VMware Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 679 667
Rank change year-on-year +61 -12 +344
Permanent jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 14 36 35
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.033% 0.059% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.062% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 26
10th Percentile £42,625 - £36,875
25th Percentile £53,125 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -9.77% -18.56%
75th Percentile £57,188 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,625 £91,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.40% -7.62% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 39,093 58,302 47,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 95.14% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 23,775 33,201 36,501
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,988 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.88% -5.02% -

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'VMware Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in England

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 October 2025. 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 +68 10 £55,000 -12.00%
North of England - 2 £56,250 -
South East -3 1 £32,500 -27.78%
Yorkshire - 1 £62,500 -
Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
North West - 1 £50,000 -
VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, VMware Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 10 (71.43%) TCP/IP
4 8 (57.14%) Linux
5 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (50.00%) DevOps
5 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
5 7 (50.00%) vSphere
6 6 (42.86%) Ansible
6 6 (42.86%) Azure
6 6 (42.86%) Cisco
6 6 (42.86%) Commvault
6 6 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (42.86%) Firewall
6 6 (42.86%) Git
6 6 (42.86%) GitHub
6 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (42.86%) LAN
6 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (42.86%) NFS
6 6 (42.86%) Pure Storage
6 6 (42.86%) Python
6 6 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
6 6 (42.86%) Terraform

VMware Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
5 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (42.86%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) LAN
2 6 (42.86%) WAN
3 4 (28.57%) DNS
3 4 (28.57%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Legal
3 4 (28.57%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Windows
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (7.14%) CentOS
5 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
7 1 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
7 1 (7.14%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (50.00%) vSphere
3 6 (42.86%) NFS
4 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
5 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (7.14%) Docker
6 1 (7.14%) Dovecot
6 1 (7.14%) Postfix
6 1 (7.14%) vCloud
6 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) Commvault
3 6 (42.86%) Pure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Okta
4 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) Zerto