VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

VMware Engineer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in Farnborough is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025.

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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 2.70% 8.41% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 9.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £538 £478 -
25th Percentile £594 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile £694 £581 -
90th Percentile £728 £593 -
Hampshire median daily rate £650 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +23.81% - -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 133 98 104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 91.59% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 69
10th Percentile £320 £343 £300
25th Percentile £408 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% -1.28% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £683
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.09% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 12
10th Percentile £24.95 £69.00 £21.01
25th Percentile £34.63 £74.06 £21.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £45.56 - £63.44
90th Percentile £55.58 £77.25 £79.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £24.21 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -61.27% +26.26% +10.00%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in Farnborough

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in Farnborough over the 6 months to 11 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in Farnborough

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 11 December 2025, 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 Farnborough region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) vRealize
4 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (25.00%) vSphere

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

Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize
1 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat