VMware Job Trends in the East of England

VMware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 90 53
Rank change year-on-year -27 -37 -28
Permanent jobs citing VMware 100 90 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.18% 2.71% 3.61%
As % of the Vendors category 5.47% 7.06% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 69 60 74
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,425 £66,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

All Vendors
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,828 1,274 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 21.63% 38.42% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,189 669 539
10th Percentile £27,700 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -6.00% +3.20%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £86,500 £76,250 £76,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £51,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.74% -10.43% -

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the East of England

VMware
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

VMware
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the East of England

VMware
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 -44 34 £42,000 -20.00% 24
Cambridgeshire -7 31 £49,000 -2.00% 11
Essex -21 17 £35,000 -26.32% 4
Suffolk +19 8 £57,500 -8.00% 3
Norfolk - 6 £51,250 -
Bedfordshire -25 4 £41,000 +22.39% 5
VMware
England

VMware
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 26 (26.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (17.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (27.00%) Azure
3 25 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.00%) Cohesity
5 6 (6.00%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.00%) AWS
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.00%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.00%) GCP
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (29.00%) DNS
2 28 (28.00%) Firewall
3 24 (24.00%) DHCP
4 21 (21.00%) VPN
5 16 (16.00%) TCP/IP
6 13 (13.00%) VLAN
7 8 (8.00%) LAN
7 8 (8.00%) SAN
7 8 (8.00%) WAN
8 6 (6.00%) BGP
9 5 (5.00%) OSPF
10 4 (4.00%) HTTP
11 3 (3.00%) NAS
11 3 (3.00%) Network Security
11 3 (3.00%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (3.00%) SSL
11 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (3.00%) Wireless
12 2 (2.00%) HSRP
12 2 (2.00%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 23 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.00%) Back Office
4 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Legal
5 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (19.00%) VMware Engineer
2 19 (19.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (18.00%) IT Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) IT Support
5 15 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 15 (15.00%) Support Engineer
6 14 (14.00%) Senior
7 9 (9.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Lead
8 8 (8.00%) Network Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Consultant
10 6 (6.00%) IT Manager
10 6 (6.00%) IT Operations Manager
10 6 (6.00%) Operations Manager
10 6 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Team Leader
10 6 (6.00%) Wintel Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.00%) JSON
2 3 (3.00%) LDAP
3 2 (2.00%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.00%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.00%) REST
4 1 (1.00%) XMPP
4 1 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (9.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.00%) CSOC
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.00%) Replication
6 2 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.00%) PKI
7 1 (1.00%) PMI
7 1 (1.00%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (62.00%) Windows
2 52 (52.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (9.00%) Windows 10
6 8 (8.00%) Linux
7 6 (6.00%) Apple iOS
8 5 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (3.00%) Android
10 2 (2.00%) macOS
10 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (32.00%) ITIL
3 21 (21.00%) Customer Service
3 21 (21.00%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (18.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 17 (17.00%) Collaborative Working
5 17 (17.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.00%) Service Delivery
7 13 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.00%) Project Delivery
10 9 (9.00%) Migration
11 8 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (8.00%) ITSM
12 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (7.00%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (7.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 6 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (5.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) Bicep
4 3 (3.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (29.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) CCNP
3 8 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.00%) Degree
5 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.00%) CCNA
6 4 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.00%) CCDP
7 3 (3.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.00%) SLA
2 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (85.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (55.00%) Active Directory
3 37 (37.00%) Hyper-V
4 10 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (9.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (9.00%) VMware NSX
6 6 (6.00%) vSphere
7 5 (5.00%) VMware Server
8 4 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (3.00%) Firmware
10 2 (2.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.00%) WSUS
3 4 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.00%) SCCM
4 3 (3.00%) Ansible
4 3 (3.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.00%) Puppet
4 3 (3.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.00%) Nagios
5 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.00%) Kibana
6 1 (1.00%) logstash
6 1 (1.00%) SCOM
6 1 (1.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 57 (57.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Cisco
3 8 (8.00%) Meraki
3 8 (8.00%) NetApp
4 6 (6.00%) Veeam
5 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.00%) SonicWALL
5 4 (4.00%) Sophos
5 4 (4.00%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (3.00%) Apple
6 3 (3.00%) Aruba
6 3 (3.00%) ConnectWise
6 3 (3.00%) Forcepoint
6 3 (3.00%) Juniper
6 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.00%) WatchGuard
7 2 (2.00%) Citrix
7 2 (2.00%) Google
7 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds