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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 256 162
Rank change year-on-year +7 -94 -45
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 240 181 465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.97% 1.09% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 12.79% 9.45% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 169 145 312
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% -8.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £82,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -

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 1,876 1,916 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.55% 11.57% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,019 1,683
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £74,985 £72,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 29 September 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 60 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (15.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.00%) nginx
4 11 (4.58%) Apache
5 10 (4.17%) IIS
6 3 (1.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.42%) Site Server
7 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.42%) Houdini
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.42%) NUKE
2 1 (0.42%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (64.17%) Azure
2 91 (37.92%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (27.08%) Entra ID
4 47 (19.58%) AWS
5 25 (10.42%) Nutanix
6 18 (7.50%) IaaS
7 17 (7.08%) PaaS
8 16 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (6.25%) GitHub
10 13 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.00%) Azure Functions
11 12 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (5.00%) Serverless
12 11 (4.58%) OneDrive
13 9 (3.75%) GCP
14 8 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (2.50%) Mimecast
16 5 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 106 (44.17%) Firewall
2 87 (36.25%) DNS
3 75 (31.25%) VPN
4 71 (29.58%) DHCP
5 37 (15.42%) TCP/IP
6 36 (15.00%) WAN
7 34 (14.17%) LAN
8 27 (11.25%) VLAN
9 17 (7.08%) VSAN
10 14 (5.83%) Network Security
11 11 (4.58%) SAN
12 10 (4.17%) Wireless
13 7 (2.92%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (2.92%) iSCSI
13 7 (2.92%) NAS
14 6 (2.50%) BGP
14 6 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (2.08%) OSPF
16 4 (1.67%) HTTP
16 4 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.25%) MySQL
4 2 (0.83%) Big Data
4 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.83%) Power BI
5 1 (0.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 89 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.00%) Finance
3 23 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.92%) Law
6 16 (6.67%) Retail
7 12 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.33%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.33%) Legal
10 6 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.67%) Marketing
13 3 (1.25%) Banking
13 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.83%) Back Office
14 2 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (21.67%) Senior
2 46 (19.17%) Support Engineer
3 43 (17.92%) Consultant
3 43 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (15.83%) IT Engineer
5 34 (14.17%) IT Support
6 31 (12.92%) Architect
7 30 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 23 (9.58%) Analyst
9 22 (9.17%) Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.08%) VMware Consultant
11 16 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
11 16 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (6.67%) VMware Architect
12 14 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 13 (5.42%) Senior VMware Consultant
13 13 (5.42%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.58%) Terraform
2 8 (3.33%) Middleware
3 6 (2.50%) Web Services
4 3 (1.25%) JSON
4 3 (1.25%) LDAP
5 2 (0.83%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.83%) XMPP
6 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.42%) Java SE
6 1 (0.42%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.42%) REST
6 1 (0.42%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 22 (9.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 18 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.50%) Replication
4 17 (7.08%) Driving Licence
4 17 (7.08%) Private Cloud
5 15 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.42%) Onboarding
6 13 (5.42%) Security Posture
7 12 (5.00%) Podcast
8 11 (4.58%) iSeries
8 11 (4.58%) PKI
9 6 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (2.50%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.25%) CMDB
11 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.25%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 157 (65.42%) Windows
2 108 (45.00%) Windows Server
3 53 (22.08%) Linux
4 13 (5.42%) VMS
4 13 (5.42%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.58%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.92%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.67%) Solaris
9 4 (1.67%) Unix
10 3 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.83%) AIX
11 2 (0.83%) CentOS
11 2 (0.83%) Debian
11 2 (0.83%) Rocky
12 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (38.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (37.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 73 (30.42%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (15.42%) Mentoring
5 37 (15.42%) Presales
6 35 (14.58%) ITIL
7 34 (14.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 32 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 32 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (12.50%) High Availability
11 29 (12.08%) AI
11 29 (12.08%) DevOps
12 27 (11.25%) Cloud Security
12 27 (11.25%) Roadmaps
13 26 (10.83%) Project Delivery
14 25 (10.42%) Business Continuity
15 22 (9.17%) CI/CD
16 20 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 24 (10.00%) Bash
2 24 (10.00%) SQL
3 19 (7.92%) Python
4 18 (7.50%) Bicep
5 12 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.42%) C
7 1 (0.42%) Go
7 1 (0.42%) Java
7 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (17.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 40 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 39 (16.25%) Security Cleared
4 32 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 32 (13.33%) SC Cleared
5 22 (9.17%) VCAP
6 21 (8.75%) Degree
7 19 (7.92%) DV Cleared
8 17 (7.08%) VCDX
9 12 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.33%) CCNP
11 6 (2.50%) Dell Certification
12 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.08%) HNC
12 5 (2.08%) HND
12 5 (2.08%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.67%) CCNA
13 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.25%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.83%) SLA
2 15 (6.25%) PMO
3 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 112 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 111 (46.25%) Hyper-V
3 65 (27.08%) vSphere
4 31 (12.92%) VMware NSX
5 28 (11.67%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (7.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (5.83%) Firmware
9 12 (5.00%) vCloud
10 7 (2.92%) KVM
11 6 (2.50%) Docker
11 6 (2.50%) Squid
12 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.83%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.83%) NFS
13 2 (0.83%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.42%) iptables
14 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.42%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 39 (16.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (7.50%) Ansible
3 14 (5.83%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.58%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.92%) Proxmox
5 7 (2.92%) SCCM
6 6 (2.50%) Avamar
6 6 (2.50%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (2.50%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (2.50%) VxRail
7 5 (2.08%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.67%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.67%) Graylog
8 4 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (1.67%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.25%) Grafana
9 3 (1.25%) Puppet
10 2 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 240 (100.00%) VMware
2 157 (65.42%) Microsoft
3 63 (26.25%) Veeam
4 30 (12.50%) Cisco
5 27 (11.25%) Dell
6 25 (10.42%) Citrix
7 24 (10.00%) NetApp
8 21 (8.75%) Broadcom
8 21 (8.75%) Nimble Storage
8 21 (8.75%) Palo Alto
9 18 (7.50%) Fortinet
10 15 (6.25%) EMC
10 15 (6.25%) N-able
11 14 (5.83%) SonicWALL
11 14 (5.83%) WatchGuard
12 12 (5.00%) Commvault
12 12 (5.00%) HP
12 12 (5.00%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (4.58%) IBM
13 11 (4.58%) Sophos