VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in South Wales

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 58 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2 9 10
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.26% 1.43% 1.63%
As % of the System Software category 3.33% 8.57% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £37,575 £49,000 £39,971
25th Percentile £38,813 £51,250 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £62,000 £54,095
Median % change year-on-year -32.66% +14.61% +20.21%
75th Percentile £43,813 £71,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £44,525 - £73,750
Wales median annual salary £48,400 £52,500 £54,095
% change year-on-year -7.81% -2.95% +20.21%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 60 105 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.67% 16.69% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 46 84 41
10th Percentile £28,000 £23,750 £31,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £37,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.46% -35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,344 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £51,800 £47,307 £44,207
% change year-on-year +9.50% +7.01% -1.76%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in South Wales

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Cardiff +8 1 £38,500 -37.90% 1
Gwent +4 1 £45,000 -
VMware Infrastructure
Wales

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft