VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 858 1056
Rank change year-on-year +40 +198 -360
Permanent jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 76 131 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.12% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 66 101 125
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £35,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% - +13.10%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured VMware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +58 73 £55,000 +1.85% 8
UK excluding London -36 45 £48,500 +2.11% 6
Work from Home +84 30 £48,500 -3.00% 4
London +112 28 £65,000 +6.56% 3
South East +18 27 £48,500 +21.25% 1
North of England +36 10 £35,000 -33.33% 2
Yorkshire +83 5 £35,000 -15.15%
West Midlands +8 5 £42,500 -10.53%
Midlands -4 5 £42,500 -10.53%
North East - 3 £47,500 -
North West +5 2 £45,000 -15.49% 2
South West -21 2 £56,250 +40.63% 2
Scotland - 1 £55,000 - 1

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, VMware Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) VMware
2 58 (76.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (71.05%) Windows
4 49 (64.47%) PowerShell
5 46 (60.53%) Windows Server
6 45 (59.21%) Active Directory
7 43 (56.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 31 (40.79%) Azure
9 28 (36.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 27 (35.53%) Microsoft
11 23 (30.26%) Cisco
12 21 (27.63%) VMware ESXi
12 21 (27.63%) vSphere
13 20 (26.32%) vCenter Server
14 18 (23.68%) Degree
14 18 (23.68%) SCCM
15 17 (22.37%) DHCP
15 17 (22.37%) DNS
15 17 (22.37%) Finance
15 17 (22.37%) SAN
16 16 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
16 16 (21.05%) Data Centre
17 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2016
17 15 (19.74%) Linux
18 14 (18.42%) SLA
18 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
19 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
19 13 (17.11%) Windows 10
19 13 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
19 13 (17.11%) Disaster Recovery

VMware Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.79%) Azure
2 13 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.53%) OCI
4 7 (9.21%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.89%) AWS
6 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.63%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.37%) DHCP
1 17 (22.37%) DNS
1 17 (22.37%) SAN
2 12 (15.79%) Firewall
3 9 (11.84%) Internet
4 8 (10.53%) NAS
5 6 (7.89%) VPN
6 3 (3.95%) VLAN
7 2 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.63%) LAN
7 2 (2.63%) WAN
8 1 (1.32%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
1 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (22.37%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.26%) Banking
4 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Retail
5 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.32%) Electronics
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) French Language
7 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.32%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.47%) PKI
3 9 (11.84%) Clustering
4 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) FlexPod
5 2 (2.63%) FMCG
5 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (71.05%) Windows
2 46 (60.53%) Windows Server
3 28 (36.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 16 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (19.74%) Linux
5 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (17.11%) Windows 10
7 8 (10.53%) Windows XP
8 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (76.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (17.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (15.79%) ITIL
4 9 (11.84%) Customer Requirements
4 9 (11.84%) Problem Management
4 9 (11.84%) Project Management
5 8 (10.53%) Break/Fix
5 8 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 8 (10.53%) Converged Infrastructure
5 8 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
5 8 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
5 8 (10.53%) Server Management
5 8 (10.53%) Storage Management
6 7 (9.21%) Migration
7 6 (7.89%) High Availability
8 5 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.58%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (6.58%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (64.47%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.84%) ActionScript
2 9 (11.84%) VB
3 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.95%) SQL
4 1 (1.32%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Degree
2 13 (17.11%) DV Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.84%) CCNA
3 9 (11.84%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (10.53%) CCNP
5 4 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.63%) MCSA
8 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.42%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (59.21%) Active Directory
2 43 (56.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (27.63%) VMware ESXi
3 21 (27.63%) vSphere
4 11 (14.47%) Hyper-V
5 9 (11.84%) OpenSSH
5 9 (11.84%) XenApp
6 4 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.63%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (26.32%) vCenter Server
2 18 (23.68%) SCCM
3 10 (13.16%) PowerCLI
3 10 (13.16%) SCOM
4 9 (11.84%) IBM BigFix
5 8 (10.53%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (10.53%) NetBackup
5 8 (10.53%) WSUS
6 3 (3.95%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.95%) Terraform
6 3 (3.95%) vRealize
6 3 (3.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) VMware
2 27 (35.53%) Microsoft
3 23 (30.26%) Cisco
4 12 (15.79%) Citrix
4 12 (15.79%) NetApp
5 11 (14.47%) HP
5 11 (14.47%) Palo Alto
5 11 (14.47%) Veeam
6 9 (11.84%) Commvault
6 9 (11.84%) EMC
6 9 (11.84%) IBM
7 8 (10.53%) 3PAR
7 8 (10.53%) Dell
7 8 (10.53%) Extreme Networks
7 8 (10.53%) Juniper
7 8 (10.53%) Oracle
7 8 (10.53%) Symantec
8 4 (5.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.26%) Sophos