Virtualisation Engineer Contracts

Virtualization Engineer
UK

The median Virtualization Engineer daily rate in the UK is £431 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 673 819
Rank change year-on-year +117 +146 -179
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 30 43 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.071% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.075% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 38 31
10th Percentile £262 £421 £363
25th Percentile £308 £455 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £538 £455
Median % change year-on-year -19.78% +18.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £509 £618 £560
90th Percentile £730 £696 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £454
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.63% +10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.97
25th Percentile - - £62.36
Median hourly rate - - £68.02
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £68.02

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

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 19 April 2024.

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 9 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 19 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
England +98 24 £431 -17.87% 4
UK excluding London +59 20 £500 +5.26% 3
Work from Home +125 11 £300 -52.00% 3
London +107 8 £300 -45.45% 1
South East +11 8 £441 -3.17%
South West +20 6 £700 +21.74% 1
Scotland - 6 - -
Midlands +28 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 (63.33%) VMware
1 19 (63.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) VMware NSX
3 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) High Availability
4 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (26.67%) VSAN
5 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 7 (23.33%) Dell
7 6 (20.00%) Middleware
7 6 (20.00%) OO
7 6 (20.00%) Perl
7 6 (20.00%) Python
7 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 6 (20.00%) DevOps
7 6 (20.00%) OpenStack
8 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
8 5 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
8 5 (16.67%) GDPR
8 5 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office

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 6 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 4 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) VSAN
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Electronics
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Middleware
2 4 (13.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (30.00%) High Availability
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) OO
4 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (16.67%) Validation
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) Data Security
6 4 (13.33%) NsoIT
6 4 (13.33%) Power Management
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Service Management
6 4 (13.33%) System Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Waterfall
7 3 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) Perl
1 6 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (16.67%) Degree
5 4 (13.33%) CCNA
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
6 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (10.00%) VCAP
7 2 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (36.67%) VMware NSX
3 5 (16.67%) Firmware
3 5 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (10.00%) vSphere
5 2 (6.67%) XenApp
6 1 (3.33%) DFS Replication
6 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 4 (13.33%) CA Service Virtualization
3 2 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) VMware
2 7 (23.33%) Dell
3 4 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (13.33%) CA
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Micro Focus
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix
5 2 (6.67%) SAP
6 1 (3.33%) Ivanti
6 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.33%) Symantec