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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 122 98
Rank change year-on-year -59 -24 +33
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 594 708 1,030
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.10% 2.35%
As % of the System Software category 13.15% 17.67% 18.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 433 657
10th Percentile £300 £275 £300
25th Percentile £406 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £501
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +2.30% -4.57%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 55
10th Percentile £25.80 £29.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.31 £41.00 £46.29
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -12.85% +1.51%
75th Percentile - £100.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.70 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £36.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +93.10% -45.06% +1.51%

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 4,518 4,007 5,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.15% 11.91% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,027 2,596 3,716
10th Percentile £213 £201 £195
25th Percentile £400 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £613
90th Percentile £691 £709 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 91 226
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £15.61
25th Percentile £20.84 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.41 £48.89
Median % change year-on-year +67.19% -41.89% +95.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £89.67 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £31.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.33% +121.86%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -50 532 £519 +1.27% 236
UK excluding London -19 424 £500 -3.15% 214
Work from Home -46 167 £525 +5.00% 80
South East -17 139 £500 -9.09% 77
Midlands +21 111 £425 -8.11% 31
London -105 108 £550 +10.00% 53
North of England -21 99 £436 +2.59% 52
West Midlands +30 91 £400 -27.40% 19
North West -4 68 £456 +7.29% 18
South West -34 58 £550 - 36
Yorkshire -13 43 £413 -8.33% 25
East of England -4 30 £500 +42.86% 16
East Midlands -10 20 £450 +20.00% 12
Scotland -6 9 £483 -8.10% 5
Wales -2 3 £550 +131.58% 5
North East -6 3 £513 - 12
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 4

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 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.20%) Confluence
4 12 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.18%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.84%) IIS
6 5 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Traefik
10 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 175 (29.46%) Azure
2 141 (23.74%) AWS
3 62 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.91%) GCP
5 35 (5.89%) Entra ID
6 34 (5.72%) OpenShift
7 27 (4.55%) IaaS
8 23 (3.87%) Nutanix
9 21 (3.54%) GitHub
10 18 (3.03%) SaaS
11 16 (2.69%) PaaS
12 14 (2.36%) Datadog
13 10 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (1.18%) Power Platform
16 6 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
18 4 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 188 (31.65%) DNS
2 156 (26.26%) Firewall
3 85 (14.31%) DHCP
4 66 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 55 (9.26%) VPN
6 45 (7.58%) VLAN
7 44 (7.41%) VSAN
8 41 (6.90%) Network Security
8 41 (6.90%) SAN
9 36 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 34 (5.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 30 (5.05%) WAN
12 26 (4.38%) LAN
13 25 (4.21%) DMZ
14 23 (3.87%) NAS
15 20 (3.37%) HTTP
15 20 (3.37%) Wireless
16 18 (3.03%) BGP
17 17 (2.86%) BIG-IP
18 16 (2.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.01%) Power BI
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.34%) Redis
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.88%) Git
2 28 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.87%) JIRA
4 18 (3.03%) GitLab
5 10 (1.68%) Fiddler
5 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.18%) JMeter
6 7 (1.18%) JUnit
6 7 (1.18%) PVCS
6 7 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.84%) Subversion
8 4 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) RStudio
10 2 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.17%) MSI
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 171 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 70 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.59%) Finance
5 44 (7.41%) Banking
6 38 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.04%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.68%) Legal
9 10 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.18%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.18%) Electronics
12 6 (1.01%) Law
13 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.67%) Military
14 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.51%) Social Science
15 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 98 (16.50%) Architect
3 44 (7.41%) Analyst
4 39 (6.57%) Consultant
5 35 (5.89%) Senior
6 31 (5.22%) VMware Engineer
7 30 (5.05%) Network Engineer
7 30 (5.05%) Support Engineer
8 28 (4.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 28 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
9 26 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (4.04%) VMware Consultant
11 18 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support
12 17 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 16 (2.69%) Administrator
