VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the South West

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 83 74
Rank change year-on-year -50 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 76 74 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.97% 2.62% 2.89%
As % of the System Software category 14.64% 20.50% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 36 55 229
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,950 £31,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.27% +22.50%
75th Percentile £66,875 £50,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £63,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%

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 519 361 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.65% 12.77% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 330 255 966
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,109
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £60,188 £63,750 £62,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 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
Gloucestershire -3 37 £53,750 +19.44% 14
Wiltshire -7 16 £32,500 -5.80% 3
Bristol -13 15 £62,500 +13.64% 7
Dorset -37 4 £35,000 +7.69% 2
Devon -25 3 £30,000 -45.45%
Somerset -40 1 £50,000 +8.11% 1
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 24 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (11.84%) Confluence
3 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.63%) IIS
5 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.32%) Site Server
Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (43.42%) Azure
2 29 (38.16%) AWS
3 26 (34.21%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.16%) Serverless
5 9 (11.84%) IaaS
5 9 (11.84%) OpenShift
6 8 (10.53%) PaaS
7 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Functions
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (7.89%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 28 (36.84%) Firewall
2 25 (32.89%) LAN
2 25 (32.89%) WAN
3 23 (30.26%) VPN
4 13 (17.11%) DNS
5 9 (11.84%) VLAN
6 8 (10.53%) Network Security
6 8 (10.53%) WLAN
7 7 (9.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (9.21%) Unified Communications
7 7 (9.21%) WebEx
7 7 (9.21%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (7.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (7.89%) DHCP
9 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
10 4 (5.26%) IPv4
10 4 (5.26%) VXLAN
11 3 (3.95%) BGP
12 2 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (7.89%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.32%) MySQL
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.05%) Git
2 15 (19.74%) GitLab
3 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.21%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) Bitbucket
5 5 (6.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.58%) Robot Framework
5 5 (6.58%) Selenium
5 5 (6.58%) TestRail
6 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (10.53%) Law
4 7 (9.21%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Banking
5 6 (7.89%) Marketing
5 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.89%) Retail
5 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.63%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (40.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (30.26%) Support Engineer
3 20 (26.32%) IT Engineer
3 20 (26.32%) IT Support
3 20 (26.32%) IT Support Engineer
4 14 (18.42%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Collaboration Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Test Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) XMPP
2 5 (6.58%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.58%) Playwright
2 5 (6.58%) pytest
3 4 (5.26%) boto
4 2 (2.63%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 11 (14.47%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (13.16%) Data Centre
4 10 (13.16%) Replication
5 8 (10.53%) Driving Licence
5 8 (10.53%) Onboarding
6 7 (9.21%) FlexPod
7 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
7 6 (7.89%) Podcast
7 6 (7.89%) Security Posture
8 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
9 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (3.95%) YubiKey
10 2 (2.63%) Cyberattack
10 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (1.32%) Clustering
11 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (68.42%) Windows
2 38 (50.00%) Linux
3 33 (43.42%) Windows Server
4 9 (11.84%) VMS
5 7 (9.21%) CentOS
6 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.63%) Android
8 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.63%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.32%) CoreOS
9 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (22.37%) Agile
4 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.74%) CI/CD
5 15 (19.74%) Customer Service
6 14 (18.42%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.79%) DevSecOps
8 11 (14.47%) Analytics
8 11 (14.47%) Cloud Security
8 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (13.16%) DevOps
9 10 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (13.16%) Scrum
9 10 (13.16%) Task Automation
10 9 (11.84%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (9.21%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 20 (26.32%) Bash
2 20 (26.32%) Python
3 11 (14.47%) SQL
4 6 (7.89%) Bicep
4 6 (7.89%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 19 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (13.16%) Degree
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (11.84%) Azure Certification
4 9 (11.84%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.58%) CCNA
5 5 (6.58%) RHCE
5 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.26%) CCNP
6 4 (5.26%) ISTQB
6 4 (5.26%) OSCP
6 4 (5.26%) RHCSA
6 4 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.95%) CCIE
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (7.89%) GDPR
4 3 (3.95%) NIST
5 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (48.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (39.47%) Hyper-V
3 19 (25.00%) vSphere
4 12 (15.79%) VMware NSX
5 10 (13.16%) Docker
6 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.89%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (6.58%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (5.26%) Squid
9 1 (1.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (1.32%) KVM
9 1 (1.32%) QEMU
9 1 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (34.21%) Terraform
2 23 (30.26%) Ansible
3 15 (19.74%) Kubernetes
4 12 (15.79%) Grafana
5 9 (11.84%) vCenter Server
6 7 (9.21%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (6.58%) Kibana
7 5 (6.58%) logstash
7 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (5.26%) Packer
8 4 (5.26%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.63%) Check_MK
9 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.63%) Nagios
9 2 (2.63%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.63%) Proxmox
9 2 (2.63%) vRealize
9 2 (2.63%) VxRail
10 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.32%) Autotask
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) VMware
2 50 (65.79%) Microsoft
3 22 (28.95%) Cisco
4 19 (25.00%) Splunk
5 13 (17.11%) Red Hat
6 11 (14.47%) Fortinet
6 11 (14.47%) Palo Alto
7 8 (10.53%) NetApp
7 8 (10.53%) Veeam
8 7 (9.21%) Dell
9 6 (7.89%) Oracle
9 6 (7.89%) ScienceLogic
10 5 (6.58%) Atlassian
11 3 (3.95%) F5
11 3 (3.95%) Infoblox
11 3 (3.95%) Juniper
11 3 (3.95%) Qualys
11 3 (3.95%) Tenable
12 2 (2.63%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (2.63%) Thales