VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 664 785
Rank change year-on-year +107 +121 -131
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 25 39 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.067% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.071% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 30
10th Percentile £406 - £254
25th Percentile £459 £345 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £365 £425
Median % change year-on-year +34.25% -14.12% +3.03%
75th Percentile £608 £566 £518
90th Percentile £624 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% +30.77%

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure 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 VMware Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +85 23 £490 +38.03% 4
UK excluding London +47 14 £475 +35.71% 3
London +97 10 £575 +6.98% 1
South East +12 8 £475 +35.71% 2
Work from Home +112 5 - - 2
North of England - 3 £475 - 1
South West +16 2 £528 -9.05%
North West - 2 £475 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (84.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (84.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (52.00%) Linux
4 12 (48.00%) Windows
5 11 (44.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (44.00%) Azure
6 10 (40.00%) SAN
7 9 (36.00%) vSphere
7 9 (36.00%) Degree
7 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
8 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
8 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
9 7 (28.00%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
9 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
9 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
9 7 (28.00%) Firewall
9 7 (28.00%) Cisco
9 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
9 7 (28.00%) Python
10 6 (24.00%) ITIL
10 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
10 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
10 6 (24.00%) Ansible
10 6 (24.00%) vCenter Server
11 5 (20.00%) VMware NSX
11 5 (20.00%) NAS
11 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared

VMware Infrastructure 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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) IaaS
3 3 (12.00%) OCI
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) SAN
2 7 (28.00%) Firewall
3 5 (20.00%) NAS
4 3 (12.00%) DHCP
4 3 (12.00%) DNS
5 2 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (8.00%) SSL
5 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.00%) VLAN
5 2 (8.00%) VoIP
5 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 2 (8.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Front Office
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 12 (48.00%) Windows
3 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (12.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.00%) Unix
7 1 (4.00%) Android
7 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
7 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Change Management
4 4 (16.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Break/Fix
5 3 (12.00%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (12.00%) Project Management
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Server Management
5 3 (12.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (8.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Degree
2 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) CCNA
4 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (12.00%) CCNP
7 2 (8.00%) MCSE
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 21 (84.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (36.00%) vSphere
3 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (28.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
5 5 (20.00%) Firmware
5 5 (20.00%) VMware NSX
6 4 (16.00%) Docker
7 1 (4.00%) vCloud
7 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (4.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (24.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (16.00%) SCOM
3 3 (12.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (12.00%) NetBackup
3 3 (12.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) WSUS
4 2 (8.00%) VxRail
5 1 (4.00%) vMotion
5 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Dell
3 4 (16.00%) HP
3 4 (16.00%) Juniper
3 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.00%) 3PAR
4 3 (12.00%) EMC
4 3 (12.00%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle
4 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (12.00%) Symantec
4 3 (12.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) Sun
5 1 (4.00%) Turbonomic