Virtualisation Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 358 408
Rank change year-on-year -2 +50 +102
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 7 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.068% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.073% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 15
10th Percentile £521 £463 £404
25th Percentile £523 £488 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £455
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.27% +0.10%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £513
90th Percentile £593 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £490
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% +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 13,685 16,394 20,459
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 92.29% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,409 9,572 13,662
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £681 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,240 1,451 1,194
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.50 £17.76
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.24 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies 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 15 September 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
East of England - 2 £544 -
South East +22 1 £600 - 1
South West +21 1 £550 +4.76% 3
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 15 September 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 4 (57.14%) VMware
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) vCenter Server
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) Firmware
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability

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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) SMTP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Flash
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PCIe
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Memory Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) NsoIT
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (28.57%) Firmware
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 1 (14.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) KVM
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (14.29%) QEMU
3 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) vCenter Server
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) SysTrack
3 1 (14.29%) vMotion
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec