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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 149 220
Rank change year-on-year +19 +71 -102
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2,173 2,431 3,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.19% 2.40% 1.92%
As % of the System Software category 17.99% 15.65% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,827 1,669 2,142
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £49,875
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,800 £78,750
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 12,077 15,532 28,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.19% 15.33% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,571 10,270 15,579
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
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 9 May 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 9 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 +23 1,979 £45,000 -14.29% 474
UK excluding London +10 1,707 £42,500 -5.56% 379
Work from Home +25 753 £50,000 -9.09% 165
London +7 422 £60,918 -2.53% 95
South East +17 413 £42,500 -10.53% 102
North of England +3 330 £40,000 -11.11% 82
South West +7 319 £49,000 +15.98% 64
Midlands +32 313 £43,227 -9.00% 75
West Midlands +51 199 £45,000 -3.23% 43
East of England +6 177 £37,500 -25.00% 50
North West -8 158 £42,500 -5.56% 52
Yorkshire +20 120 £42,500 +6.25% 22
East Midlands -4 114 £42,500 -19.05% 32
Scotland -35 100 £50,000 +14.29% 7
North East +15 52 £32,750 -34.50% 10
Wales -14 36 £36,988 -17.81% 5
Northern Ireland +7 11 £41,250 +17.86% 1
Channel Islands 0 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
1 512 (23.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 308 (14.17%) SharePoint
3 103 (4.74%) IIS
4 60 (2.76%) Apache
5 16 (0.74%) SharePoint 2010
5 16 (0.74%) SharePoint 2013
6 14 (0.64%) Confluence
7 13 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.46%) SAS
9 9 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.37%) nginx
10 8 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.18%) CloudStack
12 3 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.092%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.092%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.092%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.046%) Site Server
Applications
1 203 (9.34%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.092%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.046%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.092%) Eikon
4 1 (0.046%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.046%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,106 (50.90%) Azure
2 1,015 (46.71%) Microsoft 365
3 363 (16.71%) AWS
4 262 (12.06%) Entra ID
5 128 (5.89%) GCP
6 107 (4.92%) SaaS
7 94 (4.33%) IaaS
8 92 (4.23%) OneDrive
9 63 (2.90%) Amazon S3
10 61 (2.81%) PaaS
11 59 (2.72%) Nutanix
12 47 (2.16%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
14 35 (1.61%) Google Workspace
15 32 (1.47%) Power Platform
16 31 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
17 21 (0.97%) Power Automate
17 21 (0.97%) WhatsApp
18 20 (0.92%) Mimecast
18 20 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 779 (35.85%) Firewall
2 486 (22.37%) DNS
3 417 (19.19%) DHCP
4 395 (18.18%) WAN
5 338 (15.55%) SAN
6 327 (15.05%) LAN
7 320 (14.73%) VPN
8 239 (11.00%) TCP/IP
9 165 (7.59%) VLAN
10 143 (6.58%) Internet
11 135 (6.21%) Wireless
12 134 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
13 109 (5.02%) NAS
14 100 (4.60%) VoIP
15 80 (3.68%) SD-WAN
16 76 (3.50%) Remote Desktop
17 73 (3.36%) SNMP
18 69 (3.18%) WLAN
19 66 (3.04%) VSAN
20 62 (2.85%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 65 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 57 (2.62%) MongoDB
4 50 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (1.43%) MySQL
6 17 (0.78%) Power BI
7 16 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.41%) Big Data
9 8 (0.37%) DB2
9 8 (0.37%) MariaDB
9 8 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.28%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.28%) Redis
12 4 (0.18%) Metabase
12 4 (0.18%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.14%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 33 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.33%) JIRA
3 21 (0.97%) GitLab
4 15 (0.69%) Git
5 13 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.41%) MSI
7 8 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.23%) Selenium
11 4 (0.18%) AdminStudio
11 4 (0.18%) InstallShield
11 4 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
11 4 (0.18%) Postman
11 4 (0.18%) Subversion
11 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.14%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 604 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 339 (15.60%) Finance
3 185 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
5 67 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (2.95%) Aerospace
8 60 (2.76%) Legal
9 56 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 53 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.30%) Retail
12 48 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 47 (2.16%) Law
14 42 (1.93%) Banking
15 25 (1.15%) Games
16 22 (1.01%) Marketing
17 17 (0.78%) Electronics
18 14 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.55%) Billing
19 12 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 545 (25.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 340 (15.65%) Senior
3 331 (15.23%) Support Engineer
4 262 (12.06%) IT Engineer
5 244 (11.23%) IT Support
6 146 (6.72%) Analyst
7 144 (6.63%) 2nd Line Support
7 144 (6.63%) IT Support Engineer
8 141 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
9 136 (6.26%) Systems Engineer
10 125 (5.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 118 (5.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 112 (5.15%) Consultant
13 91 (4.19%) Lead
14 89 (4.10%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 87 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 85 (3.91%) Architect
17 82 (3.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 80 (3.68%) Administrator
19 74 (3.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (3.08%) YAML
2 59 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
3 30 (1.38%) ARM Templates
4 27 (1.24%) .NET
5 25 (1.15%) REST
6 23 (1.06%) WebRTC
7 17 (0.78%) JSON
8 13 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (0.60%) HTML
9 12 (0.55%) LDAP
10 8 (0.37%) WebSphere MQ
11 6 (0.28%) Middleware
11 6 (0.28%) Web Services
11 6 (0.28%) XML
12 5 (0.23%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.23%) CSS
12 5 (0.23%) jQuery
12 5 (0.23%) LAMP
13 4 (0.18%) Gherkin
13 4 (0.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 353 (16.24%) Data Centre
2 142 (6.53%) Replication
3 119 (5.48%) Management Information System
4 111 (5.11%) Public Cloud
5 104 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
6 103 (4.74%) Clustering
7 75 (3.45%) Driving Licence
7 75 (3.45%) PKI
8 69 (3.18%) Onboarding
9 49 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 36 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
11 32 (1.47%) CCTV
12 30 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.10%) Operational Technology
14 23 (1.06%) IoT
15 22 (1.01%) PMI
16 20 (0.92%) iPad
17 19 (0.87%) Blackberry
17 19 (0.87%) BYOD
17 19 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1,568 (72.16%) Windows
2 1,001 (46.07%) Windows Server
3 607 (27.93%) Linux
4 345 (15.88%) Windows 10
5 238 (10.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 207 (9.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 188 (8.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 99 (4.56%) Windows 7
9 98 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 69 (3.18%) Unix
11 61 (2.81%) Ubuntu
12 56 (2.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 54 (2.49%) Data ONTAP
13 54 (2.49%) Windows 8
14 52 (2.39%) Mac OS
15 43 (1.98%) CentOS
16 31 (1.43%) Apple iOS
17 29 (1.33%) Android
18 23 (1.06%) AIX
18 23 (1.06%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (28.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 504 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
3 465 (21.40%) ITIL
4 270 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
5 232 (10.68%) Customer Service
6 227 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 216 (9.94%) Project Management
8 181 (8.33%) Agile
9 179 (8.24%) DevOps
10 139 (6.40%) Mentoring
11 138 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (5.80%) Project Delivery
13 123 (5.66%) Change Management
14 119 (5.48%) Actionable Insight
15 113 (5.20%) Migration
16 107 (4.92%) Infrastructure Management
16 107 (4.92%) Storage Management
17 104 (4.79%) Line Management
18 102 (4.69%) High Availability
19 100 (4.60%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 457 (21.03%) PowerShell
2 291 (13.39%) SQL
3 210 (9.66%) Python
4 142 (6.53%) Bash
5 58 (2.67%) Java
6 45 (2.07%) C#
7 23 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.01%) Perl
9 14 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 14 (0.64%) VB
10 13 (0.60%) VBScript
11 10 (0.46%) ActionScript
11 10 (0.46%) RPG
12 9 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.37%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.18%) C
14 4 (0.18%) Groovy
15 3 (0.14%) C++
15 3 (0.14%) R
16 2 (0.092%) PHP
Qualifications
1 371 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 318 (14.63%) Degree
3 213 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 194 (8.93%) Cisco Certification
4 194 (8.93%) SC Cleared
5 172 (7.92%) DV Cleared
6 158 (7.27%) CCNA
7 132 (6.07%) MCSE
8 107 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 62 (2.85%) CCNP
9 62 (2.85%) MCSA
10 54 (2.49%) Azure Certification
11 42 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 38 (1.75%) MCP
13 33 (1.52%) DBS Check
14 28 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
15 26 (1.20%) A+ Certification
15 26 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
16 23 (1.06%) PMI Certification
17 21 (0.97%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.84%) SLA
2 53 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (1.24%) GDPR
4 16 (0.74%) SOC 2
5 14 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.46%) PMO
9 7 (0.32%) NIST
9 7 (0.32%) QA
10 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.23%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.092%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.092%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.092%) NCSC
14 1 (0.046%) GxP
14 1 (0.046%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1,189 (54.72%) Active Directory
2 822 (37.83%) Hyper-V
3 254 (11.69%) VMware ESXi
4 247 (11.37%) vSphere
5 145 (6.67%) Docker
6 97 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
7 83 (3.82%) XenApp
8 82 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 81 (3.73%) XenDesktop
10 55 (2.53%) VMware NSX
11 49 (2.25%) Virtual Servers
12 48 (2.21%) VirtualBox
13 38 (1.75%) Firmware
14 27 (1.24%) VMware Server
15 23 (1.06%) KVM
16 20 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
17 15 (0.69%) Terminal Services
18 13 (0.60%) vCloud
19 10 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 10 (0.46%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 227 (10.45%) SCCM
2 213 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 201 (9.25%) Ansible
3 201 (9.25%) vCenter Server
4 155 (7.13%) Kubernetes
5 99 (4.56%) Terraform
6 87 (4.00%) WSUS
7 82 (3.77%) Puppet
8 66 (3.04%) SCOM
9 62 (2.85%) Prometheus
10 42 (1.93%) FortiGate
11 41 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
12 39 (1.79%) ZABBIX
13 36 (1.66%) NetBackup
14 31 (1.43%) Nagios
15 28 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 28 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
16 26 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
17 25 (1.15%) SmoothWall
18 20 (0.92%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2,173 (100.00%) VMware
2 1,180 (54.30%) Microsoft
3 396 (18.22%) Cisco
4 357 (16.43%) Veeam
5 348 (16.01%) Citrix
6 194 (8.93%) HP
7 174 (8.01%) Red Hat
8 157 (7.23%) NetApp
9 124 (5.71%) Dell
10 109 (5.02%) Google
11 96 (4.42%) Palo Alto
12 65 (2.99%) Fortinet
13 63 (2.90%) IBM
14 61 (2.81%) SolarWinds
15 59 (2.72%) Meraki
16 55 (2.53%) Oracle
17 54 (2.49%) SolidFire
18 52 (2.39%) Apple
19 51 (2.35%) Aruba
20 48 (2.21%) EMC