vSphere Job Trends in the Midlands

VMware vSphere
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 207 239
Rank change year-on-year -58 +32 -18
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 16 18 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.10% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 2.51% 2.57% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 33
10th Percentile £35,358 £46,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,797 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,847 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £44,125 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £48,750 £70,000 £55,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% +7.14% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 637 701 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.17% 12.39% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 502 530 641
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,625 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £37,500 £44,225
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -15.21% -1.02%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.04% -1.82%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the Midlands

vSphere
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the Midlands

vSphere
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
East Midlands -35 11 £42,500 -15.00% 4
West Midlands -38 5 £37,500 -25.00% 8
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
2 4 (25.00%) MQTT
2 4 (25.00%) VPN
3 3 (18.75%) NX-OS
3 3 (18.75%) Wireless
4 2 (12.50%) LAN
4 2 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) Neo4j
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Law
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Architect
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Replication
3 4 (25.00%) IoT
4 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (18.75%) PKI
5 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) ITIL
3 6 (37.50%) Project Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) High Availability
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Availability Management
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Culture Change
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Information Security
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Server Management
5 3 (18.75%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) MCSE
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (12.50%) XenApp
4 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Galera Cluster
1 4 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (18.75%) FortiGate
3 2 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) VMware
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Veeam
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco
5 2 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) Dell
5 2 (12.50%) FIS
5 2 (12.50%) Mitel
5 2 (12.50%) Sophos