VMware Contracts in Cheshire

VMware
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 33 53
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware 11 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 4.96% 1.89%
As % of the Vendors category 4.31% 9.47% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £313 £314 £280
25th Percentile £316 £325 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £383 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -31.39% +31.18%
75th Percentile - £535 £600
90th Percentile £420 £605 -
North West median daily rate £444 £350 £444
% change year-on-year +26.79% -21.13% +4.41%

All Vendors
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 255 264 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 56.79% 52.38% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 169 163
10th Percentile £315 £267 £231
25th Percentile £381 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +13.33% +5.14%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £565
90th Percentile £639 £625 £648
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 5
10th Percentile £18.40 £11.00 £12.35
25th Percentile £30.10 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +182.17% -5.84% +22.93%
75th Percentile £86.00 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £23.11 £32.96
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Cheshire

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for VMware in Cheshire

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Cheshire

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Warrington +3 9 £350 -27.46% 3
Knutsford - 1 - -
VMware
North West

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (27.27%) IIS
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (9.09%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 7 (63.64%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
1 1 (9.09%) MSDE
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Publishing
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Administrator
2 6 (54.55%) VMWare Administrator
2 6 (54.55%) Wintel Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
1 9 (81.82%) Windows Server
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (9.09%) Android
5 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (9.09%) VMS
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Patch Management
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
6 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (9.09%) Compliance Management
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (9.09%) Line Management
6 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
2 1 (9.09%) VB
2 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) MCP
2 1 (9.09%) MCSA
2 1 (9.09%) MCSE
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
1 9 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (54.55%) Hyper-V
2 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
4 1 (9.09%) Docker
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) vCenter Server
2 4 (36.36%) WSUS
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (27.27%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (27.27%) vMotion
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Perfmon
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) SCCM
4 1 (9.09%) SCOM
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) McAfee
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Symantec