VMware Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

VMware
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 17 28 46
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -42
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 3.60% 2.69% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 8.00% 8.82% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £401 - £380
25th Percentile £401 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.47%
75th Percentile £406 - £463
90th Percentile £408 - £470
North West median daily rate £456 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -8.75% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.40 -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £75.40 £43.13
% change year-on-year -11.80% +74.83% +6.28%

All Vendors
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 50 68 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 45.05% 30.49% 46.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 79
10th Percentile £401 £430 £200
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +17.10%
75th Percentile £538 £672 £597
90th Percentile £564 £701 £627
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £26.43 - £56.77
25th Percentile £27.14 £48.60 £58.14
Median hourly rate £31.36 £52.19 £60.43
Median % change year-on-year -39.91% -13.63% +39.37%
75th Percentile £57.95 £55.79 £62.71
90th Percentile £63.40 £70.67 £64.09
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% - +50.21%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Cumbria

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing VMware

VMware
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 within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 19 October 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 +6 4 £403 - 3
VMware
North West

VMware
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
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper