VMware Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 657 791
Rank change year-on-year +96 +134 -89
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 23 40 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.072% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.076% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 29
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £463 £345 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £395 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% -7.06% +3.03%
75th Percentile £608 £570 £588
90th Percentile £621 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +40.00% -17.65% +25.93%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +71 21 £505 +40.28% 5
UK excluding London +21 15 £490 +40.00% 3
South East +5 9 £505 +44.29% 3
London +79 7 £575 +5.75% 2
North of England - 3 £475 -
Work from Home +106 2 - - 4
South West +2 2 £528 -26.48%
North West - 2 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (86.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (56.52%) Windows
4 11 (47.83%) Linux
4 11 (47.83%) Azure
5 10 (43.48%) SAN
6 9 (39.13%) Degree
6 9 (39.13%) vSphere
6 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
6 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
6 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
7 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
7 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
7 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
8 7 (30.43%) Cisco
8 7 (30.43%) Firewall
8 7 (30.43%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (30.43%) Hyper-V
8 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
9 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
9 6 (26.09%) ITIL
9 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
10 5 (21.74%) VMware NSX
10 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (21.74%) CCNA
10 5 (21.74%) Firmware
10 5 (21.74%) NAS
10 5 (21.74%) 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 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) OCI
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) SAN
2 7 (30.43%) Firewall
3 5 (21.74%) NAS
4 3 (13.04%) DHCP
4 3 (13.04%) DNS
5 2 (8.70%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (8.70%) SSL
5 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.70%) VLAN
5 2 (8.70%) VoIP
5 2 (8.70%) VPN
5 2 (8.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Front Office
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) HP Storage
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Linux
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (13.04%) Windows XP
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Unix
6 1 (4.35%) Android
6 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Change Management
4 4 (17.39%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Break/Fix
5 3 (13.04%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.04%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) Server Management
5 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (8.70%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) C
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Go
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) CCNA
3 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (13.04%) CCNP
6 2 (8.70%) MCSE
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 20 (86.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (39.13%) vSphere
3 7 (30.43%) Hyper-V
3 7 (30.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
5 5 (21.74%) Firmware
5 5 (21.74%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.35%) Docker
6 1 (4.35%) vCloud
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) SCOM
3 3 (13.04%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
3 3 (13.04%) SCCM
3 3 (13.04%) WSUS
4 2 (8.70%) VxRail
5 1 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (4.35%) vMotion
5 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco
4 4 (17.39%) Dell
4 4 (17.39%) HP
4 4 (17.39%) Juniper
5 3 (13.04%) 3PAR
5 3 (13.04%) EMC
5 3 (13.04%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle
5 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
5 3 (13.04%) Symantec
5 3 (13.04%) Veeam
6 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.35%) Citrix
7 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
7 1 (4.35%) Sun
7 1 (4.35%) Turbonomic