vRealize Job Trends

VMware vRealize Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring vRealize skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 647 769
Rank change year-on-year -10 +122 +159
Permanent jobs citing vRealize 15 34 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.069% 0.039%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.34% 0.59% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 26 22
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile - £72,500 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -3.23% +5.08%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £87,125
UK excluding London median annual salary - £75,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -18.18%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vRealize falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,398 5,772 8,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.48% 11.73% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,054 3,537 6,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,000 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -2.65%

vRealize
Job Vacancy Trend

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

vRealize job vacancy trend in the UK

vRealize
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing vRealize.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing vRealize

vRealize
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vRealize within the UK over the 6 months to 18 February 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 +18 15 £120,000 +60.00% 4
UK excluding London -15 10 - - 5
South East -4 9 - - 1
London +33 5 £120,000 -
South West +2 1 - - 1

vRealize
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 9 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
1 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Network Design
2 5 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Service Design
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
4 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (20.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco