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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 153 126
Rank change year-on-year -22 -27 -24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 765 550 805
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 1.88% 1.86%
As % of the System Software category 15.57% 15.26% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 373 520
10th Percentile £325 £329 £296
25th Percentile £425 £445 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.64% -5.81%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 29
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.26
25th Percentile £24.31 - £37.63
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £70.38 - £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 - £78.40
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 4,914 3,605 4,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 12.31% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 2,393 3,274
10th Percentile £219 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 84 225
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.21 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +86.14% +16.65% -55.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £79.20
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -31 666 £500 -9.09% 203
UK excluding London -23 531 £500 -9.09% 188
South East +8 194 £538 -6.52% 61
Work from Home -37 163 £500 -4.76% 76
London -49 151 £525 - 37
North of England -9 144 £456 +12.59% 38
Midlands -27 88 £436 -20.73% 30
North West +1 78 £456 +12.87% 25
West Midlands -29 67 £438 -20.60% 21
Yorkshire -24 64 £425 -10.53% 6
South West -62 54 £538 -6.52% 26
East of England -34 35 £475 -13.64% 20
Scotland -6 31 £450 -2.12% 5
East Midlands -21 21 £436 -19.67% 9
Wales -10 7 £600 +62.16% 10
North East -28 2 £575 +64.29% 7

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 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.70%) IIS
4 11 (1.44%) nginx
5 10 (1.31%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.78%) Confluence
8 5 (0.65%) Apache
9 4 (0.52%) 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 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 226 (29.54%) Azure
2 139 (18.17%) AWS
3 54 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.54%) Entra ID
5 48 (6.27%) OpenShift
6 45 (5.88%) GCP
7 29 (3.79%) Nutanix
8 28 (3.66%) GitHub
9 24 (3.14%) IaaS
10 17 (2.22%) PaaS
11 13 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (1.57%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.44%) Rubrik
14 9 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.92%) Azure Stack
15 7 (0.92%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (27.32%) DNS
2 154 (20.13%) Firewall
3 125 (16.34%) DHCP
4 79 (10.33%) SAN
5 74 (9.67%) VPN
6 68 (8.89%) VSAN
7 67 (8.76%) WAN
8 53 (6.93%) Network Security
9 51 (6.67%) LAN
10 48 (6.27%) TCP/IP
11 46 (6.01%) NAS
12 45 (5.88%) SSL
13 38 (4.97%) VLAN
14 32 (4.18%) HTTP
15 30 (3.92%) BIG-IP
16 29 (3.79%) BGP
17 28 (3.66%) Wireshark
18 24 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
18 24 (3.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 21 (2.75%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.31%) 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 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.52%) DataStage
7 4 (0.52%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.39%) GIS
8 3 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.26%) Big Data
9 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.26%) Redis
9 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (4.05%) JIRA
2 30 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.35%) Fiddler
3 18 (2.35%) GitLab
4 15 (1.96%) Git
5 4 (0.52%) PVCS
5 4 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.26%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) GoCD
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 156 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 53 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (6.93%) Finance
3 49 (6.41%) Public Sector
4 36 (4.71%) Banking
5 29 (3.79%) Legal
6 28 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.48%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.31%) Police
8 10 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.18%) Military
10 7 (0.92%) Law
11 6 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.78%) Retail
12 5 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.65%) Local Government
13 4 (0.52%) Electronics
14 2 (0.26%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 160 (20.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (13.59%) Architect
3 73 (9.54%) Senior
4 67 (8.76%) VMware Engineer
5 65 (8.50%) Network Engineer
6 38 (4.97%) Consultant
7 32 (4.18%) Infrastructure Architect
7 32 (4.18%) Support Engineer
8 30 (3.92%) Lead
9 28 (3.66%) Analyst
9 28 (3.66%) Storage Engineer
10 27 (3.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 27 (3.53%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 26 (3.40%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (3.27%) VMware Architect
13 24 (3.14%) VMware Consultant
14 23 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.88%) Administrator
16 20 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (2.48%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.22%) Flash
