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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 93 130
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 -70
Permanent jobs citing VMware 3,435 3,756 4,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.48% 3.62% 3.01%
As % of the Vendors category 9.37% 8.65% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,868 2,837 3,622
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £51,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +6.25% +5.72%
75th Percentile £57,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £44,623
% change year-on-year -5.56% +0.84% +5.00%

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 36,672 43,426 60,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 41.84% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25,141 24,776 33,270
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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 3 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 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 +22 3,147 £46,000 -9.80% 681
UK excluding London +16 2,689 £42,500 -5.56% 545
Work from Home +14 1,169 £50,000 -7.41% 213
South East +19 682 £45,000 - 147
London +9 669 £62,500 +4.17% 144
North of England +18 590 £42,328 -5.94% 130
Midlands +24 477 £43,227 -9.00% 107
South West +13 416 £49,000 +12.32% 80
East of England +21 304 £37,500 -25.00% 70
West Midlands +21 303 £45,000 - 58
Yorkshire +41 258 £40,000 -11.11% 37
North West -11 242 £42,500 -9.09% 80
East Midlands +21 174 £42,500 -19.05% 49
Scotland -59 144 £47,500 -12.04% 12
North East +29 91 £37,750 -20.53% 15
Wales 0 53 £40,500 +1.25% 8
Northern Ireland +7 17 £40,000 +10.34% 5
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
1 746 (21.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 434 (12.63%) SharePoint
3 148 (4.31%) IIS
4 60 (1.75%) Apache
5 38 (1.11%) Confluence
6 20 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
6 20 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
8 16 (0.47%) nginx
9 14 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
9 14 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
10 10 (0.29%) WordPress
11 9 (0.26%) SAS
12 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.17%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.12%) CloudStack
16 3 (0.087%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 3 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
17 2 (0.058%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 248 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.087%) SPSS
7 2 (0.058%) CATIA
7 2 (0.058%) NASTRAN
7 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.029%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.029%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.12%) Epicor Tropos
1 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.058%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.058%) Eikon
3 2 (0.058%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.029%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.029%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.029%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.029%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.029%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.029%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,720 (50.07%) Azure
2 1,606 (46.75%) Microsoft 365
3 539 (15.69%) AWS
4 411 (11.97%) Entra ID
5 153 (4.45%) GCP
6 148 (4.31%) OneDrive
7 135 (3.93%) SaaS
8 130 (3.78%) IaaS
9 83 (2.42%) PaaS
10 77 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
11 68 (1.98%) Nutanix
12 65 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
13 62 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 56 (1.63%) OpenShift
15 43 (1.25%) Power Platform
16 36 (1.05%) Google Workspace
17 33 (0.96%) Mimecast
18 26 (0.76%) OCI
19 23 (0.67%) Power Automate
20 21 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1,125 (32.75%) Firewall
2 693 (20.17%) DNS
3 588 (17.12%) WAN
4 560 (16.30%) DHCP
5 505 (14.70%) SAN
6 479 (13.94%) LAN
7 444 (12.93%) VPN
8 346 (10.07%) TCP/IP
9 222 (6.46%) VLAN
10 200 (5.82%) Wireless
11 195 (5.68%) Wi-Fi
12 174 (5.07%) NAS
13 159 (4.63%) Internet
14 136 (3.96%) VoIP
15 115 (3.35%) SD-WAN
16 95 (2.77%) WLAN
17 87 (2.53%) SNMP
18 84 (2.45%) Remote Desktop
19 81 (2.36%) Network Security
20 70 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 78 (2.27%) MySQL
3 65 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 65 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 39 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 26 (0.76%) Power BI
8 25 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 17 (0.49%) Big Data
11 13 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.29%) Ingres
13 9 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.23%) DB2
14 8 (0.23%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.17%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.17%) Redis
16 4 (0.12%) Metabase
16 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 85 (2.47%) JIRA
2 69 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 34 (0.99%) Git
3 34 (0.99%) GitLab
4 25 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 13 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 10 (0.29%) Trac
7 9 (0.26%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.26%) MSI
8 8 (0.23%) Robot Framework
8 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.20%) Snyk
10 6 (0.17%) Selenium
11 5 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.12%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.12%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
12 4 (0.12%) Postman
12 4 (0.12%) Subversion
12 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 921 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 461 (13.42%) Finance
3 285 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (3.35%) Public Sector
5 105 (3.06%) Law
6 100 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 98 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 90 (2.62%) Aerospace
8 90 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 89 (2.59%) Legal
10 85 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 72 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 70 (2.04%) Retail
13 60 (1.75%) Banking
14 30 (0.87%) Marketing
15 29 (0.84%) Advertising
16 25 (0.73%) Games
17 22 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 865 (25.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 542 (15.78%) Senior
3 464 (13.51%) Support Engineer
4 410 (11.94%) IT Engineer
5 340 (9.90%) IT Support
6 254 (7.39%) Analyst
7 235 (6.84%) Systems Engineer
8 199 (5.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 198 (5.76%) IT Support Engineer
10 189 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support
11 172 (5.01%) 3rd Line Support
12 170 (4.95%) Lead
13 166 (4.83%) Network Engineer
14 160 (4.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 152 (4.43%) Administrator
16 147 (4.28%) Consultant
17 130 (3.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 122 (3.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 108 (3.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
20 106 (3.09%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (2.01%) YAML
2 59 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
3 44 (1.28%) ARM Templates
4 37 (1.08%) JSON
5 32 (0.93%) REST
6 31 (0.90%) .NET
7 25 (0.73%) HTML
7 25 (0.73%) WebRTC
8 18 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (0.52%) Web Services
9 15 (0.44%) LAMP
10 14 (0.41%) EDI
11 13 (0.38%) LDAP
12 10 (0.29%) XML
13 8 (0.23%) WebSphere MQ
14 5 (0.15%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.15%) CSS
14 5 (0.15%) jQuery
14 5 (0.15%) Keycloak
14 5 (0.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 499 (14.53%) Data Centre
2 183 (5.33%) Replication
3 172 (5.01%) Public Cloud
4 163 (4.75%) Clustering
5 143 (4.16%) Management Information System
6 141 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
7 123 (3.58%) Driving Licence
8 88 (2.56%) PKI
9 70 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 54 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 36 (1.05%) CCTV
11 36 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
12 35 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 34 (0.99%) Client/Server
13 34 (0.99%) IoT
14 32 (0.93%) PMI
15 31 (0.90%) Security Posture
16 26 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
16 26 (0.76%) Fat Client
16 26 (0.76%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2,356 (68.59%) Windows
2 1,561 (45.44%) Windows Server
3 889 (25.88%) Linux
4 467 (13.60%) Windows 10
5 315 (9.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 274 (7.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 256 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 133 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 116 (3.38%) Windows 7
10 104 (3.03%) Unix
11 87 (2.53%) Mac OS
12 84 (2.45%) Windows Server 2008
13 80 (2.33%) Ubuntu
14 75 (2.18%) CentOS
15 58 (1.69%) Windows 8
16 55 (1.60%) Data ONTAP
17 42 (1.22%) Apple iOS
18 41 (1.19%) Android
18 41 (1.19%) VMS
19 37 (1.08%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,017 (29.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 724 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
3 637 (18.54%) ITIL
4 360 (10.48%) Customer Service
4 360 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
5 285 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 281 (8.18%) Project Management
7 258 (7.51%) DevOps
8 250 (7.28%) Mentoring
9 211 (6.14%) Agile
10 206 (6.00%) Migration
11 202 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 172 (5.01%) Service Delivery
13 171 (4.98%) Change Management
14 170 (4.95%) Project Delivery
15 166 (4.83%) Actionable Insight
16 146 (4.25%) High Availability
17 144 (4.19%) Incident Management
18 130 (3.78%) Roadmaps
19 123 (3.58%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 706 (20.55%) PowerShell
2 413 (12.02%) SQL
3 289 (8.41%) Python
4 201 (5.85%) Bash
5 91 (2.65%) Java
6 50 (1.46%) C#
7 31 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 28 (0.82%) Perl
9 23 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 14 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 14 (0.41%) VB
10 14 (0.41%) VBScript
11 10 (0.29%) ActionScript
11 10 (0.29%) RPG
12 8 (0.23%) Go
12 8 (0.23%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.17%) PHP
13 6 (0.17%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.15%) Ruby
14 5 (0.15%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 583 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 448 (13.04%) Degree
3 316 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 282 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 273 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
6 244 (7.10%) DV Cleared
7 225 (6.55%) CCNA
8 146 (4.25%) MCSE
9 122 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 92 (2.68%) CCNP
11 81 (2.36%) Azure Certification
12 75 (2.18%) MCSA
13 55 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
14 41 (1.19%) MCP
15 37 (1.08%) A+ Certification
15 37 (1.08%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.99%) AWS Certification
17 33 (0.96%) PMI Certification
18 28 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
18 28 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (6.00%) SLA
2 82 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 37 (1.08%) GDPR
5 19 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.47%) QA
7 16 (0.47%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.32%) PMO
10 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.20%) NIST
12 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.12%) NCSC
14 3 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.087%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.058%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.058%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.058%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.029%) GxP
System Software
1 2,220 (64.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1,785 (51.97%) Active Directory
3 1,072 (31.21%) Hyper-V
4 396 (11.53%) VMware ESXi
5 349 (10.16%) vSphere
6 181 (5.27%) Docker
7 129 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
8 96 (2.79%) VMware NSX
9 95 (2.77%) XenApp
10 89 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
11 82 (2.39%) XenDesktop
12 50 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
12 50 (1.46%) VirtualBox
13 47 (1.37%) Firmware
14 32 (0.93%) VMware Server
15 28 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
16 25 (0.73%) KVM
17 24 (0.70%) NFS
18 23 (0.67%) Terminal Services
19 21 (0.61%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 417 (12.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 327 (9.52%) SCCM
3 280 (8.15%) vCenter Server
4 260 (7.57%) Ansible
5 201 (5.85%) Kubernetes
6 130 (3.78%) Terraform
7 108 (3.14%) WSUS
8 95 (2.77%) Puppet
9 78 (2.27%) SCOM
10 63 (1.83%) FortiGate
11 61 (1.78%) Prometheus
12 58 (1.69%) ZABBIX
13 55 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
14 52 (1.51%) Failover Clustering
15 41 (1.19%) Nagios
16 40 (1.16%) NetBackup
17 34 (0.99%) EMC NetWorker
18 33 (0.96%) Grafana
19 31 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
20 29 (0.84%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,800 (52.40%) Microsoft
2 657 (19.13%) Cisco
3 519 (15.11%) Citrix
4 478 (13.92%) Veeam
5 243 (7.07%) HP
6 224 (6.52%) Red Hat
7 216 (6.29%) NetApp
8 165 (4.80%) Dell
9 163 (4.75%) Palo Alto
10 136 (3.96%) Aruba
11 120 (3.49%) Google
12 110 (3.20%) Fortinet
13 104 (3.03%) SolarWinds
14 98 (2.85%) Oracle
15 86 (2.50%) Juniper
16 85 (2.47%) Meraki
17 83 (2.42%) Commvault
18 79 (2.30%) IBM
19 69 (2.01%) ServiceNow
20 68 (1.98%) Sophos