vSphere Job Trends

VMware vSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 475 485
Rank change year-on-year -99 +10 +82
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 118 200 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.46% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 2.66% 3.54% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84 155 329
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,750 £26,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £49,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% +21.83% +9.44%

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 4,443 5,642 11,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.99% 12.94% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,150 3,938 9,745
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,875
90th Percentile £88,615 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the UK

vSphere
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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 -112 113 £52,500 -25.00% 56
UK excluding London -94 72 £50,000 -16.67% 58
London +6 40 £57,500 -20.69% 10
South East -66 23 £52,500 -30.00% 18
Work from Home +8 19 £67,500 +22.73% 24
North of England -50 17 £50,000 +11.11% 16
South West -33 11 £55,000 -4.35% 6
East of England -2 9 £46,160 -9.93% 1
Midlands -25 9 £45,000 -2.17% 7
Yorkshire -37 9 £45,750 -12.86% 9
East Midlands -27 8 £45,000 -10.00% 2
North West -19 6 £73,750 +66.67% 6
Scotland -6 3 £37,500 -25.00% 4
North East -19 2 £85,000 +30.77% 1
West Midlands -5 1 £45,000 +23.29% 5

vSphere
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 30 (25.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.54%) CATIA
3 2 (1.69%) Acrobat
3 2 (1.69%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (54.24%) Azure
2 34 (28.81%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (25.42%) Entra ID
4 23 (19.49%) AWS
5 11 (9.32%) IaaS
6 9 (7.63%) SaaS
7 7 (5.93%) Nutanix
7 7 (5.93%) PaaS
8 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.24%) GCP
9 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.39%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.54%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.85%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (42.37%) DNS
2 47 (39.83%) Firewall
3 34 (28.81%) DHCP
4 24 (20.34%) SAN
4 24 (20.34%) VLAN
5 21 (17.80%) WAN
6 19 (16.10%) LAN
7 14 (11.86%) TCP/IP
7 14 (11.86%) VPN
8 13 (11.02%) VSAN
9 12 (10.17%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (7.63%) NAS
11 8 (6.78%) SD-WAN
12 7 (5.93%) VoIP
13 6 (5.08%) WebEx
14 5 (4.24%) MPLS
14 5 (4.24%) Wireless
15 4 (3.39%) BGP
15 4 (3.39%) VPLS
15 4 (3.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.54%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) GitLab
1 5 (4.24%) JIRA
2 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.69%) Git
2 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.78%) Retail
4 7 (5.93%) Finance
4 7 (5.93%) Law
4 7 (5.93%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.24%) Banking
6 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.39%) Marketing
8 3 (2.54%) Police
9 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (30.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (15.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 17 (14.41%) Senior
3 17 (14.41%) Support Engineer
4 15 (12.71%) IT Support
5 12 (10.17%) Architect
5 12 (10.17%) Consultant
6 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 11 (9.32%) IT Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Support Technician
8 8 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Applications Architect
10 6 (5.08%) IT Support Technician
10 6 (5.08%) IT Technician
11 5 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) XMPP
2 5 (4.24%) LDAP
2 5 (4.24%) Regular Expression
3 4 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (2.54%) JSON
4 3 (2.54%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.54%) XML
5 2 (1.69%) .NET
5 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.69%) WCF
6 1 (0.85%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) PKI
2 12 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.93%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.08%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.24%) Replication
6 4 (3.39%) CCTV
6 4 (3.39%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.39%) FlexPod
7 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.69%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.69%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.85%) Clustering
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 100 (84.75%) Windows
2 74 (62.71%) Windows Server
3 58 (49.15%) Linux
4 20 (16.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (11.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (8.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (6.78%) Windows 10
8 7 (5.93%) VMS
9 6 (5.08%) Apple iOS
9 6 (5.08%) Mac OS
10 4 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (2.54%) CentOS
11 3 (2.54%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.85%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (21.19%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (20.34%) SIEM
4 21 (17.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (16.95%) ITIL
6 19 (16.10%) DevOps
7 18 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
8 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.71%) Business Continuity
10 14 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (11.86%) Service Delivery
11 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (11.02%) Project Delivery
12 12 (10.17%) Containerisation
12 12 (10.17%) Customer Service
12 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (9.32%) Security Hardening
14 10 (8.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.44%) PowerShell
2 14 (11.86%) Python
3 8 (6.78%) SQL
4 3 (2.54%) Bash
4 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.69%) Bicep
5 2 (1.69%) C#
5 2 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.49%) DV Cleared
3 13 (11.02%) Azure Certification
3 13 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.32%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (8.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (6.78%) CCNA
6 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.93%) CCNP
7 7 (5.93%) Degree
8 4 (3.39%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.39%) LPIC
8 4 (3.39%) MCSE
8 4 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (3.39%) RHCSA
8 4 (3.39%) VCAP
9 2 (1.69%) CISM
9 2 (1.69%) CISSP
9 2 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (3.39%) SLA
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.69%) GDPR
3 2 (1.69%) GxP
3 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (71.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (62.71%) Active Directory
3 30 (25.42%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (14.41%) Hyper-V
5 13 (11.02%) Docker
6 11 (9.32%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (9.32%) VMware NSX
7 7 (5.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (3.39%) XenDesktop
9 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (2.54%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.69%) XenApp
11 1 (0.85%) KVM
Systems Management
1 28 (23.73%) vCenter Server
2 27 (22.88%) Terraform
3 26 (22.03%) Ansible
4 18 (15.25%) Kubernetes
5 16 (13.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (9.32%) WSUS
7 8 (6.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (6.78%) VxRail
8 6 (5.08%) Grafana
8 6 (5.08%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (4.24%) SCCM
10 4 (3.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (3.39%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (2.54%) FortiGate
11 3 (2.54%) PowerCLI
11 3 (2.54%) SCOM
12 2 (1.69%) Control-M
12 2 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.69%) SCSM
Vendors
1 113 (95.76%) VMware
2 72 (61.02%) Microsoft
3 30 (25.42%) Cisco
4 14 (11.86%) Dell
5 12 (10.17%) Palo Alto
5 12 (10.17%) Red Hat
6 11 (9.32%) Citrix
6 11 (9.32%) Veeam
7 10 (8.47%) Fortinet
8 9 (7.63%) NetApp
8 9 (7.63%) SolarWinds
9 8 (6.78%) Apple
9 8 (6.78%) McAfee
9 8 (6.78%) Splunk
10 5 (4.24%) Meraki
10 5 (4.24%) SonicWALL
11 4 (3.39%) Broadcom
11 4 (3.39%) Commvault
11 4 (3.39%) EMC
11 4 (3.39%) Pure Storage