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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 90 110
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 -21
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 30 51 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.93% 2.66% 1.31%
As % of the System Software category 18.07% 28.65% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25 31 28
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £33,700
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,625 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £53,175
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -15.37% +6.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £52,500 £56,252
90th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £56,626
South East median annual salary £57,500 £41,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +37.72% -12.11% -3.24%

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 166 178 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.14% 9.27% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 119 96 262
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,625 £32,050
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.89% -0.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,563 £80,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £94,875
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -13 16 £62,500 +47.06% 15
Slough +42 4 £68,750 - 2
Windsor +41 2 £39,000 +16.42% 3
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 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (36.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 11 (36.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (33.33%) Google Workspace
5 6 (20.00%) GCP
6 4 (13.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) DNS
2 11 (36.67%) DHCP
2 11 (36.67%) Firewall
2 11 (36.67%) VLAN
2 11 (36.67%) VPN
2 11 (36.67%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (33.33%) SSL
3 10 (33.33%) VoIP
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wireless
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Law
2 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Support Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior
3 10 (33.33%) IT Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) IT Support
3 10 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior IT Support
3 10 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) NOC Manager
6 4 (13.33%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 6 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 20 (66.67%) Windows
2 16 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (50.00%) Linux
4 10 (33.33%) Mac OS
5 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.33%) Debian
7 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 11 (36.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 10 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
5 10 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 10 (33.33%) Project Delivery
6 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 5 (16.67%) System Testing
9 4 (13.33%) FinOps
10 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (10.00%) Migration
11 2 (6.67%) Software Testing
11 2 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) C
1 6 (20.00%) Python
1 6 (20.00%) Rust
2 5 (16.67%) C++
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Degree
2 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 10 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 10 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (53.33%) Hyper-V
2 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (20.00%) KVM
4 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.33%) Docker
6 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.67%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (40.00%) Veeam
4 10 (33.33%) Apple
4 10 (33.33%) Cisco
4 10 (33.33%) Datto
4 10 (33.33%) Google
4 10 (33.33%) SonicWALL