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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 103 151
Rank change year-on-year -3 +48 +17
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 9 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.44% 0.15% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 8.11% 0.75% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile - £44,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -6.38% +26.13%
75th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,500 £71,500
South East median annual salary £48,000 £75,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -36.00% +42.86% +50.00%

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 111 265 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.37% 20.12% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 57 174 532
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,750 £29,018
25th Percentile £31,375 £50,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +27.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile £57,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £96,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +25.00% -3.16%

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

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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 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for vSphere in Berkshire

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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 10 March 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 £53,750 - 7
Wokingham - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) IaaS
1 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) NAS
2 2 (22.22%) NetScaler
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) JSON Schema
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
1 2 (22.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) SIEM
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Application Security
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
1 2 (22.22%) SCSM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Argo
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Trend Micro
3 3 (33.33%) Veeam
4 2 (22.22%) Citrix
4 2 (22.22%) NetApp
5 1 (11.11%) Pure Storage
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat