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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 112 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 -43 +52
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 29 27 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.57% 1.23% 3.94%
As % of the System Software category 19.08% 7.89% 20.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 56
10th Percentile £43,275 £42,700 £27,500
25th Percentile £47,313 £44,938 £41,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,626 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +2.07% +13.54%
75th Percentile £53,438 £56,252 £55,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £93,625 £58,125
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%

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 152 342 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.23% 15.58% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 77 204 303
10th Percentile £31,325 £36,500 £32,400
25th Percentile £31,375 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £65,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +14.99% -5.79%
75th Percentile £61,250 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -24.55% +10.00% -

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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
Bracknell +35 7 £48,000 +6.67% 1
Reading +27 4 £50,000 -41.18% 6
Wokingham - 4 £50,000 - 2
Slough - 2 - - 26
Windsor - 2 - - 2
Maidenhead - 2 - - 4
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 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) IaaS
2 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) DHCP
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) LAN
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (55.17%) Law
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Lead
1 16 (55.17%) Team Leader
2 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Coordinator
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Project Coordinator
2 3 (10.34%) Technical Coordinator
2 3 (10.34%) Technical Project Coordinator
3 2 (6.90%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Help Desk Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (55.17%) Life Science
1 16 (55.17%) Management Information System
1 16 (55.17%) Operational Technology
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.69%) Linux
4 5 (17.24%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Business Continuity
2 16 (55.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 16 (55.17%) Enterprise Architecture
2 16 (55.17%) Validation
3 7 (24.14%) ITIL
4 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Budget Management
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (10.34%) ITSM
6 3 (10.34%) People Management
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Service Management
7 2 (6.90%) Customer Service
7 2 (6.90%) Mentoring
8 1 (3.45%) CI/CD
8 1 (3.45%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Bash
2 1 (3.45%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Degree
2 12 (41.38%) Security Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CISA
4 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (55.17%) GxP
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (17.24%) vSphere
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.45%) Docker
4 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) SCOM
2 2 (6.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) SCSM
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Argo
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Juniper
3 3 (10.34%) Trend Micro
3 3 (10.34%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat