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 5 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
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 127 80
Rank change year-on-year -34 -47 +16
Permanent jobs citing VMware 275 349 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.62% 2.71% 3.51%
As % of the Vendors category 5.05% 6.59% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 187 311 954
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,199 £31,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £82,000 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £78,375
UK median annual salary £53,272 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.47% +10.53% -7.90%

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 5,443 5,293 12,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.02% 41.13% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,481 3,794 10,148
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,099 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +11.00% -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 5 April 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 30 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (9.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 151 (54.91%) Azure
2 102 (37.09%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (21.45%) AWS
4 44 (16.00%) Entra ID
5 32 (11.64%) Nutanix
6 16 (5.82%) OneDrive
7 15 (5.45%) GitHub
8 13 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.91%) GCP
9 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.18%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.45%) IaaS
14 3 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (33.82%) Firewall
2 61 (22.18%) DNS
3 50 (18.18%) VPN
4 42 (15.27%) DHCP
4 42 (15.27%) WAN
5 33 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 26 (9.45%) LAN
7 18 (6.55%) SD-WAN
8 15 (5.45%) VLAN
9 12 (4.36%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (4.00%) SAN
11 8 (2.91%) BGP
11 8 (2.91%) Unified Communications
11 8 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.55%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (2.55%) IP Telephony
13 6 (2.18%) Network Security
13 6 (2.18%) VSAN
13 6 (2.18%) Wireless
14 5 (1.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.55%) Power BI
3 5 (1.82%) MySQL
3 5 (1.82%) Tableau
4 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.18%) Git
3 4 (1.45%) GitLab
3 4 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 87 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.36%) Finance
3 24 (8.73%) Retail
4 21 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.55%) Law
5 18 (6.55%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.00%) Banking
7 11 (4.00%) Legal
7 11 (4.00%) Marketing
8 8 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.45%) Back Office
11 3 (1.09%) Aviation
11 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (23.64%) Senior
2 64 (23.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (12.36%) Support Engineer
4 31 (11.27%) IT Engineer
4 31 (11.27%) IT Support
4 31 (11.27%) VMware Engineer
5 28 (10.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (9.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (8.00%) Consultant
8 21 (7.64%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 15 (5.45%) Infrastructure Support
9 15 (5.45%) IT Security Specialist
9 15 (5.45%) Security Specialist
10 13 (4.73%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (4.73%) Network Engineer
10 13 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Analyst
11 12 (4.36%) Architect
12 11 (4.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) XMPP
2 2 (0.73%) .NET
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 42 (15.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 31 (11.27%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.55%) Private Cloud
4 17 (6.18%) Replication
5 16 (5.82%) Driving Licence
6 15 (5.45%) Public Cloud
7 12 (4.36%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.27%) CCTV
8 9 (3.27%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.91%) Clustering
10 6 (2.18%) CMDB
10 6 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.82%) FlexPod
12 4 (1.45%) iPad
12 4 (1.45%) iPhone
12 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (1.09%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 144 (52.36%) Windows
2 106 (38.55%) Windows Server
3 84 (30.55%) Linux
4 20 (7.27%) Windows 10
5 17 (6.18%) Unix
6 12 (4.36%) Apple iOS
7 9 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.18%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.09%) VMS
13 2 (0.73%) CentOS
14 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.36%) Solaris
14 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (25.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 53 (19.27%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (13.09%) DevOps
5 36 (13.09%) ITIL
6 29 (10.55%) Vulnerability Management
7 28 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (9.45%) CI/CD
9 24 (8.73%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (8.00%) BCP
10 22 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (8.00%) Mentoring
10 22 (8.00%) Test Automation
11 21 (7.64%) Resilience Testing
11 21 (7.64%) Runbook
12 20 (7.27%) Service Delivery
13 19 (6.91%) Project Delivery
13 19 (6.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.09%) PowerShell
2 56 (20.36%) Python
3 16 (5.82%) Bash
4 10 (3.64%) Go
5 9 (3.27%) SQL
6 5 (1.82%) Bicep
6 5 (1.82%) VB
6 5 (1.82%) VBA
6 5 (1.82%) VBScript
7 2 (0.73%) Java
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
8 1 (0.36%) Rust
8 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (14.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (8.73%) Security Cleared
4 23 (8.36%) MCSE
5 21 (7.64%) Azure Certification
6 20 (7.27%) CCNA
7 19 (6.91%) Degree
7 19 (6.91%) SC Cleared
7 19 (6.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 16 (5.82%) AWS Certification
9 15 (5.45%) CEH
10 14 (5.09%) CCNP
11 13 (4.73%) MCSA
12 12 (4.36%) VCAP
13 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
13 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (3.27%) DBS Check
15 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.82%) LPIC
15 5 (1.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.09%) NIST
3 18 (6.55%) SLA
4 15 (5.45%) ISO 22301
5 11 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.73%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 136 (49.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 88 (32.00%) Active Directory
3 69 (25.09%) Hyper-V
4 31 (11.27%) vSphere
5 27 (9.82%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (4.00%) Firmware
8 9 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.91%) Docker
10 6 (2.18%) DFS Replication
11 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (1.82%) vCloud
11 5 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (1.09%) KVM
14 2 (0.73%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.73%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.73%) Xen
14 2 (0.73%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (22.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.36%) Ansible
2 45 (16.36%) Terraform
3 32 (11.64%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.91%) vCenter Server
5 16 (5.82%) Grafana
6 14 (5.09%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.09%) SCCM
7 12 (4.36%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.82%) Puppet
9 4 (1.45%) Packer
9 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.09%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.09%) Kibana
10 3 (1.09%) Nagios
11 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.36%) CASB
Vendors
1 130 (47.27%) Microsoft
2 55 (20.00%) Cisco
3 30 (10.91%) Veeam
4 27 (9.82%) Commvault
5 22 (8.00%) Palo Alto
6 21 (7.64%) Fortinet
7 16 (5.82%) NetApp
7 16 (5.82%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.45%) Citrix
9 13 (4.73%) Dell
10 12 (4.36%) Draytek
11 11 (4.00%) EMC
12 10 (3.64%) Splunk
12 10 (3.64%) WatchGuard
13 9 (3.27%) F5
13 9 (3.27%) IBM
14 8 (2.91%) CheckPoint
14 8 (2.91%) HP
14 8 (2.91%) Juniper
15 7 (2.55%) Adobe