VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £505 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 623 748
Rank change year-on-year +106 +125 -163
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 24 38 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.076% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.080% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 28
10th Percentile £408 - £249
25th Percentile £463 £345 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £353 £425
Median % change year-on-year +43.26% -17.06% +3.03%
75th Percentile £608 £563 £450
90th Percentile £639 £750 £513
UK median daily rate £505 £360 £425
% change year-on-year +40.28% -15.29% +3.03%

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England

VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +116 11 £600 +11.63% 1
South East +12 8 £475 +35.71% 1
North of England - 3 £475 - 3
South West +21 2 £528 -9.05%
North West - 2 £475 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 1
VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 19 (79.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (50.00%) Linux
5 11 (45.83%) Windows
6 10 (41.67%) SAN
6 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
6 10 (41.67%) Azure
7 9 (37.50%) Degree
8 8 (33.33%) Firewall
8 8 (33.33%) vSphere
8 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
8 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
8 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
9 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
9 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
9 7 (29.17%) Cisco
9 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
9 7 (29.17%) Python
10 6 (25.00%) ITIL
10 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
10 6 (25.00%) Ansible
11 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
11 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
11 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
11 5 (20.83%) NAS
11 5 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (20.83%) Dell
11 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification

VMware Infrastructure 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) OCI
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) SAN
2 8 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) NAS
4 3 (12.50%) DHCP
4 3 (12.50%) DNS
5 2 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (8.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (8.33%) SSL
5 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.33%) VLAN
5 2 (8.33%) VoIP
5 2 (8.33%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) SNA
6 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Front Office
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (45.83%) Windows
3 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.33%) Unix
7 1 (4.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Change Management
4 4 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.50%) Break/Fix
5 3 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 3 (12.50%) Scrum
5 3 (12.50%) Server Management
5 3 (12.50%) Storage Management
6 2 (8.33%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) C
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) CCNA
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (12.50%) CCNP
6 2 (8.33%) MCSE
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 19 (79.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (33.33%) vSphere
3 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.83%) Firmware
4 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 5 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (16.67%) Docker
5 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) vCenter Server
3 4 (16.67%) SCOM
4 3 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (12.50%) NetBackup
4 3 (12.50%) SCCM
4 3 (12.50%) VxRail
4 3 (12.50%) WSUS
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) Cisco
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Dell
4 4 (16.67%) HP
4 4 (16.67%) Juniper
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.50%) 3PAR
5 3 (12.50%) EMC
5 3 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (12.50%) Symantec
5 3 (12.50%) Veeam
6 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Sun
6 1 (4.17%) Turbonomic