VMware Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

VMware
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 11 April 2026, 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
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 2.30% 2.96% 1.48%
As % of the Vendors category 8.89% 7.69% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £276
25th Percentile £363 £155 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £160 £388
Median % change year-on-year +134.38% -58.71% -
75th Percentile £388 £165 £466
90th Percentile - - £509
Northern Ireland median daily rate £375 £160 £388
% change year-on-year +134.38% -58.71% -

All Vendors
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 45 52 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 25.86% 38.52% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 28
10th Percentile £340 £155 £203
25th Percentile £378 £325 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -20.93% +34.38%
75th Percentile £513 £488 £625
90th Percentile £600 £575 £661
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £13.92 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £17.05 £22.92 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.10 £24.18 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year -21.01% +86.14% -16.19%
75th Percentile £26.61 - £24.00
90th Percentile £32.70 £38.24 £31.88
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £19.10 £24.18 £14.56
% change year-on-year -21.01% +66.13% -6.10%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

VMware job vacancy trend in County Antrim

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
Belfast +6 4 £375 +134.38%
VMware
Northern Ireland

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (75.00%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Brocade
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Dell
1 3 (75.00%) EMC
1 3 (75.00%) Isilon
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft