VMware Engineer Contracts in Cambridgeshire

VMware Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire 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 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.81% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - £350
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 224 427 514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.16% 86.26% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 161 310
10th Percentile £333 £206 £200
25th Percentile £413 £350 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £553 £563 £534
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 196 101
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.16% +13.47%
75th Percentile £21.46 £27.50 £20.25
90th Percentile £39.35 £59.63 £26.67
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in Cambridgeshire

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in Cambridgeshire

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in Cambridgeshire

VMware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridge - 2 £540 -
Huntingdon - 2 - -
VMware Engineer
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) VxRail
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (60.00%) VCAP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) PowerCLI
2 3 (60.00%) VSAN
2 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) VSAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) VCAP
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) PowerCLI
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (60.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat