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 24 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
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 118 82
Rank change year-on-year -53 -36 +12
Permanent jobs citing VMware 277 365 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.54% 2.74% 3.36%
As % of the Vendors category 5.01% 6.37% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 187 324 942
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,300 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £83,938 £67,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -6.77%

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 5,529 5,730 13,444
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.81% 42.94% 41.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 3,869 10,113
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,750 £41,200
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 £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 24 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 (9.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (9.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 149 (53.79%) Azure
2 92 (33.21%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (19.86%) AWS
4 42 (15.16%) Entra ID
5 39 (14.08%) Nutanix
6 16 (5.78%) GitHub
6 16 (5.78%) OneDrive
7 14 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (3.61%) GCP
9 9 (3.25%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.81%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.81%) IaaS
12 4 (1.44%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.44%) PaaS
13 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 86 (31.05%) Firewall
2 61 (22.02%) DNS
3 50 (18.05%) VPN
4 46 (16.61%) WAN
5 41 (14.80%) DHCP
6 33 (11.91%) TCP/IP
7 27 (9.75%) LAN
8 16 (5.78%) SD-WAN
9 14 (5.05%) VLAN
10 12 (4.33%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.61%) BGP
11 10 (3.61%) SAN
11 10 (3.61%) VSAN
12 8 (2.89%) Unified Communications
13 7 (2.53%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.53%) Network Security
13 7 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (2.17%) Wireless
15 5 (1.81%) MPLS
15 5 (1.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.89%) Power BI
3 5 (1.81%) MySQL
3 5 (1.81%) Tableau
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.08%) 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 (3.25%) Git
2 5 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.08%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) Gradle
4 2 (0.72%) JUnit
4 2 (0.72%) Mockito
5 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 82 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.41%) Finance
3 26 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.94%) Retail
5 15 (5.42%) Law
6 14 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.97%) Banking
8 11 (3.97%) Marketing
9 10 (3.61%) Legal
10 9 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.44%) Back Office
14 3 (1.08%) Aviation
15 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 70 (25.27%) Senior
2 63 (22.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (12.64%) Consultant
4 30 (10.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 30 (10.83%) VMware Engineer
5 27 (9.75%) Support Engineer
6 25 (9.03%) IT Engineer
7 23 (8.30%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (7.58%) IT Support
8 21 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (5.78%) Architect
10 14 (5.05%) Cloud Consultant
10 14 (5.05%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 14 (5.05%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.05%) VMware Consultant
11 13 (4.69%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.33%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (4.33%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.81%) XMPP
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%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) J2EE
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Kafka
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.97%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (7.94%) Private Cloud
4 21 (7.58%) Replication
5 14 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 12 (4.33%) Driving Licence
6 12 (4.33%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.25%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.89%) Clustering
10 7 (2.53%) CMDB
10 7 (2.53%) iSeries
11 6 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.81%) FlexPod
12 5 (1.81%) PKI
13 4 (1.44%) iPad
13 4 (1.44%) iPhone
13 4 (1.44%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 134 (48.38%) Windows
2 97 (35.02%) Windows Server
3 82 (29.60%) Linux
4 21 (7.58%) Windows 10
5 19 (6.86%) Unix
6 12 (4.33%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.72%) Android
11 2 (0.72%) CentOS
11 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.72%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.36%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.36%) Solaris
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (28.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 49 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (13.36%) DevOps
7 33 (11.91%) ITIL
8 30 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.11%) Vulnerability Management
10 27 (9.75%) CI/CD
11 25 (9.03%) Presales
12 24 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (8.66%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (8.30%) Mentoring
14 21 (7.58%) Test Automation
15 19 (6.86%) BCP
15 19 (6.86%) Business Continuity
15 19 (6.86%) Project Delivery
15 19 (6.86%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (6.50%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.19%) PowerShell
2 53 (19.13%) Python
3 15 (5.42%) Bash
4 10 (3.61%) Go
4 10 (3.61%) SQL
5 5 (1.81%) Bicep
5 5 (1.81%) VB
5 5 (1.81%) VBA
5 5 (1.81%) 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 32 (11.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (10.47%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 23 (8.30%) Degree
5 22 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 20 (7.22%) VCAP
7 19 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.42%) AWS Certification
8 15 (5.42%) MCSE
9 12 (4.33%) CCNA
9 12 (4.33%) CEH
9 12 (4.33%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.25%) CCNP
10 9 (3.25%) VCDX
11 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.17%) MCSA
13 5 (1.81%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.81%) LPIC
13 5 (1.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.30%) NIST
2 22 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.78%) SLA
4 12 (4.33%) ISO 22301
5 7 (2.53%) PMO
6 5 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 157 (56.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (31.05%) Active Directory
3 64 (23.10%) Hyper-V
4 39 (14.08%) vSphere
5 35 (12.64%) VMware NSX
6 20 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (4.33%) Firmware
8 10 (3.61%) vCloud
8 10 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.17%) DFS Replication
9 6 (2.17%) Docker
10 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.08%) KVM
12 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.72%) Xen
14 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (20.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.25%) Ansible
3 44 (15.88%) Terraform
4 32 (11.55%) Kubernetes
5 20 (7.22%) vCenter Server
6 16 (5.78%) Grafana
7 14 (5.05%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.05%) SCCM
8 12 (4.33%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.81%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.81%) Packer
9 5 (1.81%) Puppet
10 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.44%) 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 (47.29%) Microsoft
2 49 (17.69%) Cisco
3 32 (11.55%) Veeam
4 28 (10.11%) Commvault
5 22 (7.94%) NetApp
6 21 (7.58%) Dell
6 21 (7.58%) Fortinet
6 21 (7.58%) Red Hat
7 20 (7.22%) Palo Alto
8 15 (5.42%) Citrix
9 14 (5.05%) EMC
10 13 (4.69%) IBM
11 12 (4.33%) HP
12 11 (3.97%) Nimble Storage
12 11 (3.97%) Splunk
13 9 (3.25%) Broadcom
14 8 (2.89%) F5
14 8 (2.89%) Juniper
14 8 (2.89%) Sophos
15 7 (2.53%) Meraki