vSphere Job Trends in West Yorkshire

VMware vSphere
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 95 146
Rank change year-on-year -22 +51 +77
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 5 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.26% 0.69% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.72% 5.92% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile - £41,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £49,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.52% -16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £43,250 £58,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £61,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £41,500 £53,250 £37,000
% change year-on-year -22.07% +43.92% -7.50%

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 169 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.60% 11.72% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 117 122 263
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,400
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,528 £72,433
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £49,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.50% -7.37%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

vSphere
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Leeds -23 3 £41,500 -22.07% 1
Brighouse - 2 £32,500 -
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Acrobat
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Presales
2 2 (40.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Datto
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (40.00%) SonicWALL
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) WatchGuard