VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the North West

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 85 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 33 43 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.65% 1.53% 2.79%
As % of the System Software category 13.75% 15.64% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 51
10th Percentile £308 £210 £313
25th Percentile £350 £213 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -31.58% +2.15%
75th Percentile £528 £373 £650
90th Percentile £544 £493 £675
England median daily rate £550 £508 £547
% change year-on-year +8.37% -7.22% +15.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £32.55
25th Percentile - £37.63 £42.37
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £49.98
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% -
75th Percentile - - £52.13
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -35.48% +29.69%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 240 275 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.01% 9.79% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 196 339
10th Percentile £200 £206 £200
25th Percentile £339 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% - -
75th Percentile £537 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £670 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 25 23
10th Percentile - - £13.96
25th Percentile £76.25 £15.50 £15.86
Median hourly rate £82.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +365.58% +1.26% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £42.88 £34.18
90th Percentile - £46.18 £52.13
England median hourly rate £28.75 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.78% -55.00% +150.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North West.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North West over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the North West

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester +14 16 £480 +37.14% 23
Cumbria - 8 £400 - 4
Cheshire -9 5 £338 -30.05% 2
Lancashire -1 4 £438 - 14
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 22 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (24.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (12.12%) IIS
4 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 18 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (51.52%) Entra ID
4 8 (24.24%) IaaS
5 4 (12.12%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) AWS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) Firewall
1 10 (30.30%) Network Security
2 9 (27.27%) DNS
2 9 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (24.24%) DHCP
4 5 (15.15%) Skype
5 4 (12.12%) SAN
6 2 (6.06%) DMZ
6 2 (6.06%) WAN
7 1 (3.03%) LAN
7 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Aviation
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Analyst
1 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Consultant
2 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (9.09%) Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
1 5 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (69.70%) Windows
2 21 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 10 (30.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (24.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (21.21%) Linux
5 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (12.12%) Unix
7 2 (6.06%) CentOS
8 1 (3.03%) Android
8 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
8 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
8 1 (3.03%) VMS
8 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) High Availability
2 11 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (27.27%) Change Management
3 9 (27.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 8 (24.24%) Project Delivery
5 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) Analytics
6 6 (18.18%) BCP
6 6 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
6 6 (18.18%) Information Security
6 6 (18.18%) ITIL
6 6 (18.18%) Line Management
6 6 (18.18%) Patch Management
6 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (18.18%) Web Operations
7 5 (15.15%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) VB
2 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) Azure Certification
4 5 (15.15%) MCSE
5 4 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) MCP
6 1 (3.03%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
2 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (27.27%) vSphere
3 7 (21.21%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (12.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.06%) UAG
5 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
6 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (24.24%) WSUS
3 7 (21.21%) vCenter Server
4 6 (18.18%) SCCM
5 2 (6.06%) Ansible
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (6.06%) Nagios
5 2 (6.06%) NetApp OnCommand
5 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Terraform
5 2 (6.06%) vMotion
5 2 (6.06%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (60.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) Wyse
4 4 (12.12%) Citrix
5 2 (6.06%) Dell
5 2 (6.06%) HP
5 2 (6.06%) IBM
5 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) McAfee
6 1 (3.03%) Symantec