VMware Contracts in the North West

VMware
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware 76 155 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.84% 4.99% 3.70%
As % of the Vendors category 7.23% 12.16% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 96 111
10th Percentile £211 £300 £240
25th Percentile £270 £348 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% +16.68%
75th Percentile £480 £600 £625
90th Percentile £533 £663 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 1
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.95 -
25th Percentile £39.76 £29.30 £10.35
Median hourly rate £46.18 £42.50 £10.70
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +297.20% -81.39%
75th Percentile - £49.52 £11.05
90th Percentile £63.38 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £62.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.52% +49.40% -17.00%

All Vendors
North West

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,051 1,275 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 39.25% 41.05% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 836 971
10th Percentile £269 £275 £185
25th Percentile £394 £379 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +2.08% +12.05%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
England median daily rate £518 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 60 109
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.14 £10.57
25th Percentile £12.00 £21.86 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +78.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £26.39 £47.25 £52.70
90th Percentile £46.18 £53.02 £77.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.39
% change year-on-year -41.56% +79.99% +1.86%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North West.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester -9 32 £350 -17.65% 24
Cheshire +14 24 £375 -31.82% 27
Merseyside -1 7 £225 -65.38% 5
Lancashire -19 6 - - 10
Cumbria -21 4 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (17.11%) SharePoint
2 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (9.21%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (9.21%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.63%) nginx
4 2 (2.63%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.53%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (31.58%) Azure
3 16 (21.05%) AWS
4 3 (3.95%) GCP
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.63%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.32%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.32%) IaaS
6 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.32%) PaaS
6 1 (1.32%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
6 1 (1.32%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) Firewall
1 12 (15.79%) LAN
1 12 (15.79%) WAN
2 11 (14.47%) VPN
3 8 (10.53%) SAN
3 8 (10.53%) Wireless
4 7 (9.21%) DNS
4 7 (9.21%) Ethernet
4 7 (9.21%) OSPF
4 7 (9.21%) Wireless Security
5 4 (5.26%) DHCP
5 4 (5.26%) VLAN
5 4 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.95%) VoIP
7 2 (2.63%) VSAN
8 1 (1.32%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.32%) Skype
8 1 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.21%) Metadata
2 7 (9.21%) PowerPivot
2 7 (9.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Power View
4 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Navicat
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Git
1 2 (2.63%) GitLab
1 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 30 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (7.89%) Publishing
3 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Finance
5 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 16 (21.05%) Senior
2 10 (13.16%) VMware Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Analyst
3 8 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) SAN Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) SharePoint Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Administrator
6 5 (6.58%) Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 5 (6.58%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.26%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) CSS
1 7 (9.21%) HTML
2 2 (2.63%) cloud-init
3 1 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.32%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.89%) Clustering
3 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.95%) PKI
4 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) NHS
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Replication
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.32%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 38 (50.00%) Windows
2 14 (18.42%) Windows 10
3 13 (17.11%) Linux
4 12 (15.79%) Windows Server
5 8 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.95%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.63%) CentOS
8 2 (2.63%) Unix
8 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (28.95%) ITIL
3 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.42%) Customer Service
5 12 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (9.21%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 7 (9.21%) Metadata Management
7 6 (7.89%) Information Architecture
7 6 (7.89%) Statistics
8 5 (6.58%) DevOps
9 4 (5.26%) CI/CD
9 4 (5.26%) Decision-Making
10 3 (3.95%) Agile
10 3 (3.95%) Containerisation
10 3 (3.95%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (3.95%) Microservices
10 3 (3.95%) Migration
10 3 (3.95%) Quality Management
11 2 (2.63%) Configuration Management
11 2 (2.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.16%) SQL
3 7 (9.21%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.89%) Python
5 3 (3.95%) Bash
6 2 (2.63%) Go
6 2 (2.63%) Ruby
7 1 (1.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) Degree
4 12 (15.79%) CCNA
4 12 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (9.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (7.89%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (3.95%) MCSE
9 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.63%) MCITP
9 2 (2.63%) VCAP
10 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.32%) CCIE
10 1 (1.32%) CCNP
10 1 (1.32%) CISSP
10 1 (1.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) SLA
2 2 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (39.47%) Active Directory
3 22 (28.95%) Hyper-V
4 8 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (9.21%) Firmware
6 4 (5.26%) Docker
7 3 (3.95%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.53%) vCenter Server
3 6 (7.89%) Terraform
4 5 (6.58%) Ansible
4 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.58%) SCCM
5 3 (3.95%) Autotask
5 3 (3.95%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.95%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (2.63%) Consul
6 2 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.63%) Graphite
6 2 (2.63%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.63%) Istio
6 2 (2.63%) linkerd
6 2 (2.63%) Packer
6 2 (2.63%) Podman
6 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.63%) Puppet
6 2 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.42%) Cisco
3 9 (11.84%) Citrix
4 7 (9.21%) Veeam
5 5 (6.58%) Dell
6 3 (3.95%) Apple
6 3 (3.95%) Datto
7 2 (2.63%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.63%) Brocade
7 2 (2.63%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (2.63%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.63%) Sophos
7 2 (2.63%) Splunk
8 1 (1.32%) EMC
8 1 (1.32%) Juniper
8 1 (1.32%) NetApp
8 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.32%) Symantec