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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 185 111
Rank change year-on-year +16 -74 -16
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 899 504 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.53% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 16.84% 13.06% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 319 496
10th Percentile £325 £323 £313
25th Percentile £425 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £512
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +7.45% -2.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 3 9
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.40 £21.56
25th Percentile £31.35 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +110.45% +26.05% -62.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £48.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £59.80 £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £47.25 £36.17
% change year-on-year +41.80% +30.65% -39.73%

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 5,339 3,860 4,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 11.71% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,509 2,442 3,007
10th Percentile £220 £225 £220
25th Percentile £400 £385 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £601
90th Percentile £675 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 111 130
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £59.37 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +97.89% +24.07% -51.64%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.35 £59.58
90th Percentile £86.25 £91.50 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.92 £62.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.54% +127.27% -

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +5 779 £523 -5.00% 299
UK excluding London -3 627 £515 -6.36% 253
South East -3 219 £538 -6.52% 89
London +4 188 £525 +5.00% 79
Work from Home -13 178 £500 -9.09% 107
North of England +2 165 £459 +8.00% 49
Midlands -7 97 £450 -20.00% 27
North West +6 90 £466 +9.53% 22
South West -30 80 £600 +4.35% 42
West Midlands -11 73 £450 -21.40% 18
Yorkshire -24 66 £510 +23.52% 14
East of England -12 40 £488 -11.36% 40
Scotland +5 39 £425 -22.73% 11
East Midlands -1 24 £438 -16.03% 9
Wales - 11 £550 - 5
North East -29 9 £350 -44.00% 17

