vSphere Jobs in the South East

VMware vSphere
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 234 331 320
Rank change year-on-year +97 -11 +86
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 65 64 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 7.09% 2.65% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 54 62 59
10th Percentile £53,625 - £24,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £48,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.26% +38.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £87,500 £57,500 £45,625
90th Percentile - £68,375 £51,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -8.16%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 917 2,415 2,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.73% 14.40% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 637 1,938 1,617
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for vSphere in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the South East

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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 vSphere within the South East 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
Hampshire +88 50 £85,000 +75.26% 17
Thames Valley +62 12 £50,000 +2.56% 20
Buckinghamshire +42 10 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Berkshire +41 2 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Kent - 2 £55,000 - 3
Surrey +48 1 - - 4
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England

vSphere
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 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) IaaS
2 21 (32.31%) Azure
3 17 (26.15%) AWS
4 9 (13.85%) GCP
5 6 (9.23%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.62%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (55.38%) VSAN
2 16 (24.62%) DNS
3 15 (23.08%) DHCP
4 9 (13.85%) 5G
4 9 (13.85%) Bluetooth
4 9 (13.85%) LTE
4 9 (13.85%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (9.23%) Firewall
5 6 (9.23%) NAS
5 6 (9.23%) Network Security
5 6 (9.23%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (9.23%) SAN
5 6 (9.23%) SMTP
6 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.62%) VLAN
7 1 (1.54%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (32.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Electronics
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (58.46%) VMware Specialist
2 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Lead
3 12 (18.46%) Support Engineer
4 9 (13.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Support Specialist
6 6 (9.23%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (9.23%) VMware Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) IT Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Clustering
2 9 (13.85%) IoT
2 9 (13.85%) NB-IoT
3 6 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (9.23%) PKI
4 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (41.54%) Windows
2 25 (38.46%) Linux
3 24 (36.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.08%) CentOS
5 2 (3.08%) Debian
5 2 (3.08%) SUSE
5 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.54%) Unix
6 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (21.54%) High Availability
3 12 (18.46%) Incident Management
3 12 (18.46%) Task Automation
4 9 (13.85%) Asset Management
4 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (13.85%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (13.85%) Project Planning
4 9 (13.85%) Software Testing
4 9 (13.85%) Strategic Thinking
5 7 (10.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 6 (9.23%) Application Virtualisation
6 6 (9.23%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.23%) Disk Encryption
6 6 (9.23%) RBAC
6 6 (9.23%) Security Hardening
6 6 (9.23%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (7.69%) Agile
7 5 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 57 (87.69%) PowerShell
2 41 (63.08%) Python
3 9 (13.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (73.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (70.77%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) Degree
3 10 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (13.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (13.85%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.08%) MCSE
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.08%) VCAP
7 1 (1.54%) CCNA
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (96.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (52.31%) VMware NSX
3 16 (24.62%) Hyper-V
4 15 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (21.54%) Active Directory
6 12 (18.46%) Docker
7 6 (9.23%) BitLocker
7 6 (9.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (9.23%) Terminal Services
8 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.54%) NFS
9 1 (1.54%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 24 (36.92%) Ansible
1 24 (36.92%) Puppet
2 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
3 15 (23.08%) vCenter Server
4 13 (20.00%) Terraform
5 12 (18.46%) vMotion
5 12 (18.46%) vRealize
6 8 (12.31%) PowerCLI
7 6 (9.23%) Nagios
8 4 (6.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.54%) Nessus
10 1 (1.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 64 (98.46%) VMware
2 30 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.54%) HP
4 12 (18.46%) Citrix
5 6 (9.23%) Google
5 6 (9.23%) Symantec
5 6 (9.23%) Veeam
6 3 (4.62%) Dell
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.54%) Juniper