13 16 (2.69%) Lead
14 15 (2.53%) Operations Engineer
14 15 (2.53%) Storage Analyst
14 15 (2.53%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.19%) Flash
1 13 (2.19%) LDAP
2 8 (1.35%) Kafka
2 8 (1.35%) Middleware
2 8 (1.35%) REST
3 7 (1.18%) Loki
3 7 (1.18%) Spring
4 6 (1.01%) Hibernate
4 6 (1.01%) SAML
5 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.51%) .NET
6 3 (0.51%) OAuth
6 3 (0.51%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.51%) OpenID
6 3 (0.51%) Swagger
7 2 (0.34%) EDI
7 2 (0.34%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.34%) RESTful
8 1 (0.17%) Keycloak
8 1 (0.17%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.75%) Replication
3 41 (6.90%) PKI
4 37 (6.23%) Management Information System
5 33 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 30 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
8 26 (4.38%) Private Cloud
9 16 (2.69%) Clustering
10 12 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.02%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.85%) SCADA
12 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.52%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.35%) Hedge funds
15 7 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
17 5 (0.84%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 248 (41.75%) Windows
2 193 (32.49%) Linux
3 142 (23.91%) Windows Server
4 45 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (6.57%) Windows 10
6 22 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (2.69%) VMS
10 15 (2.53%) Mac OS
11 10 (1.68%) Solaris
11 10 (1.68%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.35%) CentOS
13 7 (1.18%) Unix
14 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.51%) AIX
16 2 (0.34%) CatOS
16 2 (0.34%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (20.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 113 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
3 86 (14.48%) Agile
4 77 (12.96%) ITIL
5 76 (12.79%) Migration
6 74 (12.46%) CI/CD
7 70 (11.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 70 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 64 (10.77%) DevOps
9 57 (9.60%) Load Balancing
10 52 (8.75%) High Availability
11 47 (7.91%) Containerisation
12 44 (7.41%) Business Strategy
12 44 (7.41%) Service Management
13 41 (6.90%) Data Protection
14 39 (6.57%) Network Virtualisation
14 39 (6.57%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (6.06%) Roadmaps
15 36 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (6.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 146 (24.58%) PowerShell
2 110 (18.52%) Python
3 83 (13.97%) Bash
4 35 (5.89%) SQL
5 16 (2.69%) Java
5 16 (2.69%) Perl
6 10 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.52%) C
7 9 (1.52%) C++
8 7 (1.18%) Go
8 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.01%) Embedded C
9 6 (1.01%) Embedded C++
10 4 (0.67%) Bicep
11 3 (0.51%) C#
12 1 (0.17%) Korn
12 1 (0.17%) Rust
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 224 (37.71%) Security Cleared
2 157 (26.43%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.77%) DV Cleared
4 49 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (7.41%) Degree
6 40 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 34 (5.72%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (4.71%) Azure Certification
9 25 (4.21%) CCNP
10 20 (3.37%) MCSE
11 16 (2.69%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.19%) CCIE
12 13 (2.19%) CCNA
12 13 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.85%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.85%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (1.85%) VCAP
14 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.68%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.88%) GDPR
2 19 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.35%) SLA
4 7 (1.18%) NIST
4 7 (1.18%) QA
5 6 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.67%) NCSC
8 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 182 (30.64%) Active Directory
2 123 (20.71%) vSphere
3 92 (15.49%) Hyper-V
4 91 (15.32%) VMware NSX
5 67 (11.28%) VMware ESXi
6 51 (8.59%) Docker
7 43 (7.24%) Virtual Machines
8 27 (4.55%) NFS
9 23 (3.87%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (2.19%) GPFS
11 12 (2.02%) Firmware
11 12 (2.02%) KVM
12 9 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.01%) Dovecot
13 6 (1.01%) Postfix
13 6 (1.01%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.67%) UAG
15 4 (0.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 108 (18.18%) Ansible
2 81 (13.64%) Terraform
3 68 (11.45%) vCenter Server
4 64 (10.77%) SCCM
5 56 (9.43%) Kubernetes
6 49 (8.25%) vRealize
7 45 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (3.37%) VxRail
9 17 (2.86%) Grafana
10 16 (2.69%) Argo
11 14 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (2.36%) FortiGate
11 14 (2.36%) Prometheus
12 13 (2.19%) WSUS
13 11 (1.85%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.68%) Puppet
15 9 (1.52%) SCOM
16 8 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
17 7 (1.18%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 594 (100.00%) VMware
2 175 (29.46%) Microsoft
3 131 (22.05%) Cisco
4 66 (11.11%) F5
5 60 (10.10%) Citrix
6 57 (9.60%) Red Hat
7 44 (7.41%) SolarWinds
8 43 (7.24%) NetApp
9 41 (6.90%) Veeam
10 36 (6.06%) IBM
11 34 (5.72%) Oracle
11 34 (5.72%) ServiceNow
12 31 (5.22%) Dell
13 27 (4.55%) Broadcom
14 22 (3.70%) Palo Alto
15 17 (2.86%) Splunk
16 16 (2.69%) Commvault
16 16 (2.69%) Google
16 16 (2.69%) HP
17 15 (2.53%) Juniper