VMware Contracts in Tyne and Wear

VMware
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 19 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 9 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.69% 5.35% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 7.56% 11.71% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £316 - £283
25th Percentile £322 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £438 £644 £538
90th Percentile £550 £650 £594
North East median daily rate £358 £525 £418
% change year-on-year -31.90% +25.75% +11.33%

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 119 111 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 48.77% 45.68% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 57 77
10th Percentile £213 £188 £194
25th Percentile £328 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £675
90th Percentile £625 £685 £775
North East median daily rate £438 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £15.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +230.26% - -
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £17.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +102.49% -64.29% +184.06%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Tyne and Wear

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for VMware in Tyne and Wear

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Tyne and Wear

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Tyne and Wear

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -13 8 £350 -34.88% 9
Sunderland +2 1 £325 +80.56% 1
VMware
North East

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (55.56%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Support
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Wintel Support
4 1 (11.11%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
1 5 (55.56%) Information Security
1 5 (55.56%) Information Security Management
1 5 (55.56%) ISMS
1 5 (55.56%) Security Management
1 5 (55.56%) Zero Trust
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Server Migrations
4 1 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
1 1 (11.11%) VxRail
1 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco
3 5 (55.56%) Fortinet
3 5 (55.56%) HP
3 5 (55.56%) Veeam
4 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (11.11%) Dell
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle