Hybrid/Remote VMware Job Trends

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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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 122 85
Rank change year-on-year -44 -37 +10
Permanent jobs citing VMware 278 357 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.56% 2.69% 3.38%
As % of the Vendors category 5.02% 6.33% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 189 316 947
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,199 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,188 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -6.08%

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 5,537 5,643 13,477
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.16% 42.49% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 3,854 10,149
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,086 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 April 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 27 (9.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 150 (53.96%) Azure
2 96 (34.53%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (20.14%) AWS
4 43 (15.47%) Entra ID
5 36 (12.95%) Nutanix
6 16 (5.76%) OneDrive
7 15 (5.40%) GitHub
8 13 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.24%) GCP
9 9 (3.24%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.80%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.44%) IaaS
12 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 90 (32.37%) Firewall
2 61 (21.94%) DNS
3 50 (17.99%) VPN
4 46 (16.55%) WAN
5 41 (14.75%) DHCP
6 33 (11.87%) TCP/IP
7 27 (9.71%) LAN
8 17 (6.12%) SD-WAN
9 14 (5.04%) VLAN
10 12 (4.32%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.60%) BGP
11 10 (3.60%) SAN
12 8 (2.88%) Unified Communications
12 8 (2.88%) VSAN
13 7 (2.52%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.52%) Network Security
13 7 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.16%) Wireless
15 5 (1.80%) MPLS
15 5 (1.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.88%) Power BI
3 6 (2.16%) MySQL
4 5 (1.80%) Tableau
5 4 (1.44%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.88%) Git
2 6 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 2 (0.72%) Gradle
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) Mockito
6 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 82 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.63%) Finance
3 25 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.91%) Retail
5 16 (5.76%) Law
6 15 (5.40%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.96%) Banking
9 11 (3.96%) Marketing
10 10 (3.60%) Legal
11 8 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.44%) Back Office
15 3 (1.08%) Aviation
16 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 71 (25.54%) Senior
2 65 (23.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (11.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (10.79%) Consultant
4 30 (10.79%) Support Engineer
4 30 (10.79%) VMware Engineer
5 28 (10.07%) IT Engineer
6 24 (8.63%) IT Support
6 24 (8.63%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) Architect
8 14 (5.04%) Infrastructure Support
9 13 (4.68%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (4.68%) IT Security Specialist
9 13 (4.68%) Network Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (4.68%) Security Specialist
10 12 (4.32%) Administrator
10 12 (4.32%) Cloud Consultant
10 12 (4.32%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.80%) XMPP
2 2 (0.72%) .NET
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%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Kafka
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.36%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.47%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.55%) Replication
4 20 (7.19%) Private Cloud
5 14 (5.04%) Driving Licence
5 14 (5.04%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.60%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.24%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.88%) Clustering
10 7 (2.52%) iSeries
11 6 (2.16%) CMDB
11 6 (2.16%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.80%) CCTV
12 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.80%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.80%) PKI
13 4 (1.44%) iPad
13 4 (1.44%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 138 (49.64%) Windows
2 100 (35.97%) Windows Server
3 85 (30.58%) Linux
4 21 (7.55%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.83%) Unix
6 12 (4.32%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.52%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.08%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Android
12 2 (0.72%) CentOS
12 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
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 92 (33.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 78 (28.06%) Disaster Recovery
3 51 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (12.95%) DevOps
7 35 (12.59%) ITIL
8 29 (10.43%) Vulnerability Management
9 28 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (9.71%) CI/CD
11 24 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (8.27%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (7.91%) Test Automation
14 21 (7.55%) Mentoring
15 20 (7.19%) BCP
15 20 (7.19%) Presales
16 19 (6.83%) Resilience Testing
16 19 (6.83%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (6.83%) Runbook
16 19 (6.83%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.46%) PowerShell
2 53 (19.06%) Python
3 15 (5.40%) Bash
4 10 (3.60%) Go
4 10 (3.60%) SQL
5 5 (1.80%) Bicep
5 5 (1.80%) VB
5 5 (1.80%) VBA
5 5 (1.80%) VBScript
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) Rust
7 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (12.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (7.91%) Degree
6 21 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 21 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (6.12%) MCSE
7 17 (6.12%) VCAP
8 15 (5.40%) AWS Certification
9 14 (5.04%) CCNA
10 13 (4.68%) CEH
11 12 (4.32%) DV Cleared
12 11 (3.96%) CCNP
13 8 (2.88%) MCSA
14 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.52%) VCDX
15 6 (2.16%) DBS Check
15 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (1.80%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (8.63%) NIST
2 16 (5.76%) SLA
3 13 (4.68%) ISO 22301
4 8 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.80%) PMO
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (53.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 85 (30.58%) Active Directory
3 66 (23.74%) Hyper-V
4 37 (13.31%) vSphere
5 33 (11.87%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.19%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.68%) Firmware
8 10 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.88%) vCloud
10 7 (2.52%) Docker
11 6 (2.16%) DFS Replication
12 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (1.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
14 3 (1.08%) KVM
14 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.72%) Xen
16 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (21.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (16.55%) Ansible
3 45 (16.19%) Terraform
4 32 (11.51%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.19%) vCenter Server
6 16 (5.76%) Grafana
7 14 (5.04%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.04%) SCCM
8 12 (4.32%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.80%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.80%) Puppet
10 4 (1.44%) Packer
10 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.08%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.08%) Kibana
11 3 (1.08%) Nagios
12 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 133 (47.84%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.99%) Cisco
3 32 (11.51%) Veeam
4 29 (10.43%) Commvault
5 21 (7.55%) Fortinet
6 20 (7.19%) Palo Alto
6 20 (7.19%) Red Hat
7 19 (6.83%) NetApp
8 18 (6.47%) Dell
9 14 (5.04%) Citrix
9 14 (5.04%) EMC
10 13 (4.68%) IBM
11 12 (4.32%) HP
11 12 (4.32%) Splunk
12 9 (3.24%) Draytek
13 8 (2.88%) F5
13 8 (2.88%) Juniper
13 8 (2.88%) Nimble Storage
13 8 (2.88%) Sophos
14 7 (2.52%) Meraki