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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 74 53
Rank change year-on-year -13 -21 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware 89 52 73
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.39% 2.38% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 5.87% 4.81% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 43
10th Percentile £312 £278 £213
25th Percentile £389 £349 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +17.86% -18.13%
75th Percentile £488 £539 £513
90th Percentile £546 £615 £598
England median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £38.05 - -
25th Percentile £51.63 - £70.20
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.40
75th Percentile £82.01 - £80.59
90th Percentile £86.65 - -
England median hourly rate £58.74 £34.71 £67.50
% change year-on-year +69.23% -48.58% +25.10%

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 1,516 1,082 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.79% 49.59% 39.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 686 578
10th Percentile £274 £299 £266
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £657 £668 £650
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 73 110
10th Percentile £18.45 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.16 £19.07 £11.40
Median hourly rate £29.96 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +79.02% -43.05%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £55.79
England median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%

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 28 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the North West over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the North West

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 28 July 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 -45 28 £469 -7.36% 25
Merseyside +2 22 £350 -4.11% 4
Cheshire +4 16 £400 +23.08% 3
Cumbria -7 9 £483 -8.00%
Lancashire -9 5 £190 -45.71% 8
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 (10.11%) CICS
2 1 (1.12%) IIS
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 9 (10.11%) AWS
3 7 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.25%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.12%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.12%) OCI
6 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.12%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 33 (37.08%) DNS
2 22 (24.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 22 (24.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 21 (23.60%) TCP/IP
4 19 (21.35%) BIG-IP
4 19 (21.35%) Wireshark
5 18 (20.22%) HTTP
5 18 (20.22%) SSL
6 14 (15.73%) Firewall
7 9 (10.11%) Network Security
7 9 (10.11%) SAN
7 9 (10.11%) VSAN
8 6 (6.74%) DMZ
8 6 (6.74%) NAS
9 4 (4.49%) VLAN
10 3 (3.37%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (3.37%) DHCP
10 3 (3.37%) SD-WAN
10 3 (3.37%) VPN
10 3 (3.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 18 (20.22%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Banking
3 16 (17.98%) Finance
3 16 (17.98%) Investment Banking
4 9 (10.11%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Games
6 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.12%) Advertising
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) VMware Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) Web Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) IP Network Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Designer
4 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Designer
4 9 (10.11%) Wintel Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Senior
6 7 (7.87%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Consultant
8 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Architect
9 3 (3.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Server Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Storage Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Middleware
2 3 (3.37%) Flash
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.12%) REST
3 1 (1.12%) XML
3 1 (1.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Management Information System
2 15 (16.85%) Replication
3 14 (15.73%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.11%) BYOD
4 9 (10.11%) Clustering
4 9 (10.11%) Mainframe
4 9 (10.11%) VSAM
5 8 (8.99%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.37%) Animation
8 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
8 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.83%) Windows
2 25 (28.09%) Linux
3 23 (25.84%) Windows Server
4 13 (14.61%) Unix
5 10 (11.24%) AIX
6 9 (10.11%) Solaris
7 5 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
9 3 (3.37%) VMS
9 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.12%) CentOS
11 1 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Load Balancing
2 18 (20.22%) Data Loss Prevention
2 18 (20.22%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 18 (20.22%) Migration
3 17 (19.10%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (17.98%) High Availability
5 15 (16.85%) Capacity Planning
6 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (14.61%) Network Virtualisation
8 12 (13.48%) Project Delivery
8 12 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.11%) Business Case
9 9 (10.11%) Design Patterns
9 9 (10.11%) Process Improvement
9 9 (10.11%) Roadmaps
9 9 (10.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 8 (8.99%) Data Protection
10 8 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (7.87%) Change Management
11 7 (7.87%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.84%) PowerShell
2 11 (12.36%) Python
3 9 (10.11%) Bash
3 9 (10.11%) COBOL
4 1 (1.12%) Bicep
4 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.24%) VCAP
3 10 (11.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.99%) MCSA
5 8 (8.99%) MCSE
6 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.37%) CCNP
6 3 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) CCDP
8 1 (1.12%) CCIE
8 1 (1.12%) OCP
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) SLA
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 69 (77.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (31.46%) vSphere
3 26 (29.21%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (19.10%) Firmware
4 17 (19.10%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (14.61%) VMware NSX
6 10 (11.24%) Active Directory
7 9 (10.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (7.87%) Hyper-V
9 3 (3.37%) GPFS
9 3 (3.37%) NFS
10 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (23.60%) Ansible
2 20 (22.47%) vCenter Server
3 6 (6.74%) PowerCLI
3 6 (6.74%) vRealize
4 4 (4.49%) vMotion
5 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.37%) Terraform
5 3 (3.37%) VxRail
5 3 (3.37%) WSUS
6 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.25%) Puppet
6 2 (2.25%) SCCM
7 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.12%) Argo
7 1 (1.12%) Grafana
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.12%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (1.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) F5
2 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
3 18 (20.22%) Blue Coat
3 18 (20.22%) McAfee
4 17 (19.10%) Cisco
5 16 (17.98%) NetApp
6 14 (15.73%) IBM
7 9 (10.11%) Citrix
8 4 (4.49%) Oracle
8 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.37%) Perforce
9 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.25%) Splunk
10 2 (2.25%) Tanium
10 2 (2.25%) Veeam
11 1 (1.12%) Arista
11 1 (1.12%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.12%) Pure Storage
11 1 (1.12%) SevOne
11 1 (1.12%) Tenable