vSphere Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware vSphere
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 234 465
Rank change year-on-year -255 +231 -19
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 91 375 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 1.29% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 2.96% 9.32% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 71 97 254
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £27,050
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 - £72,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% +9.52% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

vSphere 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 3,076 4,023 8,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.66% 13.88% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 2,421 7,030
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
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 vSphere within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 -49 36 £67,500 -20.59% 19
North of England -207 15 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Midlands -31 11 £46,250 -7.50% 8
South West -46 11 £60,500 +0.83% 7
Wales -22 9 £45,000 -5.26% 4
East Midlands -36 7 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Yorkshire -52 7 £50,000 -4.76% 3
East of England -12 6 £41,000 -4.65% 2
North East -37 4 £70,000 +7.69% 3
West Midlands -37 4 £46,250 +54.17% 4
North West -162 4 £80,000 +113.33% 3
Scotland -5 3 £37,500 -26.83%
vSphere
UK

vSphere
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 17 (18.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (35.16%) Azure
3 19 (20.88%) AWS
4 18 (19.78%) Entra ID
5 9 (9.89%) SaaS
6 6 (6.59%) IaaS
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.49%) Nutanix
7 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.40%) PaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.20%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.20%) GCP
9 2 (2.20%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.20%) Serverless
9 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 48 (52.75%) Firewall
2 42 (46.15%) DNS
3 23 (25.27%) WAN
4 22 (24.18%) DHCP
5 19 (20.88%) LAN
5 19 (20.88%) VPN
6 17 (18.68%) VLAN
7 11 (12.09%) NAS
7 11 (12.09%) SAN
8 9 (9.89%) TCP/IP
9 8 (8.79%) BGP
9 8 (8.79%) MPLS
9 8 (8.79%) NetScaler
9 8 (8.79%) Wireshark
10 7 (7.69%) Unified Communications
10 7 (7.69%) WebEx
10 7 (7.69%) Wireless
11 6 (6.59%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (6.59%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) MySQL
3 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.30%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) GitLab
2 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.40%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.20%) Git
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (16.48%) Finance
1 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.69%) Retail
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.59%) Marketing
4 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.30%) Law
5 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Local Government
6 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (18.68%) Architect
3 16 (17.58%) Applications Architect
3 16 (17.58%) Senior
4 13 (14.29%) IT Support
5 10 (10.99%) Security Architect
6 9 (9.89%) IT Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Collaboration Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) IT Technician
9 6 (6.59%) Consultant
9 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 6 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (6.59%) Support Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Support Technician
10 4 (4.40%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Design Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.88%) XMPP
2 16 (17.58%) Regular Expression
3 12 (13.19%) LDAP
4 4 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.40%) JSON
4 4 (4.40%) JSON Schema
4 4 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (4.40%) XML
5 2 (2.20%) boto
6 1 (1.10%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) PKI
2 12 (13.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (12.09%) Replication
4 7 (7.69%) FlexPod
4 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (5.49%) IoT
7 4 (4.40%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.20%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.10%) CCTV
9 1 (1.10%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 81 (89.01%) Windows
2 67 (73.63%) Windows Server
3 58 (63.74%) Linux
4 20 (21.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (12.09%) Ubuntu
5 11 (12.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.59%) Apple iOS
6 6 (6.59%) CentOS
6 6 (6.59%) Mac OS
7 5 (5.49%) VMS
7 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.40%) Unix
9 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (26.37%) SIEM
3 19 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (19.78%) ITIL
5 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.58%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (14.29%) Validation
8 12 (13.19%) Antivirus Management
8 12 (13.19%) Application Security
8 12 (13.19%) Pattern Matching
9 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (12.09%) Project Delivery
10 10 (10.99%) Architectural Design
10 10 (10.99%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (9.89%) Computer Science
11 9 (9.89%) High Availability
12 8 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.79%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) PowerShell
2 11 (12.09%) Python
3 4 (4.40%) Java
3 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.40%) SQL
4 2 (2.20%) Bash
4 2 (2.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.07%) DV Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) Degree
4 10 (10.99%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.59%) CCNA
7 6 (6.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.40%) CCNP
8 4 (4.40%) DBS Check
8 4 (4.40%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (4.40%) VCAP
9 3 (3.30%) CCIE
9 3 (3.30%) JNCIP
9 3 (3.30%) VCDX
10 2 (2.20%) CISM
10 2 (2.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) GxP
1 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.20%) PMO
2 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (68.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (67.03%) Active Directory
3 20 (21.98%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (18.68%) VMware NSX
5 9 (9.89%) Docker
5 9 (9.89%) Hyper-V
5 9 (9.89%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (6.59%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (3.30%) vCloud
8 2 (2.20%) Squid
8 2 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 28 (30.77%) Ansible
2 25 (27.47%) vCenter Server
3 20 (21.98%) Terraform
4 14 (15.38%) Kubernetes
5 9 (9.89%) Grafana
5 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (8.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (6.59%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (5.49%) Nessus
10 4 (4.40%) SCCM
10 4 (4.40%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (4.40%) WSUS
11 3 (3.30%) Galera Cluster
12 2 (2.20%) Control-M
12 2 (2.20%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (2.20%) Packer
12 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (2.20%) ZABBIX
13 1 (1.10%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 87 (95.60%) VMware
2 69 (75.82%) Microsoft
3 20 (21.98%) NetApp
3 20 (21.98%) Red Hat
4 17 (18.68%) Splunk
5 14 (15.38%) Cisco
6 12 (13.19%) Fortinet
7 11 (12.09%) Veeam
8 8 (8.79%) Citrix
8 8 (8.79%) McAfee
8 8 (8.79%) Palo Alto
9 6 (6.59%) Apple
10 5 (5.49%) Meraki
10 5 (5.49%) SolarWinds
11 4 (4.40%) Aruba
11 4 (4.40%) Dell
12 3 (3.30%) Broadcom
12 3 (3.30%) Nimble Storage
13 2 (2.20%) Datto
13 2 (2.20%) Synology