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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 133 125
Rank change year-on-year -38 -8 -18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 742 611 809
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.08% 1.85%
As % of the System Software category 15.16% 16.38% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 416 519
10th Percentile £315 £313 £264
25th Percentile £413 £415 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.78% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 36
10th Percentile £41.49 £31.70 £22.04
25th Percentile £50.00 £37.25 £39.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.50 £45.01
Median % change year-on-year +50.54% +3.31% -30.75%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £74.71 £61.30 £84.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% -30.43% -38.08%

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 4,893 3,731 4,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.59% 12.68% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 2,554 3,213
10th Percentile £213 £213 £194
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £460
% change year-on-year -2.06% +5.43% -4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 91 233
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.75 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.67% +26.27% -55.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.35 £88.00 £71.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% +78.57% -45.45%

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 19 April 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 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 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 -40 648 £505 -8.18% 239
UK excluding London -36 514 £500 -9.09% 211
Work from Home -26 172 £500 -4.76% 92
South East -12 166 £538 -6.52% 78
London -59 145 £525 -2.33% 52
North of England -28 127 £456 +9.88% 53
Midlands -8 121 £394 -28.41% 22
West Midlands -11 96 £333 -39.59% 13
North West -19 67 £450 +5.88% 21
Yorkshire -23 62 £454 -2.47% 23
South West -64 55 £550 -4.35% 24
East of England -6 44 £475 +1.17% 24
East Midlands -20 25 £415 -22.50% 8
Scotland -2 23 £457 -1.72% 7
Wales -12 4 £463 +59.48% 12
North East -17 3 £550 +57.14% 13
Northern Ireland - 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 43 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.75%) Confluence
4 9 (1.21%) nginx
5 8 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.54%) CICS
7 3 (0.40%) Apache
7 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.40%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 206 (27.76%) Azure
2 146 (19.68%) AWS
3 55 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (6.87%) Entra ID
5 48 (6.47%) OpenShift
6 40 (5.39%) GCP
7 28 (3.77%) IaaS
8 26 (3.50%) GitHub
9 25 (3.37%) Nutanix
10 20 (2.70%) PaaS
11 16 (2.16%) Datadog
12 10 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (0.94%) Power Platform
15 7 (0.94%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.81%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 195 (26.28%) DNS
2 176 (23.72%) Firewall
3 108 (14.56%) DHCP
4 76 (10.24%) VPN
5 71 (9.57%) SAN
5 71 (9.57%) VSAN
6 62 (8.36%) WAN
7 54 (7.28%) Network Security
8 53 (7.14%) LAN
9 51 (6.87%) TCP/IP
10 43 (5.80%) NAS
11 41 (5.53%) SSL
12 36 (4.85%) BIG-IP
13 35 (4.72%) VLAN
14 34 (4.58%) HTTP
15 33 (4.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 32 (4.31%) BGP
17 30 (4.04%) Wireshark
18 27 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 25 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.67%) Power BI
5 4 (0.54%) DataStage
5 4 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.40%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.40%) Redis
7 2 (0.27%) GIS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.13%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 33 (4.45%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.96%) JIRA
3 19 (2.56%) Fiddler
4 18 (2.43%) GitLab
5 17 (2.29%) Git
6 8 (1.08%) PVCS
6 8 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.40%) JMeter
8 3 (0.40%) JUnit
9 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.27%) RStudio
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) GoCD
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 157 (21.16%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (8.36%) Public Sector
3 61 (8.22%) Finance
4 45 (6.06%) Banking
5 31 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
5 31 (4.18%) Legal
6 24 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.35%) Military
8 10 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.08%) Electronics
10 8 (1.08%) Police
11 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (0.67%) Local Government
13 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 144 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 107 (14.42%) Architect
3 65 (8.76%) VMware Engineer
4 64 (8.63%) Senior
5 58 (7.82%) Network Engineer
6 57 (7.68%) Analyst
7 36 (4.85%) Consultant
8 33 (4.45%) Lead
9 32 (4.31%) Infrastructure Architect
10 31 (4.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 28 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (3.37%) VMware Consultant
13 23 (3.10%) Storage Analyst
13 23 (3.10%) VMware Architect
14 21 (2.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.83%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 19 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 19 (2.56%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 19 (2.56%) IP Network Engineer
15 19 (2.56%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.96%) Flash
2 20 (2.70%) LDAP
3 13 (1.75%) SAML
4 12 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (1.21%) Middleware
6 8 (1.08%) REST
7 6 (0.81%) Kafka
8 5 (0.67%) OAuth
8 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
8 5 (0.67%) OpenID
8 5 (0.67%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.40%) EJB
10 3 (0.40%) JSP
10 3 (0.40%) Keycloak
10 3 (0.40%) Loki
10 3 (0.40%) Spring
10 3 (0.40%) XML
11 2 (0.27%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.27%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.40%) Data Centre
2 67 (9.03%) Replication
3 48 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.47%) PKI
4 47 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
6 29 (3.91%) Clustering
6 29 (3.91%) Private Cloud
7 28 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 27 (3.64%) Enterprise Storage
9 20 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (2.16%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.75%) SCADA
14 10 (1.35%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.21%) Onboarding
16 8 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 322 (43.40%) Windows
2 236 (31.81%) Linux
3 217 (29.25%) Windows Server
4 55 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (3.77%) VMS
8 22 (2.96%) Windows 10
9 20 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.43%) Ubuntu
11 17 (2.29%) Data ONTAP
12 14 (1.89%) Solaris
13 12 (1.62%) Unix
14 10 (1.35%) Mac OS
15 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.94%) CentOS
16 7 (0.94%) CoreOS
17 6 (0.81%) AIX
18 4 (0.54%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (25.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 141 (19.00%) Migration
3 121 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (12.80%) High Availability
5 93 (12.53%) Agile
6 92 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 78 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (10.51%) ITIL
8 76 (10.24%) DevOps
9 74 (9.97%) CI/CD
10 72 (9.70%) Load Balancing
11 66 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
12 64 (8.63%) Network Virtualisation
13 57 (7.68%) Data Protection
14 56 (7.55%) Capacity Planning
15 52 (7.01%) Containerisation
15 52 (7.01%) Roadmaps
16 49 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (6.06%) Change Management
17 45 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.56%) PowerShell
2 105 (14.15%) Python
3 64 (8.63%) Bash
4 25 (3.37%) SQL
5 11 (1.48%) C
6 10 (1.35%) Java
7 9 (1.21%) C++
7 9 (1.21%) Perl
7 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.94%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.94%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
10 5 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.54%) COBOL
11 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.54%) PHP
12 3 (0.40%) C#
12 3 (0.40%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Korn
13 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 286 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 188 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 104 (14.02%) DV Cleared
4 48 (6.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 47 (6.33%) Degree
6 31 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.23%) VCAP
9 23 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.96%) Azure Certification
11 20 (2.70%) CCNP
12 16 (2.16%) MCSE
13 13 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (1.62%) MCSA
15 11 (1.48%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.35%) CCNA
16 10 (1.35%) OCP
17 8 (1.08%) CCIE
18 7 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (2.83%) NIST
3 15 (2.02%) SLA
4 14 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.75%) GDPR
6 12 (1.62%) NCSC
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.54%) QA
9 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.27%) ISA99
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.27%) RMADS
10 1 (0.13%) DICOM
10 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 214 (28.84%) Active Directory
2 177 (23.85%) vSphere
3 166 (22.37%) VMware NSX
4 137 (18.46%) VMware ESXi
5 134 (18.06%) Hyper-V
6 71 (9.57%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (6.20%) Docker
8 41 (5.53%) NFS
9 33 (4.45%) Firmware
10 27 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (2.96%) KVM
12 17 (2.29%) GPFS
13 9 (1.21%) BitLocker
13 9 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
15 5 (0.67%) Ceph
15 5 (0.67%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.54%) vCloud
16 4 (0.54%) XenApp
17 3 (0.40%) UAG
Systems Management
1 134 (18.06%) Ansible
2 99 (13.34%) vCenter Server
3 89 (11.99%) Terraform
4 76 (10.24%) Kubernetes
5 60 (8.09%) SCCM
6 55 (7.41%) vRealize
7 54 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (4.04%) Grafana
9 25 (3.37%) VxRail
10 24 (3.23%) Argo
11 22 (2.96%) vMotion
12 20 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (2.70%) PowerCLI
12 20 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (2.02%) SCOM
13 15 (2.02%) WSUS
14 13 (1.75%) Prometheus
15 12 (1.62%) Progress Chef
15 12 (1.62%) Puppet
15 12 (1.62%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 742 (100.00%) VMware
2 183 (24.66%) Microsoft
3 152 (20.49%) Cisco
4 68 (9.16%) Citrix
5 64 (8.63%) Red Hat
6 61 (8.22%) NetApp
7 58 (7.82%) F5
8 50 (6.74%) IBM
9 45 (6.06%) Dell
10 40 (5.39%) ServiceNow
11 37 (4.99%) Oracle
12 36 (4.85%) SolarWinds
13 34 (4.58%) Palo Alto
14 32 (4.31%) Pure Storage
15 30 (4.04%) Commvault
16 29 (3.91%) Veeam
17 23 (3.10%) McAfee
18 22 (2.96%) Broadcom
19 21 (2.83%) CheckPoint
20 19 (2.56%) Blue Coat