VMware Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 69 59
Rank change year-on-year -64 -10 +26
Permanent jobs citing VMware 764 1,032 2,517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.43% 3.73% 4.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.47% 9.77% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 511 791 2,242
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £33,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £43,227
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +9.89% -3.94%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £50,500 £53,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.61% +12.63% -7.77%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,970 10,568 21,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.14% 38.25% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,344 6,270 16,819
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,251 £46,293
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +10.71% -7.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,206 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £78,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,101 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +14.20% -13.04%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VMware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

VMware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

VMware
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 March 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 -42 219 £50,000 -9.09% 110
North of England -58 179 £35,000 -22.22% 69
South West -3 130 £42,500 -10.53% 35
Midlands -57 102 £45,000 - 30
Yorkshire -47 85 £34,000 -20.00% 22
North West -60 60 £42,500 -5.56% 43
East Midlands -38 51 £45,000 +12.50% 10
West Midlands -61 51 £52,500 +16.67% 20
East of England -71 44 £61,500 +11.82% 20
Scotland -4 40 £43,000 -4.44% 22
North East -14 34 £33,250 -7.64% 6
Wales +1 27 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Northern Ireland -19 13 - -
Isle of Man +6 6 £45,000 +30.43% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
VMware
UK

VMware
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
1 237 (31.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (9.69%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.01%) Exchange Server 2003
4 9 (1.18%) IIS
5 6 (0.79%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.26%) Appian
7 2 (0.26%) CMS
7 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.26%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 70 (9.16%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.39%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.13%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 402 (52.62%) Azure
2 388 (50.79%) Microsoft 365
3 123 (16.10%) AWS
4 101 (13.22%) Entra ID
5 35 (4.58%) Nutanix
6 27 (3.53%) GCP
7 26 (3.40%) IaaS
8 22 (2.88%) OneDrive
9 20 (2.62%) Google Workspace
10 18 (2.36%) SaaS
11 15 (1.96%) GitHub
12 9 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.05%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.05%) PaaS
13 8 (1.05%) Power Platform
14 7 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 294 (38.48%) DNS
2 263 (34.42%) DHCP
3 261 (34.16%) Firewall
4 110 (14.40%) TCP/IP
5 100 (13.09%) VPN
6 99 (12.96%) WAN
7 84 (10.99%) LAN
8 80 (10.47%) VLAN
9 51 (6.68%) SAN
10 45 (5.89%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (5.76%) Network Security
12 29 (3.80%) Remote Desktop
13 25 (3.27%) SD-WAN
13 25 (3.27%) Wireless
14 21 (2.75%) VoIP
15 15 (1.96%) BGP
16 13 (1.70%) NAS
17 12 (1.57%) Wireshark
18 11 (1.44%) MPLS
19 10 (1.31%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.65%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.01%) Oracle Database
3 23 (3.01%) Oracle Database 10g
4 8 (1.05%) GIS
4 8 (1.05%) MySQL
5 5 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.52%) Power BI
7 3 (0.39%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.26%) Airbyte
8 2 (0.26%) DTS
8 2 (0.26%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.13%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.83%) GitLab
2 12 (1.57%) JIRA
3 8 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.52%) Git
5 4 (0.52%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.52%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.52%) Selenium
5 4 (0.52%) Subversion
6 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.26%) Snyk
6 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.26%) TestRail
7 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.13%) JUnit
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 304 (39.79%) Social Skills
2 98 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (6.54%) Finance
4 38 (4.97%) Retail
5 31 (4.06%) Manufacturing
6 30 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 26 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.36%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.09%) Advertising
9 16 (2.09%) Law
10 15 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.18%) Marketing
13 7 (0.92%) Automotive
13 7 (0.92%) Banking
14 6 (0.79%) Legal
14 6 (0.79%) Spanish Language
15 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (20.03%) IT Support
2 148 (19.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (18.19%) Support Engineer
4 108 (14.14%) IT Engineer
5 101 (13.22%) Senior
6 95 (12.43%) Systems Engineer
7 89 (11.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 64 (8.38%) VMware Engineer
9 50 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 50 (6.54%) Support Technician
10 46 (6.02%) 2nd Line Support
11 43 (5.63%) Architect
11 43 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (5.50%) 3rd Line Support
13 38 (4.97%) IT Technician
14 36 (4.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 33 (4.32%) IT Support Technician
16 32 (4.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 32 (4.19%) Technical Support
16 32 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (0.79%) XMPP
3 5 (0.65%) Regular Expression
4 4 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.52%) Kafka
4 4 (0.52%) LDAP
4 4 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (0.39%) .NET
5 3 (0.39%) Itk
5 3 (0.39%) JSON
5 3 (0.39%) JSON Schema
5 3 (0.39%) Keycloak
5 3 (0.39%) XML
6 2 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.26%) Playwright
6 2 (0.26%) pytest
6 2 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.26%) WCF
6 2 (0.26%) Web Services
7 1 (0.13%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 63 (8.25%) Driving Licence
3 56 (7.33%) Data Centre
3 56 (7.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (3.93%) Replication
5 28 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 25 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.36%) Client/Server
9 13 (1.70%) PKI
10 12 (1.57%) CCTV
11 11 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.05%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.79%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.79%) iPad
14 6 (0.79%) PMI
15 5 (0.65%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 528 (69.11%) Windows
2 407 (53.27%) Windows Server
3 203 (26.57%) Linux
4 96 (12.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 66 (8.64%) Windows 10
6 34 (4.45%) Windows 7
7 32 (4.19%) Mac OS
8 28 (3.66%) Unix
9 26 (3.40%) Solaris
9 26 (3.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 25 (3.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (3.14%) Android
12 23 (3.01%) HPUX
12 23 (3.01%) Windows Server 2003
13 22 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 20 (2.62%) Apple iOS
15 18 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
16 11 (1.44%) Windows 8
17 7 (0.92%) CentOS
17 7 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
2 175 (22.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 161 (21.07%) Customer Service
4 151 (19.76%) ITIL
5 100 (13.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 97 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 92 (12.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 83 (10.86%) Migration
9 82 (10.73%) Kalman Filter
10 80 (10.47%) Web Filtering
11 76 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
11 76 (9.95%) Mentoring
12 75 (9.82%) Customer Experience
13 74 (9.69%) Email Filtering
13 74 (9.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 58 (7.59%) ITSM
15 55 (7.20%) Server Management
16 51 (6.68%) Business Continuity
16 51 (6.68%) Incident Management
17 48 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 122 (15.97%) PowerShell
2 57 (7.46%) Python
3 42 (5.50%) SQL
4 23 (3.01%) Bash
5 22 (2.88%) Perl
6 11 (1.44%) C
6 11 (1.44%) C++
6 11 (1.44%) Rust
7 7 (0.92%) Bicep
7 7 (0.92%) Go
7 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.92%) VBScript
8 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.52%) Java
10 3 (0.39%) Tcl
11 2 (0.26%) C#
11 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 218 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 158 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.99%) DV Cleared
4 73 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 71 (9.29%) Degree
6 48 (6.28%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (4.32%) CCNA
8 29 (3.80%) MCSE
9 26 (3.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 25 (3.27%) Azure Certification
11 24 (3.14%) MCSA
12 23 (3.01%) CCNP
13 18 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 15 (1.96%) DBS Check
16 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
17 12 (1.57%) HNC
18 11 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
19 8 (1.05%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (11.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 83 (10.86%) SLA
3 77 (10.08%) PCI DSS
4 23 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.96%) GDPR
6 8 (1.05%) QA
7 7 (0.92%) NIST
8 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.39%) PMO
10 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 458 (59.95%) Active Directory
2 412 (53.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 324 (42.41%) Hyper-V
4 75 (9.82%) Terminal Server
5 67 (8.77%) vSphere
6 49 (6.41%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (4.32%) VMware NSX
8 25 (3.27%) KVM
9 21 (2.75%) Docker
10 18 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
11 15 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
12 12 (1.57%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (1.05%) Firmware
14 6 (0.79%) DFS Replication
15 5 (0.65%) XenApp
16 4 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 2 (0.26%) XenDesktop
19 1 (0.13%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 96 (12.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (6.94%) Ansible
3 47 (6.15%) vCenter Server
4 38 (4.97%) Terraform
5 34 (4.45%) Kubernetes
6 31 (4.06%) SCCM
7 20 (2.62%) FortiGate
8 18 (2.36%) Grafana
9 17 (2.23%) Proxmox
10 12 (1.57%) WSUS
11 10 (1.31%) Autotask
11 10 (1.31%) SCOM
11 10 (1.31%) vRealize
12 9 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (1.18%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (1.05%) Prometheus
13 8 (1.05%) Puppet
13 8 (1.05%) VxRail
14 6 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 444 (58.12%) Microsoft
2 163 (21.34%) Veeam
3 102 (13.35%) Cisco
4 97 (12.70%) Nimble Storage
5 94 (12.30%) SolarWinds
6 85 (11.13%) Splunk
7 74 (9.69%) Tanium
8 72 (9.42%) Brocade
9 63 (8.25%) Citrix
10 61 (7.98%) Dell
11 45 (5.89%) HP
12 35 (4.58%) Juniper
13 28 (3.66%) Google
13 28 (3.66%) Oracle
14 26 (3.40%) Fortinet
15 25 (3.27%) Dell Compellent
16 22 (2.88%) Palo Alto
17 21 (2.75%) McAfee
17 21 (2.75%) NetApp
17 21 (2.75%) SonicWALL