VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 156 118
Rank change year-on-year -11 -38 +7
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 103 127 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.93% 1.41% 2.38%
As % of the System Software category 14.99% 14.68% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 73 84 196
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £34,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -0.36% -10.79%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £56,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.24% -2.00%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 687 865 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.20% 9.58% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 514 528 1,161
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,675 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,592 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% +3.46% -3.16%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,156 £62,833
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £49,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.78% +9.52% -4.55%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the North of England

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Yorkshire +5 52 £44,500 +18.67% 21
North West -22 29 £29,000 -27.50% 17
North East +13 22 £31,500 -12.50% 6
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 40 (38.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (16.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.91%) Siemens NX
4 2 (1.94%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (68.93%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (62.14%) Azure
3 17 (16.50%) Entra ID
4 16 (15.53%) AWS
5 14 (13.59%) SaaS
6 10 (9.71%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.91%) GCP
7 3 (2.91%) IaaS
7 3 (2.91%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.91%) PaaS
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.97%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (43.69%) Firewall
2 26 (25.24%) TCP/IP
2 26 (25.24%) VLAN
3 23 (22.33%) VPN
4 21 (20.39%) DHCP
4 21 (20.39%) DNS
5 20 (19.42%) WAN
6 15 (14.56%) LAN
7 12 (11.65%) SAN
8 10 (9.71%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (7.77%) Wireless
10 7 (6.80%) Network Security
11 5 (4.85%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.97%) Asterisk PBX
13 1 (0.97%) BGP
13 1 (0.97%) MPLS
13 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.97%) VoIP
13 1 (0.97%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.91%) MySQL
3 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.97%) GitLab
1 1 (0.97%) JIRA
1 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Manufacturing
3 14 (13.59%) Advertising
4 6 (5.83%) Retail
5 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Legal
6 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.94%) Finance
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.97%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 41 (39.81%) IT Support
2 28 (27.18%) Support Engineer
3 25 (24.27%) Support Technician
4 24 (23.30%) IT Engineer
5 18 (17.48%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (17.48%) Technical Support
6 16 (15.53%) Technical Engineer
6 16 (15.53%) Technical Support Engineer
7 15 (14.56%) IT Technician
7 15 (14.56%) Senior
8 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (13.59%) IT Support Technician
9 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Support Technician
9 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Technician
9 11 (10.68%) VMware Engineer
10 10 (9.71%) Senior IT Support
10 10 (9.71%) Senior IT Technician
10 10 (9.71%) Senior Support Technician
10 10 (9.71%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.91%) Itk
2 1 (0.97%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (0.97%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) Driving Licence
2 14 (13.59%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (12.62%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.77%) Replication
5 6 (5.83%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.88%) NHS
7 3 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.94%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.97%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.97%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.97%) PKI
9 1 (0.97%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 65 (63.11%) Windows
2 48 (46.60%) Windows Server
3 16 (15.53%) Windows 10
4 10 (9.71%) Linux
5 8 (7.77%) Mac OS
6 7 (6.80%) Android
7 4 (3.88%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.88%) Windows 8
8 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.97%) CentOS
9 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.98%) ITIL
2 30 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (23.30%) Customer Service
4 21 (20.39%) Project Delivery
5 14 (13.59%) Migration
6 12 (11.65%) Knowledge Transfer
6 12 (11.65%) Service Delivery
7 11 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.74%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (7.77%) Customer-Centricity
10 8 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (6.80%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (6.80%) ERP
11 7 (6.80%) Mentoring
11 7 (6.80%) Service Management
12 6 (5.83%) Change Management
12 6 (5.83%) DevOps
12 6 (5.83%) Server Management
13 5 (4.85%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.33%) SQL
2 16 (15.53%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.80%) PL/SQL
3 7 (6.80%) Python
3 7 (6.80%) VBScript
4 3 (2.91%) Tcl
5 2 (1.94%) Bash
6 1 (0.97%) C#
6 1 (0.97%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (10.68%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (8.74%) Degree
4 6 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (4.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.91%) HNC
7 3 (2.91%) HND
7 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.94%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.94%) CCNA
8 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.97%) CCA
9 1 (0.97%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.97%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.91%) GDPR
2 3 (2.91%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 70 (67.96%) Active Directory
2 65 (63.11%) Hyper-V
3 9 (8.74%) vSphere
4 5 (4.85%) Docker
5 4 (3.88%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.94%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (12.62%) FortiGate
3 8 (7.77%) Terraform
4 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
5 6 (5.83%) Ansible
6 5 (4.85%) SCCM
7 4 (3.88%) Autotask
8 2 (1.94%) Grafana
9 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.97%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.97%) Control-M
9 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.97%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.97%) Kibana
9 1 (0.97%) Nagios
9 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 103 (100.00%) VMware
2 78 (75.73%) Microsoft
3 30 (29.13%) Veeam
4 11 (10.68%) Google
5 10 (9.71%) Cisco
5 10 (9.71%) SonicWALL
5 10 (9.71%) WatchGuard
6 6 (5.83%) Adobe
6 6 (5.83%) Dell
7 4 (3.88%) ESET
7 4 (3.88%) HP
7 4 (3.88%) Sage
8 3 (2.91%) Dell Compellent
8 3 (2.91%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (2.91%) Siemens
9 2 (1.94%) Citrix
9 2 (1.94%) Datto
9 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.97%) Spotify