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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 191 113
Rank change year-on-year +25 -78 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 902 500 795
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.54% 2.08%
As % of the System Software category 16.87% 13.20% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 320 491
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 3 9
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.40 £21.56
25th Percentile £32.52 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.31 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +111.03% +26.05% -62.22%
75th Percentile £74.63 £48.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £98.19 £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 5,347 3,788 4,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 11.65% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,528 2,395 2,988
10th Percentile £217 £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 £594 £602
90th Percentile £675 £670 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 112 130
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £31.39 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +91.17% +29.80% -51.64%
75th Percentile £74.08 £79.03 £59.58
90th Percentile £87.25 £91.50 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year - +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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +9 780 £525 -4.55% 495
UK excluding London 0 631 £515 -6.36% 370
South East -5 217 £538 -6.52% 109
London -2 189 £533 +6.50% 175
Work from Home -13 177 £512 -6.27% 177
North of England +16 166 £459 +8.00% 68
Midlands -10 96 £450 -20.00% 50
North West +7 88 £466 +7.94% 27
South West -24 82 £625 +8.70% 66
West Midlands -18 72 £450 -21.40% 29
Yorkshire -20 66 £520 +26.06% 23
Scotland +3 41 £438 -20.45% 26
East of England -17 41 £500 -9.09% 47
East Midlands -7 24 £438 -16.03% 21
North East -32 12 £375 -40.00% 22
Wales - 11 £550 - 6

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 52 (5.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.88%) Confluence
4 13 (1.44%) 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
8 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.33%) Skype for Business
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 14 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (27.83%) Azure
2 148 (16.41%) AWS
3 84 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (7.10%) Entra ID
5 43 (4.77%) OpenShift
6 41 (4.55%) GCP
7 37 (4.10%) GitHub
8 29 (3.22%) IaaS
9 23 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.44%) Nutanix
11 21 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.11%) Power Platform
13 17 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (1.77%) OneDrive
15 14 (1.55%) PaaS
15 14 (1.55%) SaaS
16 13 (1.44%) Rubrik
17 9 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (1.00%) Azure Stack
18 8 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 283 (31.37%) DNS
2 184 (20.40%) Firewall
3 173 (19.18%) DHCP
4 93 (10.31%) TCP/IP
5 90 (9.98%) VSAN
6 77 (8.54%) VPN
7 70 (7.76%) SAN
8 69 (7.65%) VLAN
9 58 (6.43%) WAN
10 56 (6.21%) Network Security
11 47 (5.21%) LAN
11 47 (5.21%) SSL
12 41 (4.55%) NAS
13 35 (3.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 30 (3.33%) BGP
14 30 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 28 (3.10%) BIG-IP
16 25 (2.77%) HTTP
17 24 (2.66%) Wireshark
18 19 (2.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.99%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.88%) Power BI
4 14 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
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
9 6 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.55%) 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 42 (4.66%) JIRA
2 32 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.77%) GitLab
4 23 (2.55%) Git
5 14 (1.55%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.55%) 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%) 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
1 208 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 90 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (9.20%) Finance
4 44 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 33 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (3.44%) Legal
7 29 (3.22%) Banking
8 21 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.55%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.89%) Retail
14 6 (0.67%) Law
14 6 (0.67%) Military
15 5 (0.55%) Police
16 4 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 221 (24.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 137 (15.19%) Senior
3 103 (11.42%) VMware Engineer
4 80 (8.87%) Architect
5 69 (7.65%) Network Engineer
6 49 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 49 (5.43%) Support Engineer
7 47 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 41 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (4.43%) Lead
10 38 (4.21%) Consultant
11 35 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 35 (3.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 34 (3.77%) Administrator
13 33 (3.66%) Storage Engineer
14 28 (3.10%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 26 (2.88%) Server Engineer
