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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 241 166
Rank change year-on-year -2 -75 -44
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 247 190 465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 1.17% 1.99%
As % of the System Software category 12.82% 9.54% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 173 157 347
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £32,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,250 £88,000
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 1,926 1,991 2,745
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.04% 12.27% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 1,120 1,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,050 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 10 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 57 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (14.98%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.86%) nginx
4 11 (4.45%) Apache
5 9 (3.64%) IIS
6 5 (2.02%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.40%) Site Server
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.40%) Houdini
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) NUKE
2 1 (0.40%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.81%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (63.56%) Azure
2 95 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (24.29%) Entra ID
4 51 (20.65%) AWS
5 30 (12.15%) Nutanix
6 20 (8.10%) IaaS
7 18 (7.29%) GitHub
7 18 (7.29%) PaaS
8 16 (6.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.86%) Azure Functions
10 12 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (4.86%) Serverless
11 10 (4.05%) OneDrive
12 9 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.64%) GCP
13 8 (3.24%) Mimecast
14 7 (2.83%) Power Platform
15 6 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 106 (42.91%) Firewall
2 82 (33.20%) DNS
3 69 (27.94%) DHCP
4 64 (25.91%) VPN
5 40 (16.19%) WAN
6 38 (15.38%) TCP/IP
7 37 (14.98%) LAN
8 24 (9.72%) VLAN
9 22 (8.91%) VSAN
10 14 (5.67%) Network Security
11 10 (4.05%) SAN
11 10 (4.05%) Wireless
12 7 (2.83%) BGP
12 7 (2.83%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (2.83%) iSCSI
12 7 (2.83%) NAS
12 7 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (2.02%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (2.02%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.43%) MySQL
4 4 (1.62%) Power BI
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.69%) Git
2 6 (2.43%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 90 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.19%) Finance
3 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.10%) Law
5 19 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.69%) Retail
6 13 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.64%) Legal
8 9 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.43%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.43%) Marketing
11 5 (2.02%) Banking
11 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.62%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Military
14 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (20.24%) Senior
2 48 (19.43%) Consultant
3 45 (18.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 43 (17.41%) Support Engineer
5 35 (14.17%) Architect
6 34 (13.77%) IT Engineer
7 31 (12.55%) IT Support
8 27 (10.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 27 (10.93%) Technical Consultant
9 22 (8.91%) Analyst
10 19 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
10 19 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
11 18 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (7.29%) VMware Architect
12 17 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (6.07%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 15 (6.07%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 15 (6.07%) Senior VMware Consultant
13 15 (6.07%) VMware Technical Consultant
14 14 (5.67%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.81%) Terraform
2 8 (3.24%) Middleware
3 6 (2.43%) Web Services
4 4 (1.62%) XMPP
5 1 (0.40%) Java SE
5 1 (0.40%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.40%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.51%) Data Centre
2 21 (8.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 21 (8.50%) Public Cloud
2 21 (8.50%) Replication
3 20 (8.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.69%) Private Cloud
5 18 (7.29%) Driving Licence
6 14 (5.67%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.26%) Security Posture
8 12 (4.86%) PKI
8 12 (4.86%) Podcast
9 11 (4.45%) iSeries
10 8 (3.24%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (2.83%) CMDB
12 6 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.43%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (2.02%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.62%) FlexPod
14 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 158 (63.97%) Windows
2 105 (42.51%) Windows Server
3 65 (26.32%) Linux
4 14 (5.67%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.86%) VMS
6 11 (4.45%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.64%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.83%) Unix
9 6 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.62%) Solaris
12 3 (1.21%) CentOS
13 2 (0.81%) Debian
13 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.40%) AIX
14 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (37.25%) Disaster Recovery
2 86 (34.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 73 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (18.62%) Presales
5 44 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (14.98%) Mentoring
7 35 (14.17%) ITIL
8 34 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (12.55%) High Availability
10 30 (12.15%) Business Continuity
11 29 (11.74%) Customer Service
11 29 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (11.74%) DevOps
12 28 (11.34%) Roadmaps
12 28 (11.34%) Root Cause Analysis
13 27 (10.93%) Project Delivery
14 25 (10.12%) AI
15 23 (9.31%) CI/CD
16 22 (8.91%) Cloud Security
17 19 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 74 (29.96%) PowerShell
2 26 (10.53%) SQL
3 25 (10.12%) Python
4 23 (9.31%) Bash
5 19 (7.69%) Bicep
6 12 (4.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.40%) C
7 1 (0.40%) Java
7 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) Rust
7 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.40%) VB
7 1 (0.40%) VBA
7 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (19.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 46 (18.62%) Azure Certification
3 35 (14.17%) Security Cleared
4 33 (13.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (12.15%) SC Cleared
6 28 (11.34%) Degree
6 28 (11.34%) VCAP
7 21 (8.50%) VCDX
8 16 (6.48%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (6.48%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.45%) CCNP
10 7 (2.83%) HNC
10 7 (2.83%) HND
10 7 (2.83%) RHCSA
11 6 (2.43%) CCNA
11 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.43%) Dell Certification
12 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (1.21%) CCDP
13 3 (1.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.53%) SLA
2 16 (6.48%) PMO
3 5 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (43.32%) Active Directory
2 104 (42.11%) Hyper-V
3 72 (29.15%) vSphere
4 38 (15.38%) VMware NSX
5 25 (10.12%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (7.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (6.88%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (6.48%) vCloud
9 13 (5.26%) Firmware
10 7 (2.83%) Docker
10 7 (2.83%) KVM
11 6 (2.43%) Squid
12 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (1.21%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.21%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.40%) iptables
14 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (10.53%) Ansible
3 18 (7.29%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.67%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.83%) Proxmox
5 7 (2.83%) SCCM
6 6 (2.43%) Avamar
6 6 (2.43%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (2.43%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (2.43%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (2.43%) Packer
6 6 (2.43%) VxRail
7 5 (2.02%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.02%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (1.62%) Grafana
8 4 (1.62%) Graylog
8 4 (1.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (1.62%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (100.00%) VMware
2 161 (65.18%) Microsoft
3 62 (25.10%) Veeam
4 47 (19.03%) Cisco
5 30 (12.15%) NetApp
6 29 (11.74%) Dell
7 25 (10.12%) Broadcom
8 24 (9.72%) Nimble Storage
8 24 (9.72%) Palo Alto
9 20 (8.10%) Citrix
9 20 (8.10%) EMC
10 19 (7.69%) Fortinet
11 15 (6.07%) N-able
12 13 (5.26%) Commvault
12 13 (5.26%) HP
12 13 (5.26%) Red Hat
13 12 (4.86%) IBM
13 12 (4.86%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (4.45%) SonicWALL
14 11 (4.45%) Sophos