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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 79 147
Rank change year-on-year -2 +68 -82
Permanent jobs citing VMware 3,366 3,692 4,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.21% 3.90% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% 9.38% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 2,672 3,585
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +4.08% +6.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

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 37,019 39,367 65,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.27% 41.59% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,965 23,355 33,174
10th Percentile £26,750 £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 £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 1 June 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 1 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 +12 3,089 £45,000 -12.74% 565
UK excluding London +10 2,671 £42,500 -5.56% 463
Work from Home +7 1,127 £50,000 -7.41% 183
South East +5 661 £45,000 - 136
London -12 627 £62,500 +4.17% 114
North of England +7 577 £41,500 -7.78% 105
Midlands +18 483 £44,225 -1.72% 87
South West +6 425 £49,000 +15.29% 71
East of England +16 309 £37,500 -25.00% 46
West Midlands +20 303 £45,000 +2.27% 51
Yorkshire +31 250 £40,000 -0.62% 39
North West -24 235 £42,500 -10.53% 58
East Midlands +7 180 £42,500 -20.93% 36
Scotland -69 139 £47,500 -5.00% 15
North East +23 92 £37,500 -22.68% 9
Wales +3 54 £40,000 - 14
Northern Ireland -7 16 £40,000 - 3
Channel Islands +1 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
1 701 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 430 (12.77%) SharePoint
3 135 (4.01%) IIS
4 61 (1.81%) Apache
5 27 (0.80%) Confluence
6 19 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 19 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
6 19 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
7 16 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
8 14 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
8 14 (0.42%) nginx
9 10 (0.30%) SAS
10 9 (0.27%) WordPress
11 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.12%) CloudStack
14 3 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.089%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 257 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.089%) SPSS
7 2 (0.059%) CATIA
7 2 (0.059%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.089%) Epicor Tropos
1 3 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.059%) Eikon
2 2 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.059%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.030%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,667 (49.52%) Azure
2 1,544 (45.87%) Microsoft 365
3 529 (15.72%) AWS
4 394 (11.71%) Entra ID
5 162 (4.81%) GCP
6 151 (4.49%) OneDrive
7 123 (3.65%) SaaS
8 112 (3.33%) IaaS
9 70 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
10 68 (2.02%) Nutanix
11 67 (1.99%) PaaS
12 65 (1.93%) Amazon S3
13 58 (1.72%) OpenShift
14 43 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
15 40 (1.19%) Power Platform
16 34 (1.01%) Google Workspace
17 33 (0.98%) Mimecast
18 25 (0.74%) OCI
19 22 (0.65%) Power Automate
19 22 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1,093 (32.47%) Firewall
2 684 (20.32%) DNS
3 578 (17.17%) WAN
4 550 (16.34%) DHCP
5 489 (14.53%) SAN
6 487 (14.47%) LAN
7 408 (12.12%) VPN
8 357 (10.61%) TCP/IP
9 211 (6.27%) VLAN
10 192 (5.70%) Wireless
11 189 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
12 167 (4.96%) NAS
13 160 (4.75%) Internet
14 126 (3.74%) VoIP
15 113 (3.36%) SD-WAN
16 89 (2.64%) WLAN
17 88 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
18 80 (2.38%) SNMP
19 76 (2.26%) Network Security
20 71 (2.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 74 (2.20%) MySQL
3 65 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
4 64 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 35 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.59%) Power BI
10 19 (0.56%) RDBMS
11 13 (0.39%) Big Data
12 10 (0.30%) Ingres
12 10 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (0.27%) DB2
14 8 (0.24%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.18%) Redis
16 5 (0.15%) InfluxDB
17 4 (0.12%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 76 (2.26%) JIRA
2 75 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 40 (1.19%) GitLab
4 37 (1.10%) Git
5 19 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 16 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.33%) MSI
8 10 (0.30%) Trac
9 9 (0.27%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.21%) Snyk
12 6 (0.18%) AdminStudio
12 6 (0.18%) InstallShield
12 6 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.18%) Robot Framework
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
1 897 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 464 (13.78%) Finance
3 265 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (3.36%) Aerospace
5 104 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 101 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 91 (2.70%) Law
8 90 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 86 (2.55%) Telecoms
10 82 (2.44%) Legal
11 81 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 67 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 67 (1.99%) Retail
13 58 (1.72%) Banking
14 28 (0.83%) Advertising
15 27 (0.80%) Marketing
16 25 (0.74%) Games
17 21 (0.62%) Automotive
17 21 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 872 (25.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 503 (14.94%) Senior
3 462 (13.73%) Support Engineer
4 402 (11.94%) IT Engineer
5 345 (10.25%) IT Support
6 255 (7.58%) Analyst
7 215 (6.39%) Systems Engineer
8 198 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
9 190 (5.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 178 (5.29%) 2nd Line Support
11 174 (5.17%) Lead
12 171 (5.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 171 (5.08%) 3rd Line Support
13 165 (4.90%) Network Engineer
14 158 (4.69%) Administrator
15 145 (4.31%) Consultant
16 134 (3.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 117 (3.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 112 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 105 (3.12%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (1.90%) YAML
2 59 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
3 34 (1.01%) .NET
4 27 (0.80%) ARM Templates
5 26 (0.77%) HTML
6 24 (0.71%) REST
7 19 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (0.56%) JSON
8 18 (0.53%) WebRTC
9 17 (0.51%) Web Services
10 14 (0.42%) LAMP
10 14 (0.42%) LDAP
11 10 (0.30%) EDI
11 10 (0.30%) XML
12 8 (0.24%) Middleware
12 8 (0.24%) WebSphere MQ
13 7 (0.21%) Keycloak
14 6 (0.18%) ADO
15 5 (0.15%) ASP.NET
15 5 (0.15%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 487 (14.47%) Data Centre
2 175 (5.20%) Replication
3 159 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 152 (4.52%) Clustering
5 142 (4.22%) Management Information System
6 140 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
7 125 (3.71%) Driving Licence
8 81 (2.41%) PKI
9 65 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 52 (1.54%) Private Cloud
11 40 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
12 37 (1.10%) Client/Server
13 36 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 34 (1.01%) CCTV
14 34 (1.01%) IoT
15 32 (0.95%) PMI
16 30 (0.89%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (0.71%) Operational Technology
19 23 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2,292 (68.09%) Windows
2 1,503 (44.65%) Windows Server
3 904 (26.86%) Linux
4 455 (13.52%) Windows 10
5 304 (9.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 258 (7.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 257 (7.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 139 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 114 (3.39%) Windows 7
10 111 (3.30%) Unix
11 81 (2.41%) Mac OS
12 78 (2.32%) CentOS
12 78 (2.32%) Ubuntu
13 77 (2.29%) Windows Server 2008
14 55 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
15 50 (1.49%) Windows 8
16 44 (1.31%) Apple iOS
17 43 (1.28%) Android
18 39 (1.16%) VMS
19 38 (1.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,020 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 689 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
3 627 (18.63%) ITIL
4 366 (10.87%) Customer Service
5 358 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
6 279 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 273 (8.11%) Project Management
8 245 (7.28%) Mentoring
9 239 (7.10%) DevOps
10 227 (6.74%) Agile
11 197 (5.85%) Migration
12 191 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 167 (4.96%) Service Delivery
14 162 (4.81%) Change Management
15 159 (4.72%) Actionable Insight
16 155 (4.60%) Project Delivery
17 141 (4.19%) Incident Management
18 135 (4.01%) Roadmaps
19 125 (3.71%) Collaborative Working
20 124 (3.68%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 646 (19.19%) PowerShell
2 372 (11.05%) SQL
3 277 (8.23%) Python
4 194 (5.76%) Bash
5 84 (2.50%) Java
6 51 (1.52%) C#
7 36 (1.07%) Perl
8 32 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 30 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 19 (0.56%) VB
11 13 (0.39%) ActionScript
11 13 (0.39%) VBScript
12 12 (0.36%) Ruby
12 12 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.30%) PHP
14 10 (0.30%) RPG
15 8 (0.24%) Go
16 6 (0.18%) Korn
16 6 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 564 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 448 (13.31%) Degree
3 302 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 281 (8.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 255 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
6 252 (7.49%) DV Cleared
7 214 (6.36%) CCNA
8 142 (4.22%) MCSE
9 117 (3.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 86 (2.55%) CCNP
11 79 (2.35%) Azure Certification
12 70 (2.08%) MCSA
13 50 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 42 (1.25%) MCP
15 37 (1.10%) A+ Certification
16 34 (1.01%) AWS Certification
17 33 (0.98%) DBS Check
17 33 (0.98%) PMI Certification
18 30 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
19 29 (0.86%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.97%) SLA
2 81 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 38 (1.13%) GDPR
5 17 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 15 (0.45%) QA
8 14 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.36%) NIST
10 10 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.30%) PMO
11 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.12%) COBIT
12 4 (0.12%) NCSC
13 3 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.089%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.059%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.059%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,145 (63.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,701 (50.53%) Active Directory
3 1,054 (31.31%) Hyper-V
4 380 (11.29%) VMware ESXi
5 351 (10.43%) vSphere
6 190 (5.64%) Docker
7 124 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
8 114 (3.39%) XenApp
9 98 (2.91%) XenDesktop
10 92 (2.73%) VMware NSX
11 78 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
12 50 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
13 48 (1.43%) VirtualBox
14 43 (1.28%) Firmware
15 31 (0.92%) VMware Server
16 30 (0.89%) KVM
17 29 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
18 26 (0.77%) NFS
19 22 (0.65%) pfSense
19 22 (0.65%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 425 (12.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 321 (9.54%) SCCM
3 281 (8.35%) vCenter Server
4 277 (8.23%) Ansible
5 209 (6.21%) Kubernetes
6 135 (4.01%) Terraform
7 103 (3.06%) Puppet
7 103 (3.06%) WSUS
8 80 (2.38%) SCOM
9 68 (2.02%) Prometheus
10 61 (1.81%) ZABBIX
11 60 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
12 54 (1.60%) FortiGate
13 48 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
14 45 (1.34%) Nagios
15 40 (1.19%) NetBackup
16 36 (1.07%) Grafana
17 35 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
18 33 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 30 (0.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,755 (52.14%) Microsoft
2 647 (19.22%) Cisco
3 517 (15.36%) Citrix
4 468 (13.90%) Veeam
5 240 (7.13%) Red Hat
6 238 (7.07%) HP
7 213 (6.33%) NetApp
8 180 (5.35%) Dell
9 149 (4.43%) Palo Alto
10 127 (3.77%) Google
11 126 (3.74%) Aruba
12 111 (3.30%) Fortinet
13 104 (3.09%) Oracle
14 92 (2.73%) SolarWinds
15 86 (2.55%) IBM
16 83 (2.47%) Juniper
17 81 (2.41%) Meraki
18 79 (2.35%) Commvault
19 73 (2.17%) ServiceNow
20 66 (1.96%) EMC