vSphere Jobs in the North of England

VMware vSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 347 355
Rank change year-on-year +211 +8 +20
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 269 41 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.34% 0.23% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 17.92% 2.10% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 16 36 64
10th Percentile - £27,250 £27,675
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £36,464
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £51,875 £53,750 £54,063
90th Percentile £53,750 £63,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -8.16%

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 1,501 1,948 2,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.05% 11.14% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 597 1,663 1,606
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,011 £69,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Salary trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 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
North West +170 261 £37,500 -28.57% 30
Yorkshire +64 6 £52,500 +23.53% 18
North East +37 2 £65,000 +136.36% 5
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.74%) IIS
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.83%) Azure
2 9 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.86%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.12%) GCP
5 2 (0.74%) AWS
5 2 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (0.74%) SaaS
6 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 254 (94.42%) VPN
2 251 (93.31%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (2.60%) DNS
4 5 (1.86%) DHCP
4 5 (1.86%) Firewall
5 2 (0.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.37%) JIRA
1 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
1 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 253 (94.05%) Analytical Skills
2 252 (93.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (1.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (1.86%) Telecoms
4 2 (0.74%) Finance
Job Titles
1 256 (95.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (2.60%) Senior
3 5 (1.86%) IT Technician
3 5 (1.86%) Senior IT Technician
3 5 (1.86%) Senior Technician
4 2 (0.74%) Administrator
4 2 (0.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (0.74%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (0.74%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) IT Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (0.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (93.68%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.37%) .NET
2 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 251 (93.31%) Cyberattack
2 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.37%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 266 (98.88%) Windows
2 255 (94.80%) Linux
3 251 (93.31%) Android
4 14 (5.20%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.23%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.86%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.37%) Debian
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (97.03%) Problem-Solving
2 259 (96.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 255 (94.80%) DevOps
4 253 (94.05%) Line Management
5 251 (93.31%) Mathematics
5 251 (93.31%) Platform Engineering
5 251 (93.31%) Risk Management
5 251 (93.31%) Storage Management
5 251 (93.31%) Task Automation
6 6 (2.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (1.86%) CI/CD
7 5 (1.86%) Customer Service
7 5 (1.86%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (1.86%) Proactive Maintenance
7 5 (1.86%) Software Distribution
8 4 (1.49%) Migration
9 3 (1.12%) Containerisation
9 3 (1.12%) Performance Tuning
10 2 (0.74%) Collaborative Culture
10 2 (0.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 258 (95.91%) PowerShell
2 254 (94.42%) Python
3 253 (94.05%) Bash
4 4 (1.49%) SQL
5 1 (0.37%) C#
5 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (1.86%) ACSP
2 5 (1.86%) HP AIS
2 5 (1.86%) MCSA
2 5 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.86%) SLA
System Software
1 252 (93.68%) Docker
1 252 (93.68%) Hyper-V
2 251 (93.31%) VMware NSX
3 14 (5.20%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 257 (95.54%) Terraform
2 254 (94.42%) Ansible
3 5 (1.86%) SCCM
4 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.37%) Control-M
6 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 252 (93.68%) Cisco
2 251 (93.31%) 3PAR
2 251 (93.31%) Juniper
2 251 (93.31%) Splunk
3 18 (6.69%) VMware
4 14 (5.20%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.97%) Veeam
6 6 (2.23%) Apple
7 5 (1.86%) HP
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.37%) Meraki
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow