Hybrid/Remote VMware Job Trends

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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 3 November 2025, 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
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 92 74
Rank change year-on-year -96 -18 +37
Permanent jobs citing VMware 244 624 933
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.51% 3.15% 4.21%
As % of the Vendors category 3.01% 8.63% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 198 429 782
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £86,250 £80,375
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 8,102 7,227 8,984
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 50.12% 36.44% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,652 4,292 7,354
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.04%

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 3 November 2025.

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 50 (20.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.33%) IIS
2 13 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 129 (52.87%) Azure
2 94 (38.52%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (21.72%) AWS
4 31 (12.70%) Entra ID
5 26 (10.66%) GitHub
6 20 (8.20%) SaaS
7 19 (7.79%) IaaS
8 13 (5.33%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.92%) PaaS
10 11 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.69%) GCP
12 8 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (2.87%) Mimecast
13 7 (2.87%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.87%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (2.05%) Cohesity
16 3 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 91 (37.30%) Firewall
2 46 (18.85%) DHCP
2 46 (18.85%) DNS
3 38 (15.57%) VPN
4 34 (13.93%) WAN
5 29 (11.89%) SAN
6 25 (10.25%) TCP/IP
7 24 (9.84%) LAN
8 16 (6.56%) SD-WAN
9 12 (4.92%) VLAN
9 12 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (3.69%) Wireless
11 7 (2.87%) Network Security
11 7 (2.87%) Wireshark
12 6 (2.46%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (2.46%) IP Telephony
13 5 (2.05%) BGP
13 5 (2.05%) NAS
13 5 (2.05%) OSPF
14 4 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.92%) Data Hub
2 12 (4.92%) SQL CLR
3 6 (2.46%) Power BI
4 4 (1.64%) Metadata
4 4 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.23%) MySQL
5 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.51%) Git
2 9 (3.69%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.23%) GitLab
5 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.82%) JMeter
5 2 (0.82%) JUnit
5 2 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 86 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.54%) Finance
3 23 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.33%) Back Office
4 13 (5.33%) Marketing
5 11 (4.51%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.69%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.69%) Retail
6 9 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.46%) Legal
8 6 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.05%) Local Government
10 4 (1.64%) Law
11 3 (1.23%) Electronics
12 2 (0.82%) Advertising
12 2 (0.82%) Military
13 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.41%) Avionics
13 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (17.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (15.16%) Support Engineer
3 35 (14.34%) Senior
4 23 (9.43%) IT Support
5 19 (7.79%) 2nd Line Support
5 19 (7.79%) Infrastructure Manager
6 18 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.38%) IT Engineer
7 16 (6.56%) IT Manager
8 14 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) Analyst
9 13 (5.33%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) IT Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (4.10%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (4.10%) Consultant
11 10 (4.10%) Security Manager
12 9 (3.69%) Cisco Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) IT Sales Executive
12 9 (3.69%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.33%) .NET
2 8 (3.28%) .NET Core
2 8 (3.28%) .NET Framework
2 8 (3.28%) Dapper ORM
2 8 (3.28%) Entity Framework
2 8 (3.28%) Node.js
3 4 (1.64%) Kafka
4 3 (1.23%) JSON
4 3 (1.23%) LAMP
4 3 (1.23%) SAML
4 3 (1.23%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (0.82%) Hibernate
5 2 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.82%) Spring
5 2 (0.82%) WCF
6 1 (0.41%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.41%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.41%) REST
6 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.30%) Data Centre
2 18 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.15%) Private Cloud
5 14 (5.74%) Driving Licence
5 14 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.69%) CCTV
6 9 (3.69%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.28%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.28%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.46%) PKI
9 4 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.64%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.23%) Clustering
10 3 (1.23%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 137 (56.15%) Windows
2 94 (38.52%) Windows Server
3 66 (27.05%) Linux
4 22 (9.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (8.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 20 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (6.56%) Unix
7 13 (5.33%) Mac OS
8 11 (4.51%) CentOS
9 9 (3.69%) Solaris
9 9 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.46%) Debian
10 6 (2.46%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (2.05%) Android
11 5 (2.05%) Apple iOS
11 5 (2.05%) Mac OS X
12 4 (1.64%) HPUX
12 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
13 3 (1.23%) VMS
13 3 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (24.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 50 (20.49%) ITIL
4 47 (19.26%) Cybersecurity
5 44 (18.03%) Mentoring
6 40 (16.39%) DevOps
7 29 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (11.07%) Customer Service
10 26 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (10.25%) Migration
12 23 (9.43%) CI/CD
13 22 (9.02%) Project Delivery
13 22 (9.02%) Server Management
14 20 (8.20%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
16 15 (6.15%) High Availability
16 15 (6.15%) SIEM
17 14 (5.74%) Change Control
17 14 (5.74%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (22.54%) PowerShell
2 30 (12.30%) Python
3 22 (9.02%) SQL
4 15 (6.15%) Bash
5 10 (4.10%) Bicep
6 8 (3.28%) C#
7 5 (2.05%) Korn
8 4 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.23%) Java
10 1 (0.41%) Go
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 26 (10.66%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (9.02%) Degree
5 22 (9.02%) MCP
6 21 (8.61%) MCSE
7 20 (8.20%) CCNA
7 20 (8.20%) MCSA
8 17 (6.97%) Azure Certification
8 17 (6.97%) CCNP
9 13 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (4.10%) DBS Check
11 9 (3.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (3.28%) AWS Certification
12 8 (3.28%) CCA
12 8 (3.28%) Citrix Certification
13 7 (2.87%) DV Cleared
14 6 (2.46%) CISSP
14 6 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.61%) SLA
2 17 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.10%) NIST
4 9 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.05%) GDPR
6 3 (1.23%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 140 (57.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 90 (36.89%) Active Directory
3 55 (22.54%) Hyper-V
4 28 (11.48%) vSphere
5 21 (8.61%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (4.10%) Docker
8 8 (3.28%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.87%) Firmware
10 6 (2.46%) NFS
10 6 (2.46%) XenApp
11 2 (0.82%) KVM
12 1 (0.41%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.41%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.41%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.41%) Postfix
12 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (22.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (16.39%) Terraform
3 35 (14.34%) Ansible
4 22 (9.02%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.92%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.10%) SCCM
7 6 (2.46%) Proxmox
7 6 (2.46%) SCOM
8 4 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.64%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.23%) Nessus
9 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.23%) Puppet
9 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.23%) SmoothWall
9 3 (1.23%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.41%) Nagios
10 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 141 (57.79%) Microsoft
2 62 (25.41%) Cisco
3 29 (11.89%) Veeam
4 21 (8.61%) Dell
5 19 (7.79%) NetApp
6 16 (6.56%) Citrix
7 14 (5.74%) Red Hat
7 14 (5.74%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.92%) Commvault
8 12 (4.92%) Palo Alto
9 11 (4.51%) HP
10 10 (4.10%) 3PAR
10 10 (4.10%) Meraki
10 10 (4.10%) Oracle
11 8 (3.28%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.87%) EMC
12 7 (2.87%) F5
12 7 (2.87%) Pure Storage
12 7 (2.87%) Ubiquiti
13 6 (2.46%) SAP