VMware Infrastructure Contracts with Work from Home Options

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 115 151
Rank change year-on-year -55 +36 -22
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 179 511 805
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.22% 2.13% 1.81%
As % of the System Software category 12.42% 17.34% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 335 604
10th Percentile £313 £351 £300
25th Percentile £404 £444 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £646 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £508 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -4.25% +11.58% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 33 12
10th Percentile - £47.68 £28.41
25th Percentile £37.63 £62.50 £43.54
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £61.97
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +6.51% +16.37%
75th Percentile £46.44 £78.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £48.58 £87.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% +36.84% -5.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,441 2,947 5,367
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.79% 12.30% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 2,091 3,992
10th Percentile £290 £285 £319
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £633 £625
90th Percentile £678 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 111 86
10th Percentile - £18.03 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £18.55
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +142.99% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £56.56
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.75 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Infrastructure trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure.

VMware Infrastructure daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

VMware Infrastructure daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure.

VMware Infrastructure hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 25 (13.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.15%) Confluence
3 6 (3.35%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.68%) IIS
5 3 (1.68%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (1.68%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (24.58%) Azure
2 35 (19.55%) AWS
3 25 (13.97%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.82%) IaaS
5 10 (5.59%) PaaS
6 8 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.47%) GCP
7 7 (3.91%) Nutanix
7 7 (3.91%) SaaS
8 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.79%) Rubrik
8 5 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.23%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.12%) GitHub
11 2 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 49 (27.37%) Firewall
2 30 (16.76%) DNS
3 28 (15.64%) DHCP
3 28 (15.64%) SAN
4 20 (11.17%) TCP/IP
5 16 (8.94%) WAN
6 15 (8.38%) LAN
7 12 (6.70%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (6.15%) NAS
8 11 (6.15%) VLAN
9 9 (5.03%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (5.03%) Internet
9 9 (5.03%) SD-WAN
10 8 (4.47%) VPN
11 6 (3.35%) Wireless
12 5 (2.79%) Kerberos
12 5 (2.79%) NetScaler
12 5 (2.79%) NX-OS
12 5 (2.79%) VSAN
12 5 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.79%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.68%) Metadata
4 3 (1.68%) PowerPivot
4 3 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Power View
6 1 (0.56%) DB2
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (8.94%) JIRA
2 9 (5.03%) Git
3 8 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.79%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.56%) Subversion
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.53%) Finance
3 14 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (4.47%) Banking
6 6 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Billing
8 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Military
10 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.12%) Front Office
10 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.76%) Architect
2 29 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (12.29%) Consultant
4 14 (7.82%) Senior
4 14 (7.82%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (5.59%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 8 (4.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (4.47%) IT Engineer
6 8 (4.47%) Support Engineer
6 8 (4.47%) VMware Consultant
7 7 (3.91%) Network Architect
7 7 (3.91%) Network Consultant
7 7 (3.91%) Python Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (3.35%) Senior Network Consultant
8 6 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.35%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.91%) Middleware
2 6 (3.35%) .NET
3 5 (2.79%) LDAP
3 5 (2.79%) YAML
4 4 (2.23%) REST
5 3 (1.68%) CSS
5 3 (1.68%) EDI
5 3 (1.68%) HTML
6 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.12%) ADSI
6 2 (1.12%) Web Services
7 1 (0.56%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.20%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.91%) Clustering
3 7 (3.91%) Replication
4 6 (3.35%) PKI
4 6 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 3 (1.68%) CCTV
7 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.68%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.68%) SCADA
7 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.12%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 76 (42.46%) Windows
2 52 (29.05%) Linux
3 44 (24.58%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (7.26%) Unix
6 11 (6.15%) Solaris
6 11 (6.15%) Windows 10
6 11 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (5.59%) Oracle Linux
7 10 (5.59%) VMS
8 8 (4.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.68%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.12%) CentOS
12 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.56%) Android
13 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.23%) Migration
2 35 (19.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (13.41%) Agile
5 22 (12.29%) ITIL
6 19 (10.61%) DevOps
7 18 (10.06%) Network Virtualisation
8 15 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (7.26%) Containerisation
9 13 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (7.26%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (6.70%) Customer Service
10 12 (6.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (6.70%) High Availability
10 12 (6.70%) Task Automation
11 11 (6.15%) Data Migration
11 11 (6.15%) Time Management
12 10 (5.59%) Roadmaps
13 9 (5.03%) Computer Science
13 9 (5.03%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.23%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.17%) Python
3 11 (6.15%) SQL
4 10 (5.59%) Bash
5 6 (3.35%) Perl
6 4 (2.23%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.12%) C++
8 2 (1.12%) Java
8 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.56%) C#
9 1 (0.56%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.56%) Ruby
9 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
1 21 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.17%) Degree
3 13 (7.26%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.70%) CCNP
5 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.91%) CCIE
7 5 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.79%) MCSE
7 5 (2.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.23%) CCNA
8 4 (2.23%) MCSA
8 4 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.12%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.82%) SLA
2 9 (5.03%) GDPR
3 6 (3.35%) PMO
4 5 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (30.73%) Active Directory
2 38 (21.23%) VMware NSX
3 36 (20.11%) vSphere
4 29 (16.20%) Hyper-V
5 16 (8.94%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (7.26%) Docker
7 12 (6.70%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.91%) KVM
9 6 (3.35%) XenApp
10 5 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (2.23%) XenDesktop
12 2 (1.12%) Ceph
12 2 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.12%) QEMU
12 2 (1.12%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.12%) vCloud
12 2 (1.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.56%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (14.53%) Ansible
2 19 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.06%) SCCM
4 15 (8.38%) Terraform
5 10 (5.59%) vCenter Server
6 8 (4.47%) Puppet
7 6 (3.35%) Nessus
8 5 (2.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (2.79%) Netcool
8 5 (2.79%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.79%) Tivoli
8 5 (2.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (2.79%) WSUS
9 4 (2.23%) Avamar
9 4 (2.23%) Salt
9 4 (2.23%) VxRail
10 3 (1.68%) CSIRT
10 3 (1.68%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 179 (100.00%) VMware
2 69 (38.55%) Microsoft
3 35 (19.55%) Cisco
4 19 (10.61%) Dell
5 18 (10.06%) Citrix
6 14 (7.82%) Qualys
6 14 (7.82%) Red Hat
7 13 (7.26%) ServiceNow
8 12 (6.70%) Oracle
9 10 (5.59%) EMC
9 10 (5.59%) Palo Alto
9 10 (5.59%) Splunk
10 9 (5.03%) CyberArk
11 6 (3.35%) HP
11 6 (3.35%) Veeam
12 5 (2.79%) Apple
12 5 (2.79%) CheckPoint
12 5 (2.79%) IBM
12 5 (2.79%) Isilon
12 5 (2.79%) Serena