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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 252 161
Rank change year-on-year +8 -91 -46
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 237 177 467
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 1.06% 2.13%
As % of the System Software category 12.63% 9.38% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 165 141 315
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £63,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,750 £77,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £51,425
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.49% +2.85%

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 1,877 1,886 2,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.54% 11.25% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,393 990 1,665
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £90,000
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 6 October 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 64 (27.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (16.88%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.06%) nginx
4 11 (4.64%) Apache
5 10 (4.22%) IIS
6 2 (0.84%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.42%) Site Server
7 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 152 (64.14%) Azure
2 91 (38.40%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (28.27%) Entra ID
4 48 (20.25%) AWS
5 25 (10.55%) Nutanix
6 18 (7.59%) IaaS
7 17 (7.17%) PaaS
8 16 (6.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (6.75%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (6.75%) GitHub
9 13 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.06%) Azure Functions
10 12 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (5.06%) OneDrive
10 12 (5.06%) Serverless
11 9 (3.80%) GCP
12 8 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.11%) Mimecast
15 4 (1.69%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 104 (43.88%) Firewall
2 88 (37.13%) DNS
3 79 (33.33%) VPN
4 71 (29.96%) DHCP
5 36 (15.19%) TCP/IP
6 35 (14.77%) WAN
7 34 (14.35%) LAN
8 29 (12.24%) VLAN
9 17 (7.17%) VSAN
10 13 (5.49%) Network Security
11 12 (5.06%) SAN
12 10 (4.22%) Wireless
13 7 (2.95%) Fibre Channel
13 7 (2.95%) iSCSI
13 7 (2.95%) NAS
14 5 (2.11%) BGP
14 5 (2.11%) OSPF
14 5 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (2.11%) WLAN
15 4 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.84%) Big Data
3 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.84%) MySQL
4 1 (0.42%) GIS
4 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.33%) Git
2 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.42%) GitLab
3 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 91 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.92%) Finance
3 23 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.02%) Law
6 16 (6.75%) Retail
7 12 (5.06%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.80%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.38%) Legal
11 6 (2.53%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (1.69%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.69%) Marketing
14 3 (1.27%) Banking
15 2 (0.84%) Back Office
15 2 (0.84%) Military
15 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (22.78%) Senior
2 45 (18.99%) Support Engineer
3 44 (18.57%) Consultant
4 41 (17.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (15.19%) IT Engineer
6 33 (13.92%) IT Support
7 30 (12.66%) Architect
8 29 (12.24%) IT Support Engineer
9 23 (9.70%) Analyst
9 23 (9.70%) Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (7.17%) VMware Consultant
11 16 (6.75%) Senior Consultant
11 16 (6.75%) VMware Architect
12 14 (5.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 13 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (5.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (5.49%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 13 (5.49%) Senior VMware Consultant
13 13 (5.49%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.77%) Terraform
2 8 (3.38%) Middleware
3 6 (2.53%) Web Services
4 3 (1.27%) JSON
4 3 (1.27%) LDAP
5 2 (0.84%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.84%) 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 61 (25.74%) Data Centre
2 19 (8.02%) Enterprise Storage
2 19 (8.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.59%) Private Cloud
4 17 (7.17%) Driving Licence
5 16 (6.75%) Replication
6 15 (6.33%) Public Cloud
7 13 (5.49%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.49%) Security Posture
8 12 (5.06%) Podcast
9 10 (4.22%) PKI
10 8 (3.38%) iSeries
11 6 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (2.53%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.27%) CMDB
13 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 156 (65.82%) Windows
2 109 (45.99%) Windows Server
3 50 (21.10%) Linux
4 13 (5.49%) VMS
5 12 (5.06%) Windows 10
6 11 (4.64%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.69%) Solaris
10 3 (1.27%) Unix
10 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.84%) AIX
11 2 (0.84%) CentOS
11 2 (0.84%) Debian
11 2 (0.84%) Rocky
12 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (37.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 76 (32.07%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (16.03%) Mentoring
6 36 (15.19%) Presales
7 35 (14.77%) Root Cause Analysis
8 34 (14.35%) ITIL
9 32 (13.50%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (13.08%) Customer Service
11 30 (12.66%) High Availability
12 29 (12.24%) AI
13 28 (11.81%) Cloud Security
13 28 (11.81%) DevOps
13 28 (11.81%) Project Delivery
13 28 (11.81%) Roadmaps
14 24 (10.13%) Business Continuity
15 23 (9.70%) CI/CD
16 20 (8.44%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.69%) PowerShell
2 25 (10.55%) Bash
3 23 (9.70%) SQL
4 20 (8.44%) Python
5 18 (7.59%) Bicep
6 12 (5.06%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.84%) Go
9 1 (0.42%) C
9 1 (0.42%) Java
9 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (18.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 40 (16.88%) Azure Certification
2 40 (16.88%) Security Cleared
3 33 (13.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 33 (13.92%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.28%) VCAP
5 19 (8.02%) Degree
5 19 (8.02%) DV Cleared
6 17 (7.17%) VCDX
7 12 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.38%) CCNP
9 6 (2.53%) Dell Certification
10 5 (2.11%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.69%) CCNA
11 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.69%) HNC
11 4 (1.69%) HND
11 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.27%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.97%) SLA
2 15 (6.33%) PMO
3 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (48.10%) Active Directory
2 111 (46.84%) Hyper-V
3 63 (26.58%) vSphere
4 30 (12.66%) VMware NSX
5 27 (11.39%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (9.70%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (7.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (5.06%) vCloud
9 11 (4.64%) Firmware
10 6 (2.53%) KVM
10 6 (2.53%) Squid
11 5 (2.11%) Docker
12 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.84%) NFS
14 1 (0.42%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.42%) iptables
14 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 39 (16.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (7.17%) Ansible
3 13 (5.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.22%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.95%) Proxmox
5 7 (2.95%) SCCM
6 6 (2.53%) Avamar
6 6 (2.53%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (2.53%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (2.53%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (2.53%) VxRail
7 5 (2.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.69%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.69%) Grafana
8 4 (1.69%) Graylog
8 4 (1.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (1.69%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.84%) Packer
9 2 (0.84%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 237 (100.00%) VMware
2 154 (64.98%) Microsoft
3 59 (24.89%) Veeam
4 28 (11.81%) Cisco
5 27 (11.39%) Dell
6 26 (10.97%) Citrix
7 24 (10.13%) NetApp
8 21 (8.86%) Broadcom
8 21 (8.86%) Nimble Storage
8 21 (8.86%) Palo Alto
9 18 (7.59%) Fortinet
10 15 (6.33%) SonicWALL
10 15 (6.33%) WatchGuard
11 14 (5.91%) N-able
12 12 (5.06%) EMC
12 12 (5.06%) ScienceLogic
13 9 (3.80%) Commvault
13 9 (3.80%) HP
13 9 (3.80%) Red Hat
13 9 (3.80%) Sophos