VMware Contracts in the North of England

VMware
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 65 60 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 109 146 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.31% 3.06% 3.60%
As % of the Vendors category 6.49% 7.15% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 102 140
10th Percentile £257 £215 £268
25th Percentile £350 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £378 £426
Median % change year-on-year +12.58% -11.38% +0.24%
75th Percentile £534 £531 £582
90th Percentile £550 £610 £650
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 30
10th Percentile £71.76 £37.63 £25.98
25th Percentile £74.10 £39.76 £29.30
Median hourly rate £80.59 £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.51% +8.66% +99.06%
75th Percentile £84.48 - £51.48
90th Percentile £85.26 £63.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £63.00
% change year-on-year +56.99% -26.70% +76.84%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,679 2,042 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.96% 42.83% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,194 1,581
10th Percentile £230 £250 £248
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £564 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 212 66
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.24 £12.53 £19.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +96.52%
75th Percentile £59.65 £21.08 £49.05
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.15 £54.88
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the North of England

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the North of England

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the North of England

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the North of England

VMware
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the North of England 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
North West +3 64 £444 +26.79% 66
Yorkshire -12 35 £450 +20.00% 44
North East -2 11 £358 -31.90% 17
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 42 (38.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (23.85%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (14.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 51 (46.79%) Azure
2 41 (37.61%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (30.28%) Entra ID
4 13 (11.93%) IaaS
5 9 (8.26%) OneDrive
6 8 (7.34%) AWS
7 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.75%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.75%) PaaS
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.83%) OCI
9 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.92%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.92%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (31.19%) DNS
2 28 (25.69%) DHCP
3 18 (16.51%) Network Security
4 16 (14.68%) Firewall
4 16 (14.68%) SAN
5 11 (10.09%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (8.26%) LAN
7 7 (6.42%) NAS
7 7 (6.42%) WAN
8 5 (4.59%) Skype
8 5 (4.59%) VLAN
8 5 (4.59%) VoIP
8 5 (4.59%) VPN
8 5 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.75%) VSAN
9 3 (2.75%) WLAN
10 2 (1.83%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.42%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.67%) Couchbase
3 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.92%) GIS
4 1 (0.92%) MSDE
4 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) Git
3 4 (3.67%) GitLab
4 2 (1.83%) JIRA
4 2 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) TestNG
General
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.09%) Telecoms
3 8 (7.34%) Finance
4 6 (5.50%) Legal
5 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.67%) Military
7 3 (2.75%) Local Government
8 2 (1.83%) Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Aviation
9 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (11.01%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 10 (9.17%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) Administrator
5 7 (6.42%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (5.50%) VMWare Administrator
6 6 (5.50%) Wintel Administrator
7 5 (4.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Database Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) DBA
7 5 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) Middleware
2 2 (1.83%) .NET
2 2 (1.83%) pytest
2 2 (1.83%) REST
3 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.92%) Kafka
3 1 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (10.09%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.75%) Clustering
5 3 (2.75%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.92%) PKI
7 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 64 (58.72%) Windows
2 49 (44.95%) Windows Server
3 31 (28.44%) Linux
4 16 (14.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (12.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (11.93%) VMS
7 10 (9.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (7.34%) Unix
9 6 (5.50%) Windows 10
10 4 (3.67%) CentOS
10 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (2.75%) AIX
12 2 (1.83%) HPUX
12 2 (1.83%) Solaris
12 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.92%) Android
13 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (18.35%) ITIL
3 19 (17.43%) DevOps
3 19 (17.43%) Migration
3 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.51%) High Availability
5 16 (14.68%) Business Continuity
6 14 (12.84%) Project Delivery
7 13 (11.93%) Information Security
8 12 (11.01%) Change Management
8 12 (11.01%) Data Protection
8 12 (11.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (10.09%) ITSM
9 11 (10.09%) Patch Management
9 11 (10.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 10 (9.17%) CI/CD
11 9 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (8.26%) Customer Service
11 9 (8.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 11 (10.09%) Python
3 9 (8.26%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.67%) Bash
5 2 (1.83%) Perl
5 2 (1.83%) SQL
6 1 (0.92%) C#
6 1 (0.92%) Java
6 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.92%) VB
6 1 (0.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) SC Cleared
1 22 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (10.09%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (4.59%) MCSE
6 4 (3.67%) CCNA
6 4 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.67%) OCP
6 4 (3.67%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.75%) Degree
8 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.83%) MCP
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.92%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.67%) SLA
3 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (64.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 60 (55.05%) Active Directory
3 26 (23.85%) vSphere
4 17 (15.60%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (11.93%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (11.93%) VMware NSX
6 8 (7.34%) Docker
6 8 (7.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.83%) KVM
7 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.92%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (19.27%) Ansible
2 21 (19.27%) vCenter Server
3 20 (18.35%) WSUS
4 15 (13.76%) SCCM
5 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
6 7 (6.42%) vRealize
7 6 (5.50%) Terraform
8 5 (4.59%) AppManager
8 5 (4.59%) Puppet
9 4 (3.67%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.67%) VxRail
10 3 (2.75%) Backup Exec
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (2.75%) NetApp OnCommand
10 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.75%) vMotion
11 2 (1.83%) Nagios
11 2 (1.83%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (53.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.68%) Cisco
3 14 (12.84%) Veeam
4 9 (8.26%) HP
4 9 (8.26%) Oracle
5 7 (6.42%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.50%) Citrix
7 5 (4.59%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.59%) Ivanti
7 5 (4.59%) Wyse
8 4 (3.67%) EMC
8 4 (3.67%) Symantec
9 3 (2.75%) Dell
9 3 (2.75%) IBM
9 3 (2.75%) Meraki
9 3 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.83%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.83%) Brocade
10 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds