VMware Infrastructure Jobs in the South West

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 74 75
Rank change year-on-year -32 +1 +60
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 78 320 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.99% 3.18% 4.11%
As % of the System Software category 18.44% 26.98% 23.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58 213 159
10th Percentile £28,925 £31,300 £30,745
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £50,000 £57,000 £50,250
90th Percentile £62,875 £64,350 £70,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.46% +5.15%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 423 1,186 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.78% 11.80% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 291 891 700
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,218 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £81,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Dorset +47 45 £32,500 -12.16% 11
Somerset +11 10 £47,500 -16.67% 6
Wiltshire -22 8 £35,000 -30.00% 13
Gloucestershire -28 8 £45,000 -14.29% 12
Bristol +19 5 £47,500 -5.00% 10
Devon +8 1 £55,000 +41.94% 4
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 25 (32.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.56%) IIS
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 48 (61.54%) Azure
2 46 (58.97%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (20.51%) OneDrive
4 13 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.54%) AWS
6 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.28%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 42 (53.85%) Firewall
2 22 (28.21%) SAN
2 22 (28.21%) VLAN
3 20 (25.64%) WAN
4 19 (24.36%) LAN
4 19 (24.36%) VPN
5 18 (23.08%) VoIP
6 16 (20.51%) MPLS
7 15 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (17.95%) DNS
9 12 (15.38%) DHCP
10 6 (7.69%) Network Security
11 5 (6.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (6.41%) VPLS
12 4 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (5.13%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (5.13%) PBX
13 3 (3.85%) NAS
13 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
13 3 (3.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 46 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.05%) Legal
3 22 (28.21%) Manufacturing
4 18 (23.08%) Finance
5 14 (17.95%) Retail
6 5 (6.41%) Advertising
6 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.85%) Local Government
8 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Electronics
9 2 (2.56%) Marketing
10 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) 2nd Line Support
1 15 (19.23%) Coordinator
1 15 (19.23%) Help Desk Coordinator
2 14 (17.95%) IT Support
2 14 (17.95%) Support Engineer
3 13 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 11 (14.10%) Administrator
4 11 (14.10%) Support Technician
5 9 (11.54%) Senior
5 9 (11.54%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) IT Administrator
7 6 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Help Desk Administrator
8 5 (6.41%) IT Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) IT Support Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) IT Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) Kafka
1 1 (1.28%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (12.82%) CCTV
3 6 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.41%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.41%) Smartphone
5 4 (5.13%) Clustering
6 3 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (60.26%) Windows
2 45 (57.69%) Windows Server
3 17 (21.79%) Mac OS
4 15 (19.23%) Linux
5 12 (15.38%) Windows 10
6 8 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.56%) AIX
8 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.28%) Android
9 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.28%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (28.21%) Time Management
3 16 (20.51%) Customer Service
4 15 (19.23%) ERP
4 15 (19.23%) Virtual Environments
5 8 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Management
5 8 (10.26%) ITIL
6 7 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (8.97%) Containerisation
6 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (8.97%) Migration
7 6 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (7.69%) Server Management
8 5 (6.41%) Analytics
8 5 (6.41%) Case Management
8 5 (6.41%) Process Improvement
8 5 (6.41%) Server Virtualisation
8 5 (6.41%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.21%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.38%) SQL
3 6 (7.69%) Python
4 4 (5.13%) Bash
5 1 (1.28%) VB
5 1 (1.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (14.10%) CCNA
3 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.26%) CCNP
4 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (8.97%) Degree
6 5 (6.41%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.41%) MCSA
7 4 (5.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.13%) DBS Check
7 4 (5.13%) MCP
7 4 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.85%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.56%) ACMT
9 2 (2.56%) CISSP
9 2 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.28%) CCIE
10 1 (1.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.56%) SLA
2 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 55 (70.51%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.51%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (17.95%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.97%) Docker
5 4 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.85%) vSphere
7 1 (1.28%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (41.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.97%) Ansible
3 6 (7.69%) Terraform
4 3 (3.85%) Iperf
4 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.85%) SmoothWall
4 3 (3.85%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.56%) Autotask
5 2 (2.56%) Backup Exec
5 2 (2.56%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.56%) PaperCut
5 2 (2.56%) SCCM
6 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 78 (100.00%) VMware
2 56 (71.79%) Microsoft
3 26 (33.33%) Cisco
4 20 (25.64%) Veeam
5 9 (11.54%) Fortinet
6 7 (8.97%) Apple
6 7 (8.97%) Google
7 6 (7.69%) HP
7 6 (7.69%) SolarWinds
8 5 (6.41%) Citrix
8 5 (6.41%) Datto
8 5 (6.41%) LexisNexis
9 4 (5.13%) EMC
9 4 (5.13%) Meraki
9 4 (5.13%) Oracle
9 4 (5.13%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.85%) Ruckus Wireless
10 3 (3.85%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.56%) IBM
11 2 (2.56%) SAP