VMware Infrastructure Job Trends

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 121 105
Rank change year-on-year -87 -16 +64
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 675 1,316 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 2.37% 3.00%
As % of the System Software category 15.62% 19.09% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 454 827 1,284
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% +12.24% -3.27%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £62,714
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% -

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 4,322 6,893 8,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.31% 12.43% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,090 4,189 6,905
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £37,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £74,066 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.94%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 17 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 31 December 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 -93 609 £42,500 -22.73% 729
UK excluding London -79 455 £41,000 -13.68% 689
London -60 176 £57,500 -23.33% 94
South East -63 134 £42,250 -23.18% 188
Work from Home -120 122 £50,000 -9.09% 466
North of England -25 101 £31,750 -20.63% 165
Midlands -37 87 £40,000 -11.11% 117
South West -35 61 £42,500 +13.33% 91
West Midlands -22 54 £48,750 +8.33% 58
Yorkshire +3 48 £38,500 +2.67% 64
East of England -40 41 £42,500 -22.73% 94
East Midlands -34 33 £37,500 -21.05% 54
North West -24 29 £31,500 -25.24% 78
North East +11 24 £30,250 -19.33% 24
Scotland -11 17 £46,000 +15.00% 25
Northern Ireland - 13 - - 6
Wales -4 4 £52,297 -0.39% 18

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 170 (25.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (12.89%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.96%) IIS
4 9 (1.33%) Confluence
4 9 (1.33%) Skype for Business
5 8 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (1.04%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.04%) WinCC
7 4 (0.59%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.30%) ArchestrA
8 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 68 (10.07%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.44%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.30%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.44%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.15%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 345 (51.11%) Azure
2 322 (47.70%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (20.59%) AWS
4 117 (17.33%) Entra ID
5 40 (5.93%) SaaS
6 34 (5.04%) IaaS
7 30 (4.44%) PaaS
8 29 (4.30%) Nutanix
9 26 (3.85%) GCP
10 23 (3.41%) OneDrive
11 22 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
12 21 (3.11%) Google Workspace
13 18 (2.67%) GitHub
14 15 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (2.22%) OpenShift
15 14 (2.07%) Power Platform
16 13 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (1.78%) Cohesity
17 12 (1.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 247 (36.59%) Firewall
2 195 (28.89%) DNS
3 160 (23.70%) DHCP
4 128 (18.96%) TCP/IP
5 118 (17.48%) VPN
6 107 (15.85%) WAN
7 98 (14.52%) VLAN
8 85 (12.59%) LAN
9 61 (9.04%) SAN
10 51 (7.56%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (6.81%) Wireless
12 44 (6.52%) Remote Desktop
13 43 (6.37%) Network Security
14 34 (5.04%) VoIP
15 29 (4.30%) SD-WAN
16 23 (3.41%) NAS
17 15 (2.22%) BGP
17 15 (2.22%) IPsec
18 11 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
18 11 (1.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.33%) DTS
4 7 (1.04%) Power BI
5 5 (0.74%) MySQL
6 3 (0.44%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.44%) GIS
6 3 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (3.11%) Git
2 19 (2.81%) GitLab
3 17 (2.52%) JIRA
4 14 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 12 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) Snyk
10 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) Subversion
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 280 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 96 (14.22%) Finance
3 53 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.26%) Manufacturing
5 39 (5.78%) Law
6 29 (4.30%) Retail
6 29 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 28 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.70%) French Language
10 24 (3.56%) Advertising
10 24 (3.56%) Swedish Language
11 17 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.37%) Banking
13 14 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (2.07%) Legal
14 10 (1.48%) Marketing
15 8 (1.19%) Electronics
15 8 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (19.56%) Support Engineer
2 127 (18.81%) Senior
3 120 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 111 (16.44%) IT Support
5 76 (11.26%) IT Engineer
6 61 (9.04%) Support Technician
7 60 (8.89%) Analyst
8 52 (7.70%) 2nd Line Support
9 49 (7.26%) Technical Support
10 48 (7.11%) IT Support Engineer
11 41 (6.07%) Lead
12 37 (5.48%) Infrastructure Support
12 37 (5.48%) IT Technician
13 36 (5.33%) 3rd Line Support
14 35 (5.19%) Technical Engineer
15 34 (5.04%) Technical Support Engineer
16 31 (4.59%) Administrator
17 29 (4.30%) IT Support Technician
17 29 (4.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 28 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.04%) Kafka
2 6 (0.89%) .NET
3 5 (0.74%) ARM Templates
3 5 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (0.74%) Node.js
4 4 (0.59%) Middleware
4 4 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (0.59%) REST
5 3 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.44%) Itk
5 3 (0.44%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.44%) Web Services
6 2 (0.30%) EDI
6 2 (0.30%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.15%) LAMP
7 1 (0.15%) LDAP
7 1 (0.15%) SAML
7 1 (0.15%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.15%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.70%) Data Centre
2 55 (8.15%) Driving Licence
3 48 (7.11%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (6.52%) Management Information System
5 36 (5.33%) Onboarding
6 34 (5.04%) Operational Technology
7 23 (3.41%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.26%) Life Science
9 21 (3.11%) Clustering
10 20 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
11 19 (2.81%) Replication
12 15 (2.22%) PKI
13 13 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.78%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
16 10 (1.48%) CMDB
16 10 (1.48%) iPad
17 9 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 417 (61.78%) Windows
2 313 (46.37%) Windows Server
3 140 (20.74%) Linux
4 70 (10.37%) Windows 10
5 43 (6.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (5.48%) Mac OS
8 31 (4.59%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (4.00%) Unix
10 24 (3.56%) Android
10 24 (3.56%) Apple iOS
11 16 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (2.07%) Solaris
13 13 (1.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (1.33%) Ubuntu
15 8 (1.19%) Debian
16 6 (0.89%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.74%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.74%) VMS
18 4 (0.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (28.15%) ITIL
2 182 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
3 140 (20.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 112 (16.59%) Disaster Recovery
5 111 (16.44%) Business Continuity
6 97 (14.37%) Mentoring
7 96 (14.22%) Cybersecurity
8 93 (13.78%) Customer Service
9 74 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (10.67%) ITSM
11 71 (10.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (9.78%) DevOps
13 60 (8.89%) Service Delivery
14 59 (8.74%) Root Cause Analysis
15 58 (8.59%) Migration
16 54 (8.00%) Server Management
17 51 (7.56%) Agile
18 47 (6.96%) Containerisation
19 46 (6.81%) Service Management
20 45 (6.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (22.96%) PowerShell
2 76 (11.26%) Python
3 65 (9.63%) SQL
4 36 (5.33%) Bash
5 8 (1.19%) Bicep
5 8 (1.19%) C#
5 8 (1.19%) Korn
5 8 (1.19%) VBScript
6 7 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 6 (0.89%) Java
8 5 (0.74%) Go
9 4 (0.59%) C++
9 4 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
9 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.59%) Perl
10 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.44%) Tcl
10 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 125 (18.52%) Degree
2 98 (14.52%) Security Cleared
3 97 (14.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 62 (9.19%) SC Cleared
5 50 (7.41%) AWS Certification
6 48 (7.11%) MCSE
7 33 (4.89%) DV Cleared
8 32 (4.74%) Azure Certification
9 28 (4.15%) A+ Certification
10 27 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 24 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (2.81%) MCP
14 18 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (2.52%) CCNA
15 17 (2.52%) CCNP
16 16 (2.37%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (2.22%) MCSA
18 9 (1.33%) DBS Check
18 9 (1.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.44%) SLA
2 29 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.56%) GxP
4 21 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (2.37%) GDPR
5 16 (2.37%) QA
6 13 (1.93%) NIST
7 11 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.04%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.74%) IEC 61131
10 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.44%) PMO
11 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 362 (53.63%) Active Directory
2 265 (39.26%) Hyper-V
3 69 (10.22%) vSphere
4 43 (6.37%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (5.78%) Docker
6 38 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (1.93%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.78%) KVM
10 9 (1.33%) NFS
11 8 (1.19%) Firmware
11 8 (1.19%) vCloud
12 7 (1.04%) XenApp
13 6 (0.89%) XenDesktop
14 5 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 5 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
16 2 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (19.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (11.26%) Ansible
3 72 (10.67%) Terraform
4 60 (8.89%) Kubernetes
5 30 (4.44%) SCCM
6 25 (3.70%) vCenter Server
7 21 (3.11%) FortiGate
8 17 (2.52%) Autotask
9 16 (2.37%) Nagios
10 15 (2.22%) Puppet
11 13 (1.93%) SCOM
12 11 (1.63%) WSUS
12 11 (1.63%) ZABBIX
13 8 (1.19%) Grafana
13 8 (1.19%) Proxmox
14 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
15 6 (0.89%) CASB
16 5 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
16 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.74%) vRealize
Vendors
1 675 (100.00%) VMware
2 398 (58.96%) Microsoft
3 133 (19.70%) Cisco
4 70 (10.37%) Veeam
5 51 (7.56%) Dell
6 50 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 35 (5.19%) Palo Alto
8 34 (5.04%) Citrix
8 34 (5.04%) Google
8 34 (5.04%) ServiceNow
9 31 (4.59%) HP
10 30 (4.44%) SolarWinds
11 25 (3.70%) Fortinet
12 24 (3.56%) Juniper
13 23 (3.41%) Datto
13 23 (3.41%) SonicWALL
14 22 (3.26%) Meraki
15 21 (3.11%) Apple
16 20 (2.96%) Oracle
17 18 (2.67%) CheckPoint