VMware Engineer Jobs

VMware Engineer
UK

The median VMware Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 823 861
Rank change year-on-year +145 +38 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 33 72 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.073% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.077% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 62 96
10th Percentile £36,875 £45,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £48,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,563 £61,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.82% +2.11% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

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 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Engineer in the UK

VMware Engineer
Top 9 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 16 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
England +112 29 £57,500 +4.55% 16
UK excluding London +166 19 £53,750 +10.82% 10
South East +86 13 £57,500 +18.56% 7
London +87 9 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Work from Home +105 8 £57,500 +18.56% 9
North of England +46 5 £57,500 +64.29%
Yorkshire +66 3 - -
North West +6 2 £57,500 +27.78%
Scotland +111 1 £50,000 -9.09%

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 33 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (75.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (51.52%) Windows
3 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
4 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
5 14 (42.42%) Azure
5 14 (42.42%) AWS
6 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
7 12 (36.36%) vSphere
7 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (36.36%) Migration
8 11 (33.33%) Cisco
8 11 (33.33%) Citrix
8 11 (33.33%) Linux
8 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (33.33%) Docker
9 10 (30.30%) Hyper-V
10 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
10 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
10 9 (27.27%) Degree
10 9 (27.27%) High Availability
10 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
10 9 (27.27%) Ansible
11 8 (24.24%) VSAN
11 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
12 7 (21.21%) Puppet
12 7 (21.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (21.21%) Clustering
12 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
12 7 (21.21%) DHCP

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 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) nginx
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
1 14 (42.42%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) IaaS
4 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.03%) PaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) VSAN
2 7 (21.21%) DHCP
2 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) SAN
3 6 (18.18%) NAS
4 5 (15.15%) Network Security
5 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
6 3 (9.09%) BGP
6 3 (9.09%) EIGRP
6 3 (9.09%) OSPF
7 2 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (6.06%) Firewall
7 2 (6.06%) VoIP
7 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (6.06%) Wireless
7 2 (6.06%) Wireshark
8 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 6 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) LAMP
3 1 (3.03%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Clustering
2 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 11 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
4 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
5 3 (9.09%) AIX
6 2 (6.06%) Unix
6 2 (6.06%) VMS
7 1 (3.03%) CentOS
7 1 (3.03%) Debian
7 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.03%) SUSE
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Migration
2 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (27.27%) High Availability
4 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
4 7 (21.21%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 6 (18.18%) Security Hardening
5 6 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 6 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) ITIL
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.12%) Load Balancing
7 4 (12.12%) Network Management
7 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
8 3 (9.09%) Agile
8 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Perl
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) DV Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) CCNA
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (3.03%) RHCE
6 1 (3.03%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (36.36%) vSphere
3 11 (33.33%) Docker
4 10 (30.30%) Hyper-V
5 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
7 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (6.06%) KVM
9 1 (3.03%) Dovecot
9 1 (3.03%) NFS
9 1 (3.03%) Postfix
9 1 (3.03%) vCloud
9 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (3.03%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (27.27%) Ansible
3 7 (21.21%) PowerCLI
3 7 (21.21%) Puppet
3 7 (21.21%) vCenter Server
3 7 (21.21%) vRealize
4 6 (18.18%) vMotion
5 4 (12.12%) SCCM
6 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
7 1 (3.03%) CFEngine
7 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) VMware
2 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
3 11 (33.33%) Cisco
3 11 (33.33%) Citrix
4 6 (18.18%) HP
4 6 (18.18%) Veeam
5 4 (12.12%) Juniper
6 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.06%) Aruba
7 2 (6.06%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.03%) Meraki
8 1 (3.03%) Okta
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle
8 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity