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 7 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 72 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -15
Contract jobs citing VMware 100 56 80
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.76% 2.65% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 6.80% 5.23% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 29 47
10th Percentile £296 £313 £212
25th Percentile £397 £350 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +28.57% -20.00%
75th Percentile £485 £538 £500
90th Percentile £568 £604 £535
England median daily rate £525 £550 £508
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £38.05 - £37.63
25th Percentile £51.63 - £39.76
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile £82.01 - -
90th Percentile £86.65 - £63.38
England median hourly rate £51.00 £32.77 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.63% -18.08% -25.02%

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 1,471 1,070 1,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.56% 50.71% 39.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 699 640
10th Percentile £275 £297 £267
25th Percentile £400 £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £586
90th Percentile £663 £666 £650
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 69 150
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £23.01 £19.45 £12.40
Median hourly rate £29.98 £29.27 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +82.25% -41.60%
75th Percentile £63.31 £60.00 £33.87
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.85 £46.44
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.34% +1.20% -30.56%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -39 28 £469 -2.29% 24
Merseyside +10 24 £263 -28.08% 3
Cheshire +3 20 £425 +25.93% 4
Cumbria -12 14 £472 -10.10%
Lancashire -7 5 £190 -56.57% 10
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 (9.00%) CICS
2 1 (1.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.00%) Azure
2 9 (9.00%) AWS
3 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.00%) GCP
5 2 (2.00%) IBM Watson
5 2 (2.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.00%) GitHub
6 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 37 (37.00%) DNS
2 24 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 23 (23.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 23 (23.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 23 (23.00%) Wireshark
4 22 (22.00%) BIG-IP
5 21 (21.00%) HTTP
5 21 (21.00%) SSL
6 14 (14.00%) Firewall
7 9 (9.00%) VSAN
8 8 (8.00%) Network Security
8 8 (8.00%) SAN
9 6 (6.00%) DMZ
10 5 (5.00%) NAS
11 4 (4.00%) DHCP
12 3 (3.00%) LAN
12 3 (3.00%) VLAN
12 3 (3.00%) VPN
12 3 (3.00%) WAN
13 2 (2.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 21 (21.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Banking
3 18 (18.00%) Finance
4 17 (17.00%) Investment Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Games
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (24.00%) Network Engineer
2 21 (21.00%) Web Engineer
3 19 (19.00%) VMware Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) IP Network Engineer
5 14 (14.00%) Wintel Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Designer
6 9 (9.00%) Infrastructure Designer
7 8 (8.00%) Senior
8 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) Consultant
11 4 (4.00%) Junior
11 4 (4.00%) Junior Network Engineer
12 3 (3.00%) Architect
12 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 3 (3.00%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) Middleware
2 3 (3.00%) Flash
3 1 (1.00%) Django
3 1 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 20 (20.00%) Replication
2 14 (14.00%) Clustering
2 14 (14.00%) Data Centre
3 9 (9.00%) BYOD
3 9 (9.00%) Mainframe
3 9 (9.00%) VSAM
4 8 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Animation
7 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.00%) NHS
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.00%) Windows
2 28 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 24 (24.00%) Linux
4 12 (12.00%) Unix
5 10 (10.00%) AIX
6 9 (9.00%) Solaris
7 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
9 3 (3.00%) VMS
9 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.00%) CentOS
10 1 (1.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 21 (21.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 21 (21.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 20 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 20 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (19.00%) High Availability
5 17 (17.00%) Migration
5 17 (17.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 15 (15.00%) Project Delivery
7 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (9.00%) Business Case
9 9 (9.00%) Design Patterns
9 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.00%) Process Improvement
9 9 (9.00%) Roadmaps
9 9 (9.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 8 (8.00%) Data Protection
10 8 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.00%) Python
3 9 (9.00%) COBOL
4 8 (8.00%) Bash
5 1 (1.00%) Bicep
5 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) VCAP
3 14 (14.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (12.00%) MCSA
5 12 (12.00%) MCSE
6 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.00%) CCNA
7 2 (2.00%) CCNP
7 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.00%) CCDP
8 1 (1.00%) Degree
8 1 (1.00%) OCP
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (74.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (34.00%) vSphere
3 31 (31.00%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (22.00%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (18.00%) Firmware
6 16 (16.00%) VMware NSX
7 11 (11.00%) Active Directory
8 10 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (7.00%) Hyper-V
10 3 (3.00%) GPFS
10 3 (3.00%) NFS
11 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (27.00%) Ansible
2 25 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 6 (6.00%) PowerCLI
3 6 (6.00%) vRealize
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.00%) vMotion
5 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.00%) SCCM
5 3 (3.00%) VxRail
5 3 (3.00%) WSUS
6 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.00%) Terraform
7 1 (1.00%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.00%) Nessus
7 1 (1.00%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.00%) Puppet
7 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (29.00%) F5
2 22 (22.00%) Cisco
3 21 (21.00%) Blue Coat
3 21 (21.00%) McAfee
3 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
4 17 (17.00%) NetApp
5 15 (15.00%) IBM
6 9 (9.00%) Citrix
7 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.00%) Oracle
8 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.00%) Splunk
8 3 (3.00%) Veeam
9 2 (2.00%) Arista
9 2 (2.00%) Computacenter
9 2 (2.00%) NetScout
9 2 (2.00%) Perforce
9 2 (2.00%) SevOne
9 2 (2.00%) Tanium
10 1 (1.00%) Pure Storage