VMware Contracts in the North East

VMware
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware 8 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.59% 2.86% 3.90%
As % of the Vendors category 6.50% 8.79% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile - £153 £263
25th Percentile £325 £174 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £388 £400 £538
90th Percentile £530 £471 -
England median daily rate £550 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% +7.69%

All Vendors
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 123 91 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 39.81% 32.50% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 47 93
10th Percentile £193 £173 £231
25th Percentile £325 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £650
90th Percentile £615 £615 £755
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £15.81 £11.44 £31.48
25th Percentile £17.88 £13.99 £31.81
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -55.52% +131.41%
75th Percentile £44.16 £29.77 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.80 £52.78 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -3.27% -19.50% +43.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North East.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North East over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the North East

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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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Tyne and Wear -5 5 £350 -12.50% 10
Durham +2 2 £365 +21.67% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AIX Support
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Support
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Support
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Signage
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) ISMS
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (12.50%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) VxRail
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) Veeam
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle