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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -29 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 50 71 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.32% 3.00% 4.06%
As % of the Vendors category 4.64% 7.70% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 82
10th Percentile £313 £213 £259
25th Percentile £400 £344 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% +0.59%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £488
90th Percentile £642 £672 £573
England median daily rate £550 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £40.94
25th Percentile £65.75 £70.20 £41.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £75.40 £45.79
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +64.65% +12.85%
75th Percentile £67.25 £80.59 £49.10
90th Percentile - - £49.52
England median hourly rate £34.00 £43.08 £63.00
% change year-on-year -21.08% -31.62% +40.00%

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 1,078 922 1,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.07% 39.00% 44.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 506 802
10th Percentile £304 £276 £225
25th Percentile £380 £407 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £592
90th Percentile £673 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 45 93
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £22.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +56.32%
75th Percentile £47.12 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £58.31 £53.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

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

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 -7 27 £475 -5.00% 27
Cheshire -25 12 £325 -36.43% 3
Merseyside +1 7 £365 +62.22%
Lancashire 0 4 £175 -66.67% 21
VMware
England

VMware
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 3 (6.00%) IIS
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) SaaS
3 5 (10.00%) IaaS
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) PaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.00%) DNS
2 18 (36.00%) Network Security
3 17 (34.00%) DMZ
4 13 (26.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 13 (26.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 11 (22.00%) SAN
6 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (12.00%) VLAN
7 4 (8.00%) iSCSI
7 4 (8.00%) LAN
8 3 (6.00%) DHCP
8 3 (6.00%) Firewall
8 3 (6.00%) VSAN
8 3 (6.00%) WLAN
9 2 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.00%) VoIP
10 1 (2.00%) WAN
10 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (20.00%) Banking
2 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Finance
6 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Industrial Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Administrator
6 2 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) VMWare Administrator
6 2 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.00%) Private Cloud
2 7 (14.00%) Replication
3 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Clustering
5 3 (6.00%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.00%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 13 (26.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.00%) Linux
4 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (6.00%) Unix
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.00%) VMS
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (22.00%) Business Strategy
3 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.00%) Change Management
5 6 (12.00%) Design Patterns
6 5 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 5 (10.00%) ITIL
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Security Hardening
7 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.00%) Data Management
7 4 (8.00%) High Availability
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (8.00%) Microservices
7 4 (8.00%) Storage Management
7 4 (8.00%) Zero Trust
8 3 (6.00%) Agile
8 3 (6.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (12.00%) VMware NSX
4 5 (10.00%) vSphere
5 4 (8.00%) UAG
5 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (8.00%) Terraform
4 3 (6.00%) Backup Exec
4 3 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.00%) NetApp OnCommand
5 2 (4.00%) PowerCLI
5 2 (4.00%) vMotion
5 2 (4.00%) WSUS
6 1 (2.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) vRealize
6 1 (2.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) F5
2 14 (28.00%) Veeam
3 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (16.00%) Cisco
5 7 (14.00%) NetApp
6 6 (12.00%) Dell
7 5 (10.00%) Citrix
8 4 (8.00%) IBM
8 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (6.00%) HP
9 3 (6.00%) Oracle
9 3 (6.00%) Symantec
10 2 (4.00%) Computacenter
11 1 (2.00%) EMC
11 1 (2.00%) Red Hat