vRealize Contract Job Trends in the North West

VMware vRealize Suite
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring vRealize skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vRealize 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £534 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £562 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £443 £550 £619
% change year-on-year -19.55% -11.11% +9.27%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

vRealize falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 444 310 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.02% 16.08% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 208 218
10th Percentile £313 £259 £239
25th Percentile £400 £385 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £553 £598
90th Percentile £650 £643 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 15
10th Percentile £39.53 £47.43 £16.64
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.31 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +287.98% -47.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.44 £59.38
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.93 £93.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.34% +5.76% -55.19%

vRealize
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vRealize relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

vRealize job vacancy trend in the North West

vRealize
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vRealize.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vRealize

vRealize
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 vRealize within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 April 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 - 4 £551 - 1
vRealize
England

vRealize
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VSAN
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Flash
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (50.00%) VMS
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) VCAP
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (25.00%) GPFS
4 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (50.00%) vMotion
3 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) OpenText
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat