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 13 April 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
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -21
Contract jobs citing VMware 116 68 80
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.64% 3.53% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 8.65% 6.61% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 36 55
10th Percentile £315 £316 £210
25th Percentile £406 £350 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +33.33% -12.38%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £575 £570 £565
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
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% +4.36%
75th Percentile - £83.18 -
90th Percentile - £84.74 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -28.95%

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 1,341 1,028 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.13% 53.29% 40.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 675 688
10th Percentile £213 £255 £275
25th Percentile £375 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £653 £659 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 51 147
10th Percentile £19.75 £19.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.26 £11.90
Median hourly rate £30.49 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £61.88 £25.25
90th Percentile £79.30 £86.00 £46.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -41.56%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +12 33 £238 -52.50% 1
Manchester -23 29 £469 -2.29% 26
Cheshire -14 22 £425 +21.43% 2
Cumbria -3 13 £456 -13.14%
Lancashire -12 9 £550 +25.71% 13
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 (7.76%) CICS
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.52%) Azure
2 15 (12.93%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.90%) GCP
6 4 (3.45%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.86%) IBM Watson
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.86%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.86%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 49 (42.24%) DNS
2 38 (32.76%) TCP/IP
3 32 (27.59%) SSL
4 31 (26.72%) Wireshark
5 30 (25.86%) BIG-IP
5 30 (25.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 30 (25.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 30 (25.86%) HTTP
6 27 (23.28%) Firewall
7 12 (10.34%) Network Security
8 10 (8.62%) DMZ
8 10 (8.62%) VSAN
9 7 (6.03%) DHCP
10 6 (5.17%) VPN
11 5 (4.31%) WebEx
12 4 (3.45%) BGP
12 4 (3.45%) NetScaler
12 4 (3.45%) SNMP
12 4 (3.45%) VLAN
13 3 (2.59%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 30 (25.86%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 28 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.41%) Banking
3 25 (21.55%) Investment Banking
4 16 (13.79%) Finance
5 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.76%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (6.03%) Legal
8 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (30.17%) Network Engineer
2 30 (25.86%) Web Engineer
3 20 (17.24%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 20 (17.24%) IP Network Engineer
4 17 (14.66%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (13.79%) VMware Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Junior
6 10 (8.62%) Junior Network Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Designer
7 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Designer
7 9 (7.76%) Wintel Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Senior
9 6 (5.17%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Analyst
11 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Middleware
2 5 (4.31%) XMPP
3 1 (0.86%) Django
3 1 (0.86%) Flash
3 1 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.55%) Management Information System
2 16 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.34%) Replication
4 9 (7.76%) BYOD
4 9 (7.76%) Clustering
4 9 (7.76%) Mainframe
4 9 (7.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.76%) VSAM
5 6 (5.17%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.72%) PKI
9 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (40.52%) Windows
2 39 (33.62%) Linux
3 30 (25.86%) Windows Server
4 14 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (8.62%) Solaris
5 10 (8.62%) Unix
6 9 (7.76%) AIX
7 8 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (3.45%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.59%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.59%) VMS
9 3 (2.59%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.86%) CentOS
10 1 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.24%) Load Balancing
2 31 (26.72%) Data Loss Prevention
3 30 (25.86%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (18.10%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (12.93%) Capacity Planning
6 15 (12.93%) High Availability
7 14 (12.07%) Design Patterns
7 14 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.21%) Project Delivery
9 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
9 12 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (9.48%) Network Virtualisation
10 11 (9.48%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 10 (8.62%) Change Management
11 10 (8.62%) DevOps
11 10 (8.62%) Performance Monitoring
12 9 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.90%) PowerShell
2 33 (28.45%) Python
3 28 (24.14%) Bash
4 13 (11.21%) Perl
5 9 (7.76%) COBOL
6 1 (0.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) VCAP
3 12 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (6.90%) CCDP
4 8 (6.90%) CCNA
4 8 (6.90%) CCNP
4 8 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.90%) MCSA
4 8 (6.90%) MCSE
4 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.03%) Degree
6 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.86%) CISM
7 1 (0.86%) CISSP
7 1 (0.86%) OCP
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) GDPR
1 5 (4.31%) SLA
2 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 77 (66.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (31.03%) vSphere
3 25 (21.55%) VMware NSX
4 24 (20.69%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (17.24%) Active Directory
5 20 (17.24%) Firmware
6 15 (12.93%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (11.21%) Docker
8 7 (6.03%) Hyper-V
9 6 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.86%) GPFS
10 1 (0.86%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (25.00%) Ansible
2 19 (16.38%) vCenter Server
3 11 (9.48%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.76%) SCCM
5 8 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (6.03%) Terraform
7 6 (5.17%) PowerCLI
8 3 (2.59%) vMotion
8 3 (2.59%) vRealize
9 1 (0.86%) Argo
9 1 (0.86%) Grafana
9 1 (0.86%) Nessus
9 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.86%) Puppet
9 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.86%) SCOM
9 1 (0.86%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (41.38%) F5
2 30 (25.86%) Blue Coat
2 30 (25.86%) McAfee
3 20 (17.24%) Cisco
3 20 (17.24%) NetApp
4 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
5 14 (12.07%) Citrix
6 11 (9.48%) IBM
6 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.31%) Computacenter
7 5 (4.31%) Veeam
8 4 (3.45%) Juniper
8 4 (3.45%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.59%) Google
10 2 (1.72%) Qualys
10 2 (1.72%) Splunk
11 1 (0.86%) AlienVault
11 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.86%) SevOne
11 1 (0.86%) SolarWinds