Virtualisation Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtualization Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Virtualization Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 422 504
Rank change year-on-year +37 +82 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 20 30 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.12% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 21
10th Percentile £416 £410 £369
25th Percentile £433 £455 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £454
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +2.97% +10.40%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £460
90th Percentile £775 £708 £570
UK median daily rate £431 £550 £455
% change year-on-year -21.60% +20.88% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.97
25th Percentile - - £62.36
Median hourly rate - - £68.02
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.02

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,296 22,932 30,081
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.05% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 16,071 21,102
10th Percentile £213 £224 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,186 1,194 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.85 £59.01
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +20 8 £441 -3.17%
South West +14 6 £700 +19.15% 1
Scotland - 6 - -
Midlands +30 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Virtualisation Engineer
UK

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Virtualisation 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 UK excluding London region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (90.00%) VMware
1 18 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) VMware NSX
3 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (40.00%) VSAN
6 7 (35.00%) Agile
7 6 (30.00%) Middleware
7 6 (30.00%) Perl
7 6 (30.00%) Linux
7 6 (30.00%) OO
7 6 (30.00%) Python
7 6 (30.00%) DevOps
7 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
7 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
8 5 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (25.00%) vCenter Server
8 5 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (25.00%) Validation
8 5 (25.00%) Clustering
8 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (25.00%) Degree
9 4 (20.00%) JIRA
9 4 (20.00%) Computer Science

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) VSAN
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Middleware
2 4 (20.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) OO
3 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 5 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (25.00%) Validation
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
5 4 (20.00%) NsoIT
5 4 (20.00%) Power Management
5 4 (20.00%) Service Management
5 4 (20.00%) System Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 3 (15.00%) Release Management
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Perl
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (20.00%) CCNA
5 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (15.00%) VCAP
7 2 (10.00%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (55.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.00%) vSphere
5 2 (10.00%) XenApp
6 1 (5.00%) DFS Replication
6 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) CA
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Ivanti
5 1 (5.00%) Micro Focus
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Symantec