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 15 October 2026, 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 47 48
Rank change year-on-year -42 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing VMware 192 141 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.81% 3.93% 3.74%
As % of the Vendors category 9.50% 10.90% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 76 80 148
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,438 £29,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,678 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -18.65% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,688 £55,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £68,750 £72,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

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 2,022 1,293 1,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.03% 36.06% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 740 921
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £30,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £51,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.74% -10.43% -

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 15 October 2026.

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 15 October 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 -18 58 £67,500 +22.73% 18
Wiltshire -4 51 £32,500 -27.78% 18
Somerset -14 42 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Bristol -36 31 £38,125 -19.74% 2
Devon -31 4 £30,000 -31.43% 3
Dorset -33 4 £46,000 +53.33% 5
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
1 104 (54.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.77%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Site Server
Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 130 (67.71%) Azure
2 106 (55.21%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (21.35%) AWS
4 36 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 17 (8.85%) GitHub
7 16 (8.33%) IaaS
7 16 (8.33%) Serverless
8 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.25%) Azure Functions
8 12 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (6.25%) PaaS
9 9 (4.69%) Azure AKS
9 9 (4.69%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.08%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 92 (47.92%) DNS
2 83 (43.23%) DHCP
3 50 (26.04%) VPN
4 33 (17.19%) Firewall
5 21 (10.94%) Network Security
6 20 (10.42%) WAN
7 19 (9.90%) LAN
8 11 (5.73%) TCP/IP
8 11 (5.73%) VLAN
9 9 (4.69%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (4.17%) WLAN
11 7 (3.65%) BGP
12 6 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.60%) VXLAN
13 5 (2.60%) Wireshark
14 4 (2.08%) DMZ
14 4 (2.08%) IPv4
14 4 (2.08%) NGN
14 4 (2.08%) SAN
15 2 (1.04%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.13%) InfluxDB
4 5 (2.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (12.50%) Git
2 14 (7.29%) GitLab
3 11 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.65%) JIRA
5 6 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.13%) Robot Framework
5 6 (3.13%) Selenium
5 6 (3.13%) TestRail
6 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) JUnit
7 1 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 111 (57.81%) Social Skills
2 70 (36.46%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.90%) Finance
4 14 (7.29%) Law
5 13 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.65%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.04%) Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Military
8 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
8 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (33.85%) Systems Engineer
2 38 (19.79%) IT Support
2 38 (19.79%) Senior
3 36 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 32 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 32 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (9.90%) Analyst
7 12 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 12 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (5.21%) Architect
8 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Azure Architect
9 9 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Senior IT Support
9 9 (4.69%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (25.52%) Terraform
2 9 (4.69%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (3.13%) Playwright
3 6 (3.13%) pytest
4 4 (2.08%) boto
5 3 (1.56%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.04%) XMPP
7 1 (0.52%) gRPC
7 1 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (0.52%) REST
7 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 64 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.25%) Podcast
4 12 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.69%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.56%) Replication
10 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.04%) FlexPod
10 2 (1.04%) NHS
10 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.52%) Acoustics
11 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 144 (75.00%) Windows
2 108 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 107 (55.73%) Linux
4 69 (35.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (7.81%) VMS
6 11 (5.73%) CentOS
7 6 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (2.08%) Windows 10
9 4 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.52%) Android
10 1 (0.52%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.52%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (50.52%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (41.15%) Customer Service
3 70 (36.46%) Customer Experience
4 69 (35.94%) Migration
5 64 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
6 63 (32.81%) Email Filtering
6 63 (32.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 63 (32.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 63 (32.81%) Web Filtering
7 46 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (19.79%) CI/CD
10 30 (15.63%) DevSecOps
11 27 (14.06%) Agile
12 26 (13.54%) Containerisation
13 24 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 22 (11.46%) AI
14 22 (11.46%) Cloud Security
14 22 (11.46%) DevOps
15 20 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.79%) Bash
2 34 (17.71%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.98%) Python
4 21 (10.94%) Bicep
5 13 (6.77%) SQL
6 12 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (4.69%) Java
8 6 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.13%) Rust
9 4 (2.08%) Go
10 2 (1.04%) C
11 1 (0.52%) Ada
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 117 (60.94%) Security Cleared
2 78 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.15%) DV Cleared
4 29 (15.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 13 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.73%) Degree
8 10 (5.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
9 8 (4.17%) CCNA
10 6 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (2.60%) CCNP
12 4 (2.08%) CCIE
12 4 (2.08%) ISTQB
12 4 (2.08%) MCSA
12 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (2.08%) OSCP
12 4 (2.08%) RHCE
12 4 (2.08%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (35.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 64 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 130 (67.71%) Active Directory
2 114 (59.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (55.73%) Hyper-V
4 63 (32.81%) Terminal Server
5 28 (14.58%) vSphere
6 20 (10.42%) VMware NSX
7 13 (6.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (6.25%) Docker
9 9 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (2.08%) Squid
11 2 (1.04%) KVM
11 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.52%) Firmware
12 1 (0.52%) XenApp
12 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 30 (15.63%) Ansible
3 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 8 (4.17%) Grafana
6 6 (3.13%) Kibana
6 6 (3.13%) logstash
7 5 (2.60%) ZABBIX
8 4 (2.08%) Iperf
8 4 (2.08%) Nessus
8 4 (2.08%) Packer
8 4 (2.08%) Puppet
8 4 (2.08%) SCOM
8 4 (2.08%) vRealize
8 4 (2.08%) VxRail
9 2 (1.04%) Check_MK
9 2 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (1.04%) Nagios
9 2 (1.04%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 143 (74.48%) Microsoft
2 75 (39.06%) Splunk
3 71 (36.98%) Veeam
4 64 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 63 (32.81%) Brocade
5 63 (32.81%) Nimble Storage
5 63 (32.81%) Tanium
6 23 (11.98%) Cisco
7 12 (6.25%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (5.73%) Citrix
8 11 (5.73%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.69%) Dell
10 8 (4.17%) Palo Alto
11 7 (3.65%) Fortinet
12 6 (3.13%) Atlassian
12 6 (3.13%) F5
12 6 (3.13%) Infoblox
13 5 (2.60%) Oracle
13 5 (2.60%) SonicWALL
14 4 (2.08%) NetApp