VMware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 83 77
Rank change year-on-year -63 -6 +70
Permanent jobs citing VMware 1,222 3,391 3,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.18% 3.09% 3.96%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 9.02% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 977 2,721 2,650
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,125
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.23% +0.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £86,250 £73,750 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

All Vendors
UK

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 23,145 37,576 38,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.35% 34.20% 41.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12,362 25,147 23,106
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,851 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +5.26%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware in the UK

VMware
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 -67 1,151 £50,000 +11.11% 949
UK excluding London -86 837 £47,500 +11.76% 788
Work from Home -106 331 £50,000 - 352
London -26 316 £70,000 +11.11% 270
South East -21 311 £47,500 +5.56% 268
North of England -106 172 £40,000 -5.88% 164
Midlands -70 144 £47,500 +8.63% 107
West Midlands -41 102 £47,500 +5.56% 46
South West -34 97 £45,000 -8.16% 91
North West -90 86 £40,000 -5.88% 71
East of England -62 83 £52,500 +40.00% 102
Yorkshire -50 62 £42,500 +6.25% 68
East Midlands -54 41 £45,000 +5.88% 53
North East -6 24 £37,500 - 25
Scotland +5 23 £35,000 -26.32% 53
Wales -4 11 £50,000 +23.46% 7
Isle of Man +10 1 £34,500 -19.77%

VMware
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
1 315 (25.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (8.02%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.36%) IIS
4 14 (1.15%) Apache
5 11 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.65%) nginx
7 7 (0.57%) Confluence
8 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.41%) Appian
10 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.082%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 79 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) SPSS
5 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (1.64%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.33%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.082%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 601 (49.18%) Azure
2 437 (35.76%) Microsoft 365
3 229 (18.74%) AWS
4 107 (8.76%) Entra ID
5 83 (6.79%) GCP
6 68 (5.56%) IaaS
7 60 (4.91%) SaaS
8 48 (3.93%) OneDrive
9 41 (3.36%) GitHub
10 40 (3.27%) Nutanix
11 38 (3.11%) PaaS
12 31 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
13 30 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (2.13%) Power Platform
15 22 (1.80%) Rubrik
16 14 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 9 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
19 9 (0.74%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 405 (33.14%) Firewall
2 243 (19.89%) DNS
3 215 (17.59%) WAN
4 214 (17.51%) DHCP
5 182 (14.89%) LAN
6 142 (11.62%) SAN
6 142 (11.62%) VPN
7 125 (10.23%) TCP/IP
8 86 (7.04%) VLAN
9 74 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
10 67 (5.48%) SD-WAN
11 64 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
12 63 (5.16%) Network Security
13 62 (5.07%) NAS
14 52 (4.26%) Ethernet
14 52 (4.26%) MPLS
15 38 (3.11%) VSAN
16 37 (3.03%) Wireless
17 33 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
18 32 (2.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.87%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.88%) Data Hub
2 23 (1.88%) MongoDB
2 23 (1.88%) SQL CLR
3 16 (1.31%) Power BI
4 15 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (1.06%) Metadata
5 13 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 12 (0.98%) MySQL
7 9 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.33%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.33%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.25%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.25%) Tableau
12 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (2.78%) Git
2 20 (1.64%) JIRA
3 10 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.49%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.49%) GitLab
4 6 (0.49%) Selenium
4 6 (0.49%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 5 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 5 (0.41%) Snyk
5 5 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.16%) JMeter
7 2 (0.16%) MSI
7 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.082%) InstallShield
General
1 352 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 162 (13.26%) Finance
3 78 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (5.16%) Manufacturing
5 62 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (4.26%) Banking
7 44 (3.60%) Legal
8 33 (2.70%) Law
9 30 (2.45%) Retail
10 29 (2.37%) Back Office
11 28 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 26 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.47%) Advertising
15 16 (1.31%) Marketing
15 16 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.15%) Electronics
16 14 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.06%) Games
18 12 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 203 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 164 (13.42%) Support Engineer
3 140 (11.46%) IT Support
4 134 (10.97%) Senior
5 114 (9.33%) IT Engineer
6 96 (7.86%) Analyst
7 76 (6.22%) Lead
8 73 (5.97%) Architect
8 73 (5.97%) Infrastructure Support
9 68 (5.56%) Administrator
10 61 (4.99%) Network Engineer
11 60 (4.91%) IT Support Engineer
12 59 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
12 59 (4.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 55 (4.50%) 3rd Line Support
14 53 (4.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 51 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
16 50 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
16 50 (4.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 48 (3.93%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.29%) JSON
2 22 (1.80%) .NET
3 21 (1.72%) Kafka
4 14 (1.15%) SAML
5 13 (1.06%) LDAP
5 13 (1.06%) Middleware
6 10 (0.82%) .NET Core
6 10 (0.82%) .NET Framework
6 10 (0.82%) Dapper ORM
6 10 (0.82%) Entity Framework
6 10 (0.82%) REST
7 8 (0.65%) YAML
8 7 (0.57%) Node.js
9 6 (0.49%) CSS
10 5 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (0.33%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
12 3 (0.25%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.25%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 158 (12.93%) Data Centre
2 65 (5.32%) Clustering
3 54 (4.42%) Driving Licence
4 48 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 46 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 41 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 38 (3.11%) Private Cloud
8 32 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.45%) Operational Technology
10 29 (2.37%) Replication
11 26 (2.13%) PKI
12 24 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
13 22 (1.80%) IoT
13 22 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.55%) SCADA
15 14 (1.15%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
16 13 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (1.06%) Security Posture
17 12 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 750 (61.37%) Windows
2 492 (40.26%) Windows Server
3 318 (26.02%) Linux
4 122 (9.98%) Windows 10
5 89 (7.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 88 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 78 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 51 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 44 (3.60%) Mac OS
10 29 (2.37%) Unix
11 25 (2.05%) CentOS
12 22 (1.80%) Ubuntu
13 21 (1.72%) Apple iOS
14 20 (1.64%) Android
15 17 (1.39%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
17 11 (0.90%) VMS
18 10 (0.82%) AIX
19 8 (0.65%) Debian
19 8 (0.65%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
2 260 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 191 (15.63%) ITIL
4 164 (13.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 146 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
6 137 (11.21%) Customer Service
7 112 (9.17%) High Availability
8 110 (9.00%) DevOps
9 97 (7.94%) Migration
10 93 (7.61%) Agile
11 91 (7.45%) Mentoring
12 87 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (6.79%) CI/CD
13 83 (6.79%) Virtual Environments
14 80 (6.55%) Project Delivery
15 77 (6.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 67 (5.48%) Incident Management
17 65 (5.32%) Network Management
18 62 (5.07%) Patch Management
19 58 (4.75%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 328 (26.84%) PowerShell
2 161 (13.18%) Python
3 117 (9.57%) SQL
4 73 (5.97%) Bash
5 20 (1.64%) C#
6 14 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 12 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 9 (0.74%) R
9 8 (0.65%) Java
9 8 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.33%) Perl
11 3 (0.25%) Bicep
11 3 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.16%) Go
12 2 (0.16%) Korn
13 1 (0.082%) VB
13 1 (0.082%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 266 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.40%) Degree
3 116 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 115 (9.41%) DV Cleared
5 100 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 78 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (4.66%) CCNA
8 55 (4.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 53 (4.34%) Azure Certification
10 36 (2.95%) CCNP
11 35 (2.86%) MCSE
12 33 (2.70%) MCSA
13 32 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (2.29%) HND
15 26 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
16 24 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
17 22 (1.80%) CISSP
18 16 (1.31%) AWS Certification
19 15 (1.23%) HNC
20 14 (1.15%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.38%) SLA
2 39 (3.19%) GDPR
3 35 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (1.06%) Def Stans
6 13 (1.06%) NIST
7 11 (0.90%) QA
8 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 9000
9 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.082%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.082%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.082%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.082%) NCSC
10 1 (0.082%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.082%) RMADS
System Software
1 807 (66.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 536 (43.86%) Active Directory
3 295 (24.14%) Hyper-V
4 146 (11.95%) VMware ESXi
5 120 (9.82%) vSphere
6 75 (6.14%) VMware NSX
7 64 (5.24%) Docker
8 46 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 20 (1.64%) XenApp
11 19 (1.55%) Terminal Services
12 15 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
13 14 (1.15%) NFS
14 10 (0.82%) BitLocker
14 10 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.74%) Firmware
15 9 (0.74%) KVM
16 7 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 5 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 5 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 188 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 174 (14.24%) Ansible
3 153 (12.52%) Terraform
4 98 (8.02%) Kubernetes
5 85 (6.96%) SCCM
6 49 (4.01%) FortiGate
7 45 (3.68%) Puppet
8 43 (3.52%) vCenter Server
9 29 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (2.29%) NetBackup
11 25 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (2.05%) SCOM
12 21 (1.72%) Nagios
13 20 (1.64%) WSUS
14 18 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
15 17 (1.39%) Progress Chef
16 14 (1.15%) vMotion
17 12 (0.98%) ZABBIX
18 11 (0.90%) Backup Exec
18 11 (0.90%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 638 (52.21%) Microsoft
2 318 (26.02%) Cisco
3 143 (11.70%) Veeam
4 139 (11.37%) Citrix
5 78 (6.38%) Juniper
6 70 (5.73%) Red Hat
7 69 (5.65%) Dell
8 68 (5.56%) HP
9 64 (5.24%) Google
10 56 (4.58%) CheckPoint
11 51 (4.17%) Fortinet
12 47 (3.85%) SevOne
13 42 (3.44%) SolarWinds
14 39 (3.19%) Apple
14 39 (3.19%) Oracle
15 36 (2.95%) F5
16 35 (2.86%) Meraki
17 33 (2.70%) NetApp
18 32 (2.62%) ServiceNow
19 31 (2.54%) Commvault