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 18 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 110 80
Rank change year-on-year -58 -30 +12
Permanent jobs citing VMware 248 483 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.52% 3.10% 3.72%
As % of the Vendors category 4.03% 7.86% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 169 334 883
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,334 £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 £82,500 £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 6,150 6,144 11,305
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.58% 39.44% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,330 3,618 9,357
10th Percentile £30,613 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,444 £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 £76,163 £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 18 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 32 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (10.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.61%) Weka
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 128 (51.61%) Azure
2 90 (36.29%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (20.56%) AWS
4 49 (19.76%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.68%) Nutanix
6 16 (6.45%) GitHub
7 15 (6.05%) OneDrive
8 12 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.84%) IaaS
9 11 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.44%) PaaS
10 8 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.82%) GCP
12 6 (2.42%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 91 (36.69%) Firewall
2 64 (25.81%) DNS
3 52 (20.97%) VPN
4 45 (18.15%) DHCP
5 39 (15.73%) WAN
6 31 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 25 (10.08%) SD-WAN
8 20 (8.06%) LAN
9 17 (6.85%) SAN
9 17 (6.85%) VLAN
10 10 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (3.63%) BGP
12 7 (2.82%) IP Telephony
12 7 (2.82%) Network Security
13 6 (2.42%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (2.42%) IPsec
13 6 (2.42%) Wireless
14 5 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (2.02%) OSPF
14 5 (2.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.21%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.81%) MySQL
3 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.81%) Power BI
3 2 (0.81%) 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 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.61%) Git
3 3 (1.21%) GitLab
3 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.81%) JMeter
4 2 (0.81%) JUnit
4 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 93 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.15%) Finance
3 17 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (6.85%) Retail
4 16 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.24%) Law
7 7 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.82%) Legal
7 7 (2.82%) Marketing
7 7 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.42%) Banking
9 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Aviation
10 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Advertising
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Local Government
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 50 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 50 (20.16%) Senior
2 30 (12.10%) Support Engineer
2 30 (12.10%) VMware Engineer
3 27 (10.89%) IT Support
4 21 (8.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (8.06%) IT Engineer
6 19 (7.66%) Analyst
6 19 (7.66%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (7.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 18 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.26%) Infrastructure Manager
8 15 (6.05%) Network Engineer
9 13 (5.24%) Support Analyst
10 12 (4.84%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (4.84%) IT Security Specialist
10 12 (4.84%) Security Specialist
11 11 (4.44%) IT Manager
12 10 (4.03%) Security Manager
12 10 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.21%) .NET
1 3 (1.21%) JSON
1 3 (1.21%) Kafka
1 3 (1.21%) Node.js
1 3 (1.21%) SAP Basis
2 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (0.81%) Hibernate
2 2 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.81%) Spring
2 2 (0.81%) WCF
3 1 (0.40%) J2EE
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 29 (11.69%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.84%) Driving Licence
4 12 (4.84%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.63%) CCTV
5 9 (3.63%) Clustering
5 9 (3.63%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.42%) Replication
8 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.61%) iPad
9 4 (1.61%) iPhone
9 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 121 (48.79%) Windows
2 95 (38.31%) Windows Server
3 59 (23.79%) Linux
4 16 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (5.24%) Unix
7 12 (4.84%) Apple iOS
8 10 (4.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.02%) VMS
11 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.81%) Debian
12 2 (0.81%) Solaris
12 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.40%) CentOS
13 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (20.97%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 48 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (17.34%) ITIL
5 41 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (14.52%) DevOps
7 29 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 24 (9.68%) Mentoring
8 24 (9.68%) Vulnerability Management
9 23 (9.27%) Test Automation
10 22 (8.87%) Root Cause Analysis
11 21 (8.47%) Project Delivery
11 21 (8.47%) Service Delivery
12 18 (7.26%) Migration
13 17 (6.85%) BCP
13 17 (6.85%) Incident Response
13 17 (6.85%) Resilience Testing
13 17 (6.85%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.79%) PowerShell
2 45 (18.15%) Python
3 13 (5.24%) Bash
4 10 (4.03%) Bicep
5 8 (3.23%) SQL
6 7 (2.82%) Go
7 4 (1.61%) Java
8 2 (0.81%) Korn
8 2 (0.81%) VB
8 2 (0.81%) VBA
8 2 (0.81%) VBScript
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) Rust
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (18.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.69%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (10.48%) SC Cleared
5 23 (9.27%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.47%) MCSE
7 20 (8.06%) CCNA
8 19 (7.66%) AWS Certification
8 19 (7.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 18 (7.26%) MCSA
10 14 (5.65%) CCNP
11 13 (5.24%) Degree
12 12 (4.84%) CEH
12 12 (4.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (4.03%) CCA
13 10 (4.03%) Citrix Certification
14 7 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.82%) DBS Check
15 6 (2.42%) DV Cleared
16 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (9.27%) SLA
3 22 (8.87%) NIST
4 12 (4.84%) ISO 22301
5 10 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.61%) GDPR
7 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (47.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 91 (36.69%) Active Directory
3 63 (25.40%) Hyper-V
4 22 (8.87%) VMware NSX
5 20 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (7.66%) vSphere
7 14 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (4.44%) Firmware
9 7 (2.82%) Docker
10 4 (1.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (1.21%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.81%) KVM
12 2 (0.81%) NFS
12 2 (0.81%) XenApp
13 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.40%) vCloud
13 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (17.74%) Terraform
3 39 (15.73%) Ansible
4 24 (9.68%) Kubernetes
5 15 (6.05%) vCenter Server
6 14 (5.65%) SCCM
7 11 (4.44%) Prometheus
8 10 (4.03%) Grafana
8 10 (4.03%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.42%) SCOM
10 5 (2.02%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.61%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.61%) Puppet
12 3 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (1.21%) Nessus
13 2 (0.81%) Kibana
13 2 (0.81%) Nagios
14 1 (0.40%) AirWatch
14 1 (0.40%) Icinga
Vendors
1 113 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.94%) Cisco
3 21 (8.47%) Veeam
4 20 (8.06%) Commvault
5 17 (6.85%) Citrix
6 13 (5.24%) NetApp
7 12 (4.84%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.84%) SolarWinds
8 11 (4.44%) Draytek
8 11 (4.44%) Fortinet
9 10 (4.03%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.63%) 3PAR
10 9 (3.63%) Google
11 8 (3.23%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.23%) F5
11 8 (3.23%) WatchGuard
12 7 (2.82%) Mitel
13 6 (2.42%) Dell
13 6 (2.42%) IBM
13 6 (2.42%) Symantec