VMware Contracts 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 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 57 41
Rank change year-on-year -25 -16 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VMware 50 68 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.25% 2.78% 4.37%
As % of the Vendors category 4.54% 7.19% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 85
10th Percentile £313 £213 £300
25th Percentile £375 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £408 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.12% +1.19%
75th Percentile £575 £527 £488
90th Percentile £642 £563 £588
England median daily rate £550 £515 £505
% change year-on-year +6.80% +1.98% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile £65.75 £70.20 £29.30
Median hourly rate £66.50 £75.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +77.40% +4.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £80.59 £48.68
90th Percentile - - £49.52
England median hourly rate £31.39 £58.75 £58.37
% change year-on-year -46.58% +0.65% +37.34%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,101 946 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 49.55% 38.71% 45.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 538 823
10th Percentile £303 £300 £225
25th Percentile £386 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £671
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 78 94
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £10.96 £17.55
Median hourly rate £24.88 £17.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.74% -49.84% +63.63%
75th Percentile £50.63 £43.10 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.53 £57.05 £55.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.39 £40.00
% change year-on-year -14.41% -26.54% +77.78%

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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -1 27 £506 +19.12% 32
Cheshire -29 12 £325 -36.43% 11
Merseyside -1 6 £365 +62.22% 4
Lancashire -2 5 £263 -50.00% 28
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 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.00%) IIS
2 3 (6.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.00%) IaaS
4 6 (12.00%) SaaS
5 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.00%) GCP
7 3 (6.00%) PaaS
8 2 (4.00%) AWS
8 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (40.00%) DNS
2 19 (38.00%) Network Security
3 16 (32.00%) DMZ
4 12 (24.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 12 (24.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 12 (24.00%) SAN
5 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (12.00%) VLAN
6 5 (10.00%) Firewall
7 4 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (8.00%) iSCSI
7 4 (8.00%) LAN
8 3 (6.00%) DHCP
8 3 (6.00%) VSAN
8 3 (6.00%) WLAN
9 1 (2.00%) VoIP
9 1 (2.00%) WAN
9 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) 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 9 (18.00%) Banking
2 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.00%) Finance
7 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.00%) Legal
9 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Consultant
2 6 (12.00%) Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) VMware Consultant
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%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) VMWare Administrator
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 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.00%) Private Cloud
2 7 (14.00%) Replication
3 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Clustering
4 3 (6.00%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.00%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.00%) Windows
1 16 (32.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (8.00%) Unix
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 9 (18.00%) Project Delivery
5 8 (16.00%) Change Management
6 7 (14.00%) Business Continuity
6 7 (14.00%) High Availability
6 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.00%) Analytics
7 5 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 5 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.00%) ITIL
7 5 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (10.00%) Security Hardening
8 4 (8.00%) BCP
8 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (8.00%) Data Management
8 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (8.00%) Information Security
8 4 (8.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (62.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (14.00%) vSphere
4 6 (12.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (8.00%) UAG
7 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) vCenter Server
2 5 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (8.00%) Terraform
4 3 (6.00%) Backup Exec
4 3 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.00%) WSUS
5 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (4.00%) NetApp OnCommand
5 2 (4.00%) PowerCLI
5 2 (4.00%) vMotion
6 1 (2.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.00%) F5
3 14 (28.00%) Veeam
4 8 (16.00%) Cisco
5 7 (14.00%) NetApp
6 6 (12.00%) Citrix
6 6 (12.00%) Dell
7 4 (8.00%) IBM
7 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
8 3 (6.00%) HP
8 3 (6.00%) Oracle
8 3 (6.00%) Symantec
9 2 (4.00%) Computacenter
10 1 (2.00%) EMC
10 1 (2.00%) Red Hat