Senior VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior VMware Engineer
UK

The median Senior VMware Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 515 573
Rank change year-on-year -82 +58 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Senior VMware Engineer 4 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.017% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.018% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile - £415 £425
25th Percentile - £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £518 £613 -
90th Percentile £573 £661 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 38,005 28,021 41,486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 92.83% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,844 17,678 27,270
10th Percentile £310 £288 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,343 846 2,411
10th Percentile £14.82 £16.25 £13.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.06 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -0.57% -14.38%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.74 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.38 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -7.03%

Senior VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior VMware Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior VMware Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior VMware Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior VMware Engineer in the UK

Senior VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior VMware Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior VMware Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior VMware Engineer
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior VMware Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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
UK excluding London -76 4 £425 -17.07% 2
England -93 4 £425 -17.07% 2
East of England -28 2 £425 -17.07%
Work from Home -21 1 £610 +17.59% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 £610 - 2
North of England - 1 - -

Senior VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 March 2026, Senior VMware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage

Senior VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Local Government
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk