VMware Contracts in Lancashire

VMware
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +31
Contract jobs citing VMware 7 6 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.00% 3.08% 15.29%
As % of the Vendors category 7.95% 6.74% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £260
25th Percentile £350 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £403
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.81%
75th Percentile £538 - £500
90th Percentile - - £518
North West median daily rate £444 £350 £444
% change year-on-year +26.79% -21.13% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 23
10th Percentile - - £26.10
25th Percentile - £37.63 £29.30
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.66% -
75th Percentile - - £49.46
90th Percentile - - £51.61
North West median hourly rate £80.59 £46.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.51% +8.66% +297.20%

All Vendors
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 88 89 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 50.29% 45.64% 54.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 56
10th Percentile £408 £298 £244
25th Percentile £500 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £614 £720 £600
90th Percentile £663 £778 £659
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 35 30
10th Percentile £26.10 - £25.75
25th Percentile £26.88 - £29.30
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -62.21% +6.98%
75th Percentile £30.63 £42.88 £49.52
90th Percentile £46.57 £46.18 £52.22
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Lancashire

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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 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 -
Burnley - 3 - - 1
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North West

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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 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (57.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Industrial Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) E-Discovery
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (57.14%) RBAC
3 3 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (57.14%) MCSE
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (57.14%) WSUS
3 3 (42.86%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Symantec
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam