VMware Infrastructure Contracts in England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 102 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 755 1,128 1,492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.01% 2.40% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 18.19% 18.70% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 767 1,109
10th Percentile £299 £313 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £548 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +15.26% +9.07%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £663 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £508 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -5.67% +13.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 45 23
10th Percentile £22.21 £45.25 -
25th Percentile £30.71 £52.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £62.68 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year -36.18% +43.70% -12.76%
75th Percentile £46.52 £76.50 £52.92
90th Percentile £78.80 £86.50 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -38.46% +36.84% -5.00%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,150 6,031 9,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.06% 12.82% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 4,317 6,885
10th Percentile £205 £200 £190
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 208 252
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.01
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.94
Median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.38 £29.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £76.95 £56.61
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in England

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East +4 284 £538 +3.46% 108
London -18 199 £456 -17.05% 88
South West +8 118 £538 -2.18% 38
Midlands -1 79 £550 +8.91% 60
North of England -17 71 £345 -31.00% 68
West Midlands +17 57 £570 +23.24% 35
North West -21 44 £325 -35.00% 32
East of England -50 26 £600 -7.69% 33
Yorkshire +18 22 £428 -18.57% 30
East Midlands -6 21 £450 -30.77% 25
North East +4 5 £600 +14.29% 8
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (12.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (5.96%) Confluence
3 34 (4.50%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 12 (1.59%) Exchange Server 2013
5 12 (1.59%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.93%) SharePoint 2010
8 6 (0.79%) IIS
9 4 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (0.53%) IBM Domino
9 4 (0.53%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.13%) Site Server
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.13%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.26%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 196 (25.96%) Azure
2 116 (15.36%) AWS
3 98 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (4.37%) GCP
5 29 (3.84%) IaaS
6 28 (3.71%) PaaS
7 27 (3.58%) Entra ID
8 20 (2.65%) Nutanix
9 19 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (2.52%) SaaS
10 17 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (2.25%) GitHub
11 15 (1.99%) OCI
12 13 (1.72%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.46%) Mimecast
14 9 (1.19%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.06%) Rubrik
16 6 (0.79%) WhatsApp
17 5 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 166 (21.99%) DNS
2 157 (20.79%) Firewall
3 125 (16.56%) DHCP
4 102 (13.51%) SAN
5 76 (10.07%) WAN
6 69 (9.14%) VPN
7 68 (9.01%) LAN
8 54 (7.15%) TCP/IP
9 41 (5.43%) VLAN
10 37 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (4.77%) NAS
12 35 (4.64%) Wireless
13 33 (4.37%) VSAN
14 31 (4.11%) SD-WAN
15 24 (3.18%) Remote Desktop
16 21 (2.78%) Network Security
16 21 (2.78%) VoIP
17 19 (2.52%) MPLS
18 15 (1.99%) NX-OS
19 13 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 7 (0.93%) Metadata
4 7 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 7 (0.93%) MySQL
4 7 (0.93%) PowerPivot
4 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Power View
6 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.40%) DB2
6 3 (0.40%) Power BI
7 2 (0.26%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.26%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.26%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 53 (7.02%) JIRA
2 31 (4.11%) Git
3 22 (2.91%) GitLab
3 22 (2.91%) Robot Framework
4 17 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.79%) Selenium
8 5 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.40%) MSI
9 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.26%) CppUnit
10 2 (0.26%) PVCS
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) Subversion
11 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 192 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 87 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (10.60%) Public Sector
4 53 (7.02%) Finance
5 23 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (3.05%) Telecoms
6 19 (2.52%) Military
7 13 (1.72%) Banking
8 12 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.32%) Marketing
11 7 (0.93%) Electronics
11 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.79%) Local Government
12 6 (0.79%) Publishing
13 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Advertising
14 4 (0.53%) Legal
15 3 (0.40%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 179 (23.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 101 (13.38%) Architect
3 47 (6.23%) Support Engineer
4 46 (6.09%) Network Engineer
4 46 (6.09%) VMware Engineer
5 36 (4.77%) Analyst
6 35 (4.64%) Integration Engineer
7 32 (4.24%) Administrator
8 31 (4.11%) Wintel Engineer
9 27 (3.58%) Senior
10 25 (3.31%) Storage Engineer
11 22 (2.91%) IT Engineer
11 22 (2.91%) Linux Engineer
12 21 (2.78%) Test Engineer
13 20 (2.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 20 (2.65%) Consultant
13 20 (2.65%) Network Architect
13 20 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (2.52%) IT Support
15 18 (2.38%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.65%) YAML
2 15 (1.99%) .NET
3 11 (1.46%) LDAP
4 9 (1.19%) CSS
4 9 (1.19%) HTML
5 6 (0.79%) ModSecurity
5 6 (0.79%) Web Services
6 5 (0.66%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.66%) REST
7 4 (0.53%) EDI
7 4 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.53%) Flash
7 4 (0.53%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.40%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.40%) Middleware
8 3 (0.40%) Node.js
8 3 (0.40%) React
8 3 (0.40%) Vue
8 3 (0.40%) XMPP
9 2 (0.26%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.89%) Data Centre
2 69 (9.14%) PKI
3 48 (6.36%) Clustering
4 32 (4.24%) Client/Server
5 25 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.91%) Replication
7 19 (2.52%) Private Cloud
7 19 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.06%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.06%) NHS
11 8 (1.06%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (0.93%) Fat Client
12 7 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.93%) Thin Client
13 6 (0.79%) Blackberry
13 6 (0.79%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 426 (56.42%) Windows
2 273 (36.16%) Windows Server
3 227 (30.07%) Linux
4 93 (12.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 87 (11.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 81 (10.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 79 (10.46%) Windows 10
8 53 (7.02%) Unix
9 52 (6.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 31 (4.11%) VMS
11 29 (3.84%) Solaris
12 22 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
13 19 (2.52%) Windows 7
14 17 (2.25%) Windows XP
15 16 (2.12%) Oracle Linux
16 14 (1.85%) Mac OS
17 11 (1.46%) Ubuntu
18 8 (1.06%) CentOS
19 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
20 4 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (30.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 159 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (14.70%) Agile
4 104 (13.77%) ITIL
5 93 (12.32%) Migration
6 67 (8.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 63 (8.34%) DevOps
8 62 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (7.02%) High Availability
9 53 (7.02%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 46 (6.09%) Server Management
11 44 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (5.83%) Validation
12 43 (5.70%) Computer Science
13 41 (5.43%) Network Virtualisation
14 40 (5.30%) Customer Service
14 40 (5.30%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (5.17%) Application Packaging
15 39 (5.17%) Infrastructure Automation
16 37 (4.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 218 (28.87%) PowerShell
2 103 (13.64%) Python
3 56 (7.42%) SQL
4 41 (5.43%) Bash
5 22 (2.91%) VBScript
6 18 (2.38%) Java
7 15 (1.99%) C#
8 12 (1.59%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.32%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.93%) Go
11 6 (0.79%) C++
12 5 (0.66%) Ruby
13 4 (0.53%) C
14 3 (0.40%) PHP
14 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.26%) Perl
16 1 (0.13%) Groovy
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 349 (46.23%) Security Cleared
2 177 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 142 (18.81%) DV Cleared
4 107 (14.17%) Degree
5 57 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
6 56 (7.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 49 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (5.56%) CCNA
9 33 (4.37%) MCSE
10 31 (4.11%) CCNP
11 24 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (2.91%) MCSA
13 15 (1.99%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (1.59%) Azure Certification
16 9 (1.19%) VCAP
17 7 (0.93%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
18 6 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
18 6 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.44%) SLA
2 14 (1.85%) GDPR
3 9 (1.19%) NIST
4 7 (0.93%) RMADS
5 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.66%) PMO
6 5 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
9 2 (0.26%) QA
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 309 (40.93%) Active Directory
2 164 (21.72%) Hyper-V
3 128 (16.95%) vSphere
4 110 (14.57%) VMware NSX
5 86 (11.39%) VMware ESXi
6 58 (7.68%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (3.97%) Docker
8 29 (3.84%) Virtual Servers
9 28 (3.71%) KVM
10 23 (3.05%) XenApp
11 17 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (2.25%) VMware Workstation
12 12 (1.59%) Firmware
13 10 (1.32%) vCloud
13 10 (1.32%) XenDesktop
14 8 (1.06%) BitLocker
14 8 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.79%) VMFS
15 6 (0.79%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 110 (14.57%) SCCM
2 99 (13.11%) Ansible
3 85 (11.26%) vCenter Server
4 74 (9.80%) Terraform
5 66 (8.74%) Kubernetes
6 58 (7.68%) WSUS
7 45 (5.96%) SCOM
8 40 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (3.44%) NetBackup
10 22 (2.91%) Puppet
11 19 (2.52%) EMC NetWorker
11 19 (2.52%) Progress Chef
11 19 (2.52%) Red Hat Satellite
12 16 (2.12%) Salt
13 14 (1.85%) vRealize
14 13 (1.72%) CSIRT
14 13 (1.72%) Nessus
15 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
15 12 (1.59%) Rancher
15 12 (1.59%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 755 (100.00%) VMware
2 276 (36.56%) Microsoft
3 119 (15.76%) Cisco
4 71 (9.40%) Citrix
4 71 (9.40%) Red Hat
5 59 (7.81%) Dell
6 53 (7.02%) Oracle
7 46 (6.09%) Veeam
8 39 (5.17%) HP
9 35 (4.64%) EMC
10 26 (3.44%) Juniper
11 25 (3.31%) SolarWinds
12 23 (3.05%) Palo Alto
13 22 (2.91%) Google
14 19 (2.52%) IBM
15 18 (2.38%) Splunk
16 17 (2.25%) ServiceNow
16 17 (2.25%) Symantec
17 16 (2.12%) Apple
17 16 (2.12%) Qualys