VMware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 60 102 92
Rank change year-on-year +42 -10 -46
Permanent jobs citing VMware 2,539 4,137 4,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.76% 3.30% 3.59%
As % of the Vendors category 11.35% 8.05% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,048 3,374 3,656
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,875
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,063 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,625 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +3.03%

All Vendors
UK

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,365 51,388 50,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.91% 41.00% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,377 30,101 33,469
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +45 2,343 £50,000 - 902
UK excluding London +30 1,737 £45,000 - 766
Work from Home +11 873 £52,000 +0.97% 393
London +67 708 £62,500 +4.17% 188
South East +46 484 £47,500 +5.56% 196
South West +40 341 £45,000 -3.23% 101
North of England +21 323 £40,144 -10.79% 203
Midlands +28 319 £47,300 +5.11% 155
West Midlands +32 233 £45,000 +0.73% 104
Yorkshire +15 168 £37,500 -16.67% 77
East of England +25 137 £40,000 -20.00% 63
North West 0 129 £45,000 - 97
Scotland +36 87 £49,000 -2.00% 41
East Midlands +9 86 £50,000 +11.11% 51
Wales +6 29 £44,500 -1.11% 18
North East +43 27 £40,000 -4.76% 33
Northern Ireland +15 20 £45,000 +4.65% 9

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
1 259 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 193 (7.60%) MS Exchange
3 106 (4.17%) IIS
4 26 (1.02%) Apache
5 23 (0.91%) Confluence
6 22 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.63%) nginx
8 13 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 12 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
9 12 (0.47%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.32%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
13 2 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
13 2 (0.079%) SharePoint 2010
13 2 (0.079%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.079%) WordPress
14 1 (0.039%) Drupal
14 1 (0.039%) Gunicorn
14 1 (0.039%) uWSGI
Applications
1 156 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) 1Password
6 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.079%) Trello
7 1 (0.039%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.12%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.12%) ReMetrica
3 3 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.079%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.039%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.039%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.039%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.039%) PlanetPress Connect
5 1 (0.039%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,407 (55.42%) Azure
2 1,078 (42.46%) Microsoft 365
3 539 (21.23%) AWS
4 304 (11.97%) Entra ID
5 150 (5.91%) IaaS
6 125 (4.92%) PaaS
7 121 (4.77%) SaaS
8 100 (3.94%) OpenShift
9 99 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
11 74 (2.91%) GCP
12 52 (2.05%) Mimecast
12 52 (2.05%) OneDrive
13 46 (1.81%) Nutanix
14 43 (1.69%) Power Platform
15 34 (1.34%) Rubrik
16 27 (1.06%) Datadog
17 22 (0.87%) WhatsApp
18 18 (0.71%) Power Automate
19 17 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 701 (27.61%) Firewall
2 618 (24.34%) DNS
3 559 (22.02%) DHCP
4 395 (15.56%) WAN
5 376 (14.81%) VPN
6 336 (13.23%) SAN
7 318 (12.52%) LAN
8 304 (11.97%) TCP/IP
9 202 (7.96%) VLAN
10 162 (6.38%) Wireless
11 131 (5.16%) Wi-Fi
12 130 (5.12%) Network Security
13 103 (4.06%) HTTP
14 82 (3.23%) SD-WAN
15 81 (3.19%) NAS
16 71 (2.80%) Internet
17 68 (2.68%) VoIP
18 55 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
19 53 (2.09%) BGP
20 52 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 107 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
3 76 (2.99%) MySQL
4 36 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.14%) RDBMS
7 28 (1.10%) Power BI
8 24 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 16 (0.63%) Big Data
10 12 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (0.43%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.28%) MariaDB
13 7 (0.28%) Metadata
13 7 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.24%) InfluxDB
14 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.20%) GIS
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 45 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 38 (1.50%) JIRA
3 28 (1.10%) Git
4 27 (1.06%) Selenium
5 25 (0.98%) Robot Framework
6 23 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 23 (0.91%) MSI
7 16 (0.63%) AdminStudio
7 16 (0.63%) InstallShield
8 15 (0.59%) GitLab
9 13 (0.51%) Maven
9 13 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.20%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.20%) Travis CI
11 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.12%) Postman
12 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.079%) JIRA Agile
General
1 589 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 283 (11.15%) Finance
3 176 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (3.07%) Public Sector
5 77 (3.03%) Law
6 75 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 62 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 60 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 60 (2.36%) Retail
10 50 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 48 (1.89%) Banking
12 46 (1.81%) Legal
13 40 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
14 39 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (0.95%) Military
16 23 (0.91%) Games
17 20 (0.79%) Back Office
18 17 (0.67%) Advertising
19 16 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 702 (27.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 442 (17.41%) Senior
3 317 (12.49%) Support Engineer
4 273 (10.75%) IT Engineer
5 165 (6.50%) Analyst
6 154 (6.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 143 (5.63%) IT Support
8 138 (5.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 132 (5.20%) 2nd Line Support
10 129 (5.08%) Network Engineer
11 121 (4.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 114 (4.49%) Architect
13 111 (4.37%) Systems Engineer
14 106 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
15 105 (4.14%) Administrator
16 101 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 95 (3.74%) IT Support Engineer
18 89 (3.51%) Systems Administrator
19 87 (3.43%) VMware Engineer
20 81 (3.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.13%) JSON
2 44 (1.73%) ARM Templates
3 37 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (1.42%) YAML
5 23 (0.91%) Kafka
5 23 (0.91%) REST
6 21 (0.83%) SAML
7 20 (0.79%) .NET
7 20 (0.79%) WebRTC
8 15 (0.59%) Middleware
9 14 (0.55%) Web Services
10 13 (0.51%) LDAP
11 12 (0.47%) 802.1X
12 10 (0.39%) Node.js
13 7 (0.28%) HTML
13 7 (0.28%) LAMP
14 6 (0.24%) Apache NiFi
15 5 (0.20%) EDI
15 5 (0.20%) LAPP Stack
15 5 (0.20%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 302 (11.89%) Data Centre
2 146 (5.75%) Public Cloud
3 124 (4.88%) Clustering
4 103 (4.06%) Replication
5 96 (3.78%) Private Cloud
6 92 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 88 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
8 76 (2.99%) PKI
9 62 (2.44%) Driving Licence
10 53 (2.09%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.93%) Client/Server
11 49 (1.93%) Onboarding
12 36 (1.42%) Life Science
13 28 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (0.95%) EFT
16 22 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
17 21 (0.83%) Blackberry
18 20 (0.79%) Fat Client
18 20 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,703 (67.07%) Windows
2 1,123 (44.23%) Windows Server
3 571 (22.49%) Linux
4 343 (13.51%) Windows 10
5 265 (10.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 240 (9.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 238 (9.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 164 (6.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 122 (4.81%) Unix
10 62 (2.44%) Ubuntu
11 60 (2.36%) Windows Server 2008
12 56 (2.21%) Windows 7
13 52 (2.05%) Mac OS
14 41 (1.61%) Windows 8
15 31 (1.22%) Android
16 30 (1.18%) CentOS
17 27 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
18 25 (0.98%) Mac OS X
18 25 (0.98%) Solaris
19 23 (0.91%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (31.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 485 (19.10%) ITIL
3 481 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
4 257 (10.12%) DevOps
5 245 (9.65%) Agile
6 238 (9.37%) Customer Service
7 230 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 195 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
9 176 (6.93%) Migration
10 173 (6.81%) Actionable Insight
11 147 (5.79%) High Availability
12 145 (5.71%) Change Management
13 140 (5.51%) Project Delivery
14 139 (5.47%) Incident Management
15 134 (5.28%) Service Delivery
16 127 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 121 (4.77%) Project Management
18 119 (4.69%) ITSM
18 119 (4.69%) Server Management
19 115 (4.53%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 783 (30.84%) PowerShell
2 343 (13.51%) SQL
3 293 (11.54%) Python
4 208 (8.19%) Bash
5 121 (4.77%) Java
6 49 (1.93%) C#
7 39 (1.54%) VBScript
8 34 (1.34%) Perl
9 25 (0.98%) VB
10 22 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.51%) Go
11 13 (0.51%) PHP
11 13 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.39%) Bicep
13 7 (0.28%) C
14 5 (0.20%) DataFlex
14 5 (0.20%) Groovy
15 4 (0.16%) C++
15 4 (0.16%) JavaScript
16 3 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 542 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 381 (15.01%) Degree
3 343 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 199 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 192 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 166 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
7 138 (5.44%) CCNA
8 92 (3.62%) Azure Certification
9 90 (3.54%) MCSE
10 79 (3.11%) CCNP
11 63 (2.48%) MCSA
12 62 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
13 60 (2.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 37 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
15 35 (1.38%) MCP
16 25 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
17 23 (0.91%) DBS Check
18 21 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.83%) MCITP
19 17 (0.67%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (6.50%) SLA
2 99 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (1.14%) GDPR
5 22 (0.87%) QA
6 20 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 17 (0.67%) PMO
9 8 (0.32%) NIST
10 6 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.12%) COBIT
13 3 (0.12%) DICOM
13 3 (0.12%) HL7
13 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.079%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.079%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,709 (67.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,341 (52.82%) Active Directory
3 754 (29.70%) Hyper-V
4 268 (10.56%) VMware ESXi
5 264 (10.40%) vSphere
6 159 (6.26%) Docker
7 104 (4.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 98 (3.86%) VMware NSX
9 95 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
10 68 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
11 62 (2.44%) Firmware
12 50 (1.97%) XenApp
13 27 (1.06%) vCloud
14 26 (1.02%) XenDesktop
15 21 (0.83%) KVM
16 16 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
16 16 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
17 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 14 (0.55%) VMware Server
18 11 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 313 (12.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 310 (12.21%) SCCM
3 240 (9.45%) Ansible
4 160 (6.30%) Kubernetes
5 149 (5.87%) Puppet
6 148 (5.83%) Terraform
7 146 (5.75%) vCenter Server
8 93 (3.66%) SCOM
9 63 (2.48%) FortiGate
10 60 (2.36%) WSUS
11 51 (2.01%) Failover Clustering
12 41 (1.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 35 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
13 35 (1.38%) VxRail
14 32 (1.26%) Nessus
15 31 (1.22%) Grafana
16 29 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
17 26 (1.02%) SCVMM
18 24 (0.95%) Nagios
19 23 (0.91%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,299 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 480 (18.91%) Cisco
3 399 (15.71%) Citrix
4 251 (9.89%) Veeam
5 161 (6.34%) Red Hat
6 159 (6.26%) HP
7 116 (4.57%) Dell
8 105 (4.14%) Meraki
9 103 (4.06%) SolarWinds
10 94 (3.70%) Palo Alto
11 79 (3.11%) NetApp
12 77 (3.03%) Fortinet
13 76 (2.99%) Juniper
14 71 (2.80%) ServiceNow
15 69 (2.72%) CheckPoint
16 68 (2.68%) Google
17 63 (2.48%) Sophos
18 61 (2.40%) Aruba
19 58 (2.28%) Commvault
20 55 (2.17%) Oracle