VMware Contracts in Preston

VMware
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 6 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 5.80% 10.91% 34.18%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 16.67% 54.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £412
25th Percentile £350 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £461
Median % change year-on-year - - +77.40%
75th Percentile £538 - £498
90th Percentile - - £517
Lancashire median daily rate £438 - £403
% change year-on-year - - +54.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 21
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile - £37.63 £29.30
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.66% -
75th Percentile - - £48.00
90th Percentile - - £49.52
Lancashire median hourly rate - £46.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +8.66% -

All Vendors
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 43 36 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 62.32% 65.45% 63.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 16
10th Percentile £375 £433 £338
25th Percentile £475 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% +19.05% +81.62%
75th Percentile £630 £775 £532
90th Percentile £670 £978 £731
Lancashire median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.60% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 28
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile £26.88 - £29.30
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -62.06% +6.54%
75th Percentile £33.82 - £49.43
90th Percentile £48.16 £44.53 £52.39
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.02% -62.21% +6.98%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Preston

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in Preston.

Daily rate trend for VMware in Preston

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Preston over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Preston

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in Preston.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft