VMware Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

VMware
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 58 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 10 32
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.21% 1.23% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 6.98% 3.25% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 28
10th Percentile £364 £331 £334
25th Percentile £378 £384 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £380
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +25.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £498
90th Percentile - £538 £558
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £380
% change year-on-year -5.56% +18.42% -5.00%

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 387 308 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 46.07% 37.98% 48.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 180 418
10th Percentile £290 £347 £294
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -0.05% +0.05%
75th Percentile £574 £567 £600
90th Percentile £643 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 2
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.00 £21.35
25th Percentile £23.78 £15.62 £22.26
Median hourly rate £77.50 £27.50 £24.14
Median % change year-on-year +181.82% +13.92% +20.70%
75th Percentile £81.25 £40.00 £25.65
90th Percentile - - £26.33
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.29 £32.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% +47.73% +17.49%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

VMware job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in West Yorkshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +8 27 £413 -17.50% 15
VMware
Yorkshire

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) Network Security
2 10 (37.04%) DMZ
2 10 (37.04%) DNS
2 10 (37.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 10 (37.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 9 (33.33%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (59.26%) Banking
2 10 (37.04%) Investment Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
4 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) NetBackup Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Veritas Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Business Strategy
2 10 (37.04%) Design Patterns
2 10 (37.04%) Load Balancing
3 7 (25.93%) Business Continuity
3 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
3 7 (25.93%) Data Protection
3 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (25.93%) RBAC
3 7 (25.93%) Security Monitoring
3 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Security Hardening
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 2 (7.41%) Server Building
9 1 (3.70%) DevOps
9 1 (3.70%) Mentoring
9 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) CCNA
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (81.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (25.93%) Docker
3 3 (11.11%) vSphere
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) NetBackup
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (14.81%) vRealize
2 4 (14.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 2 (7.41%) SCCM
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) F5
2 7 (25.93%) CyberArk
2 7 (25.93%) Google
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle
2 7 (25.93%) Veritas
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) Aruba
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Meraki
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Veeam