15 26 (2.88%) VMware Consultant
16 24 (2.66%) IT Engineer
16 24 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (14.63%) Terraform
2 22 (2.44%) REST
3 14 (1.55%) 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%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.67%) Redfish
9 5 (0.55%) Flash
9 5 (0.55%) JDBC
9 5 (0.55%) ODBC
9 5 (0.55%) XML
10 3 (0.33%) NETCONF
10 3 (0.33%) OAuth
10 3 (0.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (15.85%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (7.76%) PKI
4 49 (5.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 45 (4.99%) Clustering
6 44 (4.88%) Replication
7 34 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.77%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 29 (3.22%) Onboarding
10 27 (2.99%) Cloud Native
11 25 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.22%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.22%) SCADA
15 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.00%) Product Ownership
16 9 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 477 (52.88%) Windows
2 322 (35.70%) Windows Server
3 250 (27.72%) Linux
4 49 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 45 (4.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (3.22%) VMS
7 25 (2.77%) Unix
8 24 (2.66%) Windows 10
9 21 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (1.88%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (1.22%) Data ONTAP
14 10 (1.11%) Solaris
15 9 (1.00%) AIX
16 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
17 7 (0.78%) CentOS
18 6 (0.67%) Windows 7
19 4 (0.44%) SUSE
19 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (32.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 169 (18.74%) Migration
3 165 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (18.18%) ITIL
5 147 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 127 (14.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 115 (12.75%) CI/CD
8 108 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
9 104 (11.53%) High Availability
10 97 (10.75%) Change Management
11 91 (10.09%) DevOps
12 89 (9.87%) ITSM
12 89 (9.87%) Platform Engineering
13 88 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 87 (9.65%) Validation
15 84 (9.31%) Network Virtualisation
16 83 (9.20%) Agile
17 82 (9.09%) Service Management
18 77 (8.54%) Root Cause Analysis
19 74 (8.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 217 (24.06%) PowerShell
2 133 (14.75%) Python
3 94 (10.42%) Bash
4 60 (6.65%) SQL
5 25 (2.77%) 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%) Perl
9 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.33%) C++
11 3 (0.33%) Lua
11 3 (0.33%) VB
11 3 (0.33%) VBScript
12 2 (0.22%) COBOL
12 2 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 426 (47.23%) Security Cleared
2 258 (28.60%) SC Cleared
3 195 (21.62%) DV Cleared
4 66 (7.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (6.10%) Degree
6 44 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (4.88%) VCAP
7 39 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.88%) MCSE
10 20 (2.22%) CCNP
11 19 (2.11%) CCNA
12 18 (2.00%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.77%) MCSA
14 14 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.89%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.10%) SLA
2 19 (2.11%) NIST
3 18 (2.00%) QA
4 17 (1.88%) NCSC
5 16 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.00%) GDPR
8 5 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.55%) 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
1 295 (32.71%) Active Directory
2 217 (24.06%) vSphere
3 208 (23.06%) VMware ESXi
4 201 (22.28%) Hyper-V
5 162 (17.96%) VMware NSX
6 88 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (6.65%) Docker
8 40 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.99%) Firmware
10 20 (2.22%) KVM
11 14 (1.55%) NFS
12 13 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.11%) Ceph
14 9 (1.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 9 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.89%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.78%) vCloud
16 7 (0.78%) XenApp
16 7 (0.78%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 184 (20.40%) Ansible
2 154 (17.07%) vCenter Server
3 130 (14.41%) Kubernetes
4 57 (6.32%) SCCM
4 57 (6.32%) SCOM
5 43 (4.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (3.66%) VxRail
7 29 (3.22%) vRealize
8 28 (3.10%) Grafana
9 25 (2.77%) Prometheus
10 21 (2.33%) NetBackup
11 20 (2.22%) PowerCLI
12 19 (2.11%) WSUS
13 18 (2.00%) Puppet
14 17 (1.88%) vMotion
15 15 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (1.55%) Argo
16 14 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
17 13 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
18 12 (1.33%) Avamar
Vendors
1 902 (100.00%) VMware
2 259 (28.71%) Microsoft
3 149 (16.52%) Cisco
4 66 (7.32%) Citrix
5 62 (6.87%) Red Hat
6 61 (6.76%) NetApp
7 52 (5.76%) Dell
8 49 (5.43%) Oracle
9 45 (4.99%) F5
10 44 (4.88%) ServiceNow
11 39 (4.32%) SolarWinds
12 38 (4.21%) Palo Alto
13 32 (3.55%) Veeam
14 29 (3.22%) Juniper
15 23 (2.55%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.55%) IBM
16 21 (2.33%) Broadcom
17 19 (2.11%) CheckPoint
17 19 (2.11%) Splunk
18 18 (2.00%) CyberArk