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 9 May 2024 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 92 134
Rank change year-on-year +14 +42 -72
Permanent jobs citing VMware 3,382 3,710 4,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.41% 3.66% 2.99%
As % of the Vendors category 9.26% 8.74% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 2,780 3,577
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £51,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +7.29% +5.49%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £44,250
% change year-on-year -5.56% +1.69% +4.12%

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 36,515 42,452 61,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.89% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25,000 24,240 32,762
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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 +20 3,097 £46,000 -10.81% 660
UK excluding London +15 2,656 £42,500 -5.56% 530
Work from Home +13 1,147 £50,000 -7.41% 213
South East +12 668 £44,400 -1.33% 137
London +6 651 £63,000 +5.00% 137
North of England +20 585 £41,500 -7.78% 117
Midlands +22 469 £43,227 -9.00% 109
South West +10 412 £49,000 +12.32% 85
East of England +19 303 £37,500 -25.00% 65
West Midlands +19 297 £45,000 - 59
Yorkshire +42 256 £40,000 -10.11% 36
North West -20 238 £42,500 -8.60% 68
East Midlands +12 172 £42,500 -19.05% 50
Scotland -59 142 £46,750 -10.95% 14
North East +29 91 £37,500 -21.88% 15
Wales -5 53 £40,500 +1.25% 10
Northern Ireland +5 17 £40,000 +10.34% 5
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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
1 729 (21.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 428 (12.66%) SharePoint
3 145 (4.29%) IIS
4 60 (1.77%) Apache
5 36 (1.06%) Confluence
6 19 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
7 16 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
7 16 (0.47%) SharePoint 2010
7 16 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
8 15 (0.44%) nginx
9 10 (0.30%) SAS
10 9 (0.27%) WordPress
11 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.12%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2007
15 2 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 251 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.089%) SPSS
7 2 (0.059%) CATIA
7 2 (0.059%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.059%) Eikon
3 2 (0.059%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.030%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.030%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.030%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,692 (50.03%) Azure
2 1,583 (46.81%) Microsoft 365
3 536 (15.85%) AWS
4 404 (11.95%) Entra ID
5 154 (4.55%) GCP
6 147 (4.35%) OneDrive
7 131 (3.87%) SaaS
8 123 (3.64%) IaaS
9 80 (2.37%) PaaS
10 77 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
11 65 (1.92%) Nutanix
12 64 (1.89%) Amazon S3
13 58 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (1.60%) OpenShift
15 41 (1.21%) Power Platform
16 35 (1.03%) Google Workspace
17 31 (0.92%) Mimecast
18 25 (0.74%) OCI
19 21 (0.62%) Power Automate
19 21 (0.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,110 (32.82%) Firewall
2 679 (20.08%) DNS
3 583 (17.24%) WAN
4 551 (16.29%) DHCP
5 496 (14.67%) SAN
6 475 (14.04%) LAN
7 433 (12.80%) VPN
8 345 (10.20%) TCP/IP
9 213 (6.30%) VLAN
10 199 (5.88%) Wireless
11 191 (5.65%) Wi-Fi
12 169 (5.00%) NAS
13 156 (4.61%) Internet
14 137 (4.05%) VoIP
15 115 (3.40%) SD-WAN
16 95 (2.81%) WLAN
17 86 (2.54%) SNMP
18 82 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
19 80 (2.37%) Network Security
20 70 (2.07%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (10.44%) SQL Server
2 77 (2.28%) MySQL
3 65 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 64 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 58 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 38 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 24 (0.71%) Power BI
10 19 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 16 (0.47%) Big Data
12 12 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.30%) Ingres
14 9 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.24%) DB2
15 8 (0.24%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.18%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.18%) Redis
17 4 (0.12%) Crystal Reports
17 4 (0.12%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 84 (2.48%) JIRA
2 70 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 35 (1.03%) Git
3 35 (1.03%) GitLab
4 24 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 10 (0.30%) Trac
7 9 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.27%) MSI
8 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.21%) Snyk
10 5 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.15%) Selenium
11 4 (0.12%) AdminStudio
11 4 (0.12%) InstallShield
11 4 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (0.12%) Postman
11 4 (0.12%) Subversion
11 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 912 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 456 (13.48%) Finance
3 279 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (3.31%) Public Sector
5 101 (2.99%) Law
5 101 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 94 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 93 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 89 (2.63%) Legal
9 87 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 84 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
11 72 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
12 70 (2.07%) Retail
13 59 (1.74%) Banking
14 29 (0.86%) Marketing
15 28 (0.83%) Advertising
16 25 (0.74%) Games
17 22 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 841 (24.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 520 (15.38%) Senior
3 466 (13.78%) Support Engineer
4 405 (11.98%) IT Engineer
5 343 (10.14%) IT Support
6 251 (7.42%) Analyst
7 233 (6.89%) Systems Engineer
8 201 (5.94%) IT Support Engineer
9 186 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support
9 186 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 173 (5.12%) 3rd Line Support
11 170 (5.03%) Lead
12 165 (4.88%) Network Engineer
13 161 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 153 (4.52%) Administrator
15 147 (4.35%) Consultant
16 128 (3.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 120 (3.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 110 (3.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 105 (3.10%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (2.01%) YAML
2 59 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
3 40 (1.18%) ARM Templates
4 31 (0.92%) .NET
4 31 (0.92%) JSON
5 29 (0.86%) REST
6 25 (0.74%) HTML
7 23 (0.68%) WebRTC
8 19 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (0.50%) Web Services
10 14 (0.41%) EDI
10 14 (0.41%) LAMP
11 13 (0.38%) LDAP
12 10 (0.30%) XML
13 8 (0.24%) WebSphere MQ
14 6 (0.18%) Keycloak
14 6 (0.18%) Middleware
15 5 (0.15%) 802.1X
15 5 (0.15%) ASP.NET
15 5 (0.15%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 496 (14.67%) Data Centre
2 181 (5.35%) Replication
3 170 (5.03%) Public Cloud
4 158 (4.67%) Clustering
5 143 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 140 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 124 (3.67%) Driving Licence
8 83 (2.45%) PKI
9 69 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 52 (1.54%) Private Cloud
11 36 (1.06%) CCTV
11 36 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
12 35 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (1.01%) Client/Server
14 32 (0.95%) PMI
14 32 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 31 (0.92%) IoT
16 26 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
16 26 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
17 24 (0.71%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2,313 (68.39%) Windows
2 1,529 (45.21%) Windows Server
3 880 (26.02%) Linux
4 462 (13.66%) Windows 10
5 311 (9.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 265 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 252 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 128 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 114 (3.37%) Windows 7
10 104 (3.08%) Unix
11 86 (2.54%) Mac OS
12 80 (2.37%) Ubuntu
13 79 (2.34%) Windows Server 2008
14 76 (2.25%) CentOS
15 56 (1.66%) Windows 8
16 55 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
17 41 (1.21%) Android
18 40 (1.18%) Apple iOS
19 38 (1.12%) VMS
20 37 (1.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 712 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 628 (18.57%) ITIL
4 363 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
5 357 (10.56%) Customer Service
6 280 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 279 (8.25%) Project Management
8 247 (7.30%) DevOps
9 244 (7.21%) Mentoring
10 212 (6.27%) Agile
11 198 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 197 (5.82%) Migration
13 169 (5.00%) Project Delivery
14 168 (4.97%) Change Management
15 166 (4.91%) Service Delivery
16 162 (4.79%) Actionable Insight
17 140 (4.14%) High Availability
18 137 (4.05%) Incident Management
19 131 (3.87%) Roadmaps
20 120 (3.55%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 676 (19.99%) PowerShell
2 403 (11.92%) SQL
3 278 (8.22%) Python
4 194 (5.74%) Bash
5 89 (2.63%) Java
6 50 (1.48%) C#
7 32 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 26 (0.77%) Perl
9 25 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 14 (0.41%) VB
11 13 (0.38%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.38%) VBScript
12 10 (0.30%) ActionScript
12 10 (0.30%) RPG
13 8 (0.24%) Go
13 8 (0.24%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.18%) PHP
14 6 (0.18%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.15%) Ruby
15 5 (0.15%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 566 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 447 (13.22%) Degree
3 303 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 282 (8.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 272 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
6 237 (7.01%) DV Cleared
7 225 (6.65%) CCNA
8 147 (4.35%) MCSE
9 122 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 91 (2.69%) CCNP
11 81 (2.40%) Azure Certification
12 72 (2.13%) MCSA
13 54 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
14 42 (1.24%) MCP
15 36 (1.06%) A+ Certification
16 35 (1.03%) DBS Check
17 34 (1.01%) AWS Certification
18 33 (0.98%) PMI Certification
19 29 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
20 28 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.94%) SLA
2 80 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 38 (1.12%) GDPR
5 17 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.47%) QA
6 16 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.33%) PMO
9 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.24%) NIST
11 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.12%) NCSC
13 3 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.089%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.059%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.059%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.030%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2,173 (64.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,751 (51.77%) Active Directory
3 1,054 (31.16%) Hyper-V
4 389 (11.50%) VMware ESXi
5 342 (10.11%) vSphere
6 180 (5.32%) Docker
7 125 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
8 98 (2.90%) XenApp
9 94 (2.78%) VMware NSX
10 85 (2.51%) XenDesktop
11 82 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
12 49 (1.45%) Virtual Servers
13 48 (1.42%) VirtualBox
14 47 (1.39%) Firmware
15 33 (0.98%) VMware Server
16 28 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
17 26 (0.77%) KVM
18 24 (0.71%) NFS
19 23 (0.68%) Terminal Services
20 21 (0.62%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 414 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 325 (9.61%) SCCM
3 277 (8.19%) vCenter Server
4 258 (7.63%) Ansible
5 201 (5.94%) Kubernetes
6 129 (3.81%) Terraform
7 103 (3.05%) WSUS
8 92 (2.72%) Puppet
9 78 (2.31%) SCOM
10 62 (1.83%) Prometheus
11 60 (1.77%) FortiGate
12 57 (1.69%) ZABBIX
13 56 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
14 49 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
15 40 (1.18%) Nagios
15 40 (1.18%) NetBackup
16 34 (1.01%) Grafana
17 33 (0.98%) EMC NetWorker
18 31 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,779 (52.60%) Microsoft
2 650 (19.22%) Cisco
3 513 (15.17%) Citrix
4 474 (14.02%) Veeam
5 239 (7.07%) HP
6 221 (6.53%) Red Hat
7 215 (6.36%) NetApp
8 166 (4.91%) Dell
9 158 (4.67%) Palo Alto
10 132 (3.90%) Aruba
11 122 (3.61%) Google
12 110 (3.25%) Fortinet
13 97 (2.87%) Oracle
13 97 (2.87%) SolarWinds
14 85 (2.51%) Commvault
15 84 (2.48%) Juniper
16 82 (2.42%) Meraki
17 80 (2.37%) IBM
18 69 (2.04%) ServiceNow
19 65 (1.92%) Sophos