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 8 February 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
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 65 40
Rank change year-on-year -15 -25 +30
Contract jobs citing VMware 59 19 77
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.96% 2.03% 4.11%
As % of the Vendors category 6.15% 4.48% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 62
10th Percentile £325 £225 £278
25th Percentile £358 £243 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £440
90th Percentile £590 £615 £537
England median daily rate £525 £525 £493
% change year-on-year - +6.60% -4.37%

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 959 424 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 48.07% 45.25% 48.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 251 571
10th Percentile £300 £220 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -0.66% -11.61%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £674 £638 £669
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 29
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.30 £11.82
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +88.03% -21.90%
75th Percentile £56.63 £41.50 £15.19
90th Percentile £57.70 £100.93 £22.96
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% +1.50% -6.25%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -30 36 £500 -9.71% 13
West Yorkshire -7 28 £393 +60.20% 12
North Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 10
East Yorkshire - 2 £381 - 2
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 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) OpenShift
2 15 (25.42%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) AWS
4 11 (18.64%) GCP
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
6 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.08%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) IaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (35.59%) DNS
2 15 (25.42%) Network Security
3 13 (22.03%) Firewall
4 12 (20.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 12 (20.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 11 (18.64%) DMZ
6 4 (6.78%) SAN
7 3 (5.08%) DHCP
8 2 (3.39%) BIG-IP
8 2 (3.39%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.39%) VLAN
8 2 (3.39%) VPN
8 2 (3.39%) VSAN
9 1 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.69%) SSL
9 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) GitLab
2 1 (1.69%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 21 (35.59%) Banking
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Investment Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Operations Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) NetBackup Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Senior
6 3 (5.08%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Data Centre Technician
7 2 (3.39%) Data Technician
7 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.39%) IT Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) NetApp Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Veritas Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Virtualisation Architect
7 2 (3.39%) VMware Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Management Information System
2 10 (16.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.86%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (3.39%) FlexPod
7 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.69%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.59%) Linux
2 12 (20.34%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.78%) VMS
6 2 (3.39%) CoreOS
6 2 (3.39%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Containerisation
2 18 (30.51%) Business Strategy
2 18 (30.51%) Load Balancing
2 18 (30.51%) Migration
3 16 (27.12%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (23.73%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.34%) Data Protection
5 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (18.64%) Design Patterns
6 11 (18.64%) DevOps
7 10 (16.95%) Business Continuity
7 10 (16.95%) High Availability
7 10 (16.95%) RBAC
8 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.25%) Task Automation
9 7 (11.86%) ITIL
10 6 (10.17%) Security Monitoring
11 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (8.47%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.47%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) Python
2 18 (30.51%) Bash
3 16 (27.12%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.39%) OCP
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.69%) CCA
2 1 (1.69%) CCIE
2 1 (1.69%) CCNA
2 1 (1.69%) CCNP
2 1 (1.69%) CISSP
2 1 (1.69%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (1.69%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) RHCE
2 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (79.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (25.42%) vSphere
3 11 (18.64%) Hyper-V
3 11 (18.64%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (16.95%) VMware NSX
5 8 (13.56%) Docker
6 7 (11.86%) KVM
7 5 (8.47%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
9 3 (5.08%) Firmware
10 2 (3.39%) NFS
11 1 (1.69%) XenApp
11 1 (1.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Ansible
2 16 (27.12%) Terraform
3 14 (23.73%) Kubernetes
4 10 (16.95%) vCenter Server
5 7 (11.86%) Argo
6 6 (10.17%) Grafana
6 6 (10.17%) NetBackup
6 6 (10.17%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (6.78%) vRealize
7 4 (6.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (5.08%) PowerCLI
9 2 (3.39%) SCCM
9 2 (3.39%) SnapMirror
10 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.69%) Podman
10 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) F5
2 13 (22.03%) Red Hat
3 8 (13.56%) Google
4 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.86%) Pure Storage
5 6 (10.17%) CyberArk
5 6 (10.17%) Oracle
5 6 (10.17%) Veritas
6 5 (8.47%) Cisco
7 4 (6.78%) Splunk
8 3 (5.08%) NetApp
9 2 (3.39%) Infoblox
9 2 (3.39%) NetScout
9 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.39%) SevOne
9 2 (3.39%) Veeam
10 1 (1.69%) Citrix
10 1 (1.69%) ForeScout
10 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.69%) HP