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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 68 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 +27
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 23 18 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.26% 1.93% 3.85%
As % of the System Software category 28.05% 17.14% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 19 11 24
10th Percentile - £31,250 £29,275
25th Percentile £28,500 £34,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £36,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -2.04% -10.37%
75th Percentile £33,250 £43,125 £44,688
90th Percentile £48,750 £46,311 £48,375
England median annual salary £43,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -21.82% +12.24% -2.64%

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 82 105 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 8.05% 11.28% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 108
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £29,525
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +28.83% -21.26%
75th Percentile £60,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,783 £72,222 £62,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +13 14 £29,000 -19.44% 4
Durham +12 9 £31,500 -25.88%
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 16 (69.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) TCP/IP
2 9 (39.13%) VLAN
2 9 (39.13%) Wireless
3 3 (13.04%) DHCP
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (86.96%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Support Engineer
1 9 (39.13%) Technical Engineer
1 9 (39.13%) Technical Support
1 9 (39.13%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) IT Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) IT Support
2 6 (26.09%) IT Support Analyst
2 6 (26.09%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Itk
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) ITIL
2 9 (39.13%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (39.13%) Customer Service
2 9 (39.13%) Customer-Centricity
3 6 (26.09%) Change Management
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
5 3 (13.04%) CAD
5 3 (13.04%) Coaching
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) ITSM
5 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) PLM
5 3 (13.04%) Server Management
5 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
5 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Tcl
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) HNC
1 3 (13.04%) HND
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (91.30%) Hyper-V
2 19 (82.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) FortiGate
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Control-M
2 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (39.13%) Cisco
3 9 (39.13%) SonicWALL
3 9 (39.13%) Veeam
3 9 (39.13%) WatchGuard
4 3 (13.04%) Dell
4 3 (13.04%) Dell Compellent
4 3 (13.04%) HP
4 3 (13.04%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (13.04%) Siemens
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) Google