VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 100 70
Rank change year-on-year -15 -30 +44
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 12 23 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.60% 1.40% 3.76%
As % of the System Software category 12.00% 7.74% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 67
10th Percentile £46,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,125 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £59,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £55,000 £44,400
% change year-on-year -24.55% +23.87% -1.33%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 297 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.04% 18.03% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 50 188 389
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £52,500 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £70,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -50.36% +23.84% +2.77%
75th Percentile £51,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% +5.26%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. 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
Reading +20 5 £47,500 -45.71% 3
Bracknell +20 3 £53,750 +7.50%
Slough - 2 £80,000 - 5
Wokingham - 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
1 2 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Test Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) System Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) C
3 3 (25.00%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Rust
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GxP
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (33.33%) vSphere
4 3 (25.00%) KVM
5 2 (16.67%) Terminal Server
6 1 (8.33%) Docker
6 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
1 4 (33.33%) SCOM
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) SCSM
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Trend Micro
3 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Juniper
4 2 (16.67%) McAfee
5 1 (8.33%) Pure Storage
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat