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 27 February 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
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -25
Contract jobs citing VMware 108 93 83
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.86% 4.51% 2.99%
As % of the Vendors category 8.39% 8.68% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 61
10th Percentile £315 £350 £210
25th Percentile £409 £389 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £575 £656 £613
England median daily rate £525 £525 £493
% change year-on-year - +6.60% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £70.66 -
25th Percentile - £71.35 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +63.26% +0.39%
75th Percentile - £83.18 -
90th Percentile - £84.74 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%

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 1,288 1,072 1,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 46.05% 51.96% 42.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 648 736
10th Percentile £213 £250 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £582
90th Percentile £685 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 50 130
10th Percentile £15.70 £20.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £25.26 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +83.41% -47.50%
75th Percentile £60.85 £60.00 £33.24
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% +18.38% -21.21%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +8 34 £238 -47.22% 1
Manchester -41 25 £464 -9.02% 15
Cheshire -14 23 £495 +20.00% 5
Cumbria -2 13 £456 -13.14% 1
Lancashire -12 9 £550 +4.76% 15
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 8 (7.41%) CICS
2 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.96%) Azure
2 13 (12.04%) AWS
3 9 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.41%) GCP
5 5 (4.63%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.93%) GitHub
6 1 (0.93%) IBM Watson
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.93%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 51 (47.22%) DNS
2 36 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 32 (29.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 32 (29.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 30 (27.78%) SSL
5 29 (26.85%) Wireshark
6 28 (25.93%) BIG-IP
6 28 (25.93%) Firewall
6 28 (25.93%) HTTP
7 16 (14.81%) DMZ
7 16 (14.81%) Network Security
8 7 (6.48%) DHCP
9 6 (5.56%) VPN
10 5 (4.63%) WebEx
11 4 (3.70%) BGP
11 4 (3.70%) NetScaler
11 4 (3.70%) SNMP
11 4 (3.70%) VLAN
12 3 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) DataStage
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (25.93%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 27 (25.00%) Banking
2 26 (24.07%) Investment Banking
3 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.96%) Finance
5 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (6.48%) Legal
7 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.93%) Advertising
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (34.26%) Network Engineer
2 28 (25.93%) Web Engineer
3 17 (15.74%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 17 (15.74%) IP Network Engineer
3 17 (15.74%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Junior
4 11 (10.19%) Junior Network Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Designer
6 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Designer
7 6 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) VMware Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Analyst
10 3 (2.78%) Consultant
10 3 (2.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.41%) Middleware
2 5 (4.63%) XMPP
3 1 (0.93%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.07%) Management Information System
2 15 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.33%) Clustering
3 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.33%) Replication
4 8 (7.41%) BYOD
4 8 (7.41%) Mainframe
4 8 (7.41%) VSAM
5 6 (5.56%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.04%) Windows
2 31 (28.70%) Linux
3 27 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (8.33%) Solaris
5 9 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (7.41%) AIX
6 8 (7.41%) Unix
7 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.78%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.85%) Load Balancing
2 29 (26.85%) Data Loss Prevention
3 28 (25.93%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 22 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.74%) Design Patterns
5 17 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
6 14 (12.96%) High Availability
7 13 (12.04%) Business Strategy
8 12 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.19%) DevOps
9 11 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (10.19%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.33%) Incident Response
10 9 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (7.41%) Business Case
11 8 (7.41%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.48%) Python
2 30 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 24 (22.22%) Bash
4 13 (12.04%) Perl
5 8 (7.41%) COBOL
6 2 (1.85%) SQL
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (9.26%) VCAP
5 8 (7.41%) CCDP
5 8 (7.41%) CCNA
5 8 (7.41%) CCNP
5 8 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (7.41%) MCSA
5 8 (7.41%) MCSE
5 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.48%) Degree
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CISM
7 1 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (62.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (22.22%) vSphere
3 21 (19.44%) Active Directory
4 19 (17.59%) VMware NSX
5 17 (15.74%) Firmware
6 15 (13.89%) Docker
7 11 (10.19%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
9 4 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (20.37%) Ansible
2 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.19%) vCenter Server
4 9 (8.33%) SCCM
5 8 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (7.41%) Terraform
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.93%) SCOM
6 1 (0.93%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (50.93%) F5
2 32 (29.63%) Blue Coat
2 32 (29.63%) McAfee
3 19 (17.59%) Cisco
4 18 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 17 (15.74%) NetApp
6 13 (12.04%) Citrix
7 10 (9.26%) Red Hat
8 9 (8.33%) IBM
9 5 (4.63%) Computacenter
9 5 (4.63%) Veeam
10 4 (3.70%) Juniper
10 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.78%) Google
12 1 (0.93%) AlienVault
12 1 (0.93%) NetScout
12 1 (0.93%) QNAP
12 1 (0.93%) Qualys
12 1 (0.93%) SevOne
12 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds