VMware Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

VMware
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -38
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 4.55% 3.77% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 10.34% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.39%
75th Percentile £406 - £475
90th Percentile £408 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £403 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.40 -
Cumbria median hourly rate - £75.40 -

All Vendors
Barrow-in-Furness

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 43 58 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 48.86% 36.48% 47.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 53
10th Percentile £408 £430 £450
25th Percentile £435 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +34.66%
75th Percentile £537 £672 £600
90th Percentile £568 £703 £627
Cumbria median daily rate £470 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £26.26 - -
25th Percentile £27.14 £48.60 -
Median hourly rate £30.32 £52.19 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.91% -6.55% +28.82%
75th Percentile £55.40 £68.19 -
90th Percentile £63.40 £75.63 -
Cumbria median hourly rate £31.36 £52.19 £60.43
% change year-on-year -39.91% -13.63% +39.37%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

VMware job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing VMware

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SNMP
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) Server Building
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper