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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 154 121
Rank change year-on-year -17 -33 -16
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 759 553 825
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.85% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 15.36% 15.17% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 373 529
10th Percentile £326 £350 £300
25th Percentile £425 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £598 £613 £594
90th Percentile £650 £685 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £22.63 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £48.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £70.75 - £46.69
90th Percentile £74.00 - £75.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.33%

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 4,941 3,645 4,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 12.21% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,391 3,303
10th Percentile £220 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £695 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 87 229
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 £69.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -25.78%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -30 659 £500 -9.09% 191
UK excluding London -32 522 £500 -9.09% 192
South East -3 186 £538 -6.52% 58
Work from Home -31 161 £500 -4.76% 66
London -45 153 £525 - 27
North of England -14 142 £459 +4.91% 36
Midlands -26 88 £450 -18.18% 37
North West -5 71 £453 +3.54% 25
Yorkshire -25 69 £485 +2.05% 7
West Midlands -30 68 £425 -32.00% 20
South West -60 57 £538 -6.52% 28
East of England -41 33 £475 -13.64% 21
Scotland -4 31 £450 -0.55% 2
East Midlands -11 20 £450 -18.18% 17
Wales -11 7 £600 +106.90% 14
North East -38 2 £588 +67.86% 4

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 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.71%) IIS
4 10 (1.32%) nginx
4 10 (1.32%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.79%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (29.25%) Azure
2 134 (17.65%) AWS
3 52 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.19%) OpenShift
6 41 (5.40%) GCP
7 29 (3.82%) GitHub
8 27 (3.56%) Nutanix
9 21 (2.77%) IaaS
10 15 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.98%) PaaS
11 14 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.58%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.45%) Rubrik
14 10 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (0.92%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.92%) Cohesity
17 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 207 (27.27%) DNS
2 151 (19.89%) Firewall
3 121 (15.94%) DHCP
4 79 (10.41%) SAN
5 73 (9.62%) VPN
6 72 (9.49%) WAN
7 68 (8.96%) VSAN
8 57 (7.51%) LAN
9 53 (6.98%) Network Security
10 47 (6.19%) TCP/IP
11 46 (6.06%) SSL
12 45 (5.93%) NAS
13 41 (5.40%) VLAN
14 31 (4.08%) HTTP
15 30 (3.95%) BIG-IP
16 29 (3.82%) BGP
17 27 (3.56%) Wireshark
18 25 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
18 25 (3.29%) Cisco Nexus
18 25 (3.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.32%) Power BI
4 9 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.53%) DataStage
8 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.40%) Big Data
9 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.40%) GIS
9 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
10 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 32 (4.22%) Jenkins
2 30 (3.95%) JIRA
3 17 (2.24%) Fiddler
3 17 (2.24%) GitLab
4 14 (1.84%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
6 2 (0.26%) PVCS
6 2 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GoCD
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 155 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 53 (6.98%) Finance
3 52 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (4.61%) Banking
6 32 (4.22%) Legal
7 29 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.32%) Police
11 9 (1.19%) Military
12 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.79%) Law
12 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.79%) Retail
13 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (21.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 97 (12.78%) Architect
3 74 (9.75%) Senior
4 67 (8.83%) Network Engineer
4 67 (8.83%) VMware Engineer
5 40 (5.27%) Consultant
6 33 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 30 (3.95%) Infrastructure Architect
8 28 (3.69%) Lead
9 27 (3.56%) Analyst
9 27 (3.56%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 27 (3.56%) Storage Engineer
10 26 (3.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 26 (3.43%) VMware Consultant
11 22 (2.90%) Administrator
11 22 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (2.90%) VMware Architect
11 22 (2.90%) Wintel Engineer
12 21 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (2.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.24%) Flash
2 16 (2.11%) LDAP
3 11 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.45%) REST
4 9 (1.19%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.05%) Middleware
6 7 (0.92%) SAML
7 6 (0.79%) .NET
7 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.79%) Redfish
8 5 (0.66%) JSON
9 4 (0.53%) Java SE
9 4 (0.53%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.53%) XML
10 3 (0.40%) EJB
10 3 (0.40%) JSP
10 3 (0.40%) YAML
11 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.26%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 103 (13.57%) Data Centre
2 62 (8.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (7.51%) Replication
4 51 (6.72%) PKI
5 41 (5.40%) Enterprise Storage
6 36 (4.74%) Cloud Native
7 35 (4.61%) Clustering
8 25 (3.29%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.16%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (2.77%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.58%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.45%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
16 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 370 (48.75%) Windows
2 252 (33.20%) Windows Server
3 227 (29.91%) Linux
4 50 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.29%) VMS
6 25 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
8 18 (2.37%) Unix
8 18 (2.37%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.24%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.98%) Solaris
11 13 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.05%) CentOS
13 8 (1.05%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
15 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (27.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 156 (20.55%) Migration
3 113 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (13.83%) High Availability
5 102 (13.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 90 (11.86%) ITIL
7 85 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 78 (10.28%) CI/CD
9 76 (10.01%) DevOps
10 73 (9.62%) Agile
11 65 (8.56%) Validation
12 64 (8.43%) Change Management
13 63 (8.30%) Capacity Planning
13 63 (8.30%) Network Virtualisation
14 61 (8.04%) Load Balancing
15 55 (7.25%) ITSM
16 53 (6.98%) Data Protection
16 53 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
18 48 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 165 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 108 (14.23%) Python
3 58 (7.64%) Bash
4 36 (4.74%) SQL
5 9 (1.19%) Java
5 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
6 6 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.66%) Bicep
7 5 (0.66%) C
7 5 (0.66%) Go
7 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.53%) COBOL
8 4 (0.53%) PHP
9 3 (0.40%) C++
9 3 (0.40%) Perl
10 2 (0.26%) C#
10 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.26%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.26%) VBScript
11 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 316 (41.63%) Security Cleared
2 196 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 134 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 41 (5.40%) Degree
6 35 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (4.22%) VCAP
9 22 (2.90%) MCSE
10 21 (2.77%) CCNP
11 20 (2.64%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (2.24%) MCSA
14 16 (2.11%) CCNA
15 11 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
16 10 (1.32%) OCP
17 7 (0.92%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.92%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
18 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.43%) NIST
2 23 (3.03%) SLA
3 20 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.98%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) QA
7 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) DICOM
10 2 (0.26%) GDPR
10 2 (0.26%) ISA99
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.26%) RMADS
11 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 226 (29.78%) Active Directory
2 184 (24.24%) VMware ESXi
3 180 (23.72%) vSphere
4 160 (21.08%) VMware NSX
5 157 (20.69%) Hyper-V
6 97 (12.78%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (5.40%) Docker
8 37 (4.87%) Firmware
8 37 (4.87%) NFS
9 34 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 30 (3.95%) KVM
11 13 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
12 12 (1.58%) GPFS
13 11 (1.45%) BitLocker
13 11 (1.45%) vCloud
14 7 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.79%) Ceph
15 6 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.66%) SRDF
17 4 (0.53%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 151 (19.89%) Ansible
2 129 (17.00%) vCenter Server
3 86 (11.33%) Terraform
4 84 (11.07%) Kubernetes
5 44 (5.80%) SCCM
6 40 (5.27%) vRealize
7 37 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.82%) SCOM
9 28 (3.69%) Grafana
9 28 (3.69%) vMotion
10 20 (2.64%) Argo
10 20 (2.64%) PowerCLI
11 16 (2.11%) VxRail
12 15 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.98%) WSUS
13 14 (1.84%) Puppet
13 14 (1.84%) SnapMirror
14 13 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
14 13 (1.71%) NetBackup
14 13 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 759 (100.00%) VMware
2 192 (25.30%) Microsoft
3 153 (20.16%) Cisco
4 62 (8.17%) Citrix
5 58 (7.64%) NetApp
6 56 (7.38%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.19%) Dell
8 43 (5.67%) Oracle
9 41 (5.40%) F5
10 39 (5.14%) ServiceNow
11 36 (4.74%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.22%) Pure Storage
13 28 (3.69%) IBM
14 27 (3.56%) Juniper
14 27 (3.56%) Veeam
15 26 (3.43%) SolarWinds
16 23 (3.03%) CheckPoint
17 20 (2.64%) Commvault
17 20 (2.64%) McAfee
18 18 (2.37%) Blue Coat