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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 174 115
Rank change year-on-year -14 -59 -41
Permanent jobs citing VMware 335 296 647
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.39% 1.82% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 4.42% 3.70% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 248 241 463
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,781 £32,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% 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 7,582 8,001 8,976
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.45% 49.25% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,382 3,851 5,078
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,675
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,060
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.27% -3.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -6.36% -4.35%

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 16 September 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 65 (19.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (11.94%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.58%) IIS
3 12 (3.58%) nginx
4 11 (3.28%) Apache
5 5 (1.49%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.30%) Site Server
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.30%) Houdini
4 1 (0.30%) NUKE
4 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 210 (62.69%) Azure
2 128 (38.21%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (24.78%) Entra ID
4 74 (22.09%) AWS
5 29 (8.66%) Nutanix
6 21 (6.27%) IaaS
7 20 (5.97%) PaaS
8 19 (5.67%) GitHub
9 17 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (3.88%) OneDrive
12 12 (3.58%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.58%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.58%) GCP
12 12 (3.58%) Serverless
13 9 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (2.09%) Mimecast
15 6 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 137 (40.90%) Firewall
2 114 (34.03%) DNS
3 88 (26.27%) VPN
4 86 (25.67%) DHCP
5 53 (15.82%) WAN
6 50 (14.93%) LAN
7 46 (13.73%) TCP/IP
8 31 (9.25%) VLAN
9 23 (6.87%) Network Security
10 21 (6.27%) VSAN
11 16 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (3.88%) SAN
13 10 (2.99%) BGP
13 10 (2.99%) Wireless
14 9 (2.69%) Fibre Channel
14 9 (2.69%) Unified Communications
15 8 (2.39%) OSPF
16 7 (2.09%) IP Telephony
16 7 (2.09%) iSCSI
16 7 (2.09%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.79%) MySQL
4 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.90%) Power BI
5 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.30%) GIS
6 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Git
2 4 (1.19%) GitLab
2 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.60%) Gradle
3 2 (0.60%) JUnit
3 2 (0.60%) Mockito
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
4 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 122 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.43%) Finance
3 29 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (6.57%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.27%) Retail
6 20 (5.97%) Law
7 15 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.58%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.99%) Marketing
11 9 (2.69%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.69%) Banking
11 9 (2.69%) Legal
12 8 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.19%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.60%) Back Office
15 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (22.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (20.60%) Senior
3 52 (15.52%) Support Engineer
4 47 (14.03%) Consultant
5 43 (12.84%) IT Engineer
6 39 (11.64%) Architect
6 39 (11.64%) IT Support
7 32 (9.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 31 (9.25%) Analyst
9 29 (8.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (7.46%) Technical Consultant
11 24 (7.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (6.27%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 20 (5.97%) Network Engineer
14 19 (5.67%) VMware Consultant
15 18 (5.37%) Senior Consultant
15 18 (5.37%) VMware Architect
16 17 (5.07%) Cloud Architect
16 17 (5.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 16 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.13%) Terraform
2 8 (2.39%) Middleware
3 6 (1.79%) Web Services
4 3 (0.90%) REST
4 3 (0.90%) XMPP
5 2 (0.60%) gRPC
5 2 (0.60%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.60%) RESTful
6 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.30%) Java SE
6 1 (0.30%) JSON
6 1 (0.30%) LDAP
6 1 (0.30%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.30%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (24.18%) Data Centre
2 35 (10.45%) Driving Licence
3 29 (8.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (6.27%) Private Cloud
4 21 (6.27%) Replication
5 20 (5.97%) Enterprise Storage
6 18 (5.37%) Public Cloud
7 17 (5.07%) Security Posture
8 16 (4.78%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.88%) PKI
10 12 (3.58%) Podcast
11 11 (3.28%) iSeries
12 8 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (2.09%) CCTV
13 7 (2.09%) CMDB
13 7 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
15 5 (1.49%) Raspberry Pi
16 4 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 204 (60.90%) Windows
2 137 (40.90%) Windows Server
3 81 (24.18%) Linux
4 18 (5.37%) Mac OS
5 15 (4.48%) VMS
6 14 (4.18%) Windows 10
7 9 (2.69%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.39%) Unix
9 7 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.49%) Solaris
11 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.90%) CentOS
13 2 (0.60%) AIX
13 2 (0.60%) Android
13 2 (0.60%) Debian
14 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (35.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 111 (33.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 94 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (14.93%) ITIL
6 49 (14.63%) Presales
7 47 (14.03%) Cybersecurity
8 45 (13.43%) Project Delivery
9 43 (12.84%) Mentoring
10 42 (12.54%) High Availability
10 42 (12.54%) Roadmaps
11 41 (12.24%) Business Continuity
12 35 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (10.45%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (9.85%) DevOps
14 32 (9.55%) Customer Service
14 32 (9.55%) Migration
15 29 (8.66%) AI
15 29 (8.66%) CI/CD
16 27 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (24.18%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.66%) Python
2 29 (8.66%) SQL
3 26 (7.76%) Bash
4 20 (5.97%) Bicep
5 12 (3.58%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.19%) Go
7 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.30%) C
9 1 (0.30%) Java
9 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.30%) Rust
9 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 45 (13.43%) Azure Certification
4 44 (13.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 44 (13.13%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.36%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (8.36%) Degree
6 27 (8.06%) VCAP
7 23 (6.87%) CCNP
8 21 (6.27%) VCDX
9 20 (5.97%) DV Cleared
10 19 (5.67%) CCNA
11 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 10 (2.99%) MCSE
13 9 (2.69%) MCSA
14 8 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (2.09%) HNC
15 7 (2.09%) HND
16 6 (1.79%) AWS Certification
16 6 (1.79%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.96%) SLA
2 19 (5.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (5.07%) PMO
4 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 241 (71.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 137 (40.90%) Active Directory
3 129 (38.51%) Hyper-V
4 73 (21.79%) vSphere
5 40 (11.94%) VMware NSX
6 28 (8.36%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (5.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (4.78%) vCloud
10 14 (4.18%) Firmware
11 10 (2.99%) Docker
12 9 (2.69%) VMware Server
13 7 (2.09%) KVM
14 6 (1.79%) Squid
15 3 (0.90%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.90%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.30%) iptables
16 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 56 (16.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (8.06%) Ansible
3 22 (6.57%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.88%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.69%) SCCM
6 8 (2.39%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.79%) Avamar
7 6 (1.79%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.79%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.79%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.79%) VxRail
8 5 (1.49%) Grafana
8 5 (1.49%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.19%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.19%) Graylog
9 4 (1.19%) Packer
9 4 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 207 (61.79%) Microsoft
2 80 (23.88%) Veeam
3 53 (15.82%) Cisco
4 34 (10.15%) Dell
5 33 (9.85%) NetApp
6 29 (8.66%) Palo Alto
7 27 (8.06%) Broadcom
8 24 (7.16%) Fortinet
8 24 (7.16%) Nimble Storage
9 23 (6.87%) Citrix
9 23 (6.87%) EMC
10 20 (5.97%) HP
11 17 (5.07%) WatchGuard
12 15 (4.48%) Commvault
13 14 (4.18%) N-able
14 12 (3.58%) Red Hat
14 12 (3.58%) ScienceLogic
14 12 (3.58%) ServiceNow
14 12 (3.58%) SonicWALL
15 11 (3.28%) Sophos