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 6 months leading up to 3 June 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.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 166 88
Rank change year-on-year -5 -78 +3
Permanent jobs citing VMware 279 339 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 2.28% 3.12%
As % of the Vendors category 4.72% 4.77% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 202 294 891
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% +11.11% -11.76%

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 5,912 7,111 13,362
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.82% 47.90% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,946 3,797 9,843
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% +10.00% -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

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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 6 months to 3 June 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 37 (13.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.79%) Confluence
4 4 (1.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (7.53%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (55.20%) Azure
2 93 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (21.51%) AWS
4 42 (15.05%) Entra ID
4 42 (15.05%) Nutanix
5 19 (6.81%) GitHub
6 14 (5.02%) GCP
6 14 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (3.94%) OneDrive
8 9 (3.23%) IaaS
8 9 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.51%) PaaS
10 6 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.79%) Cloudflare
12 4 (1.43%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.43%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 93 (33.33%) Firewall
2 63 (22.58%) DNS
3 55 (19.71%) VPN
4 43 (15.41%) WAN
5 39 (13.98%) DHCP
6 29 (10.39%) LAN
6 29 (10.39%) TCP/IP
7 19 (6.81%) VSAN
8 16 (5.73%) VLAN
9 13 (4.66%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (4.30%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.58%) BGP
12 9 (3.23%) SAN
12 9 (3.23%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.87%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (2.87%) Network Security
14 6 (2.15%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (2.15%) iSCSI
14 6 (2.15%) WebEx
15 5 (1.79%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.87%) Power BI
3 6 (2.15%) MySQL
4 5 (1.79%) Tableau
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.30%) Git
2 6 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 2 (0.72%) Gradle
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) Mockito
5 2 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 81 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.05%) Finance
3 26 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.24%) Retail
5 14 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.02%) Banking
5 14 (5.02%) Law
6 12 (4.30%) Marketing
6 12 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.94%) Legal
8 10 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.08%) Aviation
12 3 (1.08%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (24.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 68 (24.37%) Senior
3 40 (14.34%) Consultant
4 30 (10.75%) IT Engineer
5 29 (10.39%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.96%) Architect
8 22 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (7.89%) IT Support
8 22 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
9 20 (7.17%) Senior Consultant
9 20 (7.17%) VMware Consultant
10 19 (6.81%) VMware Engineer
11 18 (6.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 18 (6.45%) Technical Consultant
12 17 (6.09%) Cloud Consultant
12 17 (6.09%) Network Engineer
13 15 (5.38%) Senior VMware Consultant
13 15 (5.38%) VMware Architect
13 15 (5.38%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.15%) XMPP
2 2 (0.72%) gRPC
2 2 (0.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.72%) REST
2 2 (0.72%) RESTful
3 1 (0.36%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.94%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (9.68%) Replication
4 22 (7.89%) Private Cloud
5 20 (7.17%) Enterprise Storage
6 15 (5.38%) Public Cloud
7 14 (5.02%) Driving Licence
8 13 (4.66%) Security Posture
9 11 (3.94%) CMDB
9 11 (3.94%) iSeries
10 9 (3.23%) PKI
11 7 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (2.15%) FlexPod
12 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.15%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
15 3 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
15 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
15 3 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 134 (48.03%) Windows
2 91 (32.62%) Windows Server
3 78 (27.96%) Linux
4 18 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.38%) Unix
6 8 (2.87%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.51%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.08%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Android
12 2 (0.72%) CentOS
13 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.36%) Solaris
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (17.56%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (14.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (14.34%) Presales
7 39 (13.98%) DevOps
8 31 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 31 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.04%) Vulnerability Management
10 25 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (8.96%) Infrastructure Automation
11 24 (8.60%) Mentoring
12 22 (7.89%) ITIL
13 19 (6.81%) Business Continuity
14 17 (6.09%) Incident Response
14 17 (6.09%) Migration
14 17 (6.09%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (5.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.01%) PowerShell
2 50 (17.92%) Python
3 18 (6.45%) Bash
4 12 (4.30%) SQL
5 9 (3.23%) Go
6 6 (2.15%) Bicep
7 5 (1.79%) VB
7 5 (1.79%) VBA
7 5 (1.79%) VBScript
8 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) Rust
9 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (11.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.04%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 27 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.68%) VCAP
4 25 (8.96%) Degree
5 22 (7.89%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.45%) VCDX
7 12 (4.30%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.58%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.23%) CEH
10 9 (3.23%) MCSE
11 8 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.51%) CCNA
12 7 (2.51%) CCNP
13 6 (2.15%) Dell Certification
14 5 (1.79%) HNC
14 5 (1.79%) HND
14 5 (1.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.09%) NIST
2 16 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.38%) PMO
4 12 (4.30%) SLA
5 9 (3.23%) ISO 22301
6 6 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 177 (63.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 74 (26.52%) Hyper-V
4 56 (20.07%) vSphere
5 41 (14.70%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.17%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.73%) vCloud
8 14 (5.02%) Firmware
9 9 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.51%) KVM
11 6 (2.15%) DFS Replication
11 6 (2.15%) Docker
11 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (1.43%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.72%) Xen
15 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 51 (18.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (16.85%) Terraform
3 40 (14.34%) Ansible
4 33 (11.83%) Kubernetes
5 22 (7.89%) vCenter Server
6 17 (6.09%) Grafana
7 16 (5.73%) Proxmox
8 14 (5.02%) SCCM
9 13 (4.66%) Prometheus
10 8 (2.87%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.15%) Avamar
11 6 (2.15%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.15%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (2.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.15%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (2.15%) Packer
11 6 (2.15%) VxRail
12 5 (1.79%) Puppet
13 4 (1.43%) Graylog
13 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 136 (48.75%) Microsoft
2 52 (18.64%) Veeam
3 48 (17.20%) Cisco
4 34 (12.19%) NetApp
5 31 (11.11%) Dell
6 26 (9.32%) Commvault
7 23 (8.24%) Nimble Storage
8 22 (7.89%) Palo Alto
9 21 (7.53%) Broadcom
9 21 (7.53%) EMC
10 20 (7.17%) Fortinet
11 19 (6.81%) HP
12 17 (6.09%) IBM
13 16 (5.73%) Red Hat
14 14 (5.02%) Citrix
15 12 (4.30%) Splunk
16 11 (3.94%) Meraki
16 11 (3.94%) Sophos
17 10 (3.58%) 3PAR
17 10 (3.58%) ServiceNow