vSphere Job Trends in the South West

VMware vSphere
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 159 196
Rank change year-on-year -46 +37 +27
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 25 8 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.30% 0.24% 0.85%
As % of the System Software category 4.37% 1.92% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 70
10th Percentile - - £42,375
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £73,250 £58,750 £93,875
90th Percentile £74,450 £60,000 £97,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% +10.53%

All System Software Skills
South West

vSphere 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 572 416 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.81% 12.38% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 362 295 863
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,550
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £64,125
90th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £82,300
England median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -9.09%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the South West

vSphere
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the South West over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the South West

vSphere
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 vSphere within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Bristol -12 14 £62,500 +19.05%
Gloucestershire -24 11 £60,500 +10.00% 2
vSphere
England

vSphere
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 12 (48.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) Serverless
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 12 (48.00%) AWS
3 12 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Functions
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (48.00%) GitHub
3 12 (48.00%) IaaS
3 12 (48.00%) PaaS
4 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) VPN
2 8 (32.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) LAN
2 8 (32.00%) VLAN
2 8 (32.00%) WAN
3 7 (28.00%) Unified Communications
3 7 (28.00%) WebEx
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (16.00%) IPv4
5 4 (16.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (8.00%) NAS
6 2 (8.00%) SAN
7 1 (4.00%) DHCP
7 1 (4.00%) DNS
7 1 (4.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (48.00%) Law
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 6 (24.00%) Marketing
3 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (24.00%) Retail
3 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (16.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Analyst
2 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 7 (28.00%) Collaboration Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Senior
4 6 (24.00%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (24.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Server Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) XMPP
2 4 (16.00%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Podcast
1 12 (48.00%) Public Cloud
1 12 (48.00%) Security Posture
2 11 (44.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (32.00%) Replication
4 7 (28.00%) FlexPod
4 7 (28.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (28.00%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (24.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Clustering
7 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Linux
2 12 (48.00%) VMS
3 11 (44.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (64.00%) DevSecOps
2 16 (64.00%) Scrum
2 16 (64.00%) Task Automation
3 13 (52.00%) Computer Science
4 12 (48.00%) AI
4 12 (48.00%) Analytics
4 12 (48.00%) API Management
4 12 (48.00%) Cloud Security
4 12 (48.00%) DevOps
4 12 (48.00%) Generative AI
4 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (48.00%) Log Analytics
4 12 (48.00%) Observability
4 12 (48.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (48.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (24.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (24.00%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Bash
1 16 (64.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (48.00%) Bicep
2 12 (48.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 12 (48.00%) SQL
3 10 (40.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (48.00%) Azure Certification
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (16.00%) CCNA
4 4 (16.00%) ISTQB
4 4 (16.00%) OSCP
4 4 (16.00%) RHCE
4 4 (16.00%) RHCSA
5 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) CCNP
6 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) Degree
6 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) VCAP
6 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (68.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (48.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (24.00%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (20.00%) VMware NSX
6 4 (16.00%) Docker
6 4 (16.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (92.00%) Terraform
2 11 (44.00%) Ansible
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (28.00%) Grafana
4 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (16.00%) Packer
4 4 (16.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (4.00%) Proxmox
5 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 23 (92.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (48.00%) ScienceLogic
4 11 (44.00%) Splunk
5 8 (32.00%) Cisco
5 8 (32.00%) NetApp
6 7 (28.00%) Fortinet
6 7 (28.00%) Palo Alto
7 4 (16.00%) Oracle
7 4 (16.00%) Red Hat