VMware Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 349 443
Rank change year-on-year +18 +94 -94
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 64 88 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.38% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.41% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 70 34
10th Percentile £325 £345 £219
25th Percentile £456 £354 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £431
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +22.78% +5.50%
75th Percentile £523 £623 £500
90th Percentile £608 £680 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £531 £455
% change year-on-year -10.59% +16.76% +7.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South West +19 23 £475 -22.76% 1
South East -15 18 £500 +9.89% 9
North of England +32 12 £475 -5.00% 1
North West +30 11 £400 -20.00% 1
Scotland +47 9 £500 -1.96% 1
West Midlands +10 2 £298 -
Midlands +10 2 £298 -53.25%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
VMware Engineer
UK

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) VMware
2 37 (57.81%) Security Cleared
3 35 (54.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (45.31%) DV Cleared
4 29 (45.31%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (42.19%) Linux
6 25 (39.06%) Data Centre
7 24 (37.50%) vSphere
8 23 (35.94%) VMware NSX
8 23 (35.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (29.69%) vCenter Server
10 18 (28.13%) SAN
11 16 (25.00%) Windows
11 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 16 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
11 16 (25.00%) VSAN
12 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
12 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
12 14 (21.88%) Firewall
13 13 (20.31%) PKI
14 12 (18.75%) Cisco
14 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (15.63%) Windows Server
15 10 (15.63%) Azure
15 10 (15.63%) Degree
16 9 (14.06%) Veeam
17 8 (12.50%) Firmware
17 8 (12.50%) Hyper-V
18 7 (10.94%) Dell
18 7 (10.94%) ITIL

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.69%) AWS
3 3 (4.69%) OCI
4 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (28.13%) SAN
2 16 (25.00%) VSAN
3 14 (21.88%) Firewall
4 5 (7.81%) NAS
5 3 (4.69%) DHCP
5 3 (4.69%) DNS
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.13%) FTP
6 2 (3.13%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.13%) SSL
6 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.13%) VLAN
6 2 (3.13%) VoIP
6 2 (3.13%) VPN
7 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Electronics
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.13%) Marketing
4 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Middleware
2 2 (3.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (39.06%) Data Centre
2 13 (20.31%) PKI
3 3 (4.69%) Replication
4 2 (3.13%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Linux
2 16 (25.00%) Windows
3 10 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (4.69%) Windows XP
5 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.94%) ITIL
4 7 (10.94%) Task Automation
5 6 (9.38%) Agile
5 6 (9.38%) Change Management
5 6 (9.38%) DevOps
5 6 (9.38%) Project Management
6 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (7.81%) OO
6 5 (7.81%) Server Management
6 5 (7.81%) Storage Management
7 4 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (4.69%) Data Protection
8 3 (4.69%) Migration
8 3 (4.69%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (4.69%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) Perl
2 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (57.81%) Security Cleared
2 29 (45.31%) DV Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
4 10 (15.63%) Degree
5 6 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (7.81%) CCNA
6 5 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (6.25%) MCSE
7 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (4.69%) CCNP
9 2 (3.13%) VCAP
10 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (54.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (45.31%) VMware ESXi
3 24 (37.50%) vSphere
4 23 (35.94%) VMware NSX
5 8 (12.50%) Firmware
5 8 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (29.69%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.25%) VxRail
3 3 (4.69%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (4.69%) NetBackup
3 3 (4.69%) SCCM
3 3 (4.69%) SCOM
3 3 (4.69%) vRealize
3 3 (4.69%) WSUS
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) vMotion
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (18.75%) Cisco
4 9 (14.06%) Veeam
5 7 (10.94%) Dell
6 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.81%) HP
8 3 (4.69%) 3PAR
8 3 (4.69%) EMC
8 3 (4.69%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (4.69%) Juniper
8 3 (4.69%) Oracle
8 3 (4.69%) Symantec
9 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.13%) SAP
10 1 (1.56%) Foundry