VMware Infrastructure Jobs

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 117 240
Rank change year-on-year -16 +123 -86
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 1,727 2,328 3,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 2.89% 1.75%
As % of the System Software category 18.25% 18.12% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 1,556 2,242
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £38,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £56,500 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £78,975
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,887 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.47% - +2.86%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Infrastructure 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -19 1,582 £47,250 -7.35% 264
UK excluding London -19 1,367 £43,887 -2.47% 261
Work from Home -7 597 £50,000 -9.09% 108
South East -17 338 £47,500 - 61
London -63 327 £63,000 +0.80% 41
South West +9 291 £50,000 +21.95% 36
Midlands -7 265 £43,227 -6.03% 40
North of England -54 235 £40,000 -15.79% 75
West Midlands +7 143 £47,500 +11.76% 30
East Midlands -20 122 £42,500 -19.05% 10
East of England -29 121 £40,769 -12.32% 21
North West -39 115 £43,887 -10.89% 40
Yorkshire -36 82 £40,000 - 26
Scotland -43 80 £47,500 +7.95% 18
North East +2 38 £32,500 -38.10% 12
Wales +17 28 £36,476 -18.94% 3
Northern Ireland -3 6 £51,000 +2.00% 12
Channel Islands -3 2 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 -

VMware Infrastructure
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
1 377 (21.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 249 (14.42%) SharePoint
3 63 (3.65%) Apache
4 51 (2.95%) IIS
5 21 (1.22%) SharePoint 2010
5 21 (1.22%) SharePoint 2013
6 13 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.64%) Confluence
7 11 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
8 9 (0.52%) nginx
9 8 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.29%) IBM Domino
10 5 (0.29%) SAS
11 4 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.12%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 193 (11.18%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.058%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.12%) Eikon
3 1 (0.058%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.058%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 815 (47.19%) Azure
2 770 (44.59%) Microsoft 365
3 300 (17.37%) AWS
4 215 (12.45%) Entra ID
5 113 (6.54%) GCP
6 102 (5.91%) SaaS
7 74 (4.28%) IaaS
8 72 (4.17%) OneDrive
9 63 (3.65%) Amazon S3
10 55 (3.18%) Nutanix
11 46 (2.66%) PaaS
12 38 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
13 31 (1.80%) OpenShift
14 28 (1.62%) Google Workspace
15 21 (1.22%) Power Platform
16 18 (1.04%) Mimecast
17 15 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (0.87%) Power Automate
18 14 (0.81%) PowerApps
19 11 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 592 (34.28%) Firewall
2 334 (19.34%) DNS
3 323 (18.70%) WAN
4 281 (16.27%) LAN
5 269 (15.58%) DHCP
6 259 (15.00%) VPN
7 245 (14.19%) SAN
8 165 (9.55%) TCP/IP
9 131 (7.59%) Internet
10 124 (7.18%) VLAN
11 116 (6.72%) Wi-Fi
12 112 (6.49%) Wireless
13 87 (5.04%) NAS
14 77 (4.46%) Remote Desktop
15 70 (4.05%) SD-WAN
15 70 (4.05%) SNMP
16 66 (3.82%) VSAN
17 65 (3.76%) VoIP
18 63 (3.65%) IPsec
19 48 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (10.89%) SQL Server
2 62 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 30 (1.74%) MySQL
6 15 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 13 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.64%) MariaDB
8 11 (0.64%) Power BI
9 9 (0.52%) DB2
10 6 (0.35%) Redis
11 5 (0.29%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.23%) Big Data
12 4 (0.23%) Metabase
13 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.17%) Ingres
13 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 34 (1.97%) GitLab
3 19 (1.10%) MSI
4 17 (0.98%) Git
4 17 (0.98%) JIRA
5 14 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 13 (0.75%) AdminStudio
6 13 (0.75%) InstallShield
6 13 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.17%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.12%) Postman
11 2 (0.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.12%) Subversion
12 1 (0.058%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.058%) TestNG
General
1 468 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 303 (17.54%) Finance
3 135 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (4.11%) Aerospace
5 66 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
6 62 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 55 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 52 (3.01%) Banking
9 46 (2.66%) Manufacturing
10 45 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (2.43%) Telecoms
12 39 (2.26%) Law
13 38 (2.20%) Legal
14 34 (1.97%) Retail
15 22 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.22%) Games
17 18 (1.04%) Marketing
18 15 (0.87%) Electronics
19 13 (0.75%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 467 (27.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 259 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 225 (13.03%) Senior
4 180 (10.42%) IT Engineer
5 146 (8.45%) IT Support
6 121 (7.01%) 2nd Line Support
6 121 (7.01%) Analyst
7 115 (6.66%) Consultant
8 103 (5.96%) 3rd Line Support
9 91 (5.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 89 (5.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 88 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 87 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
13 81 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
14 76 (4.40%) Administrator
15 74 (4.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 70 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 69 (4.00%) Lead
18 68 (3.94%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 64 (3.71%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.65%) YAML
2 57 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
3 20 (1.16%) .NET
4 14 (0.81%) REST
5 12 (0.69%) LDAP
6 11 (0.64%) XMPP
7 8 (0.46%) WebSphere MQ
8 7 (0.41%) HTML
9 6 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.29%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.29%) CSS
11 4 (0.23%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.23%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.23%) jQuery
11 4 (0.23%) Middleware
11 4 (0.23%) Web Services
11 4 (0.23%) WPF
11 4 (0.23%) XML
12 3 (0.17%) Keycloak
12 3 (0.17%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 270 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 119 (6.89%) Management Information System
3 105 (6.08%) Clustering
4 103 (5.96%) Replication
5 90 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 72 (4.17%) PKI
7 68 (3.94%) Public Cloud
8 60 (3.47%) Driving Licence
9 47 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
10 42 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (2.14%) Private Cloud
12 34 (1.97%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
14 21 (1.22%) IoT
15 18 (1.04%) Operational Technology
16 17 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
18 15 (0.87%) CCTV
19 14 (0.81%) Blackberry
19 14 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,232 (71.34%) Windows
2 793 (45.92%) Windows Server
3 496 (28.72%) Linux
4 259 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 196 (11.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 169 (9.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 161 (9.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 104 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 76 (4.40%) Windows 7
10 56 (3.24%) Ubuntu
11 54 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
12 46 (2.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 42 (2.43%) CentOS
14 38 (2.20%) Unix
15 35 (2.03%) Android
16 34 (1.97%) Apple iOS
17 33 (1.91%) Mac OS
18 23 (1.33%) Debian
19 21 (1.22%) Windows 8
20 19 (1.10%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (30.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 389 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
3 344 (19.92%) ITIL
4 212 (12.28%) Customer Service
5 207 (11.99%) Cybersecurity
6 191 (11.06%) Project Management
7 176 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 162 (9.38%) Agile
9 151 (8.74%) DevOps
10 127 (7.35%) Change Management
11 120 (6.95%) Mentoring
12 104 (6.02%) Storage Management
13 103 (5.96%) Service Delivery
14 98 (5.67%) Migration
15 95 (5.50%) Actionable Insight
15 95 (5.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 93 (5.39%) Infrastructure Management
17 89 (5.15%) Project Delivery
18 87 (5.04%) Collaborative Working
19 80 (4.63%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 383 (22.18%) PowerShell
2 202 (11.70%) Python
3 201 (11.64%) SQL
4 125 (7.24%) Bash
5 39 (2.26%) Java
6 35 (2.03%) Perl
7 33 (1.91%) C#
8 30 (1.74%) VB
9 17 (0.98%) ActionScript
10 14 (0.81%) Ruby
11 12 (0.69%) Korn
12 11 (0.64%) JavaScript
12 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.46%) C
13 8 (0.46%) VBScript
14 7 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.29%) C++
17 3 (0.17%) R
17 3 (0.17%) RPG
Qualifications
1 325 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 291 (16.85%) Degree
3 172 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 166 (9.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 155 (8.98%) DV Cleared
6 133 (7.70%) Cisco Certification
7 103 (5.96%) CCNA
8 75 (4.34%) MCSE
9 67 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 50 (2.90%) CCNP
11 47 (2.72%) MCSA
12 46 (2.66%) Azure Certification
13 41 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (1.80%) DBS Check
14 31 (1.80%) MCITP
15 27 (1.56%) MCP
16 24 (1.39%) A+ Certification
16 24 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
17 23 (1.33%) Citrix Certification
18 21 (1.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.54%) SLA
2 58 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (1.68%) GDPR
5 14 (0.81%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.69%) QA
8 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.35%) NIST
9 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.29%) SOC 1
11 3 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.17%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.12%) PMO
13 1 (0.058%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.058%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.058%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.058%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 942 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 606 (35.09%) Hyper-V
3 226 (13.09%) vSphere
4 216 (12.51%) VMware ESXi
5 151 (8.74%) Docker
6 93 (5.39%) XenApp
7 86 (4.98%) XenDesktop
8 85 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
9 69 (4.00%) VMware NSX
10 42 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 38 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
12 26 (1.51%) Firmware
13 21 (1.22%) VMware Workstation
14 18 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
14 18 (1.04%) VirtualBox
15 17 (0.98%) OpenSSH
15 17 (0.98%) VMware Server
16 16 (0.93%) KVM
16 16 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 11 (0.64%) NFS
Systems Management
1 221 (12.80%) Ansible
2 201 (11.64%) SCCM
3 191 (11.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 178 (10.31%) vCenter Server
5 148 (8.57%) Kubernetes
6 105 (6.08%) Terraform
7 84 (4.86%) WSUS
8 76 (4.40%) Puppet
9 61 (3.53%) Prometheus
10 52 (3.01%) SCOM
11 43 (2.49%) Failover Clustering
12 31 (1.80%) ZABBIX
13 26 (1.51%) Backup Exec
14 25 (1.45%) FortiGate
15 24 (1.39%) NetBackup
16 23 (1.33%) Nagios
17 22 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 22 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
18 21 (1.22%) IBM BigFix
19 19 (1.10%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,727 (100.00%) VMware
2 957 (55.41%) Microsoft
3 361 (20.90%) Cisco
4 269 (15.58%) Citrix
5 249 (14.42%) Veeam
6 193 (11.18%) Red Hat
7 165 (9.55%) HP
8 133 (7.70%) NetApp
9 130 (7.53%) Dell
10 101 (5.85%) Palo Alto
11 94 (5.44%) Google
12 69 (4.00%) IBM
13 61 (3.53%) Fortinet
14 54 (3.13%) Oracle
14 54 (3.13%) SolidFire
15 50 (2.90%) Apple
15 50 (2.90%) Symantec
16 44 (2.55%) Juniper
16 44 (2.55%) ServiceNow
17 42 (2.43%) Meraki