VMware Contract Job Trends in the North West

VMware
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 August 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 87 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 -28 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware 88 47 67
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.33% 2.14% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 5.61% 4.30% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 36
10th Percentile £316 £290 £213
25th Percentile £413 £349 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £425 £408
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% +4.29% -9.44%
75th Percentile £519 £559 £525
90th Percentile £543 £642 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £33.83 - -
25th Percentile £41.06 - £70.20
Median hourly rate £56.75 - £75.40
75th Percentile £75.06 - £80.59
90th Percentile £83.88 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +27.43%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,570 1,092 937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.61% 49.64% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 697 535
10th Percentile £262 £305 £276
25th Percentile £400 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £663 £673 £666
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 73 93
10th Percentile £17.20 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £19.07 £11.07
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.43 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +77.02% -52.76%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.00 £35.36
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £55.79
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.19% -16.17% -20.00%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the North West

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North West over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the North West

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the North West over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the North West

VMware
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Manchester -38 25 £500 +5.26% 23
Merseyside 0 22 £350 -4.11% 5
Cumbria +3 14 £485 +142.50% 2
Cheshire 0 14 £400 +23.08% 8
Lancashire -10 4 £190 -27.62% 9
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.68%) Skype for Business
3 3 (3.41%) CICS
4 1 (1.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.59%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) AWS
3 8 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.41%) GCP
5 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.27%) GitHub
5 2 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.14%) OCI
6 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.14%) PaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 38 (43.18%) DNS
2 23 (26.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 23 (26.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 18 (20.45%) BIG-IP
3 18 (20.45%) TCP/IP
4 17 (19.32%) Wireshark
5 16 (18.18%) HTTP
5 16 (18.18%) SSL
6 11 (12.50%) SAN
7 9 (10.23%) VLAN
7 9 (10.23%) VPN
7 9 (10.23%) VSAN
8 8 (9.09%) DHCP
8 8 (9.09%) Network Security
8 8 (9.09%) WAN
9 7 (7.95%) DMZ
9 7 (7.95%) LAN
9 7 (7.95%) NAS
10 6 (6.82%) Firewall
11 5 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (21.59%) Banking
1 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.18%) Investment Banking
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Games
6 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 19 (21.59%) Network Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) IP Network Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Web Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Wintel Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Designer
9 3 (3.41%) Server Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Storage Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) Flash
1 3 (3.41%) JSON
1 3 (3.41%) Middleware
2 1 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.14%) REST
2 1 (1.14%) XML
2 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.86%) Management Information System
2 15 (17.05%) Replication
3 9 (10.23%) Clustering
4 8 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 8 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.55%) Animation
5 4 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.41%) BYOD
6 3 (3.41%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.41%) VSAM
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.14%) NHS
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (42.05%) Windows
2 24 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 20 (22.73%) Linux
4 8 (9.09%) Unix
5 5 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.68%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.55%) AIX
6 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.41%) Solaris
7 3 (3.41%) VMS
7 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.14%) CentOS
9 1 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Load Balancing
2 19 (21.59%) Migration
3 18 (20.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
4 16 (18.18%) High Availability
4 16 (18.18%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 15 (17.05%) Capacity Planning
5 15 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (14.77%) Network Virtualisation
7 10 (11.36%) Data Protection
7 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
7 10 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 7 (7.95%) ITIL
9 7 (7.95%) ITSM
9 7 (7.95%) Patch Management
10 6 (6.82%) Change Management
10 6 (6.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.68%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.09%) Bash
2 8 (9.09%) Python
3 5 (5.68%) VB
3 5 (5.68%) VBScript
4 3 (3.41%) COBOL
5 1 (1.14%) Bicep
5 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) VCAP
3 10 (11.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (9.09%) MCSA
5 8 (9.09%) MCSE
6 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.27%) CCNP
6 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CCIE
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) OCP
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) SLA
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 72 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (30.68%) vSphere
3 26 (29.55%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (19.32%) Firmware
4 17 (19.32%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 11 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 8 (9.09%) Hyper-V
6 8 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (5.68%) BitLocker
8 3 (3.41%) GPFS
8 3 (3.41%) NFS
9 1 (1.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (22.73%) vCenter Server
2 19 (21.59%) Ansible
3 7 (7.95%) SCCM
4 6 (6.82%) PowerCLI
4 6 (6.82%) vRealize
5 4 (4.55%) vMotion
5 4 (4.55%) WSUS
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.41%) Terraform
6 3 (3.41%) VxRail
7 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.27%) Puppet
8 1 (1.14%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.14%) Grafana
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Nessus
8 1 (1.14%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (1.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 24 (27.27%) F5
3 17 (19.32%) Cisco
4 16 (18.18%) Blue Coat
4 16 (18.18%) McAfee
4 16 (18.18%) NetApp
5 9 (10.23%) Citrix
6 8 (9.09%) IBM
6 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.68%) CyberArk
8 4 (4.55%) Oracle
8 4 (4.55%) Perforce
9 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.27%) Splunk
9 2 (2.27%) Tanium
10 1 (1.14%) Arista
10 1 (1.14%) Pure Storage
10 1 (1.14%) SevOne
10 1 (1.14%) Tenable
10 1 (1.14%) Veeam