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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 460 437
Rank change year-on-year -63 -23 +120
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 94 233 252
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 2.50% 3.77% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 55 159 224
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,160 £48,750 £42,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £54,145
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +29.28% +3.13%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £108,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £70,000 £54,145
% change year-on-year -24.64% +29.28% +4.13%

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 3,760 6,177 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.12% 12.83% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,693 6,511
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,790 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 January 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 January 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 +26 27 £57,500 -20.69% 12
East of England +26 21 £52,500 +2.44% 3
South East -28 13 £48,000 -36.00% 25
North of England -17 11 £67,500 +35.00% 17
Midlands +17 10 £45,000 +4.65% 3
South West -9 9 £55,000 -29.71% 5
East Midlands -2 7 £37,500 -6.25% 2
North West +4 5 £73,750 +71.51% 7
Yorkshire -20 4 £32,500 -38.10% 5
North East +10 2 £85,000 +70.00% 5
West Midlands +10 2 £57,500 +25.00% 1
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 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.19%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.26%) CATIA
3 2 (2.13%) Acrobat
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (20.21%) AWS
3 17 (18.09%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (17.02%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.38%) GCP
5 6 (6.38%) GitHub
6 5 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (5.32%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.32%) IaaS
7 3 (3.19%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.19%) Nutanix
7 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.13%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.13%) SaaS
8 2 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (36.17%) Firewall
2 32 (34.04%) DNS
3 31 (32.98%) DHCP
4 20 (21.28%) SAN
5 17 (18.09%) VLAN
6 14 (14.89%) TCP/IP
6 14 (14.89%) VSAN
7 11 (11.70%) WAN
8 10 (10.64%) LAN
8 10 (10.64%) NAS
9 7 (7.45%) Wireless
10 6 (6.38%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (5.32%) VPN
12 4 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (3.19%) Skype
14 2 (2.13%) IP Telephony
14 2 (2.13%) Network Security
14 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
14 2 (2.13%) WebEx
15 1 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Git
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 4 (4.26%) GitLab
3 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.13%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Finance
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Law
5 4 (4.26%) Retail
5 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.19%) Police
7 2 (2.13%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (42.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (19.15%) Senior
3 14 (14.89%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Linux Scripter
8 6 (6.38%) Linux/Unix DevOps
8 6 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Support Technician
10 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) .NET
1 2 (2.13%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (2.13%) WCF
2 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.57%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.32%) Blackberry
4 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (5.32%) PKI
5 4 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.19%) RSA SecurID
7 2 (2.13%) CCTV
7 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.06%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 65 (69.15%) Windows
2 51 (54.26%) Windows Server
3 37 (39.36%) Linux
4 10 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (9.57%) Windows 10
6 7 (7.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.19%) VMS
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.06%) CentOS
9 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (24.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (19.15%) Business Continuity
3 18 (19.15%) Containerisation
3 18 (19.15%) ITIL
3 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (17.02%) DevOps
4 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (15.96%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (14.89%) Information Security
6 14 (14.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (13.83%) High Availability
8 11 (11.70%) CI/CD
9 10 (10.64%) Agile
9 10 (10.64%) Service Delivery
10 9 (9.57%) Asset Management
10 9 (9.57%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.57%) Proactive Monitoring
10 9 (9.57%) Security Hardening
10 9 (9.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.72%) PowerShell
2 17 (18.09%) Python
3 3 (3.19%) Bash
4 2 (2.13%) C#
4 2 (2.13%) Java
4 2 (2.13%) SQL
4 2 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.77%) Degree
2 12 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (7.45%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.26%) CCNA
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.19%) CCNP
7 3 (3.19%) MCSE
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.06%) LPIC
9 1 (1.06%) MCSA
9 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.06%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
2 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 63 (67.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (58.51%) Active Directory
3 23 (24.47%) Hyper-V
4 18 (19.15%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (11.70%) Docker
6 10 (10.64%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (8.51%) VMware NSX
8 7 (7.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (6.38%) NFS
10 4 (4.26%) XenDesktop
11 3 (3.19%) vCloud
12 1 (1.06%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (23.40%) Ansible
2 21 (22.34%) Terraform
3 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
4 15 (15.96%) vCenter Server
5 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.32%) SCOM
6 5 (5.32%) VxRail
7 4 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (3.19%) FortiGate
8 3 (3.19%) SCCM
8 3 (3.19%) WSUS
9 2 (2.13%) Control-M
9 2 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (2.13%) Grafana
9 2 (2.13%) SCSM
9 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.06%) Argo
10 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.06%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 90 (95.74%) VMware
2 63 (67.02%) Microsoft
3 28 (29.79%) Cisco
4 15 (15.96%) Dell
4 15 (15.96%) Palo Alto
5 14 (14.89%) Veeam
6 13 (13.83%) Red Hat
7 10 (10.64%) Commvault
8 8 (8.51%) Fortinet
8 8 (8.51%) Pure Storage
9 6 (6.38%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (5.32%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.32%) SonicWALL
11 4 (4.26%) Broadcom
11 4 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (4.26%) EMC
12 3 (3.19%) Apple
12 3 (3.19%) Citrix
12 3 (3.19%) HP
12 3 (3.19%) NVIDIA