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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 124 86
Rank change year-on-year -36 -38 +8
Permanent jobs citing VMware 275 364 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.52% 2.70% 3.34%
As % of the Vendors category 4.97% 6.30% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 187 319 934
10th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% +6.00% -6.51%
75th Percentile £83,938 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +11.70% -7.84%

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 5,535 5,774 13,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.56% 42.75% 41.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 3,853 10,083
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,036
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 April 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 27 (9.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.45%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 149 (54.18%) Azure
2 92 (33.45%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (20.00%) AWS
4 42 (15.27%) Entra ID
5 39 (14.18%) Nutanix
6 16 (5.82%) GitHub
6 16 (5.82%) OneDrive
7 14 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (3.64%) GCP
9 9 (3.27%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.82%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.82%) IaaS
12 4 (1.45%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.45%) PaaS
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 85 (30.91%) Firewall
2 61 (22.18%) DNS
3 51 (18.55%) VPN
4 46 (16.73%) WAN
5 40 (14.55%) DHCP
6 32 (11.64%) TCP/IP
7 27 (9.82%) LAN
8 16 (5.82%) SD-WAN
9 14 (5.09%) VLAN
10 12 (4.36%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.64%) BGP
11 10 (3.64%) SAN
11 10 (3.64%) VSAN
12 8 (2.91%) Unified Communications
13 7 (2.55%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.55%) Network Security
14 6 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.18%) Wireless
15 5 (1.82%) MPLS
15 5 (1.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.91%) Power BI
3 5 (1.82%) MySQL
3 5 (1.82%) Tableau
4 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 2 (0.73%) Gradle
4 2 (0.73%) JUnit
4 2 (0.73%) Mockito
5 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 81 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.55%) Finance
3 26 (9.45%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.00%) Retail
5 15 (5.45%) Law
6 14 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.73%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.00%) Banking
8 11 (4.00%) Marketing
9 10 (3.64%) Legal
10 9 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.45%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.45%) Back Office
14 3 (1.09%) Aviation
15 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 69 (25.09%) Senior
2 64 (23.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (12.73%) Consultant
4 30 (10.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (10.91%) VMware Engineer
5 26 (9.45%) Support Engineer
6 24 (8.73%) IT Engineer
7 23 (8.36%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (7.27%) IT Support
8 20 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) Architect
10 14 (5.09%) Cloud Consultant
10 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.09%) VMware Consultant
11 13 (4.73%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.36%) Senior Consultant
12 12 (4.36%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) XMPP
2 2 (0.73%) gRPC
2 2 (0.73%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.73%) REST
2 2 (0.73%) RESTful
3 1 (0.36%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Kafka
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.09%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (8.00%) Private Cloud
4 21 (7.64%) Replication
5 14 (5.09%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.73%) Driving Licence
7 12 (4.36%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.27%) Security Posture
9 9 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.91%) Clustering
11 7 (2.55%) CMDB
11 7 (2.55%) iSeries
12 6 (2.18%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.82%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.82%) PKI
14 4 (1.45%) iPad
14 4 (1.45%) iPhone
14 4 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 133 (48.36%) Windows
2 96 (34.91%) Windows Server
3 81 (29.45%) Linux
4 21 (7.64%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.91%) Unix
6 12 (4.36%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.73%) Android
10 2 (0.73%) CentOS
10 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.73%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.36%) Solaris
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (29.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (17.82%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (13.45%) DevOps
7 33 (12.00%) ITIL
8 30 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.18%) Vulnerability Management
10 27 (9.82%) CI/CD
11 25 (9.09%) Presales
12 24 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (8.73%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (8.00%) Mentoring
14 21 (7.64%) Test Automation
15 19 (6.91%) BCP
15 19 (6.91%) Business Continuity
15 19 (6.91%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (6.55%) Migration
16 18 (6.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 66 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 53 (19.27%) Python
3 15 (5.45%) Bash
4 10 (3.64%) Go
4 10 (3.64%) SQL
5 5 (1.82%) Bicep
5 5 (1.82%) VB
5 5 (1.82%) VBA
5 5 (1.82%) VBScript
6 2 (0.73%) Java
6 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) Rust
7 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (11.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 23 (8.36%) Degree
5 22 (8.00%) Azure Certification
6 20 (7.27%) VCAP
7 18 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.45%) AWS Certification
9 14 (5.09%) MCSE
10 12 (4.36%) CEH
11 11 (4.00%) CCNA
11 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
12 9 (3.27%) CCNP
12 9 (3.27%) VCDX
13 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.82%) DBS Check
14 5 (1.82%) LPIC
14 5 (1.82%) MCSA
14 5 (1.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.36%) NIST
2 22 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.45%) SLA
4 12 (4.36%) ISO 22301
5 7 (2.55%) PMO
6 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 156 (56.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 85 (30.91%) Active Directory
3 65 (23.64%) Hyper-V
4 38 (13.82%) vSphere
5 35 (12.73%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (4.36%) Firmware
8 10 (3.64%) vCloud
8 10 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.18%) DFS Replication
9 6 (2.18%) Docker
10 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.09%) KVM
12 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.73%) Xen
14 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (20.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.36%) Ansible
3 44 (16.00%) Terraform
4 32 (11.64%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.27%) vCenter Server
6 16 (5.82%) Grafana
7 14 (5.09%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.09%) SCCM
8 12 (4.36%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.82%) Packer
9 5 (1.82%) Puppet
10 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.09%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.09%) Kibana
11 3 (1.09%) Nagios
12 2 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 128 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.45%) Cisco
3 32 (11.64%) Veeam
4 28 (10.18%) Commvault
5 22 (8.00%) NetApp
6 21 (7.64%) Dell
6 21 (7.64%) Fortinet
6 21 (7.64%) Red Hat
7 20 (7.27%) Palo Alto
8 14 (5.09%) EMC
9 13 (4.73%) Citrix
9 13 (4.73%) IBM
10 12 (4.36%) HP
11 11 (4.00%) Nimble Storage
11 11 (4.00%) Splunk
12 9 (3.27%) Broadcom
13 8 (2.91%) F5
13 8 (2.91%) Juniper
13 8 (2.91%) Sophos
14 7 (2.55%) CheckPoint