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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 193 126
Rank change year-on-year +22 -67 -36
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 905 493 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.49% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 16.78% 12.27% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 328 430
10th Percentile £325 £232 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £509
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +5.36% -3.10%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £672
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 3 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.50 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.75 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +125.83% +26.05% -63.93%
75th Percentile £89.50 £48.63 £44.00
90th Percentile £94.42 £59.80 £112.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.38% +195.56% -65.90%

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 5,393 4,018 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 12.11% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,561 2,553 2,818
10th Percentile £225 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £671 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 123 97
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £17.35 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +106.67% -17.05% -24.44%
75th Percentile £74.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.60 £84.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.82 £58.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +7.38% +17.00% +25.00%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +13 799 £525 -4.55% 531
UK excluding London +5 638 £525 -4.55% 345
South East -6 204 £538 +2.38% 97
London -15 197 £545 +9.00% 183
Work from Home -29 175 £516 +3.20% 201
North of England +8 174 £478 +12.47% 68
Midlands -9 90 £450 -19.10% 55
North West -6 80 £448 +2.40% 38
Yorkshire -3 79 £525 +27.27% 21
South West -21 76 £644 +17.05% 57
West Midlands -18 68 £450 -21.40% 35
East of England -1 60 £600 +9.09% 37
Scotland +3 43 £438 -5.91% 31
East Midlands -11 22 £438 -7.89% 20
North East -25 16 £400 - 11
Wales - 11 £550 - 2

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 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.54%) Confluence
4 20 (2.21%) IIS
5 14 (1.55%) CMS
6 9 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.77%) JBoss
8 5 (0.55%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.44%) Apache
9 4 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.22%) Houdini
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.22%) NUKE
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 247 (27.29%) Azure
2 129 (14.25%) AWS
3 85 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.40%) Entra ID
5 51 (5.64%) OpenShift
6 38 (4.20%) GCP
7 29 (3.20%) IaaS
8 28 (3.09%) GitHub
9 24 (2.65%) Nutanix
10 19 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (1.99%) Rubrik
12 17 (1.88%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.77%) OneDrive
14 12 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.33%) PaaS
14 12 (1.33%) SaaS
15 8 (0.88%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (0.66%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 277 (30.61%) DNS
2 174 (19.23%) Firewall
3 171 (18.90%) DHCP
4 100 (11.05%) TCP/IP
5 74 (8.18%) VSAN
6 70 (7.73%) VPN
7 68 (7.51%) SAN
8 66 (7.29%) VLAN
9 58 (6.41%) Network Security
10 54 (5.97%) WAN
11 51 (5.64%) LAN
12 39 (4.31%) SSL
13 35 (3.87%) NAS
14 32 (3.54%) BGP
15 31 (3.43%) HTTP
16 27 (2.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 26 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.43%) NetScaler
19 21 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (2.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.88%) Power BI
4 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.99%) Big Data
7 8 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.22%) GIS
13 2 (0.22%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 46 (5.08%) JIRA
2 24 (2.65%) Git
3 22 (2.43%) GitLab
3 22 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.22%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.44%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.44%) PVCS
7 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.22%) MSI
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) Postman
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.11%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 213 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.49%) Finance
3 88 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
4 39 (4.31%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.20%) Banking
5 29 (3.20%) Legal
6 21 (2.32%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 9 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 9 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (0.88%) Back Office
10 8 (0.88%) Law
10 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.66%) Police
12 6 (0.66%) Retail
13 5 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 225 (24.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 141 (15.58%) Senior
3 86 (9.50%) Architect
3 86 (9.50%) VMware Engineer
4 59 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 55 (6.08%) Network Engineer
6 53 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (5.86%) Support Engineer
7 45 (4.97%) Lead
8 39 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (3.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 35 (3.87%) Storage Engineer
11 33 (3.65%) Consultant
12 32 (3.54%) Administrator
