vSphere Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 529 590
Rank change year-on-year +61 +61 -164
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 121 132 259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 2.82% 2.14% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 101 104 207
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,425 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £60,918 £61,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,350 £76,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,285 6,158 12,951
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 14.85% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,422 4,557 7,577
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

vSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vSphere trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere.

vSphere salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing vSphere over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

vSphere salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (11.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (11.57%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.13%) IIS
3 4 (3.31%) SAS
3 4 (3.31%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.48%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.83%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) SPSS
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.76%) Azure
2 54 (44.63%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (13.22%) IaaS
3 16 (13.22%) PaaS
4 15 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.57%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.61%) AWS
7 6 (4.96%) GCP
7 6 (4.96%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.13%) SaaS
9 3 (2.48%) Dropbox
9 3 (2.48%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.65%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.65%) Zapier
11 1 (0.83%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (25.62%) Firewall
2 30 (24.79%) LAN
3 28 (23.14%) SAN
3 28 (23.14%) WAN
4 27 (22.31%) VPN
4 27 (22.31%) VSAN
5 20 (16.53%) Internet
6 15 (12.40%) DNS
7 12 (9.92%) NGFW
8 10 (8.26%) DHCP
9 8 (6.61%) VLAN
9 8 (6.61%) Wireless
10 7 (5.79%) TCP/IP
11 6 (4.96%) NAS
12 4 (3.31%) FTP
12 4 (3.31%) iSCSI
12 4 (3.31%) WLAN
13 3 (2.48%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
13 3 (2.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.31%) DB2
2 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.48%) Big Data
3 3 (2.48%) EDRMS
3 3 (2.48%) Ingres
4 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.65%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.65%) MySQL
4 2 (1.65%) Power BI
4 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.65%) Tableau
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Git
General
1 27 (22.31%) Finance
2 20 (16.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.61%) Advertising
6 6 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Police
8 3 (2.48%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (15.70%) Support Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) Architect
3 18 (14.88%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) Citrix Architect
5 12 (9.92%) Cloud Architect
5 12 (9.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 12 (9.92%) DevOps Architect
6 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Administrator
7 9 (7.44%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (7.44%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) VMware Support Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.61%) IT Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.57%) JSON
2 12 (9.92%) ARM Templates
2 12 (9.92%) YAML
3 4 (3.31%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (2.48%) EDI
5 2 (1.65%) .NET
5 2 (1.65%) REST
5 2 (1.65%) SOAP
5 2 (1.65%) XML
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.66%) Data Centre
2 18 (14.88%) PKI
3 16 (13.22%) Private Cloud
3 16 (13.22%) Public Cloud
4 12 (9.92%) Management Information System
5 10 (8.26%) Clustering
6 7 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.48%) Cybercrime
8 3 (2.48%) Replication
8 3 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.65%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.65%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.83%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.83%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 73 (60.33%) Windows
2 58 (47.93%) Windows Server
3 42 (34.71%) Linux
4 16 (13.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (12.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (11.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (8.26%) Windows 10
8 7 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (5.79%) Windows 7
9 6 (4.96%) Debian
10 3 (2.48%) CentOS
10 3 (2.48%) SUSE
11 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.83%) Unix
12 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (26.45%) ITIL
3 22 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 18 (14.88%) Agile
4 18 (14.88%) Network Design
5 16 (13.22%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (13.22%) DevOps
5 16 (13.22%) Load Balancing
6 15 (12.40%) SDLC
7 14 (11.57%) Change Management
7 14 (11.57%) Problem Management
8 13 (10.74%) Line Management
8 13 (10.74%) Network Virtualisation
9 12 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.26%) Customer Requirements
11 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.88%) PowerShell
2 19 (15.70%) Python
3 17 (14.05%) Bash
4 11 (9.09%) SQL
5 9 (7.44%) ActionScript
5 9 (7.44%) VB
6 3 (2.48%) AWK
6 3 (2.48%) sed
7 2 (1.65%) C#
7 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.65%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (18.18%) Degree
1 22 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (7.44%) DBS Check
3 9 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.13%) HND
6 4 (3.31%) CCNP
6 4 (3.31%) MCSA
6 4 (3.31%) RHCA
6 4 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.65%) CCNA
8 2 (1.65%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.65%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.65%) HNC
8 2 (1.65%) MCITP
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) SLA
2 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (47.11%) Active Directory
3 33 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (14.88%) Hyper-V
5 17 (14.05%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (9.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (9.09%) XenApp
8 9 (7.44%) OpenSSH
9 2 (1.65%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (1.65%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.83%) KVM
10 1 (0.83%) NFS
10 1 (0.83%) vCloud
10 1 (0.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (20.66%) vCenter Server
2 13 (10.74%) Ansible
2 13 (10.74%) Puppet
3 12 (9.92%) Terraform
4 9 (7.44%) FortiGate
4 9 (7.44%) IBM BigFix
4 9 (7.44%) PowerCLI
5 7 (5.79%) Nagios
5 7 (5.79%) SCCM
6 6 (4.96%) McAfee ePO
6 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (4.13%) SCVMM
8 4 (3.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.65%) WSUS
10 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.83%) NetCrunch
10 1 (0.83%) SCOM
10 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (95.04%) VMware
2 54 (44.63%) Microsoft
3 30 (24.79%) Citrix
4 24 (19.83%) Cisco
5 21 (17.36%) Veeam
6 19 (15.70%) IBM
7 13 (10.74%) Dell
7 13 (10.74%) HP
8 11 (9.09%) Juniper
9 9 (7.44%) CheckPoint
10 7 (5.79%) 3PAR
10 7 (5.79%) Red Hat
11 6 (4.96%) EMC
11 6 (4.96%) McAfee
11 6 (4.96%) Palo Alto
11 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
12 5 (4.13%) NetApp
12 5 (4.13%) Zerto
13 4 (3.31%) Commvault
13 4 (3.31%) Oracle