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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 184 109
Rank change year-on-year +8 -75 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 833 514 829
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.55% 2.11%
As % of the System Software category 15.86% 13.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 330 531
10th Percentile £350 £348 £313
25th Percentile £445 £459 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £589
90th Percentile £659 £650 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 2 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £21.98
25th Percentile £28.25 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £57.32 £29.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +97.65% -3.28% -52.41%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £65.94
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £51.83
% change year-on-year +125.48% -45.98% -13.32%

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 5,251 3,875 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 11.71% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 2,487 3,111
10th Percentile £225 £225 £218
25th Percentile £400 £380 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 100 149
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.03 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.10 £91.50 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £59.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year -11.76% +146.07% -10.44%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -8 721 £514 -6.55% 278
UK excluding London -16 575 £514 -6.55% 232
South East +5 218 £538 -6.52% 80
London -6 176 £525 - 71
Work from Home -30 169 £500 -5.66% 102
North of England -10 138 £485 +8.50% 46
Midlands -16 90 £450 -18.18% 28
West Midlands -27 70 £450 -20.84% 17
South West -44 69 £553 -3.91% 44
North West -13 68 £476 +36.00% 31
Yorkshire -22 68 £500 +11.11% 10
East of England -14 37 £500 -9.09% 24
Scotland +8 34 £450 -3.12% 9
East Midlands -7 20 £450 -18.18% 10
Wales -3 13 £550 +22.22% 7
North East -39 2 £588 -6.00% 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 45 (5.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.68%) Confluence
4 13 (1.56%) IIS
5 8 (0.96%) nginx
5 8 (0.96%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.48%) CICS
7 4 (0.48%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.48%) JBoss
8 3 (0.36%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.24%) Houdini
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 11 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (26.65%) Azure
2 144 (17.29%) AWS
3 60 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (5.76%) Entra ID
5 46 (5.52%) OpenShift
6 41 (4.92%) GCP
7 35 (4.20%) GitHub
8 22 (2.64%) IaaS
9 21 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.28%) Nutanix
11 18 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.04%) Power Platform
12 17 (2.04%) Rubrik
13 14 (1.68%) PaaS
14 12 (1.44%) SaaS
15 11 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.32%) OneDrive
16 9 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (0.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 247 (29.65%) DNS
2 170 (20.41%) Firewall
3 146 (17.53%) DHCP
4 86 (10.32%) VSAN
5 83 (9.96%) TCP/IP
6 72 (8.64%) SAN
6 72 (8.64%) VPN
7 64 (7.68%) WAN
8 60 (7.20%) VLAN
9 54 (6.48%) Network Security
10 50 (6.00%) SSL
11 49 (5.88%) LAN
12 40 (4.80%) NAS
13 31 (3.72%) BGP
14 29 (3.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 28 (3.36%) HTTP
15 28 (3.36%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.00%) BIG-IP
17 24 (2.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.64%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.28%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (1.80%) Power BI
4 14 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
7 8 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (0.72%) Big Data
10 5 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.60%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.48%) DataStage
11 4 (0.48%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.36%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 39 (4.68%) JIRA
2 37 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.28%) GitLab
4 18 (2.16%) Git
5 16 (1.92%) Fiddler
6 5 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.36%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) CppUnit
8 2 (0.24%) MSI
8 2 (0.24%) PVCS
8 2 (0.24%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 186 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (8.04%) Finance
4 55 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.56%) Banking
6 32 (3.84%) Legal
7 26 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.44%) Military
11 11 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.84%) Retail
14 6 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.72%) Law
14 6 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Police
16 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 195 (23.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 107 (12.85%) Senior
3 85 (10.20%) VMware Engineer
4 83 (9.96%) Architect
5 75 (9.00%) Network Engineer
6 45 (5.40%) Support Engineer
7 44 (5.28%) Consultant
8 38 (4.56%) Lead
9 36 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (4.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 33 (3.96%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 33 (3.96%) Storage Engineer
12 31 (3.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (3.48%) VMware Consultant
14 27 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.12%) Administrator
16 25 (3.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 22 (2.64%) Infrastructure Architect
18 21 (2.52%) IT Engineer
18 21 (2.52%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.44%) Flash
1 12 (1.44%) Middleware
2 11 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.32%) REST
3 10 (1.20%) .NET
3 10 (1.20%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (0.96%) LDAP
5 6 (0.72%) Redfish
6 5 (0.60%) JSON
6 5 (0.60%) YAML
7 4 (0.48%) JDBC
7 4 (0.48%) ODBC
7 4 (0.48%) XML
8 3 (0.36%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.36%) Kafka
8 3 (0.36%) SAML
8 3 (0.36%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.24%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.24%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 121 (14.53%) Data Centre
2 69 (8.28%) PKI
3 66 (7.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (5.76%) Replication
5 47 (5.64%) Enterprise Storage
6 41 (4.92%) Clustering
7 29 (3.48%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.36%) Cloud Native
9 24 (2.88%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.04%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.44%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.32%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.32%) SCADA
15 10 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.20%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
17 8 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 419 (50.30%) Windows
2 265 (31.81%) Windows Server
3 240 (28.81%) Linux
4 50 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (3.84%) VMS
7 25 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.52%) Unix
9 19 (2.28%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (2.04%) Windows 10
11 16 (1.92%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (1.44%) Solaris
15 9 (1.08%) AIX
16 8 (0.96%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.84%) CentOS
18 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
19 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
20 4 (0.48%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (30.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 162 (19.45%) Migration
3 141 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (14.05%) High Availability
5 110 (13.21%) ITIL
6 109 (13.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 104 (12.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 100 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 85 (10.20%) Network Virtualisation
10 84 (10.08%) Change Management
11 83 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
12 82 (9.84%) DevOps
13 77 (9.24%) Validation
14 75 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 74 (8.88%) Agile
16 70 (8.40%) ITSM
17 67 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
18 62 (7.44%) Capacity Planning
19 61 (7.32%) Load Balancing
19 61 (7.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 193 (23.17%) PowerShell
2 126 (15.13%) Python
3 88 (10.56%) Bash
4 49 (5.88%) SQL
5 22 (2.64%) Java
6 9 (1.08%) Go
7 7 (0.84%) C
7 7 (0.84%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.60%) Bicep
9 5 (0.60%) C#
9 5 (0.60%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.48%) COBOL
11 3 (0.36%) C++
11 3 (0.36%) Lua
11 3 (0.36%) Perl
12 2 (0.24%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.24%) VBScript
13 1 (0.12%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 395 (47.42%) Security Cleared
2 236 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 183 (21.97%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 52 (6.24%) Degree
6 41 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (4.68%) VCAP
8 25 (3.00%) MCSE
9 24 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 23 (2.76%) CCNP
11 22 (2.64%) CCNA
12 15 (1.80%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.80%) MCSA
13 11 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (1.20%) OCP
15 7 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 7 (0.84%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.00%) SLA
2 23 (2.76%) NIST
3 16 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.92%) NCSC
4 12 (1.44%) QA
5 8 (0.96%) GDPR
6 5 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.48%) GxP
7 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.24%) DICOM
9 2 (0.24%) ISA99
9 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.24%) RMADS
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 268 (32.17%) Active Directory
2 205 (24.61%) vSphere
3 193 (23.17%) VMware ESXi
4 169 (20.29%) Hyper-V
5 165 (19.81%) VMware NSX
6 93 (11.16%) Virtual Machines
7 55 (6.60%) Docker
8 38 (4.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (3.96%) Firmware
10 26 (3.12%) NFS
11 24 (2.88%) KVM
12 11 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.08%) Ceph
14 8 (0.96%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.84%) GPFS
15 7 (0.84%) vCloud
16 6 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
17 5 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
17 5 (0.60%) SRDF
17 5 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 175 (21.01%) Ansible
2 150 (18.01%) vCenter Server
3 117 (14.05%) Terraform
4 112 (13.45%) Kubernetes
5 46 (5.52%) SCOM
6 45 (5.40%) SCCM
7 37 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (4.20%) vRealize
9 32 (3.84%) VxRail
10 29 (3.48%) Grafana
11 21 (2.52%) NetBackup
11 21 (2.52%) Prometheus
12 20 (2.40%) Puppet
13 19 (2.28%) Argo
14 18 (2.16%) vMotion
15 17 (2.04%) PowerCLI
16 16 (1.92%) WSUS
17 14 (1.68%) SnapMirror
18 13 (1.56%) Avamar
19 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 833 (100.00%) VMware
2 219 (26.29%) Microsoft
3 140 (16.81%) Cisco
4 64 (7.68%) NetApp
5 62 (7.44%) Citrix
5 62 (7.44%) Red Hat
6 51 (6.12%) Dell
7 43 (5.16%) Oracle
8 39 (4.68%) F5
9 38 (4.56%) SolarWinds
10 35 (4.20%) Palo Alto
10 35 (4.20%) ServiceNow
11 34 (4.08%) Juniper
12 30 (3.60%) Veeam
13 24 (2.88%) IBM
14 23 (2.76%) Broadcom
14 23 (2.76%) Pure Storage
15 21 (2.52%) Splunk
16 19 (2.28%) Fortinet
16 19 (2.28%) McAfee