VMware Engineer Contracts in England

VMware Engineer
UK > England

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 514 637
Rank change year-on-year +65 +123 -152
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 86 149 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 124 103
10th Percentile £331 £345 £331
25th Percentile £445 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £522 £455
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +14.73% +10.30%
75th Percentile £556 £623 £581
90th Percentile £615 £679 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured VMware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +86 33 £500 -4.76% 3
South West +29 22 £475 -22.76% 2
South East -9 17 £525 +15.38% 3
North of England +40 12 £475 -5.00% 2
North West +22 11 £488 -2.50% 2
West Midlands +26 2 £298 -40.99%
Midlands +11 2 £298 -46.06%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
VMware Engineer
UK

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, VMware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (100.00%) VMware
2 51 (59.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (47.67%) Security Cleared
4 33 (38.37%) VMware ESXi
5 30 (34.88%) vSphere
5 30 (34.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (33.72%) VMware NSX
6 29 (33.72%) Linux
7 26 (30.23%) Windows
7 26 (30.23%) DV Cleared
7 26 (30.23%) Data Centre
8 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
9 23 (26.74%) SAN
9 23 (26.74%) vCenter Server
10 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
11 21 (24.42%) PowerShell
12 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
13 18 (20.93%) VSAN
13 18 (20.93%) Azure
14 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (18.60%) Windows Server
15 16 (18.60%) ITIL
16 15 (17.44%) Cisco
16 15 (17.44%) Dell
16 15 (17.44%) Firewall
16 15 (17.44%) Converged Infrastructure
17 14 (16.28%) Python
18 12 (13.95%) PKI
19 11 (12.79%) Agile
20 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation

VMware Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.93%) Azure
2 6 (6.98%) AWS
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.65%) IaaS
4 3 (3.49%) OCI
5 2 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.16%) GitHub
6 1 (1.16%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.74%) SAN
2 18 (20.93%) VSAN
3 15 (17.44%) Firewall
4 7 (8.14%) DNS
5 6 (6.98%) DHCP
5 6 (6.98%) NAS
6 5 (5.81%) VPN
7 4 (4.65%) SNA
8 3 (3.49%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.49%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.33%) FTP
9 2 (2.33%) LAN
9 2 (2.33%) NetScaler
9 2 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (2.33%) SSL
9 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.33%) VLAN
9 2 (2.33%) VoIP
9 2 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.98%) JIRA
2 3 (3.49%) Git
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Finance
5 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Electronics
5 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.33%) Marketing
5 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) LDAP
2 3 (3.49%) YAML
3 2 (2.33%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.16%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.23%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.95%) PKI
3 5 (5.81%) CMDB
4 4 (4.65%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 3 (3.49%) Replication
6 2 (2.33%) Clustering
6 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (33.72%) Linux
2 26 (30.23%) Windows
3 16 (18.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.49%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.33%) Unix
7 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.60%) ITIL
4 15 (17.44%) Converged Infrastructure
5 11 (12.79%) Agile
6 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (10.47%) Migration
8 8 (9.30%) SDLC
9 7 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (6.98%) Change Management
10 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (6.98%) Project Management
11 5 (5.81%) Performance Monitoring
11 5 (5.81%) Product Management
11 5 (5.81%) Server Management
11 5 (5.81%) Software Engineering
11 5 (5.81%) Storage Management
12 4 (4.65%) Data Protection
12 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Architecture
12 4 (4.65%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 14 (16.28%) Python
3 6 (6.98%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) SQL
5 2 (2.33%) C
6 1 (1.16%) Bash
6 1 (1.16%) C#
6 1 (1.16%) Go
6 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (47.67%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.23%) DV Cleared
3 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
4 10 (11.63%) Degree
5 9 (10.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (5.81%) CCNA
6 5 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.65%) MCSE
7 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.49%) CCNP
9 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.33%) VCAP
10 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (59.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (38.37%) VMware ESXi
3 30 (34.88%) vSphere
4 29 (33.72%) VMware NSX
5 10 (11.63%) Firmware
6 9 (10.47%) Active Directory
6 9 (10.47%) Hyper-V
7 5 (5.81%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (4.65%) Docker
9 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (26.74%) vCenter Server
2 10 (11.63%) Ansible
2 10 (11.63%) VxRail
3 7 (8.14%) Terraform
4 6 (6.98%) vRealize
5 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.65%) PowerCLI
6 4 (4.65%) SCCM
6 4 (4.65%) SCOM
6 4 (4.65%) WSUS
7 3 (3.49%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (3.49%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.49%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.33%) Puppet
9 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (23.26%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.44%) Cisco
3 15 (17.44%) Dell
4 10 (11.63%) Veeam
5 6 (6.98%) HP
5 6 (6.98%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.65%) 3PAR
6 4 (4.65%) EMC
6 4 (4.65%) Juniper
6 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.49%) Citrix
7 3 (3.49%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (3.49%) Oracle
7 3 (3.49%) Symantec
8 2 (2.33%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.33%) F5
8 2 (2.33%) SAP
8 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.33%) Splunk