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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 182 116
Rank change year-on-year +18 -66 -26
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 927 504 767
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.52% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 17.04% 12.77% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 326 459
10th Percentile £318 £250 £313
25th Percentile £425 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £589
90th Percentile £705 £650 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 3 12
10th Percentile £19.25 £24.40 £21.37
25th Percentile £32.52 £26.50 £23.45
Median hourly rate £68.38 £30.00 £29.98
Median % change year-on-year +127.92% +0.06% -54.56%
75th Percentile £88.99 £48.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £93.16 £59.80 £105.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £66.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.38% +195.56% -65.90%

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 5,440 3,948 4,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.94% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,565 2,489 2,903
10th Percentile £218 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £669 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 120 107
10th Percentile £15.92 £13.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.59 £17.93
Median hourly rate £62.82 £33.39 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.16% +21.40% -45.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £76.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £90.21 £90.15 £82.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £62.25 £28.75
% change year-on-year +1.98% +116.52% -28.13%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +5 815 £525 -4.55% 613
UK excluding London +2 653 £515 -6.36% 447
South East -10 206 £538 -2.27% 138
London -4 197 £525 +5.00% 191
North of England +8 180 £480 +12.94% 79
Work from Home -13 180 £501 +0.20% 239
Midlands -17 94 £450 -18.18% 76
North West +5 83 £450 +2.86% 45
Yorkshire -12 81 £525 +27.27% 22
South West -26 77 £638 +14.86% 63
West Midlands -18 70 £450 -21.36% 53
East of England -5 64 £563 +2.27% 53
Scotland +5 41 £425 -30.61% 32
East Midlands -9 24 £438 -9.33% 23
North East -23 17 £400 - 12
Wales - 11 £550 - 6

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 49 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.27%) Confluence
4 20 (2.16%) IIS
5 13 (1.40%) CMS
6 9 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.76%) JBoss
7 7 (0.76%) nginx
7 7 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) Apache
8 4 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.43%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.32%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.22%) Houdini
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) NUKE
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 243 (26.21%) Azure
2 132 (14.24%) AWS
3 86 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.23%) Entra ID
5 50 (5.39%) OpenShift
6 37 (3.99%) GCP
7 33 (3.56%) GitHub
8 28 (3.02%) IaaS
9 23 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (2.48%) Nutanix
10 20 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (1.83%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.83%) Rubrik
12 15 (1.62%) OneDrive
13 13 (1.40%) PaaS
14 12 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.29%) SaaS
15 8 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.86%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 282 (30.42%) DNS
2 178 (19.20%) DHCP
2 178 (19.20%) Firewall
3 99 (10.68%) TCP/IP
4 77 (8.31%) VSAN
5 70 (7.55%) SAN
6 68 (7.34%) VPN
7 67 (7.23%) VLAN
8 58 (6.26%) Network Security
9 56 (6.04%) WAN
10 51 (5.50%) LAN
11 42 (4.53%) SSL
12 39 (4.21%) NAS
13 33 (3.56%) BGP
13 33 (3.56%) HTTP
14 28 (3.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (2.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 22 (2.37%) Wireshark
17 21 (2.27%) BIG-IP
18 20 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (1.83%) Power BI
4 11 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (0.97%) Big Data
6 9 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.76%) Oracle BI EE
8 6 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.22%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.22%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 44 (4.75%) JIRA
2 27 (2.91%) Git
2 27 (2.91%) GitLab
2 27 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.29%) Fiddler
4 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.43%) CppUnit
5 4 (0.43%) PVCS
6 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.22%) MSI
7 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
8 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.11%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 217 (23.41%) Social Skills
2 98 (10.57%) Finance
3 91 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
5 38 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.24%) Banking
7 28 (3.02%) Legal
8 24 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Law
13 8 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.76%) Back Office
15 6 (0.65%) Police
15 6 (0.65%) Retail
16 5 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 229 (24.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 145 (15.64%) Senior
3 98 (10.57%) VMware Engineer
4 85 (9.17%) Architect
5 60 (6.47%) Network Engineer
6 56 (6.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (5.72%) Support Engineer
8 51 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (4.96%) Lead
10 45 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
11 38 (4.10%) Storage Engineer
12 37 (3.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 36 (3.88%) Consultant
14 34 (3.67%) Administrator
15 29 (3.13%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 26 (2.80%) VMware Consultant
17 24 (2.59%) IT Engineer
17 24 (2.59%) Server Engineer
18 23 (2.48%) Wintel Engineer
19 22 (2.37%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (13.70%) Terraform
2 28 (3.02%) REST
3 22 (2.37%) JSON
4 17 (1.83%) Kafka
5 15 (1.62%) Middleware
6 12 (1.29%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.29%) LDAP
6 12 (1.29%) XMPP
6 12 (1.29%) YAML
7 11 (1.19%) .NET
8 9 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.76%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.65%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.65%) Redfish
11 5 (0.54%) JDBC
11 5 (0.54%) ODBC
11 5 (0.54%) XML
12 4 (0.43%) Flash
13 3 (0.32%) Java SE
13 3 (0.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 158 (17.04%) Data Centre
2 76 (8.20%) PKI
3 69 (7.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 52 (5.61%) Enterprise Storage
5 49 (5.29%) Private Cloud
6 43 (4.64%) Clustering
7 40 (4.31%) Replication
8 34 (3.67%) Onboarding
9 32 (3.45%) Management Information System
10 29 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (3.02%) Public Cloud
12 26 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (2.48%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (1.83%) Operational Technology
16 15 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (1.51%) Product Ownership
18 13 (1.40%) SCADA
19 12 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
20 9 (0.97%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 498 (53.72%) Windows
2 334 (36.03%) Windows Server
3 248 (26.75%) Linux
4 49 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.91%) Unix
6 27 (2.91%) Windows 10
7 26 (2.80%) VMS
8 22 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 13 (1.40%) Data ONTAP
11 13 (1.40%) Ubuntu
12 12 (1.29%) Solaris
13 11 (1.19%) AIX
14 9 (0.97%) CentOS
15 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.65%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.32%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (33.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 178 (19.20%) ITIL
2 178 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
3 166 (17.91%) Migration
4 160 (17.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (14.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 126 (13.59%) Technical Leadership
7 118 (12.73%) CI/CD
8 110 (11.87%) Change Management
9 99 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
10 95 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (10.14%) Project Delivery
12 93 (10.03%) ITSM
13 92 (9.92%) Root Cause Analysis
14 91 (9.82%) Validation
15 90 (9.71%) Agile
15 90 (9.71%) High Availability
16 88 (9.49%) DevOps
17 87 (9.39%) Service Management
18 82 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 220 (23.73%) PowerShell
2 135 (14.56%) Python
3 82 (8.85%) Bash
4 53 (5.72%) SQL
5 25 (2.70%) Java
6 10 (1.08%) Perl
7 9 (0.97%) Bicep
7 9 (0.97%) C
7 9 (0.97%) Go
8 7 (0.76%) C#
9 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.43%) C++
10 4 (0.43%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.32%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.32%) Korn
11 3 (0.32%) Lua
11 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.32%) VB
12 2 (0.22%) COBOL
12 2 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 447 (48.22%) Security Cleared
2 265 (28.59%) SC Cleared
3 202 (21.79%) DV Cleared
4 65 (7.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (6.36%) Degree
6 50 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (4.31%) VCAP
9 29 (3.13%) CCNP
10 26 (2.80%) Azure Certification
11 24 (2.59%) MCSE
12 22 (2.37%) CCNA
13 20 (2.16%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.73%) MCSA
15 12 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.86%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.70%) SLA
2 18 (1.94%) NIST
2 18 (1.94%) QA
3 14 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.29%) NCSC
5 11 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (0.86%) GDPR
7 5 (0.54%) NIST 800
7 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.43%) GxP
9 3 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.32%) GRC
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 321 (34.63%) Active Directory
2 225 (24.27%) vSphere
3 216 (23.30%) VMware ESXi
4 206 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 143 (15.43%) VMware NSX
6 94 (10.14%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (6.58%) Docker
8 44 (4.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 36 (3.88%) Firmware
10 22 (2.37%) NFS
11 21 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
12 19 (2.05%) KVM
13 12 (1.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 10 (1.08%) XenApp
15 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 9 (0.97%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.76%) Ceph
16 7 (0.76%) oVirt
16 7 (0.76%) vCloud
17 6 (0.65%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 169 (18.23%) Ansible
2 147 (15.86%) vCenter Server
3 138 (14.89%) Kubernetes
4 63 (6.80%) SCOM
5 62 (6.69%) SCCM
6 44 (4.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (3.99%) VxRail
8 23 (2.48%) Prometheus
8 23 (2.48%) vRealize
9 21 (2.27%) Grafana
10 18 (1.94%) Puppet
11 17 (1.83%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.73%) Cisco CUCM
12 16 (1.73%) PowerCLI
13 14 (1.51%) WSUS
14 13 (1.40%) Avamar
14 13 (1.40%) Dell DRAC
14 13 (1.40%) vMotion
15 12 (1.29%) Failover Clustering
15 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 927 (100.00%) VMware
2 280 (30.20%) Microsoft
3 156 (16.83%) Cisco
4 69 (7.44%) Red Hat
5 66 (7.12%) Citrix
6 65 (7.01%) NetApp
7 57 (6.15%) Dell
8 46 (4.96%) SolarWinds
9 44 (4.75%) Oracle
9 44 (4.75%) ServiceNow
10 38 (4.10%) Veeam
11 37 (3.99%) F5
12 32 (3.45%) Palo Alto
13 28 (3.02%) Juniper
14 26 (2.80%) Fortinet
15 23 (2.48%) IBM
16 21 (2.27%) Broadcom
17 20 (2.16%) Remedy
18 19 (2.05%) McAfee
19 18 (1.94%) CyberArk