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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 115 147
Rank change year-on-year -72 +32 -13
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 168 508 786
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 2.06% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 11.81% 16.69% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 340 589
10th Percentile £312 £350 £300
25th Percentile £375 £428 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £672 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £473
% change year-on-year -6.98% +13.76% +7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 33 13
10th Percentile - £48.66 £28.41
25th Percentile £37.63 £62.50 £48.58
Median hourly rate £46.39 £66.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £78.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £87.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year -38.08% +34.23% -5.05%

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 1,422 3,043 5,432
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.63% 12.35% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 2,177 4,048
10th Percentile £275 £300 £319
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £687 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 103 94
10th Percentile - £18.22 £14.55
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -24.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.90 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -58.52% +176.92% -9.30%

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 18 May 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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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

VMware Infrastructure hourly rate histogram 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 19 (11.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.95%) Confluence
3 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.79%) IIS
4 3 (1.79%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.79%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (1.79%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.60%) Azure
2 34 (20.24%) AWS
3 22 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (10.12%) IaaS
5 11 (6.55%) PaaS
6 9 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (5.36%) GCP
6 9 (5.36%) SaaS
7 8 (4.76%) Nutanix
8 6 (3.57%) Rubrik
9 5 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.38%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.19%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.19%) GitHub
12 2 (1.19%) Route 53
12 2 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (30.36%) Firewall
2 32 (19.05%) SAN
3 29 (17.26%) DNS
4 27 (16.07%) DHCP
5 19 (11.31%) TCP/IP
6 17 (10.12%) LAN
6 17 (10.12%) WAN
7 13 (7.74%) NAS
8 12 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (5.95%) Internet
10 9 (5.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (5.36%) VLAN
10 9 (5.36%) VPN
11 6 (3.57%) Kerberos
11 6 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.98%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.98%) VSAN
13 4 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (1.79%) BGP
14 3 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.98%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.79%) Metadata
4 3 (1.79%) PowerPivot
4 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Power View
6 1 (0.60%) DB2
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (8.33%) JIRA
2 9 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.17%) Git
4 6 (3.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) CppUnit
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) PVCS
5 1 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.60%) Subversion
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.88%) Finance
3 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.74%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.76%) Banking
7 6 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Billing
8 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.19%) Front Office
10 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Publishing
10 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Electronics
11 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (18.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (13.69%) Consultant
3 22 (13.10%) Architect
4 16 (9.52%) Senior
5 15 (8.93%) VMware Engineer
6 10 (5.95%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 9 (5.36%) Python Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) VMware Consultant
8 8 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) IT Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Network Consultant
9 7 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (4.17%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Network Consultant
10 6 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.98%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) Middleware
2 6 (3.57%) .NET
2 6 (3.57%) LDAP
3 4 (2.38%) REST
4 3 (1.79%) CSS
4 3 (1.79%) EDI
4 3 (1.79%) HTML
5 2 (1.19%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.19%) ADSI
5 2 (1.19%) Web Services
5 2 (1.19%) YAML
6 1 (0.60%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.10%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.36%) Clustering
3 7 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.17%) Replication
4 6 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.38%) PKI
5 4 (2.38%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (1.79%) CCTV
6 3 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.79%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.79%) SCADA
6 3 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.19%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.19%) NHS
7 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (42.86%) Windows
2 54 (32.14%) Linux
3 44 (26.19%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (7.74%) Unix
6 12 (7.14%) Solaris
7 11 (6.55%) Oracle Linux
8 10 (5.95%) Windows 10
9 8 (4.76%) VMS
10 7 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
12 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (1.19%) CentOS
13 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
13 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.60%) Android
14 1 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (20.83%) Migration
3 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (12.50%) Agile
4 21 (12.50%) ITIL
5 20 (11.90%) DevOps
6 16 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
7 14 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 14 (8.33%) High Availability
8 13 (7.74%) Containerisation
9 12 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (6.55%) Task Automation
10 11 (6.55%) Time Management
11 10 (5.95%) Data Migration
11 10 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (5.95%) Network Virtualisation
11 10 (5.95%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.95%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (5.95%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.64%) PowerShell
2 22 (13.10%) Python
3 11 (6.55%) Bash
4 8 (4.76%) SQL
5 7 (4.17%) Perl
6 4 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.79%) C++
7 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.19%) Java
8 2 (1.19%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) C#
9 1 (0.60%) Go
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (11.31%) Degree
2 14 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (6.55%) CCNP
4 10 (5.95%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (4.17%) CCIE
8 5 (2.98%) CCNA
9 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.79%) MCSA
11 2 (1.19%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.19%) CCENT
11 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.19%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.33%) SLA
2 9 (5.36%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) PMO
3 6 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 32 (19.05%) VMware NSX
3 30 (17.86%) vSphere
4 27 (16.07%) Hyper-V
5 15 (8.93%) Docker
6 13 (7.74%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (3.57%) XenApp
9 5 (2.98%) KVM
9 5 (2.98%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.79%) XenDesktop
11 2 (1.19%) Ceph
11 2 (1.19%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.19%) vCloud
11 2 (1.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.60%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.60%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 25 (14.88%) Ansible
2 21 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.71%) SCCM
4 13 (7.74%) Terraform
5 12 (7.14%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.17%) WSUS
7 6 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (3.57%) Netcool
7 6 (3.57%) Tivoli
7 6 (3.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (2.98%) Nessus
8 5 (2.98%) Puppet
9 4 (2.38%) Avamar
9 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.38%) VxRail
10 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (1.19%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.19%) Nagios
11 2 (1.19%) SCOM
11 2 (1.19%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 168 (100.00%) VMware
2 61 (36.31%) Microsoft
3 34 (20.24%) Cisco
4 20 (11.90%) Dell
5 18 (10.71%) Citrix
6 15 (8.93%) ServiceNow
7 14 (8.33%) Qualys
8 13 (7.74%) Oracle
9 12 (7.14%) Red Hat
10 11 (6.55%) Palo Alto
10 11 (6.55%) Splunk
11 10 (5.95%) CyberArk
11 10 (5.95%) EMC
12 7 (4.17%) HP
13 6 (3.57%) CheckPoint
13 6 (3.57%) IBM
13 6 (3.57%) Isilon
13 6 (3.57%) Serena
14 4 (2.38%) Juniper
14 4 (2.38%) Veeam