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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 118 120
Rank change year-on-year -94 +2 +26
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 536 1,689 1,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 2.28% 2.88%
As % of the System Software category 13.00% 19.11% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 445 1,425 1,027
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 £84,000 £63,250 £70,100
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

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 4,124 8,837 9,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.58% 11.94% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,308 6,999 5,688
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 £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 29 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 29 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 -6 217 £47,500 +11.76% 130
Midlands -69 98 £47,500 +8.29% 84
North of England -112 83 £41,067 +2.67% 93
West Midlands -35 70 £47,500 +5.56% 45
South West -39 70 £40,750 -16.84% 75
East of England -64 47 £52,000 +38.67% 76
North West -99 39 £45,750 +7.65% 49
Yorkshire -21 32 £42,500 -2.86% 33
East Midlands -47 28 £46,000 +8.24% 38
Scotland +41 15 £35,250 -29.50% 46
North East +4 12 £32,000 -1.54% 11
Wales +20 7 £47,500 +30.22% 11
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
1 150 (27.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (8.96%) SharePoint
3 20 (3.73%) IIS
4 10 (1.87%) Apache
5 6 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.75%) Appian
6 4 (0.75%) nginx
7 3 (0.56%) Confluence
7 3 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 36 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 232 (43.28%) Azure
2 199 (37.13%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (15.86%) AWS
4 49 (9.14%) Entra ID
5 34 (6.34%) IaaS
6 22 (4.10%) Nutanix
6 22 (4.10%) OneDrive
7 16 (2.99%) GCP
8 14 (2.61%) SaaS
9 13 (2.43%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.05%) Rubrik
11 9 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.68%) GitHub
12 6 (1.12%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.75%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.75%) MinIO
14 3 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (42.72%) Firewall
2 124 (23.13%) DNS
3 109 (20.34%) DHCP
4 108 (20.15%) WAN
5 94 (17.54%) LAN
6 92 (17.16%) VPN
7 91 (16.98%) SAN
8 56 (10.45%) TCP/IP
9 51 (9.51%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (9.14%) VLAN
11 43 (8.02%) NAS
12 41 (7.65%) MPLS
13 34 (6.34%) VSAN
14 29 (5.41%) Network Security
15 23 (4.29%) Remote Desktop
16 21 (3.92%) VoIP
17 20 (3.73%) OSPF
18 19 (3.54%) BGP
19 17 (3.17%) SD-WAN
20 13 (2.43%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (13.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.68%) Data Hub
2 9 (1.68%) Relational Database
2 9 (1.68%) SQL CLR
3 8 (1.49%) Power BI
4 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.93%) Metadata
5 5 (0.93%) MySQL
5 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.75%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.19%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.05%) JIRA
2 5 (0.93%) Git
2 5 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
3 4 (0.75%) Selenium
3 4 (0.75%) Snyk
4 3 (0.56%) GitLab
4 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) MSI
6 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 194 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 49 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (7.46%) Finance
4 32 (5.97%) Manufacturing
5 27 (5.04%) Legal
6 17 (3.17%) Retail
7 16 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.61%) Back Office
9 12 (2.24%) Electronics
10 9 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (1.68%) Local Government
11 8 (1.49%) Games
12 7 (1.31%) Law
13 6 (1.12%) Advertising
13 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Marketing
15 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Aviation
17 2 (0.37%) Military
17 2 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (21.64%) Support Engineer
2 99 (18.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 60 (11.19%) IT Engineer
4 57 (10.63%) IT Support
5 44 (8.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 38 (7.09%) 2nd Line Support
6 38 (7.09%) Infrastructure Support
7 36 (6.72%) Network Engineer
8 35 (6.53%) 3rd Line Support
8 35 (6.53%) Lead
9 34 (6.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 34 (6.34%) IT Support Engineer
10 33 (6.16%) Senior
11 32 (5.97%) Architect
12 31 (5.78%) VMware Specialist
13 30 (5.60%) Administrator
13 30 (5.60%) Systems Administrator
13 30 (5.60%) Technical Engineer
14 29 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 28 (5.22%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.31%) .NET
2 6 (1.12%) Kafka
2 6 (1.12%) LDAP
3 4 (0.75%) .NET Core
3 4 (0.75%) .NET Framework
3 4 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (0.75%) Dapper ORM
3 4 (0.75%) Entity Framework
3 4 (0.75%) REST
4 3 (0.56%) Middleware
5 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.19%) JSON
5 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.19%) SAP XI
5 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.19%) Web Services
5 1 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.51%) Data Centre
2 44 (8.21%) Onboarding
3 33 (6.16%) Driving Licence
4 32 (5.97%) Clustering
5 18 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
6 17 (3.17%) Private Cloud
7 16 (2.99%) PKI
7 16 (2.99%) Replication
8 13 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.05%) CCTV
9 11 (2.05%) IoT
9 11 (2.05%) NB-IoT
10 10 (1.87%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.49%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.12%) Blackberry
14 6 (1.12%) Client/Server
14 6 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 343 (63.99%) Windows
2 234 (43.66%) Windows Server
3 133 (24.81%) Linux
4 53 (9.89%) Windows 10
5 42 (7.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (5.60%) Mac OS
7 20 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 20 (3.73%) Ubuntu
8 17 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.61%) CentOS
10 12 (2.24%) Android
11 10 (1.87%) Unix
12 8 (1.49%) SUSE
13 7 (1.31%) Apple iOS
13 7 (1.31%) VMS
14 6 (1.12%) Debian
15 5 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 5 (0.93%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (21.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 76 (14.18%) Customer Service
4 72 (13.43%) ITIL
5 66 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 65 (12.13%) Virtual Environments
7 58 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (10.82%) High Availability
8 45 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (7.28%) Migration
10 38 (7.09%) Mentoring
11 34 (6.34%) Project Delivery
12 33 (6.16%) Infrastructure Management
13 32 (5.97%) Business Continuity
14 31 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (5.60%) Containerisation
16 29 (5.41%) Computer Science
17 27 (5.04%) Network Management
17 27 (5.04%) Server Management
18 26 (4.85%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (31.90%) PowerShell
2 70 (13.06%) Python
3 51 (9.51%) SQL
4 33 (6.16%) Bash
5 5 (0.93%) C#
5 5 (0.93%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.75%) Java
7 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.19%) VB
7 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 142 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 93 (17.35%) DV Cleared
3 77 (14.37%) Degree
4 48 (8.96%) SC Cleared
5 43 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (6.53%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (5.60%) CCNA
8 25 (4.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 22 (4.10%) MCSA
10 19 (3.54%) Network+ Certification
11 17 (3.17%) Azure Certification
12 16 (2.99%) CCNP
13 15 (2.80%) HND
14 14 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (2.43%) MCSE
16 10 (1.87%) A+ Certification
17 9 (1.68%) MCP
18 8 (1.49%) DBS Check
19 7 (1.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (2.99%) GDPR
3 15 (2.80%) SLA
4 9 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.56%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 269 (50.19%) Active Directory
2 179 (33.40%) Hyper-V
3 82 (15.30%) vSphere
4 64 (11.94%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (7.65%) Docker
6 34 (6.34%) VMware NSX
7 31 (5.78%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (3.36%) XenApp
10 15 (2.80%) Terminal Services
11 9 (1.68%) BitLocker
11 9 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.49%) NFS
12 8 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.12%) KVM
14 3 (0.56%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.56%) Postfix
15 2 (0.37%) SRDF
15 2 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 2 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (15.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (11.57%) Ansible
3 41 (7.65%) Kubernetes
4 38 (7.09%) Terraform
5 30 (5.60%) Puppet
5 30 (5.60%) vCenter Server
6 24 (4.48%) SCCM
7 16 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.61%) vMotion
9 12 (2.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (2.05%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.05%) NetBackup
11 9 (1.68%) Nagios
11 9 (1.68%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.49%) PowerCLI
12 8 (1.49%) vRealize
13 6 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (1.12%) SCOM
14 5 (0.93%) Backup Exec
14 5 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 536 (100.00%) VMware
2 319 (59.51%) Microsoft
3 119 (22.20%) Cisco
4 70 (13.06%) Veeam
5 63 (11.75%) Citrix
6 37 (6.90%) Juniper
7 36 (6.72%) HP
8 35 (6.53%) Dell
9 28 (5.22%) Meraki
10 26 (4.85%) Red Hat
11 23 (4.29%) Fortinet
12 22 (4.10%) SonicWALL
13 19 (3.54%) Apple
14 17 (3.17%) CheckPoint
15 16 (2.99%) NetApp
16 15 (2.80%) Google
16 15 (2.80%) McAfee
16 15 (2.80%) Sophos
17 13 (2.43%) Palo Alto
18 12 (2.24%) SolarWinds