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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 234 154
Rank change year-on-year -12 -80 +4
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 173 218 669
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.50% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 11.59% 9.75% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 113 187 599
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £37,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £74,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

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 1,493 2,235 4,135
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.83% 15.40% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,352 3,328
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,950 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 27 May 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 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (10.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.89%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (53.76%) Azure
2 66 (38.15%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (21.39%) AWS
4 34 (19.65%) Entra ID
5 31 (17.92%) Nutanix
6 11 (6.36%) OneDrive
7 8 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (4.05%) GitHub
8 7 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.47%) GCP
10 5 (2.89%) IaaS
11 4 (2.31%) Cloudflare
11 4 (2.31%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.31%) Mimecast
11 4 (2.31%) PaaS
12 3 (1.73%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.16%) Datadog
13 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 59 (34.10%) Firewall
2 36 (20.81%) DNS
3 34 (19.65%) WAN
4 29 (16.76%) DHCP
5 25 (14.45%) TCP/IP
5 25 (14.45%) VPN
6 19 (10.98%) LAN
6 19 (10.98%) VSAN
7 13 (7.51%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (6.36%) SD-WAN
8 11 (6.36%) VLAN
9 10 (5.78%) BGP
10 9 (5.20%) Unified Communications
11 8 (4.62%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (3.47%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (3.47%) iSCSI
12 6 (3.47%) WebEx
13 5 (2.89%) MPLS
13 5 (2.89%) Network Security
13 5 (2.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.62%) Power BI
2 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.47%) MySQL
4 5 (2.89%) Tableau
5 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.58%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.62%) Git
2 6 (3.47%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 52 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.70%) Finance
3 22 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.25%) Retail
5 13 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.94%) Banking
6 12 (6.94%) Marketing
6 12 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.36%) Legal
8 9 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Aviation
10 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.73%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (28.90%) Senior
2 43 (24.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (23.12%) Consultant
4 21 (12.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (12.14%) VMware Consultant
5 20 (11.56%) Architect
5 20 (11.56%) Senior Consultant
6 18 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (10.40%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 18 (10.40%) IT Engineer
6 18 (10.40%) Technical Consultant
7 17 (9.83%) Cloud Consultant
7 17 (9.83%) Support Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) IT Support
8 16 (9.25%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (8.67%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 15 (8.67%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 15 (8.67%) VMware Architect
9 15 (8.67%) VMware Technical Consultant
10 13 (7.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.47%) XMPP
2 1 (0.58%) .NET
2 1 (0.58%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (34.10%) Data Centre
2 20 (11.56%) Replication
3 19 (10.98%) Enterprise Storage
4 15 (8.67%) Private Cloud
5 13 (7.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (6.94%) Public Cloud
7 10 (5.78%) iSeries
8 9 (5.20%) CMDB
8 9 (5.20%) PKI
8 9 (5.20%) Security Posture
9 8 (4.62%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (4.05%) Driving Licence
10 7 (4.05%) Onboarding
11 6 (3.47%) FlexPod
11 6 (3.47%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 5 (2.89%) Raspberry Pi
13 4 (2.31%) Clustering
13 4 (2.31%) Web Conferencing
14 3 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (1.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 89 (51.45%) Windows
2 62 (35.84%) Windows Server
3 61 (35.26%) Linux
4 13 (7.51%) Unix
4 13 (7.51%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.20%) Apple iOS
6 7 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (4.05%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.89%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.58%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.58%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.58%) Solaris
9 1 (0.58%) VMS
9 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (35.84%) Disaster Recovery
2 57 (32.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (22.54%) Presales
4 37 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (16.76%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (12.14%) DevOps
10 20 (11.56%) Mentoring
11 17 (9.83%) ITIL
12 16 (9.25%) Customer Engagement
13 15 (8.67%) Project Delivery
13 15 (8.67%) Service Delivery
14 14 (8.09%) Cloud Operations
14 14 (8.09%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (8.09%) Service Management
15 13 (7.51%) CI/CD
15 13 (7.51%) Incident Response
15 13 (7.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.54%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.61%) Python
3 7 (4.05%) Bash
4 5 (2.89%) SQL
4 5 (2.89%) VB
4 5 (2.89%) VBA
4 5 (2.89%) VBScript
5 1 (0.58%) Bicep
5 1 (0.58%) Perl
5 1 (0.58%) Rust
5 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (18.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (16.18%) VCAP
3 24 (13.87%) Degree
4 18 (10.40%) Security Cleared
4 18 (10.40%) VCDX
5 17 (9.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (9.83%) SC Cleared
6 16 (9.25%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.62%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.47%) CCNP
9 6 (3.47%) Dell Certification
10 5 (2.89%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.89%) HNC
10 5 (2.89%) HND
10 5 (2.89%) RHCSA
11 4 (2.31%) CCNA
11 4 (2.31%) LPIC
11 4 (2.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) PMO
2 13 (7.51%) SLA
3 4 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.31%) NIST
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 59 (34.10%) Active Directory
2 52 (30.06%) Hyper-V
3 50 (28.90%) vSphere
4 37 (21.39%) VMware NSX
5 16 (9.25%) vCloud
6 13 (7.51%) Firmware
7 10 (5.78%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (4.05%) KVM
8 7 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (3.47%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.73%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.73%) Docker
10 3 (1.73%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.16%) Xen
12 1 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.58%) QEMU
12 1 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (17.34%) Terraform
2 29 (16.76%) Ansible
3 28 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (10.98%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.78%) vCenter Server
6 9 (5.20%) Proxmox
6 9 (5.20%) SCCM
7 6 (3.47%) Avamar
7 6 (3.47%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (3.47%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (3.47%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (3.47%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (3.47%) Grafana
7 6 (3.47%) Packer
7 6 (3.47%) VxRail
8 4 (2.31%) Graylog
8 4 (2.31%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.16%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.58%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 173 (100.00%) VMware
2 97 (56.07%) Microsoft
3 38 (21.97%) Cisco
4 33 (19.08%) Veeam
5 29 (16.76%) NetApp
6 25 (14.45%) Dell
7 22 (12.72%) Nimble Storage
8 21 (12.14%) Broadcom
9 19 (10.98%) EMC
10 18 (10.40%) Red Hat
11 17 (9.83%) Palo Alto
12 15 (8.67%) Fortinet
12 15 (8.67%) IBM
13 12 (6.94%) Citrix
14 11 (6.36%) Commvault
14 11 (6.36%) HP
15 10 (5.78%) Meraki
15 10 (5.78%) Sophos
15 10 (5.78%) Splunk
16 8 (4.62%) ServiceNow