VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £504, 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 345 380 485
Rank change year-on-year +35 +105 +93
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 8 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.062% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.066% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £350 £431 £449
25th Percentile £359 £478 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £600 £543
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +10.60% +27.65%
75th Percentile £575 £640 £575
90th Percentile £587 £770 -
England median daily rate £550 £505 £360
% change year-on-year +8.91% +40.28% -15.29%

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 Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in London

VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 3 £550 -8.49%
VMware Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
6 2 (25.00%) Dell
6 2 (25.00%) SAN
6 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (25.00%) Firewall
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (25.00%) DNS
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) Clustering
6 2 (25.00%) VLAN
6 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) NAS
6 2 (25.00%) VCAP
6 2 (25.00%) Atempo

VMware Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) VCAP
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Opsgenie
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Atempo
3 2 (25.00%) Databricks
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) Mellanox
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) New Relic
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow