VxRail Job Trends

Dell EMC VxRail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VxRail skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 693 718
Rank change year-on-year +53 +25 +243
Permanent jobs citing VxRail 11 19 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.036% 0.034%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile £51,125 £48,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £52,719 £52,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,375 £55,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -26.67% +28.21%
75th Percentile £87,500 £63,750 £75,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £84,750 £81,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,875 £56,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% -25.00% +28.21%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

VxRail 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 4,089 5,853 7,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.85% 10.97% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,904 3,560 6,184
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,680 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,875 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,283 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +9.09% -4.35%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VxRail job vacancy trend in the UK

VxRail
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VxRail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VxRail

VxRail
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VxRail over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VxRail in the UK

VxRail
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VxRail within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 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 +63 11 £63,375 +15.23% 8
London +61 6 £80,000 -27.27%
UK excluding London +55 5 £55,875 -0.67% 8
South East +22 2 £56,750 -1.30% 3
Midlands +20 1 £52,500 -1.50% 1
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 £55,000 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
North of England - 1 - -

VxRail
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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Nutanix
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Mimecast
4 2 (18.18%) Rubrik
4 2 (18.18%) SecurityScorecard
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SAN
1 5 (45.45%) VSAN
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) DNS
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (18.18%) DHCP
4 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 2 (18.18%) NetScaler
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
5 1 (9.09%) Internet
5 1 (9.09%) IPsec
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) VLAN
5 1 (9.09%) VoIP
5 1 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
2 5 (45.45%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Converged Infrastructure
1 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (45.45%) Information Security
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
1 5 (45.45%) Storage Management
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Security Hardening
3 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Server Hardening
3 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) IT Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CCNP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
3 4 (36.36%) VMware NSX
4 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (18.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (18.18%) pfSense
5 2 (18.18%) Squid
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (18.18%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (81.82%) Dell
3 7 (63.64%) Cisco
3 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) Veeam
5 3 (27.27%) Broadcom
5 3 (27.27%) Citrix
5 3 (27.27%) Commvault
5 3 (27.27%) EMC
6 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
6 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
6 2 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (18.18%) NetApp
6 2 (18.18%) Okta
6 2 (18.18%) Sophos
6 2 (18.18%) Splunk
6 2 (18.18%) Zscaler
7 1 (9.09%) Aruba
7 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds