VMware Engineer Contracts in the South East

VMware Engineer
England > South East

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 170 241
Rank change year-on-year -18 +71 -81
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 18 50 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.84% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.90% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 19
10th Percentile £430 - £242
25th Percentile £475 £345 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 £455
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +13.75%
75th Percentile £609 £587 £531
90th Percentile £634 £600 £555
England median daily rate £481 £522 £453
% change year-on-year -7.81% +15.36% +6.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,585 7,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.29% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 3,889 5,104
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 334
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £59.71
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the South East

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in the South East

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the South East

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in the South East

VMware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +13 9 £590 +29.67%
Buckinghamshire +27 5 £500 +9.89%
Hampshire +8 5 £575 +0.22% 2
Berkshire -2 4 £605 +42.35%
West Sussex -17 3 £475 -19.08%
Surrey - 1 £375 -
VMware Engineer
England

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 South East region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 8 (44.44%) Degree
4 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 8 (44.44%) SAN
4 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
5 7 (38.89%) vSphere
6 6 (33.33%) Linux
6 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
6 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
7 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (27.78%) ITIL
7 5 (27.78%) Windows
7 5 (27.78%) Firewall
7 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (27.78%) CCNA
7 5 (27.78%) NAS
7 5 (27.78%) Azure
7 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
8 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
8 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (22.22%) vRealize
8 4 (22.22%) VSAN
9 3 (16.67%) OCI
9 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) OCI
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) SAN
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) NAS
3 4 (22.22%) VSAN
4 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 3 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
5 2 (11.11%) SNA
5 2 (11.11%) SSL
5 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
5 2 (11.11%) VoIP
5 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Break/Fix
4 3 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Server Management
4 3 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (27.78%) CCNA
4 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (16.67%) CCNP
7 2 (11.11%) MCSE
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (11.11%) VCAP
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) vSphere
3 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
4 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
6 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 2 (11.11%) Firmware
8 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
2 4 (22.22%) vRealize
3 3 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 3 (16.67%) SCCM
3 3 (16.67%) SCOM
3 3 (16.67%) WSUS
4 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) 3PAR
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) Dell
3 3 (16.67%) EMC
3 3 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (16.67%) HP
3 3 (16.67%) Juniper
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) Symantec
3 3 (16.67%) Veeam