VMware Job Trends in London

VMware
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 121 116
Rank change year-on-year -32 -5 -10
Permanent jobs citing VMware 307 340 614
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.48% 2.77% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 5.11% 6.57% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 211 263 490
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £78,438
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -13.46%

All Vendors
London

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,002 5,172 9,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.96% 42.14% 40.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 3,145 6,519
10th Percentile £36,950 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £54,633 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £70,000 £66,663
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +5.01% -1.24%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £105,850
England median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% +10.00% -12.40%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VMware job vacancy trend in London

VMware
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in London

VMware
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London -37 57 £65,000 - 13
South London +17 11 £50,000 -24.53%
North London +4 8 £57,500 +35.29% 2
West London -15 7 £52,500 +23.53% 4
East London -20 4 £87,500 +27.27% 5
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 36 (11.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (9.45%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.95%) Confluence
4 4 (1.30%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.98%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.65%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.63%) PlantUML
4 4 (1.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 194 (63.19%) Azure
2 109 (35.50%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (20.20%) Entra ID
4 49 (15.96%) AWS
5 35 (11.40%) Nutanix
6 33 (10.75%) IaaS
6 33 (10.75%) SaaS
7 30 (9.77%) PaaS
8 23 (7.49%) Datadog
9 15 (4.89%) OneDrive
10 12 (3.91%) GitHub
11 11 (3.58%) GCP
11 11 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (2.28%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.95%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.95%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.30%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 103 (33.55%) DNS
2 84 (27.36%) Firewall
3 73 (23.78%) DHCP
4 67 (21.82%) VPN
5 62 (20.20%) SAN
6 48 (15.64%) VLAN
7 46 (14.98%) Wi-Fi
8 35 (11.40%) TCP/IP
9 29 (9.45%) WAN
10 24 (7.82%) LAN
11 14 (4.56%) VSAN
12 13 (4.23%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.93%) HTTP
14 7 (2.28%) Network Security
14 7 (2.28%) Wireless
15 5 (1.63%) Multicast
15 5 (1.63%) VoIP
16 4 (1.30%) BGP
16 4 (1.30%) IPv4
16 4 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.63%) Power BI
2 5 (1.63%) Tableau
3 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.98%) MySQL
5 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) DB2
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 31 (10.10%) Git
2 21 (6.84%) Chocolatey
3 15 (4.89%) GitLab
4 11 (3.58%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.61%) JIRA
6 7 (2.28%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.33%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 88 (28.66%) Finance
2 80 (26.06%) Social Skills
3 52 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (13.68%) Banking
5 14 (4.56%) Retail
6 13 (4.23%) Law
7 11 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.28%) Legal
9 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.30%) Automotive
10 4 (1.30%) Electronics
11 3 (0.98%) Aviation
11 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.98%) Military
12 2 (0.65%) Games
12 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (25.08%) Senior
2 50 (16.29%) IT Engineer
3 48 (15.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (12.70%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (9.77%) Senior IT Engineer
6 26 (8.47%) Support Engineer
7 24 (7.82%) Consultant
8 23 (7.49%) Administrator
8 23 (7.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.84%) Architect
10 19 (6.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 18 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.54%) 3rd Line Support
12 17 (5.54%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.54%) IT Support
12 17 (5.54%) Lead
13 16 (5.21%) Analyst
13 16 (5.21%) Linux Administrator
13 16 (5.21%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.93%) WebSockets
2 4 (1.30%) .NET
3 3 (0.98%) LDAP
4 2 (0.65%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (0.65%) Node.js
5 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.33%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) Middleware
5 1 (0.33%) React
