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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 131 114
Rank change year-on-year -38 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 650 642 938
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 2.08% 2.10%
As % of the System Software category 13.88% 17.07% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 408 590
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £395 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £579 £623 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.86% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 66
10th Percentile £33.93 £29.63 £22.08
25th Percentile £67.21 £41.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £100.25 £76.46
90th Percentile £77.13 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £36.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +93.10% -45.06% +1.51%

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 4,684 3,760 5,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 12.15% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,190 2,436 3,576
10th Percentile £206 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £489
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.86% -6.90%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +1.60% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 92 252
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.20 £17.74
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -29.85% +25.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.70 £75.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +56.00% -18.80% +109.91%

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 4 February 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 4 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 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 4 February 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 -38 578 £500 -4.76% 234
UK excluding London -21 457 £479 -8.86% 221
Work from Home -37 173 £500 -4.76% 86
South East -14 146 £500 -9.09% 80
London -80 127 £540 +2.86% 59
Midlands +11 114 £401 -33.55% 30
North of England -36 102 £425 - 47
West Midlands +4 86 £325 -46.46% 20
North West -17 70 £437 -2.94% 19
South West -36 69 £550 -0.18% 34
Yorkshire -25 42 £375 -16.67% 26
East of England -9 31 £475 +8.57% 14
East Midlands -7 28 £447 -14.86% 10
Scotland +2 17 £464 -6.69% 16
Wales -1 3 £550 +89.66% 4
North East -18 2 £513 +46.43% 4
Northern Ireland -1 1 - -

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 36 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.77%) Confluence
4 11 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.08%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.77%) IIS
6 5 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.62%) nginx
8 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.31%) Apache
9 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 194 (29.85%) Azure
2 154 (23.69%) AWS
3 57 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (6.92%) GCP
5 41 (6.31%) Entra ID
5 41 (6.31%) OpenShift
6 33 (5.08%) Nutanix
7 27 (4.15%) IaaS
8 18 (2.77%) GitHub
9 17 (2.62%) PaaS
10 14 (2.15%) Datadog
11 8 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (0.92%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.77%) SaaS
14 4 (0.62%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 191 (29.38%) DNS
2 162 (24.92%) Firewall
3 95 (14.62%) DHCP
4 61 (9.38%) VPN
5 59 (9.08%) TCP/IP
6 47 (7.23%) Network Security
6 47 (7.23%) SAN
7 44 (6.77%) VSAN
8 39 (6.00%) VLAN
9 37 (5.69%) WAN
10 34 (5.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (5.23%) LAN
11 32 (4.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 29 (4.46%) HTTP
13 25 (3.85%) BGP
13 25 (3.85%) BIG-IP
14 24 (3.69%) NAS
15 23 (3.54%) SSL
16 21 (3.23%) Wireless
17 20 (3.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.92%) Power BI
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.31%) GIS
5 2 (0.31%) Redis
6 1 (0.15%) DataStage
6 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.69%) Git
2 22 (3.38%) Jenkins
2 22 (3.38%) JIRA
3 16 (2.46%) GitLab
4 14 (2.15%) Fiddler
5 10 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.23%) PVCS
6 8 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.08%) JMeter
7 7 (1.08%) JUnit
8 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.62%) RStudio
8 4 (0.62%) Subversion
9 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.15%) GoCD
10 1 (0.15%) MSI
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
General
1 162 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 77 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.31%) Finance
5 43 (6.62%) Banking
6 41 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.46%) Legal
9 13 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.23%) Electronics
12 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.08%) Police
13 5 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.77%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.77%) Local Government
13 5 (0.77%) Military
14 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 115 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (13.54%) Architect
3 56 (8.62%) Analyst
4 37 (5.69%) Network Engineer
5 35 (5.38%) Senior
6 34 (5.23%) VMware Engineer
7 33 (5.08%) Consultant
7 33 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
8 30 (4.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 30 (4.62%) Support Engineer
9 25 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
10 24 (3.69%) VMware Consultant
11 20 (3.08%) Lead
12 19 (2.92%) Storage Analyst
13 18 (2.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (2.62%) Windows Engineer
14 17 (2.62%) Wintel Engineer
15 15 (2.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 15 (2.31%) Storage Engineer
15 15 (2.31%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.08%) LDAP
2 18 (2.77%) Flash
3 10 (1.54%) SAML
4 9 (1.38%) REST
5 8 (1.23%) Kafka
6 7 (1.08%) Loki
6 7 (1.08%) Spring
7 6 (0.92%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.77%) Middleware
9 4 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.62%) OAuth
9 4 (0.62%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.62%) OpenID
9 4 (0.62%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.46%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.46%) Swagger
11 2 (0.31%) Java SE
11 2 (0.31%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.31%) OpenLayers
11 2 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (13.23%) Data Centre
2 62 (9.54%) Replication
3 48 (7.38%) PKI
4 38 (5.85%) Cloud Native
5 33 (5.08%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
7 31 (4.77%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.62%) Clustering
8 17 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
11 10 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.54%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.23%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.23%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.23%) SCADA
13 7 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 274 (42.15%) Windows
2 219 (33.69%) Linux
3 159 (24.46%) Windows Server
4 43 (6.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (5.38%) Windows 10
6 30 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (2.31%) Mac OS
10 13 (2.00%) Ubuntu
10 13 (2.00%) VMS
11 11 (1.69%) Solaris
12 10 (1.54%) Unix
13 7 (1.08%) CentOS
14 6 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.62%) AIX
16 4 (0.62%) CatOS
17 2 (0.31%) Windows 7
18 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (21.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 124 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (15.85%) Agile
4 97 (14.92%) Migration
5 80 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 78 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 77 (11.85%) ITIL
8 74 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (10.92%) DevOps
10 61 (9.38%) Load Balancing
11 60 (9.23%) High Availability
12 54 (8.31%) Containerisation
13 51 (7.85%) Platform Engineering
14 50 (7.69%) Data Protection
15 45 (6.92%) Service Management
16 44 (6.77%) Network Virtualisation
17 41 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (6.15%) Roadmaps
18 40 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 39 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 160 (24.62%) PowerShell
2 119 (18.31%) Python
3 84 (12.92%) Bash
4 30 (4.62%) SQL
5 17 (2.62%) Perl
6 15 (2.31%) Java
7 12 (1.85%) C
8 11 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.38%) C++
10 7 (1.08%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.08%) Embedded C++
10 7 (1.08%) Go
11 5 (0.77%) Bicep
12 4 (0.62%) C#
12 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.46%) PHP
14 2 (0.31%) Korn
14 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.15%) Rust
15 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 251 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 172 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.92%) Degree
5 43 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (6.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 33 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 26 (4.00%) CCNP
9 18 (2.77%) MCSE
10 17 (2.62%) VCAP
11 15 (2.31%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.00%) CCIE
13 12 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.85%) CCNA
13 12 (1.85%) MCSA
14 11 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.69%) Server+ Certification
15 7 (1.08%) JNCIE
15 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.08%) GDPR
1 20 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (2.00%) NIST
3 9 (1.38%) SLA
4 8 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.92%) QA
6 5 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.62%) NCSC
8 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 190 (29.23%) Active Directory
2 139 (21.38%) vSphere
3 114 (17.54%) VMware NSX
4 96 (14.77%) Hyper-V
5 82 (12.62%) VMware ESXi
6 57 (8.77%) Docker
7 51 (7.85%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (5.08%) NFS
9 28 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (2.92%) Firmware
11 17 (2.62%) GPFS
11 17 (2.62%) KVM
12 7 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.62%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.62%) vCloud
14 4 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.46%) UAG
15 3 (0.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 107 (16.46%) Ansible
2 79 (12.15%) Terraform
3 77 (11.85%) vCenter Server
4 69 (10.62%) SCCM
5 62 (9.54%) Kubernetes
6 55 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 55 (8.46%) vRealize
7 24 (3.69%) Grafana
8 23 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 23 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (2.92%) VxRail
10 18 (2.77%) Argo
11 15 (2.31%) vMotion
12 14 (2.15%) FortiGate
12 14 (2.15%) Prometheus
12 14 (2.15%) SCOM
13 13 (2.00%) WSUS
14 11 (1.69%) Progress Chef
15 9 (1.38%) PowerCLI
16 8 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 650 (100.00%) VMware
2 174 (26.77%) Microsoft
3 155 (23.85%) Cisco
4 64 (9.85%) F5
5 60 (9.23%) Citrix
6 53 (8.15%) Red Hat
7 46 (7.08%) SolarWinds
8 43 (6.62%) IBM
8 43 (6.62%) ServiceNow
9 42 (6.46%) Dell
10 39 (6.00%) NetApp
11 37 (5.69%) Oracle
12 36 (5.54%) Veeam
13 28 (4.31%) Palo Alto
14 24 (3.69%) Commvault
15 20 (3.08%) Pure Storage
16 16 (2.46%) Juniper
16 16 (2.46%) McAfee
17 15 (2.31%) Blue Coat
17 15 (2.31%) HP