra ID
5 53 (5.75%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.13%) GCP
7 31 (3.37%) GitHub
8 28 (3.04%) IaaS
9 24 (2.61%) Nutanix
10 21 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (1.95%) Rubrik
12 17 (1.85%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.74%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.30%) PaaS
14 12 (1.30%) SaaS
15 8 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.87%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 286 (31.05%) DNS
2 178 (19.33%) DHCP
3 176 (19.11%) Firewall
4 102 (11.07%) TCP/IP
5 76 (8.25%) VSAN
6 71 (7.71%) SAN
6 71 (7.71%) VPN
7 67 (7.27%) VLAN
8 59 (6.41%) Network Security
9 56 (6.08%) WAN
10 53 (5.75%) LAN
11 43 (4.67%) SSL
12 39 (4.23%) NAS
13 33 (3.58%) BGP
14 32 (3.47%) HTTP
15 28 (3.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 27 (2.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 23 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
18 22 (2.39%) Wireshark
19 21 (2.28%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.85%) Power BI
4 11 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.98%) Big Data
7 8 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.43%) 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 45 (4.89%) JIRA
2 25 (2.71%) GitLab
2 25 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.61%) Git
4 12 (1.30%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.43%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.43%) 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
1 217 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.29%) Finance
3 91 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (4.34%) Public Sector
5 39 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (3.26%) Banking
7 28 (3.04%) Legal
8 23 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.87%) Back Office
13 8 (0.87%) Law
13 8 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Police
15 6 (0.65%) Retail
16 5 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 226 (24.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 141 (15.31%) Senior
3 89 (9.66%) VMware Engineer
4 88 (9.55%) Architect
5 59 (6.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 58 (6.30%) Network Engineer
7 54 (5.86%) Support Engineer
8 52 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (4.99%) Lead
10 42 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
11 37 (4.02%) Storage Engineer
12 35 (3.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 35 (3.80%) Consultant
13 32 (3.47%) Administrator
14 27 (2.93%) Server Engineer
15 25 (2.71%) VMware Consultant
15 25 (2.71%) Wintel Engineer
16 24 (2.61%) Senior VMware Engineer
17 23 (2.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 23 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (13.68%) Terraform
2 27 (2.93%) REST
3 22 (2.39%) JSON
4 17 (1.85%) Kafka
5 13 (1.41%) XMPP
6 12 (1.30%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.30%) Middleware
6 12 (1.30%) YAML
7 11 (1.19%) .NET
7 11 (1.19%) LDAP
8 9 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.76%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.65%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.65%) Redfish
11 5 (0.54%) JDBC
11 5 (0.54%) ODBC
11 5 (0.54%) XML
12 4 (0.43%) Flash
13 3 (0.33%) Java SE
13 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (16.94%) Data Centre
2 75 (8.14%) PKI
3 69 (7.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (5.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 46 (4.99%) Private Cloud
6 44 (4.78%) Clustering
7 41 (4.45%) Replication
8 33 (3.58%) Onboarding
9 32 (3.47%) Management Information System
10 30 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
11 29 (3.15%) Public Cloud
12 27 (2.93%) Cloud Native
12 27 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
14 17 (1.85%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.41%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.41%) SCADA
17 12 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 492 (53.42%) Windows
2 332 (36.05%) Windows Server
3 237 (25.73%) Linux
4 48 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (4.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.93%) Unix
6 27 (2.93%) Windows 10
7 24 (2.61%) VMS
8 22 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.41%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (1.19%) Data ONTAP
12 9 (0.98%) AIX
13 8 (0.87%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.87%) CentOS
13 8 (0.87%) Solaris
14 6 (0.65%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.54%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.33%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (33.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 180 (19.54%) ITIL
3 175 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
4 174 (18.89%) Migration
5 160 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (14.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 127 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
8 119 (12.92%) CI/CD
9 113 (12.27%) Change Management
10 96 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
10 96 (10.42%) Project Delivery
11 95 (10.31%) Root Cause Analysis
12 94 (10.21%) ITSM
13 93 (10.10%) Agile
13 93 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (10.10%) Validation
14 90 (9.77%) High Availability
15 88 (9.55%) DevOps
16 86 (9.34%) Service Management
17 85 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 223 (24.21%) PowerShell
2 133 (14.44%) Python
3 80 (8.69%) Bash
4 51 (5.54%) SQL
5 24 (2.61%) Java
6 11 (1.19%) Perl
7 10 (1.09%) Bicep
8 9 (0.98%) C
9 8 (0.87%) Go
10 7 (0.76%) C#
11 4 (0.43%) C++
11 4 (0.43%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.33%) Korn
12 3 (0.33%) Lua
12 3 (0.33%) VB
13 2 (0.22%) VBScript
14 1 (0.11%) MUMPS
14 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 446 (48.43%) Security Cleared
2 268 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 196 (21.28%) DV Cleared
4 64 (6.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.41%) Degree
6 50 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.45%) VCAP
9 30 (3.26%) CCNP
10 26 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.82%) MCSE
11 23 (2.50%) CCNA
12 21 (2.28%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.95%) MCSA
14 11 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.87%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.39%) SLA
2 19 (2.06%) QA
3 18 (1.95%) NIST
4 14 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.30%) NCSC
6 11 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.87%) GDPR
8 5 (0.54%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.43%) 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
1 322 (34.96%) Active Directory
2 226 (24.54%) vSphere
3 212 (23.02%) VMware ESXi
4 207 (22.48%) Hyper-V
5 134 (14.55%) VMware NSX
6 93 (10.10%) Virtual Machines
7 57 (6.19%) Docker
8 48 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 37 (4.02%) Firmware
10 23 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
11 22 (2.39%) NFS
12 17 (1.85%) KVM
13 13 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 10 (1.09%) XenApp
15 9 (0.98%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.76%) oVirt
16 7 (0.76%) vCloud
17 6 (0.65%) Ceph
17 6 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 164 (17.81%) Ansible
2 148 (16.07%) Kubernetes
3 143 (15.53%) vCenter Server
4 63 (6.84%) SCCM
5 61 (6.62%) SCOM
6 47 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (4.02%) VxRail
8 23 (2.50%) vRealize
9 22 (2.39%) Prometheus
10 20 (2.17%) Grafana
11 18 (1.95%) NetBackup
12 17 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
12 17 (1.85%) Puppet
13 15 (1.63%) PowerCLI
13 15 (1.63%) WSUS
14 14 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
14 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
15 13 (1.41%) Avamar
15 13 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
16 12 (1.30%) vMotion
Vendors
1 921 (100.00%) VMware
2 283 (30.73%) Microsoft
3 156 (16.94%) Cisco
4 72 (7.82%) Citrix
5 68 (7.38%) Red Hat
6 64 (6.95%) NetApp
7 58 (6.30%) Dell
8 48 (5.21%) SolarWinds
9 44 (4.78%) Oracle
9 44 (4.78%) ServiceNow
10 39 (4.23%) Veeam
11 37 (4.02%) F5
12 31 (3.37%) Palo Alto
13 27 (2.93%) Juniper
14 25 (2.71%) Fortinet
15 21 (2.28%) Broadcom
15 21 (2.28%) Commvault
15 21 (2.28%) Remedy
16 20 (2.17%) IBM
17 19 (2.06%) McAfee