VMware Job Trends in the South West

VMware
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 61 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 -26 +25
Permanent jobs citing VMware 154 170 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.07% 3.92% 7.08%
As % of the Vendors category 10.91% 11.65% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 66 110 241
10th Percentile £27,375 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,125 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -

All Vendors
South West

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,411 1,459 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 28.16% 33.64% 39.25%
Number of salaries quoted 770 703 1,389
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the South West

VMware
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware in the South West

VMware
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Wiltshire +6 45 £56,250 -1.32% 11
Somerset +3 38 £53,500 +78.33% 19
Bristol +1 29 £42,500 +21.43% 23
Dorset +16 22 £31,000 -28.74% 10
Gloucestershire -13 9 £61,250 +11.36% 32
Devon +4 8 £37,250 -18.13% 19
Cornwall - 2 £32,000 - 2
VMware
England

VMware
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 95 (61.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.90%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 129 (83.77%) Azure
2 123 (79.87%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.19%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.25%) AWS
6 4 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.95%) IaaS
8 2 (1.30%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.30%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.65%) GCP
9 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 112 (72.73%) DNS
2 105 (68.18%) DHCP
3 27 (17.53%) Firewall
4 22 (14.29%) VPN
5 20 (12.99%) VLAN
6 19 (12.34%) VoIP
7 14 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (7.79%) IPsec
9 11 (7.14%) WAN
10 10 (6.49%) LAN
11 8 (5.19%) Wireless
12 7 (4.55%) Network Security
13 6 (3.90%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (3.90%) NAS
14 5 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
15 4 (2.60%) BGP
15 4 (2.60%) Cisco Firepower
15 4 (2.60%) SAN
15 4 (2.60%) TCP/IP
16 3 (1.95%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (61.04%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.30%) Power BI
4 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 117 (75.97%) Social Skills
2 88 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.39%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.19%) Finance
4 8 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.55%) Advertising
5 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Electronics
6 6 (3.90%) Marketing
7 4 (2.60%) Law
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
7 4 (2.60%) Retail
8 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Local Government
9 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 86 (55.84%) Systems Engineer
2 17 (11.04%) IT Support
3 16 (10.39%) 2nd Line Support
4 15 (9.74%) Senior
5 14 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (8.44%) Support Engineer
7 10 (6.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) IT Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Network Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Senior Support Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Support Technician
11 6 (3.90%) 1st Line Support
11 6 (3.90%) Administrator
11 6 (3.90%) Senior IT Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) Senior IT Support
12 5 (3.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 5 (3.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.95%) REST
2 1 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 84 (54.55%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (7.79%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.55%) Clustering
4 4 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.30%) CCTV
6 2 (1.30%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 135 (87.66%) Windows
2 126 (81.82%) Windows Server
3 94 (61.04%) Linux
4 84 (54.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (12.34%) Mac OS
6 8 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.25%) Android
7 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.25%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.30%) Solaris
8 2 (1.30%) Unix
9 1 (0.65%) AIX
9 1 (0.65%) CentOS
9 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (70.78%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (61.69%) Customer Service
3 90 (58.44%) Migration
4 88 (57.14%) Kalman Filter
5 86 (55.84%) Email Filtering
5 86 (55.84%) Web Filtering
6 85 (55.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 85 (55.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 84 (54.55%) Customer Experience
8 19 (12.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (12.34%) ITIL
9 16 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (6.49%) Containerisation
11 10 (6.49%) Server Management
12 9 (5.84%) Cloud Security
13 8 (5.19%) Incident Management
13 8 (5.19%) Mentoring
13 8 (5.19%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 6 (3.90%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.83%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.90%) Python
3 4 (2.60%) Bash
3 4 (2.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (68.83%) Security Cleared
2 95 (61.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (3.90%) ACMT
5 6 (3.90%) MCP
6 5 (3.25%) CCNA
6 5 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.95%) CCNP
7 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.95%) Degree
8 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.65%) HNC
9 1 (0.65%) HND
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (60.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 87 (56.49%) PCI DSS
3 8 (5.19%) SLA
4 6 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.60%) GDPR
6 2 (1.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 125 (81.17%) Hyper-V
2 121 (78.57%) Active Directory
3 84 (54.55%) Terminal Server
4 61 (39.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (5.84%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.84%) vSphere
6 8 (5.19%) Docker
6 8 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.95%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.65%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.84%) vCenter Server
3 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.90%) Autotask
5 4 (2.60%) Ansible
5 4 (2.60%) PaperCut
6 3 (1.95%) SCCM
7 2 (1.30%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.30%) Terraform
7 2 (1.30%) WSUS
8 1 (0.65%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.65%) Nessus
8 1 (0.65%) Podman
8 1 (0.65%) VxRail
Vendors
1 134 (87.01%) Microsoft
2 95 (61.69%) Veeam
3 93 (60.39%) SolarWinds
4 86 (55.84%) Splunk
5 84 (54.55%) Brocade
5 84 (54.55%) Nimble Storage
5 84 (54.55%) Tanium
6 28 (18.18%) Cisco
7 16 (10.39%) Datto
8 9 (5.84%) Sophos
9 8 (5.19%) Oracle
10 6 (3.90%) Apple
10 6 (3.90%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.90%) SAP
11 5 (3.25%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.60%) SonicWALL
13 3 (1.95%) Dell
13 3 (1.95%) F5
13 3 (1.95%) Meraki
13 3 (1.95%) Riverbed