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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 182 92
Rank change year-on-year -10 -90 -16
Permanent jobs citing VMware 331 275 637
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 1.66% 3.06%
As % of the Vendors category 4.20% 3.27% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 238 223 440
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -6.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

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 7,883 8,397 7,712
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.35% 50.79% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,517 3,678 4,517
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -12.28% -0.87%

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 6 months to 15 October 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 81 (24.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (13.90%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.23%) IIS
4 12 (3.63%) nginx
5 11 (3.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.30%) Site Server
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.30%) Houdini
4 1 (0.30%) NUKE
4 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 219 (66.16%) Azure
2 138 (41.69%) Microsoft 365
3 106 (32.02%) Entra ID
4 76 (22.96%) AWS
5 22 (6.65%) IaaS
5 22 (6.65%) Nutanix
6 20 (6.04%) PaaS
7 18 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (5.14%) GitHub
9 16 (4.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 16 (4.83%) OneDrive
10 12 (3.63%) Azure Functions
10 12 (3.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (3.63%) Serverless
11 10 (3.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (3.02%) GCP
12 6 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.81%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 130 (39.27%) Firewall
2 129 (38.97%) DNS
3 99 (29.91%) VPN
4 97 (29.31%) DHCP
5 48 (14.50%) TCP/IP
6 47 (14.20%) LAN
7 45 (13.60%) WAN
8 40 (12.08%) VLAN
9 21 (6.34%) Network Security
10 16 (4.83%) SAN
11 14 (4.23%) VSAN
12 13 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (3.63%) IP Telephony
14 11 (3.32%) Wireless
15 10 (3.02%) Unified Communications
16 9 (2.72%) Fibre Channel
16 9 (2.72%) OSPF
17 8 (2.42%) Software-Defined Networking
18 7 (2.11%) BGP
18 7 (2.11%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Big Data
3 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) GIS
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (4.83%) Git
2 3 (0.91%) GitLab
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.60%) JIRA
3 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.30%) Gradle
4 1 (0.30%) JUnit
4 1 (0.30%) Mockito
4 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 133 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.18%) Finance
3 27 (8.16%) Telecoms
4 24 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.04%) Retail
7 19 (5.74%) Law
8 12 (3.63%) Legal
8 12 (3.63%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (3.02%) Marketing
11 9 (2.72%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.72%) Banking
12 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.21%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.60%) Back Office
15 2 (0.60%) Military
16 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (20.54%) Senior
2 67 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 55 (16.62%) Support Engineer
4 48 (14.50%) IT Engineer
4 48 (14.50%) IT Support
5 41 (12.39%) Consultant
6 39 (11.78%) Analyst
7 37 (11.18%) IT Support Engineer
8 32 (9.67%) Architect
9 29 (8.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (8.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 26 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (6.65%) Network Engineer
13 21 (6.34%) Technical Consultant
14 19 (5.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 17 (5.14%) 3rd Line Support
15 17 (5.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 17 (5.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (4.83%) Senior IT Engineer
17 15 (4.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.78%) Terraform
2 9 (2.72%) Middleware
3 6 (1.81%) Web Services
4 4 (1.21%) SAML
5 3 (0.91%) JSON
5 3 (0.91%) LDAP
5 3 (0.91%) XMPP
6 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.60%) REST
6 2 (0.60%) YAML
7 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.30%) gRPC
7 1 (0.30%) Java SE
7 1 (0.30%) Kafka
7 1 (0.30%) OpenLayers
7 1 (0.30%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 72 (21.75%) Data Centre
2 40 (12.08%) Driving Licence
3 26 (7.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.44%) Onboarding
5 17 (5.14%) Private Cloud
5 17 (5.14%) Replication
5 17 (5.14%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.83%) Public Cloud
7 15 (4.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 12 (3.63%) CCTV
8 12 (3.63%) Podcast
9 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.42%) PKI
10 7 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 5 (1.51%) CMDB
13 4 (1.21%) iSeries
13 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 216 (65.26%) Windows
2 153 (46.22%) Windows Server
3 73 (22.05%) Linux
4 18 (5.44%) macOS
5 15 (4.53%) VMS
6 14 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.63%) Windows 10
8 11 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.21%) Solaris
12 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.60%) AIX
13 2 (0.60%) Debian
13 2 (0.60%) Rocky
14 1 (0.30%) Android
14 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.30%) CentOS
14 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (37.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 107 (32.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 107 (32.33%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (21.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (15.41%) Project Delivery
6 50 (15.11%) ITIL
7 49 (14.80%) High Availability
8 47 (14.20%) Mentoring
9 46 (13.90%) Roadmaps
10 43 (12.99%) Root Cause Analysis
11 40 (12.08%) Business Continuity
12 38 (11.48%) Presales
13 35 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (10.57%) Service Delivery
14 34 (10.27%) AI
14 34 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (9.97%) Migration
16 32 (9.67%) DevOps
17 31 (9.37%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.17%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.16%) Python
3 26 (7.85%) Bash
3 26 (7.85%) SQL
4 20 (6.04%) Bicep
5 12 (3.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.91%) Go
6 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) C
7 1 (0.30%) Java
7 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (13.90%) Azure Certification
4 41 (12.39%) SC Cleared
5 38 (11.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 32 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (8.46%) CCNP
8 23 (6.95%) CCNA
9 20 (6.04%) Degree
10 19 (5.74%) DV Cleared
11 18 (5.44%) VCAP
12 16 (4.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 14 (4.23%) MCSA
13 14 (4.23%) VCDX
14 13 (3.93%) MCSE
15 6 (1.81%) AWS Certification
15 6 (1.81%) Dell Certification
16 5 (1.51%) RHCSA
17 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.06%) SLA
2 23 (6.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (3.93%) PMO
4 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 233 (70.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 154 (46.53%) Active Directory
3 149 (45.02%) Hyper-V
4 59 (17.82%) vSphere
5 30 (9.06%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (8.16%) VMware NSX
7 24 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (5.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (2.72%) vCloud
9 9 (2.72%) VMware Server
10 8 (2.42%) Docker
11 7 (2.11%) Firmware
12 6 (1.81%) KVM
12 6 (1.81%) Squid
13 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.60%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.60%) NFS
15 1 (0.30%) iptables
15 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (21.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.34%) Ansible
3 16 (4.83%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.42%) FortiGate
4 8 (2.42%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.11%) Proxmox
5 7 (2.11%) SCCM
6 6 (1.81%) Avamar
6 6 (1.81%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.81%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.81%) VxRail
7 5 (1.51%) Grafana
7 5 (1.51%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.21%) Graylog
8 4 (1.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (1.21%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.91%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 204 (61.63%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.75%) Veeam
3 44 (13.29%) Cisco
4 30 (9.06%) Citrix
5 29 (8.76%) Palo Alto
6 27 (8.16%) NetApp
6 27 (8.16%) WatchGuard
7 26 (7.85%) Dell
8 25 (7.55%) Fortinet
9 20 (6.04%) Broadcom
10 18 (5.44%) Nimble Storage
11 15 (4.53%) EMC
11 15 (4.53%) SonicWALL
12 13 (3.93%) N-able
13 12 (3.63%) Draytek
13 12 (3.63%) Mitel
13 12 (3.63%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (3.32%) HP
14 11 (3.32%) Zscaler
15 9 (2.72%) ServiceNow