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 27 June 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
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 69 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 107 122 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.03% 2.53% 3.64%
As % of the Vendors category 6.13% 6.01% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 82 124
10th Percentile £325 £213 £291
25th Percentile £372 £311 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £378 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -11.18% -
75th Percentile £538 £529 £560
90th Percentile £622 £610 £650
England median daily rate £550 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 25
10th Percentile - £37.63 £25.85
25th Percentile - £39.76 £29.30
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.66% +99.06%
75th Percentile - - £47.83
90th Percentile - £63.38 £49.52
England median hourly rate £34.71 £40.13 £53.96
% change year-on-year -13.50% -25.63% +37.90%

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 1,745 2,030 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 49.41% 42.07% 41.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,194 1,486
10th Percentile £268 £250 £219
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £586 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £678
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 217 81
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.84 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.27 £16.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +82.94% -42.24% +49.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £45.88 £49.52
England median hourly rate £27.06 £24.19 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.90% -25.58% +51.16%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -6 53 £480 +37.14% 57
Yorkshire +5 46 £450 +12.50% 76
North East +1 9 £358 -10.63% 14
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 29 (27.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (14.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.74%) IIS
4 3 (2.80%) Confluence
4 3 (2.80%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.19%) Azure
2 27 (25.23%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (24.30%) Entra ID
4 13 (12.15%) IaaS
5 7 (6.54%) AWS
6 6 (5.61%) PaaS
7 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.74%) GCP
7 4 (3.74%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.80%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.80%) SaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.87%) OCI
9 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.23%) Firewall
2 23 (21.50%) DNS
3 17 (15.89%) SAN
4 16 (14.95%) DHCP
5 15 (14.02%) TCP/IP
6 14 (13.08%) Network Security
7 7 (6.54%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (4.67%) NAS
8 5 (4.67%) Skype
9 4 (3.74%) LAN
10 3 (2.80%) WLAN
11 2 (1.87%) DMZ
11 2 (1.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.87%) WAN
12 1 (0.93%) VSAN
12 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (26.17%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.02%) Git
3 14 (13.08%) Postman
4 4 (3.74%) GitLab
5 3 (2.80%) JIRA
6 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.87%) Selenium
6 2 (1.87%) TestNG
General
1 18 (16.82%) Finance
2 16 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.54%) Banking
4 7 (6.54%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.67%) Legal
6 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.80%) Local Government
7 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.87%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Aviation
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (9.35%) Senior
2 10 (9.35%) Technical Engineer
3 9 (8.41%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (8.41%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Analyst
6 6 (5.61%) Consultant
6 6 (5.61%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Database Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) Middleware
2 2 (1.87%) pytest
2 2 (1.87%) REST
3 1 (0.93%) .NET
3 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.93%) Kafka
3 1 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (9.35%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.54%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.61%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.87%) Clustering
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.87%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (49.53%) Windows
2 38 (35.51%) Windows Server
3 35 (32.71%) Linux
4 13 (12.15%) Unix
5 11 (10.28%) VMS
5 11 (10.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (9.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (8.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (6.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.74%) AIX
9 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.80%) CentOS
10 3 (2.80%) Solaris
10 3 (2.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (1.87%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.93%) SUSE
12 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (28.04%) DevOps
3 19 (17.76%) Agile
4 18 (16.82%) Migration
5 16 (14.95%) Data Management
5 16 (14.95%) ITIL
5 16 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.02%) Configuration Management
7 13 (12.15%) Business Continuity
7 13 (12.15%) High Availability
7 13 (12.15%) Infrastructure Automation
7 13 (12.15%) Project Delivery
8 12 (11.21%) Data Protection
9 10 (9.35%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.41%) Change Management
10 9 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (8.41%) Information Security
11 8 (7.48%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (7.48%) ITSM
11 8 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.43%) Python
2 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.74%) Bash
4 4 (3.74%) SQL
5 1 (0.93%) C#
5 1 (0.93%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
1 18 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (11.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (6.54%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.74%) CCNA
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.74%) MCSE
5 4 (3.74%) OCP
5 4 (3.74%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) Degree
6 2 (1.87%) VCAP
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 68 (63.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (41.12%) Active Directory
3 24 (22.43%) vSphere
4 16 (14.95%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (14.02%) VMware NSX
6 12 (11.21%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (6.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (4.67%) Docker
8 5 (4.67%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.87%) UAG
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (30.84%) Ansible
2 20 (18.69%) vCenter Server
3 19 (17.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (15.89%) Puppet
5 16 (14.95%) WSUS
6 14 (13.08%) SCCM
7 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (7.48%) Terraform
9 7 (6.54%) vRealize
10 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
11 3 (2.80%) Backup Exec
11 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.80%) VxRail
12 2 (1.87%) Nagios
12 2 (1.87%) NetApp OnCommand
12 2 (1.87%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.87%) vMotion
12 2 (1.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (48.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.95%) Veeam
3 14 (13.08%) Cisco
3 14 (13.08%) MuleSoft
3 14 (13.08%) Oracle
4 11 (10.28%) HP
5 9 (8.41%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.48%) Citrix
7 6 (5.61%) IBM
8 5 (4.67%) F5
8 5 (4.67%) Wyse
9 4 (3.74%) Dell
9 4 (3.74%) EMC
10 3 (2.80%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.80%) Meraki
10 3 (2.80%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.80%) Symantec
11 2 (1.87%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.87%) Broadcom