VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the North West

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 70 84
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 48 98 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.73% 3.04% 2.64%
As % of the System Software category 18.18% 19.07% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 70 91
10th Percentile £210 £306 £213
25th Percentile £213 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +17.65% +18.06%
75th Percentile £472 £650 £625
90th Percentile £579 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 0
10th Percentile - £41.13 -
25th Percentile £37.63 £52.13 -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £58.57 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% - -
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £49.84
% change year-on-year -38.08% +30.42% +2.24%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 264 514 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.50% 15.92% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 375 408
10th Percentile £179 £200 £158
25th Percentile £302 £325 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £606
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 27
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.70
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -57.38%
75th Percentile £20.94 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £33.55
England median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +163.16% -1.30%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 -4 25 £350 -26.32% 25
Cheshire +6 8 £525 -5.83% 13
Merseyside +3 7 £225 -65.38% 6
Lancashire -1 6 - - 8
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
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 11 (22.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.58%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (14.58%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (4.17%) nginx
4 2 (4.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
3 12 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.08%) Datadog
6 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.08%) IaaS
6 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.08%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) LAN
1 11 (22.92%) WAN
2 10 (20.83%) Firewall
2 10 (20.83%) VPN
3 7 (14.58%) Ethernet
3 7 (14.58%) OSPF
3 7 (14.58%) Wireless
3 7 (14.58%) Wireless Security
4 6 (12.50%) DNS
5 3 (6.25%) DHCP
5 3 (6.25%) SAN
5 3 (6.25%) VLAN
5 3 (6.25%) VoIP
5 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.08%) Skype
7 1 (2.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.58%) Metadata
2 7 (14.58%) PowerPivot
2 7 (14.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Git
1 2 (4.17%) GitLab
1 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Publishing
3 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (14.58%) Network Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) SharePoint Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 4 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) CSS
1 7 (14.58%) HTML
2 2 (4.17%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Clustering
2 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.25%) PKI
3 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.08%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (66.67%) Windows
2 13 (27.08%) Windows 10
3 11 (22.92%) Windows Server
4 10 (20.83%) Linux
5 8 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (10.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
7 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.17%) CentOS
8 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 19 (39.58%) ITIL
1 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.17%) Customer Service
3 12 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (14.58%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 7 (14.58%) Metadata Management
5 6 (12.50%) Information Architecture
5 6 (12.50%) Statistics
6 3 (6.25%) Agile
6 3 (6.25%) Decision-Making
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) Quality Management
7 2 (4.17%) CI/CD
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security
7 2 (4.17%) Containerisation
7 2 (4.17%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (4.17%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (4.17%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.67%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) Bash
5 2 (4.17%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Degree
1 12 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.83%) CCNA
3 10 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.17%) MCSE
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) SLA
2 2 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 18 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.25%) vSphere
4 2 (4.17%) Docker
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.08%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.42%) SCCM
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Autotask
3 3 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Terraform
4 2 (4.17%) Consul
4 2 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (4.17%) Graphite
4 2 (4.17%) HAProxy
4 2 (4.17%) Istio
4 2 (4.17%) linkerd
4 2 (4.17%) Packer
4 2 (4.17%) Podman
4 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.17%) Puppet
4 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) VMware
2 24 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.83%) Citrix
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco
5 4 (8.33%) Veeam
6 3 (6.25%) Apple
6 3 (6.25%) Datto
6 3 (6.25%) Splunk
7 2 (4.17%) 3PAR
7 2 (4.17%) Dell
7 2 (4.17%) PagerDuty
7 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.17%) Sophos
8 1 (2.08%) Adobe
8 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.08%) EMC
8 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.08%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.08%) Symantec