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 24 January 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
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware 101 87 101
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.90% 4.15% 3.60%
As % of the Vendors category 7.97% 8.25% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 76
10th Percentile £315 £350 £231
25th Percentile £412 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +17.65% -0.47%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £500
90th Percentile £575 £669 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £66.60 £70.66 -
25th Percentile £67.88 £71.35 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.38 £75.40 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% +72.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £72.51 £83.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.56 £84.74 £46.60
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.49
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.98% +0.75%

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 1,267 1,054 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 48.92% 50.26% 44.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 608 786
10th Percentile £213 £308 £249
25th Percentile £358 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £576 £581 £586
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 47 106
10th Percentile £16.06 £16.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £23.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £26.53
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +22.53% -11.58%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £48.72
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -21.67% -12.36% +5.32%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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
Merseyside +9 31 £238 -47.22%
Cheshire -20 25 £495 +4.21% 9
Manchester -36 21 £513 +0.49% 18
Cumbria -3 13 £456 -27.04% 1
Lancashire -6 8 £550 +4.76% 12
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 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.96%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.83%) Azure
2 13 (12.87%) AWS
3 9 (8.91%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.91%) GCP
3 9 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.96%) Nutanix
5 3 (2.97%) SaaS
6 1 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.99%) GitHub
6 1 (0.99%) IBM Watson
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 53 (52.48%) DNS
2 33 (32.67%) TCP/IP
3 32 (31.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 32 (31.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 23 (22.77%) SSL
5 22 (21.78%) Wireshark
6 21 (20.79%) BIG-IP
6 21 (20.79%) DMZ
6 21 (20.79%) HTTP
7 20 (19.80%) Network Security
8 18 (17.82%) Firewall
9 9 (8.91%) VLAN
10 6 (5.94%) DHCP
10 6 (5.94%) VPN
11 5 (4.95%) SAN
11 5 (4.95%) WebEx
12 4 (3.96%) iSCSI
12 4 (3.96%) SNMP
13 3 (2.97%) BGP
13 3 (2.97%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 24 (23.76%) Banking
1 24 (23.76%) Investment Banking
2 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Legal
4 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.95%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (30.69%) Network Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Web Engineer
3 16 (15.84%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) IP Network Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Operations Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Junior
5 9 (8.91%) Junior Network Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Wintel Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Analyst
9 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) IT Analyst
9 3 (2.97%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.95%) XMPP
2 1 (0.99%) Django
2 1 (0.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.75%) Management Information System
2 16 (15.84%) Replication
3 12 (11.88%) Clustering
4 9 (8.91%) Data Centre
5 8 (7.92%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.93%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.98%) PKI
9 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.99%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 40 (39.60%) Windows
2 27 (26.73%) Windows Server
3 22 (21.78%) Linux
4 9 (8.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.97%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.97%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.99%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (52.48%) Load Balancing
2 22 (21.78%) Data Loss Prevention
3 21 (20.79%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (18.81%) Business Strategy
6 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
6 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (12.87%) High Availability
8 12 (11.88%) Design Patterns
8 12 (11.88%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.89%) DevOps
9 11 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (8.91%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (8.91%) Incident Response
11 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (8.91%) Network Virtualisation
12 8 (7.92%) Change Management
12 8 (7.92%) CI/CD
12 8 (7.92%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.68%) PowerShell
2 31 (30.69%) Python
3 23 (22.77%) Bash
4 12 (11.88%) Perl
5 2 (1.98%) SQL
6 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (24.75%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (9.90%) VCAP
5 8 (7.92%) MCSA
5 8 (7.92%) MCSE
5 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.93%) CCDP
6 7 (6.93%) CCNA
6 7 (6.93%) CCNP
6 7 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (6.93%) Degree
7 1 (0.99%) CISM
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) GDPR
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (69.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (22.77%) vSphere
3 22 (21.78%) Active Directory
4 16 (15.84%) VMware NSX
5 14 (13.86%) Docker
6 12 (11.88%) Firmware
7 10 (9.90%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (8.91%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (3.96%) Hyper-V
10 3 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (20.79%) Ansible
2 14 (13.86%) vCenter Server
3 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
4 9 (8.91%) SCCM
4 9 (8.91%) Terraform
5 7 (6.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.99%) SCOM
6 1 (0.99%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 52 (51.49%) F5
2 25 (24.75%) Blue Coat
2 25 (24.75%) McAfee
3 23 (22.77%) Cisco
4 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
4 18 (17.82%) NetApp
5 13 (12.87%) Citrix
6 10 (9.90%) Veeam
7 9 (8.91%) Red Hat
8 6 (5.94%) Dell
9 5 (4.95%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.96%) Computacenter
10 4 (3.96%) Juniper
10 4 (3.96%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.97%) Google
12 2 (1.98%) IBM
13 1 (0.99%) AlienVault
13 1 (0.99%) NetScout
13 1 (0.99%) Qualys
13 1 (0.99%) SevOne