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 29 July 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
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 168 98
Rank change year-on-year -26 -70 -17
Permanent jobs citing VMware 309 324 782
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.41% 1.97% 2.93%
As % of the Vendors category 4.41% 4.14% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 234 280 654
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,125 £81,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -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 7,005 7,822 10,435
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.00% 47.52% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,966 4,050 7,140
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%

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 29 July 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 59 (19.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (11.33%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.21%) IIS
4 11 (3.56%) Apache
4 11 (3.56%) nginx
5 5 (1.62%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.32%) Houdini
3 1 (0.32%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 203 (65.70%) Azure
2 113 (36.57%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (26.54%) AWS
4 59 (19.09%) Entra ID
5 35 (11.33%) Nutanix
6 25 (8.09%) GitHub
7 20 (6.47%) IaaS
8 18 (5.83%) PaaS
9 16 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.85%) GCP
11 13 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (3.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 12 (3.88%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.88%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.88%) Serverless
13 9 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.91%) OneDrive
14 8 (2.59%) Mimecast
15 7 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 127 (41.10%) Firewall
2 97 (31.39%) DNS
3 82 (26.54%) VPN
4 62 (20.06%) DHCP
5 57 (18.45%) WAN
6 53 (17.15%) LAN
7 41 (13.27%) TCP/IP
8 27 (8.74%) VLAN
9 22 (7.12%) VSAN
10 18 (5.83%) Network Security
11 14 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (3.24%) Wireless
13 9 (2.91%) BGP
14 8 (2.59%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (2.27%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (2.27%) MPLS
15 7 (2.27%) SAN
15 7 (2.27%) Unified Communications
16 6 (1.94%) SD-WAN
16 6 (1.94%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (2.27%) Power BI
4 6 (1.94%) MySQL
5 4 (1.29%) Tableau
6 3 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.12%) Git
2 6 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.29%) GitLab
5 2 (0.65%) Gradle
5 2 (0.65%) JUnit
5 2 (0.65%) Mockito
6 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 112 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.27%) Finance
3 30 (9.71%) Retail
4 29 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.44%) Law
6 19 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.50%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.21%) Banking
8 13 (4.21%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.88%) Marketing
10 11 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.27%) Legal
13 5 (1.62%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.97%) Back Office
16 2 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (22.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (20.39%) Senior
3 46 (14.89%) Support Engineer
4 44 (14.24%) Consultant
5 36 (11.65%) IT Engineer
6 32 (10.36%) IT Support
7 30 (9.71%) Architect
8 28 (9.06%) IT Support Engineer
9 26 (8.41%) Analyst
10 23 (7.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.47%) Technical Consultant
12 19 (6.15%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.15%) VMware Consultant
13 18 (5.83%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 18 (5.83%) VMware Architect
14 17 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (5.50%) Cloud Consultant
14 17 (5.50%) Network Engineer
14 17 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (5.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.91%) Middleware
2 6 (1.94%) Web Services
2 6 (1.94%) XMPP
3 2 (0.65%) gRPC
3 2 (0.65%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (0.65%) REST
3 2 (0.65%) RESTful
4 1 (0.32%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 70 (22.65%) Data Centre
2 33 (10.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (9.39%) Driving Licence
4 27 (8.74%) Replication
5 25 (8.09%) Public Cloud
6 23 (7.44%) Private Cloud
7 21 (6.80%) Enterprise Storage
8 19 (6.15%) Security Posture
9 12 (3.88%) Podcast
10 11 (3.56%) iSeries
11 10 (3.24%) CMDB
11 10 (3.24%) Onboarding
11 10 (3.24%) PKI
11 10 (3.24%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.94%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.94%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.62%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.29%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 179 (57.93%) Windows
2 117 (37.86%) Windows Server
3 87 (28.16%) Linux
4 20 (6.47%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.21%) Unix
5 13 (4.21%) VMS
6 9 (2.91%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.59%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.97%) CentOS
11 2 (0.65%) Android
11 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.65%) Debian
11 2 (0.65%) Solaris
12 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (32.69%) Disaster Recovery
1 101 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (16.50%) Presales
4 50 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
6 41 (13.27%) DevOps
7 39 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (11.97%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.00%) Business Continuity
9 34 (11.00%) High Availability
10 33 (10.68%) ITIL
10 33 (10.68%) Project Delivery
11 32 (10.36%) Mentoring
12 30 (9.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (9.06%) Roadmaps
14 24 (7.77%) Customer Service
14 24 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (7.44%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (7.12%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.18%) PowerShell
2 46 (14.89%) Python
3 30 (9.71%) Bash
4 29 (9.39%) SQL
5 17 (5.50%) Bicep
6 12 (3.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (2.59%) Go
8 4 (1.29%) VB
8 4 (1.29%) VBA
8 4 (1.29%) VBScript
9 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.65%) Rust
10 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) C
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (15.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 45 (14.56%) Azure Certification
3 42 (13.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 37 (11.97%) Security Cleared
5 35 (11.33%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.39%) VCAP
7 25 (8.09%) Degree
8 22 (7.12%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (6.80%) VCDX
10 17 (5.50%) CCNP
11 14 (4.53%) CCNA
11 14 (4.53%) DV Cleared
12 9 (2.91%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.91%) RHCSA
13 8 (2.59%) MCSE
14 7 (2.27%) HNC
14 7 (2.27%) HND
15 6 (1.94%) Dell Certification
16 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (1.29%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.47%) SLA
2 15 (4.85%) PMO
3 11 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.27%) NIST
6 4 (1.29%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.65%) GDPR
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 230 (74.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (37.22%) Active Directory
3 111 (35.92%) Hyper-V
4 74 (23.95%) vSphere
5 37 (11.97%) VMware NSX
6 32 (10.36%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.18%) vCloud
8 14 (4.53%) Firmware
8 14 (4.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (2.91%) KVM
11 8 (2.59%) Docker
11 8 (2.59%) VMware Server
12 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (1.94%) Squid
12 6 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (1.62%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.97%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.97%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (19.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (16.18%) Terraform
3 35 (11.33%) Ansible
4 28 (9.06%) Kubernetes
5 21 (6.80%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.53%) Proxmox
7 11 (3.56%) Grafana
8 8 (2.59%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.59%) SCCM
9 6 (1.94%) Avamar
9 6 (1.94%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.94%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (1.94%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (1.94%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (1.94%) Packer
9 6 (1.94%) VxRail
10 5 (1.62%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.29%) Graylog
11 4 (1.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 189 (61.17%) Microsoft
2 66 (21.36%) Veeam
3 59 (19.09%) Cisco
4 31 (10.03%) Dell
5 30 (9.71%) NetApp
5 30 (9.71%) Palo Alto
6 25 (8.09%) Broadcom
7 24 (7.77%) Fortinet
8 23 (7.44%) Nimble Storage
9 22 (7.12%) HP
10 21 (6.80%) EMC
11 20 (6.47%) Citrix
11 20 (6.47%) Commvault
12 15 (4.85%) IBM
13 14 (4.53%) Red Hat
14 13 (4.21%) ServiceNow
14 13 (4.21%) Splunk
15 12 (3.88%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (3.56%) Meraki
17 10 (3.24%) N-able