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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 500 553
Rank change year-on-year +138 +53 +158
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 377 397 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 6.37% 3.65% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 90 324 284
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £43,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £78,375
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 5,915 10,881 12,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.02% 11.38% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,384 8,491 8,812
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £76,250 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.35%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +226 265 £48,750 +13.37% 17
North West +193 256 £40,500 -22.86% 9
South East +71 54 £85,000 +75.26% 38
London +48 25 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Midlands +33 19 £50,000 - 20
East Midlands +42 15 £50,000 - 6
South West +39 7 £57,500 +9.52% 8
Yorkshire +53 6 £52,500 +23.53% 4
West Midlands +23 4 £30,000 -40.00% 11
East of England 0 4 £46,500 +45.31% 21
North East +47 3 £62,500 +127.27% 4
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 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.65%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.53%) Azure
2 32 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (6.63%) IaaS
4 20 (5.31%) AWS
5 10 (2.65%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.65%) GCP
6 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.59%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.33%) GitHub
7 5 (1.33%) SaaS
8 4 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.80%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.53%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.53%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.27%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.27%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.27%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 271 (71.88%) VPN
2 262 (69.50%) Cisco IOS
3 34 (9.02%) DNS
4 31 (8.22%) Firewall
5 30 (7.96%) DHCP
5 30 (7.96%) VSAN
6 24 (6.37%) SAN
7 14 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (2.92%) 5G
9 11 (2.92%) Bluetooth
9 11 (2.92%) LTE
9 11 (2.92%) Network Security
10 9 (2.39%) LAN
10 9 (2.39%) NAS
10 9 (2.39%) TCP/IP
10 9 (2.39%) WAN
11 7 (1.86%) VLAN
12 6 (1.59%) SMTP
13 5 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Git
2 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.80%) JIRA
3 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.53%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 290 (76.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 263 (69.76%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (9.02%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.18%) Electronics
4 12 (3.18%) Finance
5 5 (1.33%) Law
6 3 (0.80%) Banking
6 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
6 3 (0.80%) Legal
6 3 (0.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.53%) Local Government
8 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.27%) French Language
8 1 (0.27%) Games
8 1 (0.27%) German Language
8 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.27%) Marketing
8 1 (0.27%) Polish Language
8 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 300 (79.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (7.16%) VMware Specialist
3 22 (5.84%) Support Engineer
4 13 (3.45%) Lead
5 12 (3.18%) Administrator
5 12 (3.18%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 11 (2.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (2.92%) VMware Engineer
7 10 (2.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 10 (2.65%) Senior
8 8 (2.12%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (2.12%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 8 (2.12%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 6 (1.59%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (1.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.59%) IT Support
9 6 (1.59%) Support Specialist
9 6 (1.59%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (1.59%) VMware Support Engineer
9 6 (1.59%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (70.03%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.53%) .NET
4 1 (0.27%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.27%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) SAML
4 1 (0.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 262 (69.50%) Cyberattack
2 13 (3.45%) Clustering
3 11 (2.92%) IoT
3 11 (2.92%) NB-IoT
4 7 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.86%) PKI
5 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.33%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.06%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.80%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.27%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 343 (90.98%) Windows
2 315 (83.55%) Linux
3 263 (69.76%) Android
4 61 (16.18%) Windows Server
5 16 (4.24%) Windows 10
6 13 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.80%) Debian
10 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.53%) SUSE
12 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.27%) Unix
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (81.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 286 (75.86%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (73.47%) DevOps
4 274 (72.68%) Task Automation
5 264 (70.03%) Platform Engineering
5 264 (70.03%) Storage Management
6 263 (69.76%) Risk Management
7 262 (69.50%) Line Management
7 262 (69.50%) Mathematics
8 26 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (4.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (4.77%) High Availability
9 18 (4.77%) Incident Management
10 15 (3.98%) ITIL
11 13 (3.45%) Migration
12 12 (3.18%) Containerisation
13 11 (2.92%) Asset Management
13 11 (2.92%) CI/CD
13 11 (2.92%) Penetration Testing
13 11 (2.92%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 334 (88.59%) PowerShell
2 303 (80.37%) Python
3 277 (73.47%) Bash
4 13 (3.45%) SQL
5 3 (0.80%) C#
6 2 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.28%) DV Cleared
3 25 (6.63%) Degree
4 21 (5.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 18 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.71%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (2.39%) MCSE
9 8 (2.12%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.12%) CCNA
9 8 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.06%) MCSA
12 3 (0.80%) VCAP
13 2 (0.53%) ACSP
13 2 (0.53%) HP AIS
14 1 (0.27%) CCNP
14 1 (0.27%) CISSP
14 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.80%) GDPR
1 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
1 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (0.80%) SLA
1 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 286 (75.86%) VMware NSX
2 285 (75.60%) Hyper-V
3 280 (74.27%) Docker
4 90 (23.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 47 (12.47%) Active Directory
6 36 (9.55%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (3.18%) Terminal Services
9 6 (1.59%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.06%) NFS
11 1 (0.27%) vCloud
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.27%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 303 (80.37%) Ansible
2 293 (77.72%) Terraform
3 25 (6.63%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.63%) Puppet
4 20 (5.31%) vCenter Server
5 12 (3.18%) vMotion
6 10 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.39%) vRealize
8 8 (2.12%) PowerCLI
9 6 (1.59%) Nagios
10 4 (1.06%) SCCM
11 2 (0.53%) Control-M
11 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.53%) Grafana
11 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 278 (73.74%) Cisco
2 263 (69.76%) Juniper
3 262 (69.50%) 3PAR
3 262 (69.50%) Splunk
4 110 (29.18%) VMware
5 74 (19.63%) Microsoft
6 24 (6.37%) HP
7 14 (3.71%) Citrix
8 13 (3.45%) Veeam
9 12 (3.18%) Dell
10 9 (2.39%) NetApp
10 9 (2.39%) Pure Storage
11 8 (2.12%) Google
12 7 (1.86%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (1.59%) Symantec
14 5 (1.33%) Apple
14 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.80%) CheckPoint
15 3 (0.80%) Commvault
15 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds