VMware Infrastructure Jobs

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 135 224
Rank change year-on-year -2 +89 -99
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2,145 2,466 3,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 2.61% 1.86%
As % of the System Software category 17.83% 16.96% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 1,612 2,197
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,021 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +4.04% +5.26%
75th Percentile £56,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Infrastructure 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 requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,030 14,544 31,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.37% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,345 9,733 15,551
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,625 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +13 1,957 £45,000 -14.29% 390
UK excluding London -2 1,706 £42,500 -5.56% 320
Work from Home +12 736 £50,000 -9.09% 130
London -17 400 £60,000 -4.00% 79
South East +3 395 £42,500 -10.53% 106
South West +4 330 £49,000 +22.50% 41
Midlands +21 320 £43,227 -7.75% 59
North of England -24 319 £40,000 -13.04% 71
West Midlands +42 199 £45,000 +2.27% 35
East of England +6 188 £37,500 -25.00% 34
North West -20 154 £42,500 -12.37% 39
East Midlands -15 121 £42,500 -19.05% 24
Yorkshire -14 111 £42,500 +6.25% 26
Scotland -46 101 £50,000 +15.61% 9
North East +12 54 £32,500 -38.10% 7
Wales -9 35 £36,476 -18.94% 11
Northern Ireland -3 10 £40,000 +14.29%
Channel Islands +1 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 490 (22.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 309 (14.41%) SharePoint
3 101 (4.71%) IIS
4 61 (2.84%) Apache
5 19 (0.89%) SharePoint 2010
5 19 (0.89%) SharePoint 2013
6 13 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.51%) Confluence
8 10 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.47%) nginx
8 10 (0.47%) SAS
9 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
9 8 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.19%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.14%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.093%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 210 (9.79%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.093%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
1 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.093%) Eikon
3 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.047%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,090 (50.82%) Azure
2 983 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
3 368 (17.16%) AWS
4 254 (11.84%) Entra ID
5 135 (6.29%) GCP
6 103 (4.80%) SaaS
7 92 (4.29%) OneDrive
8 85 (3.96%) IaaS
9 64 (2.98%) Amazon S3
9 64 (2.98%) Nutanix
10 54 (2.52%) PaaS
11 51 (2.38%) OpenShift
12 42 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
13 34 (1.59%) Google Workspace
14 29 (1.35%) Power Platform
15 23 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (1.03%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.93%) OCI
18 18 (0.84%) Mimecast
18 18 (0.84%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 770 (35.90%) Firewall
2 478 (22.28%) DNS
3 410 (19.11%) DHCP
4 392 (18.28%) WAN
5 332 (15.48%) SAN
6 330 (15.38%) LAN
7 298 (13.89%) VPN
8 241 (11.24%) TCP/IP
9 164 (7.65%) VLAN
10 146 (6.81%) Internet
11 131 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
12 130 (6.06%) Wireless
13 107 (4.99%) NAS
14 91 (4.24%) VoIP
15 82 (3.82%) Remote Desktop
15 82 (3.82%) SD-WAN
16 69 (3.22%) SNMP
17 65 (3.03%) VSAN
18 64 (2.98%) WLAN
19 61 (2.84%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 65 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (2.61%) MongoDB
4 48 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (1.31%) MySQL
6 16 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.65%) Power BI
8 9 (0.42%) DB2
9 8 (0.37%) MariaDB
10 7 (0.33%) Big Data
10 7 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.28%) Redis
11 6 (0.28%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.23%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.19%) Metabase
14 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.14%) Ingres
14 3 (0.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.31%) GitLab
3 26 (1.21%) JIRA
4 16 (0.75%) Git
4 16 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 11 (0.51%) MSI
6 8 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.28%) AdminStudio
7 6 (0.28%) InstallShield
7 6 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.28%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (0.19%) Postman
8 4 (0.19%) Selenium
8 4 (0.19%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.14%) JUnit
9 3 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 592 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 339 (15.80%) Finance
3 181 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (3.59%) Aerospace
5 76 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
6 69 (3.22%) Public Sector
7 60 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (2.61%) Legal
9 55 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 50 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 48 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 46 (2.14%) Retail
13 45 (2.10%) Law
14 43 (2.00%) Banking
15 25 (1.17%) Games
16 20 (0.93%) Marketing
17 16 (0.75%) Electronics
17 16 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 558 (26.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 334 (15.57%) Senior
3 326 (15.20%) Support Engineer
4 258 (12.03%) IT Engineer
5 241 (11.24%) IT Support
6 141 (6.57%) Analyst
7 140 (6.53%) IT Support Engineer
8 139 (6.48%) 2nd Line Support
9 137 (6.39%) 3rd Line Support
10 133 (6.20%) Systems Engineer
11 131 (6.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 122 (5.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 111 (5.17%) Consultant
14 89 (4.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 89 (4.15%) Lead
15 85 (3.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 83 (3.87%) Administrator
17 82 (3.82%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 74 (3.45%) Architect
19 70 (3.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (2.94%) YAML
2 59 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
3 31 (1.45%) .NET
4 23 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 20 (0.93%) REST
6 18 (0.84%) WebRTC
7 15 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (0.61%) LDAP
9 11 (0.51%) JSON
10 10 (0.47%) HTML
11 8 (0.37%) Middleware
11 8 (0.37%) WebSphere MQ
12 6 (0.28%) Web Services
12 6 (0.28%) XML
13 5 (0.23%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.23%) CSS
13 5 (0.23%) jQuery
13 5 (0.23%) LAMP
14 4 (0.19%) Gherkin
14 4 (0.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 345 (16.08%) Data Centre
2 140 (6.53%) Replication
3 120 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 105 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 102 (4.76%) Clustering
6 101 (4.71%) Public Cloud
7 79 (3.68%) Driving Licence
8 71 (3.31%) PKI
9 65 (3.03%) Onboarding
10 48 (2.24%) Private Cloud
11 40 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
12 32 (1.49%) CCTV
13 31 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.21%) IoT
15 24 (1.12%) Operational Technology
16 22 (1.03%) PMI
17 20 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 20 (0.93%) iPad
18 19 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
18 19 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1,531 (71.38%) Windows
2 964 (44.94%) Windows Server
3 615 (28.67%) Linux
4 332 (15.48%) Windows 10
5 228 (10.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 197 (9.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 182 (8.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 106 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 100 (4.66%) Windows 7
10 69 (3.22%) Unix
11 62 (2.89%) Ubuntu
12 54 (2.52%) Data ONTAP
12 54 (2.52%) Windows Server 2008
13 52 (2.42%) Mac OS
14 48 (2.24%) Windows 8
15 44 (2.05%) CentOS
16 35 (1.63%) Apple iOS
17 33 (1.54%) Android
18 24 (1.12%) Windows XP
19 23 (1.07%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (29.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 490 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
3 467 (21.77%) ITIL
4 253 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
5 238 (11.10%) Customer Service
6 223 (10.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 217 (10.12%) Project Management
8 189 (8.81%) Agile
9 182 (8.48%) DevOps
10 142 (6.62%) Mentoring
11 128 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (5.41%) Actionable Insight
13 114 (5.31%) Change Management
13 114 (5.31%) Project Delivery
14 111 (5.17%) Migration
15 110 (5.13%) Infrastructure Management
16 107 (4.99%) Storage Management
17 103 (4.80%) Line Management
18 98 (4.57%) Collaborative Working
19 95 (4.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 438 (20.42%) PowerShell
2 269 (12.54%) SQL
3 211 (9.84%) Python
4 151 (7.04%) Bash
5 62 (2.89%) Java
6 46 (2.14%) C#
7 32 (1.49%) Perl
8 23 (1.07%) JavaScript
9 19 (0.89%) VB
10 16 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.61%) ActionScript
12 12 (0.56%) VBScript
13 11 (0.51%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.47%) RPG
15 9 (0.42%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.37%) Ruby
17 6 (0.28%) C++
17 6 (0.28%) Korn
18 4 (0.19%) C
18 4 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 365 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 326 (15.20%) Degree
3 211 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 185 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
5 182 (8.48%) SC Cleared
6 180 (8.39%) DV Cleared
7 155 (7.23%) CCNA
8 127 (5.92%) MCSE
9 103 (4.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 60 (2.80%) CCNP
11 59 (2.75%) MCSA
12 54 (2.52%) Azure Certification
13 40 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 40 (1.86%) MCP
14 28 (1.31%) DBS Check
15 26 (1.21%) A+ Certification
15 26 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
17 24 (1.12%) MCITP
18 23 (1.07%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.69%) SLA
2 58 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.26%) GDPR
5 16 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.42%) PMO
9 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.37%) NIST
10 7 (0.33%) QA
11 5 (0.23%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.093%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.093%) NCSC
14 1 (0.047%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,151 (53.66%) Active Directory
2 817 (38.09%) Hyper-V
3 258 (12.03%) vSphere
4 242 (11.28%) VMware ESXi
5 156 (7.27%) Docker
6 95 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
6 95 (4.43%) XenApp
7 90 (4.20%) XenDesktop
8 78 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 61 (2.84%) VMware NSX
10 50 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
11 48 (2.24%) VirtualBox
12 34 (1.59%) Firmware
13 26 (1.21%) KVM
14 25 (1.17%) VMware Server
15 21 (0.98%) VMware Workstation
16 15 (0.70%) Terminal Services
17 13 (0.61%) OpenSSH
18 10 (0.47%) vCloud
19 9 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 224 (10.44%) SCCM
2 217 (10.12%) Ansible
3 213 (9.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 199 (9.28%) vCenter Server
5 164 (7.65%) Kubernetes
6 102 (4.76%) Terraform
7 92 (4.29%) Puppet
8 86 (4.01%) WSUS
9 66 (3.08%) SCOM
10 65 (3.03%) Prometheus
11 42 (1.96%) ZABBIX
12 37 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
12 37 (1.72%) FortiGate
13 36 (1.68%) NetBackup
14 35 (1.63%) Nagios
15 28 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
16 27 (1.26%) EMC NetWorker
17 26 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 24 (1.12%) SmoothWall
19 23 (1.07%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2,145 (100.00%) VMware
2 1,161 (54.13%) Microsoft
3 394 (18.37%) Cisco
4 353 (16.46%) Citrix
5 348 (16.22%) Veeam
6 197 (9.18%) HP
7 190 (8.86%) Red Hat
8 157 (7.32%) NetApp
9 132 (6.15%) Dell
10 114 (5.31%) Google
11 95 (4.43%) Palo Alto
12 70 (3.26%) IBM
13 66 (3.08%) Fortinet
14 58 (2.70%) Oracle
15 56 (2.61%) SolarWinds
16 54 (2.52%) Apple
16 54 (2.52%) Meraki
16 54 (2.52%) SolidFire
17 51 (2.38%) EMC
18 49 (2.28%) Symantec