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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 41 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware 82 148 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.95% 4.59% 3.65%
As % of the Vendors category 7.31% 11.40% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 94 114
10th Percentile £210 £291 £227
25th Percentile £263 £345 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £434 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% +2.06% +17.24%
75th Percentile £500 £630 £617
90th Percentile £549 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 30 1
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.75 -
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 - £51.48 £11.05
90th Percentile £63.38 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £63.23 £28.75
% change year-on-year -26.97% +119.93% -39.47%

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 1,121 1,298 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.27% 40.29% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 877 973
10th Percentile £273 £288 £182
25th Percentile £394 £381 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +10.12%
75th Percentile £585 £586 £575
90th Percentile £688 £657 £650
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 58 94
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.60 £10.64
25th Percentile £12.00 £20.77 £14.63
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £19.62
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +91.11% -28.64%
75th Percentile £25.25 £49.05 £42.21
90th Percentile £46.18 £54.27 £58.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -4.55%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 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 -9 35 £400 -7.78% 33
Cheshire +22 26 £375 -32.74% 19
Merseyside +1 8 £225 -56.63% 8
Lancashire -18 6 - - 13
Cumbria -28 4 - - 3
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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 (15.85%) SharePoint
2 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (8.54%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (8.54%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.44%) nginx
4 2 (2.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.44%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.93%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (30.49%) Azure
3 17 (20.73%) AWS
4 4 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.66%) GCP
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.44%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.22%) Cohesity
7 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.22%) IaaS
7 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.22%) PaaS
7 1 (1.22%) SaaS
7 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.85%) VPN
2 12 (14.63%) Firewall
2 12 (14.63%) LAN
2 12 (14.63%) WAN
3 11 (13.41%) SAN
4 8 (9.76%) Wireless
5 7 (8.54%) DNS
5 7 (8.54%) Ethernet
5 7 (8.54%) OSPF
5 7 (8.54%) Wireless Security
6 6 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (4.88%) DHCP
8 3 (3.66%) VLAN
8 3 (3.66%) VoIP
9 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.44%) VSAN
10 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.22%) Skype
10 1 (1.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.54%) Metadata
2 7 (8.54%) PowerPivot
2 7 (8.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Power View
4 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Git
1 2 (2.44%) GitLab
1 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.32%) Publishing
3 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.22%) Local Government
4 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (20.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 17 (20.73%) Senior
2 12 (14.63%) VMware Engineer
3 8 (9.76%) Analyst
3 8 (9.76%) Network Engineer
3 8 (9.76%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (9.76%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (8.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) SAN Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Administrator
6 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) CSS
1 7 (8.54%) HTML
2 2 (2.44%) cloud-init
3 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Clustering
1 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.10%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.66%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.66%) PKI
3 3 (3.66%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.44%) NHS
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.22%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (50.00%) Windows
2 16 (19.51%) Windows 10
3 13 (15.85%) Linux
3 13 (15.85%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.44%) Android
8 2 (2.44%) CentOS
8 2 (2.44%) Unix
8 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (26.83%) ITIL
3 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.07%) Customer Service
5 12 (14.63%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (8.54%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 7 (8.54%) DevOps
6 7 (8.54%) Metadata Management
7 6 (7.32%) Information Architecture
7 6 (7.32%) Statistics
8 4 (4.88%) CI/CD
8 4 (4.88%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (4.88%) Microservices
9 3 (3.66%) Agile
9 3 (3.66%) Containerisation
9 3 (3.66%) Decision-Making
9 3 (3.66%) Design Patterns
9 3 (3.66%) Migration
9 3 (3.66%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.76%) Python
2 8 (9.76%) SQL
3 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.66%) Bash
5 2 (2.44%) Go
5 2 (2.44%) Ruby
6 1 (1.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.85%) Degree
4 12 (14.63%) CCNA
4 12 (14.63%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (8.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.66%) MCSE
8 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.44%) MCITP
8 2 (2.44%) VCAP
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.22%) CCIE
9 1 (1.22%) CCNP
9 1 (1.22%) CISSP
9 1 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) NCSC
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (59.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (37.80%) Active Directory
3 23 (28.05%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.54%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (7.32%) Firmware
6 4 (4.88%) Docker
7 3 (3.66%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.66%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (3.66%) vSphere
8 2 (2.44%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.76%) Terraform
2 8 (9.76%) vCenter Server
3 7 (8.54%) Ansible
4 5 (6.10%) SCCM
5 3 (3.66%) Autotask
5 3 (3.66%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (2.44%) Consul
6 2 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.44%) Graphite
6 2 (2.44%) Istio
6 2 (2.44%) linkerd
6 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.44%) Packer
6 2 (2.44%) Podman
6 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (42.68%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Cisco
3 10 (12.20%) Citrix
4 7 (8.54%) Veeam
5 5 (6.10%) 3PAR
5 5 (6.10%) Apple
5 5 (6.10%) Dell
6 3 (3.66%) Datto
6 3 (3.66%) Splunk
7 2 (2.44%) Brocade
7 2 (2.44%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (2.44%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (2.44%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.44%) Sophos
8 1 (1.22%) EMC
8 1 (1.22%) Juniper
8 1 (1.22%) NetApp
8 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.22%) Symantec