VMware vSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 474 634
Rank change year-on-year -56 +160 -66
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 261 305 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 3.37% 3.06% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 171 255 478
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £32,350
25th Percentile £48,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £94,500 £75,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +11.76%

All System Software Skills
UK

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 7,755 9,958 22,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 16.75% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,369 7,495 13,386
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £38,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +5.26%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vSphere.

Salary trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere 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 -65 255 £55,000 +1.85% 70
UK excluding London -38 204 £52,500 +10.53% 57
Work from Home +14 94 £52,500 -4.55% 89
South East -24 59 £55,000 +4.76% 25
London -33 56 £73,000 +12.31% 15
South West +4 49 £91,500 +115.29% 8
Midlands -9 36 £50,000 +8.70% 12
North of England -45 34 £51,250 +7.89% 10
West Midlands -20 26 £52,500 +23.53% 11
East of England -41 21 £51,250 +7.33% 6
North West -29 18 £43,000 -9.47% 5
Yorkshire +21 12 £52,500 +54.41% 2
East Midlands -19 10 £43,750 -12.50% 1
Scotland -9 5 £46,500 -35.86% 1
North East -31 4 £50,000 - 3

vSphere
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 51 (19.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (19.16%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.53%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.53%) nginx
5 3 (1.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (1.15%) JBoss
5 3 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 131 (50.19%) Azure
2 93 (35.63%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (13.79%) AWS
4 33 (12.64%) IaaS
5 22 (8.43%) Entra ID
6 18 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 16 (6.13%) GCP
8 10 (3.83%) OneDrive
9 8 (3.07%) Mimecast
9 8 (3.07%) PaaS
10 7 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.68%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.92%) Cloudflare
11 5 (1.92%) Cohesity
12 4 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.53%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.53%) Zapier
13 3 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.15%) Rubrik
13 3 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.44%) Firewall
2 68 (26.05%) DNS
3 54 (20.69%) DHCP
4 49 (18.77%) SAN
5 23 (8.81%) NAS
6 22 (8.43%) WAN
7 20 (7.66%) LAN
7 20 (7.66%) Network Security
7 20 (7.66%) Skype
8 17 (6.51%) VSAN
9 16 (6.13%) VLAN
10 15 (5.75%) TCP/IP
11 13 (4.98%) VPN
12 12 (4.60%) iSCSI
13 11 (4.21%) VoIP
14 10 (3.83%) Broadband
15 9 (3.45%) Internet
15 9 (3.45%) NetScaler
15 9 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
16 8 (3.07%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.92%) MariaDB
3 5 (1.92%) MySQL
4 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.53%) Power BI
4 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.53%) Tableau
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Event Store
6 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Git
General
1 59 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.77%) Finance
3 29 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.21%) Aerospace
5 10 (3.83%) Military
6 8 (3.07%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Back Office
8 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.53%) Local Government
9 4 (1.53%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Law
10 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.77%) Electronics
11 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) German Language
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 88 (33.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (21.46%) Senior
3 30 (11.49%) Consultant
4 23 (8.81%) Administrator
4 23 (8.81%) IT Engineer
5 22 (8.43%) VMware Engineer
6 21 (8.05%) Systems Administrator
7 19 (7.28%) Lead
7 19 (7.28%) VMware Specialist
8 18 (6.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 18 (6.90%) Security Consultant
8 18 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 15 (5.75%) Lead Consultant
10 15 (5.75%) Lead Security Consultant
11 14 (5.36%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (5.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.36%) Senior Cisco Engineer
11 14 (5.36%) Support Engineer
12 13 (4.98%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (3.07%) REST
3 4 (1.53%) .NET
3 4 (1.53%) JSON
3 4 (1.53%) SOAP
3 4 (1.53%) Web Services
3 4 (1.53%) XML
4 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.48%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.58%) PKI
3 23 (8.81%) Replication
4 18 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 18 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (6.51%) Clustering
5 17 (6.51%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.30%) Fat Client
7 6 (2.30%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.15%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.15%) CESG
10 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (53.26%) Windows
2 103 (39.46%) Windows Server
3 65 (24.90%) Linux
4 28 (10.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (9.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 25 (9.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (6.51%) Windows 10
8 13 (4.98%) Ubuntu
9 12 (4.60%) Unix
10 7 (2.68%) CentOS
11 6 (2.30%) Debian
11 6 (2.30%) VMS
12 4 (1.53%) Mac OS X
12 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.77%) SUSE
14 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (39.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (17.24%) ITIL
4 41 (15.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 33 (12.64%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (12.26%) Incident Management
6 32 (12.26%) Infrastructure Management
7 26 (9.96%) Migration
8 23 (8.81%) Customer Service
9 21 (8.05%) Agile
9 21 (8.05%) Performance Monitoring
9 21 (8.05%) SIEM
10 20 (7.66%) Infrastructure Automation
10 20 (7.66%) Mentoring
11 19 (7.28%) Business Continuity
11 19 (7.28%) Project Delivery
11 19 (7.28%) Vulnerability Management
12 18 (6.90%) Analytics
12 18 (6.90%) Data Analytics
13 17 (6.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 108 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 38 (14.56%) Python
3 30 (11.49%) SQL
4 11 (4.21%) Bash
5 7 (2.68%) ActionScript
5 7 (2.68%) VB
6 4 (1.53%) C
6 4 (1.53%) C#
6 4 (1.53%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.53%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.38%) Bicep
7 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.07%) DV Cleared
3 47 (18.01%) Degree
4 34 (13.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (10.34%) SC Cleared
6 26 (9.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 21 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (7.66%) Azure Certification
9 17 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (4.98%) MCSA
11 12 (4.60%) CCNA
12 10 (3.83%) VCDX
13 9 (3.45%) CCIE
13 9 (3.45%) CCIE Data Center
13 9 (3.45%) RHCA
14 7 (2.68%) VCAP
15 6 (2.30%) Citrix Certification
15 6 (2.30%) PMI Certification
15 6 (2.30%) PMP
16 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (7.28%) NIST
2 19 (7.28%) SLA
3 11 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.07%) GDPR
6 6 (2.30%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.92%) QA
8 3 (1.15%) IASME
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 174 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 120 (45.98%) Active Directory
3 77 (29.50%) Hyper-V
4 48 (18.39%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (15.33%) VMware NSX
6 13 (4.98%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (4.60%) XenApp
8 9 (3.45%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.68%) Firmware
9 7 (2.68%) OpenSSH
10 6 (2.30%) NFS
10 6 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (1.92%) Docker
11 5 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (1.53%) Ceph
12 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (1.53%) pfSense
13 3 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (1.15%) vCloud
13 3 (1.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 44 (16.86%) vCenter Server
2 31 (11.88%) SCCM
3 29 (11.11%) Ansible
3 29 (11.11%) Terraform
4 28 (10.73%) Kubernetes
5 27 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (7.66%) vRealize
7 19 (7.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 14 (5.36%) SCOM
9 12 (4.60%) VxRail
10 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 10 (3.83%) PowerCLI
12 9 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (3.07%) NetBackup
14 7 (2.68%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (2.68%) IBM BigFix
15 6 (2.30%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (2.30%) McAfee ePO
15 6 (2.30%) Puppet
16 5 (1.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 223 (85.44%) VMware
2 126 (48.28%) Microsoft
3 65 (24.90%) Cisco
4 45 (17.24%) Veeam
5 40 (15.33%) Red Hat
6 38 (14.56%) Dell
6 38 (14.56%) SolarWinds
7 33 (12.64%) Citrix
8 23 (8.81%) Juniper
9 18 (6.90%) Tanium
9 18 (6.90%) Tripwire
10 17 (6.51%) NetApp
11 12 (4.60%) HP
11 12 (4.60%) Splunk
12 10 (3.83%) Extreme Networks
13 9 (3.45%) CheckPoint
13 9 (3.45%) Commvault
14 8 (3.07%) EMC
14 8 (3.07%) Mitel
14 8 (3.07%) Sophos