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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 84 83
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +42
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 21 35 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.86% 2.36% 2.80%
As % of the System Software category 17.65% 17.50% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12 34 75
10th Percentile £46,250 £29,575 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £34,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -7.50% +44.93%
75th Percentile £70,938 £63,438 £56,275
90th Percentile £84,250 £75,000 £59,000
South East median annual salary £50,250 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.50% +17.65% -5.56%

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 119 200 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.86% 13.48% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 62 144 525
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £29,175
25th Percentile £33,281 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +27.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,750 £94,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.65% -1.58%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -1 17 £62,500 +83.82% 6
Slough - 2 £80,000 - 2
Bracknell -9 1 £55,000 +10.00%
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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
1 18 (85.71%) Azure
2 13 (61.90%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Datadog
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (9.52%) LAN
2 2 (9.52%) WAN
2 2 (9.52%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) HTTP
3 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.76%) SMTP
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Software Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Python Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Python Software Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Client/Server
1 13 (61.90%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.76%) FreeBSD
4 1 (4.76%) OpenBSD
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 14 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (61.90%) Code Quality
4 13 (61.90%) Computer Science
4 13 (61.90%) Software Engineering
4 13 (61.90%) System Testing
5 9 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (28.57%) Software Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Use Case
9 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (14.29%) ITIL
10 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (9.52%) FinOps
10 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (9.52%) Manual Testing
10 2 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
10 2 (9.52%) Service Management
10 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 13 (61.90%) C
2 13 (61.90%) C++
2 13 (61.90%) Rust
3 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (61.90%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
3 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Hyper-V
2 14 (66.67%) KVM
3 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.52%) Terminal Server
5 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
1 3 (14.29%) SCOM
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
2 1 (4.76%) SCSM
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
3 2 (9.52%) Juniper
3 2 (9.52%) McAfee
4 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam