VMware Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

VMware
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 3 June 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
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 29 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 8.65% 0.62% 4.15%
As % of the Vendors category 18.88% 1.04% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £156 - £200
25th Percentile £166 £348 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £365 £225
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +62.22% -65.38%
75th Percentile £345 £383 £238
90th Percentile £347 - £255
North West median daily rate £456 £413 £350
% change year-on-year +10.55% +17.86% -22.22%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 143 96 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 45.83% 59.26% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 71 40
10th Percentile £133 £143 £162
25th Percentile £134 £219 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £475 £268
Median % change year-on-year -63.16% +77.57% -43.68%
75th Percentile £456 £575 £441
90th Percentile £551 £675 £494
North West median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 20
10th Percentile £15.37 - -
25th Percentile £20.78 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% +9.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile - - £18.27
90th Percentile - - £34.32
North West median hourly rate £30.49 £31.88 £16.06
% change year-on-year -4.36% +98.51% -46.47%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Merseyside

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Merseyside over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Merseyside

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Liverpool - 26 £238 - 4
VMware
North West

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Nutanix
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (96.30%) DNS
2 23 (85.19%) TCP/IP
3 19 (70.37%) SSL
4 18 (66.67%) BIG-IP
4 18 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 18 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 18 (66.67%) HTTP
4 18 (66.67%) Wireshark
5 7 (25.93%) DHCP
6 4 (14.81%) Firewall
6 4 (14.81%) NetScaler
7 1 (3.70%) Internet
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) Fiddler
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 18 (66.67%) Banking
1 18 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 18 (66.67%) IP Network Engineer
1 18 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 18 (66.67%) Web Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Private Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
1 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Load Balancing
2 18 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 18 (66.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.81%) Operational Stability
7 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (3.70%) Agile
8 1 (3.70%) Change Management
8 1 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 1 (3.70%) ITIL
8 1 (3.70%) Project Management
8 1 (3.70%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 26 (96.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (66.67%) Firmware
3 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (18.52%) vSphere
5 4 (14.81%) Docker
5 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (18.52%) SCCM
2 4 (14.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) F5
2 18 (66.67%) Blue Coat
2 18 (66.67%) McAfee
2 18 (66.67%) NetApp
3 4 (14.81%) Veeam
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds