VMware Contract Job Trends in Chester

VMware
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 23 November 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
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 16 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 15 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 13.16% 1.45% 3.92%
As % of the Vendors category 21.43% 2.00% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £500 £325
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -23.53%

All Vendors
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 70 50 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 61.40% 72.46% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 5
10th Percentile £178 £430 £325
25th Percentile £425 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +4.76% +50.00%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £580
90th Percentile £688 £671 £630
Cheshire median daily rate £453 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.71% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 12
10th Percentile £15.76 £14.58 £17.15
25th Percentile £20.69 £16.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £33.25 £22.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.14% -35.29% +111.57%
75th Percentile £68.69 £26.89 £35.56
90th Percentile £82.13 £50.30 £39.73
Cheshire median hourly rate £19.00 £23.05 £34.00
% change year-on-year -17.55% -32.22% +162.95%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Chester

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Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing VMware

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 11 (73.33%) DNS
2 9 (60.00%) DMZ
2 9 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 9 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 9 (60.00%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) BIG-IP
3 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 2 (13.33%) SSL
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Fiddler
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Junior
3 2 (13.33%) Junior Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 6 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (13.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) F5
2 6 (40.00%) Blue Coat
2 6 (40.00%) McAfee
3 3 (20.00%) Computacenter