vSphere Job Trends in England

VMware vSphere
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 310 483
Rank change year-on-year -217 +173 +48
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 165 378 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.96% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 3.57% 7.02% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 124 91 323
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £92,500 - £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% +9.52% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,619 5,383 10,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.58% 13.63% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,380 3,353 8,479
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in England

vSphere
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in England

vSphere
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 +12 59 £80,000 +14.29% 8
South East -31 46 £67,500 -20.59% 17
North of England -209 21 £50,000 -4.76% 9
South West -41 17 £60,500 +10.00% 6
Midlands -25 14 £45,000 -10.00% 5
East Midlands -29 10 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire -43 8 £50,000 -4.76% 2
North East -39 7 £70,000 +12.00% 2
East of England -19 6 £41,000 -11.83% 1
North West -163 6 £65,000 +49.43% 5
West Midlands -19 4 £46,250 +54.17% 3
vSphere
UK

vSphere
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 37 (22.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (10.91%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Site Server
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (43.64%) Azure
2 49 (29.70%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (22.42%) Entra ID
4 29 (17.58%) AWS
5 15 (9.09%) IaaS
5 15 (9.09%) Nutanix
6 14 (8.48%) SaaS
7 13 (7.88%) PaaS
8 8 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (4.85%) Serverless
9 7 (4.24%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.64%) OneDrive
11 5 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.42%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.42%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 65 (39.39%) DNS
2 60 (36.36%) Firewall
3 29 (17.58%) DHCP
4 26 (15.76%) SAN
4 26 (15.76%) WAN
5 24 (14.55%) VPN
6 22 (13.33%) LAN
6 22 (13.33%) VSAN
7 19 (11.52%) VLAN
8 12 (7.27%) Software-Defined Networking
9 11 (6.67%) NAS
10 9 (5.45%) TCP/IP
10 9 (5.45%) WebEx
11 8 (4.85%) IPv4
11 8 (4.85%) NetScaler
11 8 (4.85%) SD-WAN
11 8 (4.85%) Wireless
11 8 (4.85%) Wireshark
12 7 (4.24%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (4.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.42%) MySQL
3 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) GitLab
3 11 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 11 (6.67%) JIRA
4 8 (4.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.88%) Finance
3 12 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.85%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.85%) Law
5 8 (4.85%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.24%) Retail
7 6 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Marketing
7 6 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.42%) Automotive
8 4 (2.42%) Electronics
8 4 (2.42%) Local Government
9 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.21%) Legal
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 34 (20.61%) Architect
3 22 (13.33%) Senior
4 20 (12.12%) Applications Architect
5 16 (9.70%) Security Architect
6 15 (9.09%) Consultant
7 13 (7.88%) Support Engineer
8 12 (7.27%) Analyst
8 12 (7.27%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 12 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) IT Support
9 11 (6.67%) VMware Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Presales Solution Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (4.85%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.15%) XMPP
2 22 (13.33%) Regular Expression
3 19 (11.52%) LDAP
4 7 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.64%) JSON
5 6 (3.64%) JSON Schema
5 6 (3.64%) XML
6 4 (2.42%) boto
6 4 (2.42%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.61%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
1 25 (15.15%) PKI
2 20 (12.12%) Data Centre
3 17 (10.30%) Replication
4 10 (6.06%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.45%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (4.85%) IoT
7 7 (4.24%) Driving Licence
7 7 (4.24%) FlexPod
7 7 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.24%) Onboarding
7 7 (4.24%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.42%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (2.42%) Podcast
8 4 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.21%) Clustering
9 2 (1.21%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 136 (82.42%) Windows
2 98 (59.39%) Windows Server
3 89 (53.94%) Linux
4 37 (22.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (8.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (7.27%) Ubuntu
7 10 (6.06%) VMS
8 8 (4.85%) CentOS
9 6 (3.64%) Apple iOS
9 6 (3.64%) Mac OS
9 6 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.82%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (22.42%) SIEM
3 28 (16.97%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (14.55%) CI/CD
4 24 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (13.33%) Agile
5 22 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (12.12%) DevOps
6 20 (12.12%) Presales
7 19 (11.52%) DevSecOps
7 19 (11.52%) Migration
7 19 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (11.52%) Validation
8 17 (10.30%) Antivirus Management
9 16 (9.70%) Application Security
9 16 (9.70%) ITIL
9 16 (9.70%) Pattern Matching
9 16 (9.70%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (9.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 62 (37.58%) PowerShell
2 21 (12.73%) Python
3 16 (9.70%) SQL
4 12 (7.27%) Bash
5 11 (6.67%) Java
6 6 (3.64%) Bicep
6 6 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 62 (37.58%) Security Cleared
2 47 (28.48%) DV Cleared
3 23 (13.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 18 (10.91%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (10.91%) VCAP
6 17 (10.30%) Azure Certification
7 16 (9.70%) CCNA
7 16 (9.70%) SC Cleared
8 12 (7.27%) RHCSA
8 12 (7.27%) VCDX
9 9 (5.45%) Degree
10 8 (4.85%) AWS Certification
10 8 (4.85%) ISTQB
10 8 (4.85%) OSCP
10 8 (4.85%) RHCE
11 6 (3.64%) CCNP
11 6 (3.64%) DBS Check
11 6 (3.64%) MCSE
12 4 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.82%) NIST
3 2 (1.21%) PMO
3 2 (1.21%) RMADS
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) NCSC
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (70.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 112 (67.88%) Active Directory
3 35 (21.21%) VMware NSX
4 23 (13.94%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (7.88%) Docker
6 10 (6.06%) Hyper-V
7 9 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (4.85%) Squid
8 8 (4.85%) vCloud
9 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (4.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (4.24%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (3.64%) BitLocker
11 3 (1.82%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.61%) KVM
12 1 (0.61%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.61%) UAG
Systems Management
1 44 (26.67%) Terraform
2 38 (23.03%) Ansible
3 36 (21.82%) vCenter Server
4 25 (15.15%) Kubernetes
5 21 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (6.67%) WSUS
7 10 (6.06%) Grafana
7 10 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (5.45%) SCCM
9 8 (4.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 8 (4.85%) Packer
9 8 (4.85%) ZABBIX
10 7 (4.24%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (4.24%) Nessus
10 7 (4.24%) VxRail
11 6 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (2.42%) Galera Cluster
12 4 (2.42%) SolarWinds Orion
13 3 (1.82%) Control-M
13 3 (1.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 163 (98.79%) VMware
2 110 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 38 (23.03%) Red Hat
4 28 (16.97%) Cisco
5 27 (16.36%) NetApp
6 21 (12.73%) Citrix
6 21 (12.73%) McAfee
7 19 (11.52%) Splunk
8 18 (10.91%) Broadcom
8 18 (10.91%) Dell
9 16 (9.70%) Veeam
10 12 (7.27%) Fortinet
11 8 (4.85%) Apple
11 8 (4.85%) Nimble Storage
11 8 (4.85%) Oracle
11 8 (4.85%) Palo Alto
12 6 (3.64%) Aruba
12 6 (3.64%) EMC
12 6 (3.64%) Meraki
12 6 (3.64%) Tenable