VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 161 215
Rank change year-on-year +36 +54 -101
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2,237 2,435 2,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.28% 2.33% 1.95%
As % of the System Software category 18.26% 15.19% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 1,731 2,164
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £49,875
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £79,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,249 16,035 28,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 15.32% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 10,596 15,794
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +33 2,042 £45,000 -14.29% 450
UK excluding London +21 1,744 £42,500 -5.56% 362
Work from Home +27 769 £50,000 -9.09% 135
London +13 448 £62,000 -0.80% 92
South East +40 434 £42,500 -10.53% 104
North of England +16 340 £40,617 -9.74% 81
South West +15 321 £49,000 +15.98% 59
Midlands +43 316 £43,227 -9.00% 69
West Midlands +58 200 £45,000 - 48
East of England +4 178 £37,500 -25.00% 42
North West +5 163 £42,500 -5.56% 54
Yorkshire +22 126 £41,250 +3.13% 20
East Midlands +14 116 £42,500 -19.05% 21
Scotland -18 100 £50,000 -5.66% 6
North East +13 51 £36,000 -28.00% 9
Wales -2 36 £36,988 -17.81% 5
Northern Ireland +16 11 £41,250 +17.86% 2
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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
1 531 (23.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 316 (14.13%) SharePoint
3 106 (4.74%) IIS
4 59 (2.64%) Apache
5 15 (0.67%) Confluence
6 13 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
6 13 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
7 12 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
8 9 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
8 9 (0.40%) nginx
8 9 (0.40%) SAS
9 8 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.18%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.089%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.089%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.089%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.045%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 203 (9.07%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.13%) SPSS
5 2 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.089%) Eikon
3 2 (0.089%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.045%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,146 (51.23%) Azure
2 1,041 (46.54%) Microsoft 365
3 368 (16.45%) AWS
4 271 (12.11%) Entra ID
5 124 (5.54%) GCP
6 111 (4.96%) SaaS
7 105 (4.69%) IaaS
8 92 (4.11%) OneDrive
9 63 (2.82%) PaaS
10 62 (2.77%) Nutanix
11 60 (2.68%) Amazon S3
12 48 (2.15%) OpenShift
13 44 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
14 41 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
15 35 (1.56%) Google Workspace
16 33 (1.48%) Power Platform
17 26 (1.16%) Mimecast
18 23 (1.03%) Power Automate
19 22 (0.98%) WhatsApp
20 21 (0.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 792 (35.40%) Firewall
2 503 (22.49%) DNS
3 429 (19.18%) DHCP
4 406 (18.15%) WAN
5 347 (15.51%) SAN
6 337 (15.06%) VPN
7 334 (14.93%) LAN
8 241 (10.77%) TCP/IP
9 176 (7.87%) VLAN
10 147 (6.57%) Internet
11 140 (6.26%) Wi-Fi
12 137 (6.12%) Wireless
13 118 (5.27%) NAS
14 104 (4.65%) VoIP
15 81 (3.62%) SD-WAN
16 77 (3.44%) Remote Desktop
17 74 (3.31%) SNMP
18 70 (3.13%) WLAN
19 64 (2.86%) VSAN
20 63 (2.82%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 65 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
3 57 (2.55%) MongoDB
4 54 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (1.48%) MySQL
6 18 (0.80%) Power BI
7 17 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.40%) Big Data
9 8 (0.36%) DB2
9 8 (0.36%) MariaDB
9 8 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.31%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.27%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.27%) Redis
12 4 (0.18%) Metabase
12 4 (0.18%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.13%) Ingres
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (1.48%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.34%) JIRA
3 20 (0.89%) GitLab
4 15 (0.67%) Git
5 13 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.40%) MSI
7 8 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.27%) Selenium
8 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.18%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.18%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.18%) Postman
10 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 608 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 351 (15.69%) Finance
3 186 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
5 71 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 64 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 63 (2.82%) Legal
8 58 (2.59%) Aerospace
8 58 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 52 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.28%) Retail
11 49 (2.19%) Law
11 49 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 42 (1.88%) Banking
13 24 (1.07%) Games
14 23 (1.03%) Marketing
15 16 (0.72%) Electronics
16 14 (0.63%) Billing
16 14 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 574 (25.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 371 (16.58%) Senior
3 322 (14.39%) Support Engineer
4 266 (11.89%) IT Engineer
5 241 (10.77%) IT Support
6 155 (6.93%) Analyst
7 143 (6.39%) 2nd Line Support
7 143 (6.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 140 (6.26%) IT Support Engineer
9 138 (6.17%) 3rd Line Support
10 134 (5.99%) Systems Engineer
11 115 (5.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 113 (5.05%) Consultant
13 93 (4.16%) Lead
14 90 (4.02%) Architect
15 85 (3.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 85 (3.80%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 85 (3.80%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 76 (3.40%) Administrator
17 73 (3.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (3.08%) YAML
2 59 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
3 33 (1.48%) ARM Templates
4 30 (1.34%) REST
5 27 (1.21%) .NET
5 27 (1.21%) WebRTC
6 24 (1.07%) JSON
7 13 (0.58%) HTML
8 12 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (0.54%) LDAP
9 8 (0.36%) WebSphere MQ
10 7 (0.31%) Web Services
11 6 (0.27%) XML
12 5 (0.22%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.22%) CSS
12 5 (0.22%) jQuery
12 5 (0.22%) LAMP
13 4 (0.18%) Gherkin
13 4 (0.18%) WPF
13 4 (0.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 364 (16.27%) Data Centre
2 143 (6.39%) Replication
3 119 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 118 (5.27%) Public Cloud
5 111 (4.96%) Clustering
6 102 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
7 81 (3.62%) PKI
8 73 (3.26%) Driving Licence
9 69 (3.08%) Onboarding
10 53 (2.37%) Private Cloud
11 35 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
12 32 (1.43%) CCTV
13 30 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.16%) IoT
15 24 (1.07%) Operational Technology
16 22 (0.98%) PMI
17 20 (0.89%) iPad
18 19 (0.85%) Blackberry
18 19 (0.85%) BYOD
18 19 (0.85%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1,621 (72.46%) Windows
2 1,045 (46.71%) Windows Server
3 612 (27.36%) Linux
4 353 (15.78%) Windows 10
5 243 (10.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 219 (9.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 193 (8.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 102 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 100 (4.47%) Windows 7
10 67 (3.00%) Unix
11 63 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
12 58 (2.59%) Ubuntu
13 57 (2.55%) Windows 8
14 54 (2.41%) Data ONTAP
14 54 (2.41%) Mac OS
15 41 (1.83%) CentOS
16 31 (1.39%) Apple iOS
17 28 (1.25%) Android
18 24 (1.07%) Windows XP
19 23 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 512 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 478 (21.37%) ITIL
4 267 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
5 240 (10.73%) Customer Service
6 238 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 219 (9.79%) Project Management
8 193 (8.63%) DevOps
9 182 (8.14%) Agile
10 147 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 145 (6.48%) Mentoring
12 131 (5.86%) Change Management
13 129 (5.77%) Project Delivery
14 122 (5.45%) Migration
15 121 (5.41%) Actionable Insight
16 113 (5.05%) High Availability
17 111 (4.96%) Storage Management
18 107 (4.78%) Infrastructure Management
19 105 (4.69%) Line Management
20 104 (4.65%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 496 (22.17%) PowerShell
2 307 (13.72%) SQL
3 221 (9.88%) Python
4 143 (6.39%) Bash
5 59 (2.64%) Java
6 45 (2.01%) C#
7 23 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.03%) Perl
8 14 (0.63%) VB
9 13 (0.58%) VBScript
10 12 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.45%) ActionScript
11 10 (0.45%) RPG
12 9 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.18%) C
14 4 (0.18%) Groovy
15 3 (0.13%) C++
16 2 (0.089%) PHP
17 1 (0.045%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 388 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 324 (14.48%) Degree
3 217 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 212 (9.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 193 (8.63%) Cisco Certification
6 180 (8.05%) DV Cleared
7 156 (6.97%) CCNA
8 129 (5.77%) MCSE
9 108 (4.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 68 (3.04%) MCSA
11 62 (2.77%) CCNP
12 53 (2.37%) Azure Certification
13 44 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 36 (1.61%) MCP
15 35 (1.56%) DBS Check
16 28 (1.25%) A+ Certification
16 28 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
17 26 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (1.03%) PMI Certification
19 21 (0.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.90%) SLA
2 55 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.21%) GDPR
5 17 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 15 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.49%) PMO
8 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.31%) NIST
9 7 (0.31%) QA
10 5 (0.22%) SOC 1
11 3 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.089%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.089%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.089%) NCSC
13 1 (0.045%) GxP
13 1 (0.045%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.045%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1,227 (54.85%) Active Directory
2 844 (37.73%) Hyper-V
3 259 (11.58%) VMware ESXi
4 253 (11.31%) vSphere
5 145 (6.48%) Docker
6 101 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
7 92 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 78 (3.49%) XenApp
9 72 (3.22%) XenDesktop
10 57 (2.55%) VMware NSX
11 51 (2.28%) Virtual Servers
12 50 (2.24%) VirtualBox
13 39 (1.74%) Firmware
14 27 (1.21%) VMware Server
15 21 (0.94%) KVM
16 20 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
17 15 (0.67%) Terminal Services
17 15 (0.67%) vCloud
18 10 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 10 (0.45%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 232 (10.37%) SCCM
2 219 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 205 (9.16%) vCenter Server
4 200 (8.94%) Ansible
5 153 (6.84%) Kubernetes
6 101 (4.51%) Terraform
7 94 (4.20%) WSUS
8 83 (3.71%) Puppet
9 69 (3.08%) SCOM
10 60 (2.68%) Prometheus
11 46 (2.06%) Failover Clustering
12 45 (2.01%) FortiGate
13 40 (1.79%) ZABBIX
14 36 (1.61%) NetBackup
15 31 (1.39%) Nagios
16 28 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 27 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
17 27 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
18 26 (1.16%) SmoothWall
19 23 (1.03%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2,237 (100.00%) VMware
2 1,216 (54.36%) Microsoft
3 413 (18.46%) Cisco
4 364 (16.27%) Veeam
5 350 (15.65%) Citrix
6 199 (8.90%) HP
7 172 (7.69%) Red Hat
8 160 (7.15%) NetApp
9 123 (5.50%) Dell
10 103 (4.60%) Google
11 99 (4.43%) Palo Alto
12 70 (3.13%) Meraki
13 68 (3.04%) SolarWinds
14 64 (2.86%) Fortinet
15 62 (2.77%) IBM
16 56 (2.50%) Aruba
16 56 (2.50%) Oracle
17 54 (2.41%) SolidFire
18 53 (2.37%) Apple
18 53 (2.37%) Sophos