VMware Infrastructure Contracts in London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 208 191
Rank change year-on-year -18 -17 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 125 198 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 1.12% 1.40%
As % of the System Software category 9.16% 10.81% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 121 242
10th Percentile £361 £306 £328
25th Percentile £425 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £638
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £510 £547
% change year-on-year +7.84% -6.76% +15.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £22.08 £50.75
25th Percentile - £22.19 £55.63
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -63.38% +35.53%
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - £33.02 £77.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% -36.00% +37.42%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,365 1,831 2,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.89% 10.35% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,323 2,140
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £413 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 35 32
10th Percentile £22.20 £17.23 £21.03
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.50 £25.19
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -62.50% +107.79%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.75 £48.89 £84.80
England median hourly rate £29.00 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.89% -55.00% +150.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in London

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in London

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in London

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in London

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Central London -6 14 £581 +29.17% 51
West London +18 7 £750 +87.50% 14
South London +2 5 £450 - 1
East London +6 2 £375 -14.77% 18
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.20%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.80%) Confluence
4 4 (3.20%) Apache
5 2 (1.60%) nginx
5 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.60%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.80%) IIS
6 1 (0.80%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.80%) Azure
2 27 (21.60%) AWS
3 22 (17.60%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (13.60%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.00%) IaaS
6 9 (7.20%) GitHub
7 8 (6.40%) GCP
8 7 (5.60%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.00%) SaaS
10 4 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.40%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.40%) PaaS
12 2 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.60%) Asana
12 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.60%) Serverless
13 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.40%) DNS
1 28 (22.40%) Firewall
2 22 (17.60%) TCP/IP
3 18 (14.40%) DHCP
4 13 (10.40%) VPN
4 13 (10.40%) VSAN
4 13 (10.40%) WAN
5 12 (9.60%) SAN
6 11 (8.80%) LAN
6 11 (8.80%) NAS
7 10 (8.00%) VLAN
8 9 (7.20%) Network Security
9 8 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (3.20%) iSCSI
11 3 (2.40%) HTTP
11 3 (2.40%) HTTPS
11 3 (2.40%) ISDN
11 3 (2.40%) MPLS
11 3 (2.40%) PSTN
11 3 (2.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.20%) Big Data
2 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.40%) MariaDB
3 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.40%) MySQL
3 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.80%) Power BI
5 1 (0.80%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) JIRA
2 7 (5.60%) Git
3 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.40%) GitLab
5 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.40%) Subversion
6 2 (1.60%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.80%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.80%) Finance
3 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.20%) Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.60%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.80%) Legal
8 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.40%) Law
8 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.40%) Marketing
8 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.80%) Back Office
10 1 (0.80%) French Language
10 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (13.60%) Architect
3 13 (10.40%) VMware Engineer
4 11 (8.80%) Linux Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.40%) Network Engineer
6 8 (6.40%) Senior
6 8 (6.40%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) Administrator
7 7 (5.60%) Consultant
8 6 (4.80%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Lead
9 5 (4.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.20%) Network Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) .NET
1 5 (4.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (2.40%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (2.40%) CSS
2 3 (2.40%) HTML
2 3 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (2.40%) REST
3 2 (1.60%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.60%) LDAP
3 2 (1.60%) Node.js
3 2 (1.60%) React
4 1 (0.80%) EDI
4 1 (0.80%) LAMP
4 1 (0.80%) Middleware
4 1 (0.80%) RESTful
4 1 (0.80%) Zend Framework
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.40%) Clustering
3 8 (6.40%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (5.60%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.80%) PKI
6 5 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.20%) Replication
7 4 (3.20%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.40%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.60%) Blog
9 2 (1.60%) CMDB
9 2 (1.60%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (52.80%) Windows
2 48 (38.40%) Linux
3 33 (26.40%) Windows Server
4 20 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (13.60%) Windows 10
6 9 (7.20%) CentOS
7 8 (6.40%) Ubuntu
7 8 (6.40%) Unix
8 6 (4.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (4.00%) Apple iOS
10 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (2.40%) Android
11 3 (2.40%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.60%) Solaris
12 2 (1.60%) SUSE
12 2 (1.60%) VMS
12 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.80%) Debian
13 1 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (19.20%) Migration
4 19 (15.20%) High Availability
5 17 (13.60%) ITSM
6 13 (10.40%) ITIL
7 11 (8.80%) DevOps
8 10 (8.00%) Agile
8 10 (8.00%) Roadmaps
8 10 (8.00%) Service Delivery
9 9 (7.20%) Network Virtualisation
9 9 (7.20%) Service Management
10 8 (6.40%) Customer Service
10 8 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (6.40%) Task Automation
11 7 (5.60%) CI/CD
11 7 (5.60%) Patch Management
11 7 (5.60%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (5.60%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.60%) PowerShell
2 19 (15.20%) Python
3 9 (7.20%) SQL
4 7 (5.60%) Bash
5 6 (4.80%) C#
5 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.00%) Perl
7 3 (2.40%) PHP
8 2 (1.60%) C++
8 2 (1.60%) Go
8 2 (1.60%) Java
8 2 (1.60%) VB
9 1 (0.80%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.80%) C
9 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) Degree
4 8 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.80%) CCNP
6 4 (3.20%) CCNA
6 4 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.40%) CCIE
7 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (2.40%) VCAP
8 2 (1.60%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.80%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CCDP
9 1 (0.80%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) GDPR
2 4 (3.20%) NIST
3 3 (2.40%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.60%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (1.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) PMO
5 1 (0.80%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (41.60%) Active Directory
2 28 (22.40%) VMware ESXi
3 25 (20.00%) vSphere
4 14 (11.20%) Docker
5 13 (10.40%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (9.60%) Hyper-V
6 12 (9.60%) VMware NSX
7 9 (7.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (3.20%) Firmware
8 4 (3.20%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (2.40%) BitLocker
9 3 (2.40%) KVM
9 3 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (2.40%) vCloud
9 3 (2.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (1.60%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.80%) NFS
11 1 (0.80%) XenApp
11 1 (0.80%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (14.40%) Ansible
2 17 (13.60%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.20%) vCenter Server
4 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (8.00%) Puppet
5 8 (6.40%) Progress Chef
6 7 (5.60%) SCCM
6 7 (5.60%) Terraform
7 4 (3.20%) vMotion
7 4 (3.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (2.40%) Kibana
8 3 (2.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.60%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.60%) Nagios
9 2 (1.60%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.60%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 125 (100.00%) VMware
2 51 (40.80%) Microsoft
3 29 (23.20%) Cisco
4 17 (13.60%) Red Hat
5 12 (9.60%) Citrix
6 8 (6.40%) EMC
7 7 (5.60%) Meraki
7 7 (5.60%) NetApp
7 7 (5.60%) Oracle
8 6 (4.80%) F5
8 6 (4.80%) Splunk
9 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.00%) Veritas
10 4 (3.20%) AppDynamics
10 4 (3.20%) Juniper
10 4 (3.20%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.40%) Dell
11 3 (2.40%) HP
11 3 (2.40%) IBM
11 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
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