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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 123 125
Rank change year-on-year -62 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 668 658 852
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 2.21% 1.92%
As % of the System Software category 13.83% 16.95% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 439 535
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +7.10% -8.26%
75th Percentile £588 £621 £598
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 44
10th Percentile £22.75 £39.10 £22.02
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £88.50 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +91.21% -28.79%
75th Percentile - £112.00 £75.31
90th Percentile £74.83 - £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £46.29
% change year-on-year +150.00% -39.51% -28.79%

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 4,831 3,883 4,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 13.06% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,612 3,282
10th Percentile £213 £206 £190
25th Percentile £400 £394 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £596 £623 £600
90th Percentile £692 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 91 236
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.84 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.31 £32.50 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year +30.19% +6.73% -26.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.50 £86.25 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% +22.73%

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 15 March 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 15 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 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 15 March 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 -52 594 £500 -9.09% 231
UK excluding London -34 474 £500 -9.09% 226
Work from Home -49 165 £500 -4.76% 108
South East -8 158 £525 -7.37% 83
London -89 130 £550 +4.76% 41
North of England -41 121 £436 +2.59% 52
Midlands -5 110 £400 -27.40% 26
West Midlands -16 88 £340 -43.99% 18
North West -16 73 £436 +2.59% 28
South West -54 62 £550 -4.35% 35
Yorkshire -25 55 £425 -6.08% 22
East of England -15 29 £475 +0.53% 14
East Midlands -20 22 £426 -18.95% 8
Scotland +2 19 £464 +1.92% 15
Wales -14 5 £413 +42.24% 8
North East -17 2 £513 +46.43% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 43 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.25%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.75%) nginx
5 5 (0.75%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 199 (29.79%) Azure
2 141 (21.11%) AWS
3 58 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (7.34%) OpenShift
5 48 (7.19%) Entra ID
6 43 (6.44%) GCP
7 32 (4.79%) Nutanix
8 31 (4.64%) IaaS
9 20 (2.99%) PaaS
10 17 (2.54%) GitHub
11 14 (2.10%) Datadog
12 8 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.20%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.05%) Rubrik
14 6 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.75%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 188 (28.14%) DNS
2 169 (25.30%) Firewall
3 95 (14.22%) DHCP
4 70 (10.48%) VPN
5 59 (8.83%) SAN
6 55 (8.23%) TCP/IP
6 55 (8.23%) VSAN
7 48 (7.19%) Network Security
8 47 (7.04%) WAN
9 44 (6.59%) LAN
10 38 (5.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 36 (5.39%) BIG-IP
12 34 (5.09%) HTTP
13 32 (4.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 32 (4.79%) SSL
14 30 (4.49%) NAS
15 29 (4.34%) BGP
15 29 (4.34%) Wireshark
16 27 (4.04%) VLAN
17 23 (3.44%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.14%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.05%) Power BI
5 3 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.45%) Redis
6 2 (0.30%) DataStage
6 2 (0.30%) GIS
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.15%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.34%) Jenkins
2 21 (3.14%) JIRA
3 19 (2.84%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.54%) Git
5 13 (1.95%) GitLab
6 8 (1.20%) PVCS
6 8 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.75%) JMeter
8 5 (0.75%) JUnit
9 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.45%) RStudio
10 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.15%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.15%) GoCD
11 1 (0.15%) MSI
11 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 147 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 66 (9.88%) Public Sector
3 64 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (8.23%) Finance
5 52 (7.78%) Banking
6 34 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (4.19%) Investment Banking
7 28 (4.19%) Legal
8 12 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.65%) Military
10 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.20%) Electronics
12 7 (1.05%) Police
13 5 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.75%) Local Government
14 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Social Science
16 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 126 (18.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 101 (15.12%) Architect
3 57 (8.53%) Analyst
4 55 (8.23%) Network Engineer
5 43 (6.44%) Senior
6 41 (6.14%) VMware Engineer
7 32 (4.79%) Consultant
7 32 (4.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 32 (4.79%) Infrastructure Architect
7 32 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (3.59%) Lead
8 24 (3.59%) VMware Consultant
9 22 (3.29%) Storage Analyst
9 22 (3.29%) VMware Architect
10 20 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (2.99%) Support Engineer
10 20 (2.99%) Web Engineer
11 19 (2.84%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 19 (2.84%) IP Network Engineer
