Hybrid/Remote vSphere Job Trends

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring vSphere skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 359 423
Rank change year-on-year +2 +64 +86
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 32 38 140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.19% 0.30% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 2.31% 1.85% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 19 38 113
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £76,550 £115,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,384 2,058 4,293
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.29% 16.04% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 991 1,559 3,645
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,552
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,984 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing vSphere and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

vSphere job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

vSphere
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere

vSphere
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

vSphere salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

vSphere
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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) Nutanix
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
2 7 (21.88%) WAN
3 6 (18.75%) DHCP
3 6 (18.75%) DNS
3 6 (18.75%) VLAN
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (15.63%) LAN
4 5 (15.63%) Unified Communications
4 5 (15.63%) VPN
4 5 (15.63%) VSAN
4 5 (15.63%) WebEx
5 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.25%) BGP
6 2 (6.25%) MPLS
6 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.13%) Network Security
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) MySQL
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Banking
2 6 (18.75%) Marketing
2 6 (18.75%) Retail
2 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Consultant
1 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Consultant
3 7 (21.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 5 (15.63%) Collaboration Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Solutions Consultant
5 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) IT Support
5 4 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) XMPP
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.63%) FlexPod
2 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
2 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) Replication
2 5 (15.63%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.25%) CCTV
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 2 (6.25%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 21 (65.63%) Linux
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
4 3 (9.38%) VMS
5 2 (6.25%) Unix
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) CentOS
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (37.50%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (25.00%) Presales
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (18.75%) Data Management
6 6 (18.75%) Performance Management
7 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (15.63%) Line Management
7 5 (15.63%) SOA
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
8 4 (12.50%) GitOps
8 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Bicep
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 8 (25.00%) VCAP
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 5 (15.63%) CCNA
4 5 (15.63%) CCNP
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (15.63%) LPIC
4 5 (15.63%) MCSE
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (15.63%) RHCSA
5 4 (12.50%) Degree
5 4 (12.50%) VCDX
6 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
6 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
7 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (6.25%) HNC
7 2 (6.25%) HND
7 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (40.63%) VMware NSX
3 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
4 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (15.63%) Docker
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (15.63%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (12.50%) vCloud
6 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (6.25%) XenApp
8 1 (3.13%) KVM
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Terraform
2 13 (40.63%) Ansible
3 8 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco CUCM
4 5 (15.63%) Grafana
4 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) VMware
2 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 13 (40.63%) Cisco
4 9 (28.13%) NetApp
5 7 (21.88%) Splunk
6 6 (18.75%) Fortinet
6 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
7 4 (12.50%) Broadcom
7 4 (12.50%) Dell
7 4 (12.50%) Nimble Storage
8 3 (9.38%) Veeam
9 2 (6.25%) Citrix
9 2 (6.25%) Meraki
9 2 (6.25%) Synology