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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 230 156
Rank change year-on-year -19 -74 -1
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 177 219 674
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 1.48% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 11.73% 9.78% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 117 188 597
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £49,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £74,125 £75,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +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 1,509 2,239 4,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.86% 15.13% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,352 3,301
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -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 30 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 24 (13.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (11.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.82%) Confluence
4 2 (1.13%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (54.80%) Azure
2 69 (38.98%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (21.47%) AWS
4 35 (19.77%) Entra ID
5 30 (16.95%) Nutanix
6 11 (6.21%) OneDrive
7 8 (4.52%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (3.95%) GCP
8 7 (3.95%) GitHub
8 7 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.39%) IaaS
10 4 (2.26%) Cloudflare
10 4 (2.26%) Google Workspace
10 4 (2.26%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.26%) PaaS
11 3 (1.69%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.13%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 62 (35.03%) Firewall
2 38 (21.47%) DNS
3 34 (19.21%) WAN
4 31 (17.51%) DHCP
5 28 (15.82%) VPN
6 26 (14.69%) TCP/IP
7 19 (10.73%) LAN
7 19 (10.73%) VSAN
8 13 (7.34%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (6.78%) VLAN
10 11 (6.21%) SD-WAN
11 10 (5.65%) BGP
12 9 (5.08%) Unified Communications
13 8 (4.52%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (3.95%) Network Security
15 6 (3.39%) Fibre Channel
15 6 (3.39%) iSCSI
15 6 (3.39%) WebEx
15 6 (3.39%) Wireless
16 5 (2.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.52%) Power BI
2 7 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.39%) MySQL
4 5 (2.82%) Tableau
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.52%) Git
2 6 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 55 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.60%) Finance
3 22 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.04%) Retail
5 14 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.78%) Banking
6 12 (6.78%) Marketing
6 12 (6.78%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.21%) Legal
8 9 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Aviation
10 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.69%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (28.25%) Senior
2 46 (25.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (22.03%) Consultant
4 21 (11.86%) IT Engineer
4 21 (11.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (11.30%) Architect
5 20 (11.30%) Senior Consultant
5 20 (11.30%) VMware Consultant
6 18 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (10.17%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 18 (10.17%) Support Engineer
6 18 (10.17%) Technical Consultant
7 17 (9.60%) Cloud Consultant
7 17 (9.60%) IT Support
7 17 (9.60%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (8.47%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 15 (8.47%) Senior VMware Consultant
8 15 (8.47%) VMware Architect
8 15 (8.47%) VMware Technical Consultant
9 13 (7.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) XMPP
2 1 (0.56%) .NET
2 1 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 20 (11.30%) Replication
3 19 (10.73%) Enterprise Storage
4 14 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (7.91%) Private Cloud
5 12 (6.78%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.65%) iSeries
6 10 (5.65%) Security Posture
7 9 (5.08%) CMDB
7 9 (5.08%) PKI
8 8 (4.52%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (3.95%) Driving Licence
9 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
10 6 (3.39%) FlexPod
10 6 (3.39%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 5 (2.82%) Raspberry Pi
12 4 (2.26%) Clustering
12 4 (2.26%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 94 (53.11%) Windows
2 67 (37.85%) Windows Server
3 61 (34.46%) Linux
4 14 (7.91%) Windows 10
5 13 (7.34%) Unix
6 9 (5.08%) Apple iOS
7 7 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.95%) Ubuntu
8 5 (2.82%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.13%) CentOS
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.56%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.56%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.56%) Solaris
10 1 (0.56%) VMS
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.72%) Disaster Recovery
2 61 (34.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (22.03%) Presales
4 38 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (16.38%) Cybersecurity
6 25 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (12.43%) Mentoring
9 21 (11.86%) DevOps
10 18 (10.17%) ITIL
11 15 (8.47%) Customer Engagement
11 15 (8.47%) Project Delivery
11 15 (8.47%) Service Delivery
12 14 (7.91%) Business Continuity
12 14 (7.91%) Cloud Operations
12 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (7.91%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (7.91%) Service Management
12 14 (7.91%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.60%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.25%) Python
3 7 (3.95%) Bash
4 5 (2.82%) SQL
4 5 (2.82%) VB
4 5 (2.82%) VBA
4 5 (2.82%) VBScript
5 1 (0.56%) Bicep
5 1 (0.56%) Perl
5 1 (0.56%) Rust
5 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 27 (15.25%) VCAP
3 24 (13.56%) Degree
4 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
4 18 (10.17%) VCDX
5 17 (9.60%) Azure Certification
5 17 (9.60%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.39%) CCNP
8 6 (3.39%) Dell Certification
9 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.82%) HNC
9 5 (2.82%) HND
9 5 (2.82%) RHCSA
10 4 (2.26%) CCNA
10 4 (2.26%) LPIC
10 4 (2.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.47%) PMO
2 14 (7.91%) SLA
3 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.26%) NIST
4 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (35.03%) Active Directory
2 55 (31.07%) Hyper-V
3 50 (28.25%) vSphere
4 36 (20.34%) VMware NSX
5 16 (9.04%) vCloud
6 13 (7.34%) Firmware
7 10 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (3.95%) KVM
8 7 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.69%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.69%) Docker
10 3 (1.69%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.13%) Xen
12 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.56%) QEMU
12 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (16.95%) Terraform
2 29 (16.38%) Ansible
3 28 (15.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (10.73%) Kubernetes
5 10 (5.65%) vCenter Server
6 9 (5.08%) Proxmox
6 9 (5.08%) SCCM
7 6 (3.39%) Avamar
7 6 (3.39%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (3.39%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (3.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (3.39%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (3.39%) Grafana
7 6 (3.39%) Packer
7 6 (3.39%) VxRail
8 4 (2.26%) Graylog
8 4 (2.26%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.13%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.56%) CASB
Vendors
1 177 (100.00%) VMware
2 102 (57.63%) Microsoft
3 39 (22.03%) Cisco
4 35 (19.77%) Veeam
5 30 (16.95%) NetApp
6 25 (14.12%) Dell
7 23 (12.99%) Nimble Storage
8 21 (11.86%) Broadcom
9 19 (10.73%) EMC
10 17 (9.60%) Palo Alto
10 17 (9.60%) Red Hat
11 16 (9.04%) Fortinet
12 15 (8.47%) IBM
13 12 (6.78%) Citrix
14 11 (6.21%) Commvault
14 11 (6.21%) HP
14 11 (6.21%) Meraki
14 11 (6.21%) Sophos
15 10 (5.65%) Splunk
16 8 (4.52%) ServiceNow