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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 181 106
Rank change year-on-year +8 -75 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 819 511 837
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.56% 2.10%
As % of the System Software category 15.73% 13.33% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 329 536
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £449 £450 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +7.06% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £658 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 2 12
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.11
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.50 £23.45
Median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +68.97% -3.28% -52.03%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £55.31
90th Percentile £98.19 £29.80 £77.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.11%

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 5,205 3,834 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.83% 11.68% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,428 2,459 3,138
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £383 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £683 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 103 161
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.06 £17.33 £15.65
Median hourly rate £51.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +72.50% +26.05% -52.40%
75th Percentile £73.94 £75.60 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.25 £91.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.30% +167.44% -21.82%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +1 711 £514 -6.55% 229
UK excluding London -12 565 £514 -6.55% 195
South East +2 216 £538 -6.52% 71
London -20 172 £525 - 57
Work from Home -34 165 £500 -5.21% 81
North of England -8 139 £485 +17.58% 38
Midlands -23 91 £450 -18.18% 25
West Midlands -32 70 £450 -20.84% 15
North West -6 69 £476 +36.00% 28
Yorkshire -22 68 £500 +8.11% 7
South West -44 66 £550 -4.35% 30
East of England -17 34 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland -2 30 £450 -3.07% 7
East Midlands -4 21 £450 -18.18% 10
Wales -5 13 £550 +22.22% 10
North East -48 2 £588 +62.07% 5

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 45 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.59%) IIS
4 12 (1.47%) Confluence
5 8 (0.98%) nginx
5 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.49%) Apache
7 4 (0.49%) CICS
7 4 (0.49%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.49%) JBoss
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.24%) Houdini
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 220 (26.86%) Azure
2 140 (17.09%) AWS
3 60 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (5.86%) Entra ID
5 46 (5.62%) OpenShift
6 39 (4.76%) GCP
7 35 (4.27%) GitHub
8 22 (2.69%) IaaS
9 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.32%) Nutanix
11 18 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.71%) PaaS
13 14 (1.71%) Rubrik
14 11 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.34%) SaaS
15 10 (1.22%) OneDrive
16 9 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (0.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 240 (29.30%) DNS
2 164 (20.02%) Firewall
3 141 (17.22%) DHCP
4 84 (10.26%) VSAN
5 82 (10.01%) TCP/IP
6 73 (8.91%) SAN
7 69 (8.42%) VPN
8 64 (7.81%) WAN
9 57 (6.96%) VLAN
10 53 (6.47%) Network Security
11 49 (5.98%) LAN
12 48 (5.86%) SSL
13 41 (5.01%) NAS
14 29 (3.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 28 (3.42%) BGP
15 28 (3.42%) HTTP
15 28 (3.42%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.05%) BIG-IP
17 24 (2.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 20 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.25%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (1.71%) Power BI
4 13 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
7 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.73%) Big Data
8 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.49%) DataStage
10 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.37%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (4.52%) Jenkins
1 37 (4.52%) JIRA
2 19 (2.32%) GitLab
3 18 (2.20%) Git
4 16 (1.95%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.37%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 183 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 70 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (8.30%) Finance
4 52 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.64%) Banking
6 30 (3.66%) Legal
7 24 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.32%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.59%) Military
11 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.85%) Retail
14 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.73%) Law
14 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.61%) Police
16 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 191 (23.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 106 (12.94%) Senior
3 83 (10.13%) Architect
4 81 (9.89%) VMware Engineer
5 71 (8.67%) Network Engineer
6 45 (5.49%) Consultant
7 43 (5.25%) Support Engineer
8 38 (4.64%) Lead
9 36 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (4.15%) Storage Engineer
11 33 (4.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 32 (3.91%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 30 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (3.66%) VMware Consultant
14 26 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.05%) Administrator
15 25 (3.05%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 22 (2.69%) Infrastructure Architect
17 21 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
18 20 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.59%) Middleware
2 12 (1.47%) Flash
3 11 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.34%) REST
4 10 (1.22%) .NET
4 10 (1.22%) 802.1X
4 10 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (0.98%) LDAP
6 6 (0.73%) Redfish
7 5 (0.61%) JSON
7 5 (0.61%) YAML
8 4 (0.49%) JDBC
8 4 (0.49%) ODBC
8 4 (0.49%) XML
9 3 (0.37%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.37%) Kafka
9 3 (0.37%) SAML
9 3 (0.37%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.24%) Qt
10 2 (0.24%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 116 (14.16%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.18%) PKI
3 65 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 49 (5.98%) Replication
5 46 (5.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 40 (4.88%) Clustering
7 29 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.42%) Cloud Native
9 24 (2.93%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (2.20%) Private Cloud
12 17 (2.08%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.34%) Operational Technology
13 11 (1.34%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.34%) SCADA
14 10 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 413 (50.43%) Windows
2 266 (32.48%) Windows Server
3 232 (28.33%) Linux
4 50 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (5.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (4.03%) VMS
7 25 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.69%) Unix
9 19 (2.32%) Data ONTAP
10 16 (1.95%) Ubuntu
10 16 (1.95%) Windows 10
11 14 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.59%) Solaris
13 12 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (1.10%) AIX
15 8 (0.98%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.85%) CentOS
17 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
17 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.49%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 158 (19.29%) Migration
3 136 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (14.29%) High Availability
5 109 (13.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 107 (13.06%) ITIL
7 102 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 99 (12.09%) CI/CD
9 82 (10.01%) Network Virtualisation
10 81 (9.89%) Change Management
10 81 (9.89%) DevOps
11 79 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
12 77 (9.40%) Validation
13 75 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 73 (8.91%) Agile
15 66 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
16 65 (7.94%) ITSM
17 62 (7.57%) Capacity Planning
17 62 (7.57%) Load Balancing
18 56 (6.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 125 (15.26%) Python
3 83 (10.13%) Bash
4 47 (5.74%) SQL
5 22 (2.69%) Java
6 9 (1.10%) Go
7 7 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.61%) Bicep
9 5 (0.61%) C
9 5 (0.61%) C#
9 5 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.49%) COBOL
11 3 (0.37%) Lua
11 3 (0.37%) Perl
12 2 (0.24%) VBScript
13 1 (0.12%) C++
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) PHP
13 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 384 (46.89%) Security Cleared
2 228 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 179 (21.86%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (6.11%) Degree
6 37 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.52%) VCAP
7 24 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.93%) MCSE
8 21 (2.56%) CCNP
9 18 (2.20%) CCNA
10 15 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.83%) MCSA
11 14 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (1.22%) OCP
14 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 7 (0.85%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.05%) SLA
2 23 (2.81%) NIST
3 16 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.83%) NCSC
5 11 (1.34%) QA
6 8 (0.98%) GDPR
7 5 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.49%) GxP
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.24%) DICOM
10 2 (0.24%) ISA99
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) RMADS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 263 (32.11%) Active Directory
2 203 (24.79%) vSphere
3 192 (23.44%) VMware ESXi
4 164 (20.02%) VMware NSX
5 163 (19.90%) Hyper-V
6 92 (11.23%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (6.72%) Docker
8 39 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (3.91%) Firmware
10 27 (3.30%) NFS
11 25 (3.05%) KVM
12 11 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.98%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.85%) Ceph
14 7 (0.85%) GPFS
14 7 (0.85%) vCloud
15 6 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.61%) SRDF
16 5 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 172 (21.00%) Ansible
2 148 (18.07%) vCenter Server
3 115 (14.04%) Terraform
4 111 (13.55%) Kubernetes
5 43 (5.25%) SCCM
6 42 (5.13%) SCOM
7 37 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (4.27%) vRealize
9 30 (3.66%) VxRail
10 29 (3.54%) Grafana
11 21 (2.56%) Prometheus
12 20 (2.44%) Puppet
13 19 (2.32%) Argo
14 18 (2.20%) NetBackup
14 18 (2.20%) PowerCLI
14 18 (2.20%) vMotion
15 16 (1.95%) WSUS
16 14 (1.71%) SnapMirror
17 13 (1.59%) Avamar
18 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 819 (100.00%) VMware
2 217 (26.50%) Microsoft
3 134 (16.36%) Cisco
4 64 (7.81%) NetApp
5 60 (7.33%) Red Hat
6 58 (7.08%) Citrix
7 49 (5.98%) Dell
8 42 (5.13%) Oracle
9 40 (4.88%) F5
10 34 (4.15%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.03%) Juniper
12 32 (3.91%) Palo Alto
12 32 (3.91%) ServiceNow
13 31 (3.79%) Veeam
14 24 (2.93%) IBM
15 23 (2.81%) Broadcom
15 23 (2.81%) Pure Storage
16 19 (2.32%) Commvault
16 19 (2.32%) Fortinet
16 19 (2.32%) McAfee