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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 169 99
Rank change year-on-year -19 -70 -21
Permanent jobs citing VMware 323 331 724
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 1.99% 2.92%
As % of the Vendors category 4.47% 4.15% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 246 285 589
10th Percentile £36,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,594 £35,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,188 £65,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £74,100 £82,500
UK median annual salary £53,688 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.03% - -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 7,227 7,974 9,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.82% 48.01% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,143 3,999 6,311
10th Percentile £31,800 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,650 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -2.83% -7.83%

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 14 August 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 64 (19.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.02%) IIS
4 12 (3.72%) nginx
5 11 (3.41%) Apache
6 5 (1.55%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) Site Server
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.31%) Houdini
3 1 (0.31%) NUKE
3 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 209 (64.71%) Azure
2 119 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (24.46%) AWS
4 68 (21.05%) Entra ID
5 34 (10.53%) Nutanix
6 22 (6.81%) IaaS
7 21 (6.50%) GitHub
8 20 (6.19%) PaaS
9 16 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (4.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 14 (4.33%) GCP
12 12 (3.72%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.72%) Serverless
13 11 (3.41%) OneDrive
14 10 (3.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (2.79%) Power Platform
16 8 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.48%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 129 (39.94%) Firewall
2 106 (32.82%) DNS
3 82 (25.39%) VPN
4 72 (22.29%) DHCP
5 58 (17.96%) WAN
6 55 (17.03%) LAN
7 43 (13.31%) TCP/IP
8 31 (9.60%) VLAN
9 22 (6.81%) VSAN
10 21 (6.50%) Network Security
11 16 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (3.41%) BGP
13 10 (3.10%) SAN
13 10 (3.10%) Wireless
14 9 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (2.48%) Cisco Firepower
15 8 (2.48%) OSPF
16 7 (2.17%) MPLS
16 7 (2.17%) Unified Communications
16 7 (2.17%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.86%) MySQL
3 6 (1.86%) Power BI
4 4 (1.24%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.93%) Tableau
6 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.31%) GIS
6 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (6.81%) Git
2 6 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.93%) GitLab
5 2 (0.62%) Gradle
5 2 (0.62%) JUnit
5 2 (0.62%) Mockito
6 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.24%) Finance
3 32 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.67%) Retail
5 24 (7.43%) Law
6 20 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (4.33%) Banking
10 13 (4.02%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.02%) Marketing
11 12 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.86%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.86%) Legal
15 4 (1.24%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.93%) Back Office
17 2 (0.62%) Military
18 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (23.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 66 (20.43%) Senior
3 47 (14.55%) Consultant
4 46 (14.24%) Support Engineer
5 36 (11.15%) IT Engineer
6 34 (10.53%) Architect
7 29 (8.98%) IT Support
8 28 (8.67%) Analyst
9 27 (8.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (7.74%) IT Support Engineer
11 22 (6.81%) Network Engineer
11 22 (6.81%) Technical Consultant
12 19 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
12 19 (5.88%) VMware Consultant
13 18 (5.57%) Cloud Consultant
13 18 (5.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 18 (5.57%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 18 (5.57%) Senior Consultant
13 18 (5.57%) VMware Architect
14 17 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.48%) Middleware
2 7 (2.17%) XMPP
3 6 (1.86%) Web Services
4 2 (0.62%) gRPC
4 2 (0.62%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (0.62%) REST
4 2 (0.62%) RESTful
5 1 (0.31%) Java SE
5 1 (0.31%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.31%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 69 (21.36%) Data Centre
2 34 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (9.29%) Driving Licence
4 27 (8.36%) Replication
5 25 (7.74%) Public Cloud
6 23 (7.12%) Enterprise Storage
7 20 (6.19%) Private Cloud
8 19 (5.88%) Security Posture
9 13 (4.02%) Onboarding
10 12 (3.72%) Podcast
11 11 (3.41%) iSeries
11 11 (3.41%) Video Conferencing
12 10 (3.10%) PKI
13 9 (2.79%) CMDB
14 7 (2.17%) FlexPod
15 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.86%) VxBlock/Vblock
16 5 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 5 (1.55%) Raspberry Pi
17 4 (1.24%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 188 (58.20%) Windows
2 124 (38.39%) Windows Server
3 83 (25.70%) Linux
4 16 (4.95%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.02%) VMS
6 12 (3.72%) Unix
7 11 (3.41%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.79%) Ubuntu
9 8 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.93%) CentOS
12 3 (0.93%) Solaris
13 2 (0.62%) Android
13 2 (0.62%) Debian
13 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (33.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 80 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (15.79%) Presales
6 49 (15.17%) Cybersecurity
7 42 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (12.38%) Business Continuity
9 39 (12.07%) DevOps
9 39 (12.07%) ITIL
10 38 (11.76%) High Availability
10 38 (11.76%) Project Delivery
11 36 (11.15%) Mentoring
12 34 (10.53%) Roadmaps
13 33 (10.22%) CI/CD
13 33 (10.22%) Root Cause Analysis
14 27 (8.36%) Customer Service
15 25 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (7.12%) AI
17 22 (6.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (26.01%) PowerShell
2 43 (13.31%) Python
3 30 (9.29%) SQL
4 27 (8.36%) Bash
5 19 (5.88%) Bicep
6 12 (3.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.24%) Go
8 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.93%) VB
8 3 (0.93%) VBA
8 3 (0.93%) VBScript
9 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) Java
10 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.31%) Rust
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (15.17%) Azure Certification
1 49 (15.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 42 (13.00%) Security Cleared
3 41 (12.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 37 (11.46%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.29%) VCAP
6 26 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (8.05%) Degree
7 21 (6.50%) VCDX
8 20 (6.19%) CCNP
9 17 (5.26%) DV Cleared
10 15 (4.64%) CCNA
11 9 (2.79%) RHCSA
12 7 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.17%) HNC
12 7 (2.17%) HND
12 7 (2.17%) MCSE
13 6 (1.86%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.86%) Dell Certification
14 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.67%) SLA
2 15 (4.64%) PMO
3 12 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.17%) NIST
6 4 (1.24%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 241 (74.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 126 (39.01%) Active Directory
3 115 (35.60%) Hyper-V
4 76 (23.53%) vSphere
5 40 (12.38%) VMware NSX
6 32 (9.91%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (4.95%) vCloud
9 13 (4.02%) Firmware
10 12 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
11 9 (2.79%) VMware Server
12 8 (2.48%) Docker
12 8 (2.48%) KVM
13 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 7 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.86%) Squid
15 3 (0.93%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.93%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.93%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 56 (17.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (16.10%) Terraform
3 34 (10.53%) Ansible
4 25 (7.74%) Kubernetes
5 18 (5.57%) vCenter Server
6 11 (3.41%) Proxmox
6 11 (3.41%) SCCM
7 9 (2.79%) Grafana
8 7 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.86%) Avamar
9 6 (1.86%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (1.86%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (1.86%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (1.86%) Packer
9 6 (1.86%) VxRail
10 5 (1.55%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.24%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.24%) Graylog
11 4 (1.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (1.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 199 (61.61%) Microsoft
2 71 (21.98%) Veeam
3 67 (20.74%) Cisco
4 35 (10.84%) Palo Alto
5 33 (10.22%) NetApp
6 31 (9.60%) Dell
7 26 (8.05%) Fortinet
8 25 (7.74%) Broadcom
9 24 (7.43%) Nimble Storage
10 23 (7.12%) HP
11 22 (6.81%) Citrix
12 21 (6.50%) EMC
13 19 (5.88%) Commvault
14 15 (4.64%) Red Hat
15 14 (4.33%) IBM
15 14 (4.33%) ServiceNow
15 14 (4.33%) Splunk
16 12 (3.72%) N-able
16 12 (3.72%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (3.41%) Meraki