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 18 October 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 53 45
Rank change year-on-year -17 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 70 77 122
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.10% 3.21% 4.23%
As % of the Vendors category 6.11% 7.58% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 89
10th Percentile £374 £401 £267
25th Percentile £401 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £594 £656 £500
90th Percentile £704 £674 £578
England median daily rate £525 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +0.72% +4.25% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £40.81
25th Percentile £65.75 £70.20 £41.09
Median hourly rate £66.50 £75.40 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +74.83% +6.28%
75th Percentile £67.25 £80.59 £47.11
90th Percentile - - £47.54
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.58 £65.98
% change year-on-year -4.45% -46.07% +51.29%

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 1,145 1,016 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.66% 42.39% 45.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 525 852
10th Percentile £300 £325 £225
25th Percentile £380 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £607 £588 £593
90th Percentile £708 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 53 97
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% - +49.64%
75th Percentile £33.00 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.80 £55.79 £50.70
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.94% -20.94% +81.04%

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 18 October 2025.

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
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 18 October 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 28 £513 +2.50% 22
Cheshire -16 18 £500 -2.44% 13
Merseyside +9 14 £365 -14.12%
Cumbria +11 4 £403 - 3
Lancashire +2 3 £175 -66.67% 22
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 4 (5.71%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.29%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (11.43%) GCP
3 6 (8.57%) AWS
3 6 (8.57%) SaaS
4 3 (4.29%) IaaS
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.29%) PaaS
5 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (44.29%) DNS
2 24 (34.29%) DMZ
3 22 (31.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 22 (31.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 21 (30.00%) Network Security
5 14 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 11 (15.71%) Firewall
7 10 (14.29%) SAN
8 6 (8.57%) VLAN
9 5 (7.14%) BIG-IP
9 5 (7.14%) HTTP
9 5 (7.14%) SSL
9 5 (7.14%) Wireshark
10 4 (5.71%) iSCSI
10 4 (5.71%) SNMP
10 4 (5.71%) VPN
11 3 (4.29%) LAN
11 3 (4.29%) VSAN
12 2 (2.86%) DHCP
12 2 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) Power BI
1 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 16 (22.86%) Banking
2 13 (18.57%) Investment Banking
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Finance
6 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) Consultant
4 6 (8.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
5 5 (7.14%) Web Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (4.29%) IP Network Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Industrial Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Junior Network Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.86%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.00%) Replication
4 6 (8.57%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) Clustering
6 3 (4.29%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.43%) IBM XIV
8 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.71%) Windows
2 17 (24.29%) Linux
3 9 (12.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.29%) Unix
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.43%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Load Balancing
2 16 (22.86%) Business Strategy
3 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 10 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.86%) DevOps
6 8 (11.43%) Incident Response
7 6 (8.57%) Change Management
8 5 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.14%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.14%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.14%) Security Hardening
9 4 (5.71%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (5.71%) Observability
9 4 (5.71%) Server Building
9 4 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) Python
2 11 (15.71%) Bash
3 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.71%) SQL
5 3 (4.29%) Perl
6 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (65.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 11 (15.71%) vSphere
3 9 (12.86%) Active Directory
4 8 (11.43%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.71%) UAG
6 3 (4.29%) Firmware
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (14.29%) Terraform
2 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.43%) vCenter Server
3 7 (10.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.86%) Backup Exec
5 2 (2.86%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.43%) SCCM
6 1 (1.43%) vMotion
6 1 (1.43%) vRealize
6 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (50.00%) F5
2 12 (17.14%) Veeam
3 10 (14.29%) Cisco
4 9 (12.86%) Blue Coat
4 9 (12.86%) McAfee
4 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.86%) NetApp
5 6 (8.57%) Dell
6 4 (5.71%) Citrix
6 4 (5.71%) IBM
6 4 (5.71%) Juniper
6 4 (5.71%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
7 3 (4.29%) Computacenter
7 3 (4.29%) HP
7 3 (4.29%) Oracle
8 2 (2.86%) Symantec
9 1 (1.43%) QNAP