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 10 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
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 173 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 -83 -5
Permanent jobs citing VMware 307 338 989
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 2.05% 3.06%
As % of the Vendors category 4.46% 4.30% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 226 296 839
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +1.01% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £57,677
90th Percentile £91,250 £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 6,890 7,866 12,568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.47% 47.77% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 4,137 9,026
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £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 £73,886 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £88,750
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

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 10 July 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 58 (18.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (11.07%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.91%) IIS
4 5 (1.63%) Apache
4 5 (1.63%) Confluence
4 5 (1.63%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Site Server
Applications
1 22 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.30%) Weka
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Houdini
4 1 (0.33%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (63.52%) Azure
2 106 (34.53%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (24.76%) AWS
4 51 (16.61%) Entra ID
5 39 (12.70%) Nutanix
6 27 (8.79%) GitHub
7 19 (6.19%) IaaS
8 17 (5.54%) PaaS
9 15 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.89%) GCP
10 14 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (3.91%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.91%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (3.91%) Serverless
12 8 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.61%) OneDrive
12 8 (2.61%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 125 (40.72%) Firewall
2 88 (28.66%) DNS
3 84 (27.36%) VPN
4 56 (18.24%) DHCP
5 52 (16.94%) WAN
6 45 (14.66%) LAN
7 39 (12.70%) TCP/IP
8 25 (8.14%) VLAN
9 22 (7.17%) VSAN
10 13 (4.23%) Network Security
11 10 (3.26%) BGP
11 10 (3.26%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (2.93%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.61%) Unified Communications
14 7 (2.28%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (2.28%) MPLS
15 6 (1.95%) SAN
15 6 (1.95%) WebEx
15 6 (1.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.61%) Power BI
4 6 (1.95%) MySQL
5 5 (1.63%) Tableau
6 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.17%) Git
2 6 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.30%) GitLab
5 2 (0.65%) Gradle
5 2 (0.65%) JUnit
5 2 (0.65%) Mockito
6 1 (0.33%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 113 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.38%) Finance
3 30 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.12%) Retail
5 22 (7.17%) Law
6 18 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.21%) Telecoms
8 15 (4.89%) Banking
9 14 (4.56%) Marketing
10 13 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (2.61%) Legal
12 8 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.98%) Back Office
15 3 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
16 2 (0.65%) Military
17 1 (0.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 70 (22.80%) Senior
2 63 (20.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 43 (14.01%) Consultant
4 42 (13.68%) Support Engineer
5 35 (11.40%) IT Engineer
6 29 (9.45%) Architect
6 29 (9.45%) IT Support
7 27 (8.79%) IT Support Engineer
8 24 (7.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (7.49%) Analyst
10 20 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (6.51%) Senior Consultant
10 20 (6.51%) Technical Consultant
11 19 (6.19%) VMware Consultant
12 18 (5.86%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 18 (5.86%) VMware Architect
13 17 (5.54%) Cloud Consultant
13 17 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (5.21%) Network Engineer
14 16 (5.21%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.93%) Middleware
2 6 (1.95%) XMPP
3 3 (0.98%) Web Services
4 2 (0.65%) gRPC
4 2 (0.65%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (0.65%) REST
4 2 (0.65%) RESTful
5 1 (0.33%) J2EE
5 1 (0.33%) JSON
5 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 71 (23.13%) Data Centre
2 39 (12.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (8.79%) Replication
4 26 (8.47%) Public Cloud
5 25 (8.14%) Driving Licence
6 24 (7.82%) Private Cloud
7 22 (7.17%) Security Posture
8 21 (6.84%) Enterprise Storage
9 12 (3.91%) Podcast
10 11 (3.58%) iSeries
11 10 (3.26%) CMDB
11 10 (3.26%) PKI
12 9 (2.93%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (2.61%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.95%) FlexPod
14 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.95%) VxBlock/Vblock
15 5 (1.63%) Raspberry Pi
16 4 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
17 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 163 (53.09%) Windows
2 104 (33.88%) Windows Server
3 85 (27.69%) Linux
4 18 (5.86%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.56%) Unix
6 13 (4.23%) VMS
7 9 (2.93%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.28%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.98%) CentOS
11 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.65%) Android
12 2 (0.65%) Solaris
13 1 (0.33%) Debian
13 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (32.90%) Disaster Recovery
2 94 (30.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 65 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (16.94%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (15.64%) Presales
6 47 (15.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (14.33%) DevOps
8 40 (13.03%) CI/CD
9 38 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (11.07%) Mentoring
11 30 (9.77%) Business Continuity
12 28 (9.12%) Root Cause Analysis
13 27 (8.79%) Infrastructure Automation
14 26 (8.47%) High Availability
14 26 (8.47%) Project Delivery
15 25 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (8.14%) ITIL
16 23 (7.49%) AI
16 23 (7.49%) Performance Tuning
17 22 (7.17%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (28.01%) PowerShell
2 51 (16.61%) Python
3 31 (10.10%) SQL
4 30 (9.77%) Bash
5 15 (4.89%) Bicep
6 12 (3.91%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (3.26%) Go
8 5 (1.63%) VB
8 5 (1.63%) VBA
8 5 (1.63%) VBScript
9 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) Java
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (13.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 38 (12.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (12.05%) Azure Certification
4 34 (11.07%) Security Cleared
5 33 (10.75%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.45%) VCAP
7 27 (8.79%) Degree
8 21 (6.84%) VCDX
9 20 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (4.89%) CCNP
11 14 (4.56%) CCNA
12 12 (3.91%) DV Cleared
13 9 (2.93%) AWS Certification
13 9 (2.93%) MCSE
14 8 (2.61%) RHCSA
15 7 (2.28%) HNC
15 7 (2.28%) HND
16 6 (1.95%) CEH
16 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
16 6 (1.95%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.54%) SLA
2 15 (4.89%) PMO
3 14 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.91%) NIST
5 10 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.95%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.65%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 216 (70.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 106 (34.53%) Active Directory
3 101 (32.90%) Hyper-V
4 75 (24.43%) vSphere
5 44 (14.33%) VMware NSX
6 27 (8.79%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.21%) vCloud
8 15 (4.89%) Firmware
9 14 (4.56%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (2.61%) Docker
11 8 (2.61%) KVM
12 7 (2.28%) VMware Server
13 6 (1.95%) DFS Replication
13 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (1.95%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.98%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.98%) Squid
14 3 (0.98%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (18.24%) Microsoft Intune
1 56 (18.24%) Terraform
2 44 (14.33%) Ansible
3 35 (11.40%) Kubernetes
4 23 (7.49%) vCenter Server
5 17 (5.54%) Grafana
6 16 (5.21%) Proxmox
7 14 (4.56%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.93%) SCCM
9 8 (2.61%) ZABBIX
10 7 (2.28%) Puppet
11 6 (1.95%) Avamar
11 6 (1.95%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (1.95%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (1.95%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (1.95%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (1.95%) Packer
11 6 (1.95%) VxRail
12 4 (1.30%) Graylog
12 4 (1.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 172 (56.03%) Microsoft
2 57 (18.57%) Veeam
3 56 (18.24%) Cisco
4 31 (10.10%) Dell
5 30 (9.77%) NetApp
6 29 (9.45%) Palo Alto
7 26 (8.47%) Fortinet
8 25 (8.14%) Broadcom
9 24 (7.82%) Commvault
10 23 (7.49%) Nimble Storage
11 21 (6.84%) Citrix
11 21 (6.84%) EMC
12 19 (6.19%) HP
13 17 (5.54%) IBM
14 14 (4.56%) Red Hat
15 13 (4.23%) ServiceNow
15 13 (4.23%) Splunk
16 12 (3.91%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (3.58%) Meraki
18 10 (3.26%) F5