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 19 February 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 112 80
Rank change year-on-year -52 -32 +11
Permanent jobs citing VMware 251 475 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.53% 3.06% 3.72%
As % of the Vendors category 4.06% 7.75% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 170 337 879
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,400 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £81,875 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -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 6,183 6,132 11,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 39.49% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,348 3,641 9,312
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 19 February 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 33 (13.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.59%) Weka
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 132 (52.59%) Azure
2 92 (36.65%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (20.72%) AWS
4 50 (19.92%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.56%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.37%) GitHub
7 15 (5.98%) OneDrive
8 12 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.78%) IaaS
9 11 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.38%) PaaS
10 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.79%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.79%) GCP
12 6 (2.39%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.99%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 92 (36.65%) Firewall
2 65 (25.90%) DNS
3 53 (21.12%) VPN
4 45 (17.93%) DHCP
5 39 (15.54%) WAN
6 31 (12.35%) TCP/IP
7 25 (9.96%) SD-WAN
8 20 (7.97%) LAN
9 17 (6.77%) VLAN
10 16 (6.37%) SAN
11 10 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (3.59%) BGP
13 7 (2.79%) IP Telephony
13 7 (2.79%) Network Security
14 6 (2.39%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (2.39%) IPsec
14 6 (2.39%) Wireless
15 5 (1.99%) Cisco ISE
15 5 (1.99%) OSPF
15 5 (1.99%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.20%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.80%) MySQL
3 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.80%) Power BI
3 2 (0.80%) Tableau
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.59%) Git
3 3 (1.20%) GitLab
3 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.80%) JMeter
4 2 (0.80%) JUnit
4 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 94 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.93%) Finance
3 17 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.77%) Retail
4 16 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.58%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.18%) Law
7 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.79%) Legal
7 7 (2.79%) Marketing
7 7 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.39%) Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Aviation
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Advertising
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 50 (19.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 50 (19.92%) Senior
2 30 (11.95%) Support Engineer
2 30 (11.95%) VMware Engineer
3 28 (11.16%) IT Support
4 21 (8.37%) IT Engineer
4 21 (8.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (7.97%) IT Support Engineer
6 19 (7.57%) Analyst
7 18 (7.17%) 2nd Line Support
7 18 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.17%) Infrastructure Manager
8 15 (5.98%) Network Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) Support Analyst
10 12 (4.78%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (4.78%) IT Security Specialist
10 12 (4.78%) Security Specialist
11 11 (4.38%) IT Manager
12 10 (3.98%) IT Infrastructure Manager
12 10 (3.98%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.20%) .NET
1 3 (1.20%) JSON
1 3 (1.20%) Kafka
1 3 (1.20%) Node.js
1 3 (1.20%) SAP Basis
2 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (0.80%) Hibernate
2 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.80%) Spring
2 2 (0.80%) WCF
3 1 (0.40%) J2EE
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 29 (11.55%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.58%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.78%) Driving Licence
4 12 (4.78%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.59%) CCTV
5 9 (3.59%) Clustering
5 9 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.19%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.79%) Replication
8 5 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.99%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.59%) iPad
9 4 (1.59%) iPhone
9 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 123 (49.00%) Windows
2 96 (38.25%) Windows Server
3 60 (23.90%) Linux
4 17 (6.77%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (4.78%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.78%) Unix
7 10 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (3.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.99%) VMS
9 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.40%) CentOS
11 1 (0.40%) Debian
11 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.40%) Solaris
11 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (21.51%) Disaster Recovery
3 53 (21.12%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (17.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (17.13%) ITIL
6 38 (15.14%) DevOps
7 29 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (10.36%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.56%) Mentoring
9 24 (9.56%) Vulnerability Management
10 23 (9.16%) Project Delivery
10 23 (9.16%) Test Automation
11 22 (8.76%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (7.97%) Service Delivery
13 18 (7.17%) Migration
14 17 (6.77%) BCP
14 17 (6.77%) Incident Response
14 17 (6.77%) Resilience Testing
14 17 (6.77%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.51%) PowerShell
2 44 (17.53%) Python
3 12 (4.78%) Bash
4 10 (3.98%) Bicep
5 8 (3.19%) SQL
6 7 (2.79%) Go
7 4 (1.59%) Java
8 2 (0.80%) VB
8 2 (0.80%) VBA
8 2 (0.80%) VBScript
9 1 (0.40%) Korn
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) Rust
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (18.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.55%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (10.36%) SC Cleared
5 23 (9.16%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.37%) MCSE
7 20 (7.97%) CCNA
8 19 (7.57%) AWS Certification
8 19 (7.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 18 (7.17%) MCSA
10 14 (5.58%) CCNP
11 13 (5.18%) Degree
12 12 (4.78%) CEH
12 12 (4.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (3.98%) CCA
13 10 (3.98%) Citrix Certification
14 7 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.79%) DBS Check
15 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
16 5 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (8.76%) NIST
2 22 (8.76%) SLA
3 12 (4.78%) ISO 22301
4 10 (3.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.59%) GDPR
6 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (47.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (37.05%) Active Directory
3 64 (25.50%) Hyper-V
4 22 (8.76%) VMware NSX
5 21 (8.37%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.57%) vSphere
7 14 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (4.38%) Firmware
9 7 (2.79%) Docker
10 4 (1.59%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.80%) KVM
11 2 (0.80%) NFS
11 2 (0.80%) XenApp
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.40%) vCloud
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (23.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (17.53%) Terraform
3 38 (15.14%) Ansible
4 26 (10.36%) Kubernetes
5 16 (6.37%) vCenter Server
6 14 (5.58%) SCCM
7 11 (4.38%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.98%) Grafana
8 10 (3.98%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.39%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.39%) SCOM
10 5 (1.99%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.59%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.59%) Puppet
12 3 (1.20%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (1.20%) Nessus
13 2 (0.80%) Kibana
13 2 (0.80%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.40%) Icinga
Vendors
1 113 (45.02%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.73%) Cisco
3 21 (8.37%) Veeam
4 20 (7.97%) Commvault
5 17 (6.77%) Citrix
6 14 (5.58%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.78%) NetApp
7 12 (4.78%) SolarWinds
8 11 (4.38%) Draytek
8 11 (4.38%) Fortinet
9 10 (3.98%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.59%) 3PAR
10 9 (3.59%) Google
11 8 (3.19%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.19%) F5
11 8 (3.19%) WatchGuard
12 7 (2.79%) Mitel
13 6 (2.39%) Dell
13 6 (2.39%) IBM
13 6 (2.39%) Symantec