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 June 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
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 63 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware 107 62 77
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.12% 3.13% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 7.87% 6.12% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 37 45
10th Percentile £287 £313 £211
25th Percentile £380 £350 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.29% +21.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £485 £538 £488
90th Percentile £568 £552 £533
England median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £37.63
25th Percentile - - £39.76
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £63.38
England median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £42.05
% change year-on-year +9.80% +36.76% -29.81%

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 1,360 1,013 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 39.71% 51.19% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 803 651 630
10th Percentile £276 £300 £270
25th Percentile £398 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £505 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.48% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 61 151
10th Percentile £19.44 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.80 £19.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £31.36 £32.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +99.25% -45.19%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.00 £26.58
90th Percentile £86.15 £85.25 £46.18
England median hourly rate £33.98 £27.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.07% +15.07% -38.18%

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 June 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
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 June 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 -29 29 £469 +7.20% 22
Merseyside +9 25 £253 -30.82% 3
Cheshire +2 22 £425 +25.93% 4
Cumbria -8 18 £469 -10.63%
Lancashire -11 4 £190 -56.57% 7
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 9 (8.41%) CICS
2 1 (0.93%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) Azure
2 13 (12.15%) AWS
3 11 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.74%) Nutanix
6 3 (2.80%) GCP
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.93%) GitHub
7 1 (0.93%) IBM Watson
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.93%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.93%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 39 (36.45%) DNS
2 29 (27.10%) TCP/IP
3 25 (23.36%) Wireshark
4 24 (22.43%) BIG-IP
4 24 (22.43%) HTTP
4 24 (22.43%) SSL
5 20 (18.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 20 (18.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (14.02%) Firewall
7 9 (8.41%) VSAN
8 8 (7.48%) DHCP
9 6 (5.61%) Network Security
9 6 (5.61%) SAN
10 4 (3.74%) NetScaler
10 4 (3.74%) VPN
11 3 (2.80%) DMZ
11 3 (2.80%) NAS
12 2 (1.87%) LAN
13 1 (0.93%) WAN
13 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 24 (22.43%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Banking
2 20 (18.69%) Finance
3 17 (15.89%) Investment Banking
4 9 (8.41%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.93%) Advertising
6 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Network Engineer
2 24 (22.43%) Web Engineer
3 18 (16.82%) Wintel Engineer
4 17 (15.89%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 17 (15.89%) IP Network Engineer
5 15 (14.02%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Designer
6 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Designer
6 9 (8.41%) Senior
7 7 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Junior
7 7 (6.54%) Junior Network Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Analyst
8 6 (5.61%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Architect
9 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Consultant
10 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (2.80%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.41%) Middleware
2 3 (2.80%) Flash
3 1 (0.93%) Django
3 1 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Replication
2 18 (16.82%) Clustering
3 17 (15.89%) Management Information System
4 12 (11.21%) Data Centre
5 9 (8.41%) BYOD
5 9 (8.41%) Mainframe
5 9 (8.41%) VSAM
6 8 (7.48%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.74%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.93%) NHS
9 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (42.99%) Windows
2 34 (31.78%) Windows Server
3 25 (23.36%) Linux
4 12 (11.21%) Unix
5 10 (9.35%) AIX
6 9 (8.41%) Solaris
6 9 (8.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.80%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.80%) VMS
9 3 (2.80%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.93%) CentOS
10 1 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.91%) Load Balancing
2 25 (23.36%) Data Loss Prevention
3 24 (22.43%) Capacity Planning
3 24 (22.43%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 22 (20.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (19.63%) High Availability
6 20 (18.69%) Network Virtualisation
7 19 (17.76%) Project Delivery
8 14 (13.08%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (11.21%) Migration
9 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.21%) Roadmaps
10 11 (10.28%) Data Protection
10 11 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (8.41%) Business Case
11 9 (8.41%) Design Patterns
11 9 (8.41%) Process Improvement
11 9 (8.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 8 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (7.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.71%) PowerShell
2 15 (14.02%) Python
3 11 (10.28%) Bash
4 9 (8.41%) COBOL
5 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.82%) VCAP
3 18 (16.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 17 (15.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (14.95%) MCSA
5 16 (14.95%) MCSE
6 3 (2.80%) Degree
7 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CCDP
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CISM
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.93%) OCP
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) SLA
2 4 (3.74%) GDPR
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 77 (71.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (36.45%) vSphere
3 35 (32.71%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (24.30%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (16.82%) Firmware
5 18 (16.82%) VMware NSX
6 16 (14.95%) Active Directory
7 11 (10.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (7.48%) Hyper-V
9 4 (3.74%) Docker
10 3 (2.80%) GPFS
10 3 (2.80%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (31.78%) Ansible
2 29 (27.10%) vCenter Server
3 8 (7.48%) SCCM
4 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.61%) PowerCLI
5 6 (5.61%) vRealize
6 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
7 4 (3.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.74%) vMotion
8 3 (2.80%) VxRail
8 3 (2.80%) WSUS
9 1 (0.93%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.93%) Grafana
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.93%) Nessus
9 1 (0.93%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) Puppet
9 1 (0.93%) Terraform
9 1 (0.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) F5
2 25 (23.36%) Microsoft
3 24 (22.43%) Blue Coat
3 24 (22.43%) Cisco
3 24 (22.43%) McAfee
4 17 (15.89%) NetApp
5 14 (13.08%) IBM
6 12 (11.21%) Citrix
7 5 (4.67%) Veeam
8 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.80%) Computacenter
9 3 (2.80%) Google
9 3 (2.80%) Oracle
9 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.87%) Qualys
10 2 (1.87%) Splunk
10 2 (1.87%) Tanium
11 1 (0.93%) Pure Storage
11 1 (0.93%) SevOne
11 1 (0.93%) Tenable