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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 183 116
Rank change year-on-year +13 -67 -26
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 908 502 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.55% 2.02%
As % of the System Software category 16.86% 13.17% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 326 473
10th Percentile £325 £273 £314
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £685 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 2 10
10th Percentile £19.25 £33.58 £20.94
25th Percentile £33.70 £38.94 £22.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 £48.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +40.93% +102.73% -63.93%
75th Percentile £89.75 £57.94 £37.69
90th Percentile £95.05 £63.53 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.50 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +6.02% +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 5,387 3,812 4,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.74% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,536 2,405 2,936
10th Percentile £220 £219 £218
25th Percentile £400 £379 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.10%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £606
90th Percentile £675 £669 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 109 113
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +85.69% +40.50% -51.60%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £59.88
90th Percentile £92.11 £91.50 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £65.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +138.18% -31.25%

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 September 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 September 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 15 September 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 +5 786 £525 -4.55% 662
UK excluding London -5 639 £515 -6.36% 471
South East -10 204 £538 -5.45% 128
London -18 187 £525 +5.00% 226
North of England +12 177 £476 +8.80% 80
Work from Home -29 177 £506 +0.60% 239
Midlands -11 96 £450 -18.18% 83
North West +10 86 £455 +3.89% 39
Yorkshire -2 77 £523 +21.58% 26
South West -32 76 £638 +14.86% 84
West Midlands -22 71 £450 -21.36% 53
East of England -12 52 £505 -8.18% 61
Scotland +13 45 £450 -18.18% 35
East Midlands -3 25 £425 -13.27% 30
North East -26 14 £400 -36.00% 16
Wales - 11 £550 - 7

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 49 (5.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.20%) Confluence
3 20 (2.20%) IIS
4 9 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.77%) JBoss
5 7 (0.77%) nginx
5 7 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.44%) Apache
6 4 (0.44%) FactoryTalk
6 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.22%) CICS
8 2 (0.22%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.22%) Houdini
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) NUKE
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 245 (26.98%) Azure
2 138 (15.20%) AWS
3 86 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (6.83%) Entra ID
5 45 (4.96%) OpenShift
6 39 (4.30%) GCP
7 35 (3.85%) GitHub
8 28 (3.08%) IaaS
9 23 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.42%) Nutanix
11 20 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (1.98%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (1.65%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.43%) PaaS
14 13 (1.43%) Rubrik
14 13 (1.43%) SaaS
15 9 (0.99%) Azure Stack
16 8 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 281 (30.95%) DNS
2 175 (19.27%) Firewall
3 173 (19.05%) DHCP
4 93 (10.24%) TCP/IP
5 87 (9.58%) VSAN
6 72 (7.93%) VPN
7 71 (7.82%) VLAN
8 70 (7.71%) SAN
9 56 (6.17%) Network Security
10 55 (6.06%) WAN
11 45 (4.96%) SSL
12 43 (4.74%) LAN
13 40 (4.41%) NAS
14 30 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 30 (3.30%) HTTP
15 29 (3.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 27 (2.97%) BGP
17 23 (2.53%) Wireshark
18 22 (2.42%) BIG-IP
19 18 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.87%) Power BI
4 13 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (0.99%) Big Data
7 9 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.66%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 45 (4.96%) JIRA
2 31 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.64%) Git
3 24 (2.64%) GitLab
4 13 (1.43%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.44%) CppUnit
6 4 (0.44%) PVCS
7 3 (0.33%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 1 (0.11%) MSI
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
1 217 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 89 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (9.69%) Finance
4 42 (4.63%) Public Sector
5 36 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (3.30%) Banking
6 30 (3.30%) Legal
7 21 (2.31%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.88%) Law
13 7 (0.77%) Retail
14 6 (0.66%) Back Office
15 5 (0.55%) Military
15 5 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 220 (24.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 143 (15.75%) Senior
3 100 (11.01%) VMware Engineer
4 81 (8.92%) Architect
5 62 (6.83%) Network Engineer
6 52 (5.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (5.51%) Support Engineer
8 43 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (4.41%) Lead
10 38 (4.19%) Consultant
11 33 (3.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 33 (3.63%) Administrator
11 33 (3.63%) Storage Engineer
12 32 (3.52%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 26 (2.86%) VMware Consultant
14 25 (2.75%) Server Engineer
14 25 (2.75%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 24 (2.64%) IT Engineer
16 22 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (14.32%) Terraform
2 24 (2.64%) REST
3 19 (2.09%) JSON
4 16 (1.76%) Kafka
5 14 (1.54%) Middleware
6 13 (1.43%) LDAP
7 12 (1.32%) .NET
8 11 (1.21%) 802.1X
9 9 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (0.99%) YAML
10 7 (0.77%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.66%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.66%) Redfish
12 5 (0.55%) JDBC
12 5 (0.55%) ODBC
12 5 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.55%) XML
13 4 (0.44%) Flash
14 3 (0.33%) Java SE
14 3 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 143 (15.75%) Data Centre
2 75 (8.26%) PKI
3 74 (8.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 49 (5.40%) Enterprise Storage
5 44 (4.85%) Private Cloud
6 43 (4.74%) Clustering
7 42 (4.63%) Replication
8 34 (3.74%) Onboarding
9 33 (3.63%) Management Information System
10 30 (3.30%) Public Cloud
11 26 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (2.64%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.65%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.65%) SCADA
15 14 (1.54%) Product Ownership
16 10 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 487 (53.63%) Windows
2 325 (35.79%) Windows Server
3 249 (27.42%) Linux
4 48 (5.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 47 (5.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (3.19%) VMS
7 28 (3.08%) Windows 10
8 26 (2.86%) Unix
9 21 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (1.76%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (1.21%) Data ONTAP
14 10 (1.10%) Solaris
15 9 (0.99%) AIX
16 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
16 8 (0.88%) CentOS
17 6 (0.66%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.44%) SUSE
19 3 (0.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (32.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 170 (18.72%) ITIL
3 169 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (18.06%) Migration
5 152 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (13.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 119 (13.11%) CI/CD
8 113 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
9 103 (11.34%) Change Management
10 96 (10.57%) High Availability
10 96 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
11 93 (10.24%) ITSM
12 91 (10.02%) DevOps
13 87 (9.58%) Agile
13 87 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 87 (9.58%) Root Cause Analysis
13 87 (9.58%) Validation
14 83 (9.14%) Network Virtualisation
14 83 (9.14%) Service Management
15 79 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 223 (24.56%) PowerShell
2 140 (15.42%) Python
3 92 (10.13%) Bash
4 60 (6.61%) SQL
5 26 (2.86%) Java
6 9 (0.99%) C
6 9 (0.99%) Go
7 8 (0.88%) Bicep
7 8 (0.88%) Perl
8 7 (0.77%) C#
9 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.55%) C++
11 4 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.33%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.33%) Lua
12 3 (0.33%) VB
13 2 (0.22%) COBOL
13 2 (0.22%) Korn
13 2 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 435 (47.91%) Security Cleared
2 261 (28.74%) SC Cleared
3 200 (22.03%) DV Cleared
4 66 (7.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (6.06%) Degree
6 44 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (4.74%) VCAP
8 41 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.19%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.86%) MCSE
11 20 (2.20%) CCNP
12 19 (2.09%) AWS Certification
12 19 (2.09%) CCNA
13 16 (1.76%) MCSA
14 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
17 9 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (0.88%) A+ Certification
19 7 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.97%) SLA
2 19 (2.09%) NIST
3 18 (1.98%) QA
4 16 (1.76%) NCSC
5 15 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.88%) GDPR
7 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.44%) GxP
9 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.22%) DICOM
10 2 (0.22%) ISA99
10 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 306 (33.70%) Active Directory
2 216 (23.79%) vSphere
3 211 (23.24%) VMware ESXi
4 204 (22.47%) Hyper-V
5 153 (16.85%) VMware NSX
6 97 (10.68%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (6.50%) Docker
8 43 (4.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (3.85%) Firmware
10 20 (2.20%) NFS
11 19 (2.09%) KVM
12 15 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (1.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 10 (1.10%) Ceph
15 9 (0.99%) XenApp
16 8 (0.88%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.77%) oVirt
17 7 (0.77%) vCloud
18 6 (0.66%) BitLocker
18 6 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 178 (19.60%) Ansible
2 155 (17.07%) vCenter Server
3 138 (15.20%) Kubernetes
4 59 (6.50%) SCCM
4 59 (6.50%) SCOM
5 44 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (4.07%) VxRail
7 25 (2.75%) Grafana
8 24 (2.64%) vRealize
9 23 (2.53%) Prometheus
10 19 (2.09%) PowerCLI
11 18 (1.98%) Puppet
12 16 (1.76%) WSUS
13 15 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
13 15 (1.65%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.65%) vMotion
14 14 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
15 13 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
16 12 (1.32%) Argo
16 12 (1.32%) Avamar
Vendors
1 908 (100.00%) VMware
2 267 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 141 (15.53%) Cisco
4 65 (7.16%) Citrix
5 60 (6.61%) NetApp
5 60 (6.61%) Red Hat
6 55 (6.06%) Dell
7 48 (5.29%) Oracle
8 41 (4.52%) ServiceNow
9 40 (4.41%) F5
9 40 (4.41%) SolarWinds
10 33 (3.63%) Palo Alto
11 31 (3.41%) Veeam
12 29 (3.19%) Juniper
13 26 (2.86%) Fortinet
14 23 (2.53%) Broadcom
15 22 (2.42%) IBM
16 18 (1.98%) CyberArk
16 18 (1.98%) McAfee
16 18 (1.98%) Remedy