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 26 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
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 157 88
Rank change year-on-year -16 -69 +5
Permanent jobs citing VMware 269 347 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.42% 2.38% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 4.64% 5.01% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 191 300 892
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £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 £85,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +15.56% -12.62%

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 5,800 6,922 13,249
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.62% 47.57% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,826 3,694 9,821
10th Percentile £32,000 £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 £96,175 £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 26 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 29 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (8.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.86%) Confluence
4 4 (1.49%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.49%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 140 (52.04%) Azure
2 84 (31.23%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (22.30%) AWS
4 43 (15.99%) Nutanix
5 39 (14.50%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.32%) GitHub
7 14 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.83%) GCP
9 12 (4.46%) OneDrive
10 9 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.86%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.86%) IaaS
14 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.49%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.49%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.49%) PaaS
15 3 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (31.23%) Firewall
2 58 (21.56%) DNS
3 48 (17.84%) VPN
4 40 (14.87%) WAN
5 35 (13.01%) DHCP
6 27 (10.04%) TCP/IP
7 26 (9.67%) LAN
8 19 (7.06%) VSAN
9 14 (5.20%) VLAN
10 13 (4.83%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (4.46%) SD-WAN
12 10 (3.72%) BGP
13 9 (3.35%) Unified Communications
14 8 (2.97%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (2.60%) SAN
16 6 (2.23%) Fibre Channel
16 6 (2.23%) iSCSI
16 6 (2.23%) WebEx
17 5 (1.86%) MPLS
17 5 (1.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.97%) Power BI
3 6 (2.23%) MySQL
4 5 (1.86%) Tableau
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.72%) Git
2 6 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.12%) GitLab
5 2 (0.74%) Gradle
5 2 (0.74%) JUnit
5 2 (0.74%) Mockito
5 2 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 73 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.99%) Finance
3 25 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.18%) Retail
5 14 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.46%) Banking
6 12 (4.46%) Law
6 12 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.46%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.09%) Marketing
8 10 (3.72%) Legal
8 10 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) Aviation
11 3 (1.12%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (25.65%) Senior
2 63 (23.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (15.24%) Consultant
4 26 (9.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.29%) Architect
5 25 (9.29%) IT Engineer
5 25 (9.29%) Support Engineer
6 22 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (8.18%) VMware Engineer
7 21 (7.81%) VMware Consultant
8 20 (7.43%) IT Support
8 20 (7.43%) IT Support Engineer
8 20 (7.43%) Senior Consultant
9 18 (6.69%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 18 (6.69%) Technical Consultant
10 17 (6.32%) Cloud Consultant
11 16 (5.95%) Network Engineer
12 15 (5.58%) Infrastructure Architect
12 15 (5.58%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 15 (5.58%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.23%) XMPP
2 2 (0.74%) gRPC
2 2 (0.74%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.74%) REST
2 2 (0.74%) RESTful
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) J2EE
3 1 (0.37%) JSON
3 1 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.05%) Data Centre
2 36 (13.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (8.92%) Replication
4 22 (8.18%) Private Cloud
5 18 (6.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 13 (4.83%) Driving Licence
6 13 (4.83%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.35%) CMDB
7 9 (3.35%) iSeries
7 9 (3.35%) PKI
7 9 (3.35%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.97%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (2.60%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.23%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 5 (1.86%) Clustering
11 5 (1.86%) Raspberry Pi
12 4 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 125 (46.47%) Windows
2 86 (31.97%) Windows Server
3 81 (30.11%) Linux
4 18 (6.69%) Windows 10
5 17 (6.32%) Unix
6 9 (3.35%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.60%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.74%) Android
10 2 (0.74%) CentOS
10 2 (0.74%) VMS
11 1 (0.37%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.37%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.37%) Solaris
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (30.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (17.10%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (14.50%) DevOps
6 39 (14.50%) Presales
7 30 (11.15%) CI/CD
8 29 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.41%) Vulnerability Management
10 26 (9.67%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (8.92%) ITIL
13 20 (7.43%) Mentoring
14 17 (6.32%) Migration
14 17 (6.32%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (5.95%) Project Delivery
16 15 (5.58%) Business Continuity
16 15 (5.58%) Configuration Management
16 15 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.05%) PowerShell
2 51 (18.96%) Python
3 16 (5.95%) Bash
4 10 (3.72%) SQL
5 9 (3.35%) Go
6 5 (1.86%) VB
6 5 (1.86%) VBA
6 5 (1.86%) VBScript
7 4 (1.49%) Bicep
8 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.37%) Java
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
9 1 (0.37%) Rust
9 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (12.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.41%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.41%) VCAP
3 27 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.29%) Degree
5 22 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (7.06%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.69%) VCDX
8 13 (4.83%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.72%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.35%) CEH
10 9 (3.35%) MCSE
11 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.23%) CCNA
12 6 (2.23%) CCNP
12 6 (2.23%) Dell Certification
13 5 (1.86%) HNC
13 5 (1.86%) HND
13 5 (1.86%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.32%) NIST
2 16 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.58%) PMO
4 12 (4.46%) SLA
5 9 (3.35%) ISO 22301
6 5 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 169 (62.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (30.48%) Active Directory
3 66 (24.54%) Hyper-V
4 53 (19.70%) vSphere
5 43 (15.99%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.95%) vCloud
8 12 (4.46%) Firmware
9 10 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.60%) Docker
10 7 (2.60%) KVM
11 6 (2.23%) DFS Replication
11 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.23%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.74%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.74%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (18.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (17.10%) Terraform
3 43 (15.99%) Ansible
4 34 (12.64%) Kubernetes
5 22 (8.18%) vCenter Server
6 17 (6.32%) Grafana
7 16 (5.95%) Proxmox
8 14 (5.20%) SCCM
9 13 (4.83%) Prometheus
10 8 (2.97%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.23%) Avamar
11 6 (2.23%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.23%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (2.23%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.23%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (2.23%) Packer
11 6 (2.23%) VxRail
12 5 (1.86%) Puppet
13 4 (1.49%) Graylog
13 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 122 (45.35%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.73%) Cisco
3 44 (16.36%) Veeam
4 33 (12.27%) NetApp
5 31 (11.52%) Dell
6 24 (8.92%) Commvault
7 22 (8.18%) Nimble Storage
8 21 (7.81%) Palo Alto
9 19 (7.06%) Broadcom
9 19 (7.06%) Red Hat
10 18 (6.69%) EMC
10 18 (6.69%) Fortinet
11 17 (6.32%) HP
12 15 (5.58%) IBM
13 14 (5.20%) Citrix
14 12 (4.46%) Splunk
15 10 (3.72%) 3PAR
16 9 (3.35%) Meraki
16 9 (3.35%) Sophos
17 8 (2.97%) ServiceNow