VMware Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 370 449
Rank change year-on-year +27 +79 -115
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 63 93 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.40% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 80 43
10th Percentile £366 £345 £237
25th Percentile £463 £352 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +12.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £530 £606 £544
90th Percentile £610 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £493 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -6.19% +16.67% +5.88%

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 19,305 23,198 30,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.06% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,917 16,250 21,111
10th Percentile £213 £223 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £570
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 2,172 1,224 1,504
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.58 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £40.17
90th Percentile £72.86 £73.75 £58.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware 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 VMware Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 West +34 22 £475 -22.76% 3
South East -9 18 £525 +15.33% 2
North of England +42 12 £500 +11.11% 2
North West +38 11 £500 +11.11% 2
Scotland +46 9 - -
West Midlands +27 2 £298 -40.99%
Midlands +27 2 £298 -46.06%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
VMware Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, VMware 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 VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) VMware
2 40 (63.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
4 28 (44.44%) Linux
5 27 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (41.27%) vSphere
6 26 (41.27%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (39.68%) DV Cleared
8 22 (34.92%) VMware NSX
9 21 (33.33%) Data Centre
10 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
10 19 (30.16%) SAN
11 17 (26.98%) vCenter Server
12 16 (25.40%) VSAN
12 16 (25.40%) Windows
12 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
13 15 (23.81%) Converged Infrastructure
14 14 (22.22%) Firewall
15 12 (19.05%) PKI
15 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
16 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
17 10 (15.87%) Azure
18 9 (14.29%) Veeam
18 9 (14.29%) Degree
18 9 (14.29%) Cisco
18 9 (14.29%) Python
19 8 (12.70%) Hyper-V
19 8 (12.70%) DevOps
20 7 (11.11%) 3PAR

VMware 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 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.76%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) OCI
4 2 (3.17%) GCP
5 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (30.16%) SAN
2 16 (25.40%) VSAN
3 14 (22.22%) Firewall
4 5 (7.94%) NAS
5 3 (4.76%) DHCP
5 3 (4.76%) DNS
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.17%) FTP
6 2 (3.17%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.17%) SNA
6 2 (3.17%) SSL
6 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.17%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) VoIP
6 2 (3.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Git
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Electronics
4 2 (3.17%) Finance
4 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.17%) Marketing
4 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) Middleware
2 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.17%) YAML
3 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 12 (19.05%) PKI
3 4 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) Clustering
5 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (44.44%) Linux
2 16 (25.40%) Windows
3 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
4 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (4.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (23.81%) Converged Infrastructure
3 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (12.70%) DevOps
5 7 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 7 (11.11%) ITIL
5 7 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 6 (9.52%) Agile
6 6 (9.52%) Change Management
6 6 (9.52%) OO
6 6 (9.52%) Project Management
7 5 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (7.94%) Server Management
7 5 (7.94%) Storage Management
8 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.76%) Break/Fix
9 3 (4.76%) Creative Thinking
9 3 (4.76%) Decision-Making
9 3 (4.76%) Proactive Monitoring
9 3 (4.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) Python
2 6 (9.52%) Perl
2 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.68%) DV Cleared
3 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
4 9 (14.29%) Degree
5 6 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (7.94%) CCNA
6 5 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.35%) MCSE
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.76%) CCNP
9 2 (3.17%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (63.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (41.27%) VMware ESXi
2 26 (41.27%) vSphere
3 22 (34.92%) VMware NSX
4 8 (12.70%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.94%) Firmware
6 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) vCenter Server
2 5 (7.94%) vRealize
3 4 (6.35%) VxRail
4 3 (4.76%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (4.76%) NetBackup
4 3 (4.76%) SCCM
4 3 (4.76%) SCOM
4 3 (4.76%) WSUS
5 2 (3.17%) Terraform
6 1 (1.59%) vMotion
Vendors
1 63 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.29%) Cisco
3 9 (14.29%) Veeam
4 7 (11.11%) 3PAR
4 7 (11.11%) Dell
5 6 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 5 (7.94%) HP
7 3 (4.76%) EMC
7 3 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (4.76%) Juniper
7 3 (4.76%) Oracle
7 3 (4.76%) Symantec
8 2 (3.17%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.17%) SAP