VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £569, 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 299 339 464
Rank change year-on-year +40 +125 +130
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 5 6 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.039% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.042% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile £430 - £353
25th Percentile £530 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - £548
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.82%
75th Percentile £603 - £575
90th Percentile - - £703
UK median daily rate £550 £505 £383
% change year-on-year +8.91% +32.03% -12.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer.

VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) SLA
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) DFS Replication
3 3 (60.00%) IaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Security Patching
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (20.00%) New Relic
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (20.00%) VCAP
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V

VMware Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Security Patching
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) VCAP
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Opsgenie
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) New Relic
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow