VMware Engineer Contracts

VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 527 656
Rank change year-on-year +54 +129 -110
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 98 160 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 125 128
10th Percentile £331 £345 £307
25th Percentile £450 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £465
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +15.59% +9.41%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £588
90th Percentile £608 £683 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £530 £431
% change year-on-year -10.29% +22.78% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Top 12 Contract 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 18 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 +51 84 £475 -12.24% 15
UK excluding London +35 64 £475 -10.29% 11
London +83 30 £513 -2.38% 7
South West +16 23 £475 -22.76% 1
Work from Home +53 19 £513 -6.82% 5
South East 0 18 £500 +9.89% 8
North of England +37 11 £475 -5.00% 1
Scotland +49 10 £500 -1.96% 1
North West +24 10 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands +18 2 £298 -
Midlands +11 2 £298 -53.25%
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) VMware
2 58 (59.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (43.88%) Security Cleared
4 36 (36.73%) Linux
5 34 (34.69%) VMware ESXi
6 32 (32.65%) vSphere
7 31 (31.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (30.61%) VMware NSX
8 30 (30.61%) DV Cleared
9 26 (26.53%) Windows
9 26 (26.53%) Data Centre
10 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
11 24 (24.49%) vCenter Server
12 21 (21.43%) SAN
13 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
13 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
14 19 (19.39%) PowerShell
14 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (18.37%) Python
15 18 (18.37%) Azure
16 17 (17.35%) VSAN
17 16 (16.33%) Converged Infrastructure
17 16 (16.33%) Windows Server
17 16 (16.33%) Cisco
18 15 (15.31%) ITIL
19 14 (14.29%) Firewall
20 13 (13.27%) PKI
20 13 (13.27%) Dell
21 11 (11.22%) Degree
21 11 (11.22%) Agile

VMware 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 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.37%) Azure
2 7 (7.14%) AWS
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.08%) IaaS
5 3 (3.06%) OCI
6 2 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.43%) SAN
2 17 (17.35%) VSAN
3 14 (14.29%) Firewall
4 7 (7.14%) DNS
5 6 (6.12%) DHCP
6 5 (5.10%) NAS
7 4 (4.08%) VPN
8 3 (3.06%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.06%) iSCSI
8 3 (3.06%) WAN
9 2 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.04%) FTP
9 2 (2.04%) LAN
9 2 (2.04%) NetScaler
9 2 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (2.04%) SSL
9 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.04%) VLAN
9 2 (2.04%) VoIP
10 1 (1.02%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Finance
5 2 (2.04%) Banking
5 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Electronics
5 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.04%) Marketing
5 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) Middleware
2 4 (4.08%) LDAP
3 2 (2.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.02%) .NET
4 1 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.53%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.27%) PKI
3 4 (4.08%) CMDB
3 4 (4.08%) Replication
3 4 (4.08%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (2.04%) Clustering
4 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.02%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.73%) Linux
2 26 (26.53%) Windows
3 16 (16.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.06%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.04%) Unix
7 1 (1.02%) Android
7 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (16.33%) Converged Infrastructure
4 15 (15.31%) ITIL
5 11 (11.22%) Agile
6 10 (10.20%) Migration
6 10 (10.20%) Task Automation
7 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (8.16%) DevOps
9 7 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (6.12%) Change Management
10 6 (6.12%) Containerisation
10 6 (6.12%) OO
10 6 (6.12%) Project Management
10 6 (6.12%) Server Management
11 5 (5.10%) Performance Monitoring
11 5 (5.10%) SDLC
11 5 (5.10%) Storage Management
12 4 (4.08%) Performance Metrics
12 4 (4.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.39%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.37%) Python
3 6 (6.12%) Perl
4 5 (5.10%) Java
5 4 (4.08%) SQL
6 2 (2.04%) C
7 1 (1.02%) Bash
7 1 (1.02%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) Go
7 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (43.88%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.61%) DV Cleared
3 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.22%) Degree
5 9 (9.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (5.10%) CCNA
6 5 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.10%) MCSE
6 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.06%) CCNP
8 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.04%) VCAP
9 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (59.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (34.69%) VMware ESXi
3 32 (32.65%) vSphere
4 30 (30.61%) VMware NSX
5 11 (11.22%) Hyper-V
6 10 (10.20%) Firmware
7 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
8 4 (4.08%) Docker
8 4 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (3.06%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (1.02%) vCloud
11 1 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (24.49%) vCenter Server
2 9 (9.18%) VxRail
3 8 (8.16%) Ansible
4 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.08%) PowerCLI
5 4 (4.08%) SCCM
5 4 (4.08%) SCOM
5 4 (4.08%) Terraform
5 4 (4.08%) vRealize
6 3 (3.06%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (3.06%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 3 (3.06%) WSUS
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) vMotion
Vendors
1 98 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 16 (16.33%) Cisco
4 13 (13.27%) Dell
5 10 (10.20%) Veeam
6 6 (6.12%) HP
6 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.08%) Citrix
7 4 (4.08%) Juniper
7 4 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.06%) 3PAR
8 3 (3.06%) EMC
8 3 (3.06%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle
8 3 (3.06%) Symantec
9 2 (2.04%) Brocade
9 2 (2.04%) F5
9 2 (2.04%) Nexthink
9 2 (2.04%) SAP
9 2 (2.04%) Splunk