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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 130 121
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 741 639 824
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.19% 1.87%
As % of the System Software category 15.04% 16.90% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 438 528
10th Percentile £318 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.47%
75th Percentile £595 £618 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 38
10th Percentile £45.43 £31.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £37.25 £38.22
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 £68.44
90th Percentile £75.38 £61.30 £82.63
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 4,926 3,780 4,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 12.93% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,584 3,264
10th Percentile £213 £213 £194
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £701 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £463
% change year-on-year -0.21% +2.92% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 94 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.46 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% +28.89% -55.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £86.15 £87.48 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +36.00% +70.45% -38.03%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -45 648 £506 -7.95% 258
UK excluding London -33 519 £500 -9.09% 236
Work from Home -36 180 £500 -4.76% 96
South East -15 169 £525 -8.70% 71
London -85 142 £525 -4.55% 44
North of England -26 132 £456 +7.29% 71
Midlands -7 121 £400 -27.27% 28
West Midlands -6 96 £340 -38.29% 18
North West -1 78 £450 +2.86% 46
Yorkshire -27 57 £482 +3.66% 22
South West -59 56 £550 -4.35% 34
East of England -12 42 £475 +1.17% 25
East Midlands -22 25 £426 -19.75% 10
Scotland +2 22 £463 +0.60% 7
Wales -15 5 £413 +42.24% 9
North East -18 3 £550 +57.14% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 44 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.16%) Confluence
4 7 (0.94%) nginx
5 6 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.54%) CICS
7 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.40%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) Apache
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 214 (28.88%) Azure
2 153 (20.65%) AWS
3 60 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (6.88%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.75%) OpenShift
6 42 (5.67%) GCP
7 33 (4.45%) IaaS
8 28 (3.78%) Nutanix
9 26 (3.51%) GitHub
10 20 (2.70%) PaaS
11 16 (2.16%) Datadog
12 11 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.21%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.08%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.81%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 196 (26.45%) DNS
2 181 (24.43%) Firewall
3 103 (13.90%) DHCP
4 80 (10.80%) VPN
5 69 (9.31%) SAN
6 68 (9.18%) VSAN
7 58 (7.83%) WAN
8 53 (7.15%) Network Security
9 52 (7.02%) TCP/IP
10 51 (6.88%) LAN
11 42 (5.67%) SSL
12 40 (5.40%) NAS
13 37 (4.99%) BIG-IP
13 37 (4.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 34 (4.59%) HTTP
15 33 (4.45%) VLAN
16 32 (4.32%) BGP
17 31 (4.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 30 (4.05%) Wireshark
19 24 (3.24%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.94%) Power BI
5 4 (0.54%) DataStage
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%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.40%) Redis
7 2 (0.27%) GIS
7 2 (0.27%) NoSQL
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 38 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 21 (2.83%) JIRA
3 20 (2.70%) Fiddler
4 18 (2.43%) GitLab
5 17 (2.29%) Git
6 8 (1.08%) PVCS
6 8 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.54%) JMeter
8 4 (0.54%) JUnit
9 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.27%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) RStudio
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) GoCD
11 1 (0.13%) MSI
11 1 (0.13%) Subversion
General
1 160 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 63 (8.50%) Public Sector
3 61 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (8.23%) Finance
4 49 (6.61%) Banking
5 32 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.18%) Legal
7 26 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.35%) Military
9 10 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.08%) Electronics
11 7 (0.94%) Police
12 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (0.67%) Local Government
14 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 111 (14.98%) Architect
3 63 (8.50%) Network Engineer
4 61 (8.23%) VMware Engineer
5 58 (7.83%) Senior
6 56 (7.56%) Analyst
7 33 (4.45%) Consultant
8 32 (4.32%) Infrastructure Architect
8 32 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (4.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 31 (4.18%) Lead
10 23 (3.10%) Storage Analyst
10 23 (3.10%) VMware Architect
11 22 (2.97%) VMware Consultant
12 21 (2.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (2.83%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 21 (2.83%) Web Engineer
13 20 (2.70%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 20 (2.70%) IP Network Engineer
14 19 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.97%) Flash
2 18 (2.43%) LDAP
3 12 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (1.48%) SAML
5 9 (1.21%) Middleware
6 7 (0.94%) Kafka
6 7 (0.94%) REST
7 5 (0.67%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.54%) OAuth
8 4 (0.54%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.54%) OpenID
8 4 (0.54%) Spring
9 3 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.40%) Hibernate
9 3 (0.40%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.40%) Loki
10 2 (0.27%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.27%) Java SE
10 2 (0.27%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.27%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.42%) Data Centre
2 67 (9.04%) Replication
3 48 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 47 (6.34%) Cloud Native
5 46 (6.21%) PKI
6 34 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
7 29 (3.91%) Management Information System
8 27 (3.64%) Clustering
8 27 (3.64%) Private Cloud
9 26 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
10 20 (2.70%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (2.16%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.75%) SCADA
15 11 (1.48%) Onboarding
16 10 (1.35%) Operational Technology
17 7 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
17 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
18 6 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 316 (42.65%) Windows
2 243 (32.79%) Linux
3 205 (27.67%) Windows Server
4 54 (7.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (3.37%) VMS
8 23 (3.10%) Windows 10
9 18 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.29%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (2.29%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.75%) Solaris
12 12 (1.62%) Unix
13 10 (1.35%) Mac OS
14 8 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.81%) AIX
16 6 (0.81%) CentOS
16 6 (0.81%) CoreOS
17 4 (0.54%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 141 (19.03%) Migration
3 120 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (12.82%) High Availability
5 94 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 90 (12.15%) Agile
7 83 (11.20%) CI/CD
7 83 (11.20%) DevOps
8 81 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 81 (10.93%) Load Balancing
9 72 (9.72%) ITIL
10 67 (9.04%) Platform Engineering
11 64 (8.64%) Containerisation
12 60 (8.10%) Network Virtualisation
13 57 (7.69%) Data Protection
14 53 (7.15%) Roadmaps
15 50 (6.75%) Capacity Planning
16 49 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 45 (6.07%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (22.54%) PowerShell
2 116 (15.65%) Python
3 77 (10.39%) Bash
4 24 (3.24%) SQL
5 12 (1.62%) Perl
6 11 (1.48%) C
7 9 (1.21%) C++
7 9 (1.21%) Java
7 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.94%) Embedded C
8 7 (0.94%) Embedded C++
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
10 4 (0.54%) COBOL
10 4 (0.54%) PHP
10 4 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.40%) C#
11 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.27%) Go
12 2 (0.27%) Korn
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 283 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 188 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 99 (13.36%) DV Cleared
4 48 (6.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 44 (5.94%) Degree
6 30 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (3.24%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (3.10%) VCAP
9 22 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.70%) CCNP
11 15 (2.02%) MCSE
12 13 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
13 11 (1.48%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.48%) MCSA
14 10 (1.35%) CCNA
14 10 (1.35%) OCP
15 8 (1.08%) CCIE
16 7 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (2.83%) NIST
3 14 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.75%) GDPR
4 13 (1.75%) SLA
5 9 (1.21%) NCSC
6 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.54%) QA
7 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.27%) ISA99
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.27%) RMADS
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.13%) DICOM
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 209 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 181 (24.43%) vSphere
3 163 (22.00%) VMware NSX
4 128 (17.27%) VMware ESXi
5 127 (17.14%) Hyper-V
6 68 (9.18%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (7.96%) Docker
8 42 (5.67%) NFS
9 32 (4.32%) Firmware
10 28 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (2.70%) 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 4 (0.54%) Ceph
15 4 (0.54%) vCloud
16 3 (0.40%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
16 3 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 133 (17.95%) Ansible
2 99 (13.36%) vCenter Server
3 96 (12.96%) Terraform
4 80 (10.80%) Kubernetes
5 60 (8.10%) SCCM
6 55 (7.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 54 (7.29%) vRealize
8 30 (4.05%) Grafana
9 26 (3.51%) Argo
10 25 (3.37%) VxRail
11 22 (2.97%) vMotion
12 20 (2.70%) PowerCLI
13 19 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 19 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (2.02%) SCOM
15 13 (1.75%) Progress Chef
15 13 (1.75%) Prometheus
16 12 (1.62%) FortiGate
16 12 (1.62%) SnapMirror
16 12 (1.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 741 (100.00%) VMware
2 179 (24.16%) Microsoft
3 154 (20.78%) Cisco
4 65 (8.77%) Citrix
4 65 (8.77%) F5
5 64 (8.64%) Red Hat
6 63 (8.50%) NetApp
7 49 (6.61%) IBM
8 45 (6.07%) Dell
9 41 (5.53%) ServiceNow
10 37 (4.99%) Oracle
10 37 (4.99%) SolarWinds
11 36 (4.86%) Palo Alto
11 36 (4.86%) Pure Storage
12 29 (3.91%) Commvault
13 28 (3.78%) Veeam
14 24 (3.24%) McAfee
15 21 (2.83%) Blue Coat
15 21 (2.83%) Broadcom
16 19 (2.56%) CheckPoint