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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 150 122
Rank change year-on-year -27 -28 -23
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 760 542 801
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.87% 1.87%
As % of the System Software category 15.55% 15.17% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 366 524
10th Percentile £325 £339 £298
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -5.15%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.28
25th Percentile £24.31 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.22% -38.27%
75th Percentile £70.38 - £49.22
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -33.31%

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 4,889 3,572 4,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 12.35% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,259 2,374 3,258
10th Percentile £219 £215 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 86 224
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.91 £15.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.46 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.50% +17.68% -55.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.63 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £36.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.17% +33.25% -42.85%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -23 662 £500 -9.09% 245
UK excluding London -30 526 £500 -9.09% 207
South East +12 193 £538 -6.52% 72
Work from Home -21 163 £500 -4.76% 97
London -39 150 £525 - 57
North of England -10 142 £456 +9.88% 38
Midlands -19 86 £431 -21.73% 30
North West +2 76 £456 +12.87% 24
West Midlands -28 65 £425 -22.87% 20
Yorkshire -15 64 £425 -12.82% 7
South West -61 55 £539 -6.30% 28
East of England -32 34 £475 -13.64% 27
Scotland -4 30 £450 -2.12% 5
East Midlands -17 21 £436 -19.67% 10
Wales -17 7 £600 +62.16% 12
North East -31 2 £575 +64.29% 8

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 41 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.71%) IIS
4 11 (1.45%) nginx
5 10 (1.32%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.79%) Confluence
8 5 (0.66%) Apache
9 4 (0.53%) CICS
10 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (29.34%) Azure
2 137 (18.03%) AWS
3 54 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 48 (6.32%) OpenShift
6 44 (5.79%) GCP
7 28 (3.68%) GitHub
7 28 (3.68%) Nutanix
8 25 (3.29%) IaaS
9 18 (2.37%) PaaS
10 13 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.58%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.45%) Rubrik
13 9 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (0.92%) Azure Stack
14 7 (0.92%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (27.11%) DNS
2 157 (20.66%) Firewall
3 124 (16.32%) DHCP
4 78 (10.26%) SAN
5 75 (9.87%) VPN
6 67 (8.82%) VSAN
6 67 (8.82%) WAN
7 55 (7.24%) Network Security
8 51 (6.71%) LAN
9 48 (6.32%) TCP/IP
10 45 (5.92%) NAS
11 42 (5.53%) SSL
12 37 (4.87%) VLAN
13 31 (4.08%) HTTP
14 30 (3.95%) BGP
15 29 (3.82%) BIG-IP
16 27 (3.55%) Wireshark
17 24 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 22 (2.89%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.32%) Power BI
4 9 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.53%) DataStage
7 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.39%) GIS
8 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.26%) Big Data
9 2 (0.26%) Redis
9 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (4.08%) JIRA
2 30 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.37%) GitLab
4 17 (2.24%) Fiddler
5 14 (1.84%) Git
6 4 (0.53%) PVCS
6 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.26%) MSI
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) GoCD
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 156 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (7.11%) Finance
3 50 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 35 (4.61%) Banking
5 28 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (3.68%) Legal
6 18 (2.37%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.32%) Police
7 10 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.18%) Military
9 7 (0.92%) Law
10 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.79%) Retail
11 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.66%) Local Government
12 4 (0.53%) Electronics
13 2 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 158 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (13.68%) Architect
3 73 (9.61%) Senior
4 66 (8.68%) Network Engineer
4 66 (8.68%) VMware Engineer
5 37 (4.87%) Consultant
6 32 (4.21%) Infrastructure Architect
7 31 (4.08%) Support Engineer
8 29 (3.82%) Lead
9 28 (3.68%) Analyst
9 28 (3.68%) Storage Engineer
10 27 (3.55%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 26 (3.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 26 (3.42%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (3.29%) VMware Architect
13 23 (3.03%) VMware Consultant
14 22 (2.89%) Administrator
14 22 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (2.37%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.24%) Flash
1 17 (2.24%) LDAP
2 11 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.45%) REST
3 9 (1.18%) Middleware
4 7 (0.92%) 802.1X
