VMware Job Trends in England

VMware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 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
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 105 64
Rank change year-on-year -60 -41 +25
Permanent jobs citing VMware 999 1,204 3,008
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.08% 3.57%
As % of the Vendors category 4.89% 7.69% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 683 977 2,616
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +14.13% -9.80%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +11.96% -9.80%

All Vendors
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,439 15,660 31,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.40% 40.06% 36.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,518 9,475 22,694
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,754 £35,924
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware job vacancy trend in England

VMware
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in England

VMware
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -27 306 £65,000 -7.14% 59
South East -40 225 £60,000 +22.45% 109
North of England -30 187 £42,500 - 52
South West -25 118 £42,500 -10.53% 22
Midlands -63 96 £45,000 - 39
North West -6 89 £43,000 +1.18% 28
Yorkshire -44 79 £40,000 -5.88% 16
East of England -34 62 £50,000 -5.66% 30
West Midlands -64 59 £39,500 -14.73% 28
East Midlands -29 37 £47,500 +11.76% 11
North East -40 19 £44,000 +17.33% 10
VMware
UK

VMware
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
1 196 (19.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (9.91%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.70%) IIS
4 15 (1.50%) Confluence
5 5 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.40%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) Apache
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 71 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.40%) Weka
5 3 (0.30%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 544 (54.45%) Azure
2 425 (42.54%) Microsoft 365
3 174 (17.42%) AWS
4 148 (14.81%) Entra ID
5 70 (7.01%) Nutanix
6 46 (4.60%) SaaS
7 45 (4.50%) GCP
7 45 (4.50%) OneDrive
8 43 (4.30%) IaaS
9 37 (3.70%) PaaS
10 28 (2.80%) GitHub
11 25 (2.50%) Datadog
12 22 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (2.10%) Google Workspace
13 21 (2.10%) Power Platform
14 20 (2.00%) OpenShift
15 12 (1.20%) Mimecast
16 11 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 341 (34.13%) DNS
2 337 (33.73%) Firewall
3 261 (26.13%) DHCP
4 177 (17.72%) VPN
5 134 (13.41%) WAN
6 120 (12.01%) LAN
7 115 (11.51%) SAN
8 106 (10.61%) TCP/IP
9 101 (10.11%) VLAN
10 91 (9.11%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (4.60%) Network Security
11 46 (4.60%) Wireless
12 32 (3.20%) SD-WAN
13 29 (2.90%) NAS
14 23 (2.30%) VoIP
15 20 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
16 19 (1.90%) VSAN
17 17 (1.70%) BGP
18 15 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
19 13 (1.30%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 58 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.00%) MySQL
3 10 (1.00%) Power BI
4 8 (0.80%) GIS
5 6 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.50%) InfluxDB
6 5 (0.50%) Tableau
7 4 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.30%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.10%) DB2
9 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.10%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 39 (3.90%) Git
2 34 (3.40%) GitLab
3 21 (2.10%) JIRA
4 20 (2.00%) Chocolatey
5 19 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.50%) LabVIEW
10 5 (0.50%) Subversion
11 4 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.40%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.40%) Selenium
11 4 (0.40%) TestRail
12 3 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.20%) Mockito
13 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 300 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 140 (14.01%) Finance
3 114 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (5.01%) Banking
5 42 (4.20%) Retail
6 32 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 27 (2.70%) Law
10 25 (2.50%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.10%) Marketing
12 19 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.10%) Advertising
16 11 (1.10%) Legal
17 5 (0.50%) Back Office
17 5 (0.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 211 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 187 (18.72%) Senior
3 149 (14.91%) IT Engineer
4 147 (14.71%) IT Support
5 142 (14.21%) Support Engineer
6 96 (9.61%) IT Support Engineer
7 70 (7.01%) Systems Engineer
8 69 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
9 68 (6.81%) Architect
10 57 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (4.90%) VMware Engineer
13 46 (4.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 46 (4.60%) Analyst
13 46 (4.60%) IT Technician
13 46 (4.60%) Lead
14 43 (4.30%) Administrator
15 39 (3.90%) Network Engineer
16 38 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
17 35 (3.50%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.90%) XMPP
2 16 (1.60%) Regular Expression
3 15 (1.50%) LDAP
4 9 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (0.90%) WebSockets
5 7 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (0.60%) .NET
6 6 (0.60%) JSON
7 4 (0.40%) JSON Schema
7 4 (0.40%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.40%) Playwright
7 4 (0.40%) pytest
7 4 (0.40%) XML
8 2 (0.20%) Kafka
8 2 (0.20%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.20%) Node.js
8 2 (0.20%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (0.20%) REST
8 2 (0.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 149 (14.91%) Data Centre
2 94 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 48 (4.80%) Public Cloud
4 47 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (4.00%) Driving Licence
6 35 (3.50%) PKI
7 33 (3.30%) Replication
8 28 (2.80%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
10 23 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
10 23 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.20%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.90%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
14 16 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.40%) Client/Server
16 13 (1.30%) Clustering
17 12 (1.20%) Life Science
18 11 (1.10%) Cloud Native
19 10 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 629 (62.96%) Windows
2 464 (46.45%) Windows Server
3 314 (31.43%) Linux
4 81 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 72 (7.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 66 (6.61%) Windows 10
7 37 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (3.60%) Apple iOS
9 28 (2.80%) Android
10 21 (2.10%) Unix
11 20 (2.00%) Ubuntu
11 20 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (1.70%) Mac OS
13 15 (1.50%) CentOS
14 9 (0.90%) Solaris
15 8 (0.80%) VMS
16 7 (0.70%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.70%) Windows 8
16 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (27.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 253 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
3 206 (20.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 160 (16.02%) ITIL
5 141 (14.11%) Customer Service
6 123 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 121 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
8 117 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 101 (10.11%) Migration
10 84 (8.41%) DevOps
11 79 (7.91%) Service Delivery
12 78 (7.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 73 (7.31%) Mentoring
14 72 (7.21%) Change Management
15 70 (7.01%) CI/CD
16 68 (6.81%) Business Continuity
16 68 (6.81%) ITSM
17 60 (6.01%) SIEM
18 52 (5.21%) Server Management
19 51 (5.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 199 (19.92%) PowerShell
2 126 (12.61%) Python
3 68 (6.81%) SQL
4 53 (5.31%) Bash
5 17 (1.70%) C++
6 16 (1.60%) Bicep
7 15 (1.50%) Java
8 14 (1.40%) Rust
9 13 (1.30%) C
10 11 (1.10%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.00%) C#
11 10 (1.00%) Go
12 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.50%) VB
13 5 (0.50%) VBA
13 5 (0.50%) VBScript
14 4 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
15 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 226 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 122 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.21%) Degree
4 91 (9.11%) DV Cleared
5 73 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (5.71%) Azure Certification
7 56 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (3.90%) DBS Check
9 35 (3.50%) CCNA
10 34 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (3.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 27 (2.70%) AWS Certification
12 27 (2.70%) CCNP
13 20 (2.00%) MCSE
14 19 (1.90%) RHCSA
15 13 (1.30%) VCAP
16 11 (1.10%) CEH
17 10 (1.00%) MCSA
17 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 8 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.61%) SLA
2 62 (6.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 47 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (4.60%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.80%) NIST
6 18 (1.80%) QA
7 16 (1.60%) GDPR
8 11 (1.10%) ISO 22301
9 9 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.20%) COBIT
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) PMO
13 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.10%) RMADS
System Software
1 613 (61.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 503 (50.35%) Active Directory
3 290 (29.03%) Hyper-V
4 133 (13.31%) vSphere
5 60 (6.01%) VMware ESXi
6 56 (5.61%) VMware NSX
7 45 (4.50%) Terminal Server
8 39 (3.90%) Docker
9 27 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (2.50%) KVM
11 23 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
12 13 (1.30%) Firmware
13 8 (0.80%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.80%) vCloud
13 8 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
14 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.60%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.50%) Squid
15 5 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 134 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 120 (12.01%) Ansible
3 113 (11.31%) Terraform
4 100 (10.01%) Kubernetes
5 68 (6.81%) SCCM
6 56 (5.61%) vCenter Server
7 40 (4.00%) Grafana
8 26 (2.60%) FortiGate
9 25 (2.50%) Prometheus
9 25 (2.50%) WSUS
10 20 (2.00%) Nagios
10 20 (2.00%) Proxmox
10 20 (2.00%) VxRail
11 17 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (1.50%) SCOM
12 15 (1.50%) ZABBIX
13 12 (1.20%) vRealize
14 11 (1.10%) Packer
15 8 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 552 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 136 (13.61%) Cisco
3 128 (12.81%) Veeam
4 92 (9.21%) Dell
5 88 (8.81%) Red Hat
6 77 (7.71%) Citrix
7 76 (7.61%) Splunk
8 75 (7.51%) SolarWinds
9 64 (6.41%) Nimble Storage
10 59 (5.91%) HP
11 47 (4.70%) McAfee
12 42 (4.20%) Brocade
12 42 (4.20%) Tanium
13 41 (4.10%) Fortinet
14 39 (3.90%) Commvault
15 38 (3.80%) NetApp
16 36 (3.60%) Palo Alto
17 35 (3.50%) Tenable
18 30 (3.00%) Google
18 30 (3.00%) Juniper