VMware Infrastructure Jobs in the South East

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South East

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 120 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +26
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 221 404 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.30% 2.16% 2.65%
As % of the System Software category 24.21% 16.61% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 187 361 214
10th Percentile £32,100 £29,000 £29,085
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +8.25%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 913 2,432 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.50% 13.01% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 584 1,885 1,551
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East.

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Hampshire +30 84 £68,000 +43.16% 40
Thames Valley -4 75 £42,000 -1.18% 62
Surrey +43 55 £40,000 -23.81% 19
Berkshire +17 40 £46,250 -11.99% 37
Oxfordshire -1 24 £41,500 -1.19% 9
Buckinghamshire +28 11 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Kent +33 5 £40,000 -1.23% 4
East Sussex +3 2 £27,500 -45.00%
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 50 (22.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2013
4 6 (2.71%) Apache
4 6 (2.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) Appian
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (2.71%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 72 (32.58%) Azure
2 43 (19.46%) AWS
3 35 (15.84%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (9.50%) IaaS
5 10 (4.52%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.52%) GCP
6 6 (2.71%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.26%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.81%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.90%) MinIO
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.45%) PaaS
11 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (32.58%) Firewall
2 51 (23.08%) DNS
3 45 (20.36%) SAN
4 43 (19.46%) DHCP
5 32 (14.48%) NAS
6 31 (14.03%) WAN
7 29 (13.12%) VSAN
8 24 (10.86%) LAN
8 24 (10.86%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (10.41%) TCP/IP
10 20 (9.05%) VLAN
11 19 (8.60%) VPN
12 13 (5.88%) SD-WAN
13 12 (5.43%) BGP
13 12 (5.43%) MPLS
13 12 (5.43%) Network Security
13 12 (5.43%) OSPF
13 12 (5.43%) Remote Desktop
14 11 (4.98%) Ethernet
15 9 (4.07%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.24%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.45%) Power BI
5 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Robot Framework
1 2 (0.90%) Selenium
1 2 (0.90%) Snyk
2 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 55 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (4.98%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.07%) Electronics
5 7 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.71%) Games
6 6 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.26%) Back Office
7 5 (2.26%) Local Government
8 4 (1.81%) Advertising
8 4 (1.81%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (27.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (25.34%) Support Engineer
3 33 (14.93%) Infrastructure Support
3 33 (14.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 33 (14.93%) IT Engineer
4 29 (13.12%) IT Support
5 28 (12.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 27 (12.22%) VMware Specialist
7 23 (10.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (9.05%) Architect
8 20 (9.05%) Lead
9 15 (6.79%) Support Technician
10 12 (5.43%) Network Engineer
11 11 (4.98%) 2nd Line Support
12 10 (4.52%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.52%) Senior
12 10 (4.52%) VMware Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Linux Administrator
13 8 (3.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.36%) .NET
1 3 (1.36%) CSS
1 3 (1.36%) Kafka
2 2 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.45%) JSON
3 1 (0.45%) Middleware
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.45%) SAP XI
3 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.57%) Data Centre
2 26 (11.76%) Clustering
3 17 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.79%) IoT
5 14 (6.33%) PKI
6 13 (5.88%) Replication
7 11 (4.98%) Operational Technology
8 9 (4.07%) NB-IoT
9 7 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (2.71%) Biopharmaceutical
10 6 (2.71%) Industry 4.0
10 6 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.71%) PMI
10 6 (2.71%) SCADA
10 6 (2.71%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.26%) Blackberry
11 5 (2.26%) Client/Server
11 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 129 (58.37%) Windows
2 81 (36.65%) Windows Server
3 57 (25.79%) Linux
4 15 (6.79%) Mac OS
4 15 (6.79%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (3.17%) SUSE
6 7 (3.17%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.26%) CentOS
8 5 (2.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 5 (2.26%) Unix
9 4 (1.81%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.36%) Android
10 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.90%) Debian
11 2 (0.90%) VMS
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (18.55%) High Availability
3 38 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (15.38%) Virtual Environments
5 31 (14.03%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (13.12%) Project Delivery
7 26 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (10.41%) Kalman Filter
9 22 (9.95%) ITIL
10 21 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.05%) Customer Service
11 20 (9.05%) Information Security
12 19 (8.60%) Business Continuity
13 18 (8.14%) Agile
13 18 (8.14%) Computer Science
13 18 (8.14%) Incident Management
14 17 (7.69%) Server Building
15 16 (7.24%) Asset Management
16 15 (6.79%) IT Strategy
17 14 (6.33%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.20%) PowerShell
2 50 (22.62%) Python
3 19 (8.60%) Bash
4 10 (4.52%) SQL
5 3 (1.36%) C#
5 3 (1.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 94 (42.53%) Security Cleared
2 71 (32.13%) DV Cleared
3 47 (21.27%) Degree
4 24 (10.86%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.50%) HND
6 20 (9.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (6.79%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (6.33%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (5.88%) CCNA
9 13 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (4.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (3.62%) HNC
12 8 (3.62%) MCSA
13 6 (2.71%) CCNP
13 6 (2.71%) Chartered Engineer
13 6 (2.71%) MCSE
13 6 (2.71%) PMI Certification
14 3 (1.36%) A+ Certification
14 3 (1.36%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (5.43%) GDPR
3 11 (4.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 11 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 110 (49.77%) Active Directory
2 79 (35.75%) Hyper-V
3 47 (21.27%) vSphere
4 44 (19.91%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (10.41%) VMware NSX
6 21 (9.50%) Docker
7 8 (3.62%) BitLocker
7 8 (3.62%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (3.62%) Terminal Services
8 7 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.71%) NFS
10 2 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.45%) KVM
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.45%) vCloud
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 31 (14.03%) Ansible
2 22 (9.95%) Puppet
2 22 (9.95%) vCenter Server
3 20 (9.05%) Kubernetes
4 18 (8.14%) SCCM
4 18 (8.14%) Terraform
5 17 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (6.33%) vMotion
7 11 (4.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.62%) PowerCLI
8 8 (3.62%) vRealize
9 7 (3.17%) FortiGate
10 6 (2.71%) Functional Safety
10 6 (2.71%) Nagios
11 5 (2.26%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.36%) SCOM
13 2 (0.90%) SCSM
13 2 (0.90%) WSUS
13 2 (0.90%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 221 (100.00%) VMware
2 120 (54.30%) Microsoft
3 30 (13.57%) Cisco
3 30 (13.57%) Veeam
4 28 (12.67%) Citrix
5 18 (8.14%) Juniper
6 17 (7.69%) HP
7 15 (6.79%) Dell
8 13 (5.88%) Sophos
9 11 (4.98%) Fortinet
10 9 (4.07%) Google
10 9 (4.07%) Red Hat
11 8 (3.62%) Apple
12 7 (3.17%) arcserve
13 6 (2.71%) AVEVA
13 6 (2.71%) McAfee
13 6 (2.71%) Meraki
13 6 (2.71%) SAP
13 6 (2.71%) Siemens
13 6 (2.71%) Symantec