VMware Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median VMware Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 834 911
Rank change year-on-year +136 +77 +257
Permanent jobs requiring a VMware Infrastructure Engineer 12 53 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.054% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.057% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 8 50 46
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £48,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57,813 £65,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,625 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -32.99% -3.00% -4.76%

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 48,816 93,552 93,960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.64% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,241 67,063 59,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +117 12 £52,500 -4.55% 2
London +96 7 £55,000 -18.52%
UK excluding London +150 5 £32,500 -32.99% 2
South East +83 3 £27,500 -43.30%
North of England +69 2 £57,500 +27.78% 1
North West +5 2 £57,500 +27.78%
Work from Home +148 1 £50,000 +3.09% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (58.33%) Windows
5 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
6 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (50.00%) Degree
7 5 (41.67%) Migration
7 5 (41.67%) Linux
7 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (33.33%) ITIL
8 4 (33.33%) Cisco
8 4 (33.33%) AWS
8 4 (33.33%) SCCM
8 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
8 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (25.00%) Patch Management
9 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (25.00%) Time Management
9 3 (25.00%) vSphere
9 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (25.00%) SLA
9 3 (25.00%) AIX
9 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
9 3 (25.00%) Citrix
9 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (16.67%) Wireless
10 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (16.67%) Red Hat

VMware Infrastructure 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
1 2 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
1 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (25.00%) AIX
5 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (16.67%) VMS
6 1 (8.33%) CentOS
6 1 (8.33%) Debian
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (8.33%) Change Control
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (25.00%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Dovecot
4 1 (8.33%) Postfix
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) Citrix
4 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (8.33%) Meraki
6 1 (8.33%) Okta
6 1 (8.33%) Ping Identity
6 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds