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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 153 127
Rank change year-on-year -26 -26 -26
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 733 544 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.89% 1.80%
As % of the System Software category 15.27% 15.12% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 370 500
10th Percentile £324 £329 £275
25th Percentile £425 £441 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.28
25th Percentile £26.00 - £38.22
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -38.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £74.00 - £80.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +125.48% -35.21% -29.56%

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 4,800 3,599 4,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 12.50% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,203 2,425 3,208
10th Percentile £220 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £606 £600
90th Percentile £679 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 83 225
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.51% +26.27% -58.76%
75th Percentile £70.50 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.07 £22.00
% change year-on-year +37.57% +68.51% -51.03%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -26 636 £500 -9.09% 221
UK excluding London -31 514 £500 -9.09% 201
South East +1 180 £538 -6.52% 79
Work from Home -18 157 £500 -4.76% 87
London -69 136 £513 -2.38% 38
North of England -11 135 £450 +11.80% 43
Midlands -21 95 £415 -24.55% 36
North West -9 73 £450 +11.38% 24
West Midlands -29 73 £402 -27.04% 21
Yorkshire -20 60 £420 -11.58% 11
South West -56 55 £540 -6.09% 18
East of England -33 36 £475 -13.64% 16
Scotland -1 28 £450 -3.07% 4
East Midlands -16 22 £443 -18.38% 15
Wales -10 7 £600 +106.90% 11
North East -28 2 £575 +64.29% 9

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 38 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.77%) IIS
4 9 (1.23%) nginx
5 8 (1.09%) Confluence
5 8 (1.09%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.68%) Apache
8 4 (0.55%) CICS
9 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.14%) CMS
11 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 210 (28.65%) Azure
2 131 (17.87%) AWS
3 53 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (6.55%) Entra ID
5 44 (6.00%) OpenShift
6 39 (5.32%) GCP
7 26 (3.55%) GitHub
8 25 (3.41%) IaaS
9 24 (3.27%) Nutanix
10 18 (2.46%) PaaS
11 14 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (1.50%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.50%) Rubrik
13 10 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (0.95%) Datadog
16 6 (0.82%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 200 (27.29%) DNS
2 155 (21.15%) Firewall
3 115 (15.69%) DHCP
4 75 (10.23%) VPN
5 72 (9.82%) SAN
6 66 (9.00%) VSAN
6 66 (9.00%) WAN
7 53 (7.23%) LAN
7 53 (7.23%) Network Security
8 44 (6.00%) TCP/IP
9 43 (5.87%) NAS
9 43 (5.87%) SSL
10 34 (4.64%) HTTP
11 33 (4.50%) BIG-IP
11 33 (4.50%) VLAN
12 29 (3.96%) Wireshark
13 28 (3.82%) BGP
14 24 (3.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 23 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
16 22 (3.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (1.23%) Power BI
4 8 (1.09%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.55%) DataStage
6 4 (0.55%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
7 3 (0.41%) Redis
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.27%) GIS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.27%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (3.96%) JIRA
2 26 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.46%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.32%) GitLab
5 12 (1.64%) Git
6 5 (0.68%) PVCS
6 5 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
9 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.14%) GoCD
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 143 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 53 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (7.09%) Finance
4 48 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.91%) Banking
6 28 (3.82%) Legal
7 26 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.36%) Police
10 9 (1.23%) Military
10 9 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.68%) Electronics
12 5 (0.68%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.68%) Law
12 5 (0.68%) Local Government
12 5 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.68%) Retail
13 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (13.10%) Architect
3 66 (9.00%) Network Engineer
4 65 (8.87%) Senior
5 61 (8.32%) VMware Engineer
6 37 (5.05%) Consultant
7 36 (4.91%) Analyst
8 30 (4.09%) Infrastructure Architect
9 29 (3.96%) Lead
10 26 (3.55%) Support Engineer
10 26 (3.55%) Wintel Engineer
11 24 (3.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 24 (3.27%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 24 (3.27%) VMware Architect
12 23 (3.14%) Storage Engineer
12 23 (3.14%) VMware Consultant
13 22 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (2.59%) Administrator
15 18 (2.46%) IP Network Engineer
15 18 (2.46%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.73%) LDAP
2 19 (2.59%) Flash
3 11 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.36%) SAML
5 9 (1.23%) Middleware
6 7 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.95%) REST
7 5 (0.68%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.68%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.55%) Redfish
8 4 (0.55%) XML
9 3 (0.41%) .NET
9 3 (0.41%) EJB
9 3 (0.41%) JSON
9 3 (0.41%) JSP
9 3 (0.41%) Kafka
9 3 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.27%) Java SE
10 2 (0.27%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.27%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.23%) Data Centre
2 66 (9.00%) Replication
3 58 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (6.00%) PKI
5 39 (5.32%) Cloud Native
6 37 (5.05%) Clustering
7 34 (4.64%) Enterprise Storage
8 25 (3.41%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
9 24 (3.27%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.86%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.64%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.09%) SCADA
16 8 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 351 (47.89%) Windows
2 240 (32.74%) Windows Server
3 221 (30.15%) Linux
4 51 (6.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (3.14%) VMS
7 23 (3.14%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.59%) Ubuntu
9 18 (2.46%) Data ONTAP
10 16 (2.18%) Unix
11 15 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.77%) Solaris
13 10 (1.36%) Mac OS
14 9 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (1.09%) CentOS
15 8 (1.09%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.68%) AIX
18 4 (0.55%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (25.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (18.83%) Migration
3 109 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
4 99 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 98 (13.37%) High Availability
6 91 (12.41%) ITIL
7 77 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (10.23%) Agile
9 69 (9.41%) Capacity Planning
10 68 (9.28%) DevOps
11 67 (9.14%) Network Virtualisation
12 66 (9.00%) CI/CD
13 64 (8.73%) Change Management
14 61 (8.32%) Load Balancing
15 56 (7.64%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (7.09%) Data Protection
18 51 (6.96%) Validation
19 45 (6.14%) ITSM
20 43 (5.87%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.83%) PowerShell
2 93 (12.69%) Python
3 56 (7.64%) Bash
4 35 (4.77%) SQL
5 9 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.09%) Bicep
6 8 (1.09%) Java
7 7 (0.95%) C
8 6 (0.82%) C++
9 5 (0.68%) Embedded C
9 5 (0.68%) Embedded C++
9 5 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.55%) COBOL
10 4 (0.55%) Go
10 4 (0.55%) PHP
11 3 (0.41%) C#
11 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.41%) Perl
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
13 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 294 (40.11%) Security Cleared
2 187 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 125 (17.05%) DV Cleared
4 55 (7.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.18%) Degree
6 33 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (4.37%) VCAP
8 27 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (3.00%) MCSE
10 21 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.59%) Azure Certification
12 18 (2.46%) CCNP
13 17 (2.32%) MCSA
14 11 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.36%) CCNA
15 10 (1.36%) OCP
16 6 (0.82%) RHCA
17 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
17 5 (0.68%) GSEC
17 5 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.00%) SLA
3 20 (2.73%) NIST
4 16 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.91%) NCSC
6 7 (0.95%) GDPR
7 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) DICOM
9 2 (0.27%) ISA99
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.27%) QA
9 2 (0.27%) RMADS
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 220 (30.01%) Active Directory
2 181 (24.69%) vSphere
3 159 (21.69%) VMware NSX
4 158 (21.56%) VMware ESXi
5 150 (20.46%) Hyper-V
6 93 (12.69%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (5.59%) Docker
8 39 (5.32%) NFS
9 35 (4.77%) Firmware
10 30 (4.09%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (3.68%) KVM
12 14 (1.91%) GPFS
13 11 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (1.36%) vCloud
15 9 (1.23%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.82%) Ceph
16 6 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
17 4 (0.55%) XenDesktop
18 3 (0.41%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 136 (18.55%) Ansible
2 113 (15.42%) vCenter Server
3 78 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 78 (10.64%) Terraform
4 48 (6.55%) SCCM
5 43 (5.87%) vRealize
6 42 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (3.82%) Grafana
8 25 (3.41%) SCOM
9 24 (3.27%) vMotion
10 20 (2.73%) Argo
11 18 (2.46%) VxRail
12 17 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (2.32%) PowerCLI
12 17 (2.32%) WSUS
13 14 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (1.77%) SnapMirror
15 12 (1.64%) Prometheus
15 12 (1.64%) Puppet
16 11 (1.50%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 733 (100.00%) VMware
2 191 (26.06%) Microsoft
3 147 (20.05%) Cisco
4 62 (8.46%) Citrix
5 60 (8.19%) NetApp
6 53 (7.23%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.41%) F5
8 42 (5.73%) Dell
9 38 (5.18%) Oracle
10 36 (4.91%) ServiceNow
11 35 (4.77%) IBM
12 34 (4.64%) Palo Alto
13 31 (4.23%) Pure Storage
14 28 (3.82%) Veeam
15 25 (3.41%) CheckPoint
16 24 (3.27%) Commvault
17 22 (3.00%) Juniper
17 22 (3.00%) McAfee
17 22 (3.00%) SolarWinds
18 20 (2.73%) Broadcom