VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £522, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 496 530
Rank change year-on-year -38 +34 +190
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 10 13 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.033% 0.042% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.046% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 41
10th Percentile £422 £475 £358
25th Percentile £450 £504 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +11.68% +9.44%
75th Percentile £608 £581 £501
90th Percentile £631 £600 £538
UK median daily rate £522 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -5.14% +11.68% +9.44%

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 27,471 28,532 37,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.99% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,625 17,415 25,662
10th Percentile £281 £300 £294
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,664 1,067 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.93% +53.13%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.30% -19.82% +60.06%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
South East +2 4 £522 +0.82%
London +6 2 £580 +10.48%
South West 0 2 £450 -18.18% 1
East Midlands -16 1 £650 +13.04%
Midlands -33 1 £650 +13.04%
VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, VMware Infrastructure 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 England region featuring VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (50.00%) IaaS
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) ITIL
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) vSphere
6 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (30.00%) Ansible
6 3 (30.00%) DHCP
6 3 (30.00%) DNS
6 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Terraform
6 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (20.00%) Citrix
7 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
7 2 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
7 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (20.00%) Firewall
7 2 (20.00%) GitOps
7 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (20.00%) Nessus

VMware Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) IaaS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) GitOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Runbook
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) vSphere
3 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
4 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (10.00%) Docker
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) Nessus
2 2 (20.00%) Packer
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Citrix
3 2 (20.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler