Hybrid/Remote VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends

VMware Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median VMware Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 293 318
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +103
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 29 11 36
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.25% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 17
10th Percentile £388 £373 £425
25th Percentile £466 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £530 £603 £501
90th Percentile £565 £621 £567
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +72.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 10,757 9,555 15,114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.62% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,926 6,489 10,139
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £628
90th Percentile £725 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 202 529
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.23 £14.23
25th Percentile £24.63 £21.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.02 £46.56
Median % change year-on-year +47.36% -16.19% -18.24%
75th Percentile £67.38 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.49% - -23.29%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'VMware Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid VMware Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid VMware Engineer job vacancies

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

VMware Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid VMware Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid VMware Engineer job vacancies

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (65.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
4 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (44.83%) vSphere
5 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
6 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
6 10 (34.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (34.48%) vRealize
7 9 (31.03%) Python
7 9 (31.03%) VMware NSX
8 8 (27.59%) vCenter Server
8 8 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
9 7 (24.14%) Virtual Environments
9 7 (24.14%) VSAN
10 4 (13.79%) Ansible
10 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
11 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
11 3 (10.34%) Azure
11 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
11 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (10.34%) KVM
11 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
11 3 (10.34%) Runbook
11 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (10.34%) Windows
12 2 (6.90%) API Integration
12 2 (6.90%) Bill of Materials
12 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) IaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) VSAN
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) NonStop SQL
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Virtual Environments
3 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (10.34%) Runbook
5 2 (6.90%) API Integration
5 2 (6.90%) Bill of Materials
5 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) High Availability
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL
5 2 (6.90%) Migration
5 2 (6.90%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 1 (3.45%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (3.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.90%) VCAP
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (65.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (44.83%) vSphere
3 9 (31.03%) VMware NSX
4 8 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
5 3 (10.34%) KVM
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.45%) DFS Replication
7 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) vRealize
2 8 (27.59%) vCenter Server
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.90%) PowerCLI
4 2 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.45%) SCOM
5 1 (3.45%) Terraform
5 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Veritas
4 1 (3.45%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) Zerto