5 1 (0.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.98%) Data Centre
2 36 (11.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (7.82%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (4.89%) PKI
5 13 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.93%) CMDB
7 9 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.61%) Clustering
9 7 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.95%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.63%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.63%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.63%) Replication
12 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 180 (58.63%) Windows
2 120 (39.09%) Linux
3 107 (34.85%) Windows Server
4 43 (14.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (4.89%) Windows 10
6 13 (4.23%) Unix
7 10 (3.26%) Apple iOS
7 10 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.95%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.30%) CentOS
11 4 (1.30%) Rocky
12 2 (0.65%) SUSE
13 1 (0.33%) Solaris
13 1 (0.33%) VMS
13 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (30.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 79 (25.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 69 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (16.61%) DevOps
5 51 (16.61%) Migration
6 50 (16.29%) ITSM
7 48 (15.64%) ITIL
8 45 (14.66%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (13.36%) Change Management
10 38 (12.38%) CI/CD
11 33 (10.75%) Vulnerability Management
12 25 (8.14%) Service Delivery
13 24 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (7.82%) Security Patching
14 23 (7.49%) Analytical Thinking
14 23 (7.49%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (7.49%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (7.17%) Performance Monitoring
16 21 (6.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 86 (28.01%) PowerShell
2 57 (18.57%) Python
3 22 (7.17%) SQL
4 19 (6.19%) Bash
5 10 (3.26%) Java
6 6 (1.95%) C#
6 6 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.63%) VB
7 5 (1.63%) VBA
7 5 (1.63%) VBScript
8 4 (1.30%) Bicep
8 4 (1.30%) C++
8 4 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
8 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.65%) Go
9 2 (0.65%) Perl
9 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.33%) COBOL
10 1 (0.33%) JCL
10 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.73%) Azure Certification
3 33 (10.75%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (10.75%) Degree
4 26 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (6.19%) CCNA
5 19 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 18 (5.86%) CCNP
6 18 (5.86%) RHCSA
7 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.56%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.23%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.91%) MCSE
10 11 (3.58%) VCAP
11 10 (3.26%) CEH
12 6 (1.95%) VCDX
13 5 (1.63%) CISSP
13 5 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.40%) SLA
2 20 (6.51%) NIST
3 18 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.26%) ISO 22301
5 6 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.95%) QA
6 5 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.98%) GDPR
8 2 (0.65%) COBIT
8 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 195 (63.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 150 (48.86%) Active Directory
3 56 (18.24%) vSphere
4 39 (12.70%) Hyper-V
5 20 (6.51%) VMware NSX
6 18 (5.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (5.54%) Docker
8 11 (3.58%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.95%) BitLocker
10 5 (1.63%) KVM
10 5 (1.63%) vCloud
10 5 (1.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (1.30%) Firmware
11 4 (1.30%) Squid
11 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (1.30%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.65%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (24.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 58 (18.89%) Terraform
3 53 (17.26%) Ansible
4 50 (16.29%) Kubernetes
5 38 (12.38%) SCCM
6 17 (5.54%) Nagios
7 14 (4.56%) vCenter Server
8 13 (4.23%) Grafana
9 12 (3.91%) Prometheus
10 10 (3.26%) Packer
10 10 (3.26%) ZABBIX
11 9 (2.93%) VxRail
12 8 (2.61%) FortiGate
13 7 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (2.28%) WSUS
14 6 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (1.95%) Puppet
15 4 (1.30%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.98%) Proxmox
16 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 166 (54.07%) Microsoft
2 52 (16.94%) Red Hat
3 48 (15.64%) Cisco
4 29 (9.45%) Tenable
5 25 (8.14%) Citrix
6 21 (6.84%) AppDynamics
6 21 (6.84%) Dynatrace
6 21 (6.84%) SolarWinds
7 20 (6.51%) Dell
8 18 (5.86%) Commvault
8 18 (5.86%) Veeam
9 15 (4.89%) Splunk
10 13 (4.23%) Broadcom
10 13 (4.23%) Oracle
10 13 (4.23%) ServiceNow
11 12 (3.91%) EMC
11 12 (3.91%) Fortinet
12 10 (3.26%) Palo Alto
13 9 (2.93%) Adobe
13 9 (2.93%) HP