13 27 (2.98%) Server Engineer
14 25 (2.76%) Wintel Engineer
15 24 (2.65%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 23 (2.54%) VMware Consultant
16 23 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (2.43%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (13.37%) Terraform
2 27 (2.98%) REST
3 22 (2.43%) JSON
4 16 (1.77%) Kafka
5 13 (1.44%) XMPP
6 12 (1.33%) Middleware
6 12 (1.33%) YAML
7 11 (1.22%) .NET
7 11 (1.22%) 802.1X
7 11 (1.22%) LDAP
8 8 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.77%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.66%) Redfish
11 5 (0.55%) JDBC
11 5 (0.55%) ODBC
12 4 (0.44%) XML
13 3 (0.33%) Flash
13 3 (0.33%) Java SE
13 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 154 (17.02%) Data Centre
2 75 (8.29%) PKI
3 68 (7.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 48 (5.30%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (5.19%) Private Cloud
6 44 (4.86%) Clustering
7 38 (4.20%) Replication
8 32 (3.54%) Onboarding
9 31 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (3.43%) Management Information System
10 29 (3.20%) Public Cloud
11 25 (2.76%) Cloud Native
12 24 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
14 17 (1.88%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
16 13 (1.44%) Product Ownership
16 13 (1.44%) SCADA
17 11 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 485 (53.59%) Windows
2 328 (36.24%) Windows Server
3 232 (25.64%) Linux
4 49 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (2.87%) Unix
6 26 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 24 (2.65%) VMS
7 24 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.44%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.99%) AIX
10 9 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.88%) CentOS
11 8 (0.88%) Solaris
12 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.44%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (33.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 182 (20.11%) ITIL
3 171 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
4 167 (18.45%) Migration
5 157 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 138 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 126 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
8 116 (12.82%) CI/CD
9 113 (12.49%) Change Management
10 97 (10.72%) Project Delivery
11 96 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
12 94 (10.39%) ITSM
13 93 (10.28%) Validation
14 91 (10.06%) Agile
14 91 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
15 89 (9.83%) High Availability
16 87 (9.61%) Service Management
17 84 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (9.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 220 (24.31%) PowerShell
2 130 (14.36%) Python
3 78 (8.62%) Bash
4 52 (5.75%) SQL
5 24 (2.65%) Java
6 12 (1.33%) Perl
7 10 (1.10%) Bicep
8 9 (0.99%) C
9 7 (0.77%) C#
9 7 (0.77%) Go
10 4 (0.44%) C++
10 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.33%) Korn
11 3 (0.33%) Lua
11 3 (0.33%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) VBScript
13 1 (0.11%) MUMPS
13 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 440 (48.62%) Security Cleared
2 264 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 193 (21.33%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.52%) Degree
6 49 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.53%) VCAP
9 29 (3.20%) CCNP
10 26 (2.87%) MCSE
11 25 (2.76%) Azure Certification
12 23 (2.54%) CCNA
13 21 (2.32%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.99%) MCSA
15 10 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.99%) A+ Certification
16 9 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.32%) SLA
2 19 (2.10%) QA
3 17 (1.88%) NIST
4 14 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.33%) NCSC
6 10 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (0.99%) GDPR
8 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.44%) GxP
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 319 (35.25%) Active Directory
2 226 (24.97%) vSphere
3 206 (22.76%) VMware ESXi
4 201 (22.21%) Hyper-V
5 132 (14.59%) VMware NSX
6 90 (9.94%) Virtual Machines
7 56 (6.19%) Docker
8 46 (5.08%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.98%) Firmware
10 24 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (2.21%) NFS
12 16 (1.77%) KVM
13 14 (1.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 11 (1.22%) XenApp
15 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 10 (1.10%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.77%) oVirt
16 7 (0.77%) vCloud
17 6 (0.66%) Ceph
17 6 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 158 (17.46%) Ansible
2 143 (15.80%) Kubernetes
3 139 (15.36%) vCenter Server
4 65 (7.18%) SCCM
5 61 (6.74%) SCOM
6 48 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (3.98%) VxRail
8 20 (2.21%) vRealize
9 19 (2.10%) Prometheus
10 18 (1.99%) Grafana
11 17 (1.88%) Cisco CUCM
11 17 (1.88%) NetBackup
11 17 (1.88%) Puppet
12 15 (1.66%) PowerCLI
13 14 (1.55%) Dell DRAC
13 14 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
13 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
13 14 (1.55%) WSUS
14 13 (1.44%) Avamar
15 12 (1.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 905 (100.00%) VMware
2 280 (30.94%) Microsoft
3 150 (16.57%) Cisco
4 71 (7.85%) Citrix
5 66 (7.29%) Red Hat
6 60 (6.63%) NetApp
7 57 (6.30%) Dell
8 46 (5.08%) SolarWinds
9 44 (4.86%) Oracle
10 43 (4.75%) ServiceNow
11 37 (4.09%) Veeam
12 35 (3.87%) F5
13 30 (3.31%) Palo Alto
14 27 (2.98%) Juniper
15 25 (2.76%) Fortinet
16 21 (2.32%) Broadcom
16 21 (2.32%) Remedy
17 20 (2.21%) Commvault
18 19 (2.10%) IBM
19 18 (1.99%) McAfee