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 31 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 177 96
Rank change year-on-year -17 -81 -17
Permanent jobs citing VMware 312 325 778
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.41% 1.97% 2.92%
As % of the Vendors category 4.40% 4.15% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 237 281 654
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £91,750 £75,000 £81,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -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 7,087 7,839 10,400
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.99% 47.56% 39.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,034 4,066 7,122
10th Percentile £32,325 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,139 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,125 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -8.70%

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 31 July 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 59 (18.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (11.22%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.17%) IIS
4 11 (3.53%) Apache
4 11 (3.53%) nginx
5 5 (1.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.32%) Houdini
3 1 (0.32%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 203 (65.06%) Azure
2 115 (36.86%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (26.60%) AWS
4 61 (19.55%) Entra ID
5 35 (11.22%) Nutanix
6 24 (7.69%) GitHub
7 20 (6.41%) IaaS
8 18 (5.77%) PaaS
9 16 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.81%) GCP
11 13 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 12 (3.85%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.85%) Serverless
13 11 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (2.56%) Mimecast
15 8 (2.56%) OneDrive
15 8 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 126 (40.38%) Firewall
2 97 (31.09%) DNS
3 80 (25.64%) VPN
4 62 (19.87%) DHCP
5 57 (18.27%) WAN
6 54 (17.31%) LAN
7 39 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 27 (8.65%) VLAN
9 22 (7.05%) VSAN
10 18 (5.77%) Network Security
11 14 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (3.21%) Wireless
13 9 (2.88%) BGP
13 9 (2.88%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (2.56%) Unified Communications
15 7 (2.24%) MPLS
15 7 (2.24%) SAN
15 7 (2.24%) WebEx
16 6 (1.92%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (2.24%) Power BI
4 6 (1.92%) MySQL
5 4 (1.28%) Tableau
6 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.05%) Git
2 6 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.28%) GitLab
5 2 (0.64%) Gradle
5 2 (0.64%) JUnit
5 2 (0.64%) Mockito
6 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 114 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.14%) Finance
3 30 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 30 (9.62%) Retail
4 23 (7.37%) Law
5 19 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.09%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.49%) Banking
7 13 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.17%) Marketing
8 12 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.24%) Legal
11 5 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.96%) Back Office
14 2 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (21.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (20.19%) Senior
3 47 (15.06%) Support Engineer
4 44 (14.10%) Consultant
5 36 (11.54%) IT Engineer
6 32 (10.26%) IT Support
7 31 (9.94%) Architect
8 28 (8.97%) IT Support Engineer
9 26 (8.33%) Analyst
10 23 (7.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.41%) Technical Consultant
12 19 (6.09%) Network Engineer
12 19 (6.09%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.09%) VMware Consultant
13 18 (5.77%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 18 (5.77%) VMware Architect
14 17 (5.45%) Cloud Consultant
14 17 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (5.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.88%) Middleware
2 7 (2.24%) XMPP
3 6 (1.92%) Web Services
4 2 (0.64%) gRPC
4 2 (0.64%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (0.64%) REST
4 2 (0.64%) RESTful
5 1 (0.32%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 69 (22.12%) Data Centre
2 34 (10.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (9.29%) Driving Licence
4 28 (8.97%) Replication
5 25 (8.01%) Public Cloud
6 22 (7.05%) Enterprise Storage
6 22 (7.05%) Private Cloud
7 19 (6.09%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.85%) Podcast
9 11 (3.53%) iSeries
9 11 (3.53%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (3.21%) CMDB
10 10 (3.21%) PKI
11 7 (2.24%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.92%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.60%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.28%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 182 (58.33%) Windows
2 119 (38.14%) Windows Server
3 87 (27.88%) Linux
4 19 (6.09%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.17%) Unix
5 13 (4.17%) VMS
6 9 (2.88%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.88%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.96%) CentOS
11 2 (0.64%) Android
11 2 (0.64%) Debian
11 2 (0.64%) Solaris
12 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (32.69%) Disaster Recovery
2 101 (32.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 75 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (16.35%) Presales
6 48 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (12.82%) DevOps
7 40 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (11.54%) Business Continuity
8 36 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 36 (11.54%) High Availability
9 34 (10.90%) Project Delivery
10 33 (10.58%) ITIL
10 33 (10.58%) Mentoring
11 30 (9.62%) Roadmaps
11 30 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (8.01%) Customer Service
13 24 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (7.37%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 85 (27.24%) PowerShell
2 47 (15.06%) Python
3 29 (9.29%) Bash
3 29 (9.29%) SQL
4 17 (5.45%) Bicep
5 12 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (2.24%) Go
7 4 (1.28%) VB
7 4 (1.28%) VBA
7 4 (1.28%) VBScript
8 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.64%) Rust
9 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) C
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (15.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 45 (14.42%) Azure Certification
3 42 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 38 (12.18%) Security Cleared
5 36 (11.54%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.29%) VCAP
7 25 (8.01%) Degree
8 22 (7.05%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (6.73%) VCDX
10 17 (5.45%) CCNP
11 14 (4.49%) CCNA
11 14 (4.49%) DV Cleared
12 9 (2.88%) RHCSA
13 8 (2.56%) AWS Certification
13 8 (2.56%) MCSE
14 7 (2.24%) HNC
14 7 (2.24%) HND
15 6 (1.92%) Dell Certification
16 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.41%) SLA
2 15 (4.81%) PMO
3 11 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.24%) NIST
6 4 (1.28%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.64%) GDPR
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 231 (74.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 117 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 112 (35.90%) Hyper-V
4 76 (24.36%) vSphere
5 37 (11.86%) VMware NSX
6 33 (10.58%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.13%) vCloud
8 14 (4.49%) Firmware
8 14 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (2.88%) KVM
11 8 (2.56%) Docker
11 8 (2.56%) VMware Server
12 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.92%) Squid
14 5 (1.60%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.96%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.96%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (18.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (16.03%) Terraform
3 35 (11.22%) Ansible
4 27 (8.65%) Kubernetes
5 21 (6.73%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.17%) Proxmox
7 11 (3.53%) Grafana
8 9 (2.88%) SCCM
9 7 (2.24%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (2.24%) Prometheus
10 6 (1.92%) Avamar
10 6 (1.92%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (1.92%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (1.92%) Packer
10 6 (1.92%) VxRail
11 5 (1.60%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.28%) Graylog
12 4 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 191 (61.22%) Microsoft
2 67 (21.47%) Veeam
3 61 (19.55%) Cisco
4 31 (9.94%) Dell
4 31 (9.94%) NetApp
4 31 (9.94%) Palo Alto
5 25 (8.01%) Broadcom
5 25 (8.01%) Fortinet
6 23 (7.37%) Nimble Storage
7 22 (7.05%) HP
8 21 (6.73%) EMC
9 20 (6.41%) Citrix
9 20 (6.41%) Commvault
10 15 (4.81%) IBM
10 15 (4.81%) Splunk
11 14 (4.49%) Red Hat
11 14 (4.49%) ServiceNow
12 12 (3.85%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (3.53%) Meraki
14 10 (3.21%) Sophos