VMware Job Trends in the North East

VMware
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 64 34
Rank change year-on-year +21 -30 +30
Permanent jobs citing VMware 36 25 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.50% 2.69% 5.22%
As % of the Vendors category 9.81% 7.69% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25 16 30
10th Percentile - £32,125 £30,325
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,063 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £38,750 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +7.64% -13.25%
75th Percentile £48,750 £49,688 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £52,500 £47,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 367 325 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 35.63% 34.95% 44.04%
Number of salaries quoted 219 144 282
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,712 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -5.56% +0.75%
75th Percentile £51,625 £62,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,850 £68,625
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the North East

VMware
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the North East

VMware
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 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 +22 26 £38,250 +6.25% 5
Durham +8 10 £31,500 -35.38%
VMware
England

VMware
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 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) Firewall
2 10 (27.78%) Wireless
3 9 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 9 (25.00%) VLAN
4 3 (8.33%) DHCP
4 3 (8.33%) DNS
4 3 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (5.56%) SAN
6 1 (2.78%) BGP
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.78%) IPsec
6 1 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (2.78%) Network Security
6 1 (2.78%) OSPF
6 1 (2.78%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (2.78%) VPN
6 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
1 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
1 2 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
1 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Support Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Senior
2 9 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 9 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) IT Support
3 7 (19.44%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) IT Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Support Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Services Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Itk
2 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.78%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.78%) Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) ITIL
2 9 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 6 (16.67%) Change Management
4 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Business Continuity
5 3 (8.33%) CAD
5 3 (8.33%) Coaching
5 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (8.33%) High Availability
5 3 (8.33%) ITSM
5 3 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.33%) PLM
5 3 (8.33%) Server Management
5 3 (8.33%) Storage Management
5 3 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) Tcl
4 2 (5.56%) C#
4 2 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) HNC
2 3 (8.33%) HND
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (63.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (58.33%) Hyper-V
3 19 (52.78%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.56%) Docker
4 2 (5.56%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Control-M
2 2 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.78%) SCCM
3 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Cisco
3 9 (25.00%) SonicWALL
3 9 (25.00%) Veeam
3 9 (25.00%) WatchGuard
4 3 (8.33%) Dell
4 3 (8.33%) Dell Compellent
4 3 (8.33%) HP
4 3 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (8.33%) Siemens
5 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.78%) Aruba
6 1 (2.78%) Citrix
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto