Hybrid/Remote FlexPod Job Trends

Cisco/NetApp FlexPod
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FlexPod in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FlexPod over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 - 545
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing FlexPod 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.006% - 0.007%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.018% - 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £80,000
UK median annual salary - - £80,000

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

FlexPod falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,660 6,303 10,307
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.74% 40.56% 37.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,540 3,475 8,398
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

FlexPod
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FlexPod and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

FlexPod job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

FlexPod
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FlexPod.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing FlexPod

FlexPod
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Collaboration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware