vSphere Job Trends in Gloucestershire

VMware vSphere
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 75 89
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +19
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 5 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.76% 0.31% 1.70%
As % of the System Software category 9.26% 1.63% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile £50,750 - £27,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,188 £47,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,875 - -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £91,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -39.89% +79.41% +13.33%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 54 123 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.24% 19.16% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 44 66 165
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £29,176
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +22.55% -7.27%
75th Percentile £73,125 £74,375 £61,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +3.16%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

vSphere
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in Gloucestershire

vSphere
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Cheltenham - 1 £67,500 -
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) BCP
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (40.00%) Meraki
5 1 (20.00%) Dell
5 1 (20.00%) F5
5 1 (20.00%) Google
5 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto