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 21 June 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
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 175 93
Rank change year-on-year +1 -82 -5
Permanent jobs citing VMware 293 330 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 2.13% 2.98%
As % of the Vendors category 4.64% 4.41% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 214 286 878
10th Percentile £36,250 £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 £78,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 6,318 7,491 13,486
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.27% 48.34% 38.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,358 3,928 9,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,675 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £70,350
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +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

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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 21 June 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 51 (17.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (10.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.73%) IIS
4 5 (1.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Site Server
Applications
1 21 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (60.07%) Azure
2 101 (34.47%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (22.87%) AWS
4 50 (17.06%) Entra ID
5 39 (13.31%) Nutanix
6 23 (7.85%) GitHub
7 15 (5.12%) IaaS
8 14 (4.78%) GCP
8 14 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.44%) PaaS
10 11 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (2.73%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.73%) OneDrive
11 8 (2.73%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.73%) Serverless
12 7 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.39%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 104 (35.49%) Firewall
2 77 (26.28%) DNS
3 75 (25.60%) VPN
4 51 (17.41%) DHCP
5 46 (15.70%) WAN
6 34 (11.60%) LAN
7 33 (11.26%) TCP/IP
8 22 (7.51%) VSAN
9 20 (6.83%) VLAN
10 12 (4.10%) Network Security
11 11 (3.75%) SD-WAN
12 10 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (3.07%) SAN
14 8 (2.73%) BGP
14 8 (2.73%) Unified Communications
15 7 (2.39%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (2.05%) Fibre Channel
16 6 (2.05%) iSCSI
16 6 (2.05%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (2.73%) Power BI
3 6 (2.05%) MySQL
4 5 (1.71%) Tableau
5 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.14%) Git
2 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.37%) GitLab
5 2 (0.68%) Gradle
5 2 (0.68%) JUnit
5 2 (0.68%) Mockito
6 1 (0.34%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 100 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.29%) Finance
3 26 (8.87%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.85%) Retail
5 19 (6.48%) Law
6 13 (4.44%) Banking
6 13 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.10%) Marketing
8 11 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.41%) Legal
9 10 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.02%) Aviation
12 3 (1.02%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (23.89%) Senior
2 69 (23.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (13.31%) Consultant
4 35 (11.95%) Support Engineer
5 33 (11.26%) IT Engineer
6 27 (9.22%) Architect
7 26 (8.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 25 (8.53%) IT Support
8 25 (8.53%) IT Support Engineer
9 22 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (6.83%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (6.48%) Analyst
11 19 (6.48%) VMware Consultant
12 18 (6.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 18 (6.14%) Technical Consultant
12 18 (6.14%) VMware Architect
13 17 (5.80%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (5.46%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (5.12%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.05%) XMPP
2 5 (1.71%) Middleware
3 2 (0.68%) gRPC
3 2 (0.68%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (0.68%) REST
3 2 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.34%) J2EE
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 69 (23.55%) Data Centre
2 40 (13.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (9.22%) Replication
4 22 (7.51%) Private Cloud
5 21 (7.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 21 (7.17%) Public Cloud
6 20 (6.83%) Security Posture
7 19 (6.48%) Driving Licence
8 11 (3.75%) CMDB
8 11 (3.75%) iSeries
9 9 (3.07%) PKI
10 8 (2.73%) Podcast
11 7 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (2.05%) FlexPod
12 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.05%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.71%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
15 3 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 150 (51.19%) Windows
2 97 (33.11%) Windows Server
3 78 (26.62%) Linux
4 18 (6.14%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.44%) Unix
6 9 (3.07%) VMS
7 8 (2.73%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.39%) Mac OS
9 6 (2.05%) Apple iOS
10 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.68%) Android
12 2 (0.68%) CentOS
13 1 (0.34%) Debian
13 1 (0.34%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.34%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (33.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 95 (32.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 55 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (18.09%) Cybersecurity
5 44 (15.02%) Presales
6 43 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (14.33%) DevOps
8 37 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (12.29%) CI/CD
10 32 (10.92%) Mentoring
11 26 (8.87%) Business Continuity
11 26 (8.87%) Vulnerability Management
12 25 (8.53%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (8.19%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (7.51%) Incident Response
15 22 (7.51%) ITIL
16 21 (7.17%) Performance Tuning
17 20 (6.83%) Project Delivery
17 20 (6.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (26.96%) PowerShell
2 49 (16.72%) Python
3 25 (8.53%) Bash
4 23 (7.85%) SQL
5 11 (3.75%) Bicep
6 10 (3.41%) Go
7 8 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.71%) VB
8 5 (1.71%) VBA
8 5 (1.71%) VBScript
9 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.34%) Java
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) Rust
11 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (11.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 31 (10.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (9.90%) VCAP
4 28 (9.56%) Azure Certification
5 27 (9.22%) Security Cleared
6 26 (8.87%) SC Cleared
7 25 (8.53%) Degree
8 21 (7.17%) VCDX
9 15 (5.12%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (3.75%) AWS Certification
10 11 (3.75%) CCNA
10 11 (3.75%) CCNP
11 10 (3.41%) DV Cleared
12 9 (3.07%) MCSE
13 8 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.39%) CEH
15 6 (2.05%) Dell Certification
16 5 (1.71%) HNC
16 5 (1.71%) HND
16 5 (1.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.12%) NIST
2 15 (5.12%) PMO
3 14 (4.78%) SLA
4 10 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.39%) ISO 22301
6 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.68%) GDPR
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 194 (66.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 105 (35.84%) Active Directory
3 88 (30.03%) Hyper-V
4 68 (23.21%) vSphere
5 42 (14.33%) VMware NSX
6 22 (7.51%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.46%) vCloud
8 13 (4.44%) Firmware
9 10 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (2.73%) Docker
11 7 (2.39%) KVM
12 6 (2.05%) DFS Replication
12 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (2.05%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (2.05%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.02%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.68%) Xen
15 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 54 (18.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (17.75%) Terraform
3 40 (13.65%) Ansible
4 35 (11.95%) Kubernetes
5 25 (8.53%) vCenter Server
6 17 (5.80%) Grafana
7 16 (5.46%) Proxmox
8 14 (4.78%) Prometheus
9 13 (4.44%) SCCM
10 8 (2.73%) ZABBIX
11 6 (2.05%) Avamar
11 6 (2.05%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.05%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (2.05%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (2.05%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (2.05%) Packer
11 6 (2.05%) Puppet
11 6 (2.05%) VxRail
12 4 (1.37%) Graylog
12 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 157 (53.58%) Microsoft
2 53 (18.09%) Veeam
3 51 (17.41%) Cisco
4 33 (11.26%) NetApp
5 31 (10.58%) Dell
6 25 (8.53%) Broadcom
6 25 (8.53%) Commvault
6 25 (8.53%) Palo Alto
7 23 (7.85%) Fortinet
7 23 (7.85%) Nimble Storage
8 21 (7.17%) EMC
9 19 (6.48%) HP
10 17 (5.80%) IBM
11 15 (5.12%) Citrix
12 13 (4.44%) Red Hat
12 13 (4.44%) ServiceNow
12 13 (4.44%) Splunk
13 11 (3.75%) Meraki
14 10 (3.41%) Sophos
15 9 (3.07%) 3PAR