VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 110 83
Rank change year-on-year -72 -27 +43
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 457 933 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 2.52% 3.46%
As % of the System Software category 16.17% 20.90% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 306 548 885
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,428 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,438 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £64,000
UK median annual salary £43,500 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -20.91% +12.24% -3.27%

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 2,827 4,464 5,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.73% 12.04% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,984 2,572 4,424
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.94%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.06%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VMware Infrastructure

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 2026. 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 -70 133 £42,000 -23.64% 77
North of England -17 106 £32,000 -20.00% 41
Midlands -41 85 £40,000 -11.11% 26
South West -33 61 £42,500 +13.33% 25
West Midlands -29 52 £47,500 +5.56% 16
Yorkshire +4 51 £43,000 +14.67% 18
East of England -37 41 £42,500 -22.73% 9
East Midlands -44 33 £37,500 -21.05% 10
North West -14 31 £31,500 -25.24% 15
North East +9 24 £30,250 -19.33% 10
Scotland -19 17 £46,000 +15.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 1
Wales -8 4 £52,297 -0.39% 6
VMware Infrastructure
UK

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 116 (25.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (13.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.19%) IIS
4 9 (1.97%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.53%) WinCC
6 5 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.88%) Confluence
7 4 (0.88%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.44%) ArchestrA
8 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.44%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Apache
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.22%) Appian
9 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (11.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.66%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.44%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.66%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.22%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 242 (52.95%) Microsoft 365
2 230 (50.33%) Azure
3 81 (17.72%) AWS
4 68 (14.88%) Entra ID
5 23 (5.03%) SaaS
6 16 (3.50%) IaaS
6 16 (3.50%) Nutanix
7 15 (3.28%) GCP
8 14 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 14 (3.06%) Google Workspace
9 13 (2.84%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.19%) OneDrive
11 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.75%) Cohesity
12 8 (1.75%) PaaS
13 7 (1.53%) Mimecast
14 4 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
16 2 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 172 (37.64%) Firewall
2 120 (26.26%) DNS
3 109 (23.85%) DHCP
4 87 (19.04%) VLAN
5 86 (18.82%) TCP/IP
6 81 (17.72%) VPN
7 74 (16.19%) WAN
8 61 (13.35%) LAN
9 52 (11.38%) SAN
10 40 (8.75%) Wireless
11 34 (7.44%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (7.22%) Network Security
13 30 (6.56%) Remote Desktop
14 24 (5.25%) VoIP
15 19 (4.16%) NAS
15 19 (4.16%) SD-WAN
16 14 (3.06%) IPsec
17 11 (2.41%) BGP
18 9 (1.97%) Internet
18 9 (1.97%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.97%) DTS
4 7 (1.53%) Power BI
5 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.66%) GIS
5 3 (0.66%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.22%) MySQL
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (1.75%) JIRA
2 4 (0.88%) GitLab
2 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.44%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.22%) Snyk
4 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Subversion
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 49 (10.72%) Manufacturing
3 28 (6.13%) Law
4 27 (5.91%) Finance
5 26 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (5.69%) Retail
6 24 (5.25%) Telecoms
7 23 (5.03%) Advertising
8 20 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (3.28%) French Language
9 15 (3.28%) Swedish Language
10 13 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.63%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.19%) Legal
13 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.75%) Marketing
15 6 (1.31%) Electronics
15 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (22.32%) Support Engineer
2 89 (19.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 83 (18.16%) IT Support
4 70 (15.32%) Senior
5 58 (12.69%) IT Engineer
5 58 (12.69%) Support Technician
6 47 (10.28%) Technical Support
7 45 (9.85%) 2nd Line Support
8 39 (8.53%) IT Support Engineer
9 35 (7.66%) Lead
10 34 (7.44%) Analyst
11 33 (7.22%) Technical Engineer
12 32 (7.00%) IT Technician
12 32 (7.00%) Technical Support Engineer
13 29 (6.35%) 3rd Line Support
14 26 (5.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 26 (5.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 26 (5.69%) IT Support Technician
15 23 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 23 (5.03%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.09%) ARM Templates
2 3 (0.66%) Itk
2 3 (0.66%) REST
2 3 (0.66%) SAP Basis
2 3 (0.66%) Web Services
3 2 (0.44%) .NET
3 2 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.44%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.22%) Kafka
4 1 (0.22%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (11.82%) Driving Licence
2 53 (11.60%) Data Centre
3 34 (7.44%) Operational Technology
4 32 (7.00%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (6.56%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.81%) Life Science
7 17 (3.72%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.28%) Replication
9 14 (3.06%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (2.41%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.97%) Clustering
12 9 (1.97%) CMDB
12 9 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.97%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (1.75%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.75%) SCADA
14 6 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.31%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 285 (62.36%) Windows
2 219 (47.92%) Windows Server
3 68 (14.88%) Linux
4 48 (10.50%) Windows 10
5 36 (7.88%) Mac OS
6 24 (5.25%) Android
7 23 (5.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (3.72%) Apple iOS
9 15 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (2.63%) Unix
12 10 (2.19%) Solaris
12 10 (2.19%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.75%) Debian
14 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.88%) Mac OS X
15 4 (0.88%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.66%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (28.23%) ITIL
2 115 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (23.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 74 (16.19%) Customer Service
5 70 (15.32%) Business Continuity
6 61 (13.35%) Mentoring
7 60 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (12.47%) ITSM
9 55 (12.04%) Disaster Recovery
10 46 (10.07%) Server Management
11 42 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (8.32%) Service Delivery
13 37 (8.10%) Project Delivery
14 32 (7.00%) Migration
15 29 (6.35%) High Availability
16 28 (6.13%) Enterprise Architecture
17 27 (5.91%) Agile
17 27 (5.91%) Service Management
18 26 (5.69%) Knowledge Transfer
19 25 (5.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 89 (19.47%) PowerShell
2 47 (10.28%) SQL
3 35 (7.66%) Python
4 20 (4.38%) Bash
5 8 (1.75%) Korn
6 7 (1.53%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.53%) VBScript
7 3 (0.66%) Tcl
8 2 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Bicep
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) Java
9 1 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (16.63%) Degree
2 70 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 55 (12.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 46 (10.07%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.91%) MCSE
6 22 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 21 (4.60%) DV Cleared
8 19 (4.16%) A+ Certification
9 16 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (3.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (2.84%) CCNA
11 13 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (2.19%) Azure Certification
13 9 (1.97%) CCNP
13 9 (1.97%) HNC
13 9 (1.97%) MCP
14 8 (1.75%) DBS Check
15 6 (1.31%) MCSA
15 6 (1.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.75%) SLA
2 24 (5.25%) GxP
3 19 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.63%) GDPR
6 8 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.53%) IEC 61508
7 7 (1.53%) QA
8 6 (1.31%) NIST
9 5 (1.09%) IEC 61131
10 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.66%) PMO
11 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 252 (55.14%) Active Directory
2 204 (44.64%) Hyper-V
3 37 (8.10%) vSphere
4 26 (5.69%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (3.28%) Docker
8 7 (1.53%) Firmware
9 6 (1.31%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.09%) KVM
10 5 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.09%) XenApp
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.44%) RHEV
12 2 (0.44%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.44%) Xen
12 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 85 (18.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.35%) Terraform
3 28 (6.13%) Ansible
4 25 (5.47%) SCCM
5 20 (4.38%) vCenter Server
6 19 (4.16%) FortiGate
7 16 (3.50%) Kubernetes
8 12 (2.63%) Nagios
9 10 (2.19%) ZABBIX
10 9 (1.97%) WSUS
11 8 (1.75%) Autotask
12 6 (1.31%) SCOM
13 5 (1.09%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (1.09%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.88%) PaperCut
15 3 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.66%) Puppet
16 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
16 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 457 (100.00%) VMware
2 283 (61.93%) Microsoft
3 86 (18.82%) Cisco
4 63 (13.79%) Veeam
5 38 (8.32%) Dell
6 26 (5.69%) Palo Alto
7 25 (5.47%) Google
8 24 (5.25%) SolarWinds
9 23 (5.03%) Juniper
10 22 (4.81%) Citrix
11 21 (4.60%) HP
11 21 (4.60%) ServiceNow
12 20 (4.38%) SonicWALL
13 17 (3.72%) Red Hat
14 16 (3.50%) Datto
15 15 (3.28%) CheckPoint
15 15 (3.28%) Fortinet
16 14 (3.06%) Meraki
16 14 (3.06%) NetApp
17 13 (2.84%) Sophos