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 17 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 164 89
Rank change year-on-year -19 -75 -6
Permanent jobs citing VMware 304 332 946
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 2.01% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 4.39% 4.22% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 228 289 801
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +1.01% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £76,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%

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 6,918 7,874 11,966
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.30% 47.75% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,859 4,123 8,484
10th Percentile £32,450 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +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 17 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 58 (19.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (11.18%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.95%) IIS
4 7 (2.30%) Apache
4 7 (2.30%) nginx
5 5 (1.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.66%) Weka
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Houdini
4 1 (0.33%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 199 (65.46%) Azure
2 108 (35.53%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (25.33%) AWS
4 52 (17.11%) Entra ID
5 38 (12.50%) Nutanix
6 26 (8.55%) GitHub
7 19 (6.25%) IaaS
8 17 (5.59%) PaaS
9 16 (5.26%) GCP
10 15 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 12 (3.95%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (3.95%) Serverless
13 8 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (2.63%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.30%) Mimecast
14 7 (2.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 124 (40.79%) Firewall
2 90 (29.61%) DNS
3 82 (26.97%) VPN
4 57 (18.75%) DHCP
5 54 (17.76%) WAN
6 48 (15.79%) LAN
7 39 (12.83%) TCP/IP
8 25 (8.22%) VLAN
9 22 (7.24%) VSAN
10 13 (4.28%) Network Security
11 11 (3.62%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (2.63%) BGP
12 8 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (2.63%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.63%) Wireless
13 7 (2.30%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.30%) MPLS
13 7 (2.30%) Unified Communications
14 6 (1.97%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.63%) Power BI
4 6 (1.97%) MySQL
5 5 (1.64%) Tableau
6 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.24%) Git
2 6 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.32%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) Gradle
5 2 (0.66%) JUnit
5 2 (0.66%) Mockito
6 1 (0.33%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 109 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.83%) Finance
3 29 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.55%) Retail
5 23 (7.57%) Law
6 18 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.61%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.28%) Banking
8 13 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.95%) Marketing
10 9 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.63%) Legal
11 8 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.99%) Back Office
13 3 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (21.38%) Senior
2 64 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 44 (14.47%) Consultant
3 44 (14.47%) Support Engineer
4 36 (11.84%) IT Engineer
5 31 (10.20%) IT Support
6 30 (9.87%) Architect
7 28 (9.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 23 (7.57%) Analyst
8 23 (7.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (6.58%) Senior Consultant
9 20 (6.58%) Technical Consultant
10 19 (6.25%) VMware Consultant
11 18 (5.92%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 18 (5.92%) VMware Architect
12 17 (5.59%) Cloud Consultant
12 17 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (4.93%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.96%) Middleware
2 6 (1.97%) XMPP
3 4 (1.32%) Web Services
4 2 (0.66%) gRPC
4 2 (0.66%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (0.66%) REST
4 2 (0.66%) RESTful
5 1 (0.33%) J2EE
5 1 (0.33%) JSON
5 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 69 (22.70%) Data Centre
2 37 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (8.88%) Replication
4 26 (8.55%) Driving Licence
4 26 (8.55%) Public Cloud
5 23 (7.57%) Private Cloud
6 21 (6.91%) Enterprise Storage
7 19 (6.25%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.95%) Podcast
9 11 (3.62%) iSeries
10 10 (3.29%) CMDB
10 10 (3.29%) PKI
11 9 (2.96%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.97%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.97%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.64%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
15 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 164 (53.95%) Windows
2 105 (34.54%) Windows Server
3 84 (27.63%) Linux
4 18 (5.92%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.61%) Unix
6 13 (4.28%) VMS
7 9 (2.96%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.30%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.99%) CentOS
10 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.66%) Android
11 2 (0.66%) Debian
11 2 (0.66%) Solaris
12 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 97 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 67 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (16.12%) Presales
5 48 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 42 (13.82%) DevOps
6 42 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.18%) Mentoring
10 30 (9.87%) Business Continuity
11 28 (9.21%) High Availability
12 27 (8.88%) ITIL
12 27 (8.88%) Project Delivery
13 26 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
14 24 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (7.89%) Roadmaps
15 23 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (7.57%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (7.24%) AI
Programming Languages
1 86 (28.29%) PowerShell
2 50 (16.45%) Python
3 31 (10.20%) SQL
4 29 (9.54%) Bash
5 16 (5.26%) Bicep
6 12 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.96%) Go
8 5 (1.64%) VB
8 5 (1.64%) VBA
8 5 (1.64%) VBScript
9 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.66%) Rust
10 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) Java
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (14.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 41 (13.49%) Azure Certification
3 39 (12.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 33 (10.86%) Security Cleared
5 32 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.54%) VCAP
7 26 (8.55%) Degree
8 21 (6.91%) VCDX
9 20 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (4.93%) CCNP
11 14 (4.61%) CCNA
12 12 (3.95%) DV Cleared
13 9 (2.96%) MCSE
14 8 (2.63%) AWS Certification
14 8 (2.63%) RHCSA
15 7 (2.30%) HNC
15 7 (2.30%) HND
16 6 (1.97%) CEH
16 6 (1.97%) Dell Certification
17 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.59%) SLA
2 15 (4.93%) PMO
3 13 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.29%) NIST
5 6 (1.97%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.66%) GDPR
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 218 (71.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 106 (34.87%) Active Directory
3 103 (33.88%) Hyper-V
4 75 (24.67%) vSphere
5 39 (12.83%) VMware NSX
6 29 (9.54%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.26%) vCloud
8 14 (4.61%) Firmware
8 14 (4.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (2.96%) KVM
11 8 (2.63%) Docker
12 7 (2.30%) VMware Server
13 6 (1.97%) DFS Replication
13 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (1.97%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (1.32%) Squid
15 3 (0.99%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.99%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.66%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (17.43%) Terraform
3 40 (13.16%) Ansible
4 31 (10.20%) Kubernetes
5 23 (7.57%) vCenter Server
6 15 (4.93%) Proxmox
7 14 (4.61%) Grafana
8 11 (3.62%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.63%) SCCM
10 6 (1.97%) Avamar
10 6 (1.97%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.97%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (1.97%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (1.97%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (1.97%) Packer
10 6 (1.97%) VxRail
10 6 (1.97%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.64%) Puppet
12 4 (1.32%) Graylog
13 3 (0.99%) Kibana
Vendors
1 176 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 59 (19.41%) Veeam
3 55 (18.09%) Cisco
4 31 (10.20%) Dell
5 30 (9.87%) NetApp
6 29 (9.54%) Palo Alto
7 25 (8.22%) Broadcom
7 25 (8.22%) Fortinet
8 23 (7.57%) Commvault
8 23 (7.57%) Nimble Storage
9 21 (6.91%) Citrix
9 21 (6.91%) EMC
10 19 (6.25%) HP
11 17 (5.59%) IBM
12 14 (4.61%) Red Hat
13 13 (4.28%) ServiceNow
13 13 (4.28%) Splunk
14 12 (3.95%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (3.62%) Meraki
16 10 (3.29%) F5