VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 96 80
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 74 118 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.57% 2.13% 2.83%
As % of the System Software category 13.63% 14.71% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 75 163
10th Percentile £211 £313 £250
25th Percentile £256 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.73% +11.88%
75th Percentile £523 £631 £556
90th Percentile £630 £675 £648
England median daily rate £510 £546 £475
% change year-on-year -6.59% +14.95% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile - £28.63 -
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.40 -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £49.98 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% - -
75th Percentile - £52.13 -
90th Percentile - £58.57 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £63.00 £45.48
% change year-on-year -36.51% +38.52% -9.04%

All System Software Skills
North of England

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 543 802 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.50% 14.46% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 581 799
10th Percentile £178 £175 £158
25th Percentile £285 £288 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £549
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 46
10th Percentile - £14.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £18.38 £47.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £44.20 £63.88 £23.25
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £18.60
% change year-on-year -57.37% +180.27% -2.11%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North West -31 45 £325 -35.00% 40
Yorkshire +19 25 £380 -20.42% 28
North East +6 4 £600 +14.29% 7
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (14.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.46%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (9.46%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (5.41%) nginx
5 2 (2.70%) IIS
5 2 (2.70%) Traefik
6 1 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.35%) Site Server
Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.08%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (27.03%) Azure
3 14 (18.92%) AWS
4 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.70%) Anthos
5 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.70%) Datadog
5 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.35%) IaaS
6 1 (1.35%) OCI
6 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.35%) PaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.62%) LAN
2 14 (18.92%) DNS
2 14 (18.92%) Firewall
3 12 (16.22%) VPN
3 12 (16.22%) WAN
4 11 (14.86%) DHCP
5 10 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (12.16%) SAN
7 7 (9.46%) Ethernet
7 7 (9.46%) OSPF
7 7 (9.46%) Wireless
7 7 (9.46%) Wireless Security
8 6 (8.11%) VLAN
9 4 (5.41%) Internet
9 4 (5.41%) VoIP
10 3 (4.05%) NAS
10 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
11 2 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (2.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.46%) Metadata
2 7 (9.46%) PowerPivot
2 7 (9.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Power View
4 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) GitLab
1 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) Git
General
1 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
5 6 (8.11%) Publishing
6 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.70%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Automotive
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Analyst
4 7 (9.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) IT Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Network Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) IT Support
5 6 (8.11%) SharePoint Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Senior
6 5 (6.76%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Server Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) CSS
1 7 (9.46%) HTML
2 2 (2.70%) ADSI
2 2 (2.70%) cloud-init
3 1 (1.35%) .NET
3 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Clustering
2 4 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.41%) Replication
3 3 (4.05%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.05%) EMC VNX
3 3 (4.05%) PKI
4 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
4 2 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.35%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) LIMS
5 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 55 (74.32%) Windows
2 24 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 15 (20.27%) Windows 10
4 14 (18.92%) Linux
5 11 (14.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (9.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (4.05%) AIX
8 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
8 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (4.05%) Solaris
8 3 (4.05%) VMS
9 2 (2.70%) CentOS
9 2 (2.70%) Unix
9 2 (2.70%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 28 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (29.73%) ITIL
3 17 (22.97%) Customer Service
4 13 (17.57%) Migration
5 12 (16.22%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (9.46%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 7 (9.46%) Metadata Management
7 6 (8.11%) Agile
7 6 (8.11%) Information Architecture
7 6 (8.11%) Statistics
8 4 (5.41%) Containerisation
8 4 (5.41%) Data Protection
8 4 (5.41%) DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) Email Filtering
8 4 (5.41%) Kalman Filter
8 4 (5.41%) Runbook
8 4 (5.41%) Task Automation
9 3 (4.05%) CI/CD
9 3 (4.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) PowerShell
2 11 (14.86%) SQL
3 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.41%) Bash
4 4 (5.41%) Python
5 3 (4.05%) Go
6 2 (2.70%) Ruby
6 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.35%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) Java
7 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Degree
2 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) CCNA
3 13 (17.57%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (8.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (4.05%) A+ Certification
7 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) MCSE
8 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.35%) CCENT
9 1 (1.35%) CISSP
9 1 (1.35%) MCSA
9 1 (1.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) SLA
2 2 (2.70%) NCSC
2 2 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) NIST
3 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (44.59%) Active Directory
2 25 (33.78%) Hyper-V
3 5 (6.76%) VMware Workstation
3 5 (6.76%) vSphere
4 4 (5.41%) Docker
4 4 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.05%) SRDF
5 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.70%) KVM
7 1 (1.35%) Firmware
7 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.11%) SCCM
3 4 (5.41%) Istio
3 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.41%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.05%) Autotask
4 3 (4.05%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.05%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (2.70%) Consul
5 2 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.70%) Graphite
5 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.70%) Packer
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
5 2 (2.70%) WSUS
5 2 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) VMware
2 37 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.51%) Citrix
4 9 (12.16%) Cisco
5 4 (5.41%) Dell
5 4 (5.41%) Splunk
5 4 (5.41%) Veeam
6 3 (4.05%) Apple
6 3 (4.05%) Brocade
6 3 (4.05%) Datto
6 3 (4.05%) Dell Compellent
6 3 (4.05%) EMC
6 3 (4.05%) EqualLogic
6 3 (4.05%) Isilon
6 3 (4.05%) Sophos
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle
7 2 (2.70%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.35%) Aruba
8 1 (1.35%) Proofpoint