12 17 (2.54%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.14%) Flash
2 19 (2.84%) LDAP
3 11 (1.65%) SAML
4 8 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (1.05%) Kafka
5 7 (1.05%) Loki
6 6 (0.90%) Middleware
7 5 (0.75%) REST
7 5 (0.75%) Software Packaging
7 5 (0.75%) Spring
8 4 (0.60%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.60%) OAuth
8 4 (0.60%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.60%) OpenID
9 3 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.30%) EJB
10 2 (0.30%) Java SE
10 2 (0.30%) JSP
10 2 (0.30%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.30%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.28%) Data Centre
2 56 (8.38%) Replication
3 45 (6.74%) PKI
4 42 (6.29%) Cloud Native
5 36 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (4.49%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.34%) Linux Command Line
8 23 (3.44%) Private Cloud
9 22 (3.29%) Clustering
10 18 (2.69%) Enterprise Storage
11 17 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.54%) Public Cloud
12 14 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (2.10%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.50%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 8 (1.20%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.20%) SCADA
14 8 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 287 (42.96%) Windows
2 221 (33.08%) Linux
3 183 (27.40%) Windows Server
4 51 (7.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (5.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (3.44%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.54%) Ubuntu
10 16 (2.40%) VMS
11 11 (1.65%) Mac OS
11 11 (1.65%) Unix
12 10 (1.50%) Data ONTAP
13 9 (1.35%) Solaris
14 7 (1.05%) CentOS
14 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.90%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.60%) AIX
17 4 (0.60%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (24.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 117 (17.51%) Migration
3 110 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
4 94 (14.07%) Agile
5 87 (13.02%) Disaster Recovery
6 80 (11.98%) High Availability
7 77 (11.53%) CI/CD
8 72 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (10.78%) ITIL
9 71 (10.63%) Load Balancing
10 69 (10.33%) DevOps
11 57 (8.53%) Containerisation
11 57 (8.53%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (8.38%) Data Protection
13 48 (7.19%) Network Virtualisation
14 47 (7.04%) Roadmaps
15 43 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (6.29%) Capacity Planning
16 42 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 163 (24.40%) PowerShell
2 114 (17.07%) Python
3 76 (11.38%) Bash
4 19 (2.84%) SQL
5 14 (2.10%) Perl
6 11 (1.65%) C
7 8 (1.20%) C++
7 8 (1.20%) Java
8 7 (1.05%) Embedded C
8 7 (1.05%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.90%) Bicep
9 6 (0.90%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.60%) PHP
10 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.45%) C#
11 3 (0.45%) Go
12 2 (0.30%) COBOL
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 250 (37.43%) Security Cleared
2 168 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 78 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 45 (6.74%) Degree
5 42 (6.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 33 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.44%) CCNP
9 18 (2.69%) VCAP
10 16 (2.40%) MCSE
11 14 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.80%) CCNA
12 12 (1.80%) MCSA
13 11 (1.65%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
15 8 (1.20%) CCIE
16 7 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (1.05%) OCP
17 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (2.69%) NIST
3 14 (2.10%) GDPR
4 10 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.20%) SLA
6 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.75%) NCSC
7 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.60%) QA
8 2 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.30%) RMADS
8 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 200 (29.94%) Active Directory
2 162 (24.25%) vSphere
3 132 (19.76%) VMware NSX
4 108 (16.17%) Hyper-V
5 99 (14.82%) VMware ESXi
6 58 (8.68%) Docker
7 53 (7.93%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (5.84%) NFS
9 28 (4.19%) Firmware
10 26 (3.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (2.84%) KVM
12 16 (2.40%) GPFS
13 8 (1.20%) BitLocker
13 8 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
14 4 (0.60%) vCloud
14 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.45%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.45%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 115 (17.22%) Ansible
2 85 (12.72%) Terraform
3 82 (12.28%) vCenter Server
4 73 (10.93%) Kubernetes
5 61 (9.13%) SCCM
6 56 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 53 (7.93%) vRealize
8 28 (4.19%) Grafana
9 23 (3.44%) Argo
10 22 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (3.14%) VxRail
12 19 (2.84%) vMotion
13 18 (2.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (2.40%) PowerCLI
15 15 (2.25%) FortiGate
16 14 (2.10%) Progress Chef
16 14 (2.10%) Prometheus
17 13 (1.95%) SCOM
18 12 (1.80%) Puppet
19 11 (1.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 668 (100.00%) VMware
2 173 (25.90%) Microsoft
3 141 (21.11%) Cisco
4 64 (9.58%) F5
5 63 (9.43%) Citrix
6 62 (9.28%) Red Hat
7 52 (7.78%) NetApp
8 44 (6.59%) IBM
8 44 (6.59%) ServiceNow
9 40 (5.99%) Dell
10 39 (5.84%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.94%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.79%) Oracle
13 31 (4.64%) Pure Storage
14 28 (4.19%) Commvault
15 27 (4.04%) Veeam
16 23 (3.44%) McAfee
17 20 (2.99%) Blue Coat
18 18 (2.69%) HP
19 17 (2.54%) Google