VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends in Swindon

VMware Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in Swindon is £50, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.71% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £50 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 97 68 117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 82.91% 94.44% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 50 70
10th Percentile £305 £241 £150
25th Percentile £363 £411 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £508
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +0.99% +1.50%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £600
90th Percentile £594 £704 £685
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £20.86 - £14.12
25th Percentile £35.58 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -73.81%
75th Percentile £50.50 - £27.00
90th Percentile £65.10 - £30.25
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +263.64% -74.81%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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 Swindon.

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in Swindon

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon

For the 6 months to 14 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 Swindon region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Zerto

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Zerto