vSphere Jobs in the South West

VMware vSphere
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 219 236
Rank change year-on-year +39 +17 +38
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 7 74 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.19% 0.80% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 1.82% 6.22% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 62 19
10th Percentile - £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +56.72% -27.57%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £47,500
90th Percentile - £97,250 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -10.00%

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 384 1,190 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.68% 12.82% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 269 966 713
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,338 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the South West

vSphere
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend 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 12 May 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
Bristol +60 5 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Gloucestershire +41 1 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Devon +23 1 £55,000 -9.71% 3
vSphere
England

vSphere
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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
4 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Manager
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
3 2 (28.57%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (28.57%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
2 2 (28.57%) PMP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
1 5 (71.43%) Zscaler
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
3 3 (42.86%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (42.86%) Veeam
4 2 (28.57%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (28.57%) Splunk
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) SAP