Hybrid/Remote VMware Job Trends

VMware
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 3 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

3 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 161 110
Rank change year-on-year -7 -51 -28
Permanent jobs citing VMware 149 226 395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 2.44% 2.74%
As % of the Vendors category 4.62% 4.84% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 121 199 336
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £50,000 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% +0.50% -13.48%
75th Percentile £83,750 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% +5.56% -13.10%

All Vendors
Work from Home

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,223 4,666 5,905
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.82% 50.32% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 2,124 3,652
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,128 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -13.04%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VMware job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

VMware
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware over the 3 months to 23 May 2026.

VMware salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 30 (10.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.16%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.83%) Confluence
4 4 (1.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.47%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 140 (51.28%) Azure
2 84 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (21.61%) AWS
4 43 (15.75%) Nutanix
5 40 (14.65%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.23%) GitHub
7 14 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.76%) OneDrive
9 12 (4.40%) GCP
10 9 (3.30%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.83%) IaaS
13 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.47%) Cloudflare
13 4 (1.47%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.47%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.47%) PaaS
14 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 83 (30.40%) Firewall
2 59 (21.61%) DNS
3 48 (17.58%) VPN
4 41 (15.02%) WAN
5 36 (13.19%) DHCP
6 28 (10.26%) TCP/IP
7 26 (9.52%) LAN
8 19 (6.96%) VSAN
9 14 (5.13%) VLAN
10 13 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (4.76%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.66%) BGP
12 9 (3.30%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.93%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (2.56%) SAN
15 6 (2.20%) WebEx
16 5 (1.83%) Fibre Channel
16 5 (1.83%) MPLS
16 5 (1.83%) Network Security
16 5 (1.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.93%) Power BI
3 6 (2.20%) MySQL
4 5 (1.83%) Tableau
5 3 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.66%) Git
2 6 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.10%) GitLab
5 2 (0.73%) Gradle
5 2 (0.73%) JUnit
5 2 (0.73%) Mockito
5 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 74 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.85%) Finance
3 25 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.06%) Retail
5 14 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.76%) Law
7 12 (4.40%) Banking
7 12 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.03%) Marketing
9 10 (3.66%) Legal
9 10 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.47%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.10%) Aviation
12 3 (1.10%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 68 (24.91%) Senior
2 62 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (14.65%) Consultant
4 26 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.16%) IT Engineer
5 25 (9.16%) Support Engineer
6 24 (8.79%) Architect
6 24 (8.79%) VMware Engineer
7 22 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (7.33%) IT Support
8 20 (7.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 20 (7.33%) VMware Consultant
9 19 (6.96%) Senior Consultant
10 17 (6.23%) Cloud Consultant
10 17 (6.23%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 17 (6.23%) Technical Consultant
11 15 (5.49%) Network Engineer
11 15 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
12 14 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.20%) XMPP
2 2 (0.73%) gRPC
2 2 (0.73%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.73%) REST
2 2 (0.73%) RESTful
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) J2EE
3 1 (0.37%) JSON
3 1 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (8.79%) Replication
4 22 (8.06%) Private Cloud
5 17 (6.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 13 (4.76%) Driving Licence
6 13 (4.76%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.30%) CMDB
7 9 (3.30%) iSeries
7 9 (3.30%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.30%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.93%) PKI
9 7 (2.56%) Clustering
10 6 (2.20%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.83%) Raspberry Pi
11 5 (1.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 126 (46.15%) Windows
2 87 (31.87%) Windows Server
3 82 (30.04%) Linux
4 19 (6.96%) Unix
4 19 (6.96%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.66%) Apple iOS
6 9 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.56%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.73%) Android
10 2 (0.73%) CentOS
10 2 (0.73%) VMS
11 1 (0.37%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.37%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.37%) Solaris
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (17.22%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (13.92%) DevOps
6 38 (13.92%) Presales
7 29 (10.62%) CI/CD
7 29 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (10.26%) Vulnerability Management
9 27 (9.89%) ITIL
10 26 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (7.33%) Mentoring
13 17 (6.23%) Migration
14 16 (5.86%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (5.86%) Project Delivery
14 16 (5.86%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (5.86%) Test Automation
15 15 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.71%) PowerShell
2 51 (18.68%) Python
3 15 (5.49%) Bash
4 10 (3.66%) SQL
5 9 (3.30%) Go
6 5 (1.83%) VB
6 5 (1.83%) VBA
6 5 (1.83%) VBScript
7 4 (1.47%) Bicep
8 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.37%) Java
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
9 1 (0.37%) Rust
9 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (12.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.26%) VCAP
3 27 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.52%) Degree
5 23 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (6.96%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.59%) VCDX
8 15 (5.49%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.66%) CEH
9 10 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.66%) MCSE
10 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.20%) CCNA
11 6 (2.20%) CCNP
12 5 (1.83%) Dell Certification
12 5 (1.83%) HNC
12 5 (1.83%) HND
12 5 (1.83%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.59%) NIST
2 17 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.49%) SLA
4 14 (5.13%) PMO
5 10 (3.66%) ISO 22301
6 5 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 170 (62.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 83 (30.40%) Active Directory
3 65 (23.81%) Hyper-V
4 52 (19.05%) vSphere
5 43 (15.75%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.86%) vCloud
8 12 (4.40%) Firmware
9 10 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.56%) Docker
11 6 (2.20%) DFS Replication
11 6 (2.20%) KVM
11 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (1.10%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.10%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.73%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.73%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (18.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.48%) Ansible
2 45 (16.48%) Terraform
3 33 (12.09%) Kubernetes
4 22 (8.06%) vCenter Server
5 17 (6.23%) Grafana
6 15 (5.49%) Proxmox
7 14 (5.13%) SCCM
8 13 (4.76%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.56%) ZABBIX
10 6 (2.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (2.20%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (2.20%) Packer
11 5 (1.83%) Avamar
11 5 (1.83%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (1.83%) EMC VPLEX
11 5 (1.83%) Puppet
11 5 (1.83%) VxRail
12 4 (1.47%) Progress Chef
13 3 (1.10%) Graylog
Vendors
1 123 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.48%) Cisco
3 42 (15.38%) Veeam
4 32 (11.72%) NetApp
5 30 (10.99%) Dell
6 25 (9.16%) Commvault
7 21 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
7 21 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 21 (7.69%) Red Hat
8 19 (6.96%) Broadcom
9 18 (6.59%) EMC
9 18 (6.59%) Fortinet
10 17 (6.23%) HP
11 15 (5.49%) Citrix
11 15 (5.49%) IBM
12 12 (4.40%) Splunk
13 9 (3.30%) 3PAR
13 9 (3.30%) Meraki
13 9 (3.30%) Sophos
14 8 (2.93%) ServiceNow