VMware Engineer Contracts in London

VMware Engineer
England > London

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 358 445
Rank change year-on-year +26 +87 +69
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 21 33 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 39
10th Percentile £358 £331 £394
25th Percentile £363 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £617
90th Percentile £641 £641 £651
England median daily rate £569 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +19.68% -9.52% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate - £67.50 -

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in London

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in London

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in London

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in London

VMware 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 VMware Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +5 4 £571 -0.65%
VMware Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (76.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 10 (47.62%) vSphere
4 8 (38.10%) Windows
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (33.33%) Linux
6 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
6 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) VSAN
7 5 (23.81%) VMware NSX
7 5 (23.81%) Azure
7 5 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (19.05%) Cisco
8 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
8 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (19.05%) NAS
8 4 (19.05%) High Availability
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (19.05%) Ansible
8 4 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (19.05%) Terraform
8 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
8 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
9 3 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
9 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
9 3 (14.29%) Data Centre

VMware 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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.76%) Route 53
4 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) VSAN
2 4 (19.05%) NAS
3 3 (14.29%) Network Security
3 3 (14.29%) SAN
4 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 2 (9.52%) Firewall
4 2 (9.52%) Skype
4 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.52%) VLAN
4 2 (9.52%) VoIP
5 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (9.52%) Unix
5 2 (9.52%) VMS
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) High Availability
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
2 4 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
4 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (9.52%) ITSM
4 2 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) VCAP
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) RHCE
4 1 (4.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (47.62%) vSphere
3 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (23.81%) VMware NSX
5 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (9.52%) KVM
6 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
7 1 (4.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.76%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (4.76%) Opsgenie
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (4.76%) vRealize
3 1 (4.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.52%) Atempo
5 2 (9.52%) Databricks
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) EMC
5 2 (9.52%) F5
5 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) HP
5 2 (9.52%) McAfee
5 2 (9.52%) Mellanox
5 2 (9.52%) NetApp
5 2 (9.52%) Symantec
6 1 (4.76%) Google
6 1 (4.76%) Mavenir
6 1 (4.76%) New Relic
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds