VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

VMware Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -52 - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.44% 0.40% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £382 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £414 - -
90th Percentile £421 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £500 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 817 220 311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 87.30% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 152 189
10th Percentile £350 £220 £335
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £546 £598 £588
90th Percentile £655 £650 £675
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -8.14% -29.50%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 2026, 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 Sheffield region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (75.00%) PowerCLI
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) KVM
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 2 (50.00%) KVM
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) PowerCLI
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) vRealize
4 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk