vSphere Jobs in the West Midlands

VMware vSphere
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for vSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited vSphere over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 228 268
Rank change year-on-year +8 +40 -72
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 32 36 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.84% 4.84% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 28 30 19
10th Percentile £43,227 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £27,625 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% -23.53% +11.84%
75th Percentile £115,000 £33,750 £52,500
90th Percentile - £36,650 £60,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.22% +2.11%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

vSphere is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 834 744 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.35% 11.64% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 699 516 862
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the West Midlands

vSphere
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for vSphere in the West Midlands

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the West Midlands

vSphere
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Birmingham -15 20 £81,250 +177.21% 1
Worcestershire -17 4 £48,750 -
Shropshire - 4 - - 1
Staffordshire -26 3 £55,000 +69.23% 5
Solihull - 1 £42,500 - 1
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) IaaS
3 10 (31.25%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) VPN
2 10 (31.25%) NGFW
3 9 (28.13%) LAN
4 7 (21.88%) DHCP
4 7 (21.88%) DNS
5 6 (18.75%) SAN
5 6 (18.75%) WAN
6 5 (15.63%) VSAN
7 4 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
8 3 (9.38%) Wireless
9 2 (6.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (12.50%) Police
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Architect
1 10 (31.25%) Citrix Architect
1 10 (31.25%) Cloud Architect
1 10 (31.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps Architect
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) IT Support
3 4 (12.50%) Server Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (9.38%) IT Support Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior IT Support
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Support Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) ARM Templates
1 10 (31.25%) JSON
1 10 (31.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Private Cloud
1 10 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 8 (25.00%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) Ubuntu
4 4 (12.50%) CentOS
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 10 (31.25%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (31.25%) Network Design
2 10 (31.25%) Network Virtualisation
2 10 (31.25%) SDLC
3 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (15.63%) ITIL
4 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
5 4 (12.50%) Change Control
5 4 (12.50%) Change Management
5 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 4 (12.50%) Line Management
5 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 4 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (12.50%) Tech Ops
5 4 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) MCSA
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) MCITP
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (43.75%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (31.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 4 (12.50%) VMware Server
6 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.13%) XenApp
6 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.50%) SCCM
4 3 (9.38%) VxRail
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (37.50%) Citrix
4 10 (31.25%) Dell
5 4 (12.50%) HP
6 3 (9.38%) CheckPoint
6 3 (9.38%) IBM
7 1 (3.13%) Google