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 £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 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
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 302 345
Rank change year-on-year -20 +43 +129
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 50 68 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 46 53
10th Percentile £485 £325 £345
25th Percentile £534 £463 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £623 £556 £529
90th Percentile £634 - £608
UK median daily rate £559 £504 £455
% change year-on-year +10.96% +10.66% -13.25%

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 13,897 16,803 20,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 92.02% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,509 10,294 14,143
10th Percentile £216 £220 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.32%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,221 1,736 1,143
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.41 £18.69 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.11 £45.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.20% +23.29% +71.76%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 9 August 2025.

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 9 August 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 East +31 24 £575 +9.52% 3
Midlands -6 9 £650 +118.12% 1
West Midlands -3 8 - -
Scotland -4 8 - -
North of England -19 4 - -
East of England - 4 £540 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South West -2 1 £425 -10.53%
East Midlands -6 1 £650 +13.04%
North West -13 1 - -
VMware Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 August 2025, 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 50 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (56.00%) vSphere
3 26 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (52.00%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
4 24 (48.00%) DV Cleared
4 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
5 14 (28.00%) Agile
5 14 (28.00%) IaaS
6 13 (26.00%) Python
7 12 (24.00%) Validation
7 12 (24.00%) VMware NSX
8 11 (22.00%) vCenter Server
8 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
8 11 (22.00%) Firewall
8 11 (22.00%) Linux
9 10 (20.00%) DNS
9 10 (20.00%) Windows
10 9 (18.00%) Unix
10 9 (18.00%) SQL
10 9 (18.00%) Git
10 9 (18.00%) High Availability
11 8 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (16.00%) Virtual Team
11 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
11 8 (16.00%) Erlang
11 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (16.00%) Perl
11 8 (16.00%) Management Information System

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 3 (6.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) IaaS
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.00%) PaaS
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) DNS
3 7 (14.00%) DHCP
3 7 (14.00%) SAN
3 7 (14.00%) VSAN
4 3 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (6.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (2.00%) NAS
6 1 (2.00%) SSL
6 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.00%) VLAN
6 1 (2.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.00%) Git
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
1 8 (16.00%) Virtual Team
2 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Linux
2 10 (20.00%) Windows
3 9 (18.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (28.00%) Agile
3 12 (24.00%) Validation
4 9 (18.00%) High Availability
5 8 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.00%) DevOps
6 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.00%) ITIL
6 6 (12.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (12.00%) Security Patching
7 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.00%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (6.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (6.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.00%) Waterfall
8 3 (6.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) SQL
3 8 (16.00%) Erlang
3 8 (16.00%) Perl
3 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.00%) Prolog
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) DV Cleared
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) VCAP
2 6 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (56.00%) vSphere
2 26 (52.00%) VMware ESXi
2 26 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (24.00%) VMware NSX
4 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (12.00%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (12.00%) PowerCLI
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 4 (8.00%) Ansible
3 4 (8.00%) VxRail
4 2 (4.00%) vRealize
5 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Citrix
3 3 (6.00%) Dell
4 2 (4.00%) Broadcom
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) F5
4 2 (4.00%) Veeam
5 1 (2.00%) EMC
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler