VMware Engineer Contracts

VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 547 655
Rank change year-on-year +53 +108 -146
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 100 169 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 139 139
10th Percentile £335 £345 £290
25th Percentile £450 £422 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £588
90th Percentile £612 £680 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -5.94% +12.22% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +55 86 £475 -9.52% 10
UK excluding London +36 62 £475 -5.94% 8
London +92 33 £500 -4.76% 3
Work from Home +68 23 £513 -6.82% 4
South West +22 22 £475 -22.76% 2
South East -15 17 £525 +15.38% 3
North of England +39 12 £475 -5.00% 2
North West +29 11 £488 -2.50% 2
Scotland +41 9 - - 1
West Midlands +28 2 £298 -40.99%
Midlands +16 2 £298 -50.33%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) VMware
2 62 (62.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (42.00%) Security Cleared
4 38 (38.00%) Linux
5 36 (36.00%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (33.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 32 (32.00%) vSphere
7 32 (32.00%) VMware NSX
8 28 (28.00%) Windows
9 27 (27.00%) DV Cleared
9 27 (27.00%) vCenter Server
9 27 (27.00%) Data Centre
10 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
10 24 (24.00%) Social Skills
11 23 (23.00%) SAN
12 22 (22.00%) Python
12 22 (22.00%) PowerShell
13 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
14 19 (19.00%) VSAN
14 19 (19.00%) Azure
14 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (18.00%) Windows Server
16 16 (16.00%) Cisco
16 16 (16.00%) ITIL
17 15 (15.00%) Dell
17 15 (15.00%) Firewall
17 15 (15.00%) Converged Infrastructure
18 12 (12.00%) PKI
18 12 (12.00%) Ansible
19 11 (11.00%) Degree

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.00%) Azure
2 7 (7.00%) AWS
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.00%) IaaS
5 3 (3.00%) OCI
6 2 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.00%) GitHub
7 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.00%) SAN
2 19 (19.00%) VSAN
3 15 (15.00%) Firewall
4 7 (7.00%) DNS
5 6 (6.00%) DHCP
5 6 (6.00%) NAS
6 5 (5.00%) VPN
7 4 (4.00%) SNA
8 3 (3.00%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.00%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.00%) FTP
9 2 (2.00%) LAN
9 2 (2.00%) NetScaler
9 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (2.00%) SSL
9 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.00%) VLAN
9 2 (2.00%) VoIP
9 2 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) JIRA
2 4 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.00%) Banking
4 3 (3.00%) Finance
5 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Electronics
5 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.00%) Marketing
5 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Front Office
6 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) Middleware
2 5 (5.00%) LDAP
3 3 (3.00%) YAML
4 2 (2.00%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.00%) .NET
5 1 (1.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.00%) PKI
3 5 (5.00%) CMDB
4 4 (4.00%) Replication
4 4 (4.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Clustering
6 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (38.00%) Linux
2 28 (28.00%) Windows
3 18 (18.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.00%) Unix
5 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.00%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.00%) Android
6 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (16.00%) ITIL
4 15 (15.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 11 (11.00%) Agile
6 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 10 (10.00%) Migration
6 10 (10.00%) Task Automation
7 9 (9.00%) DevOps
8 8 (8.00%) SDLC
9 7 (7.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (6.00%) Change Management
10 6 (6.00%) OO
10 6 (6.00%) Project Management
10 6 (6.00%) Server Management
11 5 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
11 5 (5.00%) Product Management
11 5 (5.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.00%) PowerShell
1 22 (22.00%) Python
2 6 (6.00%) Java
2 6 (6.00%) Perl
2 6 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (2.00%) C
4 1 (1.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.00%) C#
4 1 (1.00%) Go
4 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (42.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.00%) DV Cleared
3 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.00%) Degree
5 10 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (5.00%) CCNA
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.00%) MCSE
6 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.00%) CCNP
8 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.00%) VCAP
9 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (62.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (36.00%) VMware ESXi
3 32 (32.00%) VMware NSX
3 32 (32.00%) vSphere
4 11 (11.00%) Hyper-V
5 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
5 10 (10.00%) Firmware
6 5 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (4.00%) Docker
8 3 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.00%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (1.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 27 (27.00%) vCenter Server
2 12 (12.00%) Ansible
3 10 (10.00%) VxRail
4 8 (8.00%) Terraform
5 7 (7.00%) vRealize
6 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
7 4 (4.00%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.00%) SCCM
7 4 (4.00%) SCOM
7 4 (4.00%) WSUS
8 3 (3.00%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (3.00%) NetBackup
8 3 (3.00%) Puppet
8 3 (3.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.00%) Consul
9 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (16.00%) Cisco
4 15 (15.00%) Dell
5 10 (10.00%) Veeam
6 6 (6.00%) HP
6 6 (6.00%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.00%) 3PAR
7 4 (4.00%) Citrix
7 4 (4.00%) EMC
7 4 (4.00%) Juniper
7 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.00%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.00%) Oracle
8 3 (3.00%) Symantec
9 2 (2.00%) Brocade
9 2 (2.00%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.00%) F5
9 2 (2.00%) SAP
9 2 (2.00%) Splunk