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 22 May 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 86 143
Rank change year-on-year +6 +57 -79
Permanent jobs citing VMware 3,302 3,732 4,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.30% 3.78% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 9.06% 9.00% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 2,707 3,574
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +7.22% +7.05%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,050 £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 36,445 41,455 63,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.42% 42.01% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 24,798 23,712 32,966
10th Percentile £26,700 £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 £45,828 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.34% +5.26% +4.40%

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 22 May 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 22 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 +16 3,027 £45,000 -13.65% 645
UK excluding London +16 2,616 £42,500 -5.56% 531
Work from Home +12 1,112 £50,000 -9.09% 204
South East +11 649 £45,000 - 150
London -12 615 £65,000 +8.33% 128
North of England +13 577 £41,500 -7.78% 129
Midlands +19 459 £43,227 -8.45% 103
South West +13 420 £49,000 +15.29% 73
East of England +17 299 £37,500 -25.00% 60
West Midlands +25 289 £45,000 +0.72% 58
Yorkshire +34 252 £40,000 -7.51% 49
North West -24 231 £42,500 -9.57% 71
East Midlands +7 170 £42,500 -19.05% 45
Scotland -62 139 £47,500 -5.00% 19
North East +25 94 £37,500 -22.68% 11
Wales +3 50 £40,000 -5.88% 9
Northern Ireland -2 16 £40,000 - 3
Channel Islands 0 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
1 698 (21.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 420 (12.72%) SharePoint
3 135 (4.09%) IIS
4 60 (1.82%) Apache
5 31 (0.94%) Confluence
6 19 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
7 17 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
8 15 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2010
8 15 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.39%) nginx
10 10 (0.30%) SAS
11 9 (0.27%) WordPress
12 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.18%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.12%) CloudStack
15 3 (0.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2007
16 2 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 246 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.091%) SPSS
7 2 (0.061%) CATIA
7 2 (0.061%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.061%) Eikon
3 2 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.061%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.030%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.030%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,641 (49.70%) Azure
2 1,526 (46.21%) Microsoft 365
3 523 (15.84%) AWS
4 394 (11.93%) Entra ID
5 156 (4.72%) GCP
6 150 (4.54%) OneDrive
7 128 (3.88%) SaaS
8 115 (3.48%) IaaS
9 71 (2.15%) PaaS
10 70 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 66 (2.00%) Nutanix
12 65 (1.97%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.70%) OpenShift
14 48 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
15 41 (1.24%) Power Platform
16 34 (1.03%) Google Workspace
17 30 (0.91%) Mimecast
18 25 (0.76%) OCI
19 21 (0.64%) Power Automate
20 20 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1,081 (32.74%) Firewall
2 674 (20.41%) DNS
3 566 (17.14%) WAN
4 539 (16.32%) DHCP
5 483 (14.63%) SAN
6 470 (14.23%) LAN
7 415 (12.57%) VPN
8 347 (10.51%) TCP/IP
9 209 (6.33%) VLAN
10 191 (5.78%) Wireless
11 190 (5.75%) Wi-Fi
12 167 (5.06%) NAS
13 158 (4.78%) Internet
14 127 (3.85%) VoIP
15 114 (3.45%) SD-WAN
16 90 (2.73%) WLAN
17 83 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
17 83 (2.51%) SNMP
18 75 (2.27%) Network Security
19 71 (2.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (10.12%) SQL Server
2 73 (2.21%) MySQL
3 64 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
4 63 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (1.73%) MongoDB
6 35 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 22 (0.67%) Power BI
10 19 (0.58%) RDBMS
11 14 (0.42%) Big Data
12 12 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.30%) Ingres
14 9 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.24%) DB2
16 7 (0.21%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.15%) InfluxDB
17 5 (0.15%) Redis
18 4 (0.12%) Metabase
18 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 79 (2.39%) JIRA
2 72 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 37 (1.12%) Git
4 35 (1.06%) GitLab
5 21 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.30%) MSI
7 10 (0.30%) Trac
8 9 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.21%) Snyk
11 6 (0.18%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.15%) AdminStudio
12 5 (0.15%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
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
1 898 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 453 (13.72%) Finance
3 271 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (3.30%) Aerospace
5 105 (3.18%) Public Sector
6 102 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 94 (2.85%) Law
8 87 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 86 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 85 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 84 (2.54%) Legal
12 68 (2.06%) Retail
13 67 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
14 56 (1.70%) Banking
15 28 (0.85%) Marketing
16 27 (0.82%) Advertising
17 25 (0.76%) Games
18 22 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.58%) Automotive
20 18 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 832 (25.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 504 (15.26%) Senior
3 455 (13.78%) Support Engineer
4 399 (12.08%) IT Engineer
5 343 (10.39%) IT Support
6 241 (7.30%) Analyst
7 220 (6.66%) Systems Engineer
8 200 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
9 188 (5.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 177 (5.36%) 2nd Line Support
11 169 (5.12%) 3rd Line Support
12 166 (5.03%) Lead
13 164 (4.97%) Network Engineer
14 159 (4.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 156 (4.72%) Administrator
16 143 (4.33%) Consultant
17 128 (3.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 115 (3.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 110 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
