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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 149 129
Rank change year-on-year -26 -20 -27
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 741 543 773
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.90% 1.81%
As % of the System Software category 15.25% 15.15% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 370 503
10th Percentile £325 £329 £280
25th Percentile £425 £441 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.28
25th Percentile £26.00 - £38.22
Median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +125.48% -30.43% -38.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £74.00 - £80.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +125.48% -35.21% -30.30%

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 4,858 3,585 4,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 12.55% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,232 2,419 3,211
10th Percentile £213 £215 £200
25th Percentile £400 £389 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £604 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 82 226
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.46 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +84.50% +22.92% -57.57%
75th Percentile £72.54 £64.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £79.10 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £36.65 £22.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +66.57% -52.28%

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 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -40 643 £500 -9.09% 214
UK excluding London -28 518 £500 -9.09% 194
South East +9 183 £538 -6.52% 79
Work from Home -24 160 £500 -4.76% 80
London -61 141 £525 - 35
North of England -4 136 £450 +11.11% 37
Midlands -34 93 £415 -24.55% 32
North West -6 74 £450 +11.38% 19
West Midlands -27 71 £402 -27.04% 20
Yorkshire -12 60 £420 -11.58% 10
South West -60 55 £540 -6.09% 19
East of England -29 36 £475 -13.64% 17
Scotland +1 30 £450 -3.12% 3
East Midlands -23 22 £443 -18.38% 12
Wales -16 7 £600 +106.90% 12
North East -27 2 £575 +64.29% 9

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 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.75%) IIS
4 9 (1.21%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.94%) Confluence
6 7 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.67%) Apache
8 4 (0.54%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 213 (28.74%) Azure
2 132 (17.81%) AWS
3 53 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 44 (5.94%) OpenShift
6 39 (5.26%) GCP
7 26 (3.51%) GitHub
7 26 (3.51%) Nutanix
8 25 (3.37%) IaaS
9 18 (2.43%) PaaS
10 14 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (1.62%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (1.48%) Rubrik
13 10 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.94%) Cohesity
15 6 (0.81%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 202 (27.26%) DNS
2 156 (21.05%) Firewall
3 117 (15.79%) DHCP
4 76 (10.26%) VPN
5 73 (9.85%) SAN
6 68 (9.18%) WAN
7 67 (9.04%) VSAN
8 54 (7.29%) LAN
8 54 (7.29%) Network Security
9 46 (6.21%) TCP/IP
10 44 (5.94%) NAS
10 44 (5.94%) SSL
11 34 (4.59%) HTTP
11 34 (4.59%) VLAN
12 33 (4.45%) BIG-IP
13 30 (4.05%) Wireshark
14 29 (3.91%) BGP
15 25 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (3.24%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (3.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.35%) Power BI
4 9 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.08%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.54%) DataStage
7 4 (0.54%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (0.40%) Redis
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.27%) GIS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.27%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (3.91%) JIRA
2 26 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.43%) Fiddler
4 17 (2.29%) GitLab
5 13 (1.75%) Git
6 5 (0.67%) PVCS
6 5 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.27%) MSI
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) GoCD
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 149 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 54 (7.29%) Finance
3 53 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.99%) Banking
6 28 (3.78%) Legal
7 27 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.35%) Police
10 9 (1.21%) Military
10 9 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.81%) Retail
12 5 (0.67%) Electronics
12 5 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Law
12 5 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (19.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 98 (13.23%) Architect
3 68 (9.18%) Network Engineer
4 67 (9.04%) Senior
5 62 (8.37%) VMware Engineer
6 36 (4.86%) Consultant
7 33 (4.45%) Analyst
8 31 (4.18%) Infrastructure Architect
9 29 (3.91%) Lead
10 27 (3.64%) Support Engineer
11 26 (3.51%) Wintel Engineer
12 25 (3.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 25 (3.37%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 24 (3.24%) Storage Engineer
13 24 (3.24%) VMware Architect
14 22 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (2.97%) VMware Consultant
15 19 (2.56%) Administrator
16 18 (2.43%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 18 (2.43%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.70%) LDAP
2 18 (2.43%) Flash
3 11 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (1.35%) SAML
5 9 (1.21%) Middleware
5 9 (1.21%) REST
6 7 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.81%) 802.1X
8 5 (0.67%) .NET
8 5 (0.67%) Redfish
8 5 (0.67%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.54%) JSON
9 4 (0.54%) XML
10 3 (0.40%) EJB
10 3 (0.40%) JSP
10 3 (0.40%) Kafka
10 3 (0.40%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.40%) YAML
11 2 (0.27%) OAuth
11 2 (0.27%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 98 (13.23%) Data Centre
2 65 (8.77%) Replication
3 58 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 47 (6.34%) PKI
5 39 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 37 (4.99%) Clustering
7 34 (4.59%) Enterprise Storage
8 26 (3.51%) Private Cloud
9 24 (3.24%) Management Information System
10 23 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (2.97%) Public Cloud
12 19 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.62%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.48%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (1.08%) Security Posture
18 7 (0.94%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 357 (48.18%) Windows
2 241 (32.52%) Windows Server
3 224 (30.23%) Linux
4 51 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (6.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (3.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (3.10%) VMS
7 23 (3.10%) Windows 10
8 19 (2.56%) Ubuntu
9 18 (2.43%) Data ONTAP
10 16 (2.16%) Unix
11 15 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (1.75%) Solaris
13 10 (1.35%) Mac OS
14 9 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (1.08%) CentOS
15 8 (1.08%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.67%) AIX
18 4 (0.54%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 139 (18.76%) Migration
3 108 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (13.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 100 (13.50%) High Availability
6 94 (12.69%) ITIL
7 79 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (10.26%) Agile
9 70 (9.45%) DevOps
10 69 (9.31%) Capacity Planning
11 68 (9.18%) CI/CD
12 67 (9.04%) Change Management
12 67 (9.04%) Network Virtualisation
13 62 (8.37%) Load Balancing
14 57 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
15 54 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (7.15%) Data Protection
17 52 (7.02%) Validation
18 47 (6.34%) ITSM
19 44 (5.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.00%) PowerShell
2 97 (13.09%) Python
3 59 (7.96%) Bash
4 35 (4.72%) SQL
5 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
6 8 (1.08%) Bicep
6 8 (1.08%) C
6 8 (1.08%) Java
7 6 (0.81%) C++
8 5 (0.67%) Embedded C
8 5 (0.67%) Embedded C++
8 5 (0.67%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.54%) COBOL
9 4 (0.54%) Go
9 4 (0.54%) PHP
10 3 (0.40%) C#
10 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 296 (39.95%) Security Cleared
2 185 (24.97%) SC Cleared
3 128 (17.27%) DV Cleared
4 56 (7.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 38 (5.13%) Degree
6 34 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (4.45%) VCAP
8 30 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.97%) MCSE
10 21 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 19 (2.56%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.56%) CCNP
12 17 (2.29%) MCSA
13 12 (1.62%) CCNA
14 11 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.35%) OCP
16 6 (0.81%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.81%) RHCA
17 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.67%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (3.10%) SLA
2 22 (2.97%) NIST
3 16 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.89%) NCSC
5 7 (0.94%) GDPR
6 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.40%) QA
8 2 (0.27%) DICOM
8 2 (0.27%) ISA99
8 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.27%) RMADS
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 222 (29.96%) Active Directory
2 180 (24.29%) vSphere
3 159 (21.46%) VMware ESXi
3 159 (21.46%) VMware NSX
4 151 (20.38%) Hyper-V
5 93 (12.55%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (5.67%) Docker
7 38 (5.13%) NFS
8 36 (4.86%) Firmware
9 31 (4.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 28 (3.78%) KVM
11 13 (1.75%) GPFS
12 11 (1.48%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (1.35%) vCloud
14 9 (1.21%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.81%) Ceph
15 6 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.54%) XenDesktop
17 3 (0.40%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 140 (18.89%) Ansible
2 115 (15.52%) vCenter Server
3 81 (10.93%) Terraform
4 80 (10.80%) Kubernetes
5 48 (6.48%) SCCM
6 41 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (5.53%) vRealize
7 28 (3.78%) Grafana
8 26 (3.51%) SCOM
9 24 (3.24%) vMotion
10 20 (2.70%) Argo
11 17 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (2.29%) PowerCLI
11 17 (2.29%) VxRail
11 17 (2.29%) WSUS
12 14 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (1.75%) SnapMirror
14 12 (1.62%) Prometheus
14 12 (1.62%) Puppet
15 11 (1.48%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 741 (100.00%) VMware
2 195 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 151 (20.38%) Cisco
4 62 (8.37%) Citrix
5 60 (8.10%) NetApp
6 53 (7.15%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.34%) F5
8 44 (5.94%) Dell
9 37 (4.99%) Oracle
10 36 (4.86%) Palo Alto
11 35 (4.72%) ServiceNow
12 33 (4.45%) IBM
13 31 (4.18%) Pure Storage
14 28 (3.78%) Veeam
15 26 (3.51%) CheckPoint
16 23 (3.10%) Commvault
17 22 (2.97%) Juniper
17 22 (2.97%) McAfee
17 22 (2.97%) SolarWinds
18 20 (2.70%) Broadcom