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 20 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.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 154 91
Rank change year-on-year -20 -63 +5
Permanent jobs citing VMware 268 363 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 2.40% 3.20%
As % of the Vendors category 4.69% 5.17% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 189 316 895
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +14.44% -12.74%

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 5,718 7,027 13,256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.42% 46.55% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 3,874 9,832
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,000 £31,549
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 £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +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

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 20 May 2026.

VMware salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

VMware
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 29 (10.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.87%) Confluence
4 4 (1.49%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.49%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 138 (51.49%) Azure
2 83 (30.97%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (20.90%) AWS
4 43 (16.04%) Nutanix
5 40 (14.93%) Entra ID
6 16 (5.97%) GitHub
7 14 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.85%) OneDrive
9 11 (4.10%) GCP
10 9 (3.36%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.87%) IaaS
13 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.49%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.49%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.49%) PaaS
14 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.12%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 82 (30.60%) Firewall
2 59 (22.01%) DNS
3 48 (17.91%) VPN
4 41 (15.30%) WAN
5 36 (13.43%) DHCP
6 28 (10.45%) TCP/IP
7 25 (9.33%) LAN
8 18 (6.72%) VSAN
9 14 (5.22%) VLAN
10 13 (4.85%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (4.85%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.73%) BGP
12 9 (3.36%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (2.61%) SAN
15 6 (2.24%) WebEx
16 5 (1.87%) MPLS
16 5 (1.87%) Network Security
16 5 (1.87%) Wireless
17 4 (1.49%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.99%) Power BI
3 6 (2.24%) MySQL
4 5 (1.87%) Tableau
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) 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 (3.73%) Git
2 6 (2.24%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.75%) GitLab
4 2 (0.75%) Gradle
4 2 (0.75%) JUnit
4 2 (0.75%) Mockito
5 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 72 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.54%) Finance
3 26 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.21%) Retail
5 14 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.85%) Law
7 11 (4.10%) Banking
7 11 (4.10%) Marketing
7 11 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.73%) Legal
8 10 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) Aviation
11 3 (1.12%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (24.63%) Senior
2 62 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (14.93%) Consultant
4 26 (9.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.33%) IT Engineer
6 24 (8.96%) Support Engineer
6 24 (8.96%) VMware Engineer
7 22 (8.21%) Architect
7 22 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (7.46%) IT Support
8 20 (7.46%) IT Support Engineer
8 20 (7.46%) VMware Consultant
9 18 (6.72%) Senior Consultant
10 17 (6.34%) Cloud Consultant
11 16 (5.97%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 16 (5.97%) Technical Consultant
12 15 (5.60%) Network Engineer
13 14 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
14 13 (4.85%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.24%) XMPP
2 2 (0.75%) gRPC
2 2 (0.75%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.75%) REST
2 2 (0.75%) RESTful
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) J2EE
3 1 (0.37%) JSON
3 1 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.13%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (8.96%) Replication
4 22 (8.21%) Private Cloud
5 16 (5.97%) Enterprise Storage
6 13 (4.85%) Driving Licence
6 13 (4.85%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.36%) iSeries
7 9 (3.36%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.99%) CMDB
8 8 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.99%) PKI
8 8 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (2.61%) Clustering
10 6 (2.24%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.87%) Raspberry Pi
12 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.49%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 4 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 124 (46.27%) Windows
2 86 (32.09%) Windows Server
3 81 (30.22%) Linux
4 19 (7.09%) Unix
4 19 (7.09%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.73%) Apple iOS
6 9 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.61%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.75%) Android
10 2 (0.75%) CentOS
10 2 (0.75%) 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 (32.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (30.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (17.54%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.81%) DevOps
5 37 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (13.06%) Presales
7 29 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (10.07%) CI/CD
8 27 (10.07%) ITIL
8 27 (10.07%) Vulnerability Management
9 26 (9.70%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (7.46%) Mentoring
12 18 (6.72%) Migration
13 16 (5.97%) Customer Engagement
13 16 (5.97%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (5.97%) Test Automation
14 15 (5.60%) Business Continuity
14 15 (5.60%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.76%) PowerShell
2 50 (18.66%) Python
3 15 (5.60%) Bash
4 10 (3.73%) SQL
5 9 (3.36%) Go
6 5 (1.87%) VB
6 5 (1.87%) VBA
6 5 (1.87%) VBScript
7 4 (1.49%) Bicep
8 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.75%) 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 33 (12.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.45%) VCAP
3 27 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.96%) Degree
5 23 (8.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (6.72%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.34%) VCDX
8 14 (5.22%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.73%) CEH
9 10 (3.73%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.73%) MCSE
10 9 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.24%) CCNA
13 5 (1.87%) CCNP
13 5 (1.87%) HNC
13 5 (1.87%) HND
14 4 (1.49%) Dell Certification
14 4 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.72%) NIST
2 17 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.60%) SLA
4 13 (4.85%) PMO
5 10 (3.73%) ISO 22301
6 5 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 166 (61.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (30.60%) Active Directory
3 64 (23.88%) Hyper-V
4 50 (18.66%) vSphere
5 43 (16.04%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.97%) vCloud
8 12 (4.48%) Firmware
9 9 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (2.24%) DFS Replication
10 6 (2.24%) Docker
10 6 (2.24%) KVM
10 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.75%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (18.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.79%) Ansible
3 43 (16.04%) Terraform
4 31 (11.57%) Kubernetes
5 21 (7.84%) vCenter Server
6 17 (6.34%) Grafana
7 15 (5.60%) Proxmox
8 14 (5.22%) SCCM
9 13 (4.85%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.61%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.24%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.24%) Packer
12 5 (1.87%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (1.87%) Puppet
13 4 (1.49%) Avamar
13 4 (1.49%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (1.49%) EMC VPLEX
13 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.49%) VxRail
14 3 (1.12%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 122 (45.52%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.79%) Cisco
3 40 (14.93%) Veeam
4 31 (11.57%) NetApp
5 29 (10.82%) Dell
6 25 (9.33%) Commvault
7 22 (8.21%) Red Hat
8 21 (7.84%) Palo Alto
9 20 (7.46%) Nimble Storage
10 18 (6.72%) Broadcom
10 18 (6.72%) Fortinet
11 17 (6.34%) EMC
11 17 (6.34%) HP
12 15 (5.60%) IBM
13 14 (5.22%) Citrix
14 12 (4.48%) Splunk
15 9 (3.36%) Meraki
15 9 (3.36%) Sophos
16 8 (2.99%) 3PAR
16 8 (2.99%) F5