VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in West Yorkshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 84 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +21
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 26 19 62
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.23% 1.49% 2.45%
As % of the System Software category 13.33% 11.88% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 23 13 58
10th Percentile £29,450 - £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,875 £53,750 £57,188
90th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £63,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £41,500 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.67% -21.05% +5.56%

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 195 160 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.19% 12.53% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 126 118 281
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,063 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% +9.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £61,949
90th Percentile £81,875 £118,095 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £49,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +16.47% -7.61%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in West Yorkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Leeds -17 21 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Wakefield - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £32,500 -
VMware Infrastructure
Yorkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.69%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 16 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
4 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Firewall
1 10 (38.46%) VPN
2 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
3 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 8 (30.77%) DNS
3 8 (30.77%) WAN
4 7 (26.92%) LAN
5 5 (19.23%) VLAN
6 4 (15.38%) Network Security
7 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (7.69%) NAS
8 2 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Legal
2 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Advertising
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) IT Support
2 9 (34.62%) VMware Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) IT Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) IT Support Technician
3 7 (26.92%) IT Technician
3 7 (26.92%) Support Technician
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Data Centre
2 7 (26.92%) Driving Licence
3 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (11.54%) Replication
5 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Windows
1 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 3 (11.54%) Android
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (26.92%) ITIL
3 7 (26.92%) Project Delivery
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Data Security
5 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 4 (15.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.69%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (7.69%) IT Asset Management
7 2 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (7.69%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Hyper-V
2 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (15.38%) vSphere
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) VxRail
2 2 (7.69%) WSUS
3 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (42.31%) Veeam
4 6 (23.08%) Adobe
5 5 (19.23%) Google
6 4 (15.38%) Cisco
6 4 (15.38%) Dell
7 2 (7.69%) Commvault
7 2 (7.69%) Datto
7 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
7 2 (7.69%) HP
7 2 (7.69%) Meraki
7 2 (7.69%) SonicWALL
7 2 (7.69%) Tenable
7 2 (7.69%) WatchGuard
7 2 (7.69%) Zerto
8 1 (3.85%) LogRhythm
8 1 (3.85%) New Relic