VMware Infrastructure Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 117 119
Rank change year-on-year -98 +2 +27
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 549 1,696 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 2.26% 2.91%
As % of the System Software category 13.11% 19.14% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 453 1,420 1,026
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £54,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £62,625 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,043
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.53% +4.09%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,187 8,863 8,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.55% 11.84% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 6,978 5,654
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -1.20%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 -8 220 £47,500 +11.76% 118
Midlands -67 102 £47,500 +9.89% 78
North of England -121 85 £41,067 +2.67% 88
West Midlands -34 72 £47,500 +5.56% 44
South West -35 72 £40,000 -18.37% 70
East of England -61 49 £52,000 +38.67% 68
North West -104 40 £45,000 +5.88% 43
Yorkshire -18 32 £42,500 +3.03% 34
East Midlands -36 30 £45,500 +7.06% 34
Scotland +37 15 £35,250 -29.50% 48
North East +9 13 £32,000 -1.54% 11
Wales +13 7 £47,500 +30.22% 7
Isle of Man +11 1 £34,500 -19.77%
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
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
1 154 (28.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (8.74%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.64%) IIS
4 10 (1.82%) Apache
5 6 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.73%) Appian
6 4 (0.73%) nginx
7 3 (0.55%) Confluence
7 3 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 38 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.10%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 240 (43.72%) Azure
2 205 (37.34%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (15.85%) AWS
4 49 (8.93%) Entra ID
5 34 (6.19%) IaaS
6 23 (4.19%) OneDrive
7 22 (4.01%) Nutanix
8 17 (3.10%) GCP
9 14 (2.55%) SaaS
10 13 (2.37%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.00%) Rubrik
12 9 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (1.64%) GitHub
13 6 (1.09%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.73%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.73%) MinIO
15 3 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 235 (42.81%) Firewall
2 127 (23.13%) DNS
3 113 (20.58%) DHCP
4 111 (20.22%) WAN
5 97 (17.67%) LAN
6 94 (17.12%) VPN
7 93 (16.94%) SAN
8 57 (10.38%) TCP/IP
9 51 (9.29%) VLAN
9 51 (9.29%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (7.83%) NAS
11 41 (7.47%) MPLS
12 34 (6.19%) VSAN
13 29 (5.28%) Network Security
14 23 (4.19%) Remote Desktop
14 23 (4.19%) VoIP
15 21 (3.83%) OSPF
16 19 (3.46%) BGP
17 17 (3.10%) SD-WAN
18 16 (2.91%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (14.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.64%) Data Hub
2 9 (1.64%) Relational Database
2 9 (1.64%) SQL CLR
3 8 (1.46%) Power BI
4 6 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.91%) Metadata
5 5 (0.91%) MySQL
5 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.73%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.73%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (2.37%) JIRA
2 5 (0.91%) Git
2 5 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.73%) GitLab
3 4 (0.73%) Robot Framework
3 4 (0.73%) Selenium
3 4 (0.73%) Snyk
3 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) MSI
General
1 201 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 50 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (7.65%) Finance
4 36 (6.56%) Manufacturing
5 28 (5.10%) Legal
6 20 (3.64%) Retail
7 16 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.55%) Back Office
9 12 (2.19%) Electronics
10 10 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (1.64%) Local Government
12 8 (1.46%) Games
13 7 (1.28%) Advertising
13 7 (1.28%) Law
14 6 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Marketing
16 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.55%) Aviation
18 2 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (21.86%) Support Engineer
2 100 (18.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 60 (10.93%) IT Engineer
4 59 (10.75%) IT Support
5 46 (8.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 38 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support
6 38 (6.92%) Infrastructure Support
7 37 (6.74%) 3rd Line Support
7 37 (6.74%) Lead
7 37 (6.74%) Network Engineer
8 36 (6.56%) Senior
9 34 (6.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 34 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 32 (5.83%) Architect
10 32 (5.83%) Technical Engineer
11 31 (5.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 31 (5.65%) VMware Specialist
12 30 (5.46%) Administrator
12 30 (5.46%) Systems Administrator
13 28 (5.10%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.64%) .NET
2 6 (1.09%) Kafka
2 6 (1.09%) LDAP
3 4 (0.73%) .NET Core
3 4 (0.73%) .NET Framework
