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 8 October 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
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 177 97
Rank change year-on-year -11 -80 -23
Permanent jobs citing VMware 332 281 653
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 1.67% 2.99%
As % of the Vendors category 4.32% 3.26% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 244 228 448
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,250 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% -5.29% -4.59%
75th Percentile £75,625 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.50% +2.70%

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 7,692 8,621 8,370
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.01% 51.33% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,407 3,690 4,632
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -6.46% -2.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -9.09% -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 8 October 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 76 (22.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (13.25%) SharePoint
3 14 (4.22%) IIS
4 12 (3.61%) nginx
5 11 (3.31%) Apache
6 3 (0.90%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.30%) Site Server
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.30%) Houdini
4 1 (0.30%) NUKE
4 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 215 (64.76%) Azure
2 133 (40.06%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (30.12%) Entra ID
4 75 (22.59%) AWS
5 25 (7.53%) Nutanix
6 21 (6.33%) IaaS
7 20 (6.02%) PaaS
8 18 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.12%) GitHub
10 16 (4.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (4.82%) OneDrive
11 12 (3.61%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (3.61%) Serverless
12 11 (3.31%) GCP
13 10 (3.01%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.81%) Cloudflare
15 5 (1.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 129 (38.86%) Firewall
2 125 (37.65%) DNS
3 97 (29.22%) VPN
4 94 (28.31%) DHCP
5 47 (14.16%) TCP/IP
6 46 (13.86%) LAN
7 45 (13.55%) WAN
8 37 (11.14%) VLAN
9 21 (6.33%) Network Security
10 17 (5.12%) VSAN
11 16 (4.82%) SAN
12 14 (4.22%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (3.31%) IP Telephony
14 10 (3.01%) Wireless
15 9 (2.71%) Fibre Channel
15 9 (2.71%) Unified Communications
16 8 (2.41%) OSPF
17 7 (2.11%) BGP
17 7 (2.11%) iSCSI
17 7 (2.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Big Data
3 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.60%) MySQL
4 1 (0.30%) GIS
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.12%) Git
2 3 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.60%) Gradle
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.60%) JIRA
3 2 (0.60%) JUnit
3 2 (0.60%) Mockito
3 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 128 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.05%) Finance
3 25 (7.53%) Public Sector
3 25 (7.53%) Telecoms
4 24 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.72%) Law
5 19 (5.72%) Retail
6 12 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.71%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.71%) Legal
7 9 (2.71%) Marketing
8 8 (2.41%) Banking
9 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.60%) Back Office
12 2 (0.60%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (20.78%) Senior
2 68 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 54 (16.27%) Support Engineer
4 46 (13.86%) IT Engineer
4 46 (13.86%) IT Support
5 45 (13.55%) Consultant
6 38 (11.45%) Analyst
7 36 (10.84%) IT Support Engineer
8 33 (9.94%) Architect
9 30 (9.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (7.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 24 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (6.93%) Technical Consultant
13 21 (6.33%) Network Engineer
14 17 (5.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (5.12%) VMware Consultant
15 16 (4.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 16 (4.82%) Senior Consultant
15 16 (4.82%) VMware Architect
16 15 (4.52%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.45%) Terraform
2 9 (2.71%) Middleware
3 6 (1.81%) Web Services
4 3 (0.90%) JSON
4 3 (0.90%) LDAP
4 3 (0.90%) REST
5 2 (0.60%) gRPC
5 2 (0.60%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.60%) RESTful
5 2 (0.60%) SAML
5 2 (0.60%) XMPP
5 2 (0.60%) YAML
6 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.30%) Java SE
6 1 (0.30%) Kafka
6 1 (0.30%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.30%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 74 (22.29%) Data Centre
2 38 (11.45%) Driving Licence
3 26 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (5.72%) Private Cloud
5 17 (5.12%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 16 (4.82%) Replication
7 15 (4.52%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.52%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.61%) Podcast
9 11 (3.31%) CCTV
10 9 (2.71%) PKI
11 8 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (1.51%) CMDB
13 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.51%) iSeries
14 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 212 (63.86%) Windows
2 149 (44.88%) Windows Server
3 71 (21.39%) Linux
4 18 (5.42%) Mac OS
5 15 (4.52%) VMS
6 13 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.61%) Windows 10
8 10 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.20%) Solaris
11 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.60%) AIX
12 2 (0.60%) Android
12 2 (0.60%) Debian
12 2 (0.60%) Rocky
12 2 (0.60%) Unix
13 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (36.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 109 (32.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 105 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (16.27%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (14.76%) ITIL
6 49 (14.76%) Project Delivery
7 46 (13.86%) High Availability
8 44 (13.25%) Mentoring
8 44 (13.25%) Roadmaps
9 42 (12.65%) Root Cause Analysis
10 41 (12.35%) Presales
11 39 (11.75%) Business Continuity
12 33 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (9.94%) Migration
12 33 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (9.64%) AI
13 32 (9.64%) Customer Service
13 32 (9.64%) DevOps
14 31 (9.34%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.89%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.13%) SQL
3 26 (7.83%) Bash
3 26 (7.83%) Python
4 20 (6.02%) Bicep
5 12 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.90%) Go
6 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.30%) C
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 51 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 44 (13.25%) Azure Certification
4 43 (12.95%) SC Cleared
5 42 (12.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 30 (9.04%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (7.83%) CCNP
8 22 (6.63%) CCNA
8 22 (6.63%) VCAP
9 20 (6.02%) Degree
9 20 (6.02%) DV Cleared
10 17 (5.12%) VCDX
11 15 (4.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 13 (3.92%) MCSA
13 12 (3.61%) MCSE
14 6 (1.81%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.81%) Dell Certification
15 5 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.51%) RHCSA
16 4 (1.20%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.34%) SLA
2 22 (6.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (4.52%) PMO
4 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 234 (70.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 150 (45.18%) Active Directory
3 142 (42.77%) Hyper-V
4 63 (18.98%) vSphere
5 32 (9.64%) VMware NSX
6 29 (8.73%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (5.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (3.61%) vCloud
10 9 (2.71%) VMware Server
11 8 (2.41%) Docker
11 8 (2.41%) Firmware
12 6 (1.81%) KVM
12 6 (1.81%) Squid
13 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.60%) NFS
15 1 (0.30%) iptables
15 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 65 (19.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.02%) Ansible
3 16 (4.82%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.41%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.11%) Proxmox
5 7 (2.11%) SCCM
6 6 (1.81%) Avamar
6 6 (1.81%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (1.81%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (1.81%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.81%) VxRail
7 5 (1.51%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.20%) Grafana
8 4 (1.20%) Graylog
8 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (1.20%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 203 (61.14%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.69%) Veeam
3 43 (12.95%) Cisco
4 29 (8.73%) Citrix
4 29 (8.73%) Dell
4 29 (8.73%) NetApp
5 28 (8.43%) Palo Alto
6 26 (7.83%) WatchGuard
7 24 (7.23%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.93%) Broadcom
9 21 (6.33%) Nimble Storage
10 15 (4.52%) EMC
10 15 (4.52%) SonicWALL
11 13 (3.92%) N-able
12 12 (3.61%) HP
12 12 (3.61%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (3.31%) Draytek
13 11 (3.31%) Mitel
14 9 (2.71%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.71%) Zscaler