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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 116 79
Rank change year-on-year -52 -37 +12
Permanent jobs citing VMware 250 459 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.53% 2.99% 3.72%
As % of the Vendors category 4.10% 7.56% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 167 327 888
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.47%

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 6,104 6,071 11,384
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.24% 39.50% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,336 3,637 9,420
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £88,750
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

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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 21 February 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 33 (13.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 132 (52.80%) Azure
2 91 (36.40%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (21.60%) AWS
4 51 (20.40%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.60%) Nutanix
6 15 (6.00%) OneDrive
7 14 (5.60%) GitHub
8 12 (4.80%) IaaS
9 11 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.40%) PaaS
10 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.80%) GCP
11 6 (2.40%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.00%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 90 (36.00%) Firewall
2 64 (25.60%) DNS
3 53 (21.20%) VPN
4 44 (17.60%) DHCP
5 37 (14.80%) WAN
6 30 (12.00%) TCP/IP
7 24 (9.60%) SD-WAN
8 19 (7.60%) LAN
9 16 (6.40%) SAN
9 16 (6.40%) VLAN
10 9 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (3.20%) BGP
12 7 (2.80%) IP Telephony
13 6 (2.40%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (2.40%) Network Security
13 6 (2.40%) Wireless
14 5 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (2.00%) IPsec
15 4 (1.60%) OSPF
15 4 (1.60%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.60%) Power BI
2 4 (1.60%) Tableau
3 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.20%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.80%) MySQL
4 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.80%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.20%) Git
2 3 (1.20%) GitLab
3 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.80%) JMeter
3 2 (0.80%) JUnit
3 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.40%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 95 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.00%) Finance
3 16 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.40%) Retail
4 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.60%) Law
6 13 (5.20%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.60%) Legal
8 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.40%) Banking
9 6 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.40%) Marketing
10 4 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Aviation
12 2 (0.80%) Advertising
12 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Back Office
13 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 51 (20.40%) Senior
2 49 (19.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (12.40%) Support Engineer
4 29 (11.60%) IT Support
4 29 (11.60%) VMware Engineer
5 22 (8.80%) IT Engineer
6 21 (8.40%) IT Support Engineer
6 21 (8.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (7.60%) Analyst
8 18 (7.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (6.80%) Infrastructure Manager
10 14 (5.60%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.20%) Support Analyst
12 12 (4.80%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (4.80%) IT Security Specialist
12 12 (4.80%) Security Specialist
13 11 (4.40%) Consultant
14 10 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.20%) .NET
1 3 (1.20%) JSON
1 3 (1.20%) Kafka
1 3 (1.20%) SAP Basis
2 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (0.80%) Hibernate
2 2 (0.80%) Node.js
2 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (0.80%) Spring
2 2 (0.80%) WCF
3 1 (0.40%) J2EE
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (10.80%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.20%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.80%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.60%) CCTV
7 9 (3.60%) Clustering
8 8 (3.20%) Client/Server
8 8 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.20%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.80%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.80%) Replication
10 5 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.60%) iPad
11 4 (1.60%) iPhone
11 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 123 (49.20%) Windows
2 96 (38.40%) Windows Server
3 60 (24.00%) Linux
4 18 (7.20%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (4.80%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.80%) Unix
7 10 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (2.00%) VMS
10 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.40%) CentOS
12 1 (0.40%) Debian
12 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.40%) Solaris
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (21.60%) Disaster Recovery
3 52 (20.80%) Cybersecurity
4 46 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (16.80%) ITIL
6 36 (14.40%) DevOps
7 29 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 25 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 23 (9.20%) Project Delivery
9 23 (9.20%) Vulnerability Management
10 22 (8.80%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.40%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (8.00%) Service Delivery
13 18 (7.20%) Migration
14 17 (6.80%) BCP
14 17 (6.80%) Resilience Testing
14 17 (6.80%) Runbook
15 16 (6.40%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.60%) PowerShell
2 45 (18.00%) Python
3 12 (4.80%) Bash
4 10 (4.00%) Bicep
5 8 (3.20%) SQL
6 7 (2.80%) Go
7 4 (1.60%) Java
7 4 (1.60%) VB
7 4 (1.60%) VBA
7 4 (1.60%) VBScript
8 1 (0.40%) Korn
8 1 (0.40%) Perl
8 1 (0.40%) Rust
8 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (19.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (11.60%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (11.60%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.60%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.20%) Azure Certification
5 22 (8.80%) MCSE
6 21 (8.40%) CCNA
7 19 (7.60%) AWS Certification
7 19 (7.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 18 (7.20%) MCSA
9 14 (5.60%) CCNP
10 13 (5.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (4.80%) CEH
12 11 (4.40%) Degree
13 10 (4.00%) CCA
13 10 (4.00%) Citrix Certification
14 7 (2.80%) DBS Check
15 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
16 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (2.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (8.80%) SLA
3 21 (8.40%) NIST
4 12 (4.80%) ISO 22301
5 10 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.60%) GDPR
7 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (46.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (37.20%) Active Directory
3 65 (26.00%) Hyper-V
4 22 (8.80%) VMware NSX
5 21 (8.40%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (7.20%) vSphere
7 13 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (4.00%) Firmware
9 7 (2.80%) Docker
10 4 (1.60%) DFS Replication
10 4 (1.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.80%) KVM
11 2 (0.80%) XenApp
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.40%) NFS
12 1 (0.40%) vCloud
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (23.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (17.20%) Terraform
3 37 (14.80%) Ansible
4 25 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 16 (6.40%) SCCM
5 16 (6.40%) vCenter Server
6 11 (4.40%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.00%) Grafana
7 10 (4.00%) Proxmox
8 6 (2.40%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.40%) SCOM
9 5 (2.00%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.60%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.60%) Puppet
11 3 (1.20%) Nessus
12 2 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.80%) Kibana
12 2 (0.80%) Nagios
13 1 (0.40%) CASB
13 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 115 (46.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.40%) Cisco
3 21 (8.40%) Veeam
4 19 (7.60%) Commvault
5 18 (7.20%) Citrix
6 13 (5.20%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.80%) NetApp
8 11 (4.40%) Draytek
8 11 (4.40%) Fortinet
8 11 (4.40%) SolarWinds
9 9 (3.60%) 3PAR
9 9 (3.60%) Google
9 9 (3.60%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.20%) CheckPoint
10 8 (3.20%) F5
10 8 (3.20%) IBM
10 8 (3.20%) WatchGuard
11 7 (2.80%) Mitel
12 6 (2.40%) Oracle
12 6 (2.40%) Symantec