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 10 April 2026, 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
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 98 72
Rank change year-on-year -55 -26 +23
Permanent jobs citing VMware 1,176 1,285 3,408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 3.14% 3.70%
As % of the Vendors category 5.35% 7.92% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 791 1,078 2,958
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,675 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,263 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -6.86%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,160 £47,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year -2.82% +10.47% -4.44%

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 21,973 16,226 34,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.37% 39.66% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,047 10,097 25,156
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -10.00%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in the UK

VMware
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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 -61 1,035 £55,000 +3.77% 365
UK excluding London -49 828 £46,160 -2.82% 324
London -25 298 £65,000 -10.34% 67
Work from Home -32 278 £62,500 +19.05% 120
South East -42 224 £57,500 +15.00% 110
North of England -49 213 £40,000 -6.98% 92
South West -13 130 £42,500 -5.56% 40
Midlands -71 104 £45,000 - 34
North West -27 95 £41,000 -8.89% 58
Yorkshire -35 93 £35,000 -20.00% 29
West Midlands -51 58 £48,500 +7.60% 22
East of England -72 56 £61,500 +11.82% 39
East Midlands -48 46 £45,000 +12.50% 12
Scotland +5 41 £46,000 -8.00% 11
Wales -3 36 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North East -30 25 £42,500 +13.33% 7
Northern Ireland - 14 - -
Isle of Man +4 6 £45,000 +30.43% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

VMware
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
1 266 (22.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (8.93%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.70%) Exchange Server 2003
3 20 (1.70%) IIS
4 14 (1.19%) Confluence
5 8 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.26%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.17%) Apache
7 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.17%) CMS
7 2 (0.17%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.17%) WordPress
8 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.085%) Appian
8 1 (0.085%) CICS
8 1 (0.085%) JBoss
Applications
1 78 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) Weka
5 1 (0.085%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.17%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 634 (53.91%) Azure
2 501 (42.60%) Microsoft 365
3 184 (15.65%) AWS
4 163 (13.86%) Entra ID
5 90 (7.65%) Nutanix
6 57 (4.85%) IaaS
7 52 (4.42%) GCP
8 49 (4.17%) SaaS
9 41 (3.49%) OneDrive
10 38 (3.23%) PaaS
11 31 (2.64%) Google Workspace
12 26 (2.21%) GitHub
12 26 (2.21%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.87%) Power Platform
14 20 (1.70%) Datadog
15 19 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.11%) Mimecast
17 12 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
18 9 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 424 (36.05%) DNS
2 390 (33.16%) Firewall
3 352 (29.93%) DHCP
4 183 (15.56%) VPN
5 154 (13.10%) WAN
6 146 (12.41%) TCP/IP
7 122 (10.37%) LAN
8 118 (10.03%) VLAN
9 108 (9.18%) SAN
10 91 (7.74%) Wi-Fi
11 60 (5.10%) Network Security
12 54 (4.59%) Wireless
13 51 (4.34%) SD-WAN
14 35 (2.98%) Remote Desktop
15 27 (2.30%) VoIP
16 25 (2.13%) BGP
17 21 (1.79%) NAS
18 20 (1.70%) VSAN
19 16 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
19 16 (1.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
2 83 (7.06%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 20 (1.70%) Oracle Database 10g
5 14 (1.19%) MySQL
6 11 (0.94%) Power BI
7 8 (0.68%) GIS
8 7 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.43%) Tableau
10 4 (0.34%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.26%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.17%) Redis
13 1 (0.085%) Airbyte
13 1 (0.085%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.085%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.085%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.085%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.085%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (2.72%) Git
2 26 (2.21%) GitLab
3 21 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.62%) JIRA
5 18 (1.53%) Chocolatey
6 14 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.43%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.43%) Subversion
10 4 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.34%) Selenium
10 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) TestRail
12 2 (0.17%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.17%) JUnit
General
1 401 (34.10%) Social Skills
2 154 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 152 (12.93%) Finance
4 45 (3.83%) Banking
4 45 (3.83%) Law
5 43 (3.66%) Retail
6 37 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 33 (2.81%) Manufacturing
7 33 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 31 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.79%) Aerospace
9 21 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.45%) Marketing
10 17 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.19%) Advertising
12 13 (1.11%) Legal
13 8 (0.68%) Automotive
14 6 (0.51%) Police
14 6 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 244 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 229 (19.47%) Senior
3 186 (15.82%) IT Support
4 173 (14.71%) Support Engineer
5 162 (13.78%) IT Engineer
6 112 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 104 (8.84%) Systems Engineer
8 86 (7.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 75 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (6.38%) VMware Engineer
10 70 (5.95%) IT Technician
11 64 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
12 63 (5.36%) Architect
13 59 (5.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 57 (4.85%) 3rd Line Support
15 52 (4.42%) Analyst
16 46 (3.91%) Support Technician
17 45 (3.83%) Senior Technician
18 44 (3.74%) Senior IT Technician
19 42 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.02%) XMPP
2 11 (0.94%) LDAP
3 9 (0.77%) Kafka
3 9 (0.77%) Regular Expression
4 8 (0.68%) .NET
5 7 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.43%) JSON
7 5 (0.43%) Middleware
7 5 (0.43%) pytest
7 5 (0.43%) WebSockets
8 4 (0.34%) ModSecurity
9 3 (0.26%) JSON Schema
9 3 (0.26%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.26%) Playwright
9 3 (0.26%) XML
10 2 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.17%) Node.js
10 2 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 146 (12.41%) Data Centre
2 113 (9.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 79 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
4 61 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 55 (4.68%) Driving Licence
6 47 (4.00%) Replication
7 38 (3.23%) PKI
8 29 (2.47%) Private Cloud
8 29 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
12 19 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 17 (1.45%) Client/Server
13 17 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
14 15 (1.28%) Clustering
15 14 (1.19%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 755 (64.20%) Windows
2 557 (47.36%) Windows Server
3 353 (30.02%) Linux
4 127 (10.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 84 (7.14%) Windows 10
6 66 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 51 (4.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 47 (4.00%) Unix
9 36 (3.06%) Apple iOS
10 30 (2.55%) Windows 7
11 28 (2.38%) Mac OS
12 27 (2.30%) Android
12 27 (2.30%) Solaris
13 26 (2.21%) Ubuntu
14 25 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 24 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
16 20 (1.70%) HPUX
16 20 (1.70%) Windows Server 2003
17 17 (1.45%) CentOS
18 10 (0.85%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
2 302 (25.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 232 (19.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 217 (18.45%) ITIL
5 189 (16.07%) Customer Service
6 137 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 137 (11.65%) Migration
7 134 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
8 119 (10.12%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 111 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 104 (8.84%) Mentoring
11 102 (8.67%) Service Delivery
12 99 (8.42%) Business Continuity
13 94 (7.99%) ITSM
14 83 (7.06%) DevOps
14 83 (7.06%) Kalman Filter
15 82 (6.97%) Change Management
16 80 (6.80%) Web Filtering
17 79 (6.72%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 75 (6.38%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 242 (20.58%) PowerShell
2 136 (11.56%) Python
3 64 (5.44%) SQL
4 50 (4.25%) Bash
5 21 (1.79%) C++
5 21 (1.79%) Perl
6 14 (1.19%) Bicep
6 14 (1.19%) Java
6 14 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.19%) Rust
7 13 (1.11%) C
7 13 (1.11%) C#
8 11 (0.94%) Go
9 9 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 9 (0.77%) VBScript
10 8 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
10 8 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.43%) VB
11 5 (0.43%) VBA
12 4 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 276 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 178 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 121 (10.29%) Degree
4 117 (9.95%) DV Cleared
5 91 (7.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (5.02%) Azure Certification
8 41 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (3.40%) DBS Check
10 39 (3.32%) CCNP
10 39 (3.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 38 (3.23%) CCNA
12 33 (2.81%) MCSE
13 28 (2.38%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 21 (1.79%) MCSA
16 17 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (1.28%) CEH
18 14 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (1.19%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.44%) SLA
2 97 (8.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 76 (6.46%) PCI DSS
4 60 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (3.23%) NIST
6 17 (1.45%) GDPR
7 16 (1.36%) QA
8 15 (1.28%) ISO 22301
9 10 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.34%) DICOM
10 4 (0.34%) HL7
10 4 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.26%) PMO
11 3 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.085%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.085%) RMADS
System Software
1 693 (58.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 621 (52.81%) Active Directory
3 389 (33.08%) Hyper-V
4 131 (11.14%) vSphere
5 75 (6.38%) Terminal Server
6 70 (5.95%) VMware ESXi
7 64 (5.44%) VMware NSX
8 51 (4.34%) Docker
9 39 (3.32%) KVM
10 31 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
11 30 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
12 18 (1.53%) Firmware
13 14 (1.19%) VMware Workstation
14 8 (0.68%) vCloud
15 6 (0.51%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.51%) XenApp
15 6 (0.51%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.43%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 170 (14.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 135 (11.48%) Ansible
3 114 (9.69%) Terraform
4 106 (9.01%) Kubernetes
5 71 (6.04%) SCCM
6 65 (5.53%) vCenter Server
7 40 (3.40%) Grafana
8 32 (2.72%) FortiGate
9 25 (2.13%) Prometheus
10 23 (1.96%) WSUS
11 22 (1.87%) Proxmox
12 21 (1.79%) Puppet
13 19 (1.62%) Nagios
14 18 (1.53%) SCOM
15 17 (1.45%) VxRail
16 15 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (1.11%) vRealize
18 10 (0.85%) Autotask
18 10 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
19 9 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 658 (55.95%) Microsoft
2 176 (14.97%) Veeam
3 172 (14.63%) Cisco
4 105 (8.93%) SolarWinds
4 105 (8.93%) Splunk
5 104 (8.84%) Nimble Storage
6 101 (8.59%) Dell
7 80 (6.80%) Red Hat
8 77 (6.55%) Citrix
9 72 (6.12%) Brocade
9 72 (6.12%) Tanium
10 60 (5.10%) HP
11 48 (4.08%) Fortinet
12 46 (3.91%) Palo Alto
13 43 (3.66%) McAfee
14 41 (3.49%) Commvault
15 40 (3.40%) Google
16 39 (3.32%) Juniper
17 38 (3.23%) Oracle
18 30 (2.55%) NetApp