3 4 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (0.73%) Dapper ORM
3 4 (0.73%) Entity Framework
3 4 (0.73%) REST
4 3 (0.55%) Middleware
5 2 (0.36%) CSS
5 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.18%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.18%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.18%) SAML
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.18%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.02%) Data Centre
2 45 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 34 (6.19%) Driving Licence
4 32 (5.83%) Clustering
5 19 (3.46%) Video Conferencing
6 18 (3.28%) PKI
7 17 (3.10%) Private Cloud
8 16 (2.91%) Replication
9 14 (2.55%) IoT
9 14 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.37%) Operational Technology
11 11 (2.00%) CCTV
11 11 (2.00%) NB-IoT
12 9 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.46%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 6 (1.09%) Blackberry
15 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (1.09%) PMI
15 6 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 352 (64.12%) Windows
2 241 (43.90%) Windows Server
3 135 (24.59%) Linux
4 54 (9.84%) Windows 10
5 45 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (7.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (5.65%) Mac OS
8 21 (3.83%) Ubuntu
9 20 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 18 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (2.55%) CentOS
12 13 (2.37%) Android
13 10 (1.82%) Unix
14 8 (1.46%) Apple iOS
14 8 (1.46%) SUSE
15 7 (1.28%) VMS
16 6 (1.09%) Debian
17 5 (0.91%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 5 (0.91%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 77 (14.03%) Customer Service
4 74 (13.48%) ITIL
5 67 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 66 (12.02%) Virtual Environments
7 61 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (10.56%) High Availability
9 46 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (7.65%) Mentoring
11 39 (7.10%) Migration
12 38 (6.92%) Project Delivery
13 34 (6.19%) Infrastructure Management
14 32 (5.83%) Business Continuity
14 32 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (5.65%) Containerisation
16 30 (5.46%) Computer Science
17 27 (4.92%) Network Management
17 27 (4.92%) Patch Management
17 27 (4.92%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 174 (31.69%) PowerShell
2 73 (13.30%) Python
3 52 (9.47%) SQL
4 33 (6.01%) Bash
5 8 (1.46%) C#
6 5 (0.91%) Java
6 5 (0.91%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.18%) VB
8 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 144 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.12%) DV Cleared
3 82 (14.94%) Degree
4 49 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 44 (8.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (5.65%) CCNA
8 25 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 23 (4.19%) MCSA
10 19 (3.46%) Network+ Certification
11 18 (3.28%) HND
12 17 (3.10%) Azure Certification
13 16 (2.91%) CCNP
14 15 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (2.37%) MCSE
16 11 (2.00%) A+ Certification
17 9 (1.64%) MCP
18 8 (1.46%) DBS Check
19 7 (1.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (2.91%) GDPR
2 16 (2.91%) SLA
3 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.55%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 276 (50.27%) Active Directory
2 183 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 84 (15.30%) vSphere
4 68 (12.39%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (7.65%) Docker
6 34 (6.19%) VMware NSX
7 31 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (3.46%) XenApp
9 15 (2.73%) Terminal Services
10 9 (1.64%) BitLocker
10 9 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (1.46%) NFS
11 8 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (1.09%) KVM
13 3 (0.55%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.55%) Postfix
14 2 (0.36%) SRDF
14 2 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (15.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (11.66%) Ansible
3 42 (7.65%) Kubernetes
4 39 (7.10%) Terraform
5 30 (5.46%) Puppet
5 30 (5.46%) vCenter Server
6 24 (4.37%) SCCM
7 16 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.55%) vMotion
9 12 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (2.19%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.00%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.64%) Nagios
11 9 (1.64%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.46%) PowerCLI
12 8 (1.46%) vRealize
13 6 (1.09%) Backup Exec
13 6 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (1.09%) SCOM
14 5 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 549 (100.00%) VMware
2 326 (59.38%) Microsoft
3 122 (22.22%) Cisco
4 73 (13.30%) Veeam
5 64 (11.66%) Citrix
6 38 (6.92%) Juniper
7 37 (6.74%) Dell
7 37 (6.74%) HP
8 29 (5.28%) Meraki
9 26 (4.74%) Red Hat
10 23 (4.19%) Fortinet
10 23 (4.19%) SonicWALL
11 20 (3.64%) Apple
12 18 (3.28%) CheckPoint
13 17 (3.10%) Google
14 16 (2.91%) McAfee
14 16 (2.91%) NetApp
14 16 (2.91%) Sophos
15 13 (2.37%) Palo Alto
16 12 (2.19%) SolarWinds