VMware vSphere
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 580 709
Rank change year-on-year +41 +129 -233
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 389 441 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 3.25% 2.87% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 329 313 485
10th Percentile £30,400 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,227 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £44,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.60% -1.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
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%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere 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 +72 374 £52,500 +16.67% 79
UK excluding London -28 297 £50,000 +25.00% 66
Work from Home +73 123 £52,500 - 20
London +85 91 £65,000 +8.33% 17
South West +25 77 £52,500 +68.00% 10
South East -12 66 £48,500 +38.57% 21
Midlands -5 54 £50,000 +53.85% 16
East of England +4 44 £32,000 -36.00% 7
North of England +13 41 £43,000 -4.44% 12
West Midlands +12 33 £52,500 +65.35% 11
East Midlands -4 21 £50,000 - 5
Yorkshire +61 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North West -20 15 £52,500 - 8
Scotland -65 12 £47,000 -6.00% 1
North East +1 9 £27,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +20 2 £34,628 +6.55%
Wales +3 1 £50,000 +122.22%

vSphere
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 66 (16.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (15.94%) SharePoint
3 28 (7.20%) IIS
4 9 (2.31%) WordPress
5 8 (2.06%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.80%) Skype for Business
7 6 (1.54%) Confluence
8 4 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (1.03%) SAS
9 2 (0.51%) nginx
10 1 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.26%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.77%) SPSS
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Eikon
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 177 (45.50%) Azure
2 171 (43.96%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (11.57%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.25%) AWS
5 34 (8.74%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.91%) IaaS
7 22 (5.66%) PaaS
8 14 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.34%) SaaS
10 9 (2.31%) GCP
11 3 (0.77%) Dropbox
11 3 (0.77%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.77%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.51%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.51%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.51%) Slack
12 2 (0.51%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.51%) Zapier
13 1 (0.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 115 (29.56%) Firewall
2 95 (24.42%) SAN
3 79 (20.31%) DNS
4 76 (19.54%) LAN
4 76 (19.54%) VPN
5 70 (17.99%) WAN
6 56 (14.40%) VSAN
7 55 (14.14%) DHCP
8 38 (9.77%) Internet
9 34 (8.74%) NAS
10 33 (8.48%) VLAN
10 33 (8.48%) Wireless
11 29 (7.46%) Network Security
12 22 (5.66%) TCP/IP
13 21 (5.40%) VoIP
14 17 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (4.11%) Fibre Channel
15 16 (4.11%) iSCSI
16 15 (3.86%) WLAN
17 11 (2.83%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.91%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.06%) DB2
3 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.03%) MySQL
4 4 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.77%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.77%) Ingres
5 3 (0.77%) Power BI
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.51%) Redis
6 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.51%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.31%) JIRA
2 5 (1.29%) Git
3 4 (1.03%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.14%) Finance
3 42 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.37%) Military
5 14 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.34%) Aerospace
6 13 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.34%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.83%) Billing
8 9 (2.31%) Banking
9 8 (2.06%) Advertising
9 8 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.29%) Electronics
11 4 (1.03%) Legal
11 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.03%) Police
12 3 (0.77%) Law
12 3 (0.77%) Local Government
12 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 104 (26.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (13.62%) Senior
3 46 (11.83%) Support Engineer
4 35 (9.00%) Consultant
5 33 (8.48%) Administrator
5 33 (8.48%) Architect
6 29 (7.46%) Lead
7 27 (6.94%) IT Engineer
8 26 (6.68%) Analyst
8 26 (6.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 26 (6.68%) Security Consultant
9 24 (6.17%) Systems Administrator
9 24 (6.17%) VMware Engineer
10 23 (5.91%) Systems Engineer
11 22 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (5.40%) 2nd Line Support
13 20 (5.14%) IT Support
13 20 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.63%) VMWare Administrator
15 16 (4.11%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.68%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (3.34%) JSON
3 11 (2.83%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.83%) YAML
4 9 (2.31%) LAMP
5 8 (2.06%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (1.80%) .NET
7 5 (1.29%) EDI
8 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.03%) REST
8 4 (1.03%) SOAP
8 4 (1.03%) XMPP
9 2 (0.51%) XML
9 2 (0.51%) X-Windows
10 1 (0.26%) LDAP
10 1 (0.26%) OAuth
10 1 (0.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 84 (21.59%) Data Centre
2 40 (10.28%) PKI
2 40 (10.28%) Replication
3 30 (7.71%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 23 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (4.11%) Private Cloud
8 15 (3.86%) Clustering
8 15 (3.86%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.86%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.80%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.29%) Smartcard
12 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.03%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 249 (64.01%) Windows
2 201 (51.67%) Windows Server
3 134 (34.45%) Linux
4 62 (15.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 53 (13.62%) Windows 10
6 48 (12.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 48 (12.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 43 (11.05%) Ubuntu
8 23 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (5.40%) CentOS
10 14 (3.60%) SUSE
11 13 (3.34%) Windows 7
12 11 (2.83%) VMS
13 10 (2.57%) Debian
14 8 (2.06%) Apple iOS
15 6 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (1.03%) Unix
17 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
18 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 92 (23.65%) ITIL
3 63 (16.20%) Agile
4 50 (12.85%) Cybersecurity
5 43 (11.05%) Incident Management
6 42 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (9.77%) Customer Service
8 35 (9.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 34 (8.74%) SIEM
10 33 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (8.48%) Service Delivery
11 30 (7.71%) Vulnerability Management
12 29 (7.46%) Analytics
12 29 (7.46%) Data Analytics
13 27 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (6.68%) Load Balancing
14 26 (6.68%) Project Delivery
15 25 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (6.17%) Mentoring
17 23 (5.91%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 127 (32.65%) PowerShell
2 43 (11.05%) SQL
3 27 (6.94%) Python
4 25 (6.43%) Bash
5 11 (2.83%) ActionScript
5 11 (2.83%) VB
6 7 (1.80%) C#
6 7 (1.80%) VB.NET
7 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.77%) AWK
8 3 (0.77%) sed
9 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.26%) Java
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 62 (15.94%) Degree
3 52 (13.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (13.11%) DV Cleared
5 32 (8.23%) SC Cleared
6 26 (6.68%) MCSA
6 26 (6.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 23 (5.91%) MCSE
8 17 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.60%) CCNA
10 11 (2.83%) HND
11 9 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.06%) DBS Check
13 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.80%) Citrix Certification
13 7 (1.80%) MCP
14 5 (1.29%) CCA
14 5 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (1.29%) RHCA
14 5 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.94%) NIST
2 22 (5.66%) SLA
3 6 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
5 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.51%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 248 (63.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 209 (53.73%) Active Directory
3 82 (21.08%) VMware ESXi
4 39 (10.03%) Hyper-V
5 29 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (5.14%) VMware NSX
7 18 (4.63%) XenApp
8 16 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (3.08%) vCloud
10 11 (2.83%) OpenSSH
11 9 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (1.80%) Firmware
13 6 (1.54%) Docker
14 5 (1.29%) Terminal Services
15 4 (1.03%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.51%) NFS
17 2 (0.51%) Varnish
17 2 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
17 2 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (19.79%) vCenter Server
2 43 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (10.80%) SCCM
4 21 (5.40%) Kubernetes
4 21 (5.40%) Terraform
5 19 (4.88%) Ansible
5 19 (4.88%) Puppet
6 17 (4.37%) WSUS
7 15 (3.86%) McAfee ePO
8 13 (3.34%) VxRail
9 12 (3.08%) FortiGate
9 12 (3.08%) PowerCLI
10 11 (2.83%) IBM BigFix
11 9 (2.31%) NetCrunch
12 8 (2.06%) SCVMM
13 7 (1.80%) Nagios
13 7 (1.80%) SCOM
13 7 (1.80%) vRealize
14 6 (1.54%) SmoothWall
15 5 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 343 (88.17%) VMware
2 210 (53.98%) Microsoft
3 71 (18.25%) Veeam
4 60 (15.42%) Cisco
5 50 (12.85%) HP
6 48 (12.34%) Citrix
7 45 (11.57%) Dell
8 34 (8.74%) SolarWinds
9 30 (7.71%) Red Hat
10 29 (7.46%) NetApp
11 27 (6.94%) IBM
12 26 (6.68%) Tanium
12 26 (6.68%) Tripwire
13 21 (5.40%) Commvault
14 20 (5.14%) Palo Alto
15 16 (4.11%) McAfee
16 15 (3.86%) Juniper
17 14 (3.60%) Zerto
18 11 (2.83%) Aruba
18 11 (2.83%) Fujitsu