VMware Job Trends in Central London

VMware
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 70 54
Rank change year-on-year -34 -16 +32
Permanent jobs citing VMware 48 120 145
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.76% 3.79% 4.37%
As % of the Vendors category 5.14% 8.75% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42 95 140
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,475
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,371 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £73,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +8.15% +17.39%
75th Percentile £90,938 £86,875 £77,813
90th Percentile £94,750 £96,250 £87,925
London median annual salary £65,000 £73,690 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.79% +13.37% +8.33%

All Vendors
Central London

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 933 1,372 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 34.19% 43.32% 37.83%
Number of salaries quoted 705 859 1,096
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £49,291
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £84,063
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,250 £101,250
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

VMware job vacancy trend in Central London

VMware
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in Central London over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in Central London

VMware
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 January 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
City of London -35 42 £57,500 -23.33% 11
Southwark +8 1 £102,000 +95.25%
West End of London - 1 £57,500 -
VMware
London

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 19 (39.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 8 (16.67%) Nutanix
5 6 (12.50%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.25%) AWS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.17%) Cohesity
7 2 (4.17%) GCP
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.08%) IaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) Firewall
2 9 (18.75%) VPN
3 7 (14.58%) DNS
4 6 (12.50%) WebEx
5 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.33%) NetScaler
6 4 (8.33%) SAN
6 4 (8.33%) SD-WAN
7 3 (6.25%) WAN
7 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.17%) LAN
8 2 (4.17%) VSAN
9 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.08%) NAS
9 1 (2.08%) Network Security
9 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Law
4 4 (8.33%) Legal
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Advertising
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) IT Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Administrator
5 6 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Desktop Support
6 5 (10.42%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) IT Support
6 5 (10.42%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
7 4 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) CMDB
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (54.17%) Windows
2 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.58%) Windows 10
4 6 (12.50%) Linux
4 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.17%) Windows 7
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.08%) OpenVMS
7 1 (2.08%) VMS
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.83%) Business Continuity
5 9 (18.75%) ITIL
5 9 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (16.67%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.50%) Break/Fix
8 6 (12.50%) Inventory Management
8 6 (12.50%) Runbook
8 6 (12.50%) SIEM
8 6 (12.50%) Trend Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) BCP
9 5 (10.42%) Business Continuity Planning
9 5 (10.42%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (10.42%) Incident Response
9 5 (10.42%) Resilience Testing
9 5 (10.42%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 10 (20.83%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CCNA
5 2 (4.17%) CCNP
5 2 (4.17%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.08%) CCSP
6 1 (2.08%) CISA
6 1 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.08%) MCITP
6 1 (2.08%) MCSA
6 1 (2.08%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (70.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (47.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (12.50%) vSphere
4 5 (10.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.17%) XenDesktop
7 1 (2.08%) Docker
7 1 (2.08%) KVM
7 1 (2.08%) vCloud
7 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (16.67%) Ansible
3 7 (14.58%) Terraform
4 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.25%) SCCM
5 3 (6.25%) WSUS
6 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.08%) vRealize
6 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Cisco
3 6 (12.50%) Apple
3 6 (12.50%) HP
4 5 (10.42%) Citrix
4 5 (10.42%) Commvault
5 4 (8.33%) EMC
5 4 (8.33%) Meraki
5 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.25%) F5
6 3 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.17%) McAfee
7 2 (4.17%) Pure Storage
7 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.08%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.08%) ConnectWise
8 1 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.08%) Zscaler