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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 60 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 64 78 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.25% 2.83% 4.54%
As % of the Vendors category 6.12% 7.12% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 92
10th Percentile £313 £212 £289
25th Percentile £350 £285 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £350 £444
Median % change year-on-year +26.79% -21.13% +4.41%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £633
90th Percentile £562 £560 £675
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 29
10th Percentile £71.76 £37.63 £25.95
25th Percentile £74.10 £39.76 £29.30
Median hourly rate £80.59 £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.51% +8.66% +297.20%
75th Percentile £84.48 - £52.13
90th Percentile £85.26 £63.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £63.00
% change year-on-year +56.99% -26.70% +76.84%

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 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +11 27 £480 +28.00% 48
Cumbria +16 19 £525 - 1
Cheshire -14 11 £350 -8.50% 5
Lancashire +4 7 £438 - 20
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England

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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 33 (51.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (28.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.81%) IIS
4 1 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) Azure
2 30 (46.88%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (43.75%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.63%) IaaS
5 5 (7.81%) AWS
6 4 (6.25%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.13%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.56%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (37.50%) DNS
2 23 (35.94%) DHCP
3 15 (23.44%) Network Security
4 13 (20.31%) Firewall
5 11 (17.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (14.06%) SAN
7 5 (7.81%) Skype
8 4 (6.25%) LAN
9 3 (4.69%) WLAN
10 2 (3.13%) NAS
10 2 (3.13%) WAN
11 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.56%) VSAN
11 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) Couchbase
2 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) MSDE
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (17.19%) Telecoms
2 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.38%) Legal
3 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Military
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Aviation
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Administrator
4 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) VMWare Administrator
4 6 (9.38%) Wintel Administrator
5 5 (7.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) DBA
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Industrial Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 2 (3.13%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) .NET
1 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
1 5 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.69%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (71.88%) Windows
2 41 (64.06%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.00%) Linux
4 15 (23.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (20.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (18.75%) VMS
7 10 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (9.38%) Unix
9 4 (6.25%) CentOS
10 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (3.13%) AIX
11 2 (3.13%) HPUX
11 2 (3.13%) Solaris
11 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (1.56%) Android
12 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
12 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
12 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (29.69%) ITIL
3 17 (26.56%) High Availability
4 16 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 12 (18.75%) DevOps
5 12 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (17.19%) Change Management
6 11 (17.19%) ITSM
6 11 (17.19%) Patch Management
6 11 (17.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 10 (15.63%) Migration
7 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
8 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.06%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (12.50%) BCP
9 8 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
9 8 (12.50%) Information Security
9 8 (12.50%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.13%) Bash
2 2 (3.13%) Perl
2 2 (3.13%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.56%) Java
3 1 (1.56%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.56%) VB
3 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) Security Cleared
3 11 (17.19%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.81%) MCSE
4 5 (7.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) MCP
6 1 (1.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (70.31%) Active Directory
2 41 (64.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (20.31%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (18.75%) vSphere
5 8 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (10.94%) Hyper-V
7 5 (7.81%) Docker
8 4 (6.25%) VMware NSX
9 2 (3.13%) KVM
9 2 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.56%) BitLocker
10 1 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (29.69%) WSUS
3 14 (21.88%) vCenter Server
4 6 (9.38%) SCCM
5 5 (7.81%) Ansible
5 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.69%) Backup Exec
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (4.69%) NetApp OnCommand
6 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.69%) Terraform
6 3 (4.69%) vMotion
7 2 (3.13%) Nagios
7 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.13%) Puppet
7 2 (3.13%) VxRail
7 2 (3.13%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (57.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Citrix
3 5 (7.81%) Cisco
3 5 (7.81%) Wyse
4 4 (6.25%) Symantec
4 4 (6.25%) Veeam
5 3 (4.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.13%) Dell
6 2 (3.13%) HP
6 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.56%) EMC
7 1 (1.56%) McAfee
7 1 (1.56%) NetApp