VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Lancashire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 4 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.29% 3.08% 4.96%
As % of the System Software category 21.05% 33.33% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile £350 - £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +92.31%
75th Percentile £538 - £515
90th Percentile - - £524
North West median daily rate £425 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +30.77% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - £37.63 £49.80
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - -11.41% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £46.18 £58.57
% change year-on-year - -21.15% -

All System Software Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 18 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 10.86% 9.23% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 19
10th Percentile £350 £107 £139
25th Percentile £425 £170 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £183 £325
Median % change year-on-year +187.67% -43.85% +41.30%
75th Percentile £615 £200 £544
90th Percentile - £818 £605
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £23.42 £45.60
25th Percentile - £31.94 £49.80
Median hourly rate - £40.25 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - -22.79% +31.97%
75th Percentile - £46.18 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Lancashire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Lancashire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Lancashire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Lancashire

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -4 4 £438 -
VMware Infrastructure
North West

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware