VxRail Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Dell EMC VxRail
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VxRail skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 548 547
Rank change year-on-year +40 -1 +159
Permanent jobs citing VxRail 6 16 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.044% 0.047%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% 0.50% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile £51,625 £52,375 £69,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £52,700 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,875 £56,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -25.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £60,125 £63,438 -
90th Percentile - £66,375 -
UK median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% -26.67% +28.21%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

VxRail falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,345 3,217 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.59% 8.80% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,623 1,839 3,416
10th Percentile £30,100 £34,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% -3.70%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

VxRail job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VxRail
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

VxRail
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 VxRail within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +17 2 £56,750 -1.30% 4
North of England - 2 - - 1
Midlands +17 1 £52,500 -1.50%
North East - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - -
South West - 1 £55,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
VxRail
UK

VxRail
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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) VSAN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) IT Audit
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Dell
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) NetApp
3 3 (50.00%) Veeam
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) Citrix
5 1 (16.67%) Aruba
5 1 (16.67%) F5
5 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds