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 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 45 51
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing VMware 93 85 90
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.73% 4.04% 3.41%
As % of the Vendors category 7.49% 8.34% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 73
10th Percentile £309 £358 £236
25th Percentile £409 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +17.65% -0.23%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £500
90th Percentile £580 £669 £575
England median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £66.60 £70.66 -
25th Percentile £67.88 £71.35 £40.63
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 £46.88
90th Percentile £73.56 £84.74 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%

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 1,241 1,019 1,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 49.76% 48.45% 45.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 573 787
10th Percentile £213 £313 £248
25th Percentile £358 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £592
90th Percentile £685 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 83
10th Percentile £16.40 £16.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £19.58 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.83 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -7.14% +42.39%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.11 £77.50 £52.02
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the North West

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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 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 +13 30 £300 -33.33% 1
Cheshire -16 23 £500 +5.26% 1
Manchester -35 20 £475 -9.09% 16
Lancashire -9 9 £550 +4.76% 12
Cumbria +3 8 £456 -27.04% 3
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 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.30%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.15%) IIS
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) Azure
2 12 (12.90%) AWS
3 9 (9.68%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.68%) GCP
3 9 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.23%) Nutanix
4 3 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (55.91%) DNS
2 34 (36.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 34 (36.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 30 (32.26%) TCP/IP
4 24 (25.81%) DMZ
5 23 (24.73%) Network Security
6 20 (21.51%) SSL
7 18 (19.35%) BIG-IP
7 18 (19.35%) HTTP
7 18 (19.35%) Wireshark
8 17 (18.28%) Firewall
9 9 (9.68%) VLAN
10 5 (5.38%) DHCP
10 5 (5.38%) SAN
10 5 (5.38%) VPN
10 5 (5.38%) WebEx
11 4 (4.30%) iSCSI
11 4 (4.30%) SNMP
11 4 (4.30%) VSAN
12 3 (3.23%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (19.35%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.88%) Banking
1 25 (26.88%) Investment Banking
2 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Legal
4 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (30.11%) Network Engineer
2 18 (19.35%) Web Engineer
3 15 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (15.05%) Operations Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) IP Network Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Junior
6 7 (7.53%) Junior Network Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Server Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Consultant
10 3 (3.23%) VMware Consultant
11 2 (2.15%) Analyst
11 2 (2.15%) Support Analyst
11 2 (2.15%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) XMPP
2 1 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.03%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.83%) Replication
3 10 (10.75%) Data Centre
4 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
5 7 (7.53%) Clustering
6 6 (6.45%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.15%) PKI
9 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.08%) IBM XIV
9 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.56%) Windows
2 22 (23.66%) Linux
3 21 (22.58%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.30%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.23%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.08%) Solaris
9 1 (1.08%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.08%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) Load Balancing
2 22 (23.66%) Business Strategy
3 19 (20.43%) Data Loss Prevention
4 18 (19.35%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.05%) Containerisation
5 14 (15.05%) Design Patterns
6 13 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (10.75%) DevOps
8 9 (9.68%) Incident Response
8 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (8.60%) Change Management
9 8 (8.60%) CI/CD
9 8 (8.60%) High Availability
9 8 (8.60%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (8.60%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (8.60%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.11%) Python
2 27 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 23 (24.73%) Bash
4 12 (12.90%) Perl
5 2 (2.15%) SQL
6 1 (1.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) CCDP
3 7 (7.53%) CCNA
3 7 (7.53%) CCNP
3 7 (7.53%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (7.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (6.45%) Degree
4 6 (6.45%) VCAP
5 4 (4.30%) MCSA
5 4 (4.30%) MCSE
5 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CISM
6 1 (1.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (70.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (22.58%) Active Directory
3 18 (19.35%) vSphere
4 14 (15.05%) VMware NSX
5 13 (13.98%) Docker
6 11 (11.83%) Firmware
7 5 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) Ansible
2 11 (11.83%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.75%) Terraform
4 9 (9.68%) vCenter Server
5 8 (8.60%) SCCM
6 6 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.08%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.08%) SCOM
8 1 (1.08%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (54.84%) F5
2 22 (23.66%) Blue Coat
2 22 (23.66%) McAfee
3 17 (18.28%) Cisco
3 17 (18.28%) NetApp
4 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
5 13 (13.98%) Citrix
6 9 (9.68%) Red Hat
6 9 (9.68%) Veeam
7 6 (6.45%) Dell
8 5 (5.38%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.30%) Computacenter
9 4 (4.30%) Juniper
9 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.23%) Google
11 1 (1.08%) AlienVault
11 1 (1.08%) IBM
11 1 (1.08%) QNAP
11 1 (1.08%) Qualys