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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 126 116
Rank change year-on-year -50 -10 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 653 651 896
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.11% 2.02%
As % of the System Software category 13.71% 16.94% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 425 559
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £402 £403 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £599
90th Percentile £670 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 63
10th Percentile £33.93 £27.95 £22.12
25th Percentile £67.70 £38.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71.07 £112.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.13 - £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £22.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +211.11% -65.90% +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 4,763 3,842 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.66% 12.46% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,247 2,512 3,409
10th Percentile £206 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +7.29% -8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 91 245
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.15 £17.69
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -33.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £83.40 £77.50 £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +11.84% -18.80% +83.80%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -43 581 £500 -6.54% 321
UK excluding London -34 457 £490 -6.67% 298
Work from Home -56 170 £500 -2.20% 161
South East -7 147 £500 -9.09% 99
London -91 133 £540 +2.86% 64
Midlands +7 116 £402 -27.04% 35
North of England -40 106 £441 +3.82% 58
West Midlands -1 88 £340 -43.99% 30
North West -15 68 £445 +4.71% 31
South West -42 64 £550 -4.35% 48
Yorkshire -32 47 £425 -5.56% 24
East of England -7 30 £475 +1.82% 35
East Midlands -9 28 £447 -14.86% 5
Scotland -8 18 £465 -6.44% 16
Wales -4 5 £413 +42.24% 10
North East -20 2 £513 +46.43% 6
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 2

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 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.76%) Confluence
4 9 (1.38%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.07%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.77%) nginx
6 5 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) Apache
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
8 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Traefik
9 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 193 (29.56%) Azure
2 148 (22.66%) AWS
3 59 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (7.35%) OpenShift
5 43 (6.58%) GCP
6 42 (6.43%) Entra ID
7 33 (5.05%) Nutanix
8 27 (4.13%) IaaS
9 21 (3.22%) GitHub
10 18 (2.76%) PaaS
11 13 (1.99%) Datadog
12 8 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (0.92%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.61%) SaaS
15 4 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 194 (29.71%) DNS
2 163 (24.96%) Firewall
3 95 (14.55%) DHCP
4 63 (9.65%) VPN
5 60 (9.19%) TCP/IP
6 51 (7.81%) SAN
7 48 (7.35%) Network Security
8 43 (6.58%) VSAN
9 40 (6.13%) VLAN
10 36 (5.51%) LAN
11 35 (5.36%) WAN
12 33 (5.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 32 (4.90%) HTTP
14 31 (4.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (4.44%) NAS
16 28 (4.29%) BGP
17 27 (4.13%) BIG-IP
18 25 (3.83%) SSL
19 24 (3.68%) Wireshark
20 19 (2.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (0.92%) Power BI
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) DataStage
6 2 (0.31%) GIS
6 2 (0.31%) Redis
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (3.98%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.52%) Git
3 22 (3.37%) JIRA
4 16 (2.45%) Fiddler
5 13 (1.99%) GitLab
6 11 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.23%) PVCS
7 8 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.07%) JMeter
8 7 (1.07%) JUnit
9 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.61%) RStudio
10 3 (0.46%) Subversion
11 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.15%) GoCD
12 1 (0.15%) MSI
12 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 158 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.58%) Finance
5 44 (6.74%) Banking
6 37 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.98%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.06%) Legal
9 14 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.53%) Military
10 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.23%) Electronics
12 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.07%) Police
13 6 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (0.77%) Local Government
15 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 114 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 90 (13.78%) Architect
3 55 (8.42%) Analyst
4 45 (6.89%) Network Engineer
5 36 (5.51%) VMware Engineer
6 35 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (5.05%) Consultant
7 33 (5.05%) Senior
8 31 (4.75%) Support Engineer
9 30 (4.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 26 (3.98%) Infrastructure Architect
11 25 (3.83%) VMware Consultant
12 23 (3.52%) Lead
13 19 (2.91%) Storage Analyst
14 17 (2.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (2.60%) VMware Architect
14 17 (2.60%) Web Engineer
14 17 (2.60%) Wintel Engineer
15 16 (2.45%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 16 (2.45%) IP Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.22%) LDAP
2 18 (2.76%) Flash
3 10 (1.53%) SAML
4 8 (1.23%) Kafka
5 7 (1.07%) Loki
5 7 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.07%) REST
5 7 (1.07%) Spring
6 6 (0.92%) Hibernate
6 6 (0.92%) Middleware
7 5 (0.77%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.61%) OAuth
8 4 (0.61%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.61%) OpenID
9 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.31%) EJB
10 2 (0.31%) Java SE
10 2 (0.31%) JSP
10 2 (0.31%) OpenLayers
11 1 (0.15%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.94%) Data Centre
2 59 (9.04%) Replication
3 48 (7.35%) PKI
4 40 (6.13%) Cloud Native
5 36 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (4.75%) Management Information System
7 30 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (3.52%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.60%) Clustering
10 16 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.30%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
14 10 (1.53%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.53%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.23%) Driving Licence
15 8 (1.23%) SCADA
16 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 277 (42.42%) Windows
2 224 (34.30%) Linux
3 165 (25.27%) Windows Server
4 47 (7.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (4.75%) Windows 10
6 29 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.45%) VMS
10 15 (2.30%) Mac OS
11 13 (1.99%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.84%) Solaris
13 11 (1.68%) Unix
14 6 (0.92%) CentOS
15 5 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.61%) AIX
16 4 (0.61%) CatOS
16 4 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.46%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (21.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (16.23%) Migration
4 98 (15.01%) Agile
5 86 (13.17%) Disaster Recovery
6 79 (12.10%) CI/CD
7 75 (11.49%) ITIL
8 72 (11.03%) DevOps
9 71 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (10.57%) High Availability
11 65 (9.95%) Load Balancing
12 56 (8.58%) Containerisation
12 56 (8.58%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (7.35%) Data Protection
14 45 (6.89%) Service Management
15 43 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (6.58%) Network Virtualisation
16 40 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
16 40 (6.13%) Roadmaps
16 40 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (23.43%) PowerShell
2 118 (18.07%) Python
3 81 (12.40%) Bash
4 20 (3.06%) SQL
5 16 (2.45%) Perl
6 11 (1.68%) C
7 10 (1.53%) Java
8 8 (1.23%) C++
8 8 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.07%) Embedded C
9 7 (1.07%) Embedded C++
10 6 (0.92%) Bicep
11 4 (0.61%) C#
11 4 (0.61%) Go
11 4 (0.61%) PHP
11 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.31%) COBOL
13 2 (0.31%) Korn
14 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 248 (37.98%) Security Cleared
2 170 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.33%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.89%) Degree
4 45 (6.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (6.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 32 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (4.59%) Azure Certification
8 27 (4.13%) CCNP
9 19 (2.91%) MCSE
10 15 (2.30%) VCAP
11 14 (2.14%) AWS Certification
11 14 (2.14%) CCNA
12 13 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.84%) CCIE
13 12 (1.84%) MCSA
14 11 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.68%) Server+ Certification
15 7 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.76%) GDPR
3 16 (2.45%) NIST
4 10 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.07%) SLA
6 5 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.61%) QA
7 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 2 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 195 (29.86%) Active Directory
2 149 (22.82%) vSphere
3 117 (17.92%) VMware NSX
4 104 (15.93%) Hyper-V
5 83 (12.71%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (8.42%) Docker
7 54 (8.27%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (5.51%) NFS
9 28 (4.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 23 (3.52%) Firmware
11 20 (3.06%) KVM
12 16 (2.45%) GPFS
13 7 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.77%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.61%) vCloud
16 3 (0.46%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.46%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 111 (17.00%) Ansible
2 82 (12.56%) Terraform
3 74 (11.33%) vCenter Server
4 70 (10.72%) Kubernetes
5 65 (9.95%) SCCM
6 57 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 51 (7.81%) vRealize
8 27 (4.13%) Grafana
9 23 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (3.37%) Argo
11 21 (3.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (2.91%) VxRail
13 16 (2.45%) vMotion
14 15 (2.30%) FortiGate
15 14 (2.14%) SCOM
16 13 (1.99%) Prometheus
17 11 (1.68%) PowerCLI
17 11 (1.68%) Progress Chef
17 11 (1.68%) WSUS
18 9 (1.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 653 (100.00%) VMware
2 179 (27.41%) Microsoft
3 152 (23.28%) Cisco
4 64 (9.80%) Citrix
5 62 (9.49%) Red Hat
6 60 (9.19%) F5
7 45 (6.89%) SolarWinds
8 44 (6.74%) IBM
9 42 (6.43%) Dell
10 41 (6.28%) ServiceNow
11 40 (6.13%) NetApp
12 33 (5.05%) Oracle
13 32 (4.90%) Veeam
14 29 (4.44%) Palo Alto
15 28 (4.29%) Pure Storage
16 27 (4.13%) Commvault
17 18 (2.76%) McAfee
18 17 (2.60%) Blue Coat
18 17 (2.60%) Juniper
19 16 (2.45%) HP