VMware Engineer Contracts in Cambridge

VMware Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.75% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £532 - -
25th Percentile £535 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £540 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 97 178 274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.09% 91.75% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 106 187
10th Percentile £389 £235 £185
25th Percentile £425 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £644 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 29 16
10th Percentile £16.68 £21.10 £16.49
25th Percentile £20.40 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +156.10% -19.61%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% +13.47%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in Cambridge

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in Cambridge

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Cambridge region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) VxRail
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) VMware