vSphere Jobs in England

VMware vSphere
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 497 556
Rank change year-on-year +151 +59 +171
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 381 382 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 6.51% 3.55% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 97 325 287
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -10.00%

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 5,857 10,752 13,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.88% 11.97% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 8,555 9,013
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,170 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -1.20%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in England

vSphere
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vSphere in England.

Salary trend for vSphere in England

vSphere
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
North of England +204 265 £45,000 +4.65% 10
North West +171 256 £37,500 -28.57% 6
South East +62 55 £85,000 +75.26% 14
London +44 27 £70,000 +7.69% 29
Midlands +25 19 £50,000 - 18
East Midlands +35 15 £50,000 - 5
South West +39 7 £57,500 +9.52% 11
Yorkshire +45 6 £52,500 +23.53% 2
East of England +12 5 £43,000 +34.38% 12
West Midlands +24 4 £30,000 -42.86% 13
North East +44 3 £62,500 +127.27% 2
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.91%) Azure
2 34 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (7.35%) IaaS
4 21 (5.51%) AWS
5 13 (3.41%) Entra ID
6 10 (2.62%) GCP
7 8 (2.10%) SaaS
8 6 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.57%) GitHub
8 6 (1.57%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.79%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.79%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.79%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.52%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.52%) Slack
12 1 (0.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 271 (71.13%) VPN
2 262 (68.77%) Cisco IOS
3 36 (9.45%) DNS
4 34 (8.92%) VSAN
5 31 (8.14%) DHCP
6 30 (7.87%) Firewall
7 24 (6.30%) SAN
8 14 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (3.41%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (2.89%) 5G
10 11 (2.89%) Bluetooth
10 11 (2.89%) LTE
11 10 (2.62%) Network Security
12 9 (2.36%) LAN
12 9 (2.36%) NAS
12 9 (2.36%) TCP/IP
12 9 (2.36%) WAN
13 7 (1.84%) VLAN
14 6 (1.57%) SMTP
15 5 (1.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.26%) Power BI
4 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Git
1 5 (1.31%) JIRA
2 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 290 (76.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 264 (69.29%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (8.66%) Social Skills
4 13 (3.41%) Finance
5 12 (3.15%) Electronics
6 5 (1.31%) Law
7 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.79%) Banking
8 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.79%) Legal
9 2 (0.52%) Local Government
9 2 (0.52%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.26%) French Language
10 1 (0.26%) Games
10 1 (0.26%) German Language
10 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.26%) Marketing
10 1 (0.26%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 301 (79.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (7.87%) VMware Specialist
3 21 (5.51%) Support Engineer
4 13 (3.41%) Lead
5 12 (3.15%) Senior
5 12 (3.15%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 11 (2.89%) Administrator
6 11 (2.89%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (2.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 10 (2.62%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (2.10%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 7 (1.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.84%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (1.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (1.57%) 3rd Line Support
10 6 (1.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (1.57%) Support Specialist
10 6 (1.57%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (1.57%) VMware Support Engineer
10 6 (1.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (69.29%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.05%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.52%) .NET
4 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.26%) REST
4 1 (0.26%) SAML
4 1 (0.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 262 (68.77%) Cyberattack
2 13 (3.41%) Clustering
3 11 (2.89%) IoT
3 11 (2.89%) NB-IoT
4 7 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.84%) PKI
5 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.05%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.79%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 342 (89.76%) Windows
2 314 (82.41%) Linux
3 263 (69.03%) Android
4 61 (16.01%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.94%) Windows 10
6 11 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.57%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.79%) Debian
9 3 (0.79%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.79%) SUSE
9 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.52%) VMS
11 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.26%) Unix
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (80.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 288 (75.59%) Problem-Solving
3 278 (72.97%) DevOps
4 276 (72.44%) Task Automation
5 264 (69.29%) Platform Engineering
5 264 (69.29%) Storage Management
6 263 (69.03%) Risk Management
7 262 (68.77%) Line Management
7 262 (68.77%) Mathematics
8 25 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (4.72%) High Availability
9 18 (4.72%) Incident Management
10 17 (4.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (4.20%) ITIL
12 12 (3.15%) CI/CD
12 12 (3.15%) Containerisation
13 11 (2.89%) Asset Management
13 11 (2.89%) Migration
13 11 (2.89%) Penetration Testing
13 11 (2.89%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 338 (88.71%) PowerShell
2 305 (80.05%) Python
3 279 (73.23%) Bash
4 15 (3.94%) SQL
5 3 (0.79%) C#
6 2 (0.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 41 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.97%) DV Cleared
3 25 (6.56%) Degree
4 19 (4.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.67%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.84%) MCSE
10 6 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.31%) CCNA
11 5 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.31%) MCSA
12 3 (0.79%) ACSP
12 3 (0.79%) HP AIS
12 3 (0.79%) VCAP
13 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
14 1 (0.26%) CCNP
14 1 (0.26%) CISSP
14 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.05%) SLA
3 3 (0.79%) GDPR
3 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 288 (75.59%) VMware NSX
2 285 (74.80%) Hyper-V
3 280 (73.49%) Docker
4 95 (24.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 51 (13.39%) Active Directory
6 34 (8.92%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (3.15%) Terminal Services
9 6 (1.57%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.05%) NFS
11 1 (0.26%) vCloud
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.26%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 302 (79.27%) Ansible
2 293 (76.90%) Terraform
3 25 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.56%) Puppet
4 19 (4.99%) vCenter Server
5 12 (3.15%) vMotion
6 11 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.36%) vRealize
8 8 (2.10%) PowerCLI
9 6 (1.57%) Nagios
10 5 (1.31%) SCCM
11 4 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.52%) Control-M
13 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.52%) Grafana
13 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.26%) Nessus
14 1 (0.26%) SCOM
14 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 278 (72.97%) Cisco
2 263 (69.03%) Juniper
3 262 (68.77%) 3PAR
3 262 (68.77%) Splunk
4 114 (29.92%) VMware
5 75 (19.69%) Microsoft
6 25 (6.56%) HP
7 15 (3.94%) Citrix
7 15 (3.94%) Veeam
8 13 (3.41%) Dell
9 10 (2.62%) Google
10 9 (2.36%) NetApp
10 9 (2.36%) Pure Storage
11 7 (1.84%) Extreme Networks
12 6 (1.57%) Apple
12 6 (1.57%) Symantec
13 5 (1.31%) Red Hat
14 4 (1.05%) Meraki
15 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
15 3 (0.79%) Zscaler