VMware Job Trends in the City of London

VMware
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 64 51
Rank change year-on-year -28 -13 +59
Permanent jobs citing VMware 40 107 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.72% 4.03% 4.57%
As % of the Vendors category 5.01% 9.01% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 34 86 123
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,563 £49,688 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +14.04%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,875 £95,500 £87,500
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £73,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -21.23% +12.31% +15.56%

All Vendors
City of London

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 799 1,188 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.42% 44.75% 37.13%
Number of salaries quoted 605 775 911
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,000 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the City of London

VMware
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the City of London

VMware
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the City of London region over the 6 months to 15 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
London Bridge - 1 £102,000 -
VMware
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 13 (32.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.00%) Nutanix
3 6 (15.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Cohesity
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.50%) IaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Firewall
2 6 (15.00%) WebEx
3 4 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 4 (10.00%) VPN
4 2 (5.00%) Network Security
4 2 (5.00%) SAN
4 2 (5.00%) VSAN
4 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.50%) DNS
5 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.50%) NAS
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) VoIP
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Support Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) IT Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Administrator
4 6 (15.00%) IT Support
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Private Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (22.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.00%) Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.50%) OpenVMS
7 1 (2.50%) VMS
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (25.00%) ITIL
4 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (15.00%) Break/Fix
6 6 (15.00%) Inventory Management
6 6 (15.00%) Trend Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (10.00%) Business Continuity
8 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 3 (7.50%) BCP
9 3 (7.50%) Business Continuity Planning
9 3 (7.50%) Code Quality
9 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (7.50%) Load Balancing
9 3 (7.50%) Migration
9 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (7.50%) Resilience Testing
9 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.00%) CCNA
5 2 (5.00%) CCNP
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) MCSE
5 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) CISSP
6 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.50%) MCSA
6 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (17.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.50%) vSphere
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.00%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.50%) Docker
6 1 (2.50%) KVM
6 1 (2.50%) vCloud
6 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Ansible
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.50%) SCCM
5 1 (2.50%) Autotask
5 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Cisco
3 6 (15.00%) Apple
3 6 (15.00%) HP
4 5 (12.50%) Citrix
5 4 (10.00%) EMC
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.50%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.50%) Commvault
6 3 (7.50%) F5
6 3 (7.50%) Meraki
6 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 2 (5.00%) Pure Storage
7 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.50%) Google
8 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.50%) SAP
8 1 (2.50%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.50%) Veritas