VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

VMware Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire 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 100 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -59 - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.41% 0.34% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.39% -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -13.64%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 882 259 379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 88.70% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 180 227
10th Percentile £340 £209 £244
25th Percentile £409 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £587
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £474 £463
% change year-on-year +2.00% +2.49% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% +22.37% -33.85%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £22.14 £13.98
% change year-on-year +24.21% +58.37% -39.87%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for VMware Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

VMware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Sheffield -52 4 £400 -20.00% 1
VMware Engineer
Yorkshire

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

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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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