Hybrid/Remote VMware Infrastructure Job Trends

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 240 159
Rank change year-on-year -3 -81 -19
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 192 211 685
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.36% 1.97%
As % of the System Software category 11.96% 9.51% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 125 179 589
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £57,750 £57,854
90th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -13.46%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,605 2,219 4,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.97% 14.34% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,163 1,329 3,230
10th Percentile £32,100 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,410 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,881
% change year-on-year - +5.25% -9.31%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

VMware Infrastructure salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

VMware Infrastructure
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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (19.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.60%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) Site Server
Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (60.94%) Azure
2 74 (38.54%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (22.40%) Entra ID
4 38 (19.79%) AWS
5 29 (15.10%) Nutanix
6 15 (7.81%) GitHub
7 14 (7.29%) IaaS
8 12 (6.25%) PaaS
9 8 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Functions
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (4.17%) OneDrive
9 8 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.17%) Serverless
10 7 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (3.65%) GCP
10 7 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 67 (34.90%) Firewall
2 46 (23.96%) DNS
3 43 (22.40%) VPN
4 40 (20.83%) DHCP
5 33 (17.19%) WAN
6 28 (14.58%) TCP/IP
7 22 (11.46%) VSAN
8 21 (10.94%) LAN
9 12 (6.25%) VLAN
10 10 (5.21%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (4.17%) SD-WAN
11 8 (4.17%) Unified Communications
12 7 (3.65%) BGP
12 7 (3.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (3.65%) Network Security
13 6 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (3.13%) iSCSI
13 6 (3.13%) SAN
13 6 (3.13%) WebEx
14 5 (2.60%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (4.17%) Power BI
3 6 (3.13%) MySQL
4 5 (2.60%) Tableau
5 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.33%) Git
2 6 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.52%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 67 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.67%) Finance
3 21 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.81%) Retail
5 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.25%) Law
6 11 (5.73%) Marketing
7 10 (5.21%) Banking
7 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.21%) Legal
7 10 (5.21%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (25.52%) Senior
2 43 (22.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (19.79%) Consultant
4 25 (13.02%) Support Engineer
5 24 (12.50%) IT Engineer
6 23 (11.98%) Architect
7 20 (10.42%) IT Support
7 20 (10.42%) IT Support Engineer
7 20 (10.42%) Senior Consultant
8 19 (9.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (9.90%) VMware Consultant
9 18 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (9.38%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 18 (9.38%) Technical Consultant
9 18 (9.38%) VMware Architect
10 17 (8.85%) Analyst
10 17 (8.85%) Cloud Consultant
10 17 (8.85%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (7.81%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 15 (7.81%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) XMPP
2 5 (2.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 61 (31.77%) Data Centre
2 21 (10.94%) Enterprise Storage
2 21 (10.94%) Replication
3 20 (10.42%) Public Cloud
4 17 (8.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (8.33%) Security Posture
6 14 (7.29%) Private Cloud
7 11 (5.73%) iSeries
8 10 (5.21%) Driving Licence
9 9 (4.69%) CMDB
9 9 (4.69%) PKI
10 8 (4.17%) Podcast
11 7 (3.65%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (3.13%) FlexPod
12 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
12 6 (3.13%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (2.60%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (2.08%) Web Conferencing
15 3 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 111 (57.81%) Windows
2 72 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 58 (30.21%) Linux
4 13 (6.77%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.21%) Unix
6 9 (4.69%) VMS
7 7 (3.65%) Mac OS
7 7 (3.65%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.13%) Apple iOS
9 5 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.04%) CentOS
10 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.52%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.52%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.52%) Solaris
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.98%) Disaster Recovery
2 60 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (22.40%) Presales
5 31 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (14.06%) DevOps
6 27 (14.06%) Mentoring
7 25 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 18 (9.38%) Business Continuity
10 18 (9.38%) ITIL
11 17 (8.85%) Project Delivery
11 17 (8.85%) Service Delivery
11 17 (8.85%) Task Automation
12 16 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 16 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
12 16 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 26 (13.54%) Python
3 17 (8.85%) SQL
4 15 (7.81%) Bash
5 9 (4.69%) Bicep
6 8 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (2.60%) VB
7 5 (2.60%) VBA
7 5 (2.60%) VBScript
8 1 (0.52%) Perl
8 1 (0.52%) Rust
8 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (17.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 29 (15.10%) VCAP
3 25 (13.02%) Azure Certification
4 24 (12.50%) Degree
4 24 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (10.94%) VCDX
6 16 (8.33%) Security Cleared
7 15 (7.81%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.65%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.13%) CCNP
9 6 (3.13%) Dell Certification
10 5 (2.60%) HNC
10 5 (2.60%) HND
10 5 (2.60%) RHCSA
11 4 (2.08%) CCNA
11 4 (2.08%) LPIC
11 4 (2.08%) MCSE
12 3 (1.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.81%) PMO
2 14 (7.29%) SLA
3 6 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.08%) NIST
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (38.02%) Active Directory
2 65 (33.85%) Hyper-V
3 63 (32.81%) vSphere
4 36 (18.75%) VMware NSX
5 16 (8.33%) vCloud
6 13 (6.77%) Firmware
7 10 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.65%) KVM
8 7 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.56%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.56%) Docker
10 3 (1.56%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.04%) Xen
12 1 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.52%) QEMU
12 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (19.27%) Terraform
2 30 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (13.54%) Ansible
4 19 (9.90%) Kubernetes
5 14 (7.29%) vCenter Server
6 9 (4.69%) Proxmox
6 9 (4.69%) SCCM
7 6 (3.13%) Avamar
7 6 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (3.13%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (3.13%) Grafana
7 6 (3.13%) Packer
7 6 (3.13%) VxRail
8 4 (2.08%) Graylog
8 4 (2.08%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.04%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 192 (100.00%) VMware
2 121 (63.02%) Microsoft
3 37 (19.27%) Cisco
4 36 (18.75%) Veeam
5 30 (15.63%) NetApp
6 25 (13.02%) Broadcom
6 25 (13.02%) Dell
7 23 (11.98%) Nimble Storage
8 20 (10.42%) EMC
9 16 (8.33%) IBM
9 16 (8.33%) Palo Alto
10 15 (7.81%) Fortinet
11 13 (6.77%) Red Hat
12 12 (6.25%) Citrix
12 12 (6.25%) Commvault
12 12 (6.25%) HP
13 11 (5.73%) Meraki
13 11 (5.73%) ServiceNow
14 10 (5.21%) Sophos
14 10 (5.21%) Splunk