vSphere Jobs in the North West

VMware vSphere
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 280 258
Rank change year-on-year +169 -22 +58
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 261 15 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.26% 0.15% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 23.22% 1.56% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 34
10th Percentile - £41,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,813 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £54,688
90th Percentile £51,250 £79,625 £57,050
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,124 961 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.05% 9.74% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 318 834 812
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,500 £25,420
25th Percentile £36,563 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,886 £62,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £75,000 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North West

vSphere
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for vSphere in the North West

vSphere
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Lancashire +20 164 £47,500 - 4
Manchester +102 52 £37,500 -28.57% 23
Cheshire - 39 - - 3
Merseyside +43 5 - - 1
Cumbria -70 1 £45,000 -40.00%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.77%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (2.30%) Azure
3 4 (1.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (0.77%) GCP
5 1 (0.38%) AWS
5 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.38%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 250 (95.79%) Cisco IOS
1 250 (95.79%) VPN
2 4 (1.53%) DNS
3 3 (1.15%) DHCP
4 2 (0.77%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
General
1 252 (96.55%) Analytical Skills
2 251 (96.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
4 4 (1.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (97.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (2.30%) Senior
3 5 (1.92%) IT Technician
3 5 (1.92%) Senior IT Technician
3 5 (1.92%) Senior Technician
4 1 (0.38%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) IT Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (0.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (95.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 250 (95.79%) Cyberattack
2 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 261 (100.00%) Windows
2 251 (96.17%) Linux
3 250 (95.79%) Android
4 11 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.30%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.92%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.38%) Debian
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (99.23%) Problem-Solving
2 255 (97.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 252 (96.55%) Line Management
4 250 (95.79%) DevOps
4 250 (95.79%) Mathematics
4 250 (95.79%) Platform Engineering
4 250 (95.79%) Risk Management
4 250 (95.79%) Storage Management
4 250 (95.79%) Task Automation
5 5 (1.92%) Customer Service
5 5 (1.92%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (1.92%) Software Distribution
6 3 (1.15%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (0.77%) ITIL
7 2 (0.77%) Server Management
8 1 (0.38%) Business Continuity
8 1 (0.38%) CI/CD
8 1 (0.38%) Mentoring
8 1 (0.38%) Patch Management
8 1 (0.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 250 (95.79%) Bash
1 250 (95.79%) PowerShell
1 250 (95.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (1.92%) ACSP
1 5 (1.92%) HP AIS
1 5 (1.92%) MCSA
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
1 5 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 251 (96.17%) Hyper-V
2 250 (95.79%) Docker
2 250 (95.79%) VMware NSX
3 11 (4.21%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 250 (95.79%) Ansible
1 250 (95.79%) Terraform
2 5 (1.92%) SCCM
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 251 (96.17%) Cisco
2 250 (95.79%) 3PAR
2 250 (95.79%) Juniper
2 250 (95.79%) Splunk
3 11 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.21%) VMware
4 8 (3.07%) Veeam
5 6 (2.30%) Apple
6 5 (1.92%) HP
7 1 (0.38%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.38%) Meraki
7 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow