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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 149 216
Rank change year-on-year +21 +67 -98
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2,220 2,452 3,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.25% 2.36% 1.93%
As % of the System Software category 18.17% 15.44% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,869 1,703 2,167
10th Percentile £28,700 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £79,000
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 12,221 15,884 28,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 15.31% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,686 10,479 15,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,954 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £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 3 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 3 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 +28 2,024 £45,000 -13.50% 466
UK excluding London +19 1,736 £42,500 -5.56% 370
Work from Home +31 775 £50,000 -9.09% 148
London +18 439 £60,918 -2.53% 94
South East +27 428 £42,500 -10.53% 99
North of England -1 333 £40,000 -11.11% 84
South West +9 322 £49,000 +15.98% 62
Midlands +39 319 £43,227 -9.00% 73
West Midlands +51 203 £45,000 -1.10% 43
East of England +8 178 £37,500 -25.00% 50
North West -8 160 £42,500 -5.56% 56
Yorkshire +14 121 £41,250 +3.13% 20
East Midlands +6 116 £42,500 -19.05% 30
Scotland -30 101 £50,000 -5.66% 4
North East +14 52 £34,500 -31.00% 10
Wales -11 36 £36,988 -17.81% 5
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
1 525 (23.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 315 (14.19%) SharePoint
3 105 (4.73%) IIS
4 60 (2.70%) Apache
5 15 (0.68%) Confluence
6 14 (0.63%) SharePoint 2010
6 14 (0.63%) SharePoint 2013
7 13 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
9 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 9 (0.41%) SAS
10 8 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.18%) CloudStack
13 3 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.090%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.045%) Site Server
Applications
1 200 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.14%) SPSS
5 2 (0.090%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.090%) Eikon
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.045%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,132 (50.99%) Azure
2 1,035 (46.62%) Microsoft 365
3 368 (16.58%) AWS
4 268 (12.07%) Entra ID
5 127 (5.72%) GCP
6 110 (4.95%) SaaS
7 101 (4.55%) IaaS
8 92 (4.14%) OneDrive
9 63 (2.84%) PaaS
10 62 (2.79%) Nutanix
11 61 (2.75%) Amazon S3
12 49 (2.21%) OpenShift
13 43 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (1.62%) Google Workspace
15 33 (1.49%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.04%) Mimecast
16 23 (1.04%) Power Automate
17 21 (0.95%) OCI
17 21 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 788 (35.50%) Firewall
2 500 (22.52%) DNS
3 426 (19.19%) DHCP
4 401 (18.06%) WAN
5 346 (15.59%) SAN
6 331 (14.91%) LAN
7 328 (14.77%) VPN
8 241 (10.86%) TCP/IP
9 170 (7.66%) VLAN
10 146 (6.58%) Internet
11 137 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
12 135 (6.08%) Wireless
13 114 (5.14%) NAS
14 102 (4.59%) VoIP
15 80 (3.60%) SD-WAN
16 77 (3.47%) Remote Desktop
17 74 (3.33%) SNMP
18 69 (3.11%) WLAN
19 65 (2.93%) VSAN
20 63 (2.84%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 65 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
3 57 (2.57%) MongoDB
4 51 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 31 (1.40%) MySQL
6 18 (0.81%) Power BI
7 16 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.41%) Big Data
9 8 (0.36%) DB2
9 8 (0.36%) MariaDB
9 8 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.32%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.27%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.27%) Redis
12 4 (0.18%) Metabase
12 4 (0.18%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.31%) JIRA
3 20 (0.90%) GitLab
4 15 (0.68%) Git
5 13 (0.59%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.41%) MSI
7 8 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 6 (0.27%) Selenium
8 6 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.18%) AdminStudio
10 4 (0.18%) InstallShield
10 4 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (0.18%) Postman
10 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.14%) JUnit
11 3 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 613 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 346 (15.59%) Finance
3 190 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
5 69 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 61 (2.75%) Aerospace
8 60 (2.70%) Legal
9 58 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 52 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
11 51 (2.30%) Retail
12 48 (2.16%) Law
12 48 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 42 (1.89%) Banking
14 25 (1.13%) Games
15 23 (1.04%) Marketing
16 17 (0.77%) Electronics
17 14 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.59%) Billing
19 12 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 568 (25.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 359 (16.17%) Senior
3 327 (14.73%) Support Engineer
4 267 (12.03%) IT Engineer
5 241 (10.86%) IT Support
6 150 (6.76%) Analyst
7 146 (6.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 141 (6.35%) IT Support Engineer
9 140 (6.31%) 3rd Line Support
10 138 (6.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 138 (6.22%) Systems Engineer
11 118 (5.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 112 (5.05%) Consultant
13 91 (4.10%) Lead
14 88 (3.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 88 (3.96%) Architect
15 87 (3.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 85 (3.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 78 (3.51%) Administrator
18 74 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (3.06%) YAML
2 59 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
3 32 (1.44%) ARM Templates
4 28 (1.26%) REST
5 27 (1.22%) .NET
6 25 (1.13%) WebRTC
7 21 (0.95%) JSON
8 13 (0.59%) HTML
9 12 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (0.54%) LDAP
10 8 (0.36%) WebSphere MQ
11 7 (0.32%) Web Services
12 6 (0.27%) XML
13 5 (0.23%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.23%) CSS
13 5 (0.23%) jQuery
13 5 (0.23%) LAMP
13 5 (0.23%) Middleware
14 4 (0.18%) Gherkin
14 4 (0.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 354 (15.95%) Data Centre
2 142 (6.40%) Replication
3 119 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 115 (5.18%) Public Cloud
5 108 (4.86%) Clustering
6 104 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
7 80 (3.60%) PKI
8 74 (3.33%) Driving Licence
9 70 (3.15%) Onboarding
10 51 (2.30%) Private Cloud
11 36 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
12 32 (1.44%) CCTV
13 30 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.17%) IoT
15 24 (1.08%) Operational Technology
16 22 (0.99%) PMI
17 20 (0.90%) iPad
18 19 (0.86%) Blackberry
18 19 (0.86%) BYOD
19 18 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,610 (72.52%) Windows
2 1,033 (46.53%) Windows Server
3 617 (27.79%) Linux
4 351 (15.81%) Windows 10
5 242 (10.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 216 (9.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 192 (8.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 102 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 100 (4.50%) Windows 7
10 70 (3.15%) Unix
11 60 (2.70%) Ubuntu
12 59 (2.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 56 (2.52%) Windows 8
14 54 (2.43%) Data ONTAP
15 52 (2.34%) Mac OS
16 42 (1.89%) CentOS
17 31 (1.40%) Apple iOS
18 29 (1.31%) Android
19 23 (1.04%) AIX
19 23 (1.04%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (29.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 514 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
3 473 (21.31%) ITIL
4 270 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
5 235 (10.59%) Customer Service
6 233 (10.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 218 (9.82%) Project Management
8 188 (8.47%) DevOps
9 183 (8.24%) Agile
10 144 (6.49%) Mentoring
11 143 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (5.72%) Project Delivery
13 126 (5.68%) Change Management
14 123 (5.54%) Actionable Insight
15 120 (5.41%) Migration
16 110 (4.95%) High Availability
16 110 (4.95%) Storage Management
17 107 (4.82%) Infrastructure Management
18 105 (4.73%) Line Management
19 102 (4.59%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 482 (21.71%) PowerShell
2 300 (13.51%) SQL
3 220 (9.91%) Python
4 147 (6.62%) Bash
5 60 (2.70%) Java
6 45 (2.03%) C#
7 24 (1.08%) Perl
8 23 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 14 (0.63%) VB
9 14 (0.63%) VBScript
10 13 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.45%) ActionScript
11 10 (0.45%) RPG
12 9 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.18%) C
14 4 (0.18%) Groovy
15 3 (0.14%) C++
15 3 (0.14%) R
16 2 (0.090%) PHP
Qualifications
1 386 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 317 (14.28%) Degree
3 212 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 208 (9.37%) SC Cleared
5 195 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
6 179 (8.06%) DV Cleared
7 158 (7.12%) CCNA
8 131 (5.90%) MCSE
9 107 (4.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 65 (2.93%) MCSA
11 63 (2.84%) CCNP
12 52 (2.34%) Azure Certification
13 43 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
14 37 (1.67%) MCP
15 35 (1.58%) DBS Check
16 28 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
17 27 (1.22%) A+ Certification
18 25 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (1.04%) PMI Certification
20 21 (0.95%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.86%) SLA
2 55 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (1.17%) GDPR
5 17 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 13 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.45%) PMO
10 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.32%) NIST
10 7 (0.32%) QA
11 5 (0.23%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.090%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.090%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.090%) NCSC
14 1 (0.045%) GxP
14 1 (0.045%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1,216 (54.77%) Active Directory
2 839 (37.79%) Hyper-V
3 261 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 252 (11.35%) vSphere
5 147 (6.62%) Docker
6 101 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
7 89 (4.01%) Virtual Desktop
8 81 (3.65%) XenApp
9 79 (3.56%) XenDesktop
10 58 (2.61%) VMware NSX
11 50 (2.25%) Virtual Servers
11 50 (2.25%) VirtualBox
12 38 (1.71%) Firmware
13 27 (1.22%) VMware Server
14 22 (0.99%) KVM
15 20 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
16 15 (0.68%) Terminal Services
17 14 (0.63%) vCloud
18 10 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 10 (0.45%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 229 (10.32%) SCCM
2 217 (9.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 204 (9.19%) vCenter Server
4 203 (9.14%) Ansible
5 156 (7.03%) Kubernetes
6 102 (4.59%) Terraform
7 92 (4.14%) WSUS
8 85 (3.83%) Puppet
9 66 (2.97%) SCOM
10 61 (2.75%) Prometheus
11 44 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
11 44 (1.98%) FortiGate
12 40 (1.80%) ZABBIX
13 36 (1.62%) NetBackup
14 32 (1.44%) Nagios
15 28 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 28 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
16 27 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
17 26 (1.17%) SmoothWall
18 22 (0.99%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2,220 (100.00%) VMware
2 1,198 (53.96%) Microsoft
3 406 (18.29%) Cisco
4 361 (16.26%) Veeam
5 352 (15.86%) Citrix
6 197 (8.87%) HP
7 176 (7.93%) Red Hat
8 158 (7.12%) NetApp
9 123 (5.54%) Dell
10 107 (4.82%) Google
11 99 (4.46%) Palo Alto
12 66 (2.97%) SolarWinds
13 65 (2.93%) Fortinet
14 63 (2.84%) Meraki
15 62 (2.79%) IBM
16 56 (2.52%) Oracle
17 54 (2.43%) Aruba
17 54 (2.43%) SolidFire
18 53 (2.39%) Apple
19 50 (2.25%) Sophos