4 7 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (0.92%) SAML
5 6 (0.79%) .NET
5 6 (0.79%) Redfish
6 5 (0.66%) JSON
6 5 (0.66%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.53%) Java SE
7 4 (0.53%) XML
8 3 (0.39%) EJB
8 3 (0.39%) JSP
8 3 (0.39%) YAML
9 2 (0.26%) OAuth
9 2 (0.26%) OpenID
9 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.21%) Data Centre
2 64 (8.42%) Replication
3 61 (8.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (6.97%) PKI
5 41 (5.39%) Cloud Native
5 41 (5.39%) Enterprise Storage
6 39 (5.13%) Clustering
7 26 (3.42%) Private Cloud
7 26 (3.42%) Public Cloud
8 23 (3.03%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.58%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
15 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 373 (49.08%) Windows
2 250 (32.89%) Windows Server
3 225 (29.61%) Linux
4 51 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (3.16%) VMS
8 23 (3.03%) Windows 10
9 19 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
10 18 (2.37%) Ubuntu
10 18 (2.37%) Unix
11 15 (1.97%) Solaris
11 15 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (1.32%) Mac OS
14 8 (1.05%) CentOS
14 8 (1.05%) CoreOS
14 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
16 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (26.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 150 (19.74%) Migration
3 108 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
4 102 (13.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 102 (13.42%) High Availability
5 93 (12.24%) ITIL
6 85 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (10.26%) DevOps
8 75 (9.87%) CI/CD
9 70 (9.21%) Agile
9 70 (9.21%) Capacity Planning
9 70 (9.21%) Network Virtualisation
10 66 (8.68%) Change Management
11 64 (8.42%) Load Balancing
12 56 (7.37%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (7.37%) Validation
13 54 (7.11%) ITSM
14 53 (6.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (6.97%) Data Protection
15 49 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 172 (22.63%) PowerShell
2 102 (13.42%) Python
3 63 (8.29%) Bash
4 36 (4.74%) SQL
5 10 (1.32%) Java
6 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.92%) C
8 6 (0.79%) Bicep
9 5 (0.66%) C++
9 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.53%) COBOL
10 4 (0.53%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.53%) Embedded C++
10 4 (0.53%) Go
10 4 (0.53%) PHP
11 3 (0.39%) C#
11 3 (0.39%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.39%) Perl
12 2 (0.26%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 315 (41.45%) Security Cleared
2 195 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 133 (17.50%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 40 (5.26%) Degree
6 37 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (4.61%) VCAP
8 32 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (3.29%) MCSE
10 20 (2.63%) Azure Certification
10 20 (2.63%) MCSA
11 19 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.50%) CCNP
12 14 (1.84%) CCNA
13 11 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (1.32%) OCP
15 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.79%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 6 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.29%) NIST
2 24 (3.16%) SLA
3 23 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.92%) GDPR
7 6 (0.79%) QA
8 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) DICOM
11 2 (0.26%) ISA99
11 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) RMADS
12 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 229 (30.13%) Active Directory
2 182 (23.95%) vSphere
3 175 (23.03%) VMware ESXi
4 162 (21.32%) VMware NSX
5 156 (20.53%) Hyper-V
6 96 (12.63%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (5.66%) Docker
8 37 (4.87%) NFS
9 36 (4.74%) Firmware
10 32 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 28 (3.68%) KVM
12 13 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (1.58%) GPFS
14 11 (1.45%) BitLocker
14 11 (1.45%) vCloud
15 7 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.79%) Ceph
16 6 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.66%) SRDF
18 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 150 (19.74%) Ansible
2 126 (16.58%) vCenter Server
3 86 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 86 (11.32%) Terraform
4 49 (6.45%) SCCM
5 43 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (4.74%) vRealize
7 29 (3.82%) SCOM
8 28 (3.68%) Grafana
8 28 (3.68%) vMotion
9 20 (2.63%) Argo
9 20 (2.63%) PowerCLI
10 17 (2.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (2.11%) WSUS
12 14 (1.84%) Puppet
12 14 (1.84%) SnapMirror
12 14 (1.84%) VxRail
13 13 (1.71%) EMC VPLEX
14 12 (1.58%) NetBackup
14 12 (1.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 760 (100.00%) VMware
2 198 (26.05%) Microsoft
3 152 (20.00%) Cisco
4 68 (8.95%) Citrix
5 60 (7.89%) NetApp
6 57 (7.50%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.18%) Dell
8 42 (5.53%) F5
8 42 (5.53%) ServiceNow
9 39 (5.13%) Oracle
10 35 (4.61%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.21%) Pure Storage
12 30 (3.95%) IBM
13 29 (3.82%) Veeam
14 25 (3.29%) Juniper
15 24 (3.16%) SolarWinds
16 23 (3.03%) CheckPoint
17 22 (2.89%) Broadcom
18 20 (2.63%) Commvault
18 20 (2.63%) McAfee