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 10 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
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 92 73
Rank change year-on-year -95 -19 +33
Permanent jobs citing VMware 236 622 941
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.50% 3.16% 4.26%
As % of the Vendors category 3.04% 8.65% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 188 426 787
10th Percentile £29,175 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +3.64%
75th Percentile £69,063 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £84,375 £80,925
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 7,768 7,189 8,985
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 49.25% 36.53% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,648 4,247 7,349
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,750
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% - +3.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.93%

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 10 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 40 (16.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.66%) IIS
4 2 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 121 (51.27%) Azure
2 86 (36.44%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (22.03%) AWS
4 30 (12.71%) Entra ID
5 26 (11.02%) GitHub
6 16 (6.78%) IaaS
7 14 (5.93%) SaaS
8 13 (5.51%) Nutanix
9 12 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (4.66%) PaaS
11 9 (3.81%) GCP
12 8 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.54%) Mimecast
13 6 (2.54%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.12%) Cohesity
14 5 (2.12%) OneDrive
15 3 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (36.86%) Firewall
2 44 (18.64%) DNS
3 42 (17.80%) DHCP
4 36 (15.25%) VPN
5 33 (13.98%) WAN
6 27 (11.44%) SAN
7 23 (9.75%) TCP/IP
8 22 (9.32%) LAN
9 16 (6.78%) SD-WAN
10 12 (5.08%) VLAN
10 12 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.97%) IP Telephony
11 7 (2.97%) Wireshark
12 6 (2.54%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (2.54%) Network Security
12 6 (2.54%) Wireless
13 5 (2.12%) BGP
13 5 (2.12%) NAS
13 5 (2.12%) OSPF
14 4 (1.69%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.24%) Data Hub
2 10 (4.24%) SQL CLR
3 5 (2.12%) Power BI
4 3 (1.27%) Metadata
4 3 (1.27%) MySQL
4 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.27%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.66%) Git
2 9 (3.81%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.69%) GitLab
5 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.85%) JMeter
6 2 (0.85%) JUnit
6 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 83 (35.17%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.34%) Finance
3 22 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.51%) Marketing
5 11 (4.66%) Back Office
6 10 (4.24%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.39%) Retail
9 6 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Law
10 4 (1.69%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Local Government
12 2 (0.85%) Advertising
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Military
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) Avionics
13 1 (0.42%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (17.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (15.25%) Support Engineer
3 35 (14.83%) Senior
4 24 (10.17%) IT Support
5 19 (8.05%) IT Engineer
6 18 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.63%) Infrastructure Manager
7 17 (7.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 16 (6.78%) IT Manager
9 14 (5.93%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (5.93%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.08%) IT Infrastructure Manager
11 12 (5.08%) VMware Engineer
12 11 (4.66%) Analyst
12 11 (4.66%) Consultant
13 10 (4.24%) Security Manager
14 9 (3.81%) 3rd Line Support
14 9 (3.81%) Sales Executive
14 9 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.08%) .NET
2 8 (3.39%) Node.js
3 7 (2.97%) .NET Core
3 7 (2.97%) .NET Framework
3 7 (2.97%) Dapper ORM
3 7 (2.97%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.27%) JSON
4 3 (1.27%) Kafka
4 3 (1.27%) LAMP
4 3 (1.27%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (0.85%) Hibernate
5 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.85%) SAML
5 2 (0.85%) Spring
5 2 (0.85%) WCF
6 1 (0.42%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.42%) REST
6 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.71%) Data Centre
2 19 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (6.36%) Driving Licence
4 14 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.51%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.24%) CCTV
6 10 (4.24%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.39%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.39%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.12%) PKI
11 4 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.27%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.85%) Clustering
13 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 129 (54.66%) Windows
2 86 (36.44%) Windows Server
3 67 (28.39%) Linux
4 22 (9.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (7.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 16 (6.78%) Unix
7 15 (6.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (4.66%) CentOS
8 11 (4.66%) Mac OS
9 9 (3.81%) Solaris
10 6 (2.54%) Debian
10 6 (2.54%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (2.12%) Android
11 5 (2.12%) Apple iOS
11 5 (2.12%) Mac OS X
11 5 (2.12%) Ubuntu
12 4 (1.69%) HPUX
13 3 (1.27%) VMS
13 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (24.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (19.92%) ITIL
4 45 (19.07%) Cybersecurity
5 42 (17.80%) Mentoring
6 38 (16.10%) DevOps
7 28 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (11.02%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (10.59%) Migration
10 23 (9.75%) Server Management
11 22 (9.32%) Project Delivery
12 21 (8.90%) CI/CD
12 21 (8.90%) Customer Service
13 18 (7.63%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (7.63%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (6.36%) Change Control
14 15 (6.36%) Test Automation
15 14 (5.93%) SIEM
16 13 (5.51%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.92%) PowerShell
2 31 (13.14%) Python
3 21 (8.90%) SQL
4 15 (6.36%) Bash
5 10 (4.24%) Bicep
6 7 (2.97%) C#
7 5 (2.12%) Korn
8 4 (1.69%) Java
9 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.85%) Go
11 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (12.29%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (12.29%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.17%) MCP
4 24 (10.17%) MCSE
5 22 (9.32%) MCSA
6 21 (8.90%) CCNA
7 20 (8.47%) Degree
8 17 (7.20%) Azure Certification
8 17 (7.20%) CCNP
9 13 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.81%) CCA
10 9 (3.81%) Citrix Certification
10 9 (3.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 8 (3.39%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.97%) DBS Check
12 7 (2.97%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.05%) SLA
2 18 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.66%) NIST
4 10 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.12%) GDPR
6 3 (1.27%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 125 (52.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (34.75%) Active Directory
3 55 (23.31%) Hyper-V
4 27 (11.44%) vSphere
5 19 (8.05%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (4.24%) Docker
8 8 (3.39%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.97%) Firmware
10 6 (2.54%) NFS
11 4 (1.69%) XenApp
12 2 (0.85%) KVM
13 1 (0.42%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.42%) Postfix
13 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (21.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (17.37%) Terraform
3 33 (13.98%) Ansible
4 22 (9.32%) Kubernetes
5 12 (5.08%) vCenter Server
6 10 (4.24%) SCCM
7 6 (2.54%) Proxmox
7 6 (2.54%) SCOM
8 5 (2.12%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.27%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.27%) Nessus
9 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.27%) Puppet
9 3 (1.27%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.85%) Kibana
10 2 (0.85%) Nagios
10 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.42%) Icinga
Vendors
1 132 (55.93%) Microsoft
2 60 (25.42%) Cisco
3 29 (12.29%) Veeam
4 21 (8.90%) Dell
5 18 (7.63%) NetApp
6 15 (6.36%) Citrix
7 14 (5.93%) Red Hat
7 14 (5.93%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.51%) Commvault
9 10 (4.24%) 3PAR
9 10 (4.24%) HP
9 10 (4.24%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.81%) Oracle
11 7 (2.97%) Draytek
11 7 (2.97%) F5
11 7 (2.97%) Juniper
11 7 (2.97%) Meraki
11 7 (2.97%) Mitel
11 7 (2.97%) Ubiquiti
11 7 (2.97%) WatchGuard