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 50 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.67%) Confluence
4 13 (1.45%) IIS
5 9 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.78%) JBoss
6 7 (0.78%) nginx
6 7 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.44%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.22%) CICS
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.22%) Houdini
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.22%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (27.81%) Azure
2 150 (16.69%) AWS
3 79 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (6.79%) Entra ID
5 45 (5.01%) OpenShift
6 42 (4.67%) GCP
7 37 (4.12%) GitHub
8 30 (3.34%) IaaS
9 23 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.45%) Nutanix
11 21 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.11%) Power Platform
13 17 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (1.67%) OneDrive
14 15 (1.67%) PaaS
15 13 (1.45%) Rubrik
15 13 (1.45%) SaaS
16 9 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.00%) Azure Stack
17 8 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 284 (31.59%) DNS
2 186 (20.69%) Firewall
3 174 (19.35%) DHCP
4 94 (10.46%) TCP/IP
5 92 (10.23%) VSAN
6 78 (8.68%) VPN
7 69 (7.68%) SAN
7 69 (7.68%) VLAN
8 61 (6.79%) WAN
9 56 (6.23%) Network Security
10 48 (5.34%) LAN
10 48 (5.34%) SSL
11 41 (4.56%) NAS
12 36 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 31 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 30 (3.34%) BGP
15 29 (3.23%) BIG-IP
16 26 (2.89%) HTTP
17 25 (2.78%) Wireshark
18 19 (2.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.89%) Power BI
4 14 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (1.00%) Big Data
7 9 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.78%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 38 (4.23%) JIRA
2 32 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.78%) GitLab
4 23 (2.56%) Git
5 15 (1.67%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.33%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) PVCS
8 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 207 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 88 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (9.01%) Finance
4 46 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 33 (3.67%) Banking
6 32 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (3.56%) Legal
7 21 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.89%) Retail
13 6 (0.67%) Law
13 6 (0.67%) Military
14 5 (0.56%) Police
15 4 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 219 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 135 (15.02%) Senior
3 103 (11.46%) VMware Engineer
4 80 (8.90%) Architect
5 71 (7.90%) Network Engineer
6 48 (5.34%) Support Engineer
7 47 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 47 (5.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 41 (4.56%) Lead
9 40 (4.45%) Consultant
10 39 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
11 36 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 36 (4.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 33 (3.67%) Administrator
12 33 (3.67%) Storage Engineer
13 28 (3.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 26 (2.89%) Server Engineer
14 26 (2.89%) VMware Consultant
15 25 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (14.68%) Terraform
2 21 (2.34%) REST
3 14 (1.56%) Middleware
4 12 (1.33%) .NET
4 12 (1.33%) JSON
5 10 (1.11%) 802.1X
5 10 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (1.11%) YAML
6 9 (1.00%) Kafka
7 7 (0.78%) LDAP
8 6 (0.67%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.67%) Flash
8 6 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.67%) Redfish
9 5 (0.56%) JDBC
9 5 (0.56%) ODBC
9 5 (0.56%) XML
10 3 (0.33%) NETCONF
10 3 (0.33%) OAuth
10 3 (0.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (15.68%) Data Centre
2 72 (8.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (7.90%) PKI
4 51 (5.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 46 (5.12%) Clustering
6 45 (5.01%) Replication
7 35 (3.89%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.67%) Private Cloud
9 32 (3.56%) Public Cloud
10 28 (3.11%) Onboarding
11 26 (2.89%) Cloud Native
12 25 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.33%) Operational Technology
16 11 (1.22%) SCADA
17 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.00%) Product Ownership
18 9 (1.00%) Virtual Team
19 7 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 473 (52.61%) Windows
2 317 (35.26%) Windows Server
3 256 (28.48%) Linux
4 50 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (3.34%) VMS
7 25 (2.78%) Unix
8 23 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (2.45%) Windows 10
10 21 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 19 (2.11%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
13 12 (1.33%) Data ONTAP
14 10 (1.11%) Solaris
15 9 (1.00%) AIX
15 9 (1.00%) CentOS
16 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
17 6 (0.67%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
19 4 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (32.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (18.58%) Migration
3 164 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
4 159 (17.69%) ITIL
5 143 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 128 (14.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 113 (12.57%) CI/CD
8 108 (12.01%) Technical Leadership
9 106 (11.79%) High Availability
10 97 (10.79%) Change Management
11 92 (10.23%) DevOps
12 87 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 87 (9.68%) ITSM
12 87 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
13 86 (9.57%) Agile
14 85 (9.45%) Network Virtualisation
15 83 (9.23%) Validation
16 78 (8.68%) Service Management
17 75 (8.34%) Root Cause Analysis
18 74 (8.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 215 (23.92%) PowerShell
2 133 (14.79%) Python
3 94 (10.46%) Bash
4 58 (6.45%) SQL
5 24 (2.67%) Java
6 9 (1.00%) Go
7 8 (0.89%) Bicep
8 7 (0.78%) C
8 7 (0.78%) C#
9 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.44%) Perl
12 3 (0.33%) C++
12 3 (0.33%) Lua
12 3 (0.33%) VB
12 3 (0.33%) VBScript
13 2 (0.22%) COBOL
13 2 (0.22%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 427 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 258 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 195 (21.69%) DV Cleared
4 67 (7.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (6.12%) Degree
6 45 (5.01%) VCAP
7 43 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (4.34%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (3.34%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.78%) MCSE
11 20 (2.22%) CCNP
12 19 (2.11%) CCNA
13 18 (2.00%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.78%) MCSA
15 14 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
18 7 (0.78%) A+ Certification
18 7 (0.78%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.00%) SLA
2 19 (2.11%) NIST
3 18 (2.00%) QA
4 17 (1.89%) NCSC
5 16 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.00%) GDPR
8 5 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.44%) GxP
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.22%) DICOM
11 2 (0.22%) ISA99
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.22%) RMADS
12 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 289 (32.15%) Active Directory
2 218 (24.25%) vSphere
3 205 (22.80%) VMware ESXi
4 199 (22.14%) Hyper-V
5 167 (18.58%) VMware NSX
6 88 (9.79%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (6.67%) Docker
8 39 (4.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 37 (4.12%) Firmware
10 20 (2.22%) KVM
11 16 (1.78%) NFS
12 12 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.11%) Ceph
13 10 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (1.00%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.78%) vCloud
17 6 (0.67%) GPFS
17 6 (0.67%) XenApp
17 6 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 188 (20.91%) Ansible
2 157 (17.46%) vCenter Server
3 129 (14.35%) Kubernetes
4 56 (6.23%) SCOM
5 52 (5.78%) SCCM
6 39 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (3.78%) VxRail
8 32 (3.56%) vRealize
9 27 (3.00%) Grafana
10 24 (2.67%) Prometheus
11 21 (2.34%) NetBackup
11 21 (2.34%) PowerCLI
12 20 (2.22%) Puppet
13 19 (2.11%) WSUS
14 18 (2.00%) vMotion
15 15 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (1.56%) Argo
16 14 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
17 12 (1.33%) Avamar
18 11 (1.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 899 (100.00%) VMware
2 257 (28.59%) Microsoft
3 150 (16.69%) Cisco
4 65 (7.23%) Citrix
5 63 (7.01%) NetApp
5 63 (7.01%) Red Hat
6 51 (5.67%) Dell
7 49 (5.45%) Oracle
8 46 (5.12%) F5
9 45 (5.01%) ServiceNow
10 39 (4.34%) SolarWinds
11 38 (4.23%) Palo Alto
12 31 (3.45%) Veeam
13 28 (3.11%) Juniper
14 24 (2.67%) Fortinet
14 24 (2.67%) IBM
15 22 (2.45%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.11%) CheckPoint
17 18 (2.00%) CyberArk
17 18 (2.00%) Splunk