VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

VMware Engineer
England > East of England

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 89 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.46% 0.24% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £505 £532 -
25th Percentile - £535 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £540 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% - -
75th Percentile £515 £545 -
90th Percentile £543 £548 -
England median daily rate £536 £569 £505
% change year-on-year -5.65% +12.57% +11.60%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,965 1,084 1,409
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 86.31% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 500 598
10th Percentile £200 £188 £200
25th Percentile £375 £350 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £595 £580 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £625
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 247 459
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.88 £20.25 £21.37
Median hourly rate £47.00 £43.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -9.47% +42.99%
75th Percentile £67.89 £67.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £83.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +7.66%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'VMware Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

VMware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 6 £507 - 2
Cambridgeshire +3 3 £510 -5.56% 3
Norfolk - 1 £638 -
VMware Engineer
England

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, VMware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (60.00%) vRealize
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) vSphere
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (10.00%) Agile
7 1 (10.00%) Android
7 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
7 1 (10.00%) Azure
7 1 (10.00%) Bash
7 1 (10.00%) Change Management
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) DHCP
7 1 (10.00%) DNS
7 1 (10.00%) Firewall
7 1 (10.00%) GCP
7 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
7 1 (10.00%) IaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
7 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Runbook
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) vSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware