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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 154 119
Rank change year-on-year -17 -35 -16
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 756 546 826
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.83% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 15.32% 15.01% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 370 530
10th Percentile £325 £348 £300
25th Percentile £425 £451 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.37% -5.58%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £589
90th Percentile £650 £676 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 30
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.08
25th Percentile £22.63 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £48.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -30.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £70.75 - £46.69
90th Percentile £74.00 - £75.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +125.48% -30.00% -33.33%

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 4,936 3,638 4,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 12.20% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,388 3,293
10th Percentile £220 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 89 229
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.68%
75th Percentile £73.00 £70.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -37.14%

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 June 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 June 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 19 June 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 -19 656 £500 -9.09% 180
UK excluding London -27 522 £500 -9.09% 183
South East -2 186 £538 -6.52% 52
Work from Home -19 160 £500 -4.76% 66
London -38 150 £525 - 25
North of England -8 142 £459 +8.00% 37
Midlands -21 88 £450 -18.18% 39
North West +2 71 £453 +6.59% 26
Yorkshire -25 69 £485 +2.05% 7
West Midlands -29 68 £425 -32.00% 23
South West -59 56 £539 -6.30% 22
East of England -35 34 £475 -13.64% 21
Scotland -5 31 £450 -0.55% 2
East Midlands -10 20 £450 -18.18% 16
Wales -13 7 £600 +106.90% 13
North East -38 2 £588 +67.86% 4

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 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.72%) IIS
4 10 (1.32%) nginx
4 10 (1.32%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.79%) Confluence
7 5 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 222 (29.37%) Azure
2 134 (17.72%) AWS
3 51 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.22%) Entra ID
4 47 (6.22%) OpenShift
5 41 (5.42%) GCP
6 29 (3.84%) GitHub
7 27 (3.57%) Nutanix
8 23 (3.04%) IaaS
9 16 (2.12%) PaaS
10 14 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (1.59%) Power Platform
12 11 (1.46%) Rubrik
13 10 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.93%) Azure Stack
15 7 (0.93%) Cohesity
16 6 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 207 (27.38%) DNS
2 151 (19.97%) Firewall
3 123 (16.27%) DHCP
4 82 (10.85%) SAN
5 72 (9.52%) VPN
6 70 (9.26%) WAN
7 68 (8.99%) VSAN
8 55 (7.28%) LAN
9 53 (7.01%) Network Security
10 46 (6.08%) NAS
10 46 (6.08%) SSL
10 46 (6.08%) TCP/IP
11 40 (5.29%) VLAN
12 31 (4.10%) HTTP
13 29 (3.84%) BIG-IP
14 28 (3.70%) BGP
15 27 (3.57%) Wireshark
16 24 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.32%) Power BI
4 9 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.06%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.53%) DataStage
8 4 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.40%) Big Data
9 3 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.40%) GIS
9 3 (0.40%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.26%) Redis
10 2 (0.26%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (4.10%) Jenkins
2 30 (3.97%) JIRA
3 17 (2.25%) Fiddler
3 17 (2.25%) GitLab
4 14 (1.85%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.26%) MSI
6 2 (0.26%) PVCS
6 2 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) GoCD
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) RStudio
General
1 153 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (7.01%) Finance
3 51 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.63%) Banking
6 32 (4.23%) Legal
7 29 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.32%) Police
11 9 (1.19%) Military
12 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Law
12 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.79%) Retail
13 5 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 95 (12.57%) Architect
3 73 (9.66%) Senior
4 68 (8.99%) VMware Engineer
5 67 (8.86%) Network Engineer
6 40 (5.29%) Consultant
7 33 (4.37%) Support Engineer
8 29 (3.84%) Infrastructure Architect
9 27 (3.57%) Analyst
9 27 (3.57%) Lead
9 27 (3.57%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 27 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
10 26 (3.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 26 (3.44%) VMware Consultant
11 22 (2.91%) Administrator
11 22 (2.91%) VMware Architect
11 22 (2.91%) Wintel Engineer
12 21 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (2.51%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.25%) Flash
2 16 (2.12%) LDAP
3 11 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (1.46%) REST
4 9 (1.19%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.06%) Middleware
6 7 (0.93%) SAML
7 6 (0.79%) .NET
7 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.79%) Redfish
8 5 (0.66%) JSON
9 4 (0.53%) Java SE
9 4 (0.53%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.53%) XML
10 3 (0.40%) EJB
10 3 (0.40%) JSP
10 3 (0.40%) YAML
11 2 (0.26%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) OpenID
11 2 (0.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 103 (13.62%) Data Centre
2 61 (8.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (7.54%) Replication
4 51 (6.75%) PKI
5 41 (5.42%) Enterprise Storage
6 35 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.63%) Clustering
7 25 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 24 (3.17%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (2.65%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.59%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.46%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.06%) EMC VMAX
15 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 369 (48.81%) Windows
2 249 (32.94%) Windows Server
3 226 (29.89%) Linux
4 50 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (6.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (3.31%) VMS
6 25 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.51%) Data ONTAP
8 18 (2.38%) Unix
8 18 (2.38%) Windows 10
9 17 (2.25%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.98%) Solaris
11 13 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.06%) CentOS
13 8 (1.06%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.66%) AIX
15 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.53%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (27.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 156 (20.63%) Migration
3 112 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (13.89%) High Availability
5 102 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
6 91 (12.04%) ITIL
7 87 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 77 (10.19%) CI/CD
8 77 (10.19%) DevOps
9 71 (9.39%) Agile
10 64 (8.47%) Change Management
10 64 (8.47%) Validation
11 63 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
11 63 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
12 61 (8.07%) Load Balancing
13 55 (7.28%) ITSM
14 53 (7.01%) Platform Engineering
15 52 (6.88%) Data Protection
16 50 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 164 (21.69%) PowerShell
2 107 (14.15%) Python
3 58 (7.67%) Bash
4 36 (4.76%) SQL
5 9 (1.19%) Java
5 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
6 5 (0.66%) Bicep
6 5 (0.66%) C
6 5 (0.66%) Go
6 5 (0.66%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.53%) COBOL
7 4 (0.53%) PHP
8 3 (0.40%) C++
8 3 (0.40%) Perl
9 2 (0.26%) C#
9 2 (0.26%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.26%) Embedded C++
9 2 (0.26%) VBScript
10 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 312 (41.27%) Security Cleared
2 195 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 131 (17.33%) DV Cleared
4 62 (8.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 40 (5.29%) Degree
6 34 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (4.23%) VCAP
8 22 (2.91%) MCSE
9 20 (2.65%) CCNP
10 19 (2.51%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.25%) MCSA
13 16 (2.12%) CCNA
14 11 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.32%) OCP
16 7 (0.93%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 6 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.31%) NIST
1 25 (3.31%) SLA
2 20 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (1.85%) NCSC
5 7 (0.93%) QA
6 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.26%) DICOM
9 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 2 (0.26%) ISA99
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.26%) RMADS
10 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 226 (29.89%) Active Directory
2 184 (24.34%) VMware ESXi
3 181 (23.94%) vSphere
4 159 (21.03%) VMware NSX
5 156 (20.63%) Hyper-V
6 97 (12.83%) Virtual Machines
7 40 (5.29%) Docker
8 37 (4.89%) Firmware
8 37 (4.89%) NFS
9 32 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 30 (3.97%) KVM
11 13 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
12 12 (1.59%) GPFS
13 11 (1.46%) BitLocker
13 11 (1.46%) vCloud
14 7 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
15 6 (0.79%) Ceph
15 6 (0.79%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.66%) SRDF
17 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 151 (19.97%) Ansible
2 129 (17.06%) vCenter Server
3 86 (11.38%) Terraform
4 83 (10.98%) Kubernetes
5 44 (5.82%) SCCM
6 39 (5.16%) vRealize
7 37 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.84%) SCOM
9 28 (3.70%) Grafana
9 28 (3.70%) vMotion
10 20 (2.65%) Argo
10 20 (2.65%) PowerCLI
11 16 (2.12%) VxRail
12 15 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.98%) WSUS
13 14 (1.85%) Puppet
13 14 (1.85%) SnapMirror
14 13 (1.72%) EMC VPLEX
14 13 (1.72%) NetBackup
14 13 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 756 (100.00%) VMware
2 191 (25.26%) Microsoft
3 150 (19.84%) Cisco
4 62 (8.20%) Citrix
5 58 (7.67%) NetApp
6 56 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 47 (6.22%) Dell
8 43 (5.69%) Oracle
9 40 (5.29%) F5
10 39 (5.16%) ServiceNow
11 34 (4.50%) Palo Alto
12 32 (4.23%) Pure Storage
13 28 (3.70%) IBM
14 27 (3.57%) Juniper
14 27 (3.57%) Veeam
15 25 (3.31%) SolarWinds
16 23 (3.04%) CheckPoint
17 20 (2.65%) Commvault
17 20 (2.65%) McAfee
18 18 (2.38%) Blue Coat