VMware Contracts 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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 55 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 -14 +22
Contract jobs citing VMware 56 79 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.66% 2.86% 4.65%
As % of the Vendors category 5.27% 7.23% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 85
10th Percentile £313 £212 £300
25th Percentile £350 £285 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £438
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -20.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile £604 £535 £650
England median daily rate £550 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 23
10th Percentile - £37.63 £25.80
25th Percentile - £39.76 £29.00
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.66% -
75th Percentile - - £47.42
90th Percentile - £63.38 £49.52
England median hourly rate £32.77 £40.00 £53.16
% change year-on-year -18.08% -24.76% +26.57%

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 1,062 1,092 1,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.50% 39.52% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 642 819
10th Percentile £295 £268 £263
25th Percentile £381 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.82% -2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £575
90th Percentile £666 £650 £656
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 149 78
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.35 £12.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.52 £16.06 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.01% -44.62% +44.53%
75th Percentile £60.75 £32.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.28 £46.18 £49.52
England median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +2.00% -22.60% +50.23%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North West.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the North West

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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 5 July 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 +5 27 £480 +20.00% 93
Cumbria +19 14 £525 - 4
Lancashire 0 7 £438 - 41
Cheshire -21 7 £338 -11.76% 16
Merseyside -8 1 £365 +62.22% 14
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (41.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (23.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (7.14%) IIS
4 3 (5.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 9 (16.07%) IaaS
5 4 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.36%) AWS
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
6 3 (5.36%) PaaS
6 3 (5.36%) SaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.57%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) DNS
2 16 (28.57%) DHCP
3 12 (21.43%) Network Security
4 10 (17.86%) SAN
5 8 (14.29%) Firewall
6 6 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (8.93%) DMZ
8 4 (7.14%) LAN
8 4 (7.14%) Skype
9 3 (5.36%) WLAN
10 2 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (3.57%) VSAN
10 2 (3.57%) WAN
11 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.93%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Legal
4 4 (7.14%) Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Aviation
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Consultant
4 5 (8.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) Industrial Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.36%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (5.36%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Wintel Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) IT Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.79%) Team Leader
8 1 (1.79%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) Middleware
2 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.93%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.57%) Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (57.14%) Windows
2 30 (53.57%) Windows Server
3 14 (25.00%) Linux
4 10 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (16.07%) VMS
5 9 (16.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (12.50%) Unix
6 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (26.79%) ITIL
3 12 (21.43%) High Availability
4 10 (17.86%) Business Continuity
4 10 (17.86%) DevOps
5 9 (16.07%) Project Delivery
6 8 (14.29%) Change Management
6 8 (14.29%) ITSM
7 6 (10.71%) Analytics
7 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (10.71%) Migration
7 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (10.71%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 5 (8.93%) Business Continuity Planning
8 5 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.93%) Patch Management
8 5 (8.93%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.36%) SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Java
3 1 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (7.14%) MCSE
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 31 (55.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (19.64%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (12.50%) vSphere
5 6 (10.71%) VMware NSX
6 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
7 3 (5.36%) UAG
8 1 (1.79%) Docker
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (26.79%) WSUS
2 12 (21.43%) vCenter Server
3 5 (8.93%) Ansible
4 4 (7.14%) SCCM
4 4 (7.14%) Terraform
5 3 (5.36%) Backup Exec
5 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (3.57%) Nagios
6 2 (3.57%) NetApp OnCommand
6 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.57%) vMotion
6 2 (3.57%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.79%) Grafana
7 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.79%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Citrix
2 8 (14.29%) Veeam
3 5 (8.93%) Cisco
3 5 (8.93%) F5
3 5 (8.93%) HP
3 5 (8.93%) IBM
4 4 (7.14%) Wyse
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle
5 3 (5.36%) Symantec
6 2 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.79%) Computacenter
7 1 (1.79%) EMC
7 1 (1.79%) NetApp
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat