VMware vSphere
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for vSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited vSphere over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 575 705
Rank change year-on-year +39 +130 -228
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 388 456 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 3.21% 2.93% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 328 315 475
10th Percentile £28,940 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,589 £32,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £75,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -5.56%

All System Software Skills
UK

vSphere 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 12,102 15,557 28,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.20% 15.32% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,579 10,268 15,675
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,486 £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%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +54 374 £52,500 +16.67% 73
UK excluding London -22 294 £50,000 +25.00% 52
Work from Home +62 122 £52,500 - 21
London +100 93 £65,000 +8.33% 21
South West +19 73 £52,500 +56.72% 8
South East -1 64 £48,500 +38.57% 19
Midlands +3 53 £50,000 +53.85% 13
East of England +14 49 £32,000 -36.00% 6
North of England +1 41 £43,000 -4.44% 8
West Midlands +8 32 £51,250 +57.69% 9
East Midlands -10 21 £50,000 - 4
Yorkshire +57 17 £42,500 +6.25% 1
North West -19 15 £52,500 - 6
Scotland -62 11 £34,000 -32.00%
North East +4 9 £27,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +24 2 £34,628 +6.55%
Wales +4 1 £50,000 +122.22%

vSphere
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 66 (17.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 63 (16.24%) SharePoint
3 28 (7.22%) IIS
4 10 (2.58%) WordPress
5 8 (2.06%) Confluence
5 8 (2.06%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.80%) Skype for Business
7 4 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (1.03%) SAS
8 2 (0.52%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.26%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.77%) SPSS
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Eikon
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (45.88%) Azure
2 174 (44.85%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (11.34%) Entra ID
4 37 (9.54%) AWS
5 33 (8.51%) OneDrive
6 22 (5.67%) IaaS
6 22 (5.67%) PaaS
7 15 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.35%) SaaS
9 8 (2.06%) GCP
10 3 (0.77%) Dropbox
10 3 (0.77%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.77%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.52%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.52%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.52%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.52%) Slack
11 2 (0.52%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.52%) Zapier
12 1 (0.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 119 (30.67%) Firewall
2 95 (24.48%) SAN
3 82 (21.13%) VPN
4 76 (19.59%) DNS
4 76 (19.59%) LAN
5 70 (18.04%) WAN
6 55 (14.18%) VSAN
7 52 (13.40%) DHCP
8 37 (9.54%) Internet
9 36 (9.28%) Wireless
10 35 (9.02%) NAS
11 34 (8.76%) VLAN
12 27 (6.96%) Network Security
13 22 (5.67%) VoIP
14 21 (5.41%) TCP/IP
15 17 (4.38%) Fibre Channel
15 17 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (4.12%) iSCSI
17 15 (3.87%) WLAN
18 12 (3.09%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.95%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.06%) DB2
3 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.03%) MySQL
4 4 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.77%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.77%) Ingres
5 3 (0.77%) Power BI
6 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.52%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.52%) Redis
6 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.52%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (2.84%) JIRA
2 5 (1.29%) Git
3 4 (1.03%) GitLab
4 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.40%) Finance
3 43 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.38%) Military
5 15 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.09%) Aerospace
7 12 (3.09%) Billing
8 9 (2.32%) Banking
9 8 (2.06%) Advertising
9 8 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.29%) Electronics
11 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.03%) Police
12 3 (0.77%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Local Government
12 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (25.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (13.66%) Senior
3 46 (11.86%) Support Engineer
4 35 (9.02%) Architect
5 33 (8.51%) Consultant
6 31 (7.99%) Administrator
7 29 (7.47%) IT Engineer
8 27 (6.96%) Analyst
8 27 (6.96%) Lead
9 24 (6.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 24 (6.19%) Security Consultant
10 23 (5.93%) Systems Engineer
10 23 (5.93%) VMware Engineer
11 22 (5.67%) Systems Administrator
12 21 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
12 21 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (5.15%) IT Support
14 19 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.38%) Infrastructure Architect
15 17 (4.38%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.61%) JSON
3 12 (3.09%) ARM Templates
3 12 (3.09%) YAML
4 10 (2.58%) LAMP
5 8 (2.06%) .NET
5 8 (2.06%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (1.29%) EDI
7 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.03%) REST
7 4 (1.03%) SOAP
7 4 (1.03%) XMPP
8 2 (0.52%) XML
8 2 (0.52%) X-Windows
9 1 (0.26%) LDAP
9 1 (0.26%) OAuth
9 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.65%) Data Centre
2 44 (11.34%) Replication
3 37 (9.54%) PKI
4 34 (8.76%) Public Cloud
5 24 (6.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 23 (5.93%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.38%) Private Cloud
7 17 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.87%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.87%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (3.35%) Clustering
10 10 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.80%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.29%) Smartcard
13 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (1.03%) Mobile Computing
14 4 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 249 (64.18%) Windows
2 204 (52.58%) Windows Server
3 133 (34.28%) Linux
4 62 (15.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 53 (13.66%) Windows 10
6 47 (12.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 47 (12.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 46 (11.86%) Ubuntu
8 22 (5.67%) CentOS
8 22 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (3.87%) SUSE
10 13 (3.35%) Windows 7
11 12 (3.09%) VMS
12 10 (2.58%) Debian
13 8 (2.06%) Apple iOS
14 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.52%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.52%) Unix
15 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (28.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (23.20%) ITIL
3 63 (16.24%) Agile
4 48 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
5 43 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (10.57%) Incident Management
7 39 (10.05%) Customer Service
8 35 (9.02%) Service Delivery
8 35 (9.02%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 34 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (8.25%) SIEM
11 28 (7.22%) Project Delivery
12 27 (6.96%) Analytics
12 27 (6.96%) Data Analytics
12 27 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (6.96%) Load Balancing
12 27 (6.96%) Vulnerability Management
13 25 (6.44%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (6.44%) Mentoring
14 23 (5.93%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 129 (33.25%) PowerShell
2 43 (11.08%) SQL
3 28 (7.22%) Python
4 25 (6.44%) Bash
5 10 (2.58%) ActionScript
5 10 (2.58%) VB
6 7 (1.80%) C#
6 7 (1.80%) VB.NET
7 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) AWK
8 3 (0.77%) sed
9 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) Java
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 60 (15.46%) Degree
3 52 (13.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 48 (12.37%) DV Cleared
5 32 (8.25%) SC Cleared
6 26 (6.70%) MCSA
6 26 (6.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 23 (5.93%) MCSE
8 19 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.61%) CCNA
10 11 (2.84%) HND
11 10 (2.58%) DBS Check
12 9 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.80%) Citrix Certification
13 7 (1.80%) MCP
14 6 (1.55%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.29%) CCA
15 5 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (1.29%) RHCA
15 5 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.19%) NIST
2 23 (5.93%) SLA
3 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.52%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 248 (63.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 208 (53.61%) Active Directory
3 79 (20.36%) VMware ESXi
4 38 (9.79%) Hyper-V
5 29 (7.47%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (4.64%) VMware NSX
7 17 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (4.38%) XenApp
8 13 (3.35%) vCloud
9 10 (2.58%) OpenSSH
10 9 (2.32%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (1.80%) Docker
12 6 (1.55%) Firmware
13 5 (1.29%) Terminal Services
14 4 (1.03%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.52%) Varnish
16 2 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.52%) XenDesktop
17 1 (0.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 74 (19.07%) vCenter Server
2 45 (11.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (11.08%) SCCM
4 23 (5.93%) Terraform
5 22 (5.67%) Kubernetes
6 19 (4.90%) Ansible
6 19 (4.90%) Puppet
7 17 (4.38%) WSUS
8 15 (3.87%) McAfee ePO
9 12 (3.09%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.84%) PowerCLI
10 11 (2.84%) VxRail
11 10 (2.58%) IBM BigFix
12 8 (2.06%) NetCrunch
12 8 (2.06%) SCVMM
13 7 (1.80%) Nagios
13 7 (1.80%) vRealize
14 6 (1.55%) SCOM
14 6 (1.55%) SmoothWall
15 4 (1.03%) Nessus
Vendors
1 344 (88.66%) VMware
2 209 (53.87%) Microsoft
3 76 (19.59%) Veeam
4 60 (15.46%) Cisco
5 50 (12.89%) HP
6 48 (12.37%) Citrix
7 43 (11.08%) Dell
8 31 (7.99%) SolarWinds
9 29 (7.47%) NetApp
9 29 (7.47%) Red Hat
10 26 (6.70%) IBM
11 24 (6.19%) Tanium
11 24 (6.19%) Tripwire
12 22 (5.67%) Commvault
13 21 (5.41%) Palo Alto
14 16 (4.12%) McAfee
15 15 (3.87%) Juniper
15 15 (3.87%) Zerto
16 14 (3.61%) Aruba
17 13 (3.35%) CheckPoint