vSphere Jobs with Work from Home Options

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 519 584
Rank change year-on-year +51 +65 -116
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 135 114 329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 3.15% 2.13% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 110 94 266
10th Percentile £41,475 £33,832 £31,275
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,350 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,288 5,345 14,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.06% 14.26% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,269 4,225 7,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

vSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vSphere trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere.

vSphere salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing vSphere over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

vSphere salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (12.59%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.93%) IIS
4 4 (2.96%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (2.96%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.74%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.74%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.22%) SPSS
3 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (45.19%) Azure
2 58 (42.96%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.89%) IaaS
4 12 (8.89%) PaaS
5 9 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.93%) GCP
7 6 (4.44%) AWS
7 6 (4.44%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.96%) Cloudflare
8 4 (2.96%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.96%) SaaS
9 3 (2.22%) Dropbox
9 3 (2.22%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.48%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.48%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.48%) Zapier
11 1 (0.74%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 35 (25.93%) Firewall
2 31 (22.96%) LAN
3 28 (20.74%) SAN
3 28 (20.74%) WAN
4 27 (20.00%) VSAN
5 24 (17.78%) Internet
6 19 (14.07%) VPN
7 17 (12.59%) DNS
8 13 (9.63%) DHCP
9 8 (5.93%) iSCSI
9 8 (5.93%) TCP/IP
10 7 (5.19%) VLAN
11 6 (4.44%) NAS
11 6 (4.44%) NGFW
12 4 (2.96%) FTP
12 4 (2.96%) Wireless
12 4 (2.96%) WLAN
13 3 (2.22%) BGP
13 3 (2.22%) OSPF
13 3 (2.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.70%) MariaDB
2 5 (3.70%) MySQL
3 4 (2.96%) DB2
3 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.22%) Big Data
4 3 (2.22%) EDRMS
4 3 (2.22%) Ingres
5 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.48%) Power BI
5 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.48%) Tableau
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Git
General
1 32 (23.70%) Finance
2 22 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.93%) Advertising
5 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.96%) Legal
6 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Police
7 2 (1.48%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Back Office
8 1 (0.74%) Electronics
8 1 (0.74%) German Language
8 1 (0.74%) Law
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (34.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 22 (16.30%) Senior
4 19 (14.07%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Support
5 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) VMware Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) VMware Support Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Architect
8 10 (7.41%) IT Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (5.93%) Administrator
9 8 (5.93%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Server Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Analyst
11 6 (4.44%) Citrix Architect
11 6 (4.44%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.93%) JSON
2 6 (4.44%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.44%) YAML
3 4 (2.96%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (2.22%) EDI
5 2 (1.48%) .NET
5 2 (1.48%) REST
5 2 (1.48%) SOAP
5 2 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.74%) Data Centre
2 23 (17.04%) PKI
3 15 (11.11%) Clustering
4 12 (8.89%) Management Information System
5 10 (7.41%) Private Cloud
6 7 (5.19%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.22%) Cybercrime
8 3 (2.22%) Replication
8 3 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.48%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.48%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.74%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.74%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 95 (70.37%) Windows
2 67 (49.63%) Windows Server
3 50 (37.04%) Linux
4 21 (15.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (12.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (8.15%) Windows 10
8 9 (6.67%) Debian
9 8 (5.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (5.19%) Windows 7
11 5 (3.70%) Ubuntu
12 3 (2.22%) CentOS
12 3 (2.22%) SUSE
13 2 (1.48%) Unix
13 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.74%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (25.93%) ITIL
3 28 (20.74%) Customer Service
4 19 (14.07%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 15 (11.11%) Change Management
7 14 (10.37%) Customer Requirements
7 14 (10.37%) Load Balancing
8 13 (9.63%) Agile
9 12 (8.89%) Network Design
9 12 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (8.15%) DevOps
10 11 (8.15%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (8.15%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (7.41%) Line Management
12 9 (6.67%) Mentoring
12 9 (6.67%) SDLC
13 8 (5.93%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 41 (30.37%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.07%) Python
3 17 (12.59%) Bash
4 13 (9.63%) ActionScript
4 13 (9.63%) SQL
4 13 (9.63%) VB
5 3 (2.22%) AWK
5 3 (2.22%) sed
6 2 (1.48%) C#
6 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.48%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (22.22%) Degree
2 22 (16.30%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.44%) DBS Check
5 6 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.70%) HND
6 5 (3.70%) MCSA
7 4 (2.96%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (2.96%) Citrix Certification
7 4 (2.96%) MCITP
7 4 (2.96%) RHCA
7 4 (2.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.22%) CCNA
8 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.48%) HNC
10 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) SLA
2 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 110 (81.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (51.85%) Active Directory
3 33 (24.44%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 18 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (12.59%) XenApp
7 13 (9.63%) OpenSSH
8 9 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (3.70%) NFS
10 4 (2.96%) Firmware
10 4 (2.96%) XenDesktop
11 3 (2.22%) Docker
11 3 (2.22%) pfSense
12 2 (1.48%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.48%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.48%) VMware NSX
12 2 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.74%) KVM
13 1 (0.74%) vCloud
13 1 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 32 (23.70%) vCenter Server
2 13 (9.63%) Ansible
2 13 (9.63%) IBM BigFix
2 13 (9.63%) PowerCLI
2 13 (9.63%) Puppet
3 12 (8.89%) SCCM
4 10 (7.41%) FortiGate
5 8 (5.93%) Nagios
6 7 (5.19%) Terraform
7 6 (4.44%) McAfee ePO
8 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.70%) SCVMM
9 4 (2.96%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes
10 3 (2.22%) VxRail
11 2 (1.48%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.48%) SCOM
12 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.74%) SCOrch
12 1 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (95.56%) VMware
2 68 (50.37%) Microsoft
3 34 (25.19%) Citrix
4 24 (17.78%) Cisco
5 23 (17.04%) IBM
6 21 (15.56%) Veeam
7 18 (13.33%) Dell
8 14 (10.37%) HP
9 10 (7.41%) Juniper
10 9 (6.67%) CheckPoint
11 7 (5.19%) 3PAR
11 7 (5.19%) NetApp
11 7 (5.19%) Red Hat
11 7 (5.19%) ServiceNow
12 6 (4.44%) McAfee
12 6 (4.44%) Zerto
13 5 (3.70%) EMC
13 5 (3.70%) Oracle
14 4 (2.96%) Commvault
14 4 (2.96%) Google