vSphere Job Trends in the City of London

VMware vSphere
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 145 150
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +86
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 3 18 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.68% 0.60%
As % of the System Software category 1.72% 4.96% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 17
10th Percentile £54,950 £62,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,125 £66,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,500 £62,618
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +22.17% +2.23%
75th Percentile £85,625 £77,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £94,250 -
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £76,500 £60,059
% change year-on-year -24.84% +27.37% +0.10%

All System Software Skills
City of London

vSphere 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 174 363 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.70% 13.73% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 133 252 522
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -3.57%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the City of London

vSphere
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

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

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the City of London

vSphere
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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Document Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) vCloud
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft