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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 449 539
Rank change year-on-year -27 +90 -141
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 325 288 371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 3.63% 3.30% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 270 213 288
10th Percentile £28,980 £26,250 £29,197
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £37,500
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 £58,825
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 8,941 8,737 12,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 15.70% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,936 5,571 8,335
10th Percentile £25,563 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,000
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 £67,285 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +30 83 £52,500 +81.03% 12
South East -9 75 £48,500 +38.57% 26
Midlands -9 64 £50,000 +53.85% 15
East of England -8 45 £32,000 -41.82% 2
North of England -15 43 £43,000 -9.47% 12
West Midlands 0 40 £51,250 +57.69% 13
East Midlands -21 24 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +41 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North West -31 17 £52,500 - 8
Scotland -64 12 £47,000 -7.39% 1
North East -9 9 £27,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +17 2 £34,628 +6.55%
Wales +9 1 £50,000 +122.22% 1
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 62 (19.08%) SharePoint
2 53 (16.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (7.38%) IIS
4 6 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.85%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.23%) WordPress
6 2 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (44.62%) Microsoft 365
2 144 (44.31%) Azure
3 37 (11.38%) Entra ID
4 29 (8.92%) OneDrive
5 28 (8.62%) AWS
6 18 (5.54%) IaaS
7 17 (5.23%) PaaS
8 12 (3.69%) SaaS
9 10 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.08%) GCP
10 5 (1.54%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.23%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.62%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.62%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.62%) Zapier
13 1 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 86 (26.46%) Firewall
2 64 (19.69%) LAN
3 61 (18.77%) DNS
4 60 (18.46%) SAN
5 57 (17.54%) WAN
6 52 (16.00%) DHCP
7 50 (15.38%) VSAN
8 43 (13.23%) VPN
9 33 (10.15%) Internet
10 21 (6.46%) VLAN
11 19 (5.85%) NAS
11 19 (5.85%) TCP/IP
12 17 (5.23%) Network Security
13 16 (4.92%) VoIP
13 16 (4.92%) Wireless
14 15 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (4.31%) WLAN
16 9 (2.77%) Unified Communications
17 8 (2.46%) Fibre Channel
17 8 (2.46%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.23%) MariaDB
2 4 (1.23%) MySQL
3 3 (0.92%) Ingres
3 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.62%) Power BI
4 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.46%) JIRA
2 3 (0.92%) Git
3 2 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 52 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (10.46%) Finance
4 13 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 12 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.46%) Advertising
8 6 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.23%) Electronics
9 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Police
10 3 (0.92%) Local Government
10 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.92%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 95 (29.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (14.15%) Senior
3 44 (13.54%) Support Engineer
4 34 (10.46%) Lead
5 31 (9.54%) Administrator
6 24 (7.38%) Analyst
6 24 (7.38%) IT Engineer
6 24 (7.38%) Systems Administrator
7 23 (7.08%) Consultant
7 23 (7.08%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (6.46%) 2nd Line Support
9 18 (5.54%) VMWare Administrator
10 17 (5.23%) IT Support
10 17 (5.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 15 (4.62%) Infrastructure Support
11 15 (4.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 15 (4.62%) Security Consultant
12 14 (4.31%) 3rd Line Support
12 14 (4.31%) Lead Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.77%) JSON
3 7 (2.15%) .NET
3 7 (2.15%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.15%) YAML
4 4 (1.23%) LAMP
4 4 (1.23%) XMPP
5 3 (0.92%) EDI
6 2 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.62%) REST
6 2 (0.62%) SOAP
6 2 (0.62%) XML
6 2 (0.62%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.54%) Data Centre
2 43 (13.23%) PKI
3 21 (6.46%) Replication
4 15 (4.62%) Clustering
4 15 (4.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 14 (4.31%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.69%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.15%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.15%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.23%) Mobile Computing
11 4 (1.23%) Smartcard
12 3 (0.92%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.62%) CMDB
13 2 (0.62%) Device Driver
13 2 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 216 (66.46%) Windows
2 165 (50.77%) Windows Server
3 98 (30.15%) Linux
4 52 (16.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 46 (14.15%) Windows 10
6 38 (11.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (9.54%) Ubuntu
8 26 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (6.46%) CentOS
10 12 (3.69%) Debian
10 12 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (3.69%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.85%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.85%) VMS
11 6 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.92%) SUSE
14 2 (0.62%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.62%) Unix
15 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (26.77%) ITIL
3 44 (13.54%) Agile
4 42 (12.92%) Customer Service
5 39 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (10.15%) Incident Management
7 24 (7.38%) Service Delivery
8 23 (7.08%) Problem Management
9 21 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (6.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (6.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (6.15%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 19 (5.85%) SIEM
12 18 (5.54%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (5.23%) Load Balancing
13 17 (5.23%) Time Management
13 17 (5.23%) Vulnerability Management
14 16 (4.92%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.69%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.31%) Python
3 26 (8.00%) SQL
4 25 (7.69%) Bash
5 14 (4.31%) ActionScript
5 14 (4.31%) VB
6 7 (2.15%) C#
6 7 (2.15%) VB.NET
7 3 (0.92%) AWK
7 3 (0.92%) sed
8 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.31%) Java
9 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 52 (16.00%) Degree
3 43 (13.23%) DV Cleared
4 37 (11.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (10.15%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.62%) CCNA
6 15 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.69%) MCSA
7 12 (3.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (3.38%) HND
8 11 (3.38%) MCSE
9 9 (2.77%) Citrix Certification
9 9 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.15%) MCP
11 5 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.54%) CCA
11 5 (1.54%) CCDA
11 5 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.23%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (1.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.08%) SLA
2 15 (4.62%) NIST
3 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.92%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 216 (66.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 174 (53.54%) Active Directory
3 60 (18.46%) VMware ESXi
4 51 (15.69%) Hyper-V
5 24 (7.38%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (6.77%) XenApp
7 20 (6.15%) VMware NSX
8 14 (4.31%) OpenSSH
9 11 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.15%) Firmware
10 7 (2.15%) Terminal Services
11 6 (1.85%) Docker
12 5 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (1.23%) VMware Server
13 4 (1.23%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.62%) NFS
14 2 (0.62%) pfSense
14 2 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (22.46%) vCenter Server
2 34 (10.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (7.69%) SCCM
4 20 (6.15%) Kubernetes
5 18 (5.54%) Ansible
6 17 (5.23%) Puppet
7 14 (4.31%) IBM BigFix
7 14 (4.31%) PowerCLI
7 14 (4.31%) Terraform
7 14 (4.31%) VxRail
8 13 (4.00%) FortiGate
8 13 (4.00%) McAfee ePO
8 13 (4.00%) WSUS
9 11 (3.38%) NetCrunch
10 8 (2.46%) SCVMM
11 6 (1.85%) Nagios
11 6 (1.85%) SmoothWall
12 4 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.23%) Nessus
12 4 (1.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 292 (89.85%) VMware
2 183 (56.31%) Microsoft
3 45 (13.85%) Veeam
4 43 (13.23%) Cisco
4 43 (13.23%) Dell
5 40 (12.31%) Citrix
6 34 (10.46%) HP
7 23 (7.08%) IBM
8 21 (6.46%) SolarWinds
9 19 (5.85%) Red Hat
10 15 (4.62%) Tanium
10 15 (4.62%) Tripwire
11 14 (4.31%) NetApp
12 13 (4.00%) McAfee
12 13 (4.00%) Palo Alto
13 12 (3.69%) Splunk
14 11 (3.38%) CheckPoint
15 10 (3.08%) Commvault
16 9 (2.77%) Apple
16 9 (2.77%) Zerto