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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 558 707
Rank change year-on-year +17 +149 -210
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 399 430 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 3.31% 2.94% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 334 307 507
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,421 £32,500 £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 £63,750 £60,000 £62,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -

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 12,037 14,602 31,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.40% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,350 9,782 15,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,638 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
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 2 June 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 2 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 +71 384 £52,500 +16.67% 82
UK excluding London -23 313 £50,000 +25.00% 69
Work from Home +57 129 £52,500 - 23
London +81 86 £65,000 +8.33% 13
South West +27 81 £52,500 +81.03% 10
South East -18 72 £48,500 +38.57% 30
Midlands +7 61 £50,000 +53.85% 14
East of England -6 43 £32,000 -39.05% 3
North of England -8 41 £43,000 -7.03% 11
West Midlands -1 38 £52,500 +61.54% 12
East Midlands -6 23 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +39 17 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North West -37 15 £52,500 - 8
Scotland -70 12 £47,000 -6.00% 1
North East -5 9 £27,500 -
Northern Ireland +19 2 £34,628 +6.55%
Wales +1 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 68 (17.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 65 (16.29%) SharePoint
3 29 (7.27%) IIS
4 9 (2.26%) WordPress
5 8 (2.01%) WebSphere
6 7 (1.75%) Skype for Business
7 6 (1.50%) Confluence
8 5 (1.25%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (1.00%) SAS
10 3 (0.75%) nginx
11 1 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.75%) SPSS
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Eikon
2 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 180 (45.11%) Azure
2 172 (43.11%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (11.28%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.02%) AWS
5 34 (8.52%) OneDrive
6 20 (5.01%) IaaS
7 19 (4.76%) PaaS
8 13 (3.26%) SaaS
9 12 (3.01%) GCP
10 11 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.00%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.75%) Dropbox
12 3 (0.75%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.75%) Rubrik
13 2 (0.50%) Cloudflare
13 2 (0.50%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.50%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.50%) Slack
13 2 (0.50%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.50%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 113 (28.32%) Firewall
2 90 (22.56%) SAN
3 81 (20.30%) DNS
4 77 (19.30%) LAN
5 71 (17.79%) WAN
6 68 (17.04%) VPN
7 60 (15.04%) DHCP
8 55 (13.78%) VSAN
9 40 (10.03%) Internet
10 32 (8.02%) NAS
10 32 (8.02%) VLAN
11 31 (7.77%) Wireless
12 30 (7.52%) Network Security
13 23 (5.76%) TCP/IP
14 19 (4.76%) VoIP
15 17 (4.26%) iSCSI
15 17 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (4.01%) Fibre Channel
17 15 (3.76%) WLAN
18 10 (2.51%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.01%) DB2
3 5 (1.25%) MySQL
3 5 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.75%) Big Data
5 3 (0.75%) EDRMS
5 3 (0.75%) Ingres
5 3 (0.75%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.50%) Power BI
6 2 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.50%) Redis
6 2 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.50%) Tableau
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.26%) JIRA
2 5 (1.25%) Git
3 4 (1.00%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.54%) Finance
3 41 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.26%) Military
5 15 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.26%) Aerospace
8 12 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.26%) Billing
10 8 (2.01%) Advertising
10 8 (2.01%) Banking
11 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.25%) Electronics
13 4 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Police
14 3 (0.75%) Law
14 3 (0.75%) Local Government
15 2 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 112 (28.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 55 (13.78%) Senior
3 50 (12.53%) Support Engineer
4 38 (9.52%) Consultant
5 33 (8.27%) Administrator
6 32 (8.02%) Lead
7 30 (7.52%) IT Engineer
8 28 (7.02%) Architect
8 28 (7.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 28 (7.02%) Security Consultant
9 26 (6.52%) Analyst
10 25 (6.27%) Systems Engineer
10 25 (6.27%) VMware Engineer
11 24 (6.02%) Systems Administrator
12 22 (5.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
14 20 (5.01%) IT Support
15 18 (4.51%) VMWare Administrator
16 16 (4.01%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (2.51%) JSON
3 9 (2.26%) LAMP
4 8 (2.01%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.01%) WebSphere MQ
4 8 (2.01%) YAML
5 7 (1.75%) .NET
6 4 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.00%) REST
6 4 (1.00%) SOAP
6 4 (1.00%) XMPP
7 3 (0.75%) EDI
8 2 (0.50%) XML
8 2 (0.50%) X-Windows
9 1 (0.25%) LDAP
9 1 (0.25%) OAuth
9 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.30%) Data Centre
2 43 (10.78%) PKI
3 36 (9.02%) Replication
4 28 (7.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 23 (5.76%) Public Cloud
6 20 (5.01%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.26%) Clustering
7 17 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.76%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.76%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (3.26%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.75%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (1.00%) Mobile Computing
14 4 (1.00%) Smartcard
14 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 258 (64.66%) Windows
2 202 (50.63%) Windows Server
3 135 (33.83%) Linux
4 65 (16.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 54 (13.53%) Windows 10
6 51 (12.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (11.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 43 (10.78%) Ubuntu
9 23 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (5.26%) CentOS
11 13 (3.26%) Windows 7
12 12 (3.01%) SUSE
13 11 (2.76%) Debian
13 11 (2.76%) VMS
14 8 (2.01%) Apple iOS
15 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (1.00%) Unix
17 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
19 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (30.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 96 (24.06%) ITIL
3 62 (15.54%) Agile
4 55 (13.78%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (11.78%) Incident Management
6 43 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (10.28%) Customer Service
8 36 (9.02%) SIEM
9 33 (8.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 32 (8.02%) Vulnerability Management
11 31 (7.77%) Analytics
11 31 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (7.77%) Data Analytics
12 30 (7.52%) Service Delivery
13 26 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (6.02%) Load Balancing
14 24 (6.02%) Project Delivery
15 23 (5.76%) Information Security
16 22 (5.51%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (31.33%) PowerShell
2 42 (10.53%) SQL
3 28 (7.02%) Python
4 25 (6.27%) Bash
5 13 (3.26%) ActionScript
5 13 (3.26%) VB
6 7 (1.75%) C#
6 7 (1.75%) VB.NET
7 5 (1.25%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.75%) AWK
8 3 (0.75%) sed
9 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) Java
10 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.04%) Degree
3 55 (13.78%) DV Cleared
4 51 (12.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (8.52%) SC Cleared
6 26 (6.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 24 (6.02%) MCSA
8 21 (5.26%) MCSE
9 17 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (4.01%) CCNA
11 11 (2.76%) HND
12 10 (2.51%) Citrix Certification
13 9 (2.26%) Azure Certification
13 9 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (1.75%) MCP
15 6 (1.50%) CCA
15 6 (1.50%) DBS Check
16 5 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 5 (1.25%) RHCA
16 5 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.27%) NIST
2 23 (5.76%) SLA
3 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) NCSC
5 2 (0.50%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 258 (64.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 213 (53.38%) Active Directory
3 82 (20.55%) VMware ESXi
4 49 (12.28%) Hyper-V
5 30 (7.52%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (5.76%) VMware NSX
7 22 (5.51%) XenApp
8 13 (3.26%) OpenSSH
8 13 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.51%) vCloud
10 9 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (2.01%) Firmware
12 7 (1.75%) Docker
13 6 (1.50%) Terminal Services
14 4 (1.00%) VMware Server
14 4 (1.00%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.75%) NFS
16 2 (0.50%) Varnish
16 2 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (20.55%) vCenter Server
2 43 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (10.03%) SCCM
4 22 (5.51%) Kubernetes
5 20 (5.01%) Ansible
6 19 (4.76%) Puppet
6 19 (4.76%) Terraform
7 18 (4.51%) VxRail
8 15 (3.76%) McAfee ePO
8 15 (3.76%) WSUS
9 14 (3.51%) PowerCLI
10 13 (3.26%) IBM BigFix
11 12 (3.01%) FortiGate
12 10 (2.51%) NetCrunch
13 8 (2.01%) Nagios
13 8 (2.01%) SCVMM
14 7 (1.75%) SCOM
14 7 (1.75%) vRealize
15 6 (1.50%) SmoothWall
16 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 351 (87.97%) VMware
2 218 (54.64%) Microsoft
3 67 (16.79%) Veeam
4 58 (14.54%) Cisco
5 53 (13.28%) Citrix
6 51 (12.78%) Dell
7 49 (12.28%) HP
8 38 (9.52%) SolarWinds
9 29 (7.27%) Red Hat
10 28 (7.02%) Tanium
10 28 (7.02%) Tripwire
11 27 (6.77%) IBM
11 27 (6.77%) NetApp
12 19 (4.76%) Commvault
12 19 (4.76%) Palo Alto
13 16 (4.01%) McAfee
14 15 (3.76%) Juniper
15 14 (3.51%) Zerto
16 12 (3.01%) Splunk
17 10 (2.51%) ServiceNow