vSphere Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMware vSphere
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 477 535
Rank change year-on-year -4 +58 -149
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 309 293 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 3.49% 3.19% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 265 219 267
10th Percentile £28,880 £26,250 £29,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,853 9,199 12,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.87% 15.86% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,985 5,661 8,325
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South West +36 80 £52,500 +81.03% 11
South East -13 71 £48,500 +38.57% 24
Midlands 0 59 £50,000 +53.85% 16
East of England -1 43 £32,000 -41.82% 4
North of England -9 41 £43,000 -9.47% 14
West Midlands +6 36 £52,500 +61.54% 13
East Midlands -16 23 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +58 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North West -27 15 £52,500 - 11
Scotland -65 12 £47,000 -6.00% 1
North East +4 9 £27,500 -
Northern Ireland +24 2 £34,628 +6.55%
Wales +2 1 £50,000 +122.22%
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (18.45%) SharePoint
2 51 (16.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (7.44%) IIS
4 6 (1.94%) Confluence
4 6 (1.94%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (44.66%) Microsoft 365
2 137 (44.34%) Azure
3 36 (11.65%) Entra ID
4 29 (9.39%) OneDrive
5 26 (8.41%) AWS
6 18 (5.83%) IaaS
7 17 (5.50%) PaaS
8 12 (3.88%) SaaS
9 11 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.24%) GCP
11 4 (1.29%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.97%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.65%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.65%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.65%) Zapier
14 1 (0.32%) Cloudflare
14 1 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 81 (26.21%) Firewall
2 63 (20.39%) LAN
3 59 (19.09%) DNS
3 59 (19.09%) SAN
4 56 (18.12%) WAN
5 50 (16.18%) DHCP
5 50 (16.18%) VSAN
6 44 (14.24%) VPN
7 32 (10.36%) Internet
8 21 (6.80%) VLAN
9 19 (6.15%) TCP/IP
10 18 (5.83%) NAS
11 16 (5.18%) VoIP
11 16 (5.18%) Wireless
12 15 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (4.53%) WLAN
14 13 (4.21%) Network Security
15 9 (2.91%) Unified Communications
16 8 (2.59%) Fibre Channel
16 8 (2.59%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.97%) Ingres
2 3 (0.97%) MariaDB
2 3 (0.97%) MySQL
2 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.59%) JIRA
2 3 (0.97%) Git
3 2 (0.65%) GitLab
General
1 52 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (10.36%) Finance
4 13 (4.21%) Aerospace
5 12 (3.88%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.59%) Advertising
8 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.29%) Electronics
9 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Police
10 3 (0.97%) Local Government
10 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.65%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 87 (28.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (14.24%) Senior
3 43 (13.92%) Support Engineer
4 31 (10.03%) Administrator
5 30 (9.71%) Lead
6 24 (7.77%) Analyst
6 24 (7.77%) IT Engineer
6 24 (7.77%) Systems Administrator
7 21 (6.80%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (6.80%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (6.47%) Consultant
9 18 (5.83%) VMWare Administrator
10 17 (5.50%) IT Support
10 17 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support
11 14 (4.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Lead Consultant
12 12 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.24%) JSON
3 8 (2.59%) ARM Templates
3 8 (2.59%) YAML
4 7 (2.27%) .NET
5 4 (1.29%) LAMP
5 4 (1.29%) XMPP
6 3 (0.97%) EDI
7 2 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.65%) REST
7 2 (0.65%) SOAP
7 2 (0.65%) XML
7 2 (0.65%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.45%) Data Centre
2 41 (13.27%) PKI
3 19 (6.15%) Replication
4 14 (4.53%) Clustering
4 14 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 8 (2.59%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.27%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.29%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.29%) Smartcard
11 3 (0.97%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.65%) CMDB
12 2 (0.65%) Device Driver
12 2 (0.65%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 205 (66.34%) Windows
2 158 (51.13%) Windows Server
3 96 (31.07%) Linux
4 50 (16.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (13.92%) Windows 10
6 38 (12.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (9.39%) Ubuntu
8 25 (8.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (6.80%) CentOS
10 12 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (3.88%) Windows 7
11 11 (3.56%) Debian
12 6 (1.94%) Apple iOS
12 6 (1.94%) VMS
12 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.97%) SUSE
13 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.65%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.65%) Unix
15 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (27.18%) ITIL
3 44 (14.24%) Agile
4 39 (12.62%) Customer Service
5 38 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (11.33%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (9.39%) Incident Management
8 23 (7.44%) Service Delivery
9 22 (7.12%) Problem Management
10 21 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (6.47%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 19 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (5.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (5.50%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (5.50%) Load Balancing
14 17 (5.50%) Time Management
15 16 (5.18%) Kalman Filter
15 16 (5.18%) SIEM
16 15 (4.85%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 88 (28.48%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.74%) Python
3 26 (8.41%) SQL
4 25 (8.09%) Bash
5 13 (4.21%) ActionScript
5 13 (4.21%) VB
6 7 (2.27%) C#
6 7 (2.27%) VB.NET
7 3 (0.97%) AWK
7 3 (0.97%) sed
8 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) Java
9 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 50 (16.18%) Degree
3 38 (12.30%) DV Cleared
4 36 (11.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (10.36%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.85%) CCNA
6 15 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (3.56%) HND
8 11 (3.56%) MCSA
8 11 (3.56%) MCSE
9 9 (2.91%) Citrix Certification
9 9 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.27%) MCP
11 5 (1.62%) CCA
11 5 (1.62%) CCDA
11 5 (1.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.29%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.12%) SLA
2 12 (3.88%) NIST
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
3 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 205 (66.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 165 (53.40%) Active Directory
3 58 (18.77%) VMware ESXi
4 45 (14.56%) Hyper-V
5 24 (7.77%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (6.80%) XenApp
7 20 (6.47%) VMware NSX
8 13 (4.21%) OpenSSH
9 11 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (1.94%) Firmware
10 6 (1.94%) Terminal Services
11 5 (1.62%) Docker
11 5 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.29%) VMware Server
12 4 (1.29%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.32%) KVM
14 1 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.32%) NFS
14 1 (0.32%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 71 (22.98%) vCenter Server
2 33 (10.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (7.44%) SCCM
4 19 (6.15%) Kubernetes
5 18 (5.83%) Ansible
6 17 (5.50%) Puppet
7 15 (4.85%) Terraform
8 14 (4.53%) VxRail
9 13 (4.21%) IBM BigFix
9 13 (4.21%) McAfee ePO
9 13 (4.21%) PowerCLI
9 13 (4.21%) WSUS
10 12 (3.88%) FortiGate
11 10 (3.24%) NetCrunch
12 8 (2.59%) SCVMM
13 6 (1.94%) Nagios
13 6 (1.94%) SmoothWall
14 4 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (1.29%) Nessus
14 4 (1.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 279 (90.29%) VMware
2 174 (56.31%) Microsoft
3 43 (13.92%) Veeam
4 42 (13.59%) Dell
5 40 (12.94%) Cisco
6 38 (12.30%) Citrix
7 34 (11.00%) HP
8 22 (7.12%) IBM
9 19 (6.15%) Red Hat
10 17 (5.50%) SolarWinds
11 13 (4.21%) McAfee
11 13 (4.21%) NetApp
11 13 (4.21%) Palo Alto
12 12 (3.88%) Tanium
12 12 (3.88%) Tripwire
13 11 (3.56%) Splunk
14 10 (3.24%) CheckPoint
14 10 (3.24%) Commvault
15 9 (2.91%) Apple
16 8 (2.59%) Google