VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 430 472
Rank change year-on-year +55 +42 -50
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 14 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 16
10th Percentile £400 - £223
25th Percentile £463 £345 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile £591 £453 £559
90th Percentile £608 £550 £677
UK median daily rate £490 £395 £425
% change year-on-year +24.05% -7.06% +3.03%

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 18,803 21,973 29,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.37% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,462 15,346 20,547
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,127 1,467
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.28
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 +11 8 £475 +35.71% 2
North of England - 3 £475 - 1
South West +8 2 £528 -9.05%
North West - 2 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) VMware
1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (64.29%) SAN
4 8 (57.14%) Degree
4 8 (57.14%) Azure
5 7 (50.00%) Firewall
5 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
6 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
6 6 (42.86%) Windows
6 6 (42.86%) Linux
6 6 (42.86%) vSphere
6 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) NAS
7 5 (35.71%) CCNA
7 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
7 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (35.71%) vCenter Server
7 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
8 4 (28.57%) Converged Infrastructure
8 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
8 4 (28.57%) Cisco
8 4 (28.57%) Change Management
9 3 (21.43%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (21.43%) SCCM
9 3 (21.43%) SCOM

VMware Infrastructure 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) OCI
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) SAN
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) NAS
4 3 (21.43%) DHCP
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
5 2 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
5 2 (14.29%) SSL
5 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) VoIP
5 2 (14.29%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
4 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Change Management
3 4 (28.57%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Break/Fix
4 3 (21.43%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Server Management
4 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Security Management
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) CCNA
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) CCNP
5 2 (14.29%) MCSE
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (42.86%) vSphere
3 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (21.43%) Firmware
5 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) vCenter Server
2 3 (21.43%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 3 (21.43%) SCOM
2 3 (21.43%) WSUS
3 1 (7.14%) vMotion
3 1 (7.14%) vRealize
3 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 3 (21.43%) 3PAR
4 3 (21.43%) Dell
4 3 (21.43%) EMC
4 3 (21.43%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (21.43%) HP
4 3 (21.43%) Juniper
4 3 (21.43%) Oracle
4 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 3 (21.43%) Symantec
4 3 (21.43%) Veeam