Virtualisation Engineer Contracts

Virtualization Engineer
UK

The median Virtualization Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 551 674
Rank change year-on-year +52 +123 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 21 31 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.071% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.077% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 40
10th Percentile £518 £300 £410
25th Percentile £525 £328 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -8.16% +7.69%
75th Percentile £597 £538 £605
90th Percentile £689 £725 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £458
% change year-on-year +4.76% +14.70% +0.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK

Virtualisation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK

Virtualisation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK

Virtualisation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK

Virtualisation Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +52 20 £550 +22.22% 6
UK excluding London +60 19 £550 +4.76% 5
South West +52 14 £550 +4.76%
Work from Home +43 13 £550 +83.33% 4
London +33 2 £619 +106.25% 2
East of England - 2 £544 - 1
South East +39 1 £600 +36.18% 2
Scotland +8 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (90.48%) VMware
1 19 (90.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (80.95%) vCenter Server
3 16 (76.19%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
3 16 (76.19%) Clustering
4 15 (71.43%) Validation
4 15 (71.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 15 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (71.43%) VMware NSX
5 14 (66.67%) NsoIT
5 14 (66.67%) High Availability
5 14 (66.67%) Power Management
5 14 (66.67%) Degree
5 14 (66.67%) Service Management
5 14 (66.67%) System Testing
5 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (66.67%) Flash
6 13 (61.90%) Computer Science
6 13 (61.90%) Agile
6 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
6 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
7 12 (57.14%) Critical Thinking
7 12 (57.14%) Master's Degree
7 12 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (57.14%) Confluence
7 12 (57.14%) Waterfall
7 12 (57.14%) Atlassian
7 12 (57.14%) JIRA
7 12 (57.14%) Cisco

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (57.14%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) GCP
1 1 (4.76%) IaaS
1 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
1 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) iSCSI
2 2 (9.52%) SMTP
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) VSAN
3 1 (4.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 12 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) Flash
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (76.19%) Clustering
2 4 (19.05%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) PCIe
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
1 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) VMS
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 15 (71.43%) Validation
2 14 (66.67%) High Availability
2 14 (66.67%) NsoIT
2 14 (66.67%) Power Management
2 14 (66.67%) Service Management
2 14 (66.67%) System Testing
3 13 (61.90%) Agile
3 13 (61.90%) Computer Science
4 12 (57.14%) Critical Thinking
4 12 (57.14%) Waterfall
5 10 (47.62%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
7 2 (9.52%) ITIL
7 2 (9.52%) Server Management
7 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.76%) Kanban
8 1 (4.76%) Migration
8 1 (4.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) C
2 2 (9.52%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (71.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (66.67%) Degree
3 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (57.14%) CCNA
4 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (57.14%) Master's Degree
5 2 (9.52%) CCNP
5 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) MCSA
5 2 (9.52%) MCSE
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (76.19%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (71.43%) VMware NSX
4 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 2 (9.52%) BitLocker
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (9.52%) Firmware
5 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (9.52%) Terminal Services
5 2 (9.52%) vSphere
6 1 (4.76%) Docker
6 1 (4.76%) KVM
6 1 (4.76%) QEMU
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) vCenter Server
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) SCOM
2 2 (9.52%) vMotion
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) vRealize
3 1 (4.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) VMware
2 12 (57.14%) Atlassian
2 12 (57.14%) Cisco
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Citrix
4 2 (9.52%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
5 1 (4.76%) Symantec