VMware Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median VMware Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 722 673
Rank change year-on-year +156 -49 +124
Permanent jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 19 41 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.058% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.061% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 16 38 58
10th Percentile £28,750 £39,375 £24,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% +2.11% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,438
90th Percentile £61,875 £59,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured VMware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK excluding London

VMware Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +82 13 £57,500 +18.56% 7
North of England +51 5 £57,500 +64.29%
Yorkshire +63 3 - -
North West -1 2 £57,500 +27.78%
Scotland +114 1 £50,000 -9.09%
VMware Engineer
UK

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, VMware Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (94.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
4 10 (52.63%) Docker
5 9 (47.37%) Ansible
5 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
5 9 (47.37%) Windows
5 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
5 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
6 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
6 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
6 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
6 8 (42.11%) Migration
6 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
6 8 (42.11%) Azure
6 8 (42.11%) AWS
6 8 (42.11%) vSphere
7 7 (36.84%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (36.84%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (36.84%) PowerCLI
7 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
7 7 (36.84%) vRealize
7 7 (36.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (36.84%) DNS
7 7 (36.84%) DHCP
8 6 (31.58%) HP
8 6 (31.58%) Citrix
8 6 (31.58%) SAN
8 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
8 6 (31.58%) NAS

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DHCP
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) NAS
2 6 (31.58%) SAN
2 6 (31.58%) VSAN
3 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.79%) BGP
4 3 (15.79%) EIGRP
4 3 (15.79%) Network Security
4 3 (15.79%) OSPF
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.53%) Firewall
5 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.53%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.26%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.26%) VLAN
General
1 6 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
5 2 (10.53%) VMS
6 1 (5.26%) CentOS
6 1 (5.26%) Debian
6 1 (5.26%) Unix
6 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Migration
2 7 (36.84%) Virtual Environments
3 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
3 6 (31.58%) High Availability
3 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
3 6 (31.58%) Security Hardening
3 6 (31.58%) Task Automation
3 6 (31.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Network Management
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Change Control
7 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (5.26%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
3 7 (36.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (21.05%) Degree
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (10.53%) CCNA
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (5.26%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (5.26%) RHCE
7 1 (5.26%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (94.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (52.63%) Docker
3 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
4 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
4 8 (42.11%) vSphere
5 7 (36.84%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
7 1 (5.26%) Dovecot
7 1 (5.26%) KVM
7 1 (5.26%) NFS
7 1 (5.26%) Postfix
7 1 (5.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Ansible
3 7 (36.84%) PowerCLI
3 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
3 7 (36.84%) vRealize
4 6 (31.58%) Puppet
4 6 (31.58%) vMotion
5 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (31.58%) Citrix
3 6 (31.58%) HP
3 6 (31.58%) Veeam
4 5 (26.32%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) Aruba
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper
5 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.26%) Okta
6 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity