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 7 March 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
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 116 79
Rank change year-on-year -50 -37 +12
Permanent jobs citing VMware 260 446 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.55% 3.02% 3.71%
As % of the Vendors category 4.25% 7.58% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 176 336 937
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,234 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,125 £70,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -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 6,112 5,881 11,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.47% 39.86% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 3,722 9,810
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,188 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £87,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -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 7 March 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 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (10.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.54%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 143 (55.00%) Azure
2 96 (36.92%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (21.92%) AWS
4 51 (19.62%) Entra ID
5 27 (10.38%) Nutanix
6 15 (5.77%) OneDrive
7 12 (4.62%) GitHub
7 12 (4.62%) IaaS
8 11 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.23%) PaaS
9 10 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (3.08%) GCP
11 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.31%) Google Workspace
13 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.92%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 95 (36.54%) Firewall
2 66 (25.38%) DNS
3 56 (21.54%) VPN
4 43 (16.54%) DHCP
5 39 (15.00%) WAN
6 30 (11.54%) TCP/IP
7 24 (9.23%) SD-WAN
8 21 (8.08%) LAN
9 18 (6.92%) VLAN
10 14 (5.38%) SAN
11 9 (3.46%) BGP
11 9 (3.46%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.69%) IP Telephony
13 6 (2.31%) Network Security
13 6 (2.31%) Unified Communications
13 6 (2.31%) Wireless
14 5 (1.92%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (1.92%) IPsec
15 4 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.54%) Power BI
2 4 (1.54%) Tableau
3 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.15%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.77%) MySQL
4 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.15%) GitLab
3 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.77%) Git
3 2 (0.77%) JMeter
3 2 (0.77%) JUnit
3 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 95 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.92%) Finance
3 20 (7.69%) Retail
4 18 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.15%) Law
5 16 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.46%) Banking
7 9 (3.46%) Legal
7 9 (3.46%) Marketing
8 8 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Aviation
12 2 (0.77%) Advertising
12 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.77%) Local Government
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Back Office
13 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (20.38%) Senior
2 51 (19.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (11.92%) VMware Engineer
4 30 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 29 (11.15%) IT Support
6 22 (8.46%) IT Engineer
6 22 (8.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
7 21 (8.08%) IT Support Engineer
8 19 (7.31%) Analyst
9 17 (6.54%) 2nd Line Support
9 17 (6.54%) Infrastructure Manager
10 15 (5.77%) Network Engineer
11 14 (5.38%) IT Security Specialist
11 14 (5.38%) Security Specialist
12 13 (5.00%) Consultant
12 13 (5.00%) Support Analyst
13 12 (4.62%) Infrastructure Support
14 10 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.15%) .NET
1 3 (1.15%) JSON
1 3 (1.15%) Kafka
1 3 (1.15%) SAP Basis
1 3 (1.15%) XMPP
2 2 (0.77%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (0.77%) Hibernate
2 2 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.77%) Spring
2 2 (0.77%) WCF
3 1 (0.38%) J2EE
3 1 (0.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.38%) Driving Licence
5 13 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 12 (4.62%) Public Cloud
7 11 (4.23%) Replication
8 9 (3.46%) CCTV
8 9 (3.46%) Clustering
8 9 (3.46%) Security Posture
9 8 (3.08%) Client/Server
9 8 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.69%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.54%) iPad
11 4 (1.54%) iPhone
11 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.15%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 129 (49.62%) Windows
2 100 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 61 (23.46%) Linux
4 18 (6.92%) Windows 10
5 13 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (4.62%) Apple iOS
7 10 (3.85%) Unix
8 9 (3.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.92%) VMS
11 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.38%) CentOS
13 1 (0.38%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.38%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (22.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 54 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (18.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (15.77%) ITIL
7 36 (13.85%) DevOps
8 28 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.62%) CI/CD
9 25 (9.62%) Mentoring
9 25 (9.62%) Vulnerability Management
10 23 (8.85%) Project Delivery
10 23 (8.85%) Test Automation
11 20 (7.69%) BCP
11 20 (7.69%) Resilience Testing
11 20 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
11 20 (7.69%) Runbook
11 20 (7.69%) Service Delivery
12 18 (6.92%) Migration
13 16 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.23%) PowerShell
2 49 (18.85%) Python
3 12 (4.62%) Bash
4 11 (4.23%) Bicep
5 8 (3.08%) Go
5 8 (3.08%) SQL
6 4 (1.54%) Java
6 4 (1.54%) VB
6 4 (1.54%) VBA
6 4 (1.54%) VBScript
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) Rust
7 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (18.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (11.15%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 25 (9.62%) Azure Certification
5 23 (8.85%) SC Cleared
6 22 (8.46%) MCSE
7 21 (8.08%) CCNA
8 20 (7.69%) AWS Certification
9 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 17 (6.54%) MCSA
11 15 (5.77%) CCNP
12 14 (5.38%) CEH
12 14 (5.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (3.85%) Degree
14 9 (3.46%) CCA
14 9 (3.46%) Citrix Certification
15 7 (2.69%) DBS Check
15 7 (2.69%) DV Cleared
16 6 (2.31%) VCAP
17 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (8.85%) NIST
3 20 (7.69%) SLA
4 14 (5.38%) ISO 22301
5 10 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.15%) GDPR
7 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (45.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (36.54%) Active Directory
3 66 (25.38%) Hyper-V
4 23 (8.85%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (8.85%) VMware NSX
5 18 (6.92%) vSphere
6 11 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (3.85%) Firmware
8 7 (2.69%) Docker
9 6 (2.31%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.77%) KVM
12 2 (0.77%) XenApp
13 1 (0.38%) vCloud
13 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (23.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (18.08%) Terraform
3 38 (14.62%) Ansible
4 25 (9.62%) Kubernetes
5 18 (6.92%) vCenter Server
6 15 (5.77%) SCCM
7 13 (5.00%) Grafana
8 12 (4.62%) Prometheus
8 12 (4.62%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.31%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.31%) SCOM
10 5 (1.92%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.54%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.54%) Puppet
12 3 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (1.15%) Nessus
13 2 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.77%) Kibana
13 2 (0.77%) Nagios
14 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 120 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.54%) Cisco
3 21 (8.08%) Commvault
3 21 (8.08%) Veeam
4 17 (6.54%) Citrix
5 13 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.62%) NetApp
6 12 (4.62%) Red Hat
7 11 (4.23%) Draytek
8 10 (3.85%) SolarWinds
9 9 (3.46%) CheckPoint
9 9 (3.46%) Google
10 8 (3.08%) 3PAR
10 8 (3.08%) F5
10 8 (3.08%) IBM
10 8 (3.08%) WatchGuard
11 7 (2.69%) Mitel
12 6 (2.31%) Oracle
12 6 (2.31%) Symantec