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 22 May 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
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 159 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 -69 +8
Permanent jobs citing VMware 270 339 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 2.32% 3.17%
As % of the Vendors category 4.71% 4.92% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 190 295 887
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -12.62%

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 5,727 6,892 13,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 30.47% 47.17% 40.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,770 3,689 9,807
10th Percentile £32,450 £30,500 £31,568
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% +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 22 May 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 30 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.85%) Confluence
4 4 (1.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.48%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 139 (51.48%) Azure
2 84 (31.11%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (21.48%) AWS
4 42 (15.56%) Nutanix
5 40 (14.81%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.30%) GitHub
7 14 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.81%) OneDrive
9 11 (4.07%) GCP
10 9 (3.33%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.85%) IaaS
13 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.48%) Cloudflare
13 4 (1.48%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.48%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.48%) PaaS
14 3 (1.11%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 82 (30.37%) Firewall
2 59 (21.85%) DNS
3 48 (17.78%) VPN
4 41 (15.19%) WAN
5 36 (13.33%) DHCP
6 28 (10.37%) TCP/IP
7 25 (9.26%) LAN
8 18 (6.67%) VSAN
9 14 (5.19%) VLAN
10 13 (4.81%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (4.81%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.70%) BGP
12 9 (3.33%) Unified Communications
13 8 (2.96%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (2.59%) SAN
15 6 (2.22%) WebEx
16 5 (1.85%) MPLS
16 5 (1.85%) Network Security
16 5 (1.85%) Wireless
17 4 (1.48%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.96%) Power BI
3 6 (2.22%) MySQL
4 5 (1.85%) Tableau
5 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.70%) Git
2 6 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.11%) GitLab
5 2 (0.74%) Gradle
5 2 (0.74%) JUnit
5 2 (0.74%) Mockito
5 2 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.37%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 73 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.04%) Finance
3 25 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.15%) Retail
5 14 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.81%) Law
7 12 (4.44%) Banking
8 11 (4.07%) Marketing
8 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.70%) Legal
9 10 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.11%) Aviation
12 3 (1.11%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 67 (24.81%) Senior
2 62 (22.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (14.44%) Consultant
4 26 (9.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.26%) IT Engineer
5 25 (9.26%) Support Engineer
6 24 (8.89%) VMware Engineer
7 22 (8.15%) Architect
7 22 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (7.41%) IT Support
8 20 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
9 19 (7.04%) VMware Consultant
10 18 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
11 17 (6.30%) Cloud Consultant
12 16 (5.93%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 16 (5.93%) Technical Consultant
13 15 (5.56%) Network Engineer
13 15 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (5.19%) Systems Engineer
15 13 (4.81%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.22%) XMPP
2 2 (0.74%) gRPC
2 2 (0.74%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (0.74%) REST
2 2 (0.74%) RESTful
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) J2EE
3 1 (0.37%) JSON
3 1 (0.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 61 (22.59%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (8.89%) Replication
4 21 (7.78%) Private Cloud
5 16 (5.93%) Enterprise Storage
6 13 (4.81%) Driving Licence
6 13 (4.81%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.33%) CMDB
7 9 (3.33%) iSeries
7 9 (3.33%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.96%) PKI
8 8 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (2.59%) Clustering
10 6 (2.22%) FlexPod
11 5 (1.85%) Raspberry Pi
12 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.48%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 4 (1.48%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 126 (46.67%) Windows
2 87 (32.22%) Windows Server
3 82 (30.37%) Linux
4 19 (7.04%) Unix
4 19 (7.04%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.70%) Apple iOS
6 9 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.74%) Android
10 2 (0.74%) CentOS
10 2 (0.74%) VMS
11 1 (0.37%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.37%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.37%) Solaris
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (30.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (17.41%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (14.07%) DevOps
7 35 (12.96%) Presales
8 29 (10.74%) CI/CD
8 29 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.37%) Vulnerability Management
10 27 (10.00%) ITIL
11 26 (9.63%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (7.41%) Mentoring
14 17 (6.30%) Migration
15 16 (5.93%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (5.93%) Project Delivery
15 16 (5.93%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (5.93%) Test Automation
16 15 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.96%) PowerShell
2 51 (18.89%) Python
3 15 (5.56%) Bash
4 10 (3.70%) SQL
5 9 (3.33%) Go
6 5 (1.85%) VB
6 5 (1.85%) VBA
6 5 (1.85%) VBScript
7 4 (1.48%) Bicep
8 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.37%) Java
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
9 1 (0.37%) Rust
9 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (11.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.00%) VCAP
4 25 (9.26%) Degree
5 23 (8.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (7.04%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.30%) VCDX
8 15 (5.56%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.70%) CEH
9 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.70%) MCSE
10 9 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.22%) CCNA
13 5 (1.85%) CCNP
13 5 (1.85%) HNC
13 5 (1.85%) HND
14 4 (1.48%) Dell Certification
14 4 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.67%) NIST
2 17 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.56%) SLA
4 13 (4.81%) PMO
5 10 (3.70%) ISO 22301
6 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 167 (61.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 83 (30.74%) Active Directory
3 64 (23.70%) Hyper-V
4 50 (18.52%) vSphere
5 42 (15.56%) VMware NSX
6 21 (7.78%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.93%) vCloud
8 12 (4.44%) Firmware
9 10 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (2.59%) Docker
11 6 (2.22%) DFS Replication
11 6 (2.22%) KVM
11 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
13 3 (1.11%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.74%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.74%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (18.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.67%) Ansible
2 45 (16.67%) Terraform
3 33 (12.22%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.78%) vCenter Server
5 17 (6.30%) Grafana
6 15 (5.56%) Proxmox
7 14 (5.19%) SCCM
8 13 (4.81%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.59%) ZABBIX
10 6 (2.22%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (2.22%) Packer
11 5 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (1.85%) Puppet
12 4 (1.48%) Avamar
12 4 (1.48%) Dell DRAC
12 4 (1.48%) EMC VPLEX
12 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.48%) VxRail
13 3 (1.11%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 123 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.67%) Cisco
3 41 (15.19%) Veeam
4 31 (11.48%) NetApp
5 29 (10.74%) Dell
6 25 (9.26%) Commvault
7 21 (7.78%) Palo Alto
7 21 (7.78%) Red Hat
8 20 (7.41%) Nimble Storage
9 18 (6.67%) Broadcom
9 18 (6.67%) EMC
9 18 (6.67%) Fortinet
10 17 (6.30%) HP
11 15 (5.56%) IBM
12 14 (5.19%) Citrix
13 12 (4.44%) Splunk
14 9 (3.33%) Meraki
14 9 (3.33%) Sophos
15 8 (2.96%) F5
15 8 (2.96%) ServiceNow