vSphere Jobs with Work from Home Options

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 473 574
Rank change year-on-year +62 +101 -94
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 124 106 362
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 3.77% 2.27% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 102 87 279
10th Percentile £41,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £60,918 £96,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,581 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -6.84% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,287 4,676 15,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.77% 14.25% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 3,848 8,000
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

vSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

vSphere trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

vSphere salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing vSphere over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

vSphere salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (20.16%) SharePoint
2 22 (17.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (8.06%) IIS
4 4 (3.23%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.42%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (2.42%) nginx
6 2 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.81%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.81%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (38.71%) Azure
2 45 (36.29%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (14.52%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.45%) GCP
5 6 (4.84%) AWS
5 6 (4.84%) IaaS
5 6 (4.84%) PaaS
6 5 (4.03%) Cloudflare
6 5 (4.03%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.42%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.42%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.42%) Zapier
8 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.61%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.61%) SaaS
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (25.00%) Firewall
2 25 (20.16%) SAN
3 23 (18.55%) Internet
4 22 (17.74%) LAN
5 20 (16.13%) WAN
6 18 (14.52%) VSAN
7 14 (11.29%) Skype
8 13 (10.48%) VPN
9 12 (9.68%) DNS
10 11 (8.87%) DHCP
10 11 (8.87%) iSCSI
11 5 (4.03%) Broadband
11 5 (4.03%) NAS
11 5 (4.03%) VoIP
12 4 (3.23%) BGP
12 4 (3.23%) FTP
12 4 (3.23%) OSPF
12 4 (3.23%) RIP
12 4 (3.23%) Wireless
12 4 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.65%) MariaDB
2 7 (5.65%) MySQL
3 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.23%) DB2
5 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.42%) Power BI
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.42%) Tableau
6 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.81%) Event Store
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
General
1 31 (25.00%) Finance
2 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.65%) Military
6 5 (4.03%) Advertising
7 4 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.23%) Police
8 2 (1.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.81%) Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) German Language
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (45.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (22.58%) Senior
3 23 (18.55%) Support Engineer
4 16 (12.90%) VMware Engineer
4 16 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Support
5 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) VMware Support Engineer
6 12 (9.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Server Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (5.65%) Analyst
9 7 (5.65%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Consultant
10 6 (4.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Architect
11 5 (4.03%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.84%) REST
2 4 (3.23%) JSON
2 4 (3.23%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (2.42%) .NET
3 3 (2.42%) SOAP
3 3 (2.42%) XML
4 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.39%) PKI
2 21 (16.94%) Clustering
2 21 (16.94%) Data Centre
3 12 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.45%) Replication
4 8 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.65%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.84%) Fat Client
6 6 (4.84%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.81%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 90 (72.58%) Windows
2 61 (49.19%) Windows Server
3 43 (34.68%) Linux
4 24 (19.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (8.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (6.45%) Windows 10
8 7 (5.65%) Debian
9 6 (4.84%) Ubuntu
10 5 (4.03%) Windows 7
11 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.61%) Unix
13 1 (0.81%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (52.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (22.58%) Customer Service
3 25 (20.16%) ITIL
4 20 (16.13%) Problem Management
5 16 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
6 15 (12.10%) Change Management
6 15 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
7 13 (10.48%) Incident Management
7 13 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.48%) Project Delivery
8 12 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (8.87%) Kalman Filter
9 11 (8.87%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (8.06%) Load Balancing
10 10 (8.06%) Service Delivery
11 9 (7.26%) Agile
11 9 (7.26%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (6.45%) Migration
13 7 (5.65%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.45%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.90%) Python
3 15 (12.10%) ActionScript
3 15 (12.10%) SQL
3 15 (12.10%) VB
4 13 (10.48%) Bash
5 3 (2.42%) C#
5 3 (2.42%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.42%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (23.39%) Degree
2 19 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (5.65%) MCSA
7 6 (4.84%) DBS Check
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.03%) CCNA
8 5 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.03%) HND
9 4 (3.23%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (3.23%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (3.23%) MCITP
9 4 (3.23%) RHCA
9 4 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.61%) HNC
11 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.81%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.71%) SLA
2 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (56.45%) Active Directory
3 36 (29.03%) Hyper-V
4 30 (24.19%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (15.32%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (15.32%) XenApp
6 15 (12.10%) OpenSSH
7 8 (6.45%) VMware NSX
8 6 (4.84%) NFS
9 5 (4.03%) Firmware
9 5 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (3.23%) Docker
10 4 (3.23%) pfSense
10 4 (3.23%) XenDesktop
11 3 (2.42%) Ceph
12 2 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.61%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.61%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.81%) KVM
13 1 (0.81%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 32 (25.81%) vCenter Server
2 17 (13.71%) SCCM
3 15 (12.10%) IBM BigFix
3 15 (12.10%) PowerCLI
4 13 (10.48%) Ansible
5 12 (9.68%) Puppet
6 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes
8 5 (4.03%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 4 (3.23%) FortiGate
9 4 (3.23%) Nagios
10 3 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.42%) HAProxy
10 3 (2.42%) N-central
10 3 (2.42%) Terraform
10 3 (2.42%) VxRail
11 2 (1.61%) Grafana
11 2 (1.61%) Opsview
Vendors
1 117 (94.35%) VMware
2 72 (58.06%) Microsoft
3 37 (29.84%) Citrix
4 28 (22.58%) Cisco
5 20 (16.13%) Dell
6 19 (15.32%) IBM
7 15 (12.10%) Juniper
8 14 (11.29%) HP
9 13 (10.48%) Veeam
10 8 (6.45%) NetApp
11 7 (5.65%) Palo Alto
11 7 (5.65%) Red Hat
11 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
11 7 (5.65%) Zerto
12 6 (4.84%) Sophos
13 5 (4.03%) Draytek
13 5 (4.03%) Fortinet
13 5 (4.03%) Mitel
13 5 (4.03%) Oracle
13 5 (4.03%) SolarWinds