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 2 September 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 164 108
Rank change year-on-year -23 -56 -31
Permanent jobs citing VMware 324 319 695
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.39% 1.95% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 4.39% 4.01% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 247 269 535
10th Percentile £35,450 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.05% - -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 7,388 7,960 9,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.63% 48.57% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,267 3,961 5,757
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £91,991
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -4.35%

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 2 September 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 65 (20.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (12.04%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.01%) IIS
4 12 (3.70%) nginx
5 11 (3.40%) Apache
6 5 (1.54%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) Site Server
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Houdini
4 1 (0.31%) NUKE
4 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 204 (62.96%) Azure
2 121 (37.35%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (22.84%) AWS
4 73 (22.53%) Entra ID
5 31 (9.57%) Nutanix
6 22 (6.79%) IaaS
7 21 (6.48%) GitHub
8 20 (6.17%) PaaS
9 17 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (4.01%) GCP
11 13 (4.01%) OneDrive
12 12 (3.70%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.70%) Serverless
13 10 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.47%) Mimecast
15 7 (2.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 133 (41.05%) Firewall
2 110 (33.95%) DNS
3 83 (25.62%) VPN
4 81 (25.00%) DHCP
5 55 (16.98%) WAN
6 52 (16.05%) LAN
7 45 (13.89%) TCP/IP
8 31 (9.57%) VLAN
9 22 (6.79%) Network Security
9 22 (6.79%) VSAN
10 16 (4.94%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (4.01%) SAN
12 10 (3.09%) BGP
12 10 (3.09%) Wireless
13 8 (2.47%) OSPF
14 7 (2.16%) Fibre Channel
14 7 (2.16%) MPLS
14 7 (2.16%) NAS
14 7 (2.16%) Unified Communications
15 6 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.85%) MySQL
4 4 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.23%) Power BI
5 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.31%) GIS
5 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (6.48%) Git
2 6 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.23%) GitLab
3 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.62%) Gradle
4 2 (0.62%) JUnit
4 2 (0.62%) Mockito
5 1 (0.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 118 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.81%) Finance
3 30 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.72%) Retail
5 22 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (6.48%) Law
7 20 (6.17%) Telecoms
8 15 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (4.01%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.70%) Marketing
11 11 (3.40%) Banking
12 10 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.47%) Legal
14 7 (2.16%) Aerospace
14 7 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.93%) Back Office
17 2 (0.62%) Military
18 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (23.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (21.30%) Senior
3 49 (15.12%) Consultant
4 48 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 38 (11.73%) IT Engineer
6 36 (11.11%) Architect
7 32 (9.88%) IT Support
8 30 (9.26%) Analyst
9 29 (8.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
11 26 (8.02%) Technical Consultant
12 22 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (6.48%) Network Engineer
14 20 (6.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 19 (5.86%) VMware Consultant
16 18 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
16 18 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
16 18 (5.56%) VMware Architect
17 17 (5.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 17 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.12%) Terraform
2 8 (2.47%) Middleware
3 6 (1.85%) Web Services
4 5 (1.54%) XMPP
5 2 (0.62%) gRPC
5 2 (0.62%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) Java SE
6 1 (0.31%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.31%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 72 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 32 (9.88%) Driving Licence
3 29 (8.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (7.10%) Replication
5 22 (6.79%) Public Cloud
6 21 (6.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 21 (6.48%) Private Cloud
7 17 (5.25%) Security Posture
8 16 (4.94%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.70%) PKI
9 12 (3.70%) Podcast
10 11 (3.40%) iSeries
11 9 (2.78%) CMDB
11 9 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.85%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.54%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.54%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
14 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (59.26%) Windows
2 130 (40.12%) Windows Server
3 81 (25.00%) Linux
4 14 (4.32%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.01%) VMS
6 11 (3.40%) Mac OS
7 10 (3.09%) Unix
8 9 (2.78%) Ubuntu
9 8 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.93%) CentOS
12 3 (0.93%) Solaris
13 2 (0.62%) Android
13 2 (0.62%) Debian
14 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (35.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 85 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (15.43%) Presales
6 45 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (13.58%) ITIL
7 44 (13.58%) Project Delivery
8 41 (12.65%) Business Continuity
8 41 (12.65%) High Availability
9 40 (12.35%) Mentoring
10 39 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (12.04%) Roadmaps
11 35 (10.80%) DevOps
12 33 (10.19%) Root Cause Analysis
13 31 (9.57%) CI/CD
14 28 (8.64%) Customer Service
15 26 (8.02%) Migration
15 26 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (7.72%) AI
Programming Languages
1 82 (25.31%) PowerShell
2 36 (11.11%) Python
3 30 (9.26%) SQL
4 27 (8.33%) Bash
5 20 (6.17%) Bicep
6 12 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.23%) Go
8 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.31%) C
10 1 (0.31%) Java
10 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.31%) Rust
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) VB
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
10 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (15.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 48 (14.81%) Azure Certification
3 45 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 42 (12.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (12.04%) SC Cleared
6 28 (8.64%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (8.64%) Degree
6 28 (8.64%) VCAP
7 21 (6.48%) CCNP
7 21 (6.48%) VCDX
8 18 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 17 (5.25%) CCNA
10 9 (2.78%) MCSE
11 7 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.16%) HNC
11 7 (2.16%) HND
11 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (2.16%) RHCSA
12 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.85%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.26%) SLA
2 15 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (4.63%) PMO
3 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.93%) NIST
5 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 241 (74.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 130 (40.12%) Active Directory
3 124 (38.27%) Hyper-V
4 74 (22.84%) vSphere
5 40 (12.35%) VMware NSX
6 28 (8.64%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (4.94%) vCloud
9 15 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
10 13 (4.01%) Firmware
11 9 (2.78%) Docker
11 9 (2.78%) VMware Server
12 7 (2.16%) KVM
13 6 (1.85%) Squid
14 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.93%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.93%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.31%) iptables
16 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (9.88%) Ansible
3 24 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.32%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.78%) Proxmox
5 9 (2.78%) SCCM
6 7 (2.16%) Grafana
7 6 (1.85%) Avamar
7 6 (1.85%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.85%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (1.85%) Packer
7 6 (1.85%) VxRail
8 5 (1.54%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.54%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.54%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.23%) Graylog
9 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 203 (62.65%) Microsoft
2 76 (23.46%) Veeam
3 63 (19.44%) Cisco
4 34 (10.49%) Palo Alto
5 33 (10.19%) Dell
5 33 (10.19%) NetApp
6 27 (8.33%) Broadcom
7 26 (8.02%) Fortinet
8 24 (7.41%) Nimble Storage
9 23 (7.10%) EMC
9 23 (7.10%) HP
10 21 (6.48%) Citrix
11 15 (4.63%) Commvault
12 14 (4.32%) N-able
12 14 (4.32%) ServiceNow
13 13 (4.01%) Red Hat
14 12 (3.70%) IBM
14 12 (3.70%) ScienceLogic
14 12 (3.70%) Splunk
14 12 (3.70%) WatchGuard