vSphere Jobs in the Thames Valley

VMware vSphere
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 230 215
Rank change year-on-year +62 -15 +39
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 12 14 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.35% 0.21% 0.74%
As % of the System Software category 3.80% 1.41% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 26
10th Percentile £44,000 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 £26,043 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +54.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £38,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £69,625 £48,084
South East median annual salary £85,000 £48,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +75.26% +38.57% -14.63%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 316 996 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.30% 14.88% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 214 800 640
10th Percentile £30,200 £28,950 £25,000
25th Percentile £38,375 £36,000 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,925 £85,100 £87,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

vSphere
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 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
Buckinghamshire +42 10 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Berkshire +41 2 £55,000 +4.76% 15
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) 5G
1 9 (75.00%) Bluetooth
1 9 (75.00%) LTE
1 9 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) VSAN
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Electronics
2 9 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Lead
2 9 (75.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) IoT
1 9 (75.00%) NB-IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 10 (83.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) Asset Management
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Project Planning
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
5 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Edge Virtualization
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (75.00%) Bash
2 9 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
1 9 (75.00%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) MCSA
3 1 (8.33%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) VCAP
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) NFS
3 1 (8.33%) vCloud
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
1 9 (75.00%) Puppet
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) PowerCLI
2 2 (16.67%) vRealize
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper