VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £503 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 670 795
Rank change year-on-year +98 +125 -149
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 28 43 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.072% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.076% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 36
10th Percentile £409 - £284
25th Percentile £463 £345 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £383 £438
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% -12.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £608 £559 £591
90th Percentile £638 £750 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +39.29% -22.22% +46.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
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 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +91 25 £503 +39.58% 5
UK excluding London +53 15 £488 +39.29% 5
London +110 11 £600 +10.60%
South East +8 8 £475 +35.71% 1
Work from Home +112 7 £500 -8.68% 3
North of England - 4 £475 - 2
North West - 3 £488 - 2
South West +9 2 £528 +11.05% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 featuring VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 24 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (82.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (50.00%) Linux
5 12 (42.86%) Windows
6 11 (39.29%) SAN
6 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
6 11 (39.29%) Azure
7 10 (35.71%) vSphere
7 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
8 9 (32.14%) Degree
8 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
8 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
9 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
9 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
9 8 (28.57%) Firewall
9 8 (28.57%) Python
9 8 (28.57%) Ansible
10 7 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (25.00%) Hyper-V
10 7 (25.00%) Cisco
10 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
11 6 (21.43%) ITIL
11 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
11 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
11 6 (21.43%) vCenter Server
11 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
12 5 (17.86%) NAS

VMware Infrastructure 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (10.71%) OCI
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) SAN
2 8 (28.57%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) NAS
4 3 (10.71%) DHCP
4 3 (10.71%) DNS
5 2 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 2 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (7.14%) SSL
5 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.14%) VLAN
5 2 (7.14%) VoIP
5 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (7.14%) VSAN
6 1 (3.57%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Front Office
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Windows
3 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (10.71%) Windows XP
6 2 (7.14%) Unix
7 1 (3.57%) Android
7 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) ITIL
4 4 (14.29%) Agile
4 4 (14.29%) Change Management
4 4 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Break/Fix
5 3 (10.71%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.71%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.71%) Scrum
5 3 (10.71%) Server Management
5 3 (10.71%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) C
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Go
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) CCNA
4 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (10.71%) CCNP
7 2 (7.14%) MCSE
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (35.71%) vSphere
3 7 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
5 5 (17.86%) Firmware
6 4 (14.29%) Docker
7 1 (3.57%) vCloud
7 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.29%) SCOM
4 3 (10.71%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (10.71%) NetBackup
4 3 (10.71%) SCCM
4 3 (10.71%) VxRail
4 3 (10.71%) WSUS
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (7.14%) vRealize
6 1 (3.57%) Consul
6 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) vMotion
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (25.00%) Cisco
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) Dell
4 4 (14.29%) 3PAR
4 4 (14.29%) HP
4 4 (14.29%) Juniper
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 3 (10.71%) EMC
5 3 (10.71%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (10.71%) Oracle
5 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
5 3 (10.71%) Symantec
5 3 (10.71%) Veeam
6 1 (3.57%) Citrix
6 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) Sun
6 1 (3.57%) Turbonomic
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