Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 20 October 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 October 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
20 Oct 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 401 220 244
Rank change year-on-year -181 +24 +30
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 133 38 45
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.61% 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 2.58% 3.13% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 82 37 31
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,148 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,279
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £65,938 £72,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,500 "
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +17.02% -1.05%

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 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 5,147 1,213 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.62% 19.32% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,107 1,124 1,214
10th Percentile £35,900 £36,400 £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 £78,750 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 20 October 2021.

vSphere salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 20 October 2021, vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 122 (91.73%) VMware
2 93 (69.92%) Microsoft
3 75 (56.39%) Windows
4 74 (55.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 68 (51.13%) Azure
6 52 (39.10%) Data Centre
7 51 (38.35%) Active Directory
8 49 (36.84%) Windows Server
9 46 (34.59%) Linux
10 40 (30.08%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (28.57%) DevOps
12 36 (27.07%) PowerShell
13 35 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 35 (26.32%) Firewall
14 33 (24.81%) Degree
14 33 (24.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 31 (23.31%) ITIL
16 29 (21.80%) Server Management
17 28 (21.05%) SQL Server
17 28 (21.05%) Security Cleared
18 27 (20.30%) SC Cleared
18 27 (20.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
19 26 (19.55%) vCenter Server
19 26 (19.55%) AWS
20 24 (18.05%) Management Information System
21 23 (17.29%) MCSE
21 23 (17.29%) MCSA
21 23 (17.29%) Agile Software Development
22 22 (16.54%) DV Cleared

vSphere
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 19 (14.29%) IIS
1 19 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (12.78%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (8.27%) CMS
3 11 (8.27%) Confluence
3 11 (8.27%) Sitecore CMS
3 11 (8.27%) Umbraco
3 11 (8.27%) WordPress
4 7 (5.26%) Apache
4 7 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 7 (5.26%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.26%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (1.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.13%) Azure
2 40 (30.08%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (19.55%) AWS
4 17 (12.78%) OneDrive
5 16 (12.03%) SaaS
6 14 (10.53%) IaaS
7 11 (8.27%) Mimecast
7 11 (8.27%) PaaS
8 7 (5.26%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.76%) GCP
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.75%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (0.75%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Active Directory
11 1 (0.75%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (26.32%) Firewall
2 21 (15.79%) SAN
3 19 (14.29%) DNS
4 17 (12.78%) DHCP
5 16 (12.03%) TCP/IP
6 15 (11.28%) WAN
7 14 (10.53%) LAN
7 14 (10.53%) VPN
7 14 (10.53%) VSAN
8 13 (9.77%) VLAN
9 12 (9.02%) IPsec
9 12 (9.02%) NetScaler
10 11 (8.27%) SSL
10 11 (8.27%) VoIP
11 5 (3.76%) Internet
12 3 (2.26%) BGP
12 3 (2.26%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (2.26%) EIGRP
12 3 (2.26%) MPLS
12 3 (2.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 7 (5.26%) MySQL
2 7 (5.26%) Redis
3 4 (3.01%) SQL Server 2014
3 4 (3.01%) SQL Server 2016
4 3 (2.26%) DB2
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 11 (8.27%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.26%) Git (software)
4 6 (4.51%) Artifactory
4 6 (4.51%) GitLab
4 6 (4.51%) Rational Quality Manager
4 6 (4.51%) Rational Team Concert
5 3 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.75%) GoCD
7 1 (0.75%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.75%) MSI
7 1 (0.75%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Finance
3 11 (8.27%) Pharmaceutical
3 11 (8.27%) Retail
4 7 (5.26%) Advertising
5 6 (4.51%) Avionics
6 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Marketing
7 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (21.05%) Architect
2 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure Architect
3 24 (18.05%) Technical Architect
4 22 (16.54%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 22 (16.54%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 20 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) IT Manager
9 10 (7.52%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (6.02%) Administrator
10 8 (6.02%) Consultant
10 8 (6.02%) Systems Administrator
11 7 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Server Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Data Centre Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) JMS
2 3 (2.26%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (1.50%) .NET
3 2 (1.50%) ADO
3 2 (1.50%) Middleware
4 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.75%) COM
4 1 (0.75%) OLE DB
4 1 (0.75%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (39.10%) Data Centre
2 24 (18.05%) Management Information System
3 22 (16.54%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (10.53%) Replication
4 14 (10.53%) User Experience
5 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.51%) EFT
7 4 (3.01%) Clustering
7 4 (3.01%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.50%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.75%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (56.39%) Windows
2 49 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 46 (34.59%) Linux
4 19 (14.29%) Apple iOS
4 19 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (11.28%) Windows 10
5 15 (11.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (9.02%) Unix
7 11 (8.27%) Android
8 8 (6.02%) CentOS
9 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.75%) AIX
10 1 (0.75%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.57%) DevOps
2 31 (23.31%) ITIL
3 29 (21.80%) Server Management
4 27 (20.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (17.29%) Agile Software Development
6 20 (15.04%) BCP
6 20 (15.04%) IT Strategy
7 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (10.53%) Service Management
9 13 (9.77%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (9.77%) Project Management
10 12 (9.02%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.02%) Data Analysis
10 12 (9.02%) Presales
10 12 (9.02%) Project Delivery
11 11 (8.27%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (8.27%) Technical Architecture
11 11 (8.27%) Visualisation
12 10 (7.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.07%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.03%) Python
3 8 (6.02%) JavaScript
3 8 (6.02%) PHP
3 8 (6.02%) Ruby
4 5 (3.76%) Bash Shell
5 4 (3.01%) Go
6 3 (2.26%) SQL
7 2 (1.50%) C#
7 2 (1.50%) VBScript
8 1 (0.75%) Java
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) Winbatch
Qualifications
1 35 (26.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (24.81%) Degree
2 33 (24.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 28 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 27 (20.30%) SC Cleared
5 23 (17.29%) MCSA
5 23 (17.29%) MCSE
6 22 (16.54%) DV Cleared
6 22 (16.54%) MCP
7 7 (5.26%) RHCE
8 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.26%) CCNA
10 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.26%) RHCA
10 3 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.50%) VCP6
12 1 (0.75%) CCNP
12 1 (0.75%) MCITP
12 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) SLA
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (55.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (38.35%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.53%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (8.27%) Docker
4 11 (8.27%) XenApp
4 11 (8.27%) XenDesktop
5 9 (6.77%) VMware NSX
6 7 (5.26%) Hyper-V
7 6 (4.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.26%) vCloud
8 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.50%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.75%) KVM
10 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (19.55%) vCenter Server
2 21 (15.79%) Puppet
3 18 (13.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (10.53%) Ansible
4 14 (10.53%) Opscode Chef
5 11 (8.27%) SCCM
5 11 (8.27%) vRealize
6 10 (7.52%) Kubernetes
7 8 (6.02%) Nagios
8 7 (5.26%) SCOM
9 6 (4.51%) Terraform
10 4 (3.01%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 3 (2.26%) Grafana
11 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (2.26%) PowerCLI
11 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.26%) SCOrch
12 2 (1.50%) StackStorm
13 1 (0.75%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.75%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 122 (91.73%) VMware
2 93 (69.92%) Microsoft
3 22 (16.54%) Cisco
4 17 (12.78%) Citrix
5 15 (11.28%) Veeam
6 14 (10.53%) Dell
7 13 (9.77%) F5
8 12 (9.02%) Palo Alto
9 11 (8.27%) Sage
9 11 (8.27%) Sitecore
9 11 (8.27%) Sophos
10 10 (7.52%) EMC
10 10 (7.52%) Red Hat
11 9 (6.77%) NetApp
11 9 (6.77%) Nimble Storage
12 7 (5.26%) Splunk
12 7 (5.26%) Zerto
13 6 (4.51%) IBM
14 5 (3.76%) Juniper
15 4 (3.01%) HP