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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 168 93
Rank change year-on-year -16 -75 -8
Permanent jobs citing VMware 300 333 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 2.06% 3.06%
As % of the Vendors category 4.47% 4.33% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 218 291 860
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £91,625 £76,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%

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 6,708 7,695 12,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.04% 47.49% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,696 4,067 9,297
10th Percentile £32,125 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.07% +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 5 July 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 57 (19.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (11.00%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.00%) IIS
4 5 (1.67%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.33%) Weka
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Houdini
4 1 (0.33%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (63.67%) Azure
2 105 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (24.67%) AWS
4 52 (17.33%) Entra ID
5 38 (12.67%) Nutanix
6 27 (9.00%) GitHub
7 19 (6.33%) IaaS
8 17 (5.67%) PaaS
9 15 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (5.00%) GCP
10 14 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (4.00%) Azure Functions
11 12 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.00%) Serverless
12 8 (2.67%) OneDrive
12 8 (2.67%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (39.33%) Firewall
2 85 (28.33%) DNS
3 83 (27.67%) VPN
4 56 (18.67%) DHCP
5 50 (16.67%) WAN
6 41 (13.67%) LAN
7 39 (13.00%) TCP/IP
8 22 (7.33%) VSAN
9 21 (7.00%) VLAN
10 13 (4.33%) Network Security
11 10 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (3.00%) BGP
12 9 (3.00%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.67%) Unified Communications
14 7 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (2.33%) SAN
15 6 (2.00%) iSCSI
15 6 (2.00%) MPLS
15 6 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.67%) Power BI
4 6 (2.00%) MySQL
5 5 (1.67%) Tableau
6 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.33%) Git
2 6 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.33%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) Gradle
5 2 (0.67%) JUnit
5 2 (0.67%) Mockito
6 1 (0.33%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 111 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.00%) Finance
3 29 (9.67%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.33%) Retail
5 21 (7.00%) Law
6 17 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.67%) Banking
7 14 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.33%) Marketing
9 11 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.67%) Legal
10 8 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.00%) Back Office
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Aviation
13 2 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 71 (23.67%) Senior
2 62 (20.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 42 (14.00%) Consultant
4 41 (13.67%) Support Engineer
5 35 (11.67%) IT Engineer
6 29 (9.67%) Architect
6 29 (9.67%) IT Support
7 27 (9.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 25 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (8.00%) Analyst
10 20 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (6.33%) Technical Consultant
11 19 (6.33%) VMware Consultant
12 18 (6.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 18 (6.00%) VMware Architect
13 17 (5.67%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (5.33%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (5.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.00%) Middleware
2 6 (2.00%) XMPP
3 2 (0.67%) gRPC
3 2 (0.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (0.67%) REST
3 2 (0.67%) RESTful
3 2 (0.67%) Web Services
4 1 (0.33%) J2EE
4 1 (0.33%) JSON
4 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.33%) Data Centre
2 39 (13.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (9.00%) Replication
4 26 (8.67%) Public Cloud
5 23 (7.67%) Private Cloud
5 23 (7.67%) Security Posture
6 22 (7.33%) Driving Licence
7 21 (7.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 12 (4.00%) Podcast
9 11 (3.67%) iSeries
10 10 (3.33%) CMDB
11 9 (3.00%) PKI
12 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
12 8 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (2.00%) FlexPod
13 6 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (2.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 5 (1.67%) Raspberry Pi
15 4 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
16 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 159 (53.00%) Windows
2 101 (33.67%) Windows Server
3 82 (27.33%) Linux
4 18 (6.00%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.67%) Unix
6 13 (4.33%) VMS
7 9 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.33%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.00%) CentOS
12 2 (0.67%) Android
12 2 (0.67%) Solaris
12 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.33%) Debian
13 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 91 (30.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 64 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (15.67%) Presales
6 45 (15.00%) DevOps
7 40 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 36 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (11.33%) Mentoring
10 30 (10.00%) Business Continuity
11 27 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 27 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (8.33%) ITIL
13 24 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (8.00%) Project Delivery
14 23 (7.67%) AI
14 23 (7.67%) High Availability
14 23 (7.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (28.67%) PowerShell
2 50 (16.67%) Python
3 31 (10.33%) SQL
4 30 (10.00%) Bash
5 15 (5.00%) Bicep
6 12 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (3.33%) Go
8 5 (1.67%) VB
8 5 (1.67%) VBA
8 5 (1.67%) VBScript
9 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) Java
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (12.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 36 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 36 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 29 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 29 (9.67%) VCAP
5 25 (8.33%) Degree
6 21 (7.00%) VCDX
7 17 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.33%) CCNP
9 12 (4.00%) CCNA
10 10 (3.33%) DV Cleared
11 9 (3.00%) AWS Certification
11 9 (3.00%) MCSE
12 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.33%) RHCSA
13 6 (2.00%) CEH
13 6 (2.00%) Dell Certification
14 5 (1.67%) HNC
14 5 (1.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.33%) SLA
2 15 (5.00%) PMO
3 14 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.33%) NIST
5 10 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.00%) ISO 22301
7 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.67%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 208 (69.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 105 (35.00%) Active Directory
3 98 (32.67%) Hyper-V
4 75 (25.00%) vSphere
5 43 (14.33%) VMware NSX
6 22 (7.33%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.33%) vCloud
8 14 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (4.33%) Firmware
10 10 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (2.67%) Docker
11 8 (2.67%) KVM
12 7 (2.33%) VMware Server
13 6 (2.00%) DFS Replication
13 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (1.00%) BitLocker
14 3 (1.00%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.67%) Squid
15 2 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (18.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 56 (18.67%) Terraform
2 42 (14.00%) Ansible
3 35 (11.67%) Kubernetes
4 23 (7.67%) vCenter Server
5 17 (5.67%) Grafana
6 16 (5.33%) Proxmox
7 14 (4.67%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.33%) SCCM
9 8 (2.67%) ZABBIX
10 7 (2.33%) Puppet
11 6 (2.00%) Avamar
11 6 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (2.00%) Packer
11 6 (2.00%) VxRail
12 4 (1.33%) Graylog
12 4 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 167 (55.67%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.00%) Veeam
3 53 (17.67%) Cisco
4 31 (10.33%) Dell
4 31 (10.33%) NetApp
5 27 (9.00%) Palo Alto
6 25 (8.33%) Broadcom
7 24 (8.00%) Commvault
7 24 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 23 (7.67%) Nimble Storage
9 21 (7.00%) EMC
10 19 (6.33%) HP
11 17 (5.67%) Citrix
11 17 (5.67%) IBM
12 14 (4.67%) Red Hat
13 13 (4.33%) ServiceNow
13 13 (4.33%) Splunk
14 12 (4.00%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (3.67%) Meraki
16 10 (3.33%) Sophos