vSphere Job Trends in the North of England

VMware vSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 112 340
Rank change year-on-year -205 +228 -33
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 27 268 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.13% 2.86% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 2.72% 16.59% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 22 15 34
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £27,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,625 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +25.73% -10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £55,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £60,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% +12.71%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 993 1,615 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.80% 17.23% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 800 640 1,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £57,854
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,525 £69,500
England median annual salary £52,750 £50,875 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.69% +3.83% -10.91%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the North of England

vSphere
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Yorkshire -25 11 £50,000 -4.76% 4
North East -42 8 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North West -166 8 £47,500 -11.63% 8
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (40.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (40.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (18.52%) AWS
4 5 (18.52%) OneDrive
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.70%) IBM Watson
7 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (62.96%) DNS
2 13 (48.15%) DHCP
3 9 (33.33%) VPN
3 9 (33.33%) WAN
4 8 (29.63%) Firewall
4 8 (29.63%) LAN
5 6 (22.22%) VLAN
6 5 (18.52%) SD-WAN
7 4 (14.81%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (14.81%) BGP
7 4 (14.81%) MPLS
7 4 (14.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (14.81%) VoIP
7 4 (14.81%) VPLS
8 3 (11.11%) Wireless
9 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
9 1 (3.70%) NAS
9 1 (3.70%) SAN
9 1 (3.70%) SNMP
9 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) GitLab
2 3 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 3 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (18.52%) Local Government
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) IT Support
4 4 (14.81%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Build Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Server Build Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Server Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Field Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Platform Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (18.52%) Cyber Security Posture
2 5 (18.52%) IoT
3 4 (14.81%) PKI
4 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
4 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Windows Server
3 9 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Migration
2 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 7 (25.93%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) IT Strategy
5 5 (18.52%) Observability
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (14.81%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Process Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (14.81%) Security Patching
6 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) DBS Check
4 4 (14.81%) CCNA
4 4 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (62.96%) Active Directory
3 9 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (33.33%) VMware NSX
4 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
5 5 (18.52%) Docker
6 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (3.70%) KVM
7 1 (3.70%) MetaFrame
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (3.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Ansible
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) SCCM
3 5 (18.52%) Terraform
4 4 (14.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (14.81%) WSUS
5 3 (11.11%) Control-M
5 3 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (11.11%) Grafana
6 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
7 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (29.63%) Cisco
4 5 (18.52%) Aruba
4 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 5 (18.52%) Veeam
5 3 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 3 (11.11%) Remedy
6 2 (7.41%) Datto
6 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.41%) SonicWALL
6 2 (7.41%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.70%) Arista
7 1 (3.70%) Citrix
7 1 (3.70%) Dell
7 1 (3.70%) IBM
7 1 (3.70%) NetScout
7 1 (3.70%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.70%) SevOne
7 1 (3.70%) Zerto