VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in Scotland

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 109 123
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 +64
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 25 38 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.92% 1.17% 1.60%
As % of the System Software category 11.11% 14.29% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 29
10th Percentile - £26,950 £33,730
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -3.06% -4.54%
75th Percentile £53,000 £55,313 £53,750
90th Percentile £54,625 £69,500 £79,655
UK median annual salary £43,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.39% +6.60% -

All System Software Skills
Scotland

VMware Infrastructure 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 225 266 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.27% 8.18% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 106 147 320
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £27,225
25th Percentile £31,063 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Scotland

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Scotland

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Glasgow -8 16 £30,000 -36.84% 8
Edinburgh -6 3 - - 6
Dundee - 1 £37,500 -
Banffshire - 1 - -
Dunbartonshire - 1 £52,500 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 - 2
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 -
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.00%) IIS
4 1 (4.00%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) DHCP
2 9 (36.00%) DNS
3 8 (32.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) VPN
5 1 (4.00%) ATM
5 1 (4.00%) IMAP
5 1 (4.00%) Modbus
5 1 (4.00%) Multicast
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.00%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) VoIP
5 1 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.00%) Military
4 1 (4.00%) Advertising
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) IT Support
1 7 (28.00%) Lead
2 6 (24.00%) IT Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 5 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Field Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Field Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) IT Technician
6 2 (8.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 2 (8.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
6 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Support
6 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Technician
6 2 (8.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (28.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.00%) Linux
5 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 8 (32.00%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Asset Management
5 5 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 5 (20.00%) ERP
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Server Management
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.00%) Statistics
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.00%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (8.00%) Server Virtualisation
7 2 (8.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.00%) Python
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (20.00%) HNC
4 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) CCNP
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.00%) RHCE
5 1 (4.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) IEC 61131
3 1 (4.00%) IEC 61508
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) Hyper-V
2 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 2 (8.00%) KVM
3 2 (8.00%) vSphere
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Proxmox
3 2 (8.00%) Puppet
4 1 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (76.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Juniper
4 2 (8.00%) McAfee
4 2 (8.00%) NetApp
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) Datto
5 1 (4.00%) Pegasus
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) Rockwell
5 1 (4.00%) Sage
5 1 (4.00%) Siemens
5 1 (4.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) Xero