Virtualisation Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Virtualization Engineer
England > London

The median Virtualization Engineer daily rate in London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 377 457
Rank change year-on-year +20 +80 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.030% 0.019% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.020% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £509 - £483
25th Percentile £518 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £262 £513
Median % change year-on-year +106.11% -48.88% -18.00%
75th Percentile £568 £400 £559
90th Percentile £580 £482 £599
England median daily rate £550 £525 £490
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% +5.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,265 15,131 21,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.07% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 10,167 15,334
10th Percentile £325 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 181 235
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +15.03%
75th Percentile £50.25 £56.00 £63.88
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in London

Virtualisation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in London

Virtualisation Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in London

Virtualisation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Central London - 1 - -
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Virtualisation 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 London region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) vMotion
2 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Firmware
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) SMTP
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) PKI
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Science
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) Firmware
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (75.00%) vMotion
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (25.00%) Rancher
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft