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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 160 110
Rank change year-on-year -12 -50 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 816 548 859
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.68% 2.04%
As % of the System Software category 15.68% 14.24% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 356 549
10th Percentile £343 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 2 26
10th Percentile £19.25 £28.20 £22.19
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £49.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.97% -27.50% -36.51%
75th Percentile £74.00 £29.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £94.42 £29.80 £73.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.11%

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 5,205 3,847 4,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 11.83% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,438 2,483 3,261
10th Percentile £220 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 102 202
10th Percentile £14.68 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +52.76% +40.27% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £71.13 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.30 £91.31 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £61.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year -17.07% +174.55% -17.80%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -13 703 £505 -8.18% 181
UK excluding London -19 571 £513 -6.82% 164
South East +5 210 £538 -7.33% 60
Work from Home -30 166 £500 -4.76% 68
London -47 162 £500 -4.76% 38
North of England -11 144 £481 +14.87% 33
Midlands -18 91 £450 -18.18% 21
North West -7 72 £459 +18.45% 22
Yorkshire -14 70 £500 +11.11% 7
South West -52 69 £550 -4.35% 25
West Midlands -27 68 £450 -31.51% 12
Scotland +1 34 £450 -0.50% 6
East of England -26 33 £500 -9.09% 15
East Midlands -6 23 £450 -17.09% 9
Wales -3 13 £550 +48.65% 11
North East -40 2 £588 +62.07% 5

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 45 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.59%) IIS
4 10 (1.23%) nginx
4 10 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 9 (1.10%) Confluence
6 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.74%) Apache
8 4 (0.49%) CICS
9 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.25%) Houdini
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.25%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (27.21%) Azure
2 136 (16.67%) AWS
3 59 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.37%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.13%) OpenShift
6 36 (4.41%) GCP
7 29 (3.55%) GitHub
8 26 (3.19%) Nutanix
9 19 (2.33%) IaaS
10 17 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.72%) Rubrik
12 12 (1.47%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.35%) PaaS
14 9 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.98%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.98%) SaaS
16 7 (0.86%) Azure Stack
17 6 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 226 (27.70%) DNS
2 164 (20.10%) Firewall
3 133 (16.30%) DHCP
4 83 (10.17%) SAN
5 81 (9.93%) VSAN
6 75 (9.19%) TCP/IP
7 67 (8.21%) VPN
8 66 (8.09%) WAN
9 57 (6.99%) Network Security
10 53 (6.50%) VLAN
11 52 (6.37%) LAN
12 48 (5.88%) NAS
12 48 (5.88%) SSL
13 30 (3.68%) BGP
13 30 (3.68%) HTTP
14 28 (3.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (3.31%) Wireshark
16 25 (3.06%) BIG-IP
17 23 (2.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.23%) Power BI
4 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
6 7 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.49%) DataStage
8 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.37%) Big Data
9 3 (0.37%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.37%) GIS
9 3 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.25%) Redis
10 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (4.17%) JIRA
2 33 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.08%) Git
4 16 (1.96%) Fiddler
4 16 (1.96%) GitLab
5 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.25%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.25%) MSI
6 2 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.25%) Subversion
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 178 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 63 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (7.72%) Finance
3 55 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 37 (4.53%) Banking
5 30 (3.68%) Legal
6 28 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.47%) Military
10 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.86%) Police
12 7 (0.86%) Retail
13 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.74%) Law
14 5 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.37%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.25%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 186 (22.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 94 (11.52%) Senior
3 89 (10.91%) Architect
4 78 (9.56%) VMware Engineer
5 70 (8.58%) Network Engineer
6 43 (5.27%) Consultant
7 38 (4.66%) Support Engineer
8 34 (4.17%) Lead
9 32 (3.92%) Storage Engineer
10 31 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 29 (3.55%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 29 (3.55%) VMware Consultant
12 27 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (3.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 24 (2.94%) Administrator
15 22 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
15 22 (2.70%) Wintel Engineer
16 21 (2.57%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.47%) Flash
1 12 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (1.35%) LDAP
2 11 (1.35%) REST
3 10 (1.23%) 802.1X
3 10 (1.23%) Middleware
4 8 (0.98%) .NET
5 7 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.74%) Redfish
7 5 (0.61%) JSON
8 4 (0.49%) Java SE
8 4 (0.49%) XML
8 4 (0.49%) YAML
9 3 (0.37%) EJB
9 3 (0.37%) JSP
9 3 (0.37%) Kafka
9 3 (0.37%) SAML
9 3 (0.37%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.25%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.25%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 117 (14.34%) Data Centre
2 64 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (7.72%) PKI
4 58 (7.11%) Replication
5 46 (5.64%) Enterprise Storage
6 37 (4.53%) Clustering
7 29 (3.55%) Cloud Native
8 28 (3.43%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.94%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (2.21%) Private Cloud
12 17 (2.08%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.47%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.23%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.23%) SCADA
15 10 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 411 (50.37%) Windows
2 263 (32.23%) Windows Server
3 236 (28.92%) Linux
4 54 (6.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (3.55%) VMS
7 27 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
8 19 (2.33%) Unix
9 18 (2.21%) Windows 10
10 15 (1.84%) Solaris
10 15 (1.84%) Ubuntu
11 14 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.98%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.86%) AIX
14 7 (0.86%) CentOS
15 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 160 (19.61%) Migration
3 131 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (14.46%) High Availability
5 110 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 101 (12.38%) ITIL
7 98 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 94 (11.52%) CI/CD
9 81 (9.93%) DevOps
10 80 (9.80%) Network Virtualisation
11 75 (9.19%) Change Management
12 74 (9.07%) Agile
12 74 (9.07%) Validation
13 72 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
14 69 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (8.09%) Capacity Planning
15 66 (8.09%) Platform Engineering
16 61 (7.48%) ITSM
16 61 (7.48%) Load Balancing
17 57 (6.99%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 187 (22.92%) PowerShell
2 124 (15.20%) Python
3 79 (9.68%) Bash
4 40 (4.90%) SQL
5 18 (2.21%) Java
6 9 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.74%) C
7 6 (0.74%) Go
7 6 (0.74%) Shell Script
8 5 (0.61%) Bicep
8 5 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.49%) COBOL
9 4 (0.49%) Perl
10 3 (0.37%) C#
10 3 (0.37%) PHP
11 2 (0.25%) Lua
11 2 (0.25%) VBScript
12 1 (0.12%) Korn
12 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 372 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 224 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 171 (20.96%) DV Cleared
4 66 (8.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 47 (5.76%) Degree
6 39 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (4.66%) VCAP
8 35 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (3.19%) MCSE
10 21 (2.57%) Azure Certification
10 21 (2.57%) CCNP
11 19 (2.33%) MCSA
12 17 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.96%) CCNA
14 11 (1.35%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.23%) OCP
16 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.86%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.94%) NIST
2 23 (2.82%) SLA
3 17 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.84%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) QA
7 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.61%) GDPR
7 5 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.37%) GxP
10 2 (0.25%) DICOM
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) ISA99
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.25%) RMADS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 255 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 206 (25.25%) vSphere
3 195 (23.90%) VMware ESXi
4 170 (20.83%) VMware NSX
5 157 (19.24%) Hyper-V
6 98 (12.01%) Virtual Machines
7 52 (6.37%) Docker
8 39 (4.78%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (4.29%) Firmware
10 33 (4.04%) NFS
11 28 (3.43%) KVM
12 11 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.10%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.10%) vCloud
14 7 (0.86%) Ceph
14 7 (0.86%) GPFS
14 7 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.61%) SRDF
17 4 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 169 (20.71%) Ansible
2 147 (18.01%) vCenter Server
3 104 (12.75%) Kubernetes
3 104 (12.75%) Terraform
4 44 (5.39%) SCCM
5 39 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 38 (4.66%) SCOM
7 37 (4.53%) vRealize
8 32 (3.92%) Grafana
9 26 (3.19%) vMotion
10 25 (3.06%) VxRail
11 20 (2.45%) Argo
11 20 (2.45%) PowerCLI
12 18 (2.21%) Prometheus
13 16 (1.96%) NetBackup
13 16 (1.96%) Puppet
14 15 (1.84%) WSUS
15 14 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (1.72%) SnapMirror
16 13 (1.59%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 816 (100.00%) VMware
2 210 (25.74%) Microsoft
3 145 (17.77%) Cisco
4 64 (7.84%) NetApp
5 62 (7.60%) Citrix
5 62 (7.60%) Red Hat
6 50 (6.13%) Dell
7 39 (4.78%) F5
7 39 (4.78%) Oracle
8 34 (4.17%) SolarWinds
9 33 (4.04%) ServiceNow
10 32 (3.92%) Juniper
10 32 (3.92%) Palo Alto
11 30 (3.68%) Pure Storage
11 30 (3.68%) Veeam
12 25 (3.06%) IBM
13 23 (2.82%) Broadcom
13 23 (2.82%) Commvault
14 19 (2.33%) Fortinet
14 19 (2.33%) Splunk