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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 482 469
Rank change year-on-year +199 -13 +60
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 374 297 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.42% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 8.86% 3.39% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 97 257 226
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £56,278 £52,500
90th Percentile - £73,500 £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 4,221 8,769 9,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.59% 12.26% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,487 7,027 5,757
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,700 £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 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 18 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 18 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 +207 269 £45,000 +4.65% 50
North West +174 261 £37,500 -28.57% 30
South East +89 65 £85,000 +75.26% 57
Midlands +29 19 £50,000 - 26
East Midlands +17 15 £50,000 - 7
South West +39 7 £60,000 +14.29% 17
Yorkshire +55 6 £52,500 +23.53% 17
East of England +1 6 £43,000 +34.38% 23
Scotland +104 4 £51,250 +9.04% 13
Wales +39 4 £47,500 -5.00% 2
West Midlands +19 4 £30,000 -42.86% 16
North East +29 2 £65,000 +136.36% 4
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 (6.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.83%) Azure
2 34 (9.09%) IaaS
3 29 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.61%) AWS
5 12 (3.21%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.21%) GCP
6 8 (2.14%) SaaS
7 6 (1.60%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.07%) Nutanix
9 3 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.80%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.53%) PaaS
10 2 (0.53%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.53%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.27%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 268 (71.66%) VPN
2 260 (69.52%) Cisco IOS
3 36 (9.63%) VSAN
4 33 (8.82%) DNS
5 30 (8.02%) DHCP
6 25 (6.68%) Firewall
7 16 (4.28%) SAN
8 14 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.21%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (2.94%) 5G
10 11 (2.94%) Bluetooth
10 11 (2.94%) LTE
11 7 (1.87%) NAS
12 6 (1.60%) Network Security
12 6 (1.60%) SMTP
12 6 (1.60%) VLAN
13 4 (1.07%) LAN
13 4 (1.07%) WAN
14 3 (0.80%) MPLS
14 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.07%) MariaDB
3 4 (1.07%) MySQL
3 4 (1.07%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.07%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.53%) Power BI
5 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 288 (77.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 266 (71.12%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.95%) Social Skills
4 12 (3.21%) Electronics
5 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.34%) Finance
7 3 (0.80%) Law
7 3 (0.80%) Legal
8 2 (0.53%) Local Government
8 2 (0.53%) Military
8 2 (0.53%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.27%) Marketing
9 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 291 (77.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (9.89%) VMware Specialist
3 20 (5.35%) Support Engineer
4 16 (4.28%) Lead
5 11 (2.94%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (2.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 10 (2.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (2.67%) Senior
7 8 (2.14%) Administrator
7 8 (2.14%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (1.60%) 3rd Line Support
8 6 (1.60%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (1.60%) Infrastructure Support
8 6 (1.60%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (1.60%) Support Specialist
8 6 (1.60%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (1.60%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 6 (1.60%) VMware Support Engineer
9 5 (1.34%) IT Technician
9 5 (1.34%) Senior IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (69.79%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.27%) .NET
2 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.27%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 260 (69.52%) Cyberattack
2 12 (3.21%) Clustering
3 11 (2.94%) IoT
3 11 (2.94%) NB-IoT
4 8 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.60%) PKI
6 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.80%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.53%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.53%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.27%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 322 (86.10%) Windows
2 307 (82.09%) Linux
3 261 (69.79%) Android
4 54 (14.44%) Windows Server
5 17 (4.55%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.41%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.60%) CentOS
7 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.34%) Mac OS X
9 4 (1.07%) SUSE
10 3 (0.80%) Debian
10 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.53%) Unix
12 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (79.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 280 (74.87%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (72.73%) Task Automation
4 267 (71.39%) DevOps
5 263 (70.32%) Platform Engineering
6 262 (70.05%) Line Management
6 262 (70.05%) Storage Management
7 261 (69.79%) Risk Management
8 260 (69.52%) Mathematics
9 17 (4.55%) High Availability
9 17 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (4.28%) ITIL
11 12 (3.21%) Incident Management
12 11 (2.94%) Asset Management
12 11 (2.94%) Penetration Testing
12 11 (2.94%) Project Planning
12 11 (2.94%) Software Testing
12 11 (2.94%) Strategic Thinking
13 8 (2.14%) CI/CD
13 8 (2.14%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 332 (88.77%) PowerShell
2 307 (82.09%) Python
3 274 (73.26%) Bash
4 9 (2.41%) SQL
5 1 (0.27%) C#
5 1 (0.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 51 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.83%) DV Cleared
3 20 (5.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (5.08%) Degree
5 16 (4.28%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.87%) MCSA
9 5 (1.34%) ACSP
9 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.34%) HP AIS
10 4 (1.07%) MCSE
10 4 (1.07%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.80%) CCNA
11 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.80%) VCAP
12 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.27%) CCNP
13 1 (0.27%) CISSP
13 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 294 (78.61%) VMware NSX
2 285 (76.20%) Hyper-V
3 274 (73.26%) Docker
4 96 (25.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (12.03%) Active Directory
6 25 (6.68%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (3.21%) Terminal Services
8 10 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.60%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.60%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.53%) KVM
12 1 (0.27%) NFS
12 1 (0.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 291 (77.81%) Ansible
2 285 (76.20%) Terraform
3 26 (6.95%) Puppet
4 22 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 19 (5.08%) vCenter Server
6 12 (3.21%) vMotion
7 11 (2.94%) vRealize
8 9 (2.41%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.87%) SCCM
10 6 (1.60%) Nagios
11 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.53%) SCOM
13 1 (0.27%) Control-M
13 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) Grafana
13 1 (0.27%) Nessus
13 1 (0.27%) OpenNebula
Vendors
1 269 (71.93%) Cisco
2 263 (70.32%) Juniper
2 263 (70.32%) Splunk
3 260 (69.52%) 3PAR
4 112 (29.95%) VMware
5 65 (17.38%) Microsoft
6 26 (6.95%) HP
7 16 (4.28%) Veeam
8 14 (3.74%) Citrix
9 9 (2.41%) Dell
9 9 (2.41%) NetApp
10 7 (1.87%) Google
11 6 (1.60%) Apple
11 6 (1.60%) Symantec
12 4 (1.07%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.80%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.80%) Extreme Networks
14 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.53%) Salesforce