VMware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 86 143
Rank change year-on-year +8 +57 -79
Permanent jobs citing VMware 3,334 3,726 4,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.25% 3.83% 2.89%
As % of the Vendors category 9.08% 9.15% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,743 2,699 3,619
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,104 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +4.29% +6.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All Vendors
UK

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,727 40,716 64,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.79% 41.82% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 24,890 23,574 33,282
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware in the UK

VMware
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +17 3,059 £45,000 -12.74% 618
UK excluding London +13 2,645 £42,500 -5.56% 504
Work from Home +10 1,120 £50,000 -7.41% 202
South East +13 659 £45,000 - 144
London -6 620 £63,000 +5.00% 128
North of England +4 576 £41,500 -7.78% 119
Midlands +22 471 £44,225 -2.80% 90
South West +7 423 £49,000 +15.29% 75
East of England +14 302 £37,500 -25.00% 58
West Midlands +22 297 £45,000 +1.69% 51
Yorkshire +32 253 £40,000 -5.88% 45
North West -18 231 £42,500 -9.57% 67
East Midlands +10 174 £42,500 -19.05% 39
Scotland -67 140 £47,500 -5.00% 14
North East +25 92 £37,500 -23.86% 8
Wales -3 51 £40,000 -5.88% 15
Northern Ireland -7 16 £40,000 - 3
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

VMware
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
1 704 (21.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 422 (12.66%) SharePoint
3 138 (4.14%) IIS
4 61 (1.83%) Apache
5 27 (0.81%) Confluence
6 19 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 18 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
7 18 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
8 15 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 14 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
10 13 (0.39%) nginx
11 10 (0.30%) SAS
12 9 (0.27%) WordPress
13 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.12%) CloudStack
16 3 (0.090%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
17 2 (0.060%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 253 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.090%) SPSS
7 2 (0.060%) CATIA
7 2 (0.060%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.090%) Epicor Tropos
1 3 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.060%) Eikon
2 2 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.060%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.030%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,659 (49.76%) Azure
2 1,534 (46.01%) Microsoft 365
3 528 (15.84%) AWS
4 390 (11.70%) Entra ID
5 155 (4.65%) GCP
6 151 (4.53%) OneDrive
7 123 (3.69%) SaaS
8 114 (3.42%) IaaS
9 71 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 68 (2.04%) Nutanix
10 68 (2.04%) PaaS
11 66 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 58 (1.74%) OpenShift
13 46 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
14 40 (1.20%) Power Platform
15 34 (1.02%) Google Workspace
16 32 (0.96%) Mimecast
17 25 (0.75%) OCI
18 22 (0.66%) Power Automate
19 21 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1,085 (32.54%) Firewall
2 684 (20.52%) DNS
3 575 (17.25%) WAN
4 547 (16.41%) DHCP
5 488 (14.64%) SAN
6 479 (14.37%) LAN
7 413 (12.39%) VPN
8 354 (10.62%) TCP/IP
9 209 (6.27%) VLAN
10 192 (5.76%) Wireless
11 187 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
12 166 (4.98%) NAS
13 159 (4.77%) Internet
14 125 (3.75%) VoIP
15 117 (3.51%) SD-WAN
16 90 (2.70%) WLAN
17 85 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
18 81 (2.43%) SNMP
19 75 (2.25%) Network Security
20 71 (2.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (10.08%) SQL Server
2 74 (2.22%) MySQL
3 65 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
3 65 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
4 57 (1.71%) MongoDB
5 34 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 23 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 20 (0.60%) Power BI
9 19 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 13 (0.39%) Big Data
11 10 (0.30%) Ingres
11 10 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.24%) DB2
13 8 (0.24%) MariaDB
14 6 (0.18%) Redis
15 5 (0.15%) InfluxDB
16 4 (0.12%) Metabase
16 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (2.31%) JIRA
2 73 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.14%) GitLab
4 37 (1.11%) Git
5 19 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.33%) MSI
8 10 (0.30%) Trac
9 9 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.21%) Snyk
12 6 (0.18%) AdminStudio
12 6 (0.18%) InstallShield
12 6 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.18%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
13 4 (0.12%) Postman
13 4 (0.12%) Selenium
13 4 (0.12%) Subversion
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 897 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 461 (13.83%) Finance
3 265 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (3.36%) Aerospace
5 102 (3.06%) Manufacturing
5 102 (3.06%) Public Sector
6 94 (2.82%) Law
7 87 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
8 86 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 83 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 83 (2.49%) Legal
10 68 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 66 (1.98%) Retail
12 56 (1.68%) Banking
13 28 (0.84%) Marketing
14 27 (0.81%) Advertising
15 25 (0.75%) Games
16 22 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.60%) Automotive
18 18 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 856 (25.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 501 (15.03%) Senior
3 457 (13.71%) Support Engineer
4 401 (12.03%) IT Engineer
5 342 (10.26%) IT Support
6 250 (7.50%) Analyst
7 221 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
8 199 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
9 188 (5.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 175 (5.25%) 2nd Line Support
11 171 (5.13%) Lead
12 170 (5.10%) 3rd Line Support
13 167 (5.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 163 (4.89%) Network Engineer
15 157 (4.71%) Administrator
16 143 (4.29%) Consultant
17 131 (3.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 116 (3.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 111 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
20 104 (3.12%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (1.92%) YAML
2 59 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
3 34 (1.02%) .NET
4 30 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 26 (0.78%) HTML
6 25 (0.75%) REST
7 22 (0.66%) JSON
8 19 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (0.57%) WebRTC
9 18 (0.54%) Web Services
10 14 (0.42%) LAMP
11 13 (0.39%) LDAP
12 10 (0.30%) EDI
12 10 (0.30%) XML
13 8 (0.24%) WebSphere MQ
14 7 (0.21%) Keycloak
14 7 (0.21%) Middleware
15 6 (0.18%) ADO
16 5 (0.15%) ASP.NET
16 5 (0.15%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 487 (14.61%) Data Centre
2 174 (5.22%) Replication
3 162 (4.86%) Public Cloud
4 155 (4.65%) Clustering
5 138 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
6 136 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 124 (3.72%) Driving Licence
8 81 (2.43%) PKI
9 64 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 50 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 38 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
12 37 (1.11%) Client/Server
13 35 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
14 34 (1.02%) CCTV
14 34 (1.02%) IoT
15 32 (0.96%) PMI
16 30 (0.90%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (0.72%) Operational Technology
19 23 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2,274 (68.21%) Windows
2 1,491 (44.72%) Windows Server
3 899 (26.96%) Linux
4 449 (13.47%) Windows 10
5 303 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 260 (7.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 253 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 136 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 112 (3.36%) Windows 7
10 109 (3.27%) Unix
11 80 (2.40%) Mac OS
12 78 (2.34%) Ubuntu
13 77 (2.31%) CentOS
14 76 (2.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 55 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
16 51 (1.53%) Windows 8
17 42 (1.26%) Apple iOS
18 41 (1.23%) Android
19 39 (1.17%) Debian
20 38 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (30.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 686 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
3 622 (18.66%) ITIL
4 356 (10.68%) Customer Service
5 352 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
6 281 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 275 (8.25%) Project Management
8 242 (7.26%) DevOps
8 242 (7.26%) Mentoring
9 228 (6.84%) Agile
10 196 (5.88%) Migration
11 192 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 163 (4.89%) Service Delivery
13 160 (4.80%) Change Management
14 159 (4.77%) Actionable Insight
15 157 (4.71%) Project Delivery
16 135 (4.05%) Incident Management
17 134 (4.02%) Roadmaps
18 129 (3.87%) High Availability
19 126 (3.78%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 644 (19.32%) PowerShell
2 374 (11.22%) SQL
3 273 (8.19%) Python
4 193 (5.79%) Bash
5 86 (2.58%) Java
6 52 (1.56%) C#
7 34 (1.02%) Perl
8 32 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 30 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 19 (0.57%) VB
11 13 (0.39%) ActionScript
11 13 (0.39%) VBScript
12 12 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.30%) RPG
14 10 (0.30%) Ruby
15 9 (0.27%) PHP
16 8 (0.24%) Go
17 6 (0.18%) C++
17 6 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 558 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 439 (13.17%) Degree
3 300 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 278 (8.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 254 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
6 249 (7.47%) DV Cleared
7 213 (6.39%) CCNA
8 142 (4.26%) MCSE
9 116 (3.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 84 (2.52%) CCNP
11 79 (2.37%) Azure Certification
12 71 (2.13%) MCSA
13 49 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
14 40 (1.20%) MCP
15 35 (1.05%) A+ Certification
16 34 (1.02%) AWS Certification
17 33 (0.99%) PMI Certification
18 32 (0.96%) DBS Check
19 29 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
20 25 (0.75%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (5.85%) SLA
2 78 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (1.11%) GDPR
5 17 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 15 (0.45%) QA
8 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.33%) NIST
10 10 (0.30%) PMO
11 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.12%) NCSC
14 3 (0.090%) COBIT
14 3 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.090%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.060%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.060%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.030%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2,126 (63.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,694 (50.81%) Active Directory
3 1,043 (31.28%) Hyper-V
4 378 (11.34%) VMware ESXi
5 344 (10.32%) vSphere
6 188 (5.64%) Docker
7 124 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
8 109 (3.27%) XenApp
9 93 (2.79%) XenDesktop
10 92 (2.76%) VMware NSX
11 76 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 49 (1.47%) VirtualBox
13 48 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
14 44 (1.32%) Firmware
15 31 (0.93%) VMware Server
16 30 (0.90%) KVM
17 28 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
18 26 (0.78%) NFS
19 22 (0.66%) pfSense
19 22 (0.66%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 419 (12.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 318 (9.54%) SCCM
3 281 (8.43%) vCenter Server
4 267 (8.01%) Ansible
5 209 (6.27%) Kubernetes
6 130 (3.90%) Terraform
7 103 (3.09%) WSUS
8 101 (3.03%) Puppet
9 81 (2.43%) SCOM
10 66 (1.98%) Prometheus
11 61 (1.83%) ZABBIX
12 60 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
13 55 (1.65%) FortiGate
14 49 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
15 43 (1.29%) Nagios
16 40 (1.20%) NetBackup
17 36 (1.08%) Grafana
18 35 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
19 33 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
20 29 (0.87%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,742 (52.25%) Microsoft
2 643 (19.29%) Cisco
3 512 (15.36%) Citrix
4 466 (13.98%) Veeam
5 236 (7.08%) HP
6 234 (7.02%) Red Hat
7 214 (6.42%) NetApp
8 176 (5.28%) Dell
9 146 (4.38%) Palo Alto
10 125 (3.75%) Aruba
11 123 (3.69%) Google
12 110 (3.30%) Fortinet
13 100 (3.00%) Oracle
14 95 (2.85%) SolarWinds
15 84 (2.52%) IBM
16 83 (2.49%) Juniper
17 81 (2.43%) Commvault
18 78 (2.34%) Meraki
19 72 (2.16%) ServiceNow
20 66 (1.98%) EMC