VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 141 219
Rank change year-on-year +7 +78 -96
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2,118 2,485 3,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.10% 2.52% 1.89%
As % of the System Software category 17.66% 16.20% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 1,631 2,177
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,837 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £57,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,994 15,343 30,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.58% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,423 10,001 15,538
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
England +15 1,933 £45,000 -14.29% 484
UK excluding London +5 1,680 £42,500 -5.56% 406
Work from Home +17 729 £50,000 -9.09% 161
London -16 397 £61,500 -1.60% 113
South East +18 395 £42,500 -10.53% 139
South West +7 328 £49,000 +19.51% 56
North of England -13 322 £40,000 -11.11% 84
Midlands +20 305 £43,227 -9.00% 66
West Midlands +53 190 £45,000 - 40
East of England +2 180 £37,500 -25.00% 55
North West -23 153 £42,500 -10.53% 51
Yorkshire -5 116 £42,500 +6.25% 27
East Midlands -6 115 £42,500 -19.05% 25
Scotland -41 99 £50,000 +17.65% 13
North East +13 53 £32,500 -36.59% 8
Wales -13 33 £36,476 -18.94% 4
Northern Ireland +3 10 £40,000 +14.29%
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 491 (23.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 304 (14.35%) SharePoint
3 101 (4.77%) IIS
4 60 (2.83%) Apache
5 18 (0.85%) SharePoint 2010
5 18 (0.85%) SharePoint 2013
6 13 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.57%) Confluence
8 10 (0.47%) SAS
9 9 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.42%) nginx
10 8 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.19%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.094%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.094%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.047%) Site Server
Applications
1 201 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.094%) Eikon
4 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.047%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,079 (50.94%) Azure
2 972 (45.89%) Microsoft 365
3 362 (17.09%) AWS
4 254 (11.99%) Entra ID
5 131 (6.19%) GCP
6 106 (5.00%) SaaS
7 92 (4.34%) OneDrive
8 88 (4.15%) IaaS
9 65 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 62 (2.93%) Nutanix
11 56 (2.64%) PaaS
12 50 (2.36%) OpenShift
13 41 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (1.61%) Google Workspace
15 30 (1.42%) Power Platform
16 26 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (0.99%) Power Automate
18 20 (0.94%) OCI
19 18 (0.85%) Rubrik
20 17 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 765 (36.12%) Firewall
2 479 (22.62%) DNS
3 406 (19.17%) DHCP
4 389 (18.37%) WAN
5 327 (15.44%) SAN
6 325 (15.34%) LAN
7 303 (14.31%) VPN
8 236 (11.14%) TCP/IP
9 162 (7.65%) VLAN
10 146 (6.89%) Internet
11 132 (6.23%) Wi-Fi
12 129 (6.09%) Wireless
13 105 (4.96%) NAS
14 92 (4.34%) VoIP
15 83 (3.92%) SD-WAN
16 80 (3.78%) Remote Desktop
17 70 (3.31%) SNMP
18 66 (3.12%) VSAN
19 65 (3.07%) WLAN
20 62 (2.93%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (10.15%) SQL Server
2 65 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (2.64%) MongoDB
4 49 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (1.37%) MySQL
6 16 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.71%) Power BI
8 8 (0.38%) Big Data
8 8 (0.38%) DB2
8 8 (0.38%) MariaDB
8 8 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.28%) Redis
11 5 (0.24%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.19%) Metabase
13 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.14%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 27 (1.27%) JIRA
3 26 (1.23%) GitLab
4 16 (0.76%) Git
5 15 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 10 (0.47%) MSI
7 8 (0.38%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.24%) AdminStudio
9 5 (0.24%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.19%) Postman
10 4 (0.19%) Selenium
10 4 (0.19%) Subversion
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.14%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 591 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 336 (15.86%) Finance
3 182 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.49%) Aerospace
4 74 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
5 66 (3.12%) Public Sector
6 62 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (2.69%) Legal
8 55 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 51 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 47 (2.22%) Retail
12 46 (2.17%) Law
13 41 (1.94%) Banking
14 25 (1.18%) Games
15 21 (0.99%) Marketing
16 17 (0.80%) Electronics
17 14 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 540 (25.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 334 (15.77%) Senior
3 322 (15.20%) Support Engineer
4 256 (12.09%) IT Engineer
5 241 (11.38%) IT Support
6 142 (6.70%) IT Support Engineer
7 138 (6.52%) 3rd Line Support
8 137 (6.47%) 2nd Line Support
9 135 (6.37%) Analyst
10 132 (6.23%) Systems Engineer
11 128 (6.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 118 (5.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 110 (5.19%) Consultant
14 88 (4.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 83 (3.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 83 (3.92%) Administrator
15 83 (3.92%) Lead
16 80 (3.78%) Architect
16 80 (3.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 70 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.02%) YAML
2 59 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
3 30 (1.42%) .NET
4 25 (1.18%) ARM Templates
5 21 (0.99%) REST
6 19 (0.90%) WebRTC
7 15 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (0.66%) JSON
9 12 (0.57%) LDAP
10 11 (0.52%) HTML
11 8 (0.38%) WebSphere MQ
12 6 (0.28%) Middleware
12 6 (0.28%) Web Services
12 6 (0.28%) XML
13 5 (0.24%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.24%) CSS
13 5 (0.24%) jQuery
13 5 (0.24%) LAMP
14 4 (0.19%) Gherkin
14 4 (0.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 344 (16.24%) Data Centre
2 137 (6.47%) Replication
3 112 (5.29%) Management Information System
4 105 (4.96%) Public Cloud
5 102 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
6 100 (4.72%) Clustering
7 78 (3.68%) Driving Licence
8 71 (3.35%) PKI
9 65 (3.07%) Onboarding
10 46 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 37 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
12 32 (1.51%) CCTV
13 29 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.23%) IoT
15 24 (1.13%) Operational Technology
16 22 (1.04%) PMI
17 20 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
17 20 (0.94%) iPad
18 18 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
18 18 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1,514 (71.48%) Windows
2 959 (45.28%) Windows Server
3 610 (28.80%) Linux
4 328 (15.49%) Windows 10
5 226 (10.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 198 (9.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 180 (8.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 103 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 97 (4.58%) Windows 7
10 68 (3.21%) Unix
11 61 (2.88%) Ubuntu
12 54 (2.55%) Data ONTAP
12 54 (2.55%) Windows Server 2008
13 51 (2.41%) Mac OS
14 49 (2.31%) Windows 8
15 42 (1.98%) CentOS
16 33 (1.56%) Apple iOS
17 31 (1.46%) Android
18 24 (1.13%) Windows XP
19 23 (1.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (29.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 486 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
3 458 (21.62%) ITIL
4 254 (11.99%) Cybersecurity
5 227 (10.72%) Customer Service
6 223 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 216 (10.20%) Project Management
8 192 (9.07%) Agile
9 185 (8.73%) DevOps
10 137 (6.47%) Mentoring
11 133 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (5.57%) Project Delivery
13 116 (5.48%) Actionable Insight
14 113 (5.34%) Change Management
15 109 (5.15%) Migration
16 108 (5.10%) Infrastructure Management
17 105 (4.96%) Storage Management
18 102 (4.82%) Line Management
19 98 (4.63%) Collaborative Working
20 96 (4.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 434 (20.49%) PowerShell
2 271 (12.80%) SQL
3 208 (9.82%) Python
4 150 (7.08%) Bash
5 61 (2.88%) Java
6 46 (2.17%) C#
7 28 (1.32%) Perl
8 23 (1.09%) JavaScript
9 17 (0.80%) VB
10 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.57%) ActionScript
11 12 (0.57%) VBScript
12 10 (0.47%) RPG
12 10 (0.47%) VB.NET
13 9 (0.42%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.24%) C++
14 5 (0.24%) Ruby
15 4 (0.19%) C
15 4 (0.19%) Groovy
15 4 (0.19%) Korn
Qualifications
1 361 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 313 (14.78%) Degree
3 207 (9.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 188 (8.88%) Cisco Certification
5 182 (8.59%) SC Cleared
6 178 (8.40%) DV Cleared
7 156 (7.37%) CCNA
8 128 (6.04%) MCSE
9 101 (4.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 59 (2.79%) CCNP
11 58 (2.74%) MCSA
12 53 (2.50%) Azure Certification
13 39 (1.84%) MCP
14 37 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
15 30 (1.42%) DBS Check
16 26 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
17 25 (1.18%) A+ Certification
17 25 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (1.09%) PMI Certification
19 21 (0.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.57%) SLA
2 54 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (1.23%) GDPR
5 16 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.76%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.47%) PMO
9 8 (0.38%) NIST
10 7 (0.33%) QA
11 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.24%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.094%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.094%) NCSC
15 1 (0.047%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.047%) ISO 14001
15 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,139 (53.78%) Active Directory
2 810 (38.24%) Hyper-V
3 248 (11.71%) vSphere
4 244 (11.52%) VMware ESXi
5 153 (7.22%) Docker
6 96 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
7 90 (4.25%) XenApp
8 86 (4.06%) XenDesktop
9 79 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
10 59 (2.79%) VMware NSX
11 47 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
11 47 (2.22%) VirtualBox
12 35 (1.65%) Firmware
13 25 (1.18%) KVM
13 25 (1.18%) VMware Server
14 20 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
15 15 (0.71%) Terminal Services
16 12 (0.57%) OpenSSH
17 11 (0.52%) vCloud
18 9 (0.42%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 217 (10.25%) SCCM
2 208 (9.82%) Ansible
2 208 (9.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 200 (9.44%) vCenter Server
4 162 (7.65%) Kubernetes
5 98 (4.63%) Terraform
6 87 (4.11%) Puppet
7 86 (4.06%) WSUS
8 66 (3.12%) SCOM
9 63 (2.97%) Prometheus
10 40 (1.89%) ZABBIX
11 38 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
12 37 (1.75%) FortiGate
13 36 (1.70%) NetBackup
14 32 (1.51%) Nagios
15 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
16 26 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
17 25 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 24 (1.13%) SmoothWall
19 22 (1.04%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2,118 (100.00%) VMware
2 1,148 (54.20%) Microsoft
3 391 (18.46%) Cisco
4 348 (16.43%) Veeam
5 344 (16.24%) Citrix
6 194 (9.16%) HP
7 184 (8.69%) Red Hat
8 156 (7.37%) NetApp
9 128 (6.04%) Dell
10 111 (5.24%) Google
11 93 (4.39%) Palo Alto
12 68 (3.21%) IBM
13 65 (3.07%) Fortinet
14 56 (2.64%) Oracle
14 56 (2.64%) SolarWinds
15 55 (2.60%) Meraki
16 54 (2.55%) SolidFire
17 53 (2.50%) Apple
18 50 (2.36%) EMC
19 46 (2.17%) Juniper