VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Cheshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 6 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.17% 2.47% 3.65%
As % of the System Software category 8.57% 18.87% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 14
10th Percentile - £315 £345
25th Percentile £463 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £539 £578 £438
90th Percentile £564 £584 £464
North West median daily rate £425 £413 £428
% change year-on-year +3.03% -3.62% +0.71%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 70 53 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.65% 13.09% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 37 80
10th Percentile £380 £171 £167
25th Percentile £461 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £576 £565 £506
90th Percentile £638 £585 £630
North West median daily rate £500 £440 £440
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile - - £12.48
25th Percentile £21.05 - £12.61
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.85%
75th Percentile - - £21.78
90th Percentile £56.17 - £29.97
North West median hourly rate £22.09 £18.50 £20.07
% change year-on-year +19.41% -7.80% +24.51%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Cheshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Cheshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Cheshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Warrington +14 3 £475 - 3
Chester -5 1 - -
Crewe -5 1 - -
Knutsford - 1 £580 - 1
VMware Infrastructure
North West

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Skype
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (16.67%) OSPF
4 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Build Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Server Build Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Server Building
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (33.33%) Firmware
4 1 (16.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) WSUS
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) BMC
3 2 (33.33%) Remedy
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper