VMware Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

VMware
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 January 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
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 60 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 +21
Contract jobs citing VMware 57 19 68
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.90% 1.99% 3.73%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 4.43% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 56
10th Percentile £322 £225 £269
25th Percentile £331 £243 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £450 £373
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +20.81% -6.88%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £425
90th Percentile £583 £615 £518
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.96%

All Vendors
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 940 429 891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.79% 44.87% 48.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 254 562
10th Percentile £290 £221 £231
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £471
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -0.21% -8.10%
75th Percentile £573 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £669
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 23
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.03 £11.39
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.04 £12.58
Median hourly rate £29.68 £27.66 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +89.09% -26.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £55.29 £15.22
90th Percentile £68.75 £101.46 £25.82
England median hourly rate £23.25 £30.00 £30.88
% change year-on-year -22.50% -2.83% -4.26%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Yorkshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
South Yorkshire -20 34 £463 -20.52% 8
West Yorkshire -4 29 £393 +60.20% 14
North Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 6
East Yorkshire - 2 £381 - 4
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (3.51%) CICS
1 2 (3.51%) Confluence
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.51%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) OpenShift
3 12 (21.05%) AWS
4 11 (19.30%) GCP
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub
5 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.26%) PaaS
7 2 (3.51%) IaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (35.09%) DNS
2 16 (28.07%) Firewall
2 16 (28.07%) Network Security
3 13 (22.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 13 (22.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 12 (21.05%) DMZ
5 3 (5.26%) DHCP
5 3 (5.26%) SAN
5 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.51%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (3.51%) LAN
6 2 (3.51%) VLAN
6 2 (3.51%) VPN
6 2 (3.51%) VSAN
6 2 (3.51%) WAN
7 1 (1.75%) BGP
7 1 (1.75%) Internet
7 1 (1.75%) OSPF
7 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.75%) Postman
3 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (36.84%) Banking
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.75%) Local Government
5 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) Architect
2 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) NetBackup Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior
4 3 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Administrator
5 2 (3.51%) Analyst
5 2 (3.51%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (3.51%) Data Technician
5 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (3.51%) IT Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.51%) Veritas Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Virtualisation Architect
5 2 (3.51%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) LDAP
1 3 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (3.51%) Middleware
3 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.02%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.51%) Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.51%) Replication
6 1 (1.75%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.75%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.84%) Linux
2 15 (26.32%) Windows
3 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.51%) Solaris
5 2 (3.51%) zOS
6 1 (1.75%) MVS
6 1 (1.75%) VMS
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 17 (29.82%) Load Balancing
3 16 (28.07%) Containerisation
4 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
4 13 (22.81%) Migration
5 12 (21.05%) Design Patterns
5 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (19.30%) Data Protection
7 10 (17.54%) Business Continuity
7 10 (17.54%) DevOps
8 9 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.28%) High Availability
10 7 (12.28%) ITIL
10 7 (12.28%) RBAC
10 7 (12.28%) Task Automation
11 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (10.53%) Security Monitoring
12 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
12 5 (8.77%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.33%) Python
2 17 (29.82%) Bash
3 15 (26.32%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.51%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.75%) CCA
2 1 (1.75%) CCIE
2 1 (1.75%) CCNA
2 1 (1.75%) CCNP
2 1 (1.75%) CISSP
2 1 (1.75%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (1.75%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) RHCE
2 1 (1.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (78.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (19.30%) Hyper-V
3 8 (14.04%) Docker
3 8 (14.04%) vSphere
4 7 (12.28%) KVM
4 7 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (12.28%) VMware NSX
5 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.26%) Firmware
6 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.75%) NFS
7 1 (1.75%) SRDF
7 1 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.75%) Xen
7 1 (1.75%) XenApp
7 1 (1.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Ansible
2 14 (24.56%) Terraform
3 11 (19.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.53%) NetBackup
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (8.77%) vCenter Server
6 4 (7.02%) Argo
6 4 (7.02%) Grafana
6 4 (7.02%) vRealize
6 4 (7.02%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 3 (5.26%) SCCM
8 2 (3.51%) Puppet
9 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.75%) Podman
9 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) F5
2 9 (15.79%) Red Hat
3 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.04%) Oracle
4 7 (12.28%) Cisco
4 7 (12.28%) Google
5 6 (10.53%) CyberArk
5 6 (10.53%) Veritas
6 5 (8.77%) Pure Storage
7 3 (5.26%) NetApp
8 2 (3.51%) EMC
8 2 (3.51%) Infoblox
8 2 (3.51%) NetScout
8 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.51%) SevOne
8 2 (3.51%) Splunk
8 2 (3.51%) Veeam
9 1 (1.75%) ForeScout
9 1 (1.75%) Meraki
9 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft