vSphere Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 529 586
Rank change year-on-year +68 +57 -148
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 125 138 259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.32% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.86% 2.17% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 104 107 210
10th Percentile £41,325 £34,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £60,918 £59,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £81,700 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,367 6,367 12,527
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 14.88% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,490 4,697 7,598
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 28 April 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 18 (14.40%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.80%) IIS
4 4 (3.20%) SAS
4 4 (3.20%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.80%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.80%) CMS
6 1 (0.80%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) SPSS
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.80%) Azure
2 58 (46.40%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (14.40%) IaaS
3 18 (14.40%) PaaS
4 17 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.20%) Entra ID
6 10 (8.00%) AWS
7 6 (4.80%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.00%) SaaS
9 4 (3.20%) GCP
10 3 (2.40%) Dropbox
10 3 (2.40%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.60%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.60%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.60%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.60%) Zapier
12 1 (0.80%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 31 (24.80%) Firewall
1 31 (24.80%) LAN
1 31 (24.80%) SAN
2 29 (23.20%) VPN
2 29 (23.20%) WAN
3 27 (21.60%) VSAN
4 20 (16.00%) Internet
5 15 (12.00%) DNS
6 14 (11.20%) NGFW
7 11 (8.80%) DHCP
8 10 (8.00%) NAS
9 9 (7.20%) Wireless
10 8 (6.40%) VLAN
11 6 (4.80%) TCP/IP
12 5 (4.00%) Skype
13 4 (3.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 4 (3.20%) FTP
13 4 (3.20%) WLAN
14 3 (2.40%) Fibre Channel
14 3 (2.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.20%) DB2
2 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.40%) Big Data
3 3 (2.40%) EDRMS
3 3 (2.40%) Ingres
4 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.60%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.60%) MySQL
4 2 (1.60%) Power BI
4 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.60%) Tableau
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Git
General
1 26 (20.80%) Finance
2 20 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.40%) Advertising
6 5 (4.00%) Military
7 4 (3.20%) Legal
7 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Police
8 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (31.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (16.00%) Architect
2 20 (16.00%) Senior
3 16 (12.80%) Support Engineer
4 14 (11.20%) Citrix Architect
4 14 (11.20%) Cloud Architect
4 14 (11.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 14 (11.20%) DevOps Architect
4 14 (11.20%) Systems Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Administrator
6 9 (7.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Systems Administrator
6 9 (7.20%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) VMware Support Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) IT Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Analyst
8 7 (5.60%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.80%) JSON
2 14 (11.20%) ARM Templates
2 14 (11.20%) YAML
3 4 (3.20%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (2.40%) EDI
5 2 (1.60%) .NET
5 2 (1.60%) REST
5 2 (1.60%) SOAP
5 2 (1.60%) XML
6 1 (0.80%) OAuth
6 1 (0.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Data Centre
2 21 (16.80%) PKI
3 19 (15.20%) Public Cloud
4 18 (14.40%) Private Cloud
5 13 (10.40%) Clustering
6 12 (9.60%) Management Information System
7 7 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.20%) Fat Client
8 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.20%) Thin Client
9 3 (2.40%) Cybercrime
9 3 (2.40%) Replication
9 3 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.80%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.80%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.80%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 74 (59.20%) Windows
2 62 (49.60%) Windows Server
3 44 (35.20%) Linux
4 19 (15.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (14.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (8.00%) Windows 10
8 7 (5.60%) Windows 7
9 6 (4.80%) Debian
9 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.40%) CentOS
10 3 (2.40%) SUSE
11 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.80%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.80%) Unix
12 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (24.00%) ITIL
3 21 (16.80%) Customer Service
3 21 (16.80%) Network Design
4 20 (16.00%) Agile
5 18 (14.40%) DevOps
6 17 (13.60%) SDLC
7 16 (12.80%) Load Balancing
8 15 (12.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
9 14 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.20%) Line Management
9 14 (11.20%) Problem Management
10 13 (10.40%) Change Management
10 13 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (8.80%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
12 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (37.60%) PowerShell
2 19 (15.20%) Python
3 17 (13.60%) Bash
4 12 (9.60%) SQL
5 9 (7.20%) ActionScript
5 9 (7.20%) VB
6 3 (2.40%) AWK
6 3 (2.40%) sed
7 2 (1.60%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.60%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) Degree
3 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.00%) DBS Check
5 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.00%) CCNP
7 5 (4.00%) HND
8 4 (3.20%) MCSA
8 4 (3.20%) RHCA
8 4 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.60%) CCNA
9 2 (1.60%) HNC
10 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) SLA
2 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 104 (83.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (47.20%) Active Directory
3 34 (27.20%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (15.20%) Hyper-V
5 17 (13.60%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (11.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (7.20%) OpenSSH
7 9 (7.20%) XenApp
8 4 (3.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.60%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.80%) KVM
10 1 (0.80%) vCloud
10 1 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (19.20%) vCenter Server
2 14 (11.20%) Terraform
3 13 (10.40%) Ansible
3 13 (10.40%) Puppet
4 9 (7.20%) FortiGate
4 9 (7.20%) IBM BigFix
4 9 (7.20%) PowerCLI
4 9 (7.20%) SCCM
5 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (5.60%) Nagios
6 6 (4.80%) McAfee ePO
7 5 (4.00%) SCVMM
8 4 (3.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (3.20%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (1.60%) WSUS
10 1 (0.80%) Nessus
10 1 (0.80%) SCOM
10 1 (0.80%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 119 (95.20%) VMware
2 58 (46.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (24.00%) Citrix
4 24 (19.20%) Cisco
5 20 (16.00%) Veeam
6 19 (15.20%) IBM
7 14 (11.20%) HP
8 13 (10.40%) Dell
9 11 (8.80%) Juniper
10 10 (8.00%) CheckPoint
11 7 (5.60%) 3PAR
12 6 (4.80%) EMC
12 6 (4.80%) McAfee
12 6 (4.80%) Palo Alto
12 6 (4.80%) Red Hat
12 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
13 5 (4.00%) NetApp
13 5 (4.00%) Zerto
14 4 (3.20%) Commvault
14 4 (3.20%) Oracle