VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 39
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -36
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 4 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 3.25% 3.16% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 26.67% 28.57% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.32%
75th Percentile £406 - £425
90th Percentile £408 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +2.94% +3.03% -3.62%

All System Software Skills
Cumbria

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 15 21 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 12.20% 11.05% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £402 £508 £242
25th Percentile £409 £511 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £508
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +13.30% +18.85%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £618
90th Percentile £690 £587 -
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -4.49%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Cumbria

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Barrow-in-Furness +2 4 £403 - 6
VMware Infrastructure
North West

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) VMware