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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 95 77
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 +41
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 16 24 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.78% 1.60% 3.26%
As % of the System Software category 15.84% 8.39% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 75
10th Percentile £45,600 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +14.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,438 £56,275
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,625 £59,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +30.68% -7.37%

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 101 286 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.92% 19.07% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 48 175 491
10th Percentile £31,338 £45,000 £29,175
25th Percentile £31,375 £52,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +27.27% +2.80%
75th Percentile £51,688 £83,750 £81,875
90th Percentile £65,250 £96,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +16 9 £55,000 -37.14% 5
Bracknell +15 3 £53,750 +7.50%
Slough - 2 £80,000 - 1
Wokingham - 1 - - 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 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 2 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) HTTP
3 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
3 1 (6.25%) SMTP
3 1 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Client/Server
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (6.25%) FreeBSD
5 1 (6.25%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (43.75%) Code Quality
4 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
4 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
4 7 (43.75%) System Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) ITIL
6 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Agile
8 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (12.50%) V-Model
8 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) C
2 7 (43.75%) C++
2 7 (43.75%) Rust
3 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
5 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 8 (50.00%) KVM
3 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
4 4 (25.00%) vSphere
5 2 (12.50%) Terminal Server
5 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
1 4 (25.00%) SCOM
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) SCSM
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Trend Micro
3 3 (18.75%) Veeam
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) Juniper
4 2 (12.50%) McAfee
5 1 (6.25%) Pure Storage
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat