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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 150 120
Rank change year-on-year -28 -30 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 751 546 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.91% 1.87%
As % of the System Software category 15.36% 15.21% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 372 526
10th Percentile £325 £329 £299
25th Percentile £425 £440 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -4.48%
75th Percentile £585 £603 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.28
25th Percentile £26.00 - £38.22
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -38.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £74.00 - £80.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +125.48% -35.21% -30.30%

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 4,888 3,589 4,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 12.53% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,252 2,417 3,241
10th Percentile £213 £215 £200
25th Percentile £400 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £603 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 82 224
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.46 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +84.50% +22.92% -57.57%
75th Percentile £72.89 £64.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £79.05 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £36.65 £22.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +66.57% -52.28%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -28 652 £500 -9.09% 231
UK excluding London -27 526 £500 -9.09% 207
South East +8 185 £538 -6.52% 78
Work from Home -30 162 £500 -4.76% 93
London -57 142 £525 - 40
North of England -10 140 £456 +9.88% 41
Midlands -20 95 £425 -22.73% 40
North West -2 75 £453 +12.13% 22
West Midlands -25 73 £402 -27.04% 25
Yorkshire -22 63 £454 -6.97% 11
South West -55 55 £540 -6.09% 17
East of England -30 36 £475 -13.64% 21
Scotland -3 30 £450 -3.12% 3
East Midlands -18 22 £443 -18.38% 15
Wales -15 7 £600 +106.90% 13
North East -31 2 £575 +64.29% 9

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 38 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.73%) IIS
4 9 (1.20%) nginx
5 8 (1.07%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.93%) Confluence
6 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.67%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 217 (28.89%) Azure
2 134 (17.84%) AWS
3 53 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.26%) Entra ID
5 46 (6.13%) OpenShift
6 40 (5.33%) GCP
7 27 (3.60%) GitHub
8 26 (3.46%) Nutanix
9 25 (3.33%) IaaS
10 18 (2.40%) PaaS
11 14 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.60%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (1.46%) Rubrik
14 10 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.93%) Cohesity
15 7 (0.93%) Datadog
16 6 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 204 (27.16%) DNS
2 158 (21.04%) Firewall
3 120 (15.98%) DHCP
4 77 (10.25%) VPN
5 76 (10.12%) SAN
6 70 (9.32%) VSAN
7 69 (9.19%) WAN
8 55 (7.32%) LAN
8 55 (7.32%) Network Security
9 46 (6.13%) NAS
9 46 (6.13%) TCP/IP
10 45 (5.99%) SSL
11 34 (4.53%) HTTP
11 34 (4.53%) VLAN
12 33 (4.39%) BIG-IP
13 30 (3.99%) Wireshark
14 29 (3.86%) BGP
15 26 (3.46%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (3.20%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (3.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.39%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.33%) Power BI
4 9 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.07%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.53%) DataStage
7 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.40%) Redis
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.27%) GIS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.27%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 30 (3.99%) JIRA
2 27 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.40%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.26%) GitLab
5 13 (1.73%) Git
6 5 (0.67%) PVCS
6 5 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) GoCD
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 150 (19.97%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (7.19%) Finance
3 49 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 37 (4.93%) Banking
5 28 (3.73%) Legal
6 27 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.33%) Police
9 9 (1.20%) Military
9 9 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.93%) Law
11 6 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.80%) Retail
12 5 (0.67%) Electronics
12 5 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 100 (13.32%) Architect
3 69 (9.19%) Network Engineer
4 68 (9.05%) Senior
5 65 (8.66%) VMware Engineer
6 37 (4.93%) Consultant
7 33 (4.39%) Analyst
8 31 (4.13%) Infrastructure Architect
9 29 (3.86%) Lead
10 28 (3.73%) Storage Engineer
11 26 (3.46%) Support Engineer
11 26 (3.46%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (3.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 24 (3.20%) VMware Architect
14 23 (3.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 23 (3.06%) VMware Consultant
15 22 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
16 19 (2.53%) Administrator
17 18 (2.40%) Blue Coat Engineer
17 18 (2.40%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.66%) LDAP
2 18 (2.40%) Flash
3 11 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.33%) SAML
5 9 (1.20%) Middleware
5 9 (1.20%) REST
6 7 (0.93%) 802.1X
6 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.67%) .NET
7 5 (0.67%) Redfish
7 5 (0.67%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.53%) JSON
8 4 (0.53%) XML
9 3 (0.40%) EJB
9 3 (0.40%) JSP
9 3 (0.40%) Kafka
9 3 (0.40%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.40%) YAML
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.27%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 103 (13.72%) Data Centre
2 67 (8.92%) Replication
3 59 (7.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 47 (6.26%) PKI
5 40 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 39 (5.19%) Enterprise Storage
7 37 (4.93%) Clustering
8 26 (3.46%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.20%) Management Information System
9 24 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 23 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.60%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.46%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.20%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.07%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 360 (47.94%) Windows
2 242 (32.22%) Windows Server
3 225 (29.96%) Linux
4 51 (6.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (3.33%) VMS
8 23 (3.06%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.66%) Data ONTAP
10 19 (2.53%) Ubuntu
11 16 (2.13%) Unix
12 15 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.73%) Solaris
14 10 (1.33%) Mac OS
15 9 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (1.07%) CentOS
16 8 (1.07%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.67%) AIX
19 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (25.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 143 (19.04%) Migration
3 108 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (13.98%) Disaster Recovery
5 101 (13.45%) High Availability
6 95 (12.65%) ITIL
7 82 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (9.85%) Agile
9 73 (9.72%) DevOps
10 71 (9.45%) Capacity Planning
11 69 (9.19%) CI/CD
12 68 (9.05%) Network Virtualisation
13 66 (8.79%) Change Management
14 62 (8.26%) Load Balancing
15 57 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
16 54 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
17 53 (7.06%) Data Protection
17 53 (7.06%) Validation
18 48 (6.39%) ITSM
19 46 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (22.10%) PowerShell
2 99 (13.18%) Python
3 61 (8.12%) Bash
4 35 (4.66%) SQL
5 9 (1.20%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.07%) Bicep
6 8 (1.07%) C
6 8 (1.07%) Java
7 6 (0.80%) C++
8 5 (0.67%) Embedded C
8 5 (0.67%) Embedded C++
8 5 (0.67%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.53%) COBOL
9 4 (0.53%) Go
9 4 (0.53%) PHP
10 3 (0.40%) C#
10 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 299 (39.81%) Security Cleared
2 189 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 128 (17.04%) DV Cleared
4 60 (7.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.06%) Degree
6 35 (4.66%) VCAP
7 34 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.93%) MCSE
10 21 (2.80%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.53%) CCNP
12 17 (2.26%) MCSA
13 12 (1.60%) CCNA
14 11 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.33%) OCP
16 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.80%) RHCA
17 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.67%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (3.06%) NIST
1 23 (3.06%) SLA
2 16 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (1.86%) NCSC
4 7 (0.93%) GDPR
5 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.40%) QA
7 2 (0.27%) DICOM
7 2 (0.27%) ISA99
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) RMADS
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 224 (29.83%) Active Directory
2 182 (24.23%) vSphere
3 164 (21.84%) VMware ESXi
4 162 (21.57%) VMware NSX
5 153 (20.37%) Hyper-V
6 95 (12.65%) Virtual Machines
7 42 (5.59%) Docker
8 39 (5.19%) NFS
9 36 (4.79%) Firmware
10 31 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 28 (3.73%) KVM
12 13 (1.73%) GPFS
13 11 (1.46%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (1.33%) vCloud
15 9 (1.20%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.80%) Ceph
16 6 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.67%) SRDF
18 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 142 (18.91%) Ansible
2 117 (15.58%) vCenter Server
3 83 (11.05%) Terraform
4 82 (10.92%) Kubernetes
5 47 (6.26%) SCCM
6 41 (5.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (5.46%) vRealize
7 29 (3.86%) Grafana
8 25 (3.33%) SCOM
9 24 (3.20%) vMotion
10 21 (2.80%) Argo
11 19 (2.53%) PowerCLI
12 17 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (2.26%) VxRail
12 17 (2.26%) WSUS
13 15 (2.00%) SnapMirror
14 14 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (1.73%) EMC VPLEX
15 13 (1.73%) Prometheus
16 12 (1.60%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 751 (100.00%) VMware
2 196 (26.10%) Microsoft
3 156 (20.77%) Cisco
4 62 (8.26%) Citrix
4 62 (8.26%) NetApp
5 55 (7.32%) Red Hat
6 48 (6.39%) Dell
7 47 (6.26%) F5
8 38 (5.06%) ServiceNow
9 37 (4.93%) Oracle
9 37 (4.93%) Palo Alto
10 33 (4.39%) IBM
11 32 (4.26%) Pure Storage
12 29 (3.86%) Veeam
13 26 (3.46%) CheckPoint
14 24 (3.20%) SolarWinds
15 23 (3.06%) Commvault
15 23 (3.06%) Juniper
16 22 (2.93%) McAfee
17 21 (2.80%) Broadcom