VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 872 1097
Rank change year-on-year +39 +225 -387
Permanent jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 74 123 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.12% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.13% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 64 99 127
10th Percentile £42,375 £32,000 £35,300
25th Percentile £47,938 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £64,688 £61,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.11% - +15.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured VMware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware Engineer.

Salary trend for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
England +44 71 £55,000 +4.76% 13
UK excluding London -48 42 £48,500 +2.11% 6
London +110 29 £65,000 +6.56% 8
Work from Home +61 29 £48,500 -3.00% 4
South East +22 27 £48,500 +21.25% 2
North of England +40 10 £35,000 -33.33% 3
Yorkshire +79 5 £35,000 - 1
West Midlands +8 3 £42,500 -10.53%
Midlands -8 3 £42,500 -10.53%
North East - 3 £47,500 -
North West +7 2 £45,000 -14.29% 2
South West -32 1 £47,500 +18.75%
Scotland - 1 £55,000 - 1

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, VMware Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) VMware
2 55 (74.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 50 (67.57%) Windows
4 48 (64.86%) PowerShell
5 42 (56.76%) Active Directory
5 42 (56.76%) Windows Server
6 39 (52.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 31 (41.89%) Azure
8 29 (39.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
10 25 (33.78%) Cisco
11 23 (31.08%) vSphere
12 22 (29.73%) VMware ESXi
13 21 (28.38%) vCenter Server
14 19 (25.68%) SCCM
15 18 (24.32%) Degree
15 18 (24.32%) SAN
16 17 (22.97%) Finance
16 17 (22.97%) Data Centre
17 16 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
17 16 (21.62%) DNS
17 16 (21.62%) Linux
17 16 (21.62%) DHCP
18 15 (20.27%) Windows Server 2016
19 14 (18.92%) NetApp
19 14 (18.92%) SLA
20 13 (17.57%) Disaster Recovery
20 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
20 13 (17.57%) DV Cleared
20 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared

VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) Azure
2 11 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.81%) AWS
3 8 (10.81%) OCI
4 5 (6.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.05%) Mimecast
5 3 (4.05%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) IaaS
6 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.32%) SAN
2 16 (21.62%) DHCP
2 16 (21.62%) DNS
3 12 (16.22%) Firewall
4 10 (13.51%) Internet
5 9 (12.16%) NAS
6 3 (4.05%) LAN
6 3 (4.05%) VLAN
6 3 (4.05%) VPN
6 3 (4.05%) WAN
7 2 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.70%) VSAN
8 1 (1.35%) MPLS
8 1 (1.35%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.35%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) JIRA
1 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (22.97%) Finance
2 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.41%) Banking
3 4 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.41%) Retail
4 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.35%) Electronics
6 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.35%) French Language
6 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.35%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.86%) PKI
3 9 (12.16%) Clustering
4 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.05%) FlexPod
6 2 (2.70%) FMCG
6 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (67.57%) Windows
2 42 (56.76%) Windows Server
3 29 (39.19%) Windows Server 2012
4 16 (21.62%) Linux
4 16 (21.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (20.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (17.57%) Windows 10
7 8 (10.81%) Windows XP
8 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (17.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (16.22%) ITIL
4 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.51%) Project Management
6 9 (12.16%) Customer Requirements
6 9 (12.16%) Problem Management
7 8 (10.81%) Break/Fix
7 8 (10.81%) Configuration Management
7 8 (10.81%) Converged Infrastructure
7 8 (10.81%) Migration
7 8 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
7 8 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
7 8 (10.81%) Server Management
7 8 (10.81%) Storage Management
8 4 (5.41%) High Availability
9 3 (4.05%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (4.05%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (4.05%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 48 (64.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.16%) ActionScript
2 9 (12.16%) VB
3 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Degree
2 13 (17.57%) DV Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) CCNA
3 9 (12.16%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (10.81%) CCNP
5 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.70%) MCSA
8 1 (1.35%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.35%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (56.76%) Active Directory
2 39 (52.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (31.08%) vSphere
4 22 (29.73%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (16.22%) Hyper-V
6 9 (12.16%) OpenSSH
6 9 (12.16%) XenApp
7 4 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.70%) VMware Server
9 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) vCenter Server
2 19 (25.68%) SCCM
3 10 (13.51%) PowerCLI
3 10 (13.51%) SCOM
4 9 (12.16%) IBM BigFix
5 8 (10.81%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (10.81%) NetBackup
5 8 (10.81%) WSUS
6 3 (4.05%) FortiGate
6 3 (4.05%) Terraform
6 3 (4.05%) vRealize
6 3 (4.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) VMware
2 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
3 25 (33.78%) Cisco
4 14 (18.92%) NetApp
5 11 (14.86%) Palo Alto
5 11 (14.86%) Veeam
6 10 (13.51%) Commvault
7 9 (12.16%) Citrix
7 9 (12.16%) Dell
7 9 (12.16%) EMC
7 9 (12.16%) HP
7 9 (12.16%) IBM
7 9 (12.16%) Juniper
8 8 (10.81%) 3PAR
8 8 (10.81%) Extreme Networks
8 8 (10.81%) Oracle
8 8 (10.81%) Symantec
9 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
9 4 (5.41%) Sophos
10 3 (4.05%) SonicWALL