VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends

VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 487 519
Rank change year-on-year -40 +32 +111
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 60 65 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 66
10th Percentile £375 £367 £331
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +4.57% -6.19%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £525
90th Percentile £663 £600 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 33,474 31,919 40,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.77% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,192 19,646 27,547
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,966 1,020 1,459
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.59 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

VMware Engineer
Top 14 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -47 45 £525 - 19
UK excluding London -54 31 £525 -2.33% 23
Work from Home +5 20 £466 -6.80% 9
South East -9 15 £525 +1.45% 8
London -17 14 £518 +2.68% 4
South West -9 4 £450 -16.28%
Midlands -27 4 £600 +4.35% 2
East of England -13 3 £425 -17.07%
North of England -47 3 £725 +346.15% 7
Scotland +7 2 £675 - 6
East Midlands -22 2 £600 +4.35% 2
West Midlands - 2 - -
North West - 2 £725 -
Yorkshire -43 1 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, 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 VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) VMware
2 40 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 30 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (38.33%) SC Cleared
5 23 (38.33%) vSphere
6 18 (30.00%) PowerShell
7 17 (28.33%) Python
7 17 (28.33%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (28.33%) Windows
8 16 (26.67%) DV Cleared
9 15 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 15 (25.00%) vRealize
10 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
11 12 (20.00%) Linux
11 12 (20.00%) Windows Server
12 11 (18.33%) vCenter Server
13 10 (16.67%) Ansible
13 10 (16.67%) VMware NSX
14 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
14 9 (15.00%) Azure
14 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
14 9 (15.00%) Terraform
15 8 (13.33%) DevOps
15 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
16 7 (11.67%) ITIL
16 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (11.67%) Ubuntu
17 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
17 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) Confluence
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.33%) IaaS
4 3 (5.00%) AWS
5 2 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) DNS
2 5 (8.33%) VSAN
3 4 (6.67%) DHCP
4 3 (5.00%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) BGP
5 2 (3.33%) Firewall
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.67%) NAS
6 1 (1.67%) OSPF
6 1 (1.67%) SAN
6 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Local Government
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Private Cloud
1 4 (6.67%) Replication
2 3 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Windows
2 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.67%) Ubuntu
4 6 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.33%) VMS
8 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (13.33%) DevOps
3 7 (11.67%) ITIL
4 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (8.33%) Validation
5 5 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (6.67%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (6.67%) GitOps
6 4 (6.67%) High Availability
6 4 (6.67%) Migration
6 4 (6.67%) Patch Management
6 4 (6.67%) Security Hardening
6 4 (6.67%) Service Management
6 4 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (5.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (5.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (28.33%) Python
3 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (38.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 15 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.00%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) VCAP
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (38.33%) vSphere
3 17 (28.33%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (16.67%) VMware NSX
5 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (8.33%) Docker
6 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (3.33%) KVM
9 1 (1.67%) Firmware
9 1 (1.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) vRealize
2 11 (18.33%) vCenter Server
3 10 (16.67%) Ansible
4 9 (15.00%) Terraform
5 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
6 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (6.67%) Nessus
7 4 (6.67%) Packer
8 3 (5.00%) PowerCLI
8 3 (5.00%) SCCM
9 2 (3.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (1.67%) Argo
10 1 (1.67%) Grafana
10 1 (1.67%) Rundeck
10 1 (1.67%) SCOM
10 1 (1.67%) VxRail
10 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.67%) Veeam
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (3.33%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Arista
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) Dell
6 1 (1.67%) EMC
6 1 (1.67%) F5
6 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy
6 1 (1.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) Zscaler