VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the North East

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 51 67
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 -27
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 30 27 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.85% 2.75% 1.89%
As % of the System Software category 13.76% 26.47% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £29,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.55% -18.31% -25.26%
75th Percentile £46,500 £44,875 £45,030
90th Percentile £48,750 £63,375 £46,311
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.37% +2.70%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 218 102 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.18% 10.39% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 183 53 67
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £31,500 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +74.60% -28.85% -6.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £48,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £59,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North East

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North East

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the North East region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -60 26 £42,500 +46.55% 7
Durham -17 4 £40,000 +26.98% 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (56.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) Wireless
2 12 (40.00%) DHCP
2 12 (40.00%) DNS
3 10 (33.33%) Firewall
4 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.67%) SAN
5 2 (6.67%) VPN
6 1 (3.33%) LAN
6 1 (3.33%) NAS
6 1 (3.33%) WAN
6 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Local Government
3 4 (13.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 11 (36.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
1 11 (36.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 11 (36.67%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 11 (36.67%) IT Support
1 11 (36.67%) IT Support Technician
1 11 (36.67%) IT Technician
1 11 (36.67%) Support Technician
2 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Server Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (16.67%) IoT
1 5 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (13.33%) PKI
2 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Windows
1 18 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Debian
3 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (36.67%) Proactive Maintenance
3 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (30.00%) ITIL
3 9 (30.00%) Migration
4 7 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 5 (16.67%) IT Strategy
7 4 (13.33%) Server Monitoring
8 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 2 (6.67%) Converged Infrastructure
10 1 (3.33%) Identity Access Management
10 1 (3.33%) Network Architecture
10 1 (3.33%) Technical Leadership
10 1 (3.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.33%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (96.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (23.33%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (93.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (23.33%) Veeam
4 5 (16.67%) Aruba
5 3 (10.00%) Okta
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.33%) Meraki