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 8 November 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 52 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 80 77 119
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.31% 3.25% 4.27%
As % of the Vendors category 6.58% 7.45% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 91
10th Percentile £395 £400 £256
25th Percentile £413 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £569 £618 £510
90th Percentile £688 £675 £575
England median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.10% +5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £66.60 - £40.75
25th Percentile £67.88 £72.50 £40.94
Median hourly rate £70.38 £75.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +71.43% -17.12%
75th Percentile £72.51 £77.50 £47.35
90th Percentile £73.56 - £47.64
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.58 £63.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% -35.58% -

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 1,216 1,033 1,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.35% 43.59% 47.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 538 869
10th Percentile £270 £329 £225
25th Percentile £375 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 52 96
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.14 £17.65
Median hourly rate £26.26 £33.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.19% +7.14% +32.94%
75th Percentile £53.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £55.21 £51.42
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -22 26 £598 +19.50% 32
Merseyside +12 20 £365 -14.12% 5
Cheshire -18 18 £500 - 17
Lancashire -2 9 £550 +4.76% 24
Cumbria +7 4 £403 -
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 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.00%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.50%) IIS
5 1 (1.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) GCP
3 6 (7.50%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) SaaS
4 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.75%) IaaS
6 3 (3.75%) PaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 37 (46.25%) DNS
2 28 (35.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 28 (35.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 27 (33.75%) DMZ
4 22 (27.50%) Network Security
5 17 (21.25%) TCP/IP
6 14 (17.50%) Firewall
7 9 (11.25%) VLAN
8 8 (10.00%) BIG-IP
8 8 (10.00%) HTTP
8 8 (10.00%) SAN
8 8 (10.00%) SSL
8 8 (10.00%) Wireshark
9 5 (6.25%) WebEx
10 4 (5.00%) iSCSI
10 4 (5.00%) SNMP
10 4 (5.00%) VPN
10 4 (5.00%) VSAN
11 3 (3.75%) BGP
11 3 (3.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 22 (27.50%) Banking
2 19 (23.75%) Investment Banking
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Legal
6 3 (3.75%) Finance
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Network Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Operations Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Consultant
5 8 (10.00%) Web Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) IP Network Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) VMware Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Server Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Administrator
9 2 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Junior
9 2 (2.50%) Junior Network Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) XMPP
2 4 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) Management Information System
2 12 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.75%) Private Cloud
4 7 (8.75%) Replication
5 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Clustering
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.25%) IBM XIV
8 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Windows
2 23 (28.75%) Linux
3 15 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.75%) Unix
5 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.25%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.25%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Load Balancing
2 19 (23.75%) Business Strategy
3 17 (21.25%) Containerisation
4 13 (16.25%) Design Patterns
4 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.75%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.25%) DevOps
8 8 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (10.00%) Incident Response
8 8 (10.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 8 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 7 (8.75%) Change Control
9 7 (8.75%) ITSM
9 7 (8.75%) Knowledge Management
10 6 (7.50%) Change Management
10 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (6.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) Python
2 19 (23.75%) Bash
3 17 (21.25%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.75%) Perl
5 4 (5.00%) SQL
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) CCDP
3 7 (8.75%) CCNA
3 7 (8.75%) CCNP
3 7 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.50%) VCAP
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 12 (15.00%) vSphere
4 11 (13.75%) Docker
5 9 (11.25%) VMware NSX
6 6 (7.50%) Firmware
7 4 (5.00%) UAG
8 2 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Terraform
2 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.75%) Ansible
4 6 (7.50%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.50%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.25%) SCCM
8 1 (1.25%) vMotion
8 1 (1.25%) vRealize
8 1 (1.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (51.25%) F5
2 13 (16.25%) Cisco
3 12 (15.00%) Blue Coat
3 12 (15.00%) Citrix
3 12 (15.00%) McAfee
3 12 (15.00%) NetApp
4 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
5 8 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.75%) Veeam
7 6 (7.50%) Dell
8 4 (5.00%) IBM
8 4 (5.00%) Juniper
8 4 (5.00%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.75%) Computacenter
9 3 (3.75%) HP
9 3 (3.75%) Oracle
10 1 (1.25%) QNAP