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 £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 377 428
Rank change year-on-year +60 +51 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 19 22 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 32
10th Percentile £516 £416 £410
25th Percentile £525 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +14.70% +0.82%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £597
90th Percentile £688 £765 £699
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +22.22% -8.16% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 West +52 14 £550 +4.76%
East of England - 2 £544 - 1
South East +39 1 £600 +36.18% 2
Scotland +8 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 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 1 May 2025, 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 17 (89.47%) VMware
1 17 (89.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (84.21%) vCenter Server
3 15 (78.95%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (78.95%) VMware NSX
3 15 (78.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
3 15 (78.95%) Clustering
3 15 (78.95%) Validation
4 14 (73.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (73.68%) Degree
4 14 (73.68%) System Testing
4 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
4 14 (73.68%) Flash
4 14 (73.68%) Service Management
4 14 (73.68%) NsoIT
4 14 (73.68%) High Availability
4 14 (73.68%) Power Management
5 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
5 13 (68.42%) Computer Science
5 13 (68.42%) Agile
6 12 (63.16%) JIRA
6 12 (63.16%) Atlassian
6 12 (63.16%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (63.16%) CCNA
6 12 (63.16%) Cisco
6 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (63.16%) Critical Thinking
6 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
6 12 (63.16%) Master's Degree

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 12 (63.16%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
1 1 (5.26%) IaaS
1 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
1 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
2 2 (10.53%) VSAN
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) SMTP
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Big Data
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) Flash
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) VMS
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 15 (78.95%) Validation
2 14 (73.68%) High Availability
2 14 (73.68%) NsoIT
2 14 (73.68%) Power Management
2 14 (73.68%) Service Management
2 14 (73.68%) System Testing
3 13 (68.42%) Agile
3 13 (68.42%) Computer Science
4 12 (63.16%) Critical Thinking
4 12 (63.16%) Waterfall
5 10 (52.63%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.53%) ITIL
7 2 (10.53%) Server Management
7 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.26%) Memory Management
8 1 (5.26%) Migration
8 1 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) C
1 2 (10.53%) C++
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (73.68%) Degree
2 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
2 14 (73.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 12 (63.16%) CCNA
3 12 (63.16%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (63.16%) Master's Degree
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) MCSA
4 2 (10.53%) MCSE
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (78.95%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (78.95%) VMware NSX
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (10.53%) Firmware
4 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
4 1 (5.26%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) KVM
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.26%) QEMU
4 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (5.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) SCOM
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Nagios
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) vMotion
3 1 (5.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Atlassian
2 12 (63.16%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) NVIDIA
4 1 (5.26%) Symantec