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 27 May 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 161 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 -70 +2
Permanent jobs citing VMware 277 343 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 2.36% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 4.71% 4.96% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 198 296 892
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £84,734 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +14.44% -11.94%

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 5,876 6,920 13,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.83% 47.67% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,894 3,684 9,814
10th Percentile £31,325 £30,000 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -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 27 May 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 32 (11.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) Confluence
4 4 (1.44%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 147 (53.07%) Azure
2 89 (32.13%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (22.02%) AWS
4 43 (15.52%) Nutanix
5 42 (15.16%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.14%) GitHub
7 14 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.69%) GCP
9 12 (4.33%) OneDrive
10 9 (3.25%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.17%) IaaS
13 5 (1.81%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.81%) PaaS
14 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.44%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
15 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 88 (31.77%) Firewall
2 62 (22.38%) DNS
3 51 (18.41%) VPN
4 44 (15.88%) WAN
5 38 (13.72%) DHCP
6 29 (10.47%) LAN
7 28 (10.11%) TCP/IP
8 19 (6.86%) VSAN
9 15 (5.42%) VLAN
10 13 (4.69%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (4.69%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.61%) BGP
12 9 (3.25%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.89%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (2.89%) SAN
14 6 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (2.17%) iSCSI
14 6 (2.17%) Network Security
14 6 (2.17%) WebEx
15 5 (1.81%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.89%) Power BI
3 6 (2.17%) MySQL
4 5 (1.81%) Tableau
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.61%) Git
2 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 2 (0.72%) Gradle
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) Mockito
5 2 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 78 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.88%) Finance
3 26 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.30%) Retail
5 13 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.69%) Banking
6 12 (4.33%) Law
6 12 (4.33%) Marketing
6 12 (4.33%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.97%) Legal
7 11 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.08%) Aviation
11 3 (1.08%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (25.27%) Senior
2 66 (23.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (14.80%) Consultant
4 27 (9.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (9.75%) Support Engineer
5 26 (9.39%) IT Engineer
6 25 (9.03%) Architect
7 22 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (7.94%) VMware Engineer
8 21 (7.58%) IT Support
8 21 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 21 (7.58%) VMware Consultant
9 20 (7.22%) Senior Consultant
10 18 (6.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 18 (6.50%) Technical Consultant
11 17 (6.14%) Cloud Consultant
12 16 (5.78%) Network Engineer
13 15 (5.42%) Infrastructure Architect
13 15 (5.42%) Senior Technical Consultant
13 15 (5.42%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.17%) XMPP
2 2 (0.72%) gRPC
2 2 (0.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.72%) REST
2 2 (0.72%) RESTful
3 1 (0.36%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.10%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (9.39%) Replication
4 23 (8.30%) Private Cloud
5 19 (6.86%) Enterprise Storage
6 14 (5.05%) Driving Licence
7 13 (4.69%) Public Cloud
8 10 (3.61%) CMDB
8 10 (3.61%) iSeries
8 10 (3.61%) Security Posture
9 9 (3.25%) PKI
10 8 (2.89%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.17%) FlexPod
12 6 (2.17%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.81%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.44%) Clustering
14 4 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
15 3 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
15 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 128 (46.21%) Windows
2 88 (31.77%) Windows Server
3 80 (28.88%) Linux
4 18 (6.50%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.78%) Unix
6 9 (3.25%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.81%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.72%) Android
11 2 (0.72%) CentOS
11 2 (0.72%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.36%) Solaris
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (31.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (14.44%) Presales
6 38 (13.72%) DevOps
7 32 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (10.83%) CI/CD
9 28 (10.11%) Vulnerability Management
10 26 (9.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (8.30%) ITIL
13 21 (7.58%) Mentoring
14 18 (6.50%) Migration
15 17 (6.14%) Business Continuity
15 17 (6.14%) Customer Engagement
15 17 (6.14%) Incident Response
15 17 (6.14%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.74%) PowerShell
2 50 (18.05%) Python
3 16 (5.78%) Bash
4 10 (3.61%) SQL
5 9 (3.25%) Go
6 5 (1.81%) VB
6 5 (1.81%) VBA
6 5 (1.81%) VBScript
7 4 (1.44%) Bicep
8 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.36%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) Rust
9 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (12.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.11%) VCAP
3 27 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.03%) Degree
5 23 (8.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (6.86%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.50%) VCDX
8 13 (4.69%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (3.61%) DV Cleared
11 9 (3.25%) CEH
11 9 (3.25%) MCSE
12 8 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.53%) CCNA
13 7 (2.53%) CCNP
14 6 (2.17%) Dell Certification
15 5 (1.81%) HNC
15 5 (1.81%) HND
15 5 (1.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.14%) NIST
2 16 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.42%) PMO
4 13 (4.69%) SLA
5 9 (3.25%) ISO 22301
6 6 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 173 (62.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (31.41%) Active Directory
3 71 (25.63%) Hyper-V
4 54 (19.49%) vSphere
5 43 (15.52%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.78%) vCloud
8 13 (4.69%) Firmware
9 10 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.53%) Docker
10 7 (2.53%) KVM
11 6 (2.17%) DFS Replication
11 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.44%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.72%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (18.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (16.61%) Terraform
3 42 (15.16%) Ansible
4 34 (12.27%) Kubernetes
5 22 (7.94%) vCenter Server
6 17 (6.14%) Grafana
7 16 (5.78%) Proxmox
8 14 (5.05%) SCCM
9 13 (4.69%) Prometheus
10 8 (2.89%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.17%) Avamar
11 6 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.17%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.17%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (2.17%) Packer
11 6 (2.17%) VxRail
12 5 (1.81%) Puppet
13 4 (1.44%) Graylog
13 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 128 (46.21%) Microsoft
2 47 (16.97%) Cisco
2 47 (16.97%) Veeam
3 33 (11.91%) NetApp
4 31 (11.19%) Dell
5 25 (9.03%) Commvault
6 22 (7.94%) Nimble Storage
6 22 (7.94%) Palo Alto
7 21 (7.58%) Broadcom
8 20 (7.22%) EMC
9 19 (6.86%) Fortinet
10 18 (6.50%) HP
10 18 (6.50%) Red Hat
11 16 (5.78%) IBM
12 14 (5.05%) Citrix
13 12 (4.33%) Splunk
14 10 (3.61%) 3PAR
14 10 (3.61%) Meraki
14 10 (3.61%) Sophos
15 9 (3.25%) ServiceNow