VMware Infrastructure Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 174 122
Rank change year-on-year +19 -52 +28
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 158 180 512
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.60% 1.17% 1.98%
As % of the System Software category 13.52% 12.40% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 104 347
10th Percentile £350 £313 £348
25th Percentile £415 £372 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £541 £600
90th Percentile £675 £643 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £548
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.68% +15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 32
10th Percentile - £37.63 £48.53
25th Percentile - £39.82 £62.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.20 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.87% -26.98% +8.32%
75th Percentile - £70.63 £78.00
90th Percentile - £83.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £40.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.53% -38.08% +30.21%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

VMware Infrastructure
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Infrastructure trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Infrastructure.

VMware Infrastructure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

VMware Infrastructure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Infrastructure.

VMware Infrastructure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.23%) Confluence
3 9 (5.70%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.16%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (32.28%) Azure
2 30 (18.99%) AWS
3 27 (17.09%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (10.13%) IaaS
5 14 (8.86%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.33%) SaaS
7 9 (5.70%) PaaS
8 7 (4.43%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.16%) GCP
10 4 (2.53%) GitHub
10 4 (2.53%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.90%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon ELB
13 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.63%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (18.99%) Firewall
2 24 (15.19%) DNS
3 18 (11.39%) DHCP
4 13 (8.23%) Network Security
4 13 (8.23%) TCP/IP
5 12 (7.59%) VSAN
6 11 (6.96%) VPN
7 10 (6.33%) WAN
8 9 (5.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (5.70%) SD-WAN
9 8 (5.06%) SAN
10 6 (3.80%) LAN
11 5 (3.16%) BGP
11 5 (3.16%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (3.16%) MPLS
11 5 (3.16%) NX-OS
11 5 (3.16%) OSPF
12 4 (2.53%) VLAN
13 3 (1.90%) 4G
13 3 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (1.90%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.90%) OLTP
3 3 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.27%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.63%) MySQL
5 1 (0.63%) Power BI
5 1 (0.63%) Redis
5 1 (0.63%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.49%) JIRA
2 5 (3.16%) Git
3 3 (1.90%) GitLab
3 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) Postman
5 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.33%) Finance
5 7 (4.43%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (24.68%) Architect
2 22 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (10.13%) Technical Architect
4 15 (9.49%) Senior
5 12 (7.59%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 10 (6.33%) Senior Architect
6 10 (6.33%) Senior Technical Architect
7 9 (5.70%) Consultant
7 9 (5.70%) Lead
7 9 (5.70%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.06%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 5 (3.16%) Administrator
10 5 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.16%) Unix Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.33%) Flash
2 5 (3.16%) Kafka
3 3 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.90%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) LDAP
4 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.63%) SAML
4 1 (0.63%) SOAP
4 1 (0.63%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Data Centre
2 16 (10.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (8.23%) Clustering
4 12 (7.59%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (5.70%) PKI
6 8 (5.06%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.80%) Replication
8 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.16%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (3.16%) Operational Technology
8 5 (3.16%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.53%) SCADA
10 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.90%) iPad
11 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 57 (36.08%) Windows
2 40 (25.32%) Linux
3 27 (17.09%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (7.59%) Unix
6 8 (5.06%) AIX
6 8 (5.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.16%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.53%) CentOS
9 3 (1.90%) Solaris
9 3 (1.90%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.27%) SUSE
10 2 (1.27%) VMS
10 2 (1.27%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.27%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.63%) HPUX
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.63%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (18.99%) Migration
3 29 (18.35%) Agile
4 25 (15.82%) High Availability
4 25 (15.82%) ITIL
5 23 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (12.66%) Service Management
7 19 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (11.39%) Containerisation
9 16 (10.13%) Network Virtualisation
9 16 (10.13%) Roadmaps
10 15 (9.49%) CI/CD
11 14 (8.86%) TOGAF
12 13 (8.23%) Data Protection
13 12 (7.59%) DevOps
14 11 (6.96%) Computer Science
14 11 (6.96%) Critical Thinking
14 11 (6.96%) NsoIT
14 11 (6.96%) Use Case
14 11 (6.96%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.92%) PowerShell
2 18 (11.39%) Python
3 12 (7.59%) Bash
4 8 (5.06%) SQL
5 3 (1.90%) Java
5 3 (1.90%) Scala
6 2 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) C
7 1 (0.63%) C#
7 1 (0.63%) Go
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (43.67%) Security Cleared
2 63 (39.87%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (11.39%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.86%) CCNA
6 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (7.59%) Degree
8 10 (6.33%) Master's Degree
9 8 (5.06%) MCSE
10 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
11 5 (3.16%) CCNP
12 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.90%) RHCSA
14 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
14 2 (1.27%) CCIE
14 2 (1.27%) CCIE Data Center
14 2 (1.27%) CISSP
14 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (1.27%) OCA
14 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.23%) NIST
2 9 (5.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (5.70%) NCSC
3 6 (3.80%) SLA
4 3 (1.90%) GDPR
5 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.63%) QA
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (25.32%) Active Directory
2 34 (21.52%) VMware NSX
3 27 (17.09%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (14.56%) Hyper-V
5 17 (10.76%) vSphere
6 15 (9.49%) Docker
7 11 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.90%) DFS Replication
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 36 (22.78%) Ansible
2 19 (12.03%) Terraform
2 19 (12.03%) vCenter Server
3 16 (10.13%) Kubernetes
4 15 (9.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (8.86%) Progress Chef
6 7 (4.43%) Puppet
6 7 (4.43%) SCCM
7 6 (3.80%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (1.90%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.90%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.90%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.27%) Grafana
10 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.27%) VxRail
10 2 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 158 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (25.95%) Cisco
2 41 (25.95%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.49%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.96%) Atlassian
4 11 (6.96%) Oracle
5 10 (6.33%) Palo Alto
6 9 (5.70%) Broadcom
7 8 (5.06%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.43%) IBM
8 7 (4.43%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.80%) NetApp
10 4 (2.53%) Dell
10 4 (2.53%) F5
10 4 (2.53%) Foundry
10 4 (2.53%) Google
10 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.90%) HP
11 3 (1.90%) Splunk
12 2 (1.27%) Citrix