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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 177 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 -69 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 817 534 845
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.63% 2.06%
As % of the System Software category 15.73% 13.90% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 348 544
10th Percentile £348 £344 £308
25th Percentile £425 £440 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +7.06% -2.14%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 2 19
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.08
25th Percentile £27.50 £28.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £56.57 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.06% -27.50% -36.51%
75th Percentile £74.07 £29.50 £48.09
90th Percentile £98.82 £29.80 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.22%

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 5,193 3,841 4,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 11.76% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,421 2,468 3,236
10th Percentile £220 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 105 184
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.24 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.19 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.50 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +54.36% -55.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £72.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £82.48 £90.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -8.70% +173.81% -22.22%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -10 710 £511 -7.05% 197
UK excluding London -15 568 £513 -6.82% 177
South East 0 216 £538 -7.33% 62
London -25 167 £506 -3.57% 44
Work from Home -38 165 £500 -4.76% 67
North of England -8 142 £484 +17.33% 33
Midlands -20 91 £450 -18.18% 21
Yorkshire -21 71 £500 +11.11% 7
North West -2 69 £476 +36.00% 21
West Midlands -30 69 £450 -20.84% 10
South West -50 66 £550 -4.35% 32
East of England -28 34 £500 -9.09% 22
Scotland +1 29 £450 +2.33% 7
East Midlands -4 22 £450 -18.18% 11
Wales -6 13 £550 +22.22% 11
North East -41 2 £588 +62.07% 6

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 46 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.59%) IIS
4 9 (1.10%) Confluence
4 9 (1.10%) nginx
4 9 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.61%) Apache
7 4 (0.49%) CICS
8 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) 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 6 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (27.42%) Azure
2 139 (17.01%) AWS
3 62 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (6.61%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.12%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.65%) GCP
7 33 (4.04%) GitHub
8 21 (2.57%) IaaS
9 20 (2.45%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.71%) Rubrik
13 13 (1.59%) PaaS
14 12 (1.47%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (1.10%) OneDrive
17 8 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (0.98%) SaaS
18 7 (0.86%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 231 (28.27%) DNS
2 161 (19.71%) Firewall
3 137 (16.77%) DHCP
4 81 (9.91%) SAN
5 80 (9.79%) VSAN
6 77 (9.42%) TCP/IP
7 69 (8.45%) VPN
8 66 (8.08%) WAN
9 55 (6.73%) VLAN
10 54 (6.61%) Network Security
11 51 (6.24%) LAN
12 48 (5.88%) NAS
12 48 (5.88%) SSL
13 30 (3.67%) BGP
14 29 (3.55%) HTTP
15 28 (3.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 28 (3.43%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.06%) BIG-IP
17 23 (2.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.28%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.22%) Power BI
4 10 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.49%) DataStage
7 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.37%) Big Data
8 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.37%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 34 (4.16%) JIRA
3 18 (2.20%) Git
3 18 (2.20%) GitLab
4 16 (1.96%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.24%) MSI
6 2 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 182 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 65 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (7.96%) Finance
3 53 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 37 (4.53%) Banking
5 30 (3.67%) Legal
6 25 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.59%) Military
10 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.86%) Police
11 7 (0.86%) Retail
12 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.73%) Law
13 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 188 (23.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 97 (11.87%) Senior
3 86 (10.53%) Architect
4 77 (9.42%) VMware Engineer
5 71 (8.69%) Network Engineer
6 44 (5.39%) Consultant
7 40 (4.90%) Support Engineer
8 37 (4.53%) Lead
9 34 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (4.04%) Storage Engineer
11 31 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (3.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 30 (3.67%) VMware Consultant
13 26 (3.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (2.94%) Administrator
15 24 (2.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
16 23 (2.82%) Infrastructure Architect
17 21 (2.57%) Senior Network Engineer
18 19 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.47%) Flash
1 12 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.35%) Middleware
2 11 (1.35%) REST
3 10 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.22%) LDAP
4 9 (1.10%) .NET
4 9 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.73%) Redfish
6 5 (0.61%) JSON
6 5 (0.61%) YAML
7 4 (0.49%) XML
8 3 (0.37%) Java SE
8 3 (0.37%) JDBC
8 3 (0.37%) Kafka
8 3 (0.37%) ODBC
8 3 (0.37%) SAML
8 3 (0.37%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.24%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.24%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 111 (13.59%) Data Centre
2 65 (7.96%) PKI
3 63 (7.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (6.61%) Replication
5 48 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 32 (3.92%) Clustering
7 28 (3.43%) Cloud Native
7 28 (3.43%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 22 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (2.33%) Private Cloud
11 18 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.96%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.35%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.22%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.22%) SCADA
15 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.98%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 408 (49.94%) Windows
2 263 (32.19%) Windows Server
3 233 (28.52%) Linux
4 49 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (3.67%) VMS
7 26 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.57%) Unix
9 19 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (2.08%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.08%) Windows 10
11 14 (1.71%) Solaris
12 13 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.98%) AIX
14 8 (0.98%) CoreOS
15 7 (0.86%) CentOS
16 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.49%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (29.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 158 (19.34%) Migration
3 132 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (13.95%) High Availability
5 103 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 101 (12.36%) ITIL
7 98 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 97 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 79 (9.67%) DevOps
10 78 (9.55%) Network Virtualisation
11 77 (9.42%) Change Management
12 75 (9.18%) Validation
13 74 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
14 73 (8.94%) Agile
15 71 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (7.71%) Platform Engineering
17 62 (7.59%) ITSM
17 62 (7.59%) Load Balancing
18 61 (7.47%) Capacity Planning
19 56 (6.85%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 182 (22.28%) PowerShell
2 126 (15.42%) Python
3 81 (9.91%) Bash
4 40 (4.90%) SQL
5 21 (2.57%) Java
6 8 (0.98%) Go
6 8 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.61%) Bicep
8 5 (0.61%) C
8 5 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.49%) C#
9 4 (0.49%) COBOL
10 3 (0.37%) Lua
10 3 (0.37%) PHP
11 2 (0.24%) Perl
11 2 (0.24%) VBScript
12 1 (0.12%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 376 (46.02%) Security Cleared
2 224 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 176 (21.54%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 47 (5.75%) Degree
6 36 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (4.16%) VCAP
8 23 (2.82%) MCSE
9 22 (2.69%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.57%) CCNP
11 17 (2.08%) CCNA
12 15 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.84%) MCSA
13 12 (1.47%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.22%) OCP
16 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 7 (0.86%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.06%) NIST
2 23 (2.82%) SLA
3 18 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) QA
7 6 (0.73%) GDPR
8 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.37%) GxP
11 2 (0.24%) DICOM
11 2 (0.24%) ISA99
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) RMADS
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 257 (31.46%) Active Directory
2 201 (24.60%) vSphere
3 194 (23.75%) VMware ESXi
4 161 (19.71%) Hyper-V
4 161 (19.71%) VMware NSX
5 94 (11.51%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (6.73%) Docker
7 40 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 35 (4.28%) Firmware
9 33 (4.04%) NFS
10 28 (3.43%) KVM
11 11 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.98%) BitLocker
13 7 (0.86%) Ceph
13 7 (0.86%) GPFS
13 7 (0.86%) vCloud
14 6 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
14 6 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.61%) SRDF
16 4 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 167 (20.44%) Ansible
2 147 (17.99%) vCenter Server
3 110 (13.46%) Terraform
4 109 (13.34%) Kubernetes
5 43 (5.26%) SCCM
6 39 (4.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (4.77%) SCOM
7 35 (4.28%) vRealize
8 29 (3.55%) Grafana
9 27 (3.30%) VxRail
10 22 (2.69%) vMotion
11 20 (2.45%) Argo
11 20 (2.45%) Prometheus
12 18 (2.20%) PowerCLI
13 17 (2.08%) Puppet
14 16 (1.96%) NetBackup
15 15 (1.84%) WSUS
16 14 (1.71%) SnapMirror
17 13 (1.59%) EMC VPLEX
18 12 (1.47%) Avamar
Vendors
1 817 (100.00%) VMware
2 211 (25.83%) Microsoft
3 135 (16.52%) Cisco
4 63 (7.71%) NetApp
5 61 (7.47%) Citrix
5 61 (7.47%) Red Hat
6 50 (6.12%) Dell
7 40 (4.90%) F5
7 40 (4.90%) Oracle
8 35 (4.28%) SolarWinds
9 33 (4.04%) ServiceNow
10 32 (3.92%) Juniper
10 32 (3.92%) Palo Alto
11 31 (3.79%) Pure Storage
12 30 (3.67%) Veeam
13 25 (3.06%) IBM
14 24 (2.94%) Broadcom
15 20 (2.45%) Commvault
16 19 (2.33%) McAfee
16 19 (2.33%) Splunk