VMware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 89 140
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 -78
Permanent jobs citing VMware 3,333 3,690 4,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.34% 3.72% 2.95%
As % of the Vendors category 9.12% 8.85% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 2,714 3,590
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,573 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +6.34% +6.82%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £44,623
% change year-on-year -5.56% +0.84% +5.00%

All Vendors
UK

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware in the UK

VMware
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +19 3,055 £45,000 -13.46% 685
UK excluding London +14 2,626 £42,500 -5.56% 554
Work from Home +16 1,124 £50,000 -9.09% 210
South East +16 652 £45,000 - 168
London -2 634 £65,000 +8.33% 170
North of England +13 585 £42,155 -6.32% 131
Midlands +19 463 £43,227 -9.00% 105
South West +15 416 £49,000 +15.29% 71
East of England +20 296 £37,500 -25.00% 60
West Midlands +21 292 £45,000 - 58
Yorkshire +44 254 £40,000 -5.88% 50
North West -15 238 £42,500 -9.57% 68
East Midlands +13 171 £42,500 -19.05% 47
Scotland -70 138 £47,500 -5.00% 18
North East +29 93 £37,500 -23.86% 15
Wales -1 52 £40,500 +1.25% 8
Northern Ireland -5 17 £40,000 - 6
Channel Islands 0 4 £85,000 -5.56%
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

VMware
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
1 708 (21.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 419 (12.57%) SharePoint
3 136 (4.08%) IIS
4 60 (1.80%) Apache
5 33 (0.99%) Confluence
6 19 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
7 17 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
8 15 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
8 15 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.39%) nginx
10 10 (0.30%) SAS
11 9 (0.27%) WordPress
12 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.12%) CloudStack
15 3 (0.090%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2007
16 2 (0.060%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 250 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.090%) SPSS
7 2 (0.060%) CATIA
7 2 (0.060%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.060%) Eikon
3 2 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.060%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.030%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,661 (49.83%) Azure
2 1,553 (46.59%) Microsoft 365
3 522 (15.66%) AWS
4 396 (11.88%) Entra ID
5 155 (4.65%) GCP
6 149 (4.47%) OneDrive
7 126 (3.78%) SaaS
8 119 (3.57%) IaaS
9 76 (2.28%) PaaS
10 70 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
11 66 (1.98%) Nutanix
12 64 (1.92%) Amazon S3
13 54 (1.62%) OpenShift
14 53 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
15 42 (1.26%) Power Platform
16 35 (1.05%) Google Workspace
17 31 (0.93%) Mimecast
18 25 (0.75%) OCI
19 21 (0.63%) Power Automate
20 20 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1,092 (32.76%) Firewall
2 679 (20.37%) DNS
3 571 (17.13%) WAN
4 547 (16.41%) DHCP
5 491 (14.73%) SAN
6 474 (14.22%) LAN
7 419 (12.57%) VPN
8 345 (10.35%) TCP/IP
9 211 (6.33%) VLAN
10 193 (5.79%) Wi-Fi
10 193 (5.79%) Wireless
11 167 (5.01%) NAS
12 157 (4.71%) Internet
13 134 (4.02%) VoIP
14 115 (3.45%) SD-WAN
15 93 (2.79%) WLAN
16 83 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
16 83 (2.49%) SNMP
17 76 (2.28%) Network Security
18 71 (2.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 76 (2.28%) MySQL
3 65 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
4 64 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 58 (1.74%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 24 (0.72%) NoSQL
9 23 (0.69%) Power BI
10 19 (0.57%) RDBMS
11 15 (0.45%) Big Data
12 12 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.30%) Ingres
14 9 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.24%) DB2
15 8 (0.24%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.18%) InfluxDB
16 6 (0.18%) Redis
17 4 (0.12%) Crystal Reports
17 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 82 (2.46%) JIRA
2 72 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 36 (1.08%) GitLab
4 35 (1.05%) Git
5 23 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.30%) Trac
8 9 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.27%) MSI
9 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.21%) Snyk
11 6 (0.18%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.12%) AdminStudio
13 4 (0.12%) InstallShield
13 4 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
13 4 (0.12%) Postman
13 4 (0.12%) Selenium
13 4 (0.12%) Subversion
13 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 901 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 458 (13.74%) Finance
3 273 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (3.24%) Public Sector
5 103 (3.09%) Aerospace
6 101 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 100 (3.00%) Law
8 90 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (2.61%) Legal
10 86 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 86 (2.58%) Telecoms
11 70 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 70 (2.10%) Retail
12 60 (1.80%) Banking
13 28 (0.84%) Marketing
14 27 (0.81%) Advertising
15 25 (0.75%) Games
16 22 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.54%) Automotive
17 18 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 834 (25.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 509 (15.27%) Senior
3 455 (13.65%) Support Engineer
4 403 (12.09%) IT Engineer
5 341 (10.23%) IT Support
6 244 (7.32%) Analyst
7 223 (6.69%) Systems Engineer
8 199 (5.97%) IT Support Engineer
9 185 (5.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 177 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
11 172 (5.16%) 3rd Line Support
11 172 (5.16%) Lead
12 163 (4.89%) Network Engineer
13 161 (4.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 156 (4.68%) Administrator
15 142 (4.26%) Consultant
16 130 (3.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 115 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 110 (3.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 105 (3.15%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.01%) YAML
2 59 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
3 37 (1.11%) ARM Templates
4 32 (0.96%) .NET
5 28 (0.84%) JSON
6 26 (0.78%) HTML
7 25 (0.75%) REST
8 19 (0.57%) WebRTC
9 18 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (0.51%) Web Services
11 14 (0.42%) LAMP
12 13 (0.39%) LDAP
13 12 (0.36%) EDI
14 10 (0.30%) XML
15 8 (0.24%) WebSphere MQ
16 6 (0.18%) Keycloak
16 6 (0.18%) Middleware
17 5 (0.15%) 802.1X
17 5 (0.15%) ASP.NET
17 5 (0.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 489 (14.67%) Data Centre
2 178 (5.34%) Replication
3 163 (4.89%) Public Cloud
4 147 (4.41%) Clustering
5 140 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 136 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 124 (3.72%) Driving Licence
8 82 (2.46%) PKI
9 66 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 51 (1.53%) Private Cloud
11 36 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
12 35 (1.05%) Client/Server
12 35 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (1.02%) CCTV
14 32 (0.96%) IoT
14 32 (0.96%) PMI
14 32 (0.96%) Security Posture
15 26 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
16 24 (0.72%) Operational Technology
17 23 (0.69%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2,279 (68.38%) Windows
2 1,502 (45.06%) Windows Server
3 884 (26.52%) Linux
4 455 (13.65%) Windows 10
5 307 (9.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 262 (7.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 252 (7.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 131 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 111 (3.33%) Windows 7
10 106 (3.18%) Unix
11 83 (2.49%) Mac OS
12 78 (2.34%) Ubuntu
13 75 (2.25%) CentOS
13 75 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
14 55 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
15 52 (1.56%) Windows 8
16 41 (1.23%) Apple iOS
17 40 (1.20%) Android
18 38 (1.14%) VMS
19 37 (1.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (29.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 689 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
3 622 (18.66%) ITIL
4 363 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
5 352 (10.56%) Customer Service
6 278 (8.34%) Project Management
7 276 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 244 (7.32%) DevOps
9 242 (7.26%) Mentoring
10 220 (6.60%) Agile
11 195 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 195 (5.85%) Migration
12 166 (4.98%) Project Delivery
13 163 (4.89%) Service Delivery
14 162 (4.86%) Change Management
15 159 (4.77%) Actionable Insight
16 136 (4.08%) Incident Management
17 131 (3.93%) Roadmaps
18 126 (3.78%) High Availability
19 120 (3.60%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 653 (19.59%) PowerShell
2 383 (11.49%) SQL
3 271 (8.13%) Python
4 194 (5.82%) Bash
5 83 (2.49%) Java
6 51 (1.53%) C#
7 32 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 29 (0.87%) Perl
9 27 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 15 (0.45%) VB
11 13 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.39%) VBScript
12 11 (0.33%) ActionScript
13 10 (0.30%) RPG
13 10 (0.30%) VB.NET
14 8 (0.24%) Go
14 8 (0.24%) PHP
15 7 (0.21%) Ruby
16 6 (0.18%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.15%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 552 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 438 (13.14%) Degree
3 295 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 279 (8.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 263 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
6 242 (7.26%) DV Cleared
7 219 (6.57%) CCNA
8 147 (4.41%) MCSE
9 120 (3.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 87 (2.61%) CCNP
11 79 (2.37%) Azure Certification
12 71 (2.13%) MCSA
13 51 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 40 (1.20%) MCP
15 35 (1.05%) A+ Certification
15 35 (1.05%) DBS Check
16 34 (1.02%) AWS Certification
17 33 (0.99%) PMI Certification
18 30 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
19 26 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (5.76%) SLA
2 81 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 39 (1.17%) GDPR
5 17 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.48%) QA
6 16 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.33%) PMO
9 10 (0.30%) NIST
10 9 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.12%) NCSC
13 3 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.090%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.060%) COBIT
14 2 (0.060%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.060%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.060%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,130 (63.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,712 (51.37%) Active Directory
3 1,040 (31.20%) Hyper-V
4 391 (11.73%) VMware ESXi
5 343 (10.29%) vSphere
6 180 (5.40%) Docker
7 124 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
8 103 (3.09%) XenApp
9 90 (2.70%) VMware NSX
10 89 (2.67%) XenDesktop
11 83 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
12 49 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
13 48 (1.44%) VirtualBox
14 46 (1.38%) Firmware
15 31 (0.93%) VMware Server
16 28 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
17 26 (0.78%) KVM
18 25 (0.75%) NFS
19 23 (0.69%) Terminal Services
20 21 (0.63%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 411 (12.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 319 (9.57%) SCCM
3 277 (8.31%) vCenter Server
4 259 (7.77%) Ansible
5 198 (5.94%) Kubernetes
6 129 (3.87%) Terraform
7 103 (3.09%) WSUS
8 94 (2.82%) Puppet
9 78 (2.34%) SCOM
10 63 (1.89%) Prometheus
11 59 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
12 58 (1.74%) ZABBIX
13 57 (1.71%) FortiGate
14 46 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
15 40 (1.20%) Nagios
15 40 (1.20%) NetBackup
16 34 (1.02%) Grafana
17 33 (0.99%) EMC NetWorker
18 30 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 25 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,753 (52.60%) Microsoft
2 644 (19.32%) Cisco
3 508 (15.24%) Citrix
4 467 (14.01%) Veeam
5 237 (7.11%) HP
6 224 (6.72%) Red Hat
7 214 (6.42%) NetApp
8 169 (5.07%) Dell
9 156 (4.68%) Palo Alto
10 128 (3.84%) Aruba
11 123 (3.69%) Google
12 110 (3.30%) Fortinet
13 98 (2.94%) Oracle
14 92 (2.76%) SolarWinds
15 83 (2.49%) Juniper
16 82 (2.46%) Commvault
17 81 (2.43%) IBM
18 80 (2.40%) Meraki
19 70 (2.10%) ServiceNow
20 64 (1.92%) Sophos