VMware Engineer Contracts in England

VMware Engineer
UK > England

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in England is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 463 499
Rank change year-on-year +32 +36 +132
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 48 83 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 113
10th Percentile £363 £328 £345
25th Percentile £487 £445 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.84% +9.00%
75th Percentile £610 £550 £625
90th Percentile £623 £610 £680
UK median daily rate £559 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +17.74% -12.04% +18.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,424 33,720 45,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.73% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,926 22,354 32,457
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 2,424 1,347
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in England

VMware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +20 23 £550 +7.32% 6
South East +46 13 £578 +15.50% 6
East of England - 6 £550 -
South West +21 2 £438 -7.89%
Midlands +14 2 - - 3
West Midlands +11 2 - - 3
North of England +9 2 - -
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
North West -1 1 - -
VMware Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 England region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) VMware
2 33 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (58.33%) vSphere
4 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
6 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
6 17 (35.42%) Windows
7 16 (33.33%) VMware NSX
8 15 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (31.25%) DV Cleared
9 13 (27.08%) Firewall
9 13 (27.08%) VSAN
10 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
10 12 (25.00%) SAN
11 11 (22.92%) Linux
11 11 (22.92%) Azure
12 10 (20.83%) ITIL
13 9 (18.75%) DNS
13 9 (18.75%) IaaS
13 9 (18.75%) vCenter Server
13 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (16.67%) Ansible
14 8 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
14 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
14 8 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (16.67%) SLA
15 7 (14.58%) Python
15 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
15 7 (14.58%) VCAP

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.25%) Skype for Business
2 1 (2.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) IaaS
3 6 (12.50%) PaaS
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.08%) AWS
7 1 (2.08%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) Route 53
7 1 (2.08%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) Firewall
1 13 (27.08%) VSAN
2 12 (25.00%) SAN
3 9 (18.75%) DNS
4 6 (12.50%) DHCP
4 6 (12.50%) Network Security
5 5 (10.42%) NAS
6 4 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (6.25%) Skype
8 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.17%) VLAN
8 2 (4.17%) VoIP
9 1 (2.08%) IMAP
9 1 (2.08%) SMTP
9 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Electronics
4 1 (2.08%) Front Office
4 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.08%) Marketing
4 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.17%) Clustering
2 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.08%) HP Storage
3 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Windows
2 11 (22.92%) Linux
3 6 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.25%) Unix
4 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.17%) VMS
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (20.83%) ITIL
3 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.50%) Agile
6 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.50%) Security Patching
7 5 (10.42%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) High Availability
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.42%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.33%) Validation
9 3 (6.25%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (6.25%) Software Engineering
9 3 (6.25%) Waterfall
9 3 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.58%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) Perl
4 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) DV Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.58%) VCAP
5 3 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) CCNA
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.08%) RHCE
6 1 (2.08%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (58.33%) vSphere
3 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
4 16 (33.33%) VMware NSX
5 15 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (12.50%) DFS Replication
7 4 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
8 2 (4.17%) KVM
9 1 (2.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) vCenter Server
2 8 (16.67%) Ansible
3 7 (14.58%) Terraform
4 6 (12.50%) PowerCLI
5 3 (6.25%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.25%) vRealize
5 3 (6.25%) VxRail
6 2 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.08%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (2.08%) Opsgenie
7 1 (2.08%) Puppet
7 1 (2.08%) SCCM
7 1 (2.08%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (2.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.50%) Cisco
3 6 (12.50%) Dell
4 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.25%) HP
5 3 (6.25%) NetApp
6 2 (4.17%) Atempo
6 2 (4.17%) Citrix
6 2 (4.17%) Databricks
6 2 (4.17%) EMC
6 2 (4.17%) F5
6 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.17%) McAfee
6 2 (4.17%) Mellanox
6 2 (4.17%) Symantec
7 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.08%) Mavenir
7 1 (2.08%) New Relic
7 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow