VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 540 580
Rank change year-on-year -23 +40 +210
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 8 13 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.035% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.038% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 40
10th Percentile £420 £475 £356
25th Percentile £488 £504 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +18.28% +3.33%
75th Percentile £623 £581 £513
90th Percentile £634 £600 £539
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +3.36% +22.22% +5.88%

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 30,564 34,233 44,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.88% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,313 20,627 30,523
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 1,333 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.07 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +60.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.51 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +90.25%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

VMware Infrastructure 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 VMware Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 October 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 -3 8 £569 +3.36%
UK excluding London -20 5 £569 +3.36%
South East +13 4 £522 +0.82%
Work from Home +17 3 £522 -7.24%
London -1 2 £570 +8.57%
East Midlands -7 1 £650 +13.04%
Midlands -26 1 £650 +13.04%

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, VMware Infrastructure 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 VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (50.00%) vSphere
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) DHCP
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) IaaS
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) SAN
5 2 (25.00%) Citrix
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) DFS Replication
5 2 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Patching
5 2 (25.00%) SLA
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (12.50%) Ansible
6 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning

VMware Infrastructure 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) HP Storage
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) E-business
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (25.00%) DFS Replication
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler