Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 October 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 27 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 191 124 116
Rank change year-on-year -67 -8 +16
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 488 153 202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.74% 2.32% 2.64%
As % of the System Software category 9.36% 12.05% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 393 141 147
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% +8.24% -5.56%

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

All System Software Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,213 1,270 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.54% 19.27% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,166 1,173 1,218
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £79,688 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

VMware Infrastructure
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Infrastructure trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure.

VMware Infrastructure salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 27 October 2021.

VMware Infrastructure salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 October 2021, VMware Infrastructure job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for VMware Infrastructure.

1 488 (100.00%) VMware
2 322 (65.98%) Windows
3 294 (60.25%) Microsoft
4 260 (53.28%) Azure
5 225 (46.11%) Active Directory
6 208 (42.62%) Windows Server
7 183 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
8 148 (30.33%) Hyper-V
9 135 (27.66%) Cisco
10 134 (27.46%) Data Centre
10 134 (27.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 125 (25.61%) Linux
12 119 (24.39%) AWS
13 114 (23.36%) Firewall
14 109 (22.34%) Social Skills
15 100 (20.49%) DNS
16 98 (20.08%) PowerShell
17 89 (18.24%) Microsoft Certification
18 87 (17.83%) SAN
19 77 (15.78%) ITIL
20 75 (15.37%) vSphere
21 74 (15.16%) SQL Server
22 69 (14.14%) VPN
23 68 (13.93%) Veeam
23 68 (13.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
24 67 (13.73%) DHCP
25 66 (13.52%) Citrix
26 64 (13.11%) SharePoint
26 64 (13.11%) Migration
27 63 (12.91%) DevOps

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 64 (13.11%) SharePoint
2 42 (8.61%) MS Exchange
3 30 (6.15%) IIS
4 17 (3.48%) Exchange Server 2010
5 15 (3.07%) Apache
6 13 (2.66%) Confluence
6 13 (2.66%) OpenStack
6 13 (2.66%) WordPress
7 11 (2.25%) CMS
7 11 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.25%) Sitecore CMS
7 11 (2.25%) Umbraco
8 8 (1.64%) Apache Spark
8 8 (1.64%) Tomcat
9 7 (1.43%) Skype for Business
10 5 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.82%) nginx
11 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.25%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.61%) Workfront
3 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) Sentinel
3 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 260 (53.28%) Azure
2 183 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 119 (24.39%) AWS
4 57 (11.68%) IaaS
5 43 (8.81%) PaaS
6 40 (8.20%) Azure Active Directory
7 38 (7.79%) SaaS
8 25 (5.12%) OneDrive
9 21 (4.30%) GCP
10 17 (3.48%) Mimecast
11 16 (3.28%) Cohesity
12 10 (2.05%) OpenShift
13 9 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.23%) GitHub
14 6 (1.23%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.02%) Google Workspace
16 3 (0.61%) Amazon ELB
16 3 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 2 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 114 (23.36%) Firewall
2 100 (20.49%) DNS
3 87 (17.83%) SAN
4 69 (14.14%) VPN
5 67 (13.73%) DHCP
6 61 (12.50%) WAN
7 55 (11.27%) LAN
8 50 (10.25%) VLAN
9 38 (7.79%) TCP/IP
10 31 (6.35%) NAS
11 27 (5.53%) VoIP
12 19 (3.89%) Network Security
12 19 (3.89%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (3.28%) IPsec
13 16 (3.28%) MPLS
14 15 (3.07%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (3.07%) VSAN
14 15 (3.07%) Wireless
15 14 (2.87%) SSL
16 13 (2.66%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (15.16%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.84%) Hadoop
3 6 (1.23%) MySQL
4 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.82%) DB2
5 4 (0.82%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.82%) SQL Server 2014
5 4 (0.82%) SQL Server 2016
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.61%) Power BI
6 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.41%) ArangoDB
7 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.51%) Jenkins
2 13 (2.66%) Git (software)
2 13 (2.66%) JIRA
3 11 (2.25%) Visual Studio
4 10 (2.05%) Terragrunt
5 7 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (1.43%) Selenium
6 5 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.02%) Subversion
7 4 (0.82%) GitLab
7 4 (0.82%) Maven
7 4 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.61%) Gradle
8 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.41%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.41%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 109 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 59 (12.09%) Finance
3 31 (6.35%) Telecoms
4 17 (3.48%) Advertising
4 17 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (3.48%) Public Sector
4 17 (3.48%) Retail
5 15 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.46%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (1.64%) Legal
8 8 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.43%) Marketing
10 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.23%) Police
11 5 (1.02%) Games
11 5 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Law
13 3 (0.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (14.96%) Architect
3 70 (14.34%) Consultant
4 40 (8.20%) IT Manager
5 39 (7.99%) Technical Architect
6 36 (7.38%) Infrastructure Architect
7 35 (7.17%) Analyst
8 33 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 32 (6.56%) IT Engineer
10 27 (5.53%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
10 27 (5.53%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
11 26 (5.33%) Infrastructure Manager
12 23 (4.71%) IT Infrastructure Manager
12 23 (4.71%) VMware Engineer
13 22 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (4.30%) 2nd Line Support
14 21 (4.30%) IT Consultant
14 21 (4.30%) Support Engineer
15 20 (4.10%) Technical Consultant
16 17 (3.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.46%) .NET
2 7 (1.43%) .NET Framework
2 7 (1.43%) JMS
3 6 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.82%) OAuth
4 4 (0.82%) OpenID
4 4 (0.82%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (0.61%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.61%) Kafka
5 3 (0.61%) LDAP
6 2 (0.41%) ADO
6 2 (0.41%) Django
6 2 (0.41%) HTML
6 2 (0.41%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (0.20%) COM
7 1 (0.20%) LAMP
7 1 (0.20%) Middleware
7 1 (0.20%) OLE DB
7 1 (0.20%) Web Services
7 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (27.46%) Data Centre
2 60 (12.30%) Public Cloud
3 58 (11.89%) Management Information System
4 30 (6.15%) Private Cloud
5 28 (5.74%) Replication
6 23 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (4.51%) Clustering
8 18 (3.69%) Enterprise Storage
9 15 (3.07%) Client/Server
9 15 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.87%) Virtual Team
11 13 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
12 11 (2.25%) HP Storage
12 11 (2.25%) User Experience
13 9 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.82%) Biotechnology
15 4 (0.82%) BYOD
15 4 (0.82%) Cyberthreat
15 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 322 (65.98%) Windows
2 208 (42.62%) Windows Server
3 125 (25.61%) Linux
4 55 (11.27%) Windows 10
5 52 (10.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 39 (7.99%) Unix
7 37 (7.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 26 (5.33%) CentOS
9 24 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (4.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 17 (3.48%) Android
13 15 (3.07%) Apple iOS
14 9 (1.84%) Mac OS X
15 8 (1.64%) Windows 7
16 7 (1.43%) VyOS
17 6 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
18 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
19 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (27.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (15.78%) ITIL
3 64 (13.11%) Migration
4 63 (12.91%) DevOps
5 51 (10.45%) Presales
6 48 (9.84%) Project Management
7 36 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (7.17%) Disaster Recovery
9 34 (6.97%) IT Strategy
10 33 (6.76%) Project Delivery
11 32 (6.56%) Agile Software Development
12 30 (6.15%) Server Management
13 29 (5.94%) Configuration Management
13 29 (5.94%) PRINCE2
14 28 (5.74%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (5.53%) Storage Management
16 25 (5.12%) Service Management
17 21 (4.30%) Patch Management
18 20 (4.10%) Creative Thinking
19 19 (3.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.08%) PowerShell
2 55 (11.27%) SQL
3 35 (7.17%) Python
4 17 (3.48%) Bash Shell
5 10 (2.05%) C#
5 10 (2.05%) VBScript
6 9 (1.84%) VB
7 8 (1.64%) Ada
7 8 (1.64%) C++
8 6 (1.23%) Perl
9 5 (1.02%) Java
10 3 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.41%) Go
11 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) Winbatch
Qualifications
1 89 (18.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 68 (13.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 54 (11.07%) MCSE
4 49 (10.04%) MCSA
5 45 (9.22%) Degree
6 43 (8.81%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (8.81%) Security Cleared
7 37 (7.58%) SC Cleared
8 36 (7.38%) CCNA
9 30 (6.15%) MCP
10 23 (4.71%) DV Cleared
11 16 (3.28%) CCNP
12 15 (3.07%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (2.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 10 (2.05%) MCITP
15 9 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (1.84%) NCSIE
16 8 (1.64%) VCP5
16 8 (1.64%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.15%) SLA
2 7 (1.43%) GDPR
3 6 (1.23%) HL7
3 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.23%) NIST
4 4 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.82%) JSP 440
4 4 (0.82%) RMADS
5 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.41%) QA
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 225 (46.11%) Active Directory
2 148 (30.33%) Hyper-V
3 75 (15.37%) vSphere
4 36 (7.38%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (5.33%) XenApp
6 24 (4.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (4.51%) Docker
8 15 (3.07%) KVM
8 15 (3.07%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (2.87%) XenDesktop
10 13 (2.66%) VMware NSX
11 6 (1.23%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.82%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.82%) vCloud
13 3 (0.61%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.41%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 52 (10.66%) Ansible
2 48 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (7.79%) SCCM
4 33 (6.76%) Puppet
5 27 (5.53%) Terraform
6 25 (5.12%) Opscode Chef
7 22 (4.51%) WSUS
8 20 (4.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (3.89%) Kubernetes
10 13 (2.66%) SCOM
11 11 (2.25%) vCenter Server
12 9 (1.84%) vRealize
13 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 6 (1.23%) NetBackup
15 5 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
15 5 (1.02%) Grafana
15 5 (1.02%) Salt
16 4 (0.82%) Backup Exec
16 4 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
17 3 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 488 (100.00%) VMware
2 294 (60.25%) Microsoft
3 135 (27.66%) Cisco
4 68 (13.93%) Veeam
5 66 (13.52%) Citrix
6 52 (10.66%) NetApp
7 48 (9.84%) HP
8 44 (9.02%) Dell
9 32 (6.56%) EMC
10 28 (5.74%) Zerto
11 25 (5.12%) Red Hat
12 22 (4.51%) F5
12 22 (4.51%) IBM
12 22 (4.51%) Juniper
13 20 (4.10%) Meraki
14 19 (3.89%) Nimble Storage
15 18 (3.69%) Apple
15 18 (3.69%) CommVault
15 18 (3.69%) Google
15 18 (3.69%) Palo Alto