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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 180 392
Rank change year-on-year -221 +212 +31
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 66 288 103
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 1.74% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 3.49% 14.87% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 46 19 75
10th Percentile £43,125 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £60,918
90th Percentile £112,500 - £76,550
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

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 1,889 1,937 2,801
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.62% 11.67% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 1,041 1,709
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 27 September 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 19 (28.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.52%) Houdini
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.52%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) Azure
2 18 (27.27%) Nutanix
3 15 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (21.21%) IaaS
4 14 (21.21%) PaaS
5 12 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (18.18%) Azure Functions
5 12 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
5 12 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (18.18%) GitHub
5 12 (18.18%) Serverless
6 11 (16.67%) AWS
7 9 (13.64%) Entra ID
8 6 (9.09%) GCP
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.03%) Datadog
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.52%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (28.79%) VPN
2 18 (27.27%) VSAN
3 16 (24.24%) Firewall
4 12 (18.18%) DNS
5 11 (16.67%) DHCP
5 11 (16.67%) WAN
6 6 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (9.09%) iSCSI
6 6 (9.09%) SAN
7 5 (7.58%) LAN
7 5 (7.58%) Wireless
8 4 (6.06%) NAS
8 4 (6.06%) VLAN
9 3 (4.55%) BGP
9 3 (4.55%) MPLS
10 2 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
10 2 (3.03%) Unified Communications
10 2 (3.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.55%) MySQL
2 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Law
3 12 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.58%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.03%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Legal
5 2 (3.03%) Marketing
5 2 (3.03%) Retail
5 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (50.00%) Senior
2 22 (33.33%) Architect
3 16 (24.24%) Consultant
3 16 (24.24%) Senior Consultant
3 16 (24.24%) VMware Architect
4 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (19.70%) Analyst
5 13 (19.70%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 13 (19.70%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 13 (19.70%) Technical Consultant
5 13 (19.70%) VMware Consultant
5 13 (19.70%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (15.15%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (15.15%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 10 (15.15%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
8 10 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (15.15%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) Terraform
2 2 (3.03%) XMPP
3 1 (1.52%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 29 (43.94%) Data Centre
2 13 (19.70%) Public Cloud
3 12 (18.18%) Podcast
3 12 (18.18%) Security Posture
4 11 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (9.09%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 5 (7.58%) Replication
7 4 (6.06%) PKI
8 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
8 3 (4.55%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
9 2 (3.03%) FlexPod
9 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 34 (51.52%) Windows
2 16 (24.24%) Windows Server
3 14 (21.21%) Linux
4 13 (19.70%) VMS
5 4 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.55%) Unix
7 1 (1.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Disaster Recovery
1 23 (34.85%) Presales
2 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
5 15 (22.73%) Task Automation
6 13 (19.70%) Agile
6 13 (19.70%) AI
6 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
6 13 (19.70%) Cloud Security
6 13 (19.70%) DevOps
7 12 (18.18%) Analytics
7 12 (18.18%) API Management
7 12 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 12 (18.18%) Generative AI
7 12 (18.18%) Log Analytics
7 12 (18.18%) Observability
7 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) PowerShell
2 15 (22.73%) SQL
3 12 (18.18%) Bash
3 12 (18.18%) Bicep
3 12 (18.18%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (6.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 18 (27.27%) VCAP
3 17 (25.76%) VCDX
4 16 (24.24%) Azure Certification
5 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (12.12%) Degree
6 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
7 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
8 6 (9.09%) Dell Certification
9 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
10 3 (4.55%) HNC
10 3 (4.55%) HND
11 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (1.52%) CCNA
12 1 (1.52%) CCNP
12 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.52%) MCSE
12 1 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) PMO
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.03%) SLA
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (95.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 24 (36.36%) VMware NSX
4 12 (18.18%) vCloud
4 12 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 9 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (6.06%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) vCenter Server
2 6 (9.09%) Ansible
2 6 (9.09%) Avamar
2 6 (9.09%) Dell DRAC
2 6 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (9.09%) EMC VPLEX
2 6 (9.09%) VxRail
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) SCCM
4 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.03%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.52%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (98.48%) VMware
2 32 (48.48%) Microsoft
3 21 (31.82%) NetApp
4 19 (28.79%) Broadcom
4 19 (28.79%) Dell
5 18 (27.27%) Nimble Storage
5 18 (27.27%) Veeam
6 14 (21.21%) Cisco
7 12 (18.18%) ScienceLogic
8 6 (9.09%) 3PAR
8 6 (9.09%) Isilon
9 5 (7.58%) Meraki
9 5 (7.58%) Splunk
10 3 (4.55%) Synology
11 2 (3.03%) EMC
11 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
11 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
11 2 (3.03%) Sophos
11 2 (3.03%) Ubiquiti
12 1 (1.52%) Red Hat