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 23 October 2024, 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
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 55 121
Rank change year-on-year -33 +66 -33
Permanent jobs citing VMware 2,101 2,942 4,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.78% 4.95% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 8.59% 11.81% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 2,148 3,417
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,715 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% +5.88%

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 24,446 24,905 55,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 41.89% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 12,032 17,966 30,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £56,392 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -0.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,975 £91,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 -29 2,006 £52,500 +5.00% 534
UK excluding London -35 1,526 £47,500 +1.06% 430
Work from Home -39 633 £52,500 -2.78% 518
London -45 546 £72,500 +17.89% 119
South East -15 468 £47,500 -5.00% 118
Midlands -42 284 £47,500 - 88
North of England -47 280 £46,000 +8.24% 98
South West -20 251 £50,000 +11.11% 70
West Midlands -45 171 £48,800 +8.44% 58
East of England -33 160 £51,250 +7.89% 49
North West -38 152 £47,500 - 58
East Midlands -33 113 £44,500 -15.24% 30
Yorkshire -42 95 £46,000 +22.67% 35
Scotland -67 57 £50,000 - 17
North East -27 32 £36,000 -20.00% 11
Wales +27 25 £39,500 -8.54% 5
Northern Ireland -13 1 £27,800 -41.47% 2

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
1 394 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 226 (10.76%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.52%) IIS
4 17 (0.81%) Apache
5 16 (0.76%) SharePoint 2010
5 16 (0.76%) SharePoint 2013
6 13 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
7 11 (0.52%) Confluence
8 10 (0.48%) nginx
8 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.38%) Skype for Business
11 5 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 5 (0.24%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) JBoss
13 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.095%) SAS
15 1 (0.048%) Tomcat
Applications
1 142 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.095%) 3ds Max
5 2 (0.095%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.048%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.095%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.048%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.048%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 988 (47.03%) Azure
2 873 (41.55%) Microsoft 365
3 429 (20.42%) AWS
4 216 (10.28%) Entra ID
5 119 (5.66%) GCP
6 110 (5.24%) IaaS
7 91 (4.33%) SaaS
8 63 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
9 56 (2.67%) PaaS
10 53 (2.52%) OneDrive
11 46 (2.19%) Nutanix
12 38 (1.81%) Mimecast
13 37 (1.76%) OpenShift
14 32 (1.52%) Power Platform
15 24 (1.14%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.00%) Cohesity
17 18 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
18 13 (0.62%) GitHub
19 12 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
20 11 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 570 (27.13%) Firewall
2 444 (21.13%) DNS
3 310 (14.75%) DHCP
4 289 (13.76%) WAN
5 271 (12.90%) LAN
6 265 (12.61%) SAN
7 260 (12.38%) VPN
8 229 (10.90%) TCP/IP
9 156 (7.43%) VLAN
10 99 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
11 98 (4.66%) NAS
12 90 (4.28%) Network Security
13 75 (3.57%) Wireless
14 72 (3.43%) Remote Desktop
14 72 (3.43%) VSAN
15 70 (3.33%) SD-WAN
16 59 (2.81%) VoIP
17 38 (1.81%) iSCSI
18 37 (1.76%) Internet
19 35 (1.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (9.28%) SQL Server
2 66 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (1.95%) MySQL
4 21 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 20 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.76%) Power BI
7 8 (0.38%) DB2
8 7 (0.33%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.24%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.19%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.19%) Redis
10 4 (0.19%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.095%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.095%) Big Data
12 2 (0.095%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.048%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 59 (2.81%) GitLab
2 45 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.33%) Git
4 20 (0.95%) JIRA
5 13 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (0.48%) MSI
7 9 (0.43%) AdminStudio
7 9 (0.43%) InstallShield
8 8 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.33%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.14%) Axure RP
12 3 (0.14%) GoCD
12 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.095%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.048%) Maven
14 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 465 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 294 (13.99%) Finance
3 127 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (4.81%) Banking
5 75 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.24%) Manufacturing
7 61 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 57 (2.71%) Retail
10 44 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (1.95%) Aerospace
12 39 (1.86%) Legal
13 37 (1.76%) Law
14 36 (1.71%) Military
15 30 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.90%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.76%) Automotive
19 12 (0.57%) Back Office
20 11 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 604 (28.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 270 (12.85%) Senior
3 214 (10.19%) Support Engineer
4 209 (9.95%) IT Engineer
5 170 (8.09%) IT Support
6 162 (7.71%) Analyst
7 132 (6.28%) Administrator
8 112 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support
9 111 (5.28%) Systems Administrator
10 108 (5.14%) Network Engineer
11 100 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 97 (4.62%) Lead
13 95 (4.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 93 (4.43%) Consultant
15 91 (4.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 89 (4.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 84 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
18 77 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
19 72 (3.43%) Support Analyst
20 71 (3.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.95%) Web Services
2 18 (0.86%) REST
3 16 (0.76%) XMPP
4 11 (0.52%) JSON
4 11 (0.52%) YAML
5 10 (0.48%) HTML
6 9 (0.43%) ADO
6 9 (0.43%) LDAP
7 8 (0.38%) .NET
8 5 (0.24%) Middleware
9 4 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.19%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.19%) LAPP Stack
9 4 (0.19%) Node-RED
9 4 (0.19%) RESTful
10 3 (0.14%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.14%) SAML
10 3 (0.14%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.14%) Unreal Engine
11 2 (0.095%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 231 (10.99%) Data Centre
2 86 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
3 79 (3.76%) Clustering
3 79 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 77 (3.66%) Replication
5 76 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 71 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 60 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
9 43 (2.05%) PKI
10 34 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
11 27 (1.29%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.24%) Blackberry
13 21 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
14 19 (0.90%) IoT
15 18 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (0.86%) Onboarding
16 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,293 (61.54%) Windows
2 831 (39.55%) Windows Server
3 532 (25.32%) Linux
4 210 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 147 (7.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 140 (6.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 112 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 91 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 70 (3.33%) Unix
10 49 (2.33%) Android
11 48 (2.28%) Ubuntu
12 34 (1.62%) Windows 7
12 34 (1.62%) Windows Server 2008
13 33 (1.57%) CentOS
14 32 (1.52%) Apple iOS
15 30 (1.43%) Solaris
16 27 (1.29%) Mac OS
17 17 (0.81%) Debian
18 9 (0.43%) VMS
19 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (34.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 431 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
3 361 (17.18%) ITIL
4 259 (12.33%) Customer Service
5 233 (11.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 212 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
7 176 (8.38%) Migration
8 168 (8.00%) DevOps
9 152 (7.23%) Mentoring
10 125 (5.95%) Incident Management
11 121 (5.76%) Service Delivery
12 118 (5.62%) High Availability
13 114 (5.43%) Agile
14 112 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 105 (5.00%) Project Management
16 98 (4.66%) Change Management
17 91 (4.33%) Information Security
17 91 (4.33%) Project Delivery
18 90 (4.28%) ITSM
19 89 (4.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 502 (23.89%) PowerShell
2 247 (11.76%) Python
3 196 (9.33%) SQL
4 116 (5.52%) Bash
5 30 (1.43%) Perl
6 29 (1.38%) Java
7 26 (1.24%) C#
8 22 (1.05%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.81%) VB
10 13 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.62%) Korn
10 13 (0.62%) PHP
10 13 (0.62%) Ruby
11 10 (0.48%) C++
12 7 (0.33%) ActionScript
13 6 (0.29%) Go
14 4 (0.19%) C
15 3 (0.14%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.14%) VBScript
16 2 (0.095%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 436 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 274 (13.04%) Degree
3 239 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 205 (9.76%) DV Cleared
5 199 (9.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 124 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
7 83 (3.95%) Azure Certification
8 75 (3.57%) CCNA
9 65 (3.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 62 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 58 (2.76%) CCNP
12 50 (2.38%) MCSA
13 40 (1.90%) MCSE
14 31 (1.48%) DBS Check
15 29 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
16 28 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 28 (1.33%) MCITP
17 27 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
18 26 (1.24%) CCIE
19 24 (1.14%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.14%) SLA
2 65 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (1.14%) GDPR
5 18 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 15 (0.71%) NIST
7 10 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.38%) COBIT
8 8 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.33%) QA
10 5 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.14%) IASME
11 3 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.095%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.095%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.095%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.095%) NCSC
13 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,422 (67.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 990 (47.12%) Active Directory
3 661 (31.46%) Hyper-V
4 223 (10.61%) vSphere
5 222 (10.57%) VMware ESXi
6 125 (5.95%) Docker
7 118 (5.62%) VMware NSX
8 91 (4.33%) XenDesktop
9 90 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
10 89 (4.24%) XenApp
11 56 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
12 44 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
13 32 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 23 (1.09%) VMware Workstation
15 21 (1.00%) VMware Server
16 20 (0.95%) Firmware
17 12 (0.57%) KVM
17 12 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
18 11 (0.52%) NFS
19 8 (0.38%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 254 (12.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 242 (11.52%) Ansible
3 185 (8.81%) SCCM
4 183 (8.71%) Terraform
5 146 (6.95%) vCenter Server
6 133 (6.33%) Kubernetes
7 76 (3.62%) WSUS
8 53 (2.52%) Puppet
9 45 (2.14%) SCOM
10 34 (1.62%) Grafana
11 33 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
12 31 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 26 (1.24%) Nagios
13 26 (1.24%) vRealize
13 26 (1.24%) ZABBIX
14 25 (1.19%) Backup Exec
14 25 (1.19%) FortiGate
15 24 (1.14%) VxRail
16 23 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
17 19 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,078 (51.31%) Microsoft
2 402 (19.13%) Cisco
3 310 (14.75%) Citrix
4 207 (9.85%) Veeam
5 182 (8.66%) Dell
6 151 (7.19%) HP
7 150 (7.14%) Red Hat
8 94 (4.47%) Palo Alto
9 86 (4.09%) Google
10 80 (3.81%) Oracle
11 66 (3.14%) Juniper
11 66 (3.14%) NetApp
12 65 (3.09%) IBM
13 56 (2.67%) CheckPoint
14 54 (2.57%) Fortinet
15 52 (2.48%) ServiceNow
15 52 (2.48%) SolarWinds
16 45 (2.14%) Aruba
17 40 (1.90%) Commvault
18 38 (1.81%) F5