1 17 (2.22%) LDAP
2 11 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.44%) 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 (0.78%) .NET
5 6 (0.78%) Redfish
6 5 (0.65%) JSON
6 5 (0.65%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.52%) Java SE
7 4 (0.52%) 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
1 104 (13.59%) Data Centre
2 64 (8.37%) Replication
3 62 (8.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (6.93%) PKI
5 41 (5.36%) Enterprise Storage
6 39 (5.10%) Cloud Native
6 39 (5.10%) Clustering
7 26 (3.40%) Private Cloud
7 26 (3.40%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.14%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.57%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.05%) EMC VMAX
14 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 378 (49.41%) Windows
2 254 (33.20%) Windows Server
3 225 (29.41%) Linux
4 51 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (3.14%) VMS
7 23 (3.01%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.48%) Data ONTAP
9 18 (2.35%) Ubuntu
9 18 (2.35%) Unix
10 15 (1.96%) Solaris
10 15 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (1.31%) Mac OS
13 8 (1.05%) CentOS
13 8 (1.05%) CoreOS
13 8 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.65%) AIX
15 4 (0.52%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (26.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 151 (19.74%) Migration
3 109 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
4 104 (13.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 104 (13.59%) High Availability
5 92 (12.03%) ITIL
6 86 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (10.33%) DevOps
8 77 (10.07%) CI/CD
9 71 (9.28%) Agile
10 69 (9.02%) Capacity Planning
11 68 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
12 65 (8.50%) Change Management
12 65 (8.50%) Load Balancing
13 57 (7.45%) Validation
14 56 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
15 55 (7.19%) Data Protection
15 55 (7.19%) ITSM
16 54 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 50 (6.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 174 (22.75%) PowerShell
2 104 (13.59%) Python
3 63 (8.24%) Bash
4 37 (4.84%) SQL
5 10 (1.31%) Java
6 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.92%) C
8 5 (0.65%) Bicep
8 5 (0.65%) C++
8 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.52%) COBOL
9 4 (0.52%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.52%) Embedded C++
9 4 (0.52%) Go
9 4 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.52%) PHP
10 3 (0.39%) C#
10 3 (0.39%) Perl
11 2 (0.26%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 317 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 197 (25.75%) SC Cleared
3 134 (17.52%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 39 (5.10%) Degree
6 37 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (4.58%) VCAP
8 30 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (3.27%) MCSE
10 20 (2.61%) MCSA
11 19 (2.48%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.22%) CCNP
13 13 (1.70%) CCNA
14 11 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.31%) OCP
16 7 (0.92%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.78%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.27%) NIST
2 24 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (3.14%) SLA
3 17 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.83%) NCSC
5 7 (0.92%) GDPR
5 7 (0.92%) QA
6 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) DICOM
8 2 (0.26%) ISA99
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.26%) RMADS
9 1 (0.13%) COBIT
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 232 (30.33%) Active Directory
2 186 (24.31%) vSphere
3 179 (23.40%) VMware ESXi
4 162 (21.18%) VMware NSX
5 157 (20.52%) Hyper-V
6 99 (12.94%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (5.62%) Docker
8 37 (4.84%) Firmware
8 37 (4.84%) NFS
9 33 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 27 (3.53%) KVM
11 13 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
12 12 (1.57%) GPFS
13 11 (1.44%) BitLocker
13 11 (1.44%) vCloud
14 7 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.78%) Ceph
15 6 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.65%) SRDF
17 4 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 151 (19.74%) Ansible
2 128 (16.73%) vCenter Server
3 86 (11.24%) Kubernetes
4 85 (11.11%) Terraform
5 49 (6.41%) SCCM
6 43 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 38 (4.97%) vRealize
8 29 (3.79%) SCOM
9 28 (3.66%) Grafana
9 28 (3.66%) vMotion
10 20 (2.61%) Argo
10 20 (2.61%) PowerCLI
11 17 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (2.09%) WSUS
13 15 (1.96%) VxRail
14 14 (1.83%) Puppet
14 14 (1.83%) SnapMirror
15 13 (1.70%) EMC VPLEX
16 12 (1.57%) Prometheus
16 12 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 765 (100.00%) VMware
2 200 (26.14%) Microsoft
3 151 (19.74%) Cisco
4 68 (8.89%) Citrix
5 61 (7.97%) NetApp
6 58 (7.58%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.14%) Dell
8 42 (5.49%) F5
8 42 (5.49%) ServiceNow
9 40 (5.23%) Oracle
10 35 (4.58%) Palo Alto
11 32 (4.18%) Pure Storage
12 30 (3.92%) IBM
13 29 (3.79%) Veeam
14 25 (3.27%) Juniper
15 23 (3.01%) CheckPoint
15 23 (3.01%) SolarWinds
16 21 (2.75%) Broadcom
16 21 (2.75%) McAfee
17 20 (2.61%) Commvault