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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 191 109
Rank change year-on-year +24 -82 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 903 496 813
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.52% 2.10%
As % of the System Software category 16.89% 12.99% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 313 509
10th Percentile £321 £335 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £661
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 5,347 3,817 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 11.67% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,412 3,030
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 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £493
% change year-on-year - -3.65% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 112 136
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £58.12 £31.39 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +85.18% +30.83% -52.02%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £91.50 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.17 £63.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.25% +160.78% -9.81%

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 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 28 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 28 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 +8 783 £520 -5.45% 428
UK excluding London -7 626 £515 -6.36% 313
South East +3 219 £538 -6.52% 103
London -12 192 £525 +2.44% 155
Work from Home -14 179 £505 -8.18% 154
North of England +3 165 £450 +5.88% 59
Midlands -6 97 £450 -20.00% 36
North West +11 90 £466 +9.53% 25
South West -18 79 £600 +4.35% 56
West Midlands -20 73 £450 -21.40% 23
Yorkshire -25 66 £500 +21.21% 18
East of England -15 40 £488 -11.36% 45
Scotland +13 39 £425 -22.73% 18
East Midlands -5 24 £438 -16.03% 13
Wales - 11 £550 - 4
North East -32 9 £350 -44.00% 20

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 51 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.66%) 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
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 4 (0.44%) 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 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (27.69%) Azure
2 150 (16.61%) AWS
3 80 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (6.76%) Entra ID
5 45 (4.98%) OpenShift
6 41 (4.54%) GCP
7 36 (3.99%) GitHub
8 30 (3.32%) IaaS
9 23 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.55%) Nutanix
10 20 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.10%) Power Platform
12 17 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.66%) OneDrive
13 15 (1.66%) PaaS
13 15 (1.66%) Rubrik
14 13 (1.44%) SaaS
15 9 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.00%) Azure Stack
16 8 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 282 (31.23%) DNS
2 186 (20.60%) Firewall
3 172 (19.05%) DHCP
4 93 (10.30%) TCP/IP
5 92 (10.19%) VSAN
6 78 (8.64%) VPN
7 69 (7.64%) SAN
8 67 (7.42%) VLAN
9 61 (6.76%) WAN
10 58 (6.42%) Network Security
11 48 (5.32%) LAN
11 48 (5.32%) SSL
12 41 (4.54%) NAS
13 36 (3.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 31 (3.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 30 (3.32%) BGP
16 29 (3.21%) BIG-IP
17 26 (2.88%) HTTP
18 25 (2.77%) Wireshark
19 19 (2.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.88%) Power BI
4 14 (1.55%) 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 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.55%) MongoDB
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 40 (4.43%) JIRA
2 31 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.66%) GitLab
4 23 (2.55%) Git
5 15 (1.66%) 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%) 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
1 209 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 88 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (9.19%) Finance
4 46 (5.09%) Public Sector
5 34 (3.77%) Banking
6 32 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (3.54%) Legal
7 21 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.66%) 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 (0.66%) Law
13 6 (0.66%) Military
14 5 (0.55%) Police
15 4 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 219 (24.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 133 (14.73%) Senior
3 102 (11.30%) VMware Engineer
4 82 (9.08%) Architect
5 71 (7.86%) Network Engineer
6 49 (5.43%) Support Engineer
7 47 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (5.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (4.43%) Consultant
9 40 (4.43%) Lead
10 38 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
11 36 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 35 (3.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 35 (3.88%) Storage Engineer
13 33 (3.65%) Administrator
14 28 (3.10%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 26 (2.88%) Server Engineer
15 26 (2.88%) VMware Consultant
16 25 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 23 (2.55%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.40%) Terraform
2 21 (2.33%) 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%) Flash
7 7 (0.78%) LDAP
8 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
8 6 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (0.66%) Redfish
9 5 (0.55%) JDBC
9 5 (0.55%) ODBC
9 5 (0.55%) XML
10 3 (0.33%) Java SE
10 3 (0.33%) OAuth
10 3 (0.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (15.95%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (7.86%) PKI
4 54 (5.98%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (5.20%) Clustering
6 46 (5.09%) Replication
7 35 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.65%) Private Cloud
9 32 (3.54%) Public Cloud
10 29 (3.21%) Onboarding
11 26 (2.88%) Cloud Native
12 25 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.33%) Operational Technology
16 11 (1.22%) SCADA
17 10 (1.11%) Product Ownership
17 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.00%) Virtual Team
19 7 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 474 (52.49%) Windows
2 315 (34.88%) Windows Server
3 256 (28.35%) Linux
4 50 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 48 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (3.32%) VMS
7 24 (2.66%) Unix
8 23 (2.55%) Windows 10
8 23 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (2.10%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (1.44%) Data ONTAP
13 10 (1.11%) Solaris
14 9 (1.00%) AIX
14 9 (1.00%) CentOS
15 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (32.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 169 (18.72%) Migration
3 166 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
4 160 (17.72%) ITIL
5 141 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 127 (14.06%) Disaster Recovery
7 112 (12.40%) CI/CD
8 109 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
9 106 (11.74%) High Availability
10 98 (10.85%) Change Management
11 92 (10.19%) DevOps
12 88 (9.75%) ITSM
13 87 (9.63%) Agile
13 87 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 87 (9.63%) Platform Engineering
14 85 (9.41%) Network Virtualisation
15 84 (9.30%) Validation
16 77 (8.53%) Service Management
17 75 (8.31%) Project Delivery
17 75 (8.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 215 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 134 (14.84%) Python
3 94 (10.41%) Bash
4 58 (6.42%) SQL
5 24 (2.66%) Java
6 9 (1.00%) Go
7 8 (0.89%) Bicep
8 7 (0.78%) C
8 7 (0.78%) C#
9 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.55%) 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
1 426 (47.18%) Security Cleared
2 258 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 194 (21.48%) DV Cleared
4 67 (7.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (6.20%) Degree
6 45 (4.98%) VCAP
7 43 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (3.43%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.77%) MCSE
11 20 (2.21%) CCNP
12 19 (2.10%) CCNA
13 18 (1.99%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.77%) MCSA
15 14 (1.55%) 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 (2.99%) SLA
2 19 (2.10%) NIST
3 17 (1.88%) NCSC
3 17 (1.88%) QA
4 16 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.00%) GDPR
7 5 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.44%) GxP
9 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.22%) DICOM
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.22%) RMADS
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 289 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 217 (24.03%) vSphere
3 203 (22.48%) VMware ESXi
4 199 (22.04%) Hyper-V
5 167 (18.49%) VMware NSX
6 88 (9.75%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (6.64%) Docker
8 39 (4.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.99%) Firmware
10 20 (2.21%) KVM
11 17 (1.88%) 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 (0.66%) GPFS
17 6 (0.66%) XenApp
17 6 (0.66%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 187 (20.71%) Ansible
2 157 (17.39%) vCenter Server
3 127 (14.06%) Kubernetes
4 56 (6.20%) SCOM
5 53 (5.87%) SCCM
6 39 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (3.77%) VxRail
8 33 (3.65%) vRealize
9 27 (2.99%) Grafana
10 24 (2.66%) Prometheus
11 22 (2.44%) NetBackup
11 22 (2.44%) PowerCLI
12 20 (2.21%) Puppet
13 19 (2.10%) WSUS
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%) Avamar
18 12 (1.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 903 (100.00%) VMware
2 258 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 151 (16.72%) Cisco
4 66 (7.31%) Citrix
5 65 (7.20%) NetApp
6 63 (6.98%) Red Hat
7 50 (5.54%) Dell
8 49 (5.43%) Oracle
9 46 (5.09%) F5
9 46 (5.09%) ServiceNow
10 39 (4.32%) SolarWinds
11 38 (4.21%) Palo Alto
12 31 (3.43%) Veeam
13 30 (3.32%) Juniper
14 24 (2.66%) Fortinet
14 24 (2.66%) IBM
15 22 (2.44%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.10%) CheckPoint
17 18 (1.99%) CyberArk
17 18 (1.99%) Splunk