vSphere Job Trends in London

VMware vSphere
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 370 350
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +244
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 26 54 99
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.34% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 2.09% 2.44% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 88
10th Percentile £46,797 £55,813 £49,925
25th Percentile £47,617 £67,500 £58,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £103,438
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +27.27% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,245 2,210 2,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.08% 13.98% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 920 1,422 2,290
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,275 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +13.21% -5.36%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,200 £107,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in London

vSphere
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for vSphere in London

vSphere
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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 5 £57,500 -24.84% 8
vSphere
England

vSphere
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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) GitHub
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
2 11 (42.31%) WAN
3 10 (38.46%) LAN
4 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
5 6 (23.08%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (19.23%) SAN
6 5 (19.23%) VSAN
7 4 (15.38%) DHCP
7 4 (15.38%) DNS
7 4 (15.38%) VLAN
7 4 (15.38%) VPN
8 3 (11.54%) NAS
8 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
10 1 (3.85%) IP Telephony
10 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (3.85%) VoIP
10 1 (3.85%) VXLAN
10 1 (3.85%) WebEx
10 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Linux Scripter
3 6 (23.08%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Python Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) IT Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Senior IT Consultant
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Synthetic Data
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 11 (42.31%) Linux
4 7 (26.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
7 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
3 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 4 (15.38%) Information Security
4 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) SIEM
4 4 (15.38%) Storage Management
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Resource Management
5 3 (11.54%) Security Hardening
5 3 (11.54%) Server Management
5 3 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.54%) CCNA
3 3 (11.54%) CCNP
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) MCSE
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.85%) LPIC
5 1 (3.85%) MCSA
5 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.85%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (23.08%) NFS
4 5 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (7.69%) Docker
6 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.85%) vCloud
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 10 (38.46%) Ansible
2 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) vCenter Server
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.69%) PowerCLI
5 2 (7.69%) VxRail
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM
6 1 (3.85%) vRealize
6 1 (3.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (42.31%) Cisco
3 9 (34.62%) Commvault
3 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
4 8 (30.77%) Pure Storage
4 8 (30.77%) Red Hat
5 3 (11.54%) Dell
6 2 (7.69%) Broadcom
6 2 (7.69%) Citrix
6 2 (7.69%) EMC
6 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.69%) Veeam
7 1 (3.85%) Apple
7 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.85%) IBM
7 1 (3.85%) Meraki
7 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.85%) Reuters
7 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.85%) Splunk