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 4 May 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
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 61 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -25
Contract jobs citing VMware 104 63 75
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.28% 3.20% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 7.82% 5.99% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 44
10th Percentile £248 £313 £211
25th Percentile £373 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £444 £350
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +26.79% -21.13%
75th Percentile £483 £538 £467
90th Percentile £551 £562 £536
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £71.76 £37.63
25th Percentile - £74.10 £39.76
Median hourly rate £74.26 £80.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% +74.51% +8.66%
75th Percentile - £84.48 -
90th Percentile - £85.26 £63.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -25.92%

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 1,330 1,052 1,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.93% 53.40% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 674 627
10th Percentile £217 £250 £270
25th Percentile £373 £393 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -1.60% +2.56%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £652 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 54 150
10th Percentile £19.55 £16.43 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £61.68 £62.25 £26.39
90th Percentile £85.70 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 - 29 £238 - 3
Manchester -28 25 £459 -4.38% 14
Cheshire +2 22 £425 +21.43%
Cumbria -3 16 £460 -12.38% 3
Lancashire -10 3 £190 -56.57% 3
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 (8.65%) CICS
2 2 (1.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.35%) Azure
2 12 (11.54%) AWS
3 10 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.85%) GCP
5 4 (3.85%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.96%) IBM Watson
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.96%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 47 (45.19%) DNS
2 34 (32.69%) TCP/IP
3 30 (28.85%) SSL
4 29 (27.88%) Wireshark
5 28 (26.92%) BIG-IP
5 28 (26.92%) HTTP
6 25 (24.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 25 (24.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (14.42%) Firewall
8 9 (8.65%) VSAN
9 8 (7.69%) DHCP
9 8 (7.69%) Network Security
10 6 (5.77%) DMZ
11 4 (3.85%) NetScaler
11 4 (3.85%) SAN
11 4 (3.85%) VPN
12 2 (1.92%) NAS
13 1 (0.96%) LAN
13 1 (0.96%) Multicast
13 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 28 (26.92%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 23 (22.12%) Banking
1 23 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Investment Banking
3 17 (16.35%) Finance
4 9 (8.65%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Advertising
7 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (27.88%) Network Engineer
2 28 (26.92%) Web Engineer
3 19 (18.27%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 19 (18.27%) IP Network Engineer
4 16 (15.38%) Wintel Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Designer
6 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Designer
6 9 (8.65%) Junior
6 9 (8.65%) Junior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Senior
8 6 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Architect
9 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) IT Analyst
11 3 (2.88%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.65%) Middleware
2 2 (1.92%) Flash
3 1 (0.96%) Django
3 1 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.19%) Management Information System
2 20 (19.23%) Replication
3 16 (15.38%) Clustering
4 11 (10.58%) Data Centre
5 9 (8.65%) BYOD
5 9 (8.65%) Mainframe
5 9 (8.65%) VSAM
6 5 (4.81%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.92%) PKI
10 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (42.31%) Windows
2 32 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 24 (23.08%) Linux
4 11 (10.58%) Unix
5 10 (9.62%) Solaris
6 9 (8.65%) AIX
6 9 (8.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.88%) VMS
10 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.96%) CentOS
12 1 (0.96%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 29 (27.88%) Data Loss Prevention
3 28 (26.92%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 22 (21.15%) Capacity Planning
5 21 (20.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (19.23%) High Availability
7 19 (18.27%) Project Delivery
8 18 (17.31%) Network Virtualisation
9 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (11.54%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.58%) Design Patterns
12 10 (9.62%) Change Management
12 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (8.65%) Business Case
13 9 (8.65%) Process Improvement
14 8 (7.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 7 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (6.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 16 (15.38%) Python
3 11 (10.58%) Bash
4 9 (8.65%) COBOL
5 2 (1.92%) Perl
6 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) VCAP
3 16 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (13.46%) MCSA
4 14 (13.46%) MCSE
4 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.85%) Degree
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CCDP
7 1 (0.96%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) CCNP
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CISM
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) OCP
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) SLA
2 5 (4.81%) GDPR
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 71 (68.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (35.58%) vSphere
3 33 (31.73%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (22.12%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (20.19%) VMware NSX
6 19 (18.27%) Firmware
7 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
8 8 (7.69%) Hyper-V
9 7 (6.73%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (3.85%) Docker
11 2 (1.92%) GPFS
11 2 (1.92%) NFS
Systems Management
1 35 (33.65%) Ansible
2 27 (25.96%) vCenter Server
3 10 (9.62%) SCCM
4 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.77%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.77%) PowerCLI
6 5 (4.81%) vRealize
7 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.85%) vMotion
8 3 (2.88%) WSUS
9 2 (1.92%) Terraform
9 2 (1.92%) VxRail
10 1 (0.96%) Argo
10 1 (0.96%) Grafana
10 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.96%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 38 (36.54%) F5
2 28 (26.92%) Blue Coat
2 28 (26.92%) McAfee
3 22 (21.15%) Microsoft
4 19 (18.27%) Cisco
4 19 (18.27%) NetApp
5 12 (11.54%) IBM
6 9 (8.65%) Citrix
7 5 (4.81%) Veeam
8 4 (3.85%) Computacenter
8 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.88%) Google
9 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.92%) Oracle
10 2 (1.92%) Qualys
10 2 (1.92%) Splunk
10 2 (1.92%) Tanium
11 1 (0.96%) NetScout
11 1 (0.96%) Pure Storage
11 1 (0.96%) Tenable