VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 7 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 2.77% 1.47% 4.04%
As % of the System Software category 35.00% 6.67% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £469 £463 £270
25th Percentile £484 £481 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -22.81%
75th Percentile £613 £581 £488
90th Percentile £681 £608 £538
South East median daily rate £500 £546 £513
% change year-on-year -8.47% +6.59% -6.39%

All System Software Skills
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 20 30 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.91% 22.06% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 19
10th Percentile £200 - -
25th Percentile £274 £170 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £200 £325
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -38.46% -25.71%
75th Percentile £538 £401 £488
90th Percentile £608 £445 £538
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in West Sussex

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in West Sussex over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in West Sussex

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Worthing - 6 £525 -
Crawley -9 1 £525 +16.67% 1
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Nutanix
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (14.29%) Solaris
5 1 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Fit Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) VCAP
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (42.86%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (14.29%) SELinux
2 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas