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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 175 120
Rank change year-on-year +21 -55 +30
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 153 181 514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.55% 1.18% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 13.14% 12.47% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 104 345
10th Percentile £350 £313 £347
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 £600 £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 34
10th Percentile - £37.63 £48.78
25th Percentile - £39.82 £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.20 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.87% -26.98% +8.32%
75th Percentile - £70.63 £77.88
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 1,164 1,452 3,192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.76% 9.48% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 1,058 2,284
10th Percentile £363 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.31% -4.41% -
75th Percentile £625 £612 £632
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 35 103
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.20
25th Percentile £52.44 £16.25 £47.95
Median hourly rate £65.50 £46.39 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.19% -28.63% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.13
90th Percentile £92.50 £85.00 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +22.22% -58.14% +168.75%

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 2 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 (9.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.50%) Confluence
3 9 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.27%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (32.03%) Azure
2 29 (18.95%) AWS
3 26 (16.99%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (9.15%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.84%) IaaS
6 7 (4.58%) OpenShift
7 6 (3.92%) SaaS
8 5 (3.27%) GCP
8 5 (3.27%) PaaS
9 4 (2.61%) GitHub
9 4 (2.61%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.96%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.61%) Firewall
2 24 (15.69%) DNS
3 18 (11.76%) DHCP
4 13 (8.50%) Network Security
4 13 (8.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (7.19%) VPN
6 10 (6.54%) WAN
7 9 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (5.88%) SD-WAN
8 8 (5.23%) SAN
8 8 (5.23%) VSAN
9 6 (3.92%) LAN
10 5 (3.27%) BGP
10 5 (3.27%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.27%) MPLS
10 5 (3.27%) NX-OS
10 5 (3.27%) OSPF
11 4 (2.61%) VLAN
12 3 (1.96%) 4G
12 3 (1.96%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.61%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.31%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.31%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.31%) OLTP
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) Redis
5 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.80%) JIRA
2 5 (3.27%) Git
3 3 (1.96%) GitLab
3 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.42%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Finance
5 7 (4.58%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (22.88%) Architect
2 23 (15.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (7.84%) Technical Architect
3 12 (7.84%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 11 (7.19%) Senior
5 9 (5.88%) Consultant
5 9 (5.88%) Lead
5 9 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 9 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.23%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (3.92%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 6 (3.92%) Senior Architect
7 6 (3.92%) Senior Technical Architect
8 5 (3.27%) Administrator
8 5 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.27%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (3.27%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.27%) Unix Engineer
8 5 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.54%) Flash
2 4 (2.61%) Kafka
3 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.96%) REST
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.65%) SAML
4 1 (0.65%) SOAP
4 1 (0.65%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.99%) Data Centre
2 13 (8.50%) Clustering
3 12 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.23%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.27%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.27%) PKI
6 5 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.27%) Replication
7 4 (2.61%) SCADA
8 2 (1.31%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.31%) iPad
8 2 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 57 (37.25%) Windows
2 40 (26.14%) Linux
3 27 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (7.84%) Unix
6 8 (5.23%) AIX
6 8 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.92%) Windows 10
8 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.61%) CentOS
10 3 (1.96%) Solaris
10 3 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.31%) SUSE
11 2 (1.31%) VMS
11 2 (1.31%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.31%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.65%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (20.26%) Migration
3 29 (18.95%) Agile
4 25 (16.34%) High Availability
5 21 (13.73%) ITIL
6 20 (13.07%) Service Management
7 19 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (10.46%) Network Virtualisation
8 16 (10.46%) Roadmaps
9 13 (8.50%) Containerisation
9 13 (8.50%) Data Protection
10 12 (7.84%) DevOps
11 11 (7.19%) CI/CD
11 11 (7.19%) Critical Thinking
11 11 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (7.19%) NsoIT
11 11 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (7.19%) Validation
11 11 (7.19%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.38%) PowerShell
2 18 (11.76%) Python
3 12 (7.84%) Bash
4 7 (4.58%) SQL
5 2 (1.31%) Java
5 2 (1.31%) Perl
5 2 (1.31%) Scala
6 1 (0.65%) C
6 1 (0.65%) C#
6 1 (0.65%) Go
6 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (43.14%) Security Cleared
2 60 (39.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (9.15%) CCNA
6 12 (7.84%) Degree
7 10 (6.54%) Master's Degree
8 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.27%) CCNP
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.61%) MCSE
11 3 (1.96%) RHCSA
12 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.31%) CCIE
12 2 (1.31%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (1.31%) CISSP
12 2 (1.31%) MCP
12 2 (1.31%) OCA
12 2 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.88%) NIST
2 6 (3.92%) SLA
3 5 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.27%) NCSC
4 3 (1.96%) GDPR
5 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.65%) QA
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 30 (19.61%) VMware NSX
3 27 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (14.38%) Hyper-V
5 17 (11.11%) vSphere
6 14 (9.15%) Docker
7 11 (7.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.96%) DFS Replication
8 3 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (23.53%) Ansible
2 19 (12.42%) Terraform
2 19 (12.42%) vCenter Server
3 15 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (9.15%) Progress Chef
5 7 (4.58%) Puppet
5 7 (4.58%) SCCM
6 6 (3.92%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.61%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (1.96%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.96%) Tivoli
8 3 (1.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.31%) Grafana
9 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.31%) VxRail
9 2 (1.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 153 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (26.80%) Microsoft
3 37 (24.18%) Cisco
4 15 (9.80%) Red Hat
5 11 (7.19%) Atlassian
5 11 (7.19%) Oracle
6 9 (5.88%) Broadcom
7 8 (5.23%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.58%) IBM
8 7 (4.58%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.92%) NetApp
9 6 (3.92%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.61%) Dell
10 4 (2.61%) F5
10 4 (2.61%) Foundry
10 4 (2.61%) Google
10 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.96%) HP
11 3 (1.96%) Splunk
12 2 (1.31%) Citrix