vSphere Job Trends in Berkshire

VMware vSphere
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 147 140
Rank change year-on-year +46 -7 -9
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 28 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.84% 0.049% 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 17.50% 0.59% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £62,500 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.32%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £56,250
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £49,250
% change year-on-year +17.39% +16.75% +15.88%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 160 170 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.82% 8.40% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 114 88 231
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.95% +4.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,563 £81,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £83,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% +5.00%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing vSphere relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

vSphere job vacancy trend in Berkshire

vSphere
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire over the 6 months to 7 September 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in Berkshire

vSphere
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 2026. 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
Bracknell +8 23 £67,500 - 1
Reading - 5 £85,000 - 6
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 23 (82.14%) DNS
2 21 (75.00%) Firewall
3 6 (21.43%) NAS
3 6 (21.43%) NetScaler
3 6 (21.43%) SAN
3 6 (21.43%) Wireshark
4 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
General
1 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Applications Architect
1 18 (64.29%) Architect
2 13 (46.43%) Security Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Design Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (75.00%) Regular Expression
2 19 (67.86%) XMPP
3 17 (60.71%) LDAP
4 5 (17.86%) JSON
4 5 (17.86%) JSON Schema
4 5 (17.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (96.43%) Windows
2 25 (89.29%) Linux
2 25 (89.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (85.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) SIEM
1 19 (67.86%) Validation
2 16 (57.14%) Antivirus Management
2 16 (57.14%) Pattern Matching
2 16 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (50.00%) Application Security
4 13 (46.43%) Architectural Design
5 12 (42.86%) Resource Management
5 12 (42.86%) Server Management
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) Data Integration
8 3 (10.71%) Security Patching
9 1 (3.57%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (3.57%) Customer Requirements
9 1 (3.57%) Data Science
9 1 (3.57%) DevOps
9 1 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (89.29%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 26 (92.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) SCCM
1 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (67.86%) Red Hat
3 15 (53.57%) McAfee
4 6 (21.43%) Citrix
4 6 (21.43%) NetApp