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 18 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
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 66 63
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing VMware 105 61 76
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.21% 3.10% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 7.82% 5.93% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 43
10th Percentile £278 £313 £211
25th Percentile £364 £350 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% +21.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £481 £538 £484
90th Percentile £543 £554 £533
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £37.63
25th Percentile - - £39.76
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £63.38
England median hourly rate £68.85 £54.57 £46.18
% change year-on-year +26.16% +18.17% -23.92%

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 1,343 1,028 1,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.06% 52.29% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 658 611
10th Percentile £253 £244 £268
25th Percentile £375 £388 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -0.69% +3.09%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £657 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 55 149
10th Percentile £19.44 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.92 £18.22 £12.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £61.68 £61.50 £26.39
90th Percentile £86.15 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -40.00%

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 18 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 18 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
Manchester -32 27 £459 +4.91% 21
Merseyside - 26 £238 - 4
Cheshire +1 22 £425 +25.93% 1
Cumbria -5 17 £465 -11.50% 1
Lancashire -8 4 £190 -56.57% 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 (8.57%) CICS
2 2 (1.90%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.19%) Azure
2 13 (12.38%) AWS
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.81%) GCP
5 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.90%) GitHub
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.95%) IBM Watson
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.95%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 44 (41.90%) DNS
2 33 (31.43%) TCP/IP
3 29 (27.62%) SSL
4 28 (26.67%) Wireshark
5 27 (25.71%) BIG-IP
5 27 (25.71%) HTTP
6 22 (20.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 22 (20.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (14.29%) Firewall
8 10 (9.52%) VSAN
9 8 (7.62%) DHCP
10 7 (6.67%) Network Security
11 6 (5.71%) SAN
12 4 (3.81%) DMZ
12 4 (3.81%) NetScaler
12 4 (3.81%) VPN
13 3 (2.86%) NAS
14 2 (1.90%) LAN
15 1 (0.95%) WAN
15 1 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 27 (25.71%) Fiddler
2 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Banking
3 18 (17.14%) Investment Banking
4 17 (16.19%) Finance
5 9 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Advertising
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 27 (25.71%) Web Engineer
3 18 (17.14%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 18 (17.14%) IP Network Engineer
4 17 (16.19%) Wintel Engineer
5 15 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Designer
6 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Designer
6 9 (8.57%) Junior
6 9 (8.57%) Junior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Senior
8 6 (5.71%) Analyst
8 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Architect
10 4 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) IT Analyst
11 3 (2.86%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.57%) Middleware
2 3 (2.86%) Flash
3 1 (0.95%) Django
3 1 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.90%) Replication
2 18 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 17 (16.19%) Clustering
4 12 (11.43%) Data Centre
5 9 (8.57%) BYOD
5 9 (8.57%) Mainframe
5 9 (8.57%) VSAM
6 5 (4.76%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) PKI
10 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (43.81%) Windows
2 34 (32.38%) Windows Server
3 26 (24.76%) Linux
4 12 (11.43%) Unix
5 10 (9.52%) AIX
5 10 (9.52%) Solaris
5 10 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.86%) VMS
9 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.95%) CentOS
11 1 (0.95%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.29%) Load Balancing
2 28 (26.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 27 (25.71%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 23 (21.90%) Capacity Planning
5 22 (20.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (20.00%) High Availability
7 20 (19.05%) Project Delivery
8 19 (18.10%) Network Virtualisation
9 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.38%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (11.43%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (9.52%) Change Management
12 10 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (8.57%) Business Case
13 9 (8.57%) Design Patterns
13 9 (8.57%) Process Improvement
14 8 (7.62%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (7.62%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 7 (6.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.38%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.19%) Python
3 12 (11.43%) Bash
4 9 (8.57%) COBOL
5 2 (1.90%) Perl
6 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) VCAP
3 17 (16.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 16 (15.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (14.29%) MCSA
5 15 (14.29%) MCSE
6 4 (3.81%) Degree
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CCDP
8 1 (0.95%) CCNA
8 1 (0.95%) CCNP
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CISM
8 1 (0.95%) CISSP
8 1 (0.95%) OCP
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) SLA
2 5 (4.76%) GDPR
3 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 70 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (37.14%) vSphere
3 35 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (22.86%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (20.00%) VMware NSX
6 19 (18.10%) Firmware
7 16 (15.24%) Active Directory
8 8 (7.62%) Hyper-V
9 7 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (3.81%) Docker
11 3 (2.86%) GPFS
11 3 (2.86%) NFS
Systems Management
1 36 (34.29%) Ansible
2 29 (27.62%) vCenter Server
3 10 (9.52%) SCCM
4 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.71%) PowerCLI
5 6 (5.71%) vRealize
6 4 (3.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.81%) vMotion
7 3 (2.86%) VxRail
7 3 (2.86%) WSUS
8 2 (1.90%) Terraform
9 1 (0.95%) Argo
9 1 (0.95%) Grafana
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.95%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.95%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (33.33%) F5
2 27 (25.71%) Blue Coat
2 27 (25.71%) McAfee
3 25 (23.81%) Microsoft
4 23 (21.90%) Cisco
5 18 (17.14%) NetApp
6 14 (13.33%) IBM
7 9 (8.57%) Citrix
8 6 (5.71%) Veeam
9 4 (3.81%) Computacenter
9 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.86%) Google
10 3 (2.86%) Oracle
11 2 (1.90%) Qualys
11 2 (1.90%) Splunk
11 2 (1.90%) Tanium
12 1 (0.95%) Pure Storage
12 1 (0.95%) SevOne
12 1 (0.95%) Tenable