VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the North East

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 40 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.53% 1.31% 1.54%
As % of the System Software category 3.77% 10.26% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £514
25th Percentile - £275 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 £535
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -43.93% -
75th Percentile - £325 £545
90th Percentile - - £548
England median daily rate £525 £513 £520
% change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -0.95%

All System Software Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 53 39 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.06% 12.75% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 23 31
10th Percentile £190 £150 £131
25th Percentile £400 £294 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -30.43%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £425
90th Percentile £600 £625 £538
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.65
25th Percentile £21.25 - £15.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -60.45%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £39.38
90th Percentile - - £51.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North East

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Durham +6 1 - -
Northumberland - 1 £550 - 2
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Signage
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCDP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat