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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 550 566
Rank change year-on-year +186 +16 +155
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 390 382 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 6.38% 3.19% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 106 324 315
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,150 £27,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,227 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% -11.11%

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 6,112 11,970 15,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.20% 11.96% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,528 9,408 10,028
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

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 May 2025.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Top 16 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 May 2025. 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 +153 381 £57,500 +9.52% 554
UK excluding London +205 359 £57,500 +15.00% 553
Work from Home +256 291 £50,000 -4.76% 322
North of England +204 264 £45,000 +4.65% 122
North West +168 256 £37,500 -28.57% 62
South East +85 56 £85,000 +75.26% 145
London +49 27 £70,000 +7.69% 63
Midlands +38 19 £50,000 - 105
East Midlands +30 15 £50,000 - 38
South West +35 7 £60,000 +14.29% 67
Yorkshire +51 6 £52,500 +23.53% 46
East of England -1 5 £43,000 +34.38% 84
Scotland +113 4 £51,250 +9.04% 32
West Midlands +40 4 £30,000 -41.46% 58
Wales +39 4 £47,500 -5.00% 13
North East +40 2 £65,000 +136.36% 14

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 31 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.59%) Azure
2 34 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (7.69%) IaaS
4 21 (5.38%) AWS
5 14 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.31%) GCP
6 9 (2.31%) SaaS
7 7 (1.79%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (1.54%) GitHub
9 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.77%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.77%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.51%) PaaS
11 2 (0.51%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 270 (69.23%) VPN
2 262 (67.18%) Cisco IOS
3 38 (9.74%) DNS
4 36 (9.23%) VSAN
5 32 (8.21%) DHCP
5 32 (8.21%) Firewall
6 21 (5.38%) SAN
7 14 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (2.82%) 5G
9 11 (2.82%) Bluetooth
9 11 (2.82%) LTE
10 10 (2.56%) Network Security
11 9 (2.31%) NAS
12 8 (2.05%) TCP/IP
12 8 (2.05%) WAN
13 7 (1.79%) LAN
14 6 (1.54%) SMTP
14 6 (1.54%) VLAN
15 4 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.03%) MariaDB
3 4 (1.03%) MySQL
3 4 (1.03%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.51%) Power BI
5 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Git
2 3 (0.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.77%) JIRA
2 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 290 (74.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 267 (68.46%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.72%) Social Skills
4 13 (3.33%) Finance
5 12 (3.08%) Electronics
6 5 (1.28%) Law
7 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.77%) Banking
8 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.77%) Legal
9 2 (0.51%) Local Government
9 2 (0.51%) Military
9 2 (0.51%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.26%) French Language
10 1 (0.26%) Games
10 1 (0.26%) German Language
10 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.26%) Marketing
10 1 (0.26%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 298 (76.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (8.21%) VMware Specialist
3 21 (5.38%) Support Engineer
4 15 (3.85%) Lead
5 14 (3.59%) Administrator
5 14 (3.59%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 12 (3.08%) Senior
7 11 (2.82%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (2.82%) VMware Engineer
8 10 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 10 (2.56%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (2.05%) Virtualisation Specialist
10 7 (1.79%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (1.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (1.54%) 3rd Line Support
11 6 (1.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (1.54%) Linux Administrator
11 6 (1.54%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 6 (1.54%) Support Specialist
11 6 (1.54%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (67.44%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.51%) .NET
4 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.26%) Node.js
4 1 (0.26%) REST
4 1 (0.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 262 (67.18%) Cyberattack
2 13 (3.33%) Clustering
3 11 (2.82%) IoT
3 11 (2.82%) NB-IoT
4 8 (2.05%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.54%) PKI
7 4 (1.03%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.77%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.51%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.26%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 341 (87.44%) Windows
2 318 (81.54%) Linux
3 263 (67.44%) Android
4 63 (16.15%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.85%) Windows 10
6 13 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.54%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.03%) CentOS
9 4 (1.03%) SUSE
10 3 (0.77%) Debian
10 3 (0.77%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.51%) Unix
11 2 (0.51%) VMS
12 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (78.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 290 (74.36%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (71.03%) DevOps
4 276 (70.77%) Task Automation
5 266 (68.21%) Storage Management
6 264 (67.69%) Platform Engineering
6 264 (67.69%) Risk Management
7 262 (67.18%) Line Management
7 262 (67.18%) Mathematics
8 24 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (5.13%) ITIL
10 18 (4.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (4.62%) High Availability
10 18 (4.62%) Incident Management
11 12 (3.08%) CI/CD
11 12 (3.08%) Infrastructure Management
12 11 (2.82%) Asset Management
12 11 (2.82%) Containerisation
12 11 (2.82%) Project Planning
12 11 (2.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 341 (87.44%) PowerShell
2 307 (78.72%) Python
3 280 (71.79%) Bash
4 15 (3.85%) SQL
5 2 (0.51%) C#
6 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 45 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.51%) DV Cleared
3 30 (7.69%) Degree
4 18 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.59%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.54%) MCSE
11 5 (1.28%) MCSA
12 3 (0.77%) ACSP
12 3 (0.77%) CCNA
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.77%) HP AIS
12 3 (0.77%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.77%) VCAP
13 1 (0.26%) CISSP
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.28%) SLA
3 4 (1.03%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 290 (74.36%) VMware NSX
2 284 (72.82%) Hyper-V
3 279 (71.54%) Docker
4 105 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 53 (13.59%) Active Directory
6 38 (9.74%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (3.08%) Terminal Services
9 6 (1.54%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.77%) NFS
12 2 (0.51%) KVM
13 1 (0.26%) vCloud
13 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 300 (76.92%) Ansible
2 292 (74.87%) Terraform
3 25 (6.41%) Puppet
4 24 (6.15%) Kubernetes
5 19 (4.87%) vCenter Server
6 12 (3.08%) vMotion
7 11 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.31%) vRealize
9 8 (2.05%) PowerCLI
10 6 (1.54%) Nagios
11 5 (1.28%) SCCM
12 4 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (0.51%) SCOM
15 1 (0.26%) Control-M
15 1 (0.26%) Grafana
15 1 (0.26%) OpenNebula
15 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 279 (71.54%) Cisco
2 265 (67.95%) Juniper
2 265 (67.95%) Splunk
3 262 (67.18%) 3PAR
4 123 (31.54%) VMware
5 75 (19.23%) Microsoft
6 25 (6.41%) HP
7 15 (3.85%) Citrix
7 15 (3.85%) Veeam
8 12 (3.08%) Dell
9 11 (2.82%) NetApp
10 9 (2.31%) Google
11 8 (2.05%) Pure Storage
12 7 (1.79%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (1.54%) Apple
13 6 (1.54%) Symantec
14 5 (1.28%) Red Hat
15 4 (1.03%) Meraki
15 4 (1.03%) SolarWinds
15 4 (1.03%) Zscaler