VMware Infrastructure Contracts

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 109 137
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 777 1,371 1,791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 2.29% 2.02%
As % of the System Software category 16.70% 17.35% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 954 1,324
10th Percentile £269 £319 £263
25th Percentile £375 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +15.26% +8.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £525 £440
% change year-on-year -4.57% +19.32% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 78 42
10th Percentile £22.08 £46.38 £20.00
25th Percentile £37.63 £59.85 £31.25
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £49.92
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +30.21% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.19 £70.19 £62.48
90th Percentile £86.13 £82.16 £67.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.22 £63.23 £47.50
% change year-on-year -31.65% +33.12% -

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 -8 701 £500 -9.09% 450
UK excluding London -5 529 £501 -4.57% 362
South East -6 224 £500 -4.76% 104
London -7 205 £500 -9.09% 92
Work from Home -50 181 £475 -9.52% 135
South West +4 98 £538 -2.27% 59
North of England +8 93 £350 -30.00% 81
North West -25 47 £325 -35.00% 54
Midlands -25 41 £550 +11.68% 69
Scotland +20 39 £467 -1.68% 6
Yorkshire +31 38 £373 -12.87% 20
West Midlands +12 30 £550 +18.92% 48
East of England -42 29 £650 -1.66% 42
East Midlands -13 10 £550 -1.79% 21
North East +20 8 £575 +9.52% 9
Wales -2 5 £285 -48.18% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 - 2

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 104 (13.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (6.05%) Confluence
3 36 (4.63%) SharePoint
4 20 (2.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (2.06%) Exchange Server 2013
6 15 (1.93%) IIS
7 7 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.90%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.77%) nginx
8 6 (0.77%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.51%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.51%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) Traefik
12 1 (0.13%) Apache
12 1 (0.13%) Site Server
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.26%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.26%) RMDS
3 2 (0.26%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.13%) Eikon
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 208 (26.77%) Azure
2 118 (15.19%) AWS
3 109 (14.03%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (5.15%) IaaS
5 33 (4.25%) GCP
6 30 (3.86%) PaaS
7 27 (3.47%) Entra ID
8 24 (3.09%) Nutanix
9 23 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (2.70%) SaaS
11 19 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.32%) GitHub
13 15 (1.93%) OCI
14 13 (1.67%) OneDrive
15 12 (1.54%) Mimecast
16 11 (1.42%) OpenShift
17 10 (1.29%) Rubrik
18 8 (1.03%) WhatsApp
19 7 (0.90%) Datadog
19 7 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 183 (23.55%) DNS
2 167 (21.49%) Firewall
3 133 (17.12%) DHCP
4 107 (13.77%) SAN
5 83 (10.68%) LAN
5 83 (10.68%) WAN
6 71 (9.14%) VPN
7 54 (6.95%) TCP/IP
8 45 (5.79%) VSAN
9 42 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (5.15%) NAS
11 31 (3.99%) VLAN
12 26 (3.35%) Wireless
13 21 (2.70%) Network Security
14 20 (2.57%) MPLS
15 18 (2.32%) VoIP
16 16 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
17 15 (1.93%) Internet
18 13 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (1.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.54%) Oracle Database
4 9 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.16%) MySQL
5 7 (0.90%) Metadata
5 7 (0.90%) PowerPivot
5 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Power View
7 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.51%) Power BI
8 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.26%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.26%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.13%) Big Data
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (7.46%) JIRA
2 23 (2.96%) Git
3 21 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.70%) Robot Framework
4 17 (2.19%) GitLab
5 15 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.77%) Selenium
10 4 (0.51%) CppUnit
10 4 (0.51%) PVCS
11 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.13%) MSI
12 1 (0.13%) Subversion
12 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 234 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 84 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.46%) Finance
5 27 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (3.09%) Banking
7 19 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (2.32%) Military
9 13 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.03%) Marketing
11 7 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.77%) Billing
12 6 (0.77%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) French Language
13 4 (0.51%) Legal
14 3 (0.39%) Back Office
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 183 (23.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 86 (11.07%) Architect
3 62 (7.98%) VMware Engineer
4 56 (7.21%) Support Engineer
5 51 (6.56%) Senior
6 50 (6.44%) Network Engineer
7 44 (5.66%) Consultant
8 35 (4.50%) Analyst
9 33 (4.25%) Administrator
10 31 (3.99%) Integration Engineer
11 28 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
12 26 (3.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 26 (3.35%) Storage Engineer
13 25 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (2.83%) IT Engineer
15 22 (2.83%) Systems Administrator
15 22 (2.83%) Wintel Engineer
16 21 (2.70%) Server Engineer
16 21 (2.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.09%) LDAP
2 17 (2.19%) .NET
3 10 (1.29%) HTML
4 9 (1.16%) CSS
4 9 (1.16%) Middleware
5 7 (0.90%) Web Services
6 6 (0.77%) Flash
7 4 (0.51%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.51%) REST
7 4 (0.51%) YAML
8 3 (0.39%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.39%) EDI
8 3 (0.39%) J2EE
8 3 (0.39%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.39%) Node.js
8 3 (0.39%) React
8 3 (0.39%) Vue
8 3 (0.39%) XMPP
9 2 (0.26%) ADSI
9 2 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (17.37%) Data Centre
2 60 (7.72%) Clustering
3 59 (7.59%) PKI
4 34 (4.38%) Client/Server
5 29 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.22%) Private Cloud
7 25 (3.22%) Replication
8 17 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 8 (1.03%) CMDB
11 8 (1.03%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (0.77%) Fat Client
12 6 (0.77%) NHS
12 6 (0.77%) Thin Client
12 6 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (0.64%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 409 (52.64%) Windows
2 277 (35.65%) Windows Server
3 240 (30.89%) Linux
4 101 (13.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 77 (9.91%) Windows 10
6 72 (9.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 70 (9.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 56 (7.21%) Unix
9 52 (6.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 39 (5.02%) Windows Server 2008
11 29 (3.73%) Windows 7
12 27 (3.47%) Solaris
12 27 (3.47%) VMS
13 18 (2.32%) Oracle Linux
14 16 (2.06%) Windows XP
15 15 (1.93%) Mac OS
16 13 (1.67%) CentOS
17 9 (1.16%) Ubuntu
18 7 (0.90%) Debian
19 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (28.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 164 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (14.67%) Agile
3 114 (14.67%) Migration
4 112 (14.41%) ITIL
5 73 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
6 72 (9.27%) DevOps
7 59 (7.59%) High Availability
8 52 (6.69%) Data Protection
8 52 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (6.31%) Customer Service
10 46 (5.92%) Server Management
11 44 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (5.53%) Computer Science
13 39 (5.02%) Containerisation
13 39 (5.02%) Decision-Making
14 38 (4.89%) Performance Tuning
14 38 (4.89%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 37 (4.76%) Time Management
16 36 (4.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 163 (20.98%) PowerShell
2 109 (14.03%) Python
3 60 (7.72%) SQL
4 47 (6.05%) Bash
5 22 (2.83%) VBScript
6 20 (2.57%) Java
7 14 (1.80%) C#
8 12 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.03%) C++
10 8 (1.03%) Go
10 8 (1.03%) Perl
10 8 (1.03%) Ruby
11 6 (0.77%) C
12 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.26%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) Ada
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 304 (39.12%) Security Cleared
2 161 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 135 (17.37%) DV Cleared
4 116 (14.93%) Degree
5 72 (9.27%) Cisco Certification
6 56 (7.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 54 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 50 (6.44%) CCNA
9 37 (4.76%) CCNP
10 35 (4.50%) MCSE
11 27 (3.47%) MCSA
12 26 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (1.80%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.54%) Azure Certification
15 10 (1.29%) CCIE
15 10 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (1.03%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.90%) A+ Certification
18 6 (0.77%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.12%) SLA
2 16 (2.06%) GDPR
3 10 (1.29%) PMO
4 8 (1.03%) NIST
4 8 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.90%) RMADS
6 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.64%) QA
7 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.51%) NCSC
8 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 306 (39.38%) Active Directory
2 161 (20.72%) Hyper-V
3 119 (15.32%) vSphere
4 107 (13.77%) VMware NSX
5 89 (11.45%) VMware ESXi
6 46 (5.92%) Virtual Machines
7 39 (5.02%) Docker
8 38 (4.89%) KVM
9 32 (4.12%) Virtual Servers
10 23 (2.96%) VMware Workstation
11 18 (2.32%) XenApp
12 13 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
13 12 (1.54%) vCloud
14 11 (1.42%) Firmware
15 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.64%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.51%) Samba
16 4 (0.51%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
17 3 (0.39%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 108 (13.90%) vCenter Server
2 98 (12.61%) SCCM
3 92 (11.84%) Ansible
4 74 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 66 (8.49%) Terraform
6 45 (5.79%) WSUS
7 42 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (4.50%) SCOM
9 25 (3.22%) NetBackup
10 21 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
11 16 (2.06%) vRealize
12 15 (1.93%) Puppet
13 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Clustering
13 14 (1.80%) VxRail
14 12 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
15 11 (1.42%) Nagios
15 11 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (1.16%) Nessus
16 9 (1.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 777 (100.00%) VMware
2 272 (35.01%) Microsoft
3 131 (16.86%) Cisco
4 73 (9.40%) Dell
5 72 (9.27%) Citrix
6 65 (8.37%) Red Hat
7 57 (7.34%) Oracle
8 48 (6.18%) Veeam
9 39 (5.02%) EMC
9 39 (5.02%) HP
10 33 (4.25%) Juniper
10 33 (4.25%) Palo Alto
11 28 (3.60%) Splunk
12 25 (3.22%) SolarWinds
13 21 (2.70%) Google
13 21 (2.70%) ServiceNow
14 20 (2.57%) IBM
15 17 (2.19%) Atlassian
15 17 (2.19%) Symantec
16 16 (2.06%) Qualys