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 23 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
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 118 86
Rank change year-on-year -38 -32 +9
Permanent jobs citing VMware 279 370 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.56% 2.76% 3.37%
As % of the Vendors category 5.04% 6.44% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 189 329 944
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,400 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,938 £68,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,000 £78,925
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -6.68%

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 5,538 5,741 13,444
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.93% 42.89% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,545 3,889 10,115
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,750 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £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 23 April 2026.

VMware salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

VMware
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 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.43%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 148 (53.05%) Azure
2 94 (33.69%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (20.43%) AWS
4 43 (15.41%) Entra ID
5 39 (13.98%) Nutanix
6 16 (5.73%) OneDrive
7 15 (5.38%) GitHub
8 13 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.58%) GCP
10 9 (3.23%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.79%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.43%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.43%) IaaS
13 4 (1.43%) Mimecast
14 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (31.18%) Firewall
2 61 (21.86%) DNS
3 50 (17.92%) VPN
4 46 (16.49%) WAN
5 41 (14.70%) DHCP
6 33 (11.83%) TCP/IP
7 27 (9.68%) LAN
8 16 (5.73%) SD-WAN
9 14 (5.02%) VLAN
10 12 (4.30%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.58%) BGP
11 10 (3.58%) SAN
11 10 (3.58%) VSAN
12 8 (2.87%) Unified Communications
13 7 (2.51%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.51%) Network Security
13 7 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.15%) Wireless
15 5 (1.79%) MPLS
15 5 (1.79%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.87%) Power BI
3 6 (2.15%) MySQL
4 5 (1.79%) Tableau
5 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.87%) Git
2 5 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.08%) GitLab
5 2 (0.72%) Gradle
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) Mockito
6 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 82 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.28%) Finance
3 26 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.89%) Retail
5 15 (5.38%) Law
6 14 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.02%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.94%) Banking
8 11 (3.94%) Marketing
9 10 (3.58%) Legal
10 8 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.43%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.43%) Back Office
14 3 (1.08%) Aviation
15 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 72 (25.81%) Senior
2 63 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 34 (12.19%) Consultant
4 30 (10.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (10.75%) VMware Engineer
5 28 (10.04%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.32%) IT Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) IT Support
7 22 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (5.73%) Architect
9 14 (5.02%) Cloud Consultant
9 14 (5.02%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 14 (5.02%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (5.02%) VMware Consultant
10 13 (4.66%) Network Engineer
10 13 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Senior Consultant
11 12 (4.30%) Systems Administrator
11 12 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.79%) XMPP
2 2 (0.72%) .NET
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%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Kafka
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.36%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.85%) Data Centre
2 40 (14.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.53%) Replication
4 20 (7.17%) Private Cloud
5 13 (4.66%) Driving Licence
5 13 (4.66%) Public Cloud
6 12 (4.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.58%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.23%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.87%) Clustering
10 7 (2.51%) iSeries
11 6 (2.15%) CMDB
11 6 (2.15%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.79%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.79%) PKI
13 4 (1.43%) CCTV
13 4 (1.43%) iPad
13 4 (1.43%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 136 (48.75%) Windows
2 98 (35.13%) Windows Server
3 85 (30.47%) Linux
4 21 (7.53%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.81%) Unix
6 12 (4.30%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.51%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.08%) VMS
12 2 (0.72%) Android
12 2 (0.72%) CentOS
12 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.36%) Solaris
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (28.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (17.56%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (14.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (13.62%) DevOps
7 34 (12.19%) ITIL
8 29 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.04%) Vulnerability Management
10 27 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 24 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (8.60%) Presales
12 23 (8.24%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (7.89%) Mentoring
14 21 (7.53%) Test Automation
15 19 (6.81%) BCP
15 19 (6.81%) Project Delivery
15 19 (6.81%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (6.81%) Service Delivery
16 18 (6.45%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 66 (23.66%) PowerShell
2 52 (18.64%) Python
3 15 (5.38%) Bash
4 10 (3.58%) Go
4 10 (3.58%) SQL
5 5 (1.79%) Bicep
5 5 (1.79%) VB
5 5 (1.79%) VBA
5 5 (1.79%) VBScript
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) Rust
7 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (11.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.32%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 22 (7.89%) Degree
5 21 (7.53%) Azure Certification
6 20 (7.17%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (7.17%) VCAP
7 16 (5.73%) MCSE
8 15 (5.38%) AWS Certification
9 13 (4.66%) CCNA
9 13 (4.66%) DV Cleared
10 12 (4.30%) CEH
11 10 (3.58%) CCNP
12 9 (3.23%) VCDX
13 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.51%) MCSA
14 6 (2.15%) DBS Check
15 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (1.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.24%) NIST
2 22 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.73%) SLA
4 12 (4.30%) ISO 22301
5 7 (2.51%) PMO
6 6 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 156 (55.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (30.82%) Active Directory
3 65 (23.30%) Hyper-V
4 40 (14.34%) vSphere
5 36 (12.90%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.17%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (4.66%) Firmware
8 10 (3.58%) vCloud
8 10 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (2.51%) Docker
10 6 (2.15%) DFS Replication
11 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.08%) KVM
13 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.72%) Xen
15 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 59 (21.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.13%) Ansible
3 44 (15.77%) Terraform
4 32 (11.47%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.17%) vCenter Server
6 16 (5.73%) Grafana
7 14 (5.02%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.02%) SCCM
8 12 (4.30%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.79%) Puppet
10 4 (1.43%) Packer
10 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.43%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.08%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.08%) Kibana
11 3 (1.08%) Nagios
12 2 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 131 (46.95%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.56%) Cisco
3 32 (11.47%) Veeam
4 28 (10.04%) Commvault
5 22 (7.89%) NetApp
6 21 (7.53%) Dell
6 21 (7.53%) Fortinet
6 21 (7.53%) Red Hat
7 19 (6.81%) Palo Alto
8 15 (5.38%) Citrix
9 13 (4.66%) EMC
9 13 (4.66%) IBM
10 12 (4.30%) HP
11 11 (3.94%) Nimble Storage
11 11 (3.94%) Splunk
12 9 (3.23%) Broadcom
13 8 (2.87%) Draytek
13 8 (2.87%) Juniper
13 8 (2.87%) Sophos
14 7 (2.51%) Barracuda Networks