vSphere Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMware vSphere
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 481 478
Rank change year-on-year +196 -3 +56
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 359 309 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 8.63% 3.49% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 83 265 219
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,880 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £56,250 £53,750
90th Percentile - £70,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -10.00%

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 4,161 8,853 9,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.57% 11.87% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 6,985 5,661
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 £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
North of England +212 265 £45,000 +4.65% 66
North West +176 256 £37,500 -28.57% 33
South East +72 55 £85,000 +75.26% 94
Midlands +46 19 £50,000 - 75
East Midlands +38 15 £50,000 - 29
South West +32 7 £57,500 +9.52% 45
Yorkshire +49 6 £52,500 +23.53% 25
East of England +9 5 £43,000 +34.38% 61
Scotland +110 4 £51,250 +9.04% 25
Wales +50 4 £47,500 -5.00% 9
West Midlands +26 4 £30,000 -42.86% 41
North East +41 3 £62,500 +127.27% 8
vSphere
UK

vSphere
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 26 (7.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.23%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (11.42%) Azure
2 27 (7.52%) IaaS
3 24 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.57%) AWS
5 10 (2.79%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.51%) GCP
7 6 (1.67%) OpenShift
7 6 (1.67%) SaaS
8 3 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.56%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.56%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.28%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.28%) GitHub
10 1 (0.28%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.28%) PaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 268 (74.65%) VPN
2 260 (72.42%) Cisco IOS
3 31 (8.64%) VSAN
4 29 (8.08%) DNS
5 27 (7.52%) DHCP
6 25 (6.96%) Firewall
7 18 (5.01%) SAN
8 14 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.34%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (3.06%) 5G
10 11 (3.06%) Bluetooth
10 11 (3.06%) LTE
11 7 (1.95%) NAS
11 7 (1.95%) VLAN
12 6 (1.67%) Network Security
12 6 (1.67%) SMTP
13 4 (1.11%) LAN
14 3 (0.84%) MPLS
14 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
14 3 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.11%) MariaDB
3 4 (1.11%) MySQL
3 4 (1.11%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) Power BI
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (0.84%) JIRA
1 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 288 (80.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 261 (72.70%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.24%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.34%) Electronics
5 5 (1.39%) Finance
6 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
7 3 (0.84%) Law
7 3 (0.84%) Legal
8 2 (0.56%) Local Government
8 2 (0.56%) Military
8 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.28%) Marketing
9 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 287 (79.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (8.36%) VMware Specialist
3 20 (5.57%) Support Engineer
4 14 (3.90%) Lead
5 11 (3.06%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (3.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 10 (2.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (2.79%) Senior
7 9 (2.51%) Administrator
8 8 (2.23%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (1.67%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (1.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (1.67%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (1.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (1.67%) Support Specialist
9 6 (1.67%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (1.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 6 (1.67%) VMware Support Engineer
10 5 (1.39%) IT Engineer
11 4 (1.11%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (72.98%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.28%) .NET
2 1 (0.28%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.28%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.28%) SAML
2 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 260 (72.42%) Cyberattack
2 12 (3.34%) Clustering
3 11 (3.06%) IoT
3 11 (3.06%) NB-IoT
4 8 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.95%) PKI
6 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.84%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.84%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.28%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.28%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.28%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 317 (88.30%) Windows
2 303 (84.40%) Linux
3 261 (72.70%) Android
4 47 (13.09%) Windows Server
5 17 (4.74%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.11%) CentOS
8 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.84%) Debian
9 3 (0.84%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.84%) SUSE
9 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.28%) Unix
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (81.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 275 (76.60%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (75.77%) Task Automation
4 267 (74.37%) DevOps
5 262 (72.98%) Storage Management
6 261 (72.70%) Platform Engineering
7 260 (72.42%) Line Management
7 260 (72.42%) Mathematics
7 260 (72.42%) Risk Management
8 18 (5.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (4.46%) High Availability
10 12 (3.34%) Incident Management
10 12 (3.34%) ITIL
11 11 (3.06%) Asset Management
11 11 (3.06%) Penetration Testing
11 11 (3.06%) Project Planning
11 11 (3.06%) Software Testing
11 11 (3.06%) Strategic Thinking
12 7 (1.95%) Mentoring
12 7 (1.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 323 (89.97%) PowerShell
2 300 (83.57%) Python
3 273 (76.04%) Bash
4 9 (2.51%) SQL
5 2 (0.56%) C#
5 2 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (11.98%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.14%) DV Cleared
3 18 (5.01%) Degree
4 17 (4.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.39%) CCNA
8 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.39%) MCSA
8 5 (1.39%) MCSE
9 3 (0.84%) ACSP
9 3 (0.84%) HP AIS
10 2 (0.56%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) CCNP
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 285 (79.39%) VMware NSX
2 282 (78.55%) Hyper-V
3 275 (76.60%) Docker
4 84 (23.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (11.14%) Active Directory
6 25 (6.96%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.34%) Terminal Services
8 10 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.67%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.56%) KVM
12 1 (0.28%) NFS
12 1 (0.28%) vCloud
12 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 291 (81.06%) Ansible
2 283 (78.83%) Terraform
3 24 (6.69%) Puppet
4 19 (5.29%) Kubernetes
5 17 (4.74%) vCenter Server
6 12 (3.34%) vMotion
7 8 (2.23%) PowerCLI
7 8 (2.23%) vRealize
8 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.67%) Nagios
10 5 (1.39%) SCCM
11 2 (0.56%) Control-M
11 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.56%) Grafana
12 1 (0.28%) Nessus
12 1 (0.28%) OpenNebula
12 1 (0.28%) SCOM
12 1 (0.28%) VxRail
12 1 (0.28%) WMI
12 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 270 (75.21%) Cisco
2 263 (73.26%) Juniper
3 262 (72.98%) Splunk
4 260 (72.42%) 3PAR
5 97 (27.02%) VMware
6 58 (16.16%) Microsoft
7 24 (6.69%) HP
8 14 (3.90%) Citrix
9 12 (3.34%) Veeam
10 10 (2.79%) Dell
11 8 (2.23%) Google
11 8 (2.23%) NetApp
12 6 (1.67%) Symantec
13 4 (1.11%) Apple
14 3 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 3 (0.84%) Extreme Networks
14 3 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 3 (0.84%) Zscaler
15 2 (0.56%) Pure Storage
15 2 (0.56%) Salesforce