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 31 December 2025, 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 96 80
Rank change year-on-year -54 -16 +49
Permanent jobs citing VMware 271 531 647
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.98% 3.35% 3.67%
As % of the Vendors category 5.30% 8.38% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 204 392 565
10th Percentile £35,071 £41,350 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £73,190 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +12.60% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,625 £107,375 £95,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -

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 5,115 6,338 7,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.35% 39.98% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,222 3,635 5,423
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,500 £36,800
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,400 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
Central London -31 49 £57,500 -17.86% 38
East London -7 15 £35,000 -54.84%
North London - 6 £75,000 - 1
South London +15 2 - - 3
West London -15 2 £58,750 +23.68% 7
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 63 (23.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (12.55%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.95%) IIS
4 6 (2.21%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.85%) Confluence
6 3 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 165 (60.89%) Azure
2 94 (34.69%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (21.40%) AWS
4 51 (18.82%) Entra ID
5 27 (9.96%) Nutanix
6 21 (7.75%) PaaS
7 18 (6.64%) IaaS
8 17 (6.27%) SaaS
9 16 (5.90%) GCP
10 15 (5.54%) GitHub
10 15 (5.54%) OneDrive
11 11 (4.06%) OpenShift
12 10 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.32%) Mimecast
14 8 (2.95%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (2.21%) Amazon S3
15 6 (2.21%) Datadog
16 5 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (32.10%) Firewall
2 67 (24.72%) DNS
3 51 (18.82%) VPN
4 46 (16.97%) DHCP
5 39 (14.39%) TCP/IP
5 39 (14.39%) WAN
6 28 (10.33%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (9.59%) LAN
8 24 (8.86%) SAN
8 24 (8.86%) VLAN
9 20 (7.38%) SD-WAN
10 13 (4.80%) Remote Desktop
11 12 (4.43%) Network Security
12 10 (3.69%) VoIP
12 10 (3.69%) WebEx
13 7 (2.58%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (1.85%) NAS
14 5 (1.85%) Wireless
14 5 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.21%) MySQL
3 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.74%) Redis
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (6.27%) Git
2 15 (5.54%) GitLab
3 14 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.32%) JIRA
5 6 (2.21%) Chocolatey
6 5 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.48%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.74%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.74%) JUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.37%) MSI
10 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 86 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 75 (27.68%) Finance
3 32 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.86%) Law
5 18 (6.64%) Banking
6 10 (3.69%) French Language
7 9 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.32%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.32%) Retail
7 9 (3.32%) Swedish Language
8 7 (2.58%) Legal
8 7 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Advertising
10 4 (1.48%) Games
11 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 65 (23.99%) Senior
2 59 (21.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (11.44%) IT Support
4 28 (10.33%) Analyst
4 28 (10.33%) IT Engineer
5 26 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (8.12%) Administrator
7 21 (7.75%) Support Engineer
8 20 (7.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (7.01%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (6.27%) Infrastructure Support
10 17 (6.27%) VMware Engineer
11 15 (5.54%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.54%) Senior IT Engineer
12 14 (5.17%) Linux Administrator
13 13 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (4.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.80%) Support Analyst
13 13 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.95%) Kafka
2 7 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (1.85%) FreeMarker
5 4 (1.48%) Middleware
6 3 (1.11%) .NET
7 2 (0.74%) EDI
7 2 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.74%) pytest
7 2 (0.74%) REST
7 2 (0.74%) SAML
8 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.37%) LAMP
8 1 (0.37%) LDAP
8 1 (0.37%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.37%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 18 (6.64%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (6.27%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.54%) Private Cloud
5 14 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 11 (4.06%) Clustering
8 9 (3.32%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (2.95%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.85%) Social Media
12 4 (1.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.48%) iPad
12 4 (1.48%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 145 (53.51%) Windows
2 98 (36.16%) Windows Server
3 77 (28.41%) Linux
4 32 (11.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (9.59%) Windows 10
6 19 (7.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (5.17%) Unix
8 12 (4.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (4.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (3.69%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.85%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.11%) CentOS
12 3 (1.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.11%) Solaris
12 3 (1.11%) SUSE
12 3 (1.11%) VMS
12 3 (1.11%) Windows 7
12 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.74%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (26.20%) Disaster Recovery
3 67 (24.72%) ITIL
4 57 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (17.71%) DevOps
6 44 (16.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (15.50%) Business Continuity
7 42 (15.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 41 (15.13%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (12.55%) CI/CD
9 34 (12.55%) Migration
10 32 (11.81%) Change Management
11 30 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (11.07%) ITSM
12 29 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (10.33%) Vulnerability Management
14 27 (9.96%) Incident Response
15 26 (9.59%) Containerisation
15 26 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
15 26 (9.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 87 (32.10%) PowerShell
2 59 (21.77%) Python
3 20 (7.38%) Bash
4 16 (5.90%) SQL
5 8 (2.95%) Bicep
5 8 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.85%) Go
6 5 (1.85%) VBA
7 3 (1.11%) C#
7 3 (1.11%) Perl
7 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.74%) Groovy
8 2 (0.74%) Java
8 2 (0.74%) VB
8 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.37%) Bourne shell
9 1 (0.37%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) C-shell
9 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (16.24%) Degree
2 34 (12.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (11.07%) Azure Certification
4 26 (9.59%) AWS Certification
5 20 (7.38%) MCSE
5 20 (7.38%) Security Cleared
6 16 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.06%) CCNP
7 11 (4.06%) CEH
7 11 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.06%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (3.32%) A+ Certification
9 9 (3.32%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.32%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (2.95%) MCP
10 8 (2.95%) MCSA
11 7 (2.58%) CCNA
12 5 (1.85%) GCIA
12 5 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 23 (8.49%) SLA
2 22 (8.12%) NIST
3 11 (4.06%) ISO 22301
4 9 (3.32%) QA
5 7 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.85%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 176 (64.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 121 (44.65%) Active Directory
3 52 (19.19%) Hyper-V
4 27 (9.96%) vSphere
5 17 (6.27%) Docker
5 17 (6.27%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (3.32%) NFS
8 6 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (1.48%) Firmware
10 4 (1.48%) KVM
10 4 (1.48%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.74%) pfSense
11 2 (0.74%) Squid
11 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.37%) Postfix
12 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 67 (24.72%) Ansible
2 63 (23.25%) Terraform
3 57 (21.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 56 (20.66%) Kubernetes
5 16 (5.90%) SCCM
6 14 (5.17%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.32%) Grafana
8 8 (2.95%) Autotask
9 7 (2.58%) Rancher
9 7 (2.58%) SCOM
9 7 (2.58%) vRealize
10 6 (2.21%) vCenter Server
11 5 (1.85%) CASB
11 5 (1.85%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.85%) Puppet
11 5 (1.85%) VxRail
12 3 (1.11%) Argo
12 3 (1.11%) Nagios
12 3 (1.11%) Nessus
12 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 138 (50.92%) Microsoft
2 61 (22.51%) Cisco
3 33 (12.18%) Red Hat
4 27 (9.96%) Commvault
5 21 (7.75%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.54%) Oracle
7 13 (4.80%) Citrix
7 13 (4.80%) HP
8 12 (4.43%) Fortinet
8 12 (4.43%) Palo Alto
9 11 (4.06%) Splunk
10 10 (3.69%) Apple
10 10 (3.69%) Meraki
10 10 (3.69%) Pure Storage
11 9 (3.32%) Dell
11 9 (3.32%) EMC
11 9 (3.32%) Okta
11 9 (3.32%) SolarWinds
11 9 (3.32%) Veeam
11 9 (3.32%) Zscaler