VMware Engineer Contracts

VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware 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 469 483 549
Rank change year-on-year +14 +66 +111
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 51 99 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 62 139
10th Percentile £363 £333 £345
25th Percentile £438 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £623
90th Percentile £623 £612 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +19.68% -5.94% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware 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 +13 41 £569 +19.68% 9
UK excluding London +27 25 £569 +19.68% 11
London +26 21 £550 +10.00%
South East +39 10 £578 +10.00% 4
Work from Home +28 9 £530 +0.95% 3
East of England - 6 £550 -
Scotland +9 5 - - 2
South West +26 2 £438 -7.89% 1
North of England +10 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 1
North West +8 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, VMware 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 VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) VMware
2 41 (80.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (52.94%) vSphere
4 20 (39.22%) Security Cleared
4 20 (39.22%) Windows
5 19 (37.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (33.33%) VMware NSX
6 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 17 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 16 (31.37%) Linux
8 15 (29.41%) VSAN
9 14 (27.45%) Firewall
9 14 (27.45%) DV Cleared
10 13 (25.49%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (25.49%) IaaS
11 12 (23.53%) vCenter Server
11 12 (23.53%) Azure
12 11 (21.57%) DNS
12 11 (21.57%) SAN
12 11 (21.57%) Ansible
12 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
13 10 (19.61%) Python
13 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
13 10 (19.61%) Agile
14 9 (17.65%) ITIL
14 9 (17.65%) PowerCLI
15 8 (15.69%) Network Virtualisation
15 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (15.69%) Terraform
15 8 (15.69%) SLA

VMware 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 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.88%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.96%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) IaaS
2 12 (23.53%) Azure
3 4 (7.84%) GitHub
4 3 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.88%) Nutanix
4 3 (5.88%) PaaS
5 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.96%) AWS
6 1 (1.96%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) Route 53
6 1 (1.96%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (29.41%) VSAN
2 14 (27.45%) Firewall
3 11 (21.57%) DNS
3 11 (21.57%) SAN
4 7 (13.73%) DHCP
4 7 (13.73%) Network Security
5 5 (9.80%) NAS
6 4 (7.84%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (5.88%) Skype
8 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.92%) VLAN
8 2 (3.92%) VoIP
9 1 (1.96%) IMAP
9 1 (1.96%) SMTP
9 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
1 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
3 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.96%) Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Electronics
4 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
1 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.88%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.96%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (39.22%) Windows
2 16 (31.37%) Linux
3 7 (13.73%) Unix
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.92%) VMS
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 9 (17.65%) ITIL
4 8 (15.69%) High Availability
4 8 (15.69%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (11.76%) Security Patching
6 6 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (9.80%) DevOps
8 4 (7.84%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (7.84%) Roadmaps
9 3 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (5.88%) Software Engineering
9 3 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.73%) SQL
3 5 (9.80%) Perl
4 4 (7.84%) Erlang
4 4 (7.84%) Prolog
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (27.45%) DV Cleared
3 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (13.73%) VCAP
6 3 (5.88%) Degree
7 1 (1.96%) CCNA
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.96%) RHCE
7 1 (1.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (80.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (52.94%) vSphere
3 17 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 17 (33.33%) VMware NSX
4 13 (25.49%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (11.76%) DFS Replication
6 4 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.92%) KVM
8 1 (1.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) vCenter Server
2 11 (21.57%) Ansible
3 9 (17.65%) PowerCLI
4 8 (15.69%) Terraform
5 4 (7.84%) FortiGate
5 4 (7.84%) vRealize
6 3 (5.88%) VxRail
7 2 (3.92%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.96%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (1.96%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.96%) Puppet
8 1 (1.96%) SCCM
8 1 (1.96%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (1.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) VMware
2 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Cisco
4 5 (9.80%) Dell
5 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.88%) Atempo
6 3 (5.88%) Databricks
6 3 (5.88%) F5
6 3 (5.88%) Mellanox
6 3 (5.88%) NetApp
7 2 (3.92%) Citrix
7 2 (3.92%) EMC
7 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.92%) HP
7 2 (3.92%) McAfee
7 2 (3.92%) Symantec
8 1 (1.96%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.96%) Google
8 1 (1.96%) Nokia
8 1 (1.96%) SAP