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 1 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
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -26
Contract jobs citing VMware 108 61 79
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.23% 3.10% 2.90%
As % of the Vendors category 8.00% 6.05% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 36 46
10th Percentile £283 £313 £211
25th Percentile £369 £350 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +17.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £483 £538 £486
90th Percentile £560 £541 £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 £45.01
% change year-on-year +9.80% +27.75% -24.98%

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 1,350 1,008 1,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.33% 51.30% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 645 613
10th Percentile £275 £277 £268
25th Percentile £398 £393 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +4.82%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 61 148
10th Percentile £19.96 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.92 £17.44 £11.95
Median hourly rate £30.25 £31.76 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% +97.76% -57.17%
75th Percentile £60.96 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £85.70 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year +21.50% +12.39% -39.82%

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 1 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 1 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 -36 28 £464 +7.59% 24
Merseyside +8 27 £300 -17.81% 4
Cheshire +1 22 £425 +25.93% 4
Cumbria -8 18 £469 -10.63%
Lancashire -12 4 £190 -56.57% 6
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 (8.33%) CICS
2 2 (1.85%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.52%) Azure
2 13 (12.04%) AWS
3 11 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.48%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.70%) Nutanix
6 3 (2.78%) 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 43 (39.81%) DNS
2 32 (29.63%) TCP/IP
3 27 (25.00%) SSL
3 27 (25.00%) Wireshark
4 26 (24.07%) BIG-IP
4 26 (24.07%) HTTP
5 22 (20.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 22 (20.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (13.89%) Firewall
7 9 (8.33%) VSAN
8 8 (7.41%) DHCP
9 7 (6.48%) Network Security
10 6 (5.56%) SAN
11 4 (3.70%) DMZ
11 4 (3.70%) NetScaler
11 4 (3.70%) VPN
12 3 (2.78%) NAS
13 2 (1.85%) LAN
14 1 (0.93%) WAN
14 1 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 26 (24.07%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.44%) Banking
3 19 (17.59%) Finance
4 18 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 9 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 26 (24.07%) Web Engineer
3 18 (16.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 18 (16.67%) IP Network Engineer
3 18 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) VMware Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Designer
5 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Designer
5 9 (8.33%) Senior
6 8 (7.41%) Junior
6 8 (7.41%) Junior Network Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Analyst
8 6 (5.56%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.78%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) Middleware
2 3 (2.78%) Flash
3 1 (0.93%) Django
3 1 (0.93%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Replication
2 18 (16.67%) Clustering
2 18 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 12 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 9 (8.33%) BYOD
4 9 (8.33%) Mainframe
4 9 (8.33%) VSAM
5 6 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.70%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.93%) NHS
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (43.52%) Windows
2 35 (32.41%) Windows Server
3 25 (23.15%) Linux
4 12 (11.11%) Unix
5 10 (9.26%) AIX
5 10 (9.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (8.33%) Solaris
7 5 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.70%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.78%) VMS
9 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.93%) CentOS
11 1 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.41%) Load Balancing
2 27 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 26 (24.07%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 24 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 23 (21.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (19.44%) High Availability
7 20 (18.52%) Network Virtualisation
7 20 (18.52%) Project Delivery
8 14 (12.96%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 10 (9.26%) Change Management
11 10 (9.26%) Migration
12 9 (8.33%) Business Case
12 9 (8.33%) Data Protection
12 9 (8.33%) Design Patterns
12 9 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (8.33%) Process Improvement
12 9 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.41%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.81%) Python
3 11 (10.19%) Bash
4 9 (8.33%) COBOL
5 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.93%) Perl
5 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.67%) VCAP
3 18 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 17 (15.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (14.81%) MCSA
5 16 (14.81%) MCSE
6 3 (2.78%) Degree
7 2 (1.85%) 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 (5.56%) SLA
2 4 (3.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 75 (69.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (37.04%) vSphere
3 35 (32.41%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (24.07%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (18.52%) VMware NSX
6 19 (17.59%) Firmware
7 17 (15.74%) Active Directory
8 9 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (7.41%) Hyper-V
10 4 (3.70%) Docker
11 3 (2.78%) GPFS
11 3 (2.78%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (32.41%) Ansible
2 29 (26.85%) vCenter Server
3 9 (8.33%) SCCM
4 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.56%) PowerCLI
5 6 (5.56%) vRealize
6 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
7 4 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.70%) vMotion
8 3 (2.78%) VxRail
8 3 (2.78%) 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 34 (31.48%) F5
2 26 (24.07%) Blue Coat
2 26 (24.07%) McAfee
3 25 (23.15%) Microsoft
4 24 (22.22%) Cisco
5 18 (16.67%) NetApp
6 14 (12.96%) IBM
7 11 (10.19%) Citrix
8 5 (4.63%) Veeam
9 4 (3.70%) Computacenter
9 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.78%) Google
10 3 (2.78%) Oracle
10 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.85%) Qualys
11 2 (1.85%) Splunk
11 2 (1.85%) Tanium
12 1 (0.93%) Pure Storage
12 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.93%) Tenable