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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 118 97
Rank change year-on-year -64 -21 +44
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 584 752 1,097
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 2.09% 2.43%
As % of the System Software category 13.08% 17.64% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 449 697
10th Percentile £289 £275 £308
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £512 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -0.10% -1.86%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.19% +2.24% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 57
10th Percentile £23.00 £20.64 £29.80
25th Percentile £37.43 £22.40 £46.18
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -42.41% +1.51%
75th Percentile £72.13 £65.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £112.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £22.50 £66.62
% change year-on-year +211.11% -66.23% +2.50%

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 4,464 4,263 5,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.25% 11.85% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,944 2,736 3,899
10th Percentile £213 £209 £198
25th Percentile £400 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £592 £613 £614
90th Percentile £675 £705 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 90 247
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.27
25th Percentile £19.73 £21.46 £18.13
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -30.29% +73.27%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £36.17 £35.00
% change year-on-year +72.82% +3.33% +62.79%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -47 526 £525 +2.54% 277
UK excluding London -28 409 £500 -2.19% 259
Work from Home -54 164 £500 - 118
South East -27 134 £500 -7.83% 101
London -100 117 £525 +5.00% 59
Midlands +18 108 £449 -11.41% 35
North of England -16 94 £431 -4.17% 54
West Midlands +28 90 £406 -29.35% 26
North West -8 58 £475 +5.56% 23
South West -30 58 £550 +4.76% 37
Yorkshire -2 49 £413 -8.84% 26
East of England 0 27 £488 +39.29% 26
East Midlands -15 18 £458 +22.00% 9
Scotland -9 9 £483 -3.50% 9
Wales -2 3 £550 +151.43% 5
North East -4 2 £550 +83.33% 8
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 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 37 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.94%) Confluence
3 22 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.71%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.20%) IIS
5 7 (1.20%) Skype for Business
6 6 (1.03%) Apache
7 5 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.34%) WordPress
11 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
11 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.51%) 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
1 172 (29.45%) Azure
2 135 (23.12%) AWS
3 53 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (7.19%) GCP
5 31 (5.31%) Entra ID
5 31 (5.31%) OpenShift
6 24 (4.11%) IaaS
7 23 (3.94%) Nutanix
8 22 (3.77%) GitHub
9 18 (3.08%) SaaS
10 14 (2.40%) Datadog
11 13 (2.23%) PaaS
12 12 (2.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.20%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
17 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (0.68%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 181 (30.99%) DNS
2 146 (25.00%) Firewall
3 80 (13.70%) DHCP
4 73 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 47 (8.05%) VLAN
6 45 (7.71%) VPN
6 45 (7.71%) VSAN
7 41 (7.02%) SAN
8 37 (6.34%) Network Security
9 36 (6.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 32 (5.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 31 (5.31%) WAN
12 27 (4.62%) DMZ
12 27 (4.62%) LAN
13 24 (4.11%) NAS
14 20 (3.42%) Wireless
15 18 (3.08%) HTTP
15 18 (3.08%) iSCSI
16 17 (2.91%) BGP
17 16 (2.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.03%) Power BI
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.34%) MySQL
5 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.34%) Redis
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.34%) Jenkins
2 33 (5.65%) Git
3 23 (3.94%) JIRA
4 16 (2.74%) GitLab
5 12 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.37%) Fiddler
6 8 (1.37%) Subversion
7 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.20%) JMeter
7 7 (1.20%) JUnit
7 7 (1.20%) Postman
8 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.68%) PVCS
9 4 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.51%) MSI
10 3 (0.51%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.51%) RStudio
11 2 (0.34%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 169 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 67 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.93%) Finance
5 46 (7.88%) Banking
6 38 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.05%) Legal
11 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.03%) Electronics
11 6 (1.03%) Law
11 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Military
14 3 (0.51%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 95 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (15.07%) Architect
3 44 (7.53%) Consultant
4 40 (6.85%) Analyst
4 40 (6.85%) Senior
5 31 (5.31%) Support Engineer
6 30 (5.14%) VMware Engineer
7 28 (4.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 27 (4.62%) Network Engineer
9 25 (4.28%) Infrastructure Architect
9 25 (4.28%) VMware Consultant
10 23 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (3.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (3.08%) Administrator
13 17 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support
13 17 (2.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 16 (2.74%) IT Engineer
15 15 (2.57%) Operations Engineer
15 15 (2.57%) VMware Architect
15 15 (2.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.05%) Flash
1 12 (2.05%) LDAP
2 10 (1.71%) REST
3 8 (1.37%) Kafka
4 7 (1.20%) Loki
4 7 (1.20%) Middleware
4 7 (1.20%) Spring
5 6 (1.03%) Hibernate
5 6 (1.03%) SAML
6 4 (0.68%) RESTful
7 3 (0.51%) .NET
7 3 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.51%) OAuth
7 3 (0.51%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.51%) OpenID
7 3 (0.51%) Swagger
7 3 (0.51%) YAML
8 2 (0.34%) EDI
8 2 (0.34%) LAMP
8 2 (0.34%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.33%) Data Centre
2 48 (8.22%) Replication
3 42 (7.19%) PKI
4 35 (5.99%) Management Information System
5 32 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
7 22 (3.77%) Cloud Native
8 21 (3.60%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.71%) Clustering
12 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.54%) SCADA
13 8 (1.37%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.37%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.03%) CMDB
15 6 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 246 (42.12%) Windows
2 203 (34.76%) Linux
3 140 (23.97%) Windows Server
4 51 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (5.82%) Windows 10
6 24 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (2.91%) VMS
10 14 (2.40%) CentOS
10 14 (2.40%) Ubuntu
11 12 (2.05%) Mac OS
12 10 (1.71%) Solaris
13 8 (1.37%) Unix
14 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.51%) AIX
15 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.34%) Debian
16 2 (0.34%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (19.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 112 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (15.75%) Agile
4 78 (13.36%) Migration
5 74 (12.67%) CI/CD
6 70 (11.99%) ITIL
7 68 (11.64%) DevOps
7 68 (11.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 67 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 51 (8.73%) Containerisation
9 51 (8.73%) High Availability
10 50 (8.56%) Load Balancing
11 43 (7.36%) Business Strategy
11 43 (7.36%) Data Protection
12 42 (7.19%) Service Management
13 34 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (5.82%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (5.65%) Infrastructure Automation
15 32 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 139 (23.80%) PowerShell
2 128 (21.92%) Python
3 87 (14.90%) Bash
4 41 (7.02%) SQL
5 18 (3.08%) Java
5 18 (3.08%) Perl
6 12 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.71%) Go
8 9 (1.54%) C++
9 7 (1.20%) PHP
9 7 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.03%) C
11 3 (0.51%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.51%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.34%) Bicep
12 2 (0.34%) C#
13 1 (0.17%) Korn
13 1 (0.17%) Rust
13 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 215 (36.82%) Security Cleared
2 149 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 66 (11.30%) DV Cleared
4 50 (8.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 44 (7.53%) Degree
6 41 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 38 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (4.97%) Azure Certification
9 28 (4.79%) CCNP
10 21 (3.60%) MCSE
11 17 (2.91%) CCNA
12 16 (2.74%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (2.23%) CCIE
15 12 (2.05%) Master's Degree
16 11 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.88%) Server+ Certification
17 10 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (1.54%) VCAP
19 8 (1.37%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.28%) GDPR
2 14 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.71%) QA
4 8 (1.37%) SLA
5 7 (1.20%) NIST
6 6 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.68%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 183 (31.34%) Active Directory
2 123 (21.06%) vSphere
3 91 (15.58%) Hyper-V
4 80 (13.70%) VMware NSX
5 72 (12.33%) VMware ESXi
6 52 (8.90%) Docker
7 39 (6.68%) Virtual Machines
8 31 (5.31%) NFS
9 20 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (2.05%) GPFS
11 11 (1.88%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.71%) Firmware
12 10 (1.71%) KVM
13 7 (1.20%) Terminal Services
14 6 (1.03%) Dovecot
14 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (1.03%) Postfix
14 6 (1.03%) UAG
15 5 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (19.69%) Ansible
2 86 (14.73%) Terraform
3 70 (11.99%) vCenter Server
4 56 (9.59%) SCCM
5 50 (8.56%) Kubernetes
6 47 (8.05%) vRealize
7 35 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (3.60%) VxRail
9 20 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (3.08%) Puppet
11 17 (2.91%) Grafana
12 16 (2.74%) Argo
13 14 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (2.40%) Prometheus
14 13 (2.23%) Progress Chef
15 12 (2.05%) WSUS
16 10 (1.71%) NetBackup
17 9 (1.54%) FortiGate
17 9 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
17 9 (1.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 584 (100.00%) VMware
2 175 (29.97%) Microsoft
3 122 (20.89%) Cisco
4 64 (10.96%) F5
5 56 (9.59%) Red Hat
6 51 (8.73%) Citrix
7 44 (7.53%) NetApp
7 44 (7.53%) Veeam
8 43 (7.36%) SolarWinds
9 35 (5.99%) Dell
9 35 (5.99%) Oracle
10 32 (5.48%) IBM
11 29 (4.97%) ServiceNow
12 23 (3.94%) Broadcom
13 22 (3.77%) Splunk
14 20 (3.42%) Palo Alto
15 16 (2.74%) Commvault
15 16 (2.74%) HP
16 15 (2.57%) CyberArk
16 15 (2.57%) Google