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 4 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
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 169 94
Rank change year-on-year -20 -75 -9
Permanent jobs citing VMware 297 331 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 2.05% 3.04%
As % of the Vendors category 4.45% 4.31% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 216 289 858
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 £77,813 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £91,875 £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 6,670 7,676 12,851
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.02% 47.48% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,663 4,057 9,286
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £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 £96,000 £95,000 £87,500
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

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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 4 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 55 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (10.44%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.04%) IIS
4 5 (1.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.35%) Weka
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Houdini
4 1 (0.34%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (63.30%) Azure
2 102 (34.34%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (24.92%) AWS
4 51 (17.17%) Entra ID
5 38 (12.79%) Nutanix
6 27 (9.09%) GitHub
7 19 (6.40%) IaaS
8 17 (5.72%) PaaS
9 15 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (5.05%) GCP
10 14 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Functions
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.04%) Serverless
12 8 (2.69%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 115 (38.72%) Firewall
2 84 (28.28%) DNS
3 82 (27.61%) VPN
4 55 (18.52%) DHCP
5 48 (16.16%) WAN
6 39 (13.13%) LAN
6 39 (13.13%) TCP/IP
7 22 (7.41%) VSAN
8 20 (6.73%) VLAN
9 13 (4.38%) Network Security
10 10 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (3.03%) BGP
11 9 (3.03%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.69%) Unified Communications
13 7 (2.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (2.36%) SAN
14 6 (2.02%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (2.02%) iSCSI
14 6 (2.02%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.69%) Power BI
4 6 (2.02%) MySQL
5 5 (1.68%) Tableau
6 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.41%) Git
2 6 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) Gradle
5 2 (0.67%) JUnit
5 2 (0.67%) Mockito
6 1 (0.34%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 110 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.12%) Finance
3 29 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.42%) Retail
5 21 (7.07%) Law
6 17 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.71%) Banking
7 14 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.38%) Marketing
9 11 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.69%) Legal
10 8 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.01%) Back Office
12 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Aviation
13 2 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 71 (23.91%) Senior
2 62 (20.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (13.80%) Support Engineer
4 40 (13.47%) Consultant
5 35 (11.78%) IT Engineer
6 28 (9.43%) Architect
6 28 (9.43%) IT Support
7 27 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
8 25 (8.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (8.08%) Analyst
10 20 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (6.73%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (6.40%) VMware Consultant
12 18 (6.06%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 18 (6.06%) Technical Consultant
12 18 (6.06%) VMware Architect
13 17 (5.72%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (5.39%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (5.05%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.03%) Middleware
2 6 (2.02%) 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 (0.34%) J2EE
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.57%) Data Centre
2 39 (13.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (9.09%) Replication
4 26 (8.75%) Public Cloud
5 23 (7.74%) Private Cloud
5 23 (7.74%) Security Posture
6 22 (7.41%) Driving Licence
7 21 (7.07%) Enterprise Storage
8 12 (4.04%) Podcast
9 11 (3.70%) iSeries
10 10 (3.37%) CMDB
11 9 (3.03%) PKI
12 8 (2.69%) Onboarding
12 8 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (2.02%) FlexPod
13 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (2.02%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 5 (1.68%) Raspberry Pi
15 4 (1.35%) Web Conferencing
16 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 158 (53.20%) Windows
2 100 (33.67%) Windows Server
3 82 (27.61%) Linux
4 18 (6.06%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.71%) Unix
6 13 (4.38%) VMS
7 9 (3.03%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.01%) 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 (0.34%) Debian
13 1 (0.34%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.34%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 90 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 62 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (17.51%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (15.49%) Presales
7 45 (15.15%) DevOps
8 40 (13.47%) CI/CD
9 36 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (11.45%) Mentoring
11 30 (10.10%) Business Continuity
12 27 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
13 26 (8.75%) Infrastructure Automation
14 25 (8.42%) ITIL
15 24 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (8.08%) Performance Tuning
16 23 (7.74%) AI
16 23 (7.74%) High Availability
16 23 (7.74%) Project Delivery
16 23 (7.74%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.62%) PowerShell
2 50 (16.84%) Python
3 31 (10.44%) SQL
4 30 (10.10%) Bash
5 15 (5.05%) Bicep
6 12 (4.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (3.37%) Go
8 5 (1.68%) VB
8 5 (1.68%) VBA
8 5 (1.68%) VBScript
9 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) Java
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (12.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 35 (11.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 34 (11.45%) Azure Certification
4 30 (10.10%) Security Cleared
5 29 (9.76%) SC Cleared
5 29 (9.76%) VCAP
6 25 (8.42%) Degree
7 21 (7.07%) VCDX
8 17 (5.72%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (4.38%) CCNP
10 12 (4.04%) CCNA
11 10 (3.37%) DV Cleared
12 9 (3.03%) AWS Certification
12 9 (3.03%) MCSE
13 7 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.36%) RHCSA
14 6 (2.02%) CEH
14 6 (2.02%) Dell Certification
15 5 (1.68%) HNC
15 5 (1.68%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.05%) PMO
1 15 (5.05%) SLA
2 14 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.38%) NIST
4 10 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.02%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.67%) GDPR
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 205 (69.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 104 (35.02%) Active Directory
3 95 (31.99%) Hyper-V
4 74 (24.92%) vSphere
5 43 (14.48%) VMware NSX
6 22 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.39%) vCloud
8 14 (4.71%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (4.38%) Firmware
10 10 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (2.69%) Docker
11 8 (2.69%) KVM
12 7 (2.36%) VMware Server
13 6 (2.02%) DFS Replication
13 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
14 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.67%) Squid
15 2 (0.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (18.86%) Terraform
2 55 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (14.14%) Ansible
4 35 (11.78%) Kubernetes
5 23 (7.74%) vCenter Server
6 17 (5.72%) Grafana
7 16 (5.39%) Proxmox
8 14 (4.71%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.37%) SCCM
10 8 (2.69%) ZABBIX
11 7 (2.36%) Puppet
12 6 (2.02%) Avamar
12 6 (2.02%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (2.02%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (2.02%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (2.02%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (2.02%) Packer
12 6 (2.02%) VxRail
13 4 (1.35%) Graylog
13 4 (1.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 164 (55.22%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.85%) Veeam
3 52 (17.51%) Cisco
4 31 (10.44%) Dell
4 31 (10.44%) NetApp
5 26 (8.75%) Palo Alto
6 25 (8.42%) Broadcom
7 24 (8.08%) Commvault
8 23 (7.74%) Fortinet
8 23 (7.74%) Nimble Storage
9 21 (7.07%) EMC
10 19 (6.40%) HP
11 17 (5.72%) Citrix
11 17 (5.72%) IBM
12 14 (4.71%) Red Hat
13 13 (4.38%) ServiceNow
13 13 (4.38%) Splunk
14 12 (4.04%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (3.70%) Meraki
16 10 (3.37%) Sophos