VMware Contract Job Trends 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 4 August 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 28 21
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.31% 1.37% 4.09%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 4.35% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £208 - £152
25th Percentile £277 - £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +56.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £609 - £495
North East median daily rate £500 £495 £350
% change year-on-year +1.01% +41.43% +7.69%

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 201 69 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 30.69% 31.51% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 43 41
10th Percentile £321 £190 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £635 £675
North East median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 0
10th Percentile £56.67 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £19.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% - -
75th Percentile - £28.47 -
90th Percentile - £42.59 -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 £19.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +263.64% -58.32% +17.39%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

VMware job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Tyne and Wear

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing VMware

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 4 August 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -46 2 £406 -35.00% 6
VMware
North East

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow