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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 148 222
Rank change year-on-year +17 +74 -101
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2,125 2,449 3,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.13% 2.46% 1.91%
As % of the System Software category 17.73% 15.82% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 1,637 2,199
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,887 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £57,000 £67,070 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,750
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 11,984 15,477 29,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.56% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,447 10,129 15,665
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
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%

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 20 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 20 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 +19 1,937 £45,000 -14.29% 485
UK excluding London +11 1,680 £42,500 -5.56% 392
Work from Home +24 731 £50,000 -9.09% 152
London -11 402 £61,500 -1.60% 113
South East +32 397 £42,500 -10.53% 126
South West +8 325 £49,000 +19.51% 52
North of England -11 325 £40,000 -11.11% 87
Midlands +26 306 £43,227 -9.00% 81
West Midlands +57 193 £45,000 -2.17% 49
East of England +4 176 £37,500 -25.00% 39
North West -17 156 £42,500 -9.57% 54
Yorkshire +8 116 £45,000 +12.50% 27
East Midlands -14 113 £42,500 -19.05% 32
Scotland -42 99 £50,000 +17.65% 9
North East +18 53 £32,500 -36.59% 8
Wales -11 33 £36,476 -18.94% 4
Northern Ireland +10 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
1 495 (23.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 302 (14.21%) SharePoint
3 99 (4.66%) IIS
4 60 (2.82%) Apache
5 17 (0.80%) SharePoint 2010
5 17 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
6 13 (0.61%) Confluence
6 13 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.47%) SAS
8 9 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.38%) nginx
9 8 (0.38%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.19%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.094%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.094%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.094%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.047%) Site Server
Applications
1 201 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.094%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.094%) Eikon
4 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.047%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (50.82%) Azure
2 980 (46.12%) Microsoft 365
3 357 (16.80%) AWS
4 256 (12.05%) Entra ID
5 129 (6.07%) GCP
6 105 (4.94%) SaaS
7 93 (4.38%) OneDrive
8 89 (4.19%) IaaS
9 63 (2.96%) Amazon S3
9 63 (2.96%) Nutanix
10 56 (2.64%) PaaS
11 48 (2.26%) OpenShift
12 42 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
13 35 (1.65%) Google Workspace
14 30 (1.41%) Power Platform
15 26 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (0.99%) Power Automate
17 20 (0.94%) OCI
18 18 (0.85%) Mimecast
18 18 (0.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 765 (36.00%) Firewall
2 481 (22.64%) DNS
3 409 (19.25%) DHCP
4 391 (18.40%) WAN
5 329 (15.48%) SAN
6 326 (15.34%) LAN
7 310 (14.59%) VPN
8 237 (11.15%) TCP/IP
9 165 (7.76%) VLAN
10 145 (6.82%) Internet
11 132 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
12 129 (6.07%) Wireless
13 106 (4.99%) NAS
14 94 (4.42%) VoIP
15 82 (3.86%) SD-WAN
16 77 (3.62%) Remote Desktop
17 71 (3.34%) SNMP
18 66 (3.11%) VSAN
18 66 (3.11%) WLAN
19 62 (2.92%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 64 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (2.64%) MongoDB
4 48 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (1.32%) MySQL
6 15 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (0.71%) Power BI
7 9 (0.42%) Big Data
8 8 (0.38%) DB2
8 8 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.33%) MariaDB
9 7 (0.33%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.24%) InfluxDB
10 5 (0.24%) Redis
11 4 (0.19%) Metabase
12 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
12 3 (0.14%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.32%) JIRA
3 23 (1.08%) GitLab
4 15 (0.71%) Git
4 15 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.47%) MSI
6 8 (0.38%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.28%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 5 (0.24%) InstallShield
8 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
9 4 (0.19%) Postman
9 4 (0.19%) Selenium
9 4 (0.19%) Subversion
9 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 596 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 337 (15.86%) Finance
3 182 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
5 70 (3.29%) Aerospace
6 67 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 65 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (2.78%) Legal
9 55 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 51 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 50 (2.35%) Retail
12 48 (2.26%) Law
12 48 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.93%) Banking
14 25 (1.18%) Games
15 21 (0.99%) Marketing
16 17 (0.80%) Electronics
17 14 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 538 (25.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 334 (15.72%) Senior
3 322 (15.15%) Support Engineer
4 258 (12.14%) IT Engineer
5 241 (11.34%) IT Support
6 142 (6.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 138 (6.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 138 (6.49%) 3rd Line Support
8 135 (6.35%) Analyst
9 131 (6.16%) Systems Engineer
10 125 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 117 (5.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 109 (5.13%) Consultant
13 88 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 86 (4.05%) Lead
15 84 (3.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 82 (3.86%) Administrator
17 81 (3.81%) Architect
17 81 (3.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 71 (3.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.01%) YAML
2 59 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 29 (1.36%) .NET
4 27 (1.27%) ARM Templates
5 21 (0.99%) REST
6 19 (0.89%) WebRTC
7 14 (0.66%) JSON
8 13 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (0.56%) HTML
9 12 (0.56%) LDAP
10 8 (0.38%) WebSphere MQ
11 6 (0.28%) Middleware
11 6 (0.28%) Web Services
11 6 (0.28%) XML
12 5 (0.24%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.24%) CSS
12 5 (0.24%) jQuery
12 5 (0.24%) LAMP
13 4 (0.19%) Gherkin
13 4 (0.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 346 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 140 (6.59%) Replication
3 115 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 104 (4.89%) Public Cloud
5 102 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 98 (4.61%) Clustering
7 75 (3.53%) Driving Licence
8 71 (3.34%) PKI
9 66 (3.11%) Onboarding
10 46 (2.16%) Private Cloud
11 36 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
12 32 (1.51%) CCTV
13 30 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (1.18%) IoT
15 24 (1.13%) Operational Technology
16 22 (1.04%) PMI
17 20 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
17 20 (0.94%) iPad
18 18 (0.85%) SCADA
19 17 (0.80%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1,525 (71.76%) Windows
2 967 (45.51%) Windows Server
3 608 (28.61%) Linux
4 336 (15.81%) Windows 10
5 230 (10.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 201 (9.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 182 (8.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 99 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 98 (4.61%) Windows 7
10 70 (3.29%) Unix
11 62 (2.92%) Ubuntu
12 55 (2.59%) Windows Server 2008
13 54 (2.54%) Data ONTAP
14 51 (2.40%) Mac OS
15 50 (2.35%) Windows 8
16 42 (1.98%) CentOS
17 32 (1.51%) Apple iOS
18 30 (1.41%) Android
19 23 (1.08%) AIX
19 23 (1.08%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (29.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 490 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
3 464 (21.84%) ITIL
4 264 (12.42%) Cybersecurity
5 228 (10.73%) Customer Service
6 223 (10.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 216 (10.16%) Project Management
8 187 (8.80%) Agile
9 180 (8.47%) DevOps
10 136 (6.40%) Mentoring
11 134 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (5.74%) Project Delivery
13 117 (5.51%) Change Management
14 116 (5.46%) Actionable Insight
15 112 (5.27%) Migration
16 108 (5.08%) Infrastructure Management
17 106 (4.99%) Storage Management
18 102 (4.80%) Line Management
19 96 (4.52%) Kalman Filter
20 95 (4.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 431 (20.28%) PowerShell
2 276 (12.99%) SQL
3 205 (9.65%) Python
4 145 (6.82%) Bash
5 59 (2.78%) Java
6 47 (2.21%) C#
7 26 (1.22%) Perl
8 23 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 16 (0.75%) VB
10 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.56%) VBScript
12 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
13 10 (0.47%) RPG
13 10 (0.47%) VB.NET
14 9 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.24%) C++
16 4 (0.19%) C
16 4 (0.19%) Groovy
17 3 (0.14%) R
17 3 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 361 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 312 (14.68%) Degree
3 210 (9.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 188 (8.85%) Cisco Certification
5 184 (8.66%) SC Cleared
6 176 (8.28%) DV Cleared
7 155 (7.29%) CCNA
8 132 (6.21%) MCSE
9 105 (4.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 61 (2.87%) MCSA
11 59 (2.78%) CCNP
12 53 (2.49%) Azure Certification
13 39 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 38 (1.79%) MCP
15 30 (1.41%) DBS Check
16 26 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
16 26 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
17 25 (1.18%) A+ Certification
18 23 (1.08%) PMI Certification
19 21 (0.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.60%) SLA
2 54 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (1.32%) GDPR
4 27 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.47%) PMO
9 8 (0.38%) NIST
10 7 (0.33%) QA
11 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.24%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.094%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.094%) NCSC
15 1 (0.047%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 1 (0.047%) ISO 14001
15 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,154 (54.31%) Active Directory
2 810 (38.12%) Hyper-V
3 249 (11.72%) VMware ESXi
4 243 (11.44%) vSphere
5 147 (6.92%) Docker
6 98 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
7 86 (4.05%) XenApp
8 83 (3.91%) XenDesktop
9 78 (3.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 57 (2.68%) VMware NSX
11 49 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
12 48 (2.26%) VirtualBox
13 36 (1.69%) Firmware
14 24 (1.13%) KVM
14 24 (1.13%) VMware Server
15 20 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
16 15 (0.71%) Terminal Services
17 12 (0.56%) vCloud
18 11 (0.52%) OpenSSH
19 9 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 221 (10.40%) SCCM
2 208 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 202 (9.51%) Ansible
4 199 (9.36%) vCenter Server
5 157 (7.39%) Kubernetes
6 94 (4.42%) Terraform
7 86 (4.05%) WSUS
8 83 (3.91%) Puppet
9 66 (3.11%) SCOM
10 62 (2.92%) Prometheus
11 40 (1.88%) ZABBIX
12 39 (1.84%) FortiGate
13 38 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
14 36 (1.69%) NetBackup
15 31 (1.46%) Nagios
16 29 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
17 26 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
18 25 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 24 (1.13%) SmoothWall
20 20 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2,125 (100.00%) VMware
2 1,154 (54.31%) Microsoft
3 389 (18.31%) Cisco
4 352 (16.56%) Veeam
5 342 (16.09%) Citrix
6 196 (9.22%) HP
7 180 (8.47%) Red Hat
8 156 (7.34%) NetApp
9 125 (5.88%) Dell
10 109 (5.13%) Google
11 97 (4.56%) Palo Alto
12 65 (3.06%) IBM
13 64 (3.01%) Fortinet
14 56 (2.64%) Meraki
14 56 (2.64%) Oracle
14 56 (2.64%) SolarWinds
15 54 (2.54%) SolidFire
16 52 (2.45%) Apple
17 48 (2.26%) EMC
18 46 (2.16%) Juniper