VMware Job Trends in the North of England

VMware
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 March 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
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 78 58
Rank change year-on-year -55 -20 +33
Permanent jobs citing VMware 181 236 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.26% 3.48% 3.79%
As % of the Vendors category 4.86% 9.67% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 147 173 496
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,850 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,875 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,442 £45,000 £42,328
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% +6.31% -5.94%
75th Percentile £59,375 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £69,695 £67,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -5.00%

All Vendors
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,722 2,440 5,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.89% 35.98% 36.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,078 1,514 4,267
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,125 £36,250 £32,218
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,894 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

VMware
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the North of England

VMware
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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 -41 85 £34,000 -20.00% 22
North West -59 62 £42,000 -6.67% 41
North East -13 34 £35,000 -2.78% 6
VMware
England

VMware
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 53 (29.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.21%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 44 (24.31%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.66%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.55%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (60.77%) Microsoft 365
2 105 (58.01%) Azure
3 25 (13.81%) AWS
4 15 (8.29%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.29%) Google Workspace
5 8 (4.42%) Nutanix
6 6 (3.31%) GitHub
7 5 (2.76%) SaaS
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.21%) GCP
9 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.55%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.55%) PaaS
10 1 (0.55%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (33.15%) Firewall
2 55 (30.39%) DHCP
2 55 (30.39%) DNS
3 47 (25.97%) TCP/IP
4 29 (16.02%) WAN
5 28 (15.47%) VPN
6 23 (12.71%) VLAN
7 21 (11.60%) SAN
8 19 (10.50%) LAN
9 15 (8.29%) SD-WAN
9 15 (8.29%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (6.63%) Network Security
11 8 (4.42%) VoIP
12 7 (3.87%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (3.31%) Wireless
14 5 (2.76%) BGP
15 4 (2.21%) Asterisk PBX
15 4 (2.21%) MPLS
15 4 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
15 4 (2.21%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.87%) MySQL
3 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.21%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.10%) JIRA
3 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.39%) Manufacturing
2 17 (9.39%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (8.84%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (7.18%) Finance
5 9 (4.97%) Law
6 7 (3.87%) Advertising
7 6 (3.31%) Retail
8 5 (2.76%) Legal
9 3 (1.66%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 76 (41.99%) IT Support
2 41 (22.65%) Support Engineer
3 38 (20.99%) IT Engineer
4 31 (17.13%) IT Support Engineer
5 26 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (14.36%) Senior
6 21 (11.60%) Support Technician
7 20 (11.05%) VMware Engineer
8 18 (9.94%) IT Technician
9 17 (9.39%) IT Support Technician
10 14 (7.73%) Infrastructure Support
11 13 (7.18%) Technical Engineer
11 13 (7.18%) Technical Support
11 13 (7.18%) Technical Support Engineer
11 13 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (6.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) 1st Line Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) 1st Line Support Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) Senior Support Technician
13 10 (5.52%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.66%) Itk
3 2 (1.10%) .NET
3 2 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.10%) WCF
4 1 (0.55%) J2EE
4 1 (0.55%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.15%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.29%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.52%) Replication
4 10 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.87%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.76%) PKI
7 4 (2.21%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.21%) NHS
8 3 (1.66%) CCTV
8 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.10%) Life Science
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.55%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 121 (66.85%) Windows
2 95 (52.49%) Windows Server
3 34 (18.78%) Linux
4 29 (16.02%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.52%) Android
5 10 (5.52%) Windows 7
5 10 (5.52%) Windows 8
6 8 (4.42%) Mac OS
7 6 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.66%) VMS
9 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.55%) CentOS
10 1 (0.55%) Solaris
10 1 (0.55%) Unix
10 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (25.97%) ITIL
3 32 (17.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 30 (16.57%) Customer Service
5 24 (13.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (12.15%) Mentoring
7 20 (11.05%) Incident Management
8 19 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (10.50%) Service Delivery
9 16 (8.84%) DevOps
9 16 (8.84%) Knowledge Transfer
10 14 (7.73%) Proactive Maintenance
10 14 (7.73%) Project Delivery
10 14 (7.73%) Server Management
11 13 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.18%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 12 (6.63%) Coaching
13 11 (6.08%) Change Management
13 11 (6.08%) CI/CD
14 10 (5.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.78%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.84%) SQL
3 11 (6.08%) Python
4 7 (3.87%) PL/SQL
4 7 (3.87%) VBScript
5 6 (3.31%) Bicep
6 3 (1.66%) Java
6 3 (1.66%) Tcl
7 2 (1.10%) Bash
7 2 (1.10%) C#
7 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.63%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.08%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (4.97%) Degree
6 7 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.76%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.21%) CCNA
9 4 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.66%) HNC
10 3 (1.66%) HND
11 2 (1.10%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.55%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) SLA
2 6 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 113 (62.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 103 (56.91%) Active Directory
3 84 (46.41%) Hyper-V
4 16 (8.84%) vSphere
5 11 (6.08%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (4.97%) Docker
6 9 (4.97%) VMware NSX
7 6 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.76%) Firmware
9 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.10%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.55%) KVM
12 1 (0.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (8.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.73%) FortiGate
3 13 (7.18%) Ansible
4 12 (6.63%) SCCM
5 10 (5.52%) Autotask
5 10 (5.52%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.52%) Terraform
6 6 (3.31%) WSUS
7 4 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.66%) Grafana
8 3 (1.66%) VxRail
9 2 (1.10%) Control-M
9 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.10%) Plesk
9 2 (1.10%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.55%) Nagios
10 1 (0.55%) Podman
10 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (64.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (19.89%) Veeam
3 22 (12.15%) Citrix
4 17 (9.39%) Cisco
5 16 (8.84%) Google
6 12 (6.63%) Dell
7 10 (5.52%) ESET
7 10 (5.52%) HP
7 10 (5.52%) SonicWALL
8 9 (4.97%) WatchGuard
9 7 (3.87%) Dell Compellent
9 7 (3.87%) Nimble Storage
10 5 (2.76%) Adobe
10 5 (2.76%) Meraki
11 4 (2.21%) Commvault
11 4 (2.21%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.21%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.21%) Splunk
12 3 (1.66%) F5
12 3 (1.66%) Siemens