20 103 (3.12%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (1.97%) YAML
2 59 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
3 32 (0.97%) .NET
4 31 (0.94%) ARM Templates
5 26 (0.79%) HTML
6 25 (0.76%) REST
7 24 (0.73%) JSON
8 19 (0.58%) WebRTC
9 18 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (0.55%) Web Services
10 14 (0.42%) LAMP
11 13 (0.39%) LDAP
12 11 (0.33%) EDI
13 10 (0.30%) XML
14 8 (0.24%) WebSphere MQ
15 6 (0.18%) Keycloak
15 6 (0.18%) Middleware
16 5 (0.15%) 802.1X
16 5 (0.15%) ASP.NET
16 5 (0.15%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 486 (14.72%) Data Centre
2 175 (5.30%) Replication
3 160 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 148 (4.48%) Clustering
5 137 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
6 135 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 123 (3.73%) Driving Licence
8 78 (2.36%) PKI
9 66 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 49 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 37 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 36 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
13 34 (1.03%) CCTV
13 34 (1.03%) IoT
14 33 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (0.97%) PMI
16 30 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (0.73%) Operational Technology
19 23 (0.70%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2,255 (68.29%) Windows
2 1,488 (45.06%) Windows Server
3 888 (26.89%) Linux
4 445 (13.48%) Windows 10
5 301 (9.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 259 (7.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 249 (7.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 131 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 112 (3.39%) Windows 7
10 106 (3.21%) Unix
11 81 (2.45%) Mac OS
12 77 (2.33%) Ubuntu
13 76 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
14 75 (2.27%) CentOS
15 55 (1.67%) Data ONTAP
16 52 (1.57%) Windows 8
17 41 (1.24%) Apple iOS
18 40 (1.21%) Android
19 38 (1.15%) Debian
19 38 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (29.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 685 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
3 617 (18.69%) ITIL
4 353 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
5 349 (10.57%) Customer Service
6 278 (8.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 275 (8.33%) Project Management
8 243 (7.36%) DevOps
9 238 (7.21%) Mentoring
10 227 (6.87%) Agile
11 194 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 192 (5.81%) Migration
13 163 (4.94%) Change Management
14 161 (4.88%) Service Delivery
15 160 (4.85%) Project Delivery
16 159 (4.82%) Actionable Insight
17 136 (4.12%) Incident Management
18 133 (4.03%) Roadmaps
19 125 (3.79%) High Availability
20 124 (3.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 642 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 380 (11.51%) SQL
3 273 (8.27%) Python
4 193 (5.84%) Bash
5 85 (2.57%) Java
6 52 (1.57%) C#
7 32 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 30 (0.91%) Perl
9 26 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 16 (0.48%) VB
11 13 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.39%) VBScript
12 11 (0.33%) ActionScript
13 10 (0.30%) RPG
13 10 (0.30%) VB.NET
14 8 (0.24%) Go
14 8 (0.24%) PHP
15 7 (0.21%) Ruby
16 6 (0.18%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 558 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 434 (13.14%) Degree
3 300 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 277 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 258 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
6 248 (7.51%) DV Cleared
7 215 (6.51%) CCNA
8 144 (4.36%) MCSE
9 116 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 85 (2.57%) CCNP
11 77 (2.33%) Azure Certification
12 71 (2.15%) MCSA
13 48 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 39 (1.18%) MCP
15 35 (1.06%) A+ Certification
16 34 (1.03%) AWS Certification
16 34 (1.03%) DBS Check
17 33 (1.00%) PMI Certification
18 29 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
19 26 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.75%) SLA
2 79 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (1.12%) 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 11 (0.33%) PMO
10 10 (0.30%) NIST
11 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.12%) NCSC
14 3 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.091%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.061%) COBIT
15 2 (0.061%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.061%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.030%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 2,114 (64.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,690 (51.18%) Active Directory
3 1,038 (31.44%) Hyper-V
4 384 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
5 336 (10.18%) vSphere
6 182 (5.51%) Docker
7 124 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
8 103 (3.12%) XenApp
9 91 (2.76%) VMware NSX
10 89 (2.70%) XenDesktop
11 78 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 48 (1.45%) VirtualBox
13 47 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
14 43 (1.30%) Firmware
15 30 (0.91%) VMware Server
16 29 (0.88%) KVM
17 28 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
18 25 (0.76%) NFS
19 21 (0.64%) pfSense
19 21 (0.64%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 409 (12.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 313 (9.48%) SCCM
3 278 (8.42%) vCenter Server
4 261 (7.90%) Ansible
5 202 (6.12%) Kubernetes
6 124 (3.76%) Terraform
7 102 (3.09%) WSUS
8 96 (2.91%) Puppet
9 80 (2.42%) SCOM
10 64 (1.94%) Prometheus
11 59 (1.79%) ZABBIX
12 58 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
13 55 (1.67%) FortiGate
14 47 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
15 40 (1.21%) Nagios
15 40 (1.21%) NetBackup
16 35 (1.06%) Grafana
17 33 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
18 30 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,731 (52.42%) Microsoft
2 639 (19.35%) Cisco
3 498 (15.08%) Citrix
4 465 (14.08%) Veeam
5 237 (7.18%) HP
6 228 (6.90%) Red Hat
7 212 (6.42%) NetApp
8 169 (5.12%) Dell
9 151 (4.57%) Palo Alto
10 125 (3.79%) Aruba
11 123 (3.73%) Google
12 109 (3.30%) Fortinet
13 98 (2.97%) Oracle
14 89 (2.70%) SolarWinds
15 82 (2.48%) IBM
15 82 (2.48%) Juniper
16 81 (2.45%) Commvault
17 77 (2.33%) Meraki
18 71 (2.15%) ServiceNow
19 63 (1.91%) EMC