VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 119 76
Rank change year-on-year -3 -43 -18
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 85 58 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.16% 1.67% 2.22%
As % of the System Software category 19.45% 14.99% 22.56%
Number of salaries quoted 73 49 71
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -5.00%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 437 387 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.94% 11.16% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 340 275 340
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.34%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hertfordshire -12 25 £47,500 -7.09% 11
Cambridgeshire -10 22 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Essex -18 19 £35,000 -26.32% 3
Suffolk +15 7 £32,500 +8.33% 1
Bedfordshire -10 6 £41,000 -22.64% 3
Norfolk - 6 £51,250 -
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 22 (25.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (14.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (49.41%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (35.29%) Azure
3 24 (28.24%) Entra ID
4 8 (9.41%) Cohesity
5 6 (7.06%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.71%) AWS
6 4 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.71%) Azure Storage
6 4 (4.71%) Nutanix
7 3 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.35%) GCP
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.18%) IaaS
9 1 (1.18%) PaaS
9 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (37.65%) DNS
2 28 (32.94%) Firewall
3 24 (28.24%) DHCP
4 21 (24.71%) VPN
5 14 (16.47%) TCP/IP
6 10 (11.76%) LAN
6 10 (11.76%) SAN
6 10 (11.76%) WAN
7 9 (10.59%) VLAN
8 5 (5.88%) Wireless
9 3 (3.53%) BGP
9 3 (3.53%) OSPF
9 3 (3.53%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (2.35%) Network Security
10 2 (2.35%) WLAN
11 1 (1.18%) IPsec
11 1 (1.18%) NAS
11 1 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.18%) SNMP
11 1 (1.18%) VoIP
General
1 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (2.35%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.18%) Legal
4 1 (1.18%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) IT Support
3 15 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
3 15 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 14 (16.47%) Wintel Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior
6 10 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Network Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) IT Manager
8 6 (7.06%) IT Operations Manager
8 6 (7.06%) Lead
8 6 (7.06%) Operations Manager
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Consultant
10 4 (4.71%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (4.71%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Driving Licence
1 9 (10.59%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.41%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.18%) PKI
6 1 (1.18%) PMI
6 1 (1.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 60 (70.59%) Windows
2 52 (61.18%) Windows Server
3 20 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (21.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (7.06%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (4.71%) Android
7 4 (4.71%) Apple iOS
7 4 (4.71%) Linux
7 4 (4.71%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (30.59%) ITIL
3 22 (25.88%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (21.18%) Customer Service
6 15 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (15.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (14.12%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
11 8 (9.41%) Server Building
11 8 (9.41%) Service Delivery
12 7 (8.24%) Server Management
13 6 (7.06%) Change Management
13 6 (7.06%) Identity Access Management
14 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (5.88%) ITSM
14 5 (5.88%) Migration
14 5 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (1.18%) Bash
3 1 (1.18%) Java
3 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.06%) DV Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.88%) CCNP
4 5 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.53%) CCDP
5 3 (3.53%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.35%) CCNA
6 2 (2.35%) Degree
6 2 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) SLA
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) NIST
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (65.88%) Active Directory
2 35 (41.18%) Hyper-V
3 9 (10.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (9.41%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (8.24%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.88%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.53%) VMware Server
7 3 (3.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) WSUS
2 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.24%) SCCM
3 6 (7.06%) SCOM
3 6 (7.06%) Terraform
4 5 (5.88%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 3 (3.53%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.35%) Ansible
6 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.18%) Puppet
7 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) VMware
2 56 (65.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.59%) Cisco
4 8 (9.41%) NetApp
5 6 (7.06%) Dell
5 6 (7.06%) HP
5 6 (7.06%) IBM
5 6 (7.06%) McAfee
6 5 (5.88%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.88%) Sophos
6 5 (5.88%) Veeam
7 4 (4.71%) Meraki
7 4 (4.71%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.53%) ConnectWise
8 3 (3.53%) Forcepoint
8 3 (3.53%) Juniper
8 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.53%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.53%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (2.35%) Citrix