VMware Infrastructure Contracts

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 103 135
Rank change year-on-year -28 +32 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 751 1,355 1,767
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.77% 2.37% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 16.37% 18.06% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 935 1,296
10th Percentile £273 £319 £263
25th Percentile £375 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +14.30% +6.27%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £653 £700 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £525 £437
% change year-on-year -4.67% +20.14% +2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 71 40
10th Percentile £22.28 £43.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £38.22 £58.34 £28.41
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.89
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +35.74% -6.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.13 £61.45
90th Percentile £80.88 £85.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.22 £61.35 £45.14
% change year-on-year -29.56% +35.91% -9.72%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,589 7,502 11,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 13.10% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 5,326 8,485
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 260 309
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.24 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +184.21% -11.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.77 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £43.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -56.16% +150.00% -4.21%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 Contract 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 20 May 2024. 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 -17 681 £500 -8.42% 492
UK excluding London -11 521 £501 -4.67% 399
South East -2 237 £501 -4.57% 128
London -14 192 £500 -9.09% 111
Work from Home -65 169 £475 -9.52% 153
South West -6 94 £530 +0.95% 53
North of England -4 79 £345 -31.00% 87
North West -23 46 £325 -35.00% 52
Midlands -26 46 £513 +2.50% 83
Scotland +25 38 £453 -2.37% 9
West Midlands +6 33 £538 +16.22% 51
Yorkshire +25 29 £380 -11.63% 28
East of England -47 22 £650 +1.96% 41
East Midlands -8 12 £450 -30.77% 32
Wales -6 5 £285 -48.18% 4
North East +8 4 £600 +14.29% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 - 1

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 95 (12.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (5.86%) Confluence
3 33 (4.39%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (1.73%) Exchange Server 2013
6 12 (1.60%) IIS
7 7 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.93%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (0.67%) nginx
9 4 (0.53%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.53%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.40%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.27%) Traefik
12 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Site Server
12 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.13%) Eikon
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.13%) RMDS
4 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 194 (25.83%) Azure
2 115 (15.31%) AWS
3 97 (12.92%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (4.93%) IaaS
5 32 (4.26%) GCP
6 31 (4.13%) PaaS
7 23 (3.06%) Entra ID
8 21 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (2.80%) Nutanix
8 21 (2.80%) SaaS
9 18 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.40%) GitHub
10 16 (2.13%) OCI
11 12 (1.60%) OpenShift
12 10 (1.33%) Mimecast
12 10 (1.33%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.07%) Rubrik
14 7 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 171 (22.77%) DNS
2 167 (22.24%) Firewall
3 129 (17.18%) DHCP
4 105 (13.98%) SAN
5 81 (10.79%) WAN
6 77 (10.25%) LAN
7 72 (9.59%) VPN
8 52 (6.92%) TCP/IP
9 40 (5.33%) VSAN
10 37 (4.93%) NAS
10 37 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (4.26%) VLAN
12 28 (3.73%) Wireless
13 21 (2.80%) Network Security
14 20 (2.66%) MPLS
14 20 (2.66%) VoIP
15 16 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
16 15 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (2.00%) SD-WAN
17 13 (1.73%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.73%) Oracle Database
4 9 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.20%) MySQL
5 7 (0.93%) Metadata
5 7 (0.93%) PowerPivot
5 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Power View
7 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.53%) Power BI
8 3 (0.40%) DB2
8 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.27%) CouchDB
9 2 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.13%) Big Data
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 57 (7.59%) JIRA
2 21 (2.80%) Robot Framework
3 19 (2.53%) GitLab
4 18 (2.40%) Git
4 18 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.80%) Selenium
7 6 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.40%) CppUnit
8 3 (0.40%) PVCS
8 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) Subversion
10 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 218 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 87 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.06%) Finance
5 27 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (2.93%) Banking
7 20 (2.66%) Military
8 13 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.60%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.07%) Marketing
11 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.80%) Billing
12 6 (0.80%) Publishing
13 4 (0.53%) French Language
14 3 (0.40%) Advertising
14 3 (0.40%) Electronics
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 185 (24.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 88 (11.72%) Architect
3 59 (7.86%) VMware Engineer
4 48 (6.39%) Network Engineer
5 47 (6.26%) Support Engineer
6 44 (5.86%) Senior
7 38 (5.06%) Consultant
8 34 (4.53%) Administrator
8 34 (4.53%) Analyst
9 32 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
10 29 (3.86%) Wintel Engineer
11 27 (3.60%) Storage Engineer
12 26 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
13 24 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (3.06%) IT Engineer
15 21 (2.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 21 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (2.66%) Test Engineer
16 20 (2.66%) Virtualisation Engineer
17 19 (2.53%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.40%) .NET
2 16 (2.13%) LDAP
3 10 (1.33%) Middleware
4 9 (1.20%) CSS
4 9 (1.20%) HTML
4 9 (1.20%) Web Services
5 5 (0.67%) Flash
5 5 (0.67%) REST
6 4 (0.53%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.53%) EDI
6 4 (0.53%) ModSecurity
6 4 (0.53%) YAML
7 3 (0.40%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.40%) J2EE
7 3 (0.40%) Node.js
7 3 (0.40%) React
7 3 (0.40%) Vue
7 3 (0.40%) XMPP
8 2 (0.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 123 (16.38%) Data Centre
2 65 (8.66%) PKI
3 55 (7.32%) Clustering
4 34 (4.53%) Client/Server
5 24 (3.20%) Replication
6 23 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.06%) Private Cloud
7 18 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.07%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (0.93%) NHS
10 7 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.80%) Blackberry
11 6 (0.80%) CMDB
11 6 (0.80%) Fat Client
11 6 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 6 (0.80%) Thin Client
11 6 (0.80%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 403 (53.66%) Windows
2 275 (36.62%) Windows Server
3 235 (31.29%) Linux
4 100 (13.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 77 (10.25%) Windows 10
6 72 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 71 (9.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 55 (7.32%) Unix
9 54 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (4.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 29 (3.86%) VMS
12 27 (3.60%) Solaris
13 22 (2.93%) Windows 7
14 17 (2.26%) Mac OS
14 17 (2.26%) Oracle Linux
14 17 (2.26%) Windows XP
15 15 (2.00%) CentOS
16 10 (1.33%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.80%) Debian
18 5 (0.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (30.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 168 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (15.05%) Migration
4 110 (14.65%) Agile
5 101 (13.45%) ITIL
6 68 (9.05%) DevOps
7 67 (8.92%) Disaster Recovery
8 59 (7.86%) High Availability
9 48 (6.39%) Customer Service
9 48 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (6.26%) Server Management
11 45 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (5.59%) Computer Science
13 41 (5.46%) Data Protection
14 40 (5.33%) Performance Tuning
14 40 (5.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 39 (5.19%) Task Automation
16 37 (4.93%) Decision-Making
17 36 (4.79%) Containerisation
18 35 (4.66%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 177 (23.57%) PowerShell
2 105 (13.98%) Python
3 61 (8.12%) SQL
4 47 (6.26%) Bash
5 21 (2.80%) VBScript
6 20 (2.66%) Java
7 15 (2.00%) C#
8 13 (1.73%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.20%) Go
10 9 (1.20%) Perl
11 7 (0.93%) C++
11 7 (0.93%) Ruby
12 5 (0.67%) C
13 3 (0.40%) PHP
13 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) Ada
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 288 (38.35%) Security Cleared
2 144 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 131 (17.44%) DV Cleared
4 116 (15.45%) Degree
5 69 (9.19%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (7.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 47 (6.26%) CCNA
9 38 (5.06%) CCNP
10 36 (4.79%) MCSE
11 28 (3.73%) MCSA
12 26 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (1.86%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.60%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (1.33%) CCIE
16 8 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
17 7 (0.93%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.80%) A+ Certification
18 6 (0.80%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.86%) SLA
2 13 (1.73%) GDPR
3 10 (1.33%) PMO
4 8 (1.07%) NIST
5 7 (0.93%) RMADS
6 6 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) QA
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 306 (40.75%) Active Directory
2 168 (22.37%) Hyper-V
3 121 (16.11%) vSphere
4 111 (14.78%) VMware NSX
5 84 (11.19%) VMware ESXi
6 41 (5.46%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (4.93%) Docker
8 34 (4.53%) KVM
9 30 (3.99%) Virtual Servers
10 18 (2.40%) VMware Workstation
10 18 (2.40%) XenApp
11 15 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
12 12 (1.60%) Firmware
12 12 (1.60%) vCloud
13 6 (0.80%) BitLocker
13 6 (0.80%) VMware Server
14 5 (0.67%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.53%) Samba
16 3 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 105 (13.98%) SCCM
2 101 (13.45%) vCenter Server
3 90 (11.98%) Ansible
4 73 (9.72%) Kubernetes
5 64 (8.52%) Terraform
6 54 (7.19%) WSUS
7 38 (5.06%) SCOM
8 37 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (3.33%) NetBackup
10 20 (2.66%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Clustering
11 14 (1.86%) VxRail
12 13 (1.73%) Puppet
12 13 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (1.60%) vRealize
14 11 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
14 11 (1.46%) Nagios
15 10 (1.33%) Nessus
16 9 (1.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 751 (100.00%) VMware
2 263 (35.02%) Microsoft
3 117 (15.58%) Cisco
4 71 (9.45%) Dell
5 70 (9.32%) Citrix
6 63 (8.39%) Red Hat
7 57 (7.59%) Oracle
8 47 (6.26%) Veeam
9 39 (5.19%) HP
10 35 (4.66%) EMC
11 31 (4.13%) Palo Alto
12 27 (3.60%) Juniper
13 24 (3.20%) SolarWinds
14 23 (3.06%) Splunk
15 21 (2.80%) Google
16 20 (2.66%) IBM
16 20 (2.66%) ServiceNow
17 17 (2.26%) Symantec
18 16 (2.13%) Atlassian
19 15 (2.00%) Qualys