VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in Northern Ireland

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 17 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 2.58% - 1.72%
As % of the System Software category 47.22% - 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.41%
75th Percentile - - £53,500
90th Percentile - - £58,900
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -8.65%

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 36 39 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.46% 11.05% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 32
10th Percentile £31,750 £48,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £51,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +23.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £68,322 £108,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
County Antrim - 13 - -
County Londonderry - 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) Nutanix
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) Remote Desktop
2 10 (58.82%) DHCP
2 10 (58.82%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
General
1 17 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) French Language
2 6 (35.29%) Swedish Language
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
3 6 (35.29%) Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Service Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (58.82%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
1 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 17 (100.00%) ITIL
2 16 (94.12%) ITSM
2 16 (94.12%) Mentoring
3 11 (64.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (64.71%) High Availability
4 10 (58.82%) Business Strategy
4 10 (58.82%) Change Management
4 10 (58.82%) Coaching
4 10 (58.82%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (58.82%) Server Management
4 10 (58.82%) Storage Management
4 10 (58.82%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) A+ Certification
1 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
1 6 (35.29%) MCSE
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
1 10 (58.82%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Graylog
1 1 (5.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Dell
2 10 (58.82%) Dell Compellent
2 10 (58.82%) HP
2 10 (58.82%) Nimble Storage
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (35.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Commvault
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Zerto