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 30 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 157 89
Rank change year-on-year -10 -68 +4
Permanent jobs citing VMware 280 341 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.46% 2.30% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 4.72% 4.82% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 203 295 887
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% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £83,844 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +14.44% -12.62%

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 5,930 7,072 13,284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.90% 47.78% 40.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 3,784 9,810
10th Percentile £31,560 £30,000 £31,552
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 £74,258 £71,062
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

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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 30 May 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 35 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (9.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.79%) Confluence
4 4 (1.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 152 (54.29%) Azure
2 93 (33.21%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (22.14%) AWS
4 43 (15.36%) Entra ID
5 42 (15.00%) Nutanix
6 17 (6.07%) GitHub
7 14 (5.00%) GCP
7 14 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.29%) OneDrive
9 9 (3.21%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.50%) IaaS
11 5 (1.79%) Cloudflare
11 5 (1.79%) PaaS
12 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.43%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.43%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 92 (32.86%) Firewall
2 64 (22.86%) DNS
3 54 (19.29%) VPN
4 44 (15.71%) WAN
5 40 (14.29%) DHCP
6 29 (10.36%) LAN
6 29 (10.36%) TCP/IP
7 19 (6.79%) VSAN
8 16 (5.71%) VLAN
9 13 (4.64%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (4.64%) SD-WAN
10 10 (3.57%) BGP
11 9 (3.21%) SAN
11 9 (3.21%) Unified Communications
12 8 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (2.86%) Network Security
13 6 (2.14%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (2.14%) iSCSI
13 6 (2.14%) WebEx
13 6 (2.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.86%) Power BI
3 6 (2.14%) MySQL
4 5 (1.79%) Tableau
5 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.07%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.57%) Git
2 6 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.07%) GitLab
5 2 (0.71%) Gradle
5 2 (0.71%) JUnit
5 2 (0.71%) Mockito
5 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 81 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.36%) Finance
3 26 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.21%) Retail
5 14 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.64%) Banking
7 12 (4.29%) Law
7 12 (4.29%) Marketing
7 12 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.93%) Legal
8 11 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.07%) Aviation
12 3 (1.07%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 70 (25.00%) Senior
2 40 (14.29%) Consultant
3 30 (10.71%) IT Engineer
4 28 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 27 (9.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (8.93%) Architect
7 22 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (7.86%) IT Support
7 22 (7.86%) IT Support Engineer
8 20 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
8 20 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
8 20 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
9 18 (6.43%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 18 (6.43%) Technical Consultant
10 17 (6.07%) Cloud Consultant
10 17 (6.07%) Network Engineer
11 15 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.36%) Senior VMware Consultant
11 15 (5.36%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) XMPP
2 2 (0.71%) gRPC
2 2 (0.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.71%) REST
2 2 (0.71%) RESTful
3 1 (0.36%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.86%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (9.29%) Replication
4 22 (7.86%) Private Cloud
5 19 (6.79%) Enterprise Storage
6 14 (5.00%) Driving Licence
7 13 (4.64%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.93%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.57%) CMDB
9 10 (3.57%) iSeries
10 9 (3.21%) PKI
11 8 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (2.50%) Onboarding
13 6 (2.14%) FlexPod
13 6 (2.14%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 5 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
15 4 (1.43%) Clustering
15 4 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
16 3 (1.07%) IoT
16 3 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 134 (47.86%) Windows
2 93 (33.21%) Windows Server
3 80 (28.57%) Linux
4 19 (6.79%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.71%) Unix
6 9 (3.21%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.50%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.71%) Android
10 2 (0.71%) CentOS
10 2 (0.71%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.36%) Solaris
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (14.29%) Presales
6 38 (13.57%) DevOps
7 31 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 28 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 26 (9.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (8.57%) ITIL
13 23 (8.21%) Mentoring
14 19 (6.79%) Business Continuity
15 17 (6.07%) Incident Response
15 17 (6.07%) Migration
15 17 (6.07%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (5.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 50 (17.86%) Python
3 16 (5.71%) Bash
4 10 (3.57%) SQL
5 9 (3.21%) Go
6 5 (1.79%) VB
6 5 (1.79%) VBA
6 5 (1.79%) VBScript
7 4 (1.43%) Bicep
8 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) Rust
9 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (11.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.64%) VCAP
4 25 (8.93%) Degree
5 24 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.43%) VCDX
8 13 (4.64%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (3.57%) DV Cleared
11 9 (3.21%) CEH
11 9 (3.21%) MCSE
12 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.50%) CCNA
13 7 (2.50%) CCNP
14 6 (2.14%) Dell Certification
15 5 (1.79%) HNC
15 5 (1.79%) HND
15 5 (1.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.07%) NIST
2 16 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.36%) PMO
4 14 (5.00%) SLA
5 9 (3.21%) ISO 22301
6 6 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 177 (63.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 91 (32.50%) Active Directory
3 74 (26.43%) Hyper-V
4 55 (19.64%) vSphere
5 42 (15.00%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.71%) vCloud
8 13 (4.64%) Firmware
9 10 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.50%) Docker
10 7 (2.50%) KVM
11 6 (2.14%) DFS Replication
11 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.43%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.07%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.07%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (18.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (16.43%) Terraform
3 42 (15.00%) Ansible
4 34 (12.14%) Kubernetes
5 22 (7.86%) vCenter Server
6 17 (6.07%) Grafana
7 16 (5.71%) Proxmox
8 14 (5.00%) SCCM
9 13 (4.64%) Prometheus
10 8 (2.86%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.14%) Avamar
11 6 (2.14%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.14%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (2.14%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.14%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (2.14%) Packer
11 6 (2.14%) VxRail
12 5 (1.79%) Puppet
13 4 (1.43%) Graylog
13 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 133 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.86%) Veeam
3 48 (17.14%) Cisco
4 34 (12.14%) NetApp
5 31 (11.07%) Dell
6 25 (8.93%) Commvault
7 23 (8.21%) Nimble Storage
8 22 (7.86%) Palo Alto
9 21 (7.50%) Broadcom
10 20 (7.14%) EMC
10 20 (7.14%) Fortinet
11 18 (6.43%) HP
12 17 (6.07%) Red Hat
13 16 (5.71%) IBM
14 14 (5.00%) Citrix
15 12 (4.29%) Splunk
16 11 (3.93%) Meraki
16 11 (3.93%) Sophos
17 10 (3.57%) 3PAR
18 9 (3.21%) ServiceNow