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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 369 447
Rank change year-on-year +21 +78 +79
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 44 30 125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 3.11% 1.59% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 33 30 104
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,875 £41,325
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +56.10% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £60,918
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,125 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% +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 1,417 1,886 4,254
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.82% 14.01% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 990 1,530 3,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,975 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,875 £86,550
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 30 April 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 5 (11.36%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Nutanix
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 12 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (6.82%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (29.55%) Firewall
1 13 (29.55%) VSAN
2 10 (22.73%) WAN
3 8 (18.18%) DNS
4 7 (15.91%) DHCP
5 6 (13.64%) VPN
6 5 (11.36%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (11.36%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (11.36%) LAN
6 5 (11.36%) Unified Communications
6 5 (11.36%) VLAN
6 5 (11.36%) WebEx
7 4 (9.09%) BGP
7 4 (9.09%) MPLS
8 3 (6.82%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (6.82%) iSCSI
9 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
10 1 (2.27%) SMTP
10 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) MySQL
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.64%) Banking
2 6 (13.64%) Marketing
2 6 (13.64%) Retail
2 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Senior
2 17 (38.64%) Consultant
3 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 12 (27.27%) Cloud Consultant
4 12 (27.27%) Technical Consultant
5 11 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
5 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (22.73%) Senior Consultant
6 10 (22.73%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 10 (22.73%) Senior VMware Consultant
6 10 (22.73%) VMware Consultant
6 10 (22.73%) VMware Technical Consultant
7 9 (20.45%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
7 9 (20.45%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
8 8 (18.18%) Architect
8 8 (18.18%) VMware Architect
9 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (11.36%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Data Centre
2 8 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (11.36%) FlexPod
3 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
3 5 (11.36%) Public Cloud
3 5 (11.36%) Raspberry Pi
3 5 (11.36%) Replication
3 5 (11.36%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (9.09%) PKI
5 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (6.82%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (63.64%) Windows
2 25 (56.82%) Linux
3 16 (36.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.64%) Ubuntu
5 4 (9.09%) Unix
6 1 (2.27%) CentOS
6 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Presales
2 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (20.45%) DevOps
7 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (13.64%) Data Management
8 6 (13.64%) ITIL
8 6 (13.64%) Performance Management
9 5 (11.36%) Customer Engagement
9 5 (11.36%) Line Management
9 5 (11.36%) Network Management
9 5 (11.36%) Requirements Workshops
9 5 (11.36%) SOA
9 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (11.36%) Storage Management
9 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (11.36%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.64%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) SQL
4 2 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 16 (36.36%) VCAP
3 12 (27.27%) VCDX
4 9 (20.45%) Degree
5 7 (15.91%) Azure Certification
6 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (11.36%) CCNA
7 5 (11.36%) CCNP
7 5 (11.36%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
7 5 (11.36%) HNC
7 5 (11.36%) HND
7 5 (11.36%) LPIC
7 5 (11.36%) MCSE
7 5 (11.36%) RHCSA
7 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
9 3 (6.82%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (88.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (45.45%) VMware NSX
3 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
4 12 (27.27%) vCloud
5 7 (15.91%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (15.91%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
6 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (11.36%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (4.55%) Docker
8 1 (2.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Terraform
2 13 (29.55%) Ansible
3 10 (22.73%) vCenter Server
4 5 (11.36%) Cisco CUCM
4 5 (11.36%) Grafana
5 3 (6.82%) Avamar
5 3 (6.82%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (6.82%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (6.82%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (6.82%) VxRail
6 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.27%) SCCM
7 1 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 42 (95.45%) VMware
2 22 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (45.45%) NetApp
4 16 (36.36%) Dell
5 15 (34.09%) Cisco
5 15 (34.09%) Nimble Storage
6 12 (27.27%) Broadcom
7 9 (20.45%) Splunk
7 9 (20.45%) Veeam
8 5 (11.36%) Fortinet
8 5 (11.36%) Meraki
8 5 (11.36%) Palo Alto
8 5 (11.36%) Synology
9 3 (6.82%) 3PAR
9 3 (6.82%) Isilon
10 1 (2.27%) Citrix
10 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow