vSphere Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 460 515
Rank change year-on-year +236 +55 +45
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 288 137 112
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 10.47% 3.38% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26 111 90
10th Percentile £42,625 £41,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £85,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +15.38% -9.00%

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 2,751 4,057 5,176
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.34% 11.92% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,354 3,069 4,162
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77,335 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

vSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vSphere trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

vSphere
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing vSphere.

vSphere salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing vSphere over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

vSphere salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (3.82%) Azure
2 8 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.74%) AWS
4 3 (1.04%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.04%) GitHub
4 3 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (1.04%) SaaS
5 2 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.35%) IaaS
6 1 (0.35%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 266 (92.36%) VPN
2 262 (90.97%) Cisco IOS
3 16 (5.56%) Firewall
4 13 (4.51%) DNS
5 12 (4.17%) DHCP
6 8 (2.78%) SAN
7 7 (2.43%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.69%) LAN
8 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.69%) VLAN
9 1 (0.35%) ADSL
9 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.35%) Fast Ethernet
9 1 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.35%) MPLS
9 1 (0.35%) Network Security
9 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.35%) WAN
9 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.39%) MariaDB
2 4 (1.39%) MySQL
2 4 (1.39%) RDBMS
2 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 265 (92.01%) Analytical Skills
2 264 (91.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (2.78%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.69%) Military
5 1 (0.35%) Electronics
5 1 (0.35%) Finance
5 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.35%) Marketing
5 1 (0.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 268 (93.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (3.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (2.43%) Support Engineer
4 6 (2.08%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (2.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (2.08%) Administrator
4 6 (2.08%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (1.39%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (1.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (1.39%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (1.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (1.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.04%) IT Engineer
6 3 (1.04%) Senior
6 3 (1.04%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (1.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (0.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (0.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (0.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (90.97%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.04%) Node.js
3 1 (0.35%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 262 (90.97%) Cyberattack
2 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
2 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 277 (96.18%) Windows
2 273 (94.79%) Linux
3 262 (90.97%) Android
4 14 (4.86%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.39%) CentOS
6 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.04%) Debian
7 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.69%) SUSE
9 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (94.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 268 (93.06%) DevOps
2 268 (93.06%) Problem-Solving
3 262 (90.97%) Line Management
3 262 (90.97%) Mathematics
3 262 (90.97%) Platform Engineering
3 262 (90.97%) Risk Management
3 262 (90.97%) Storage Management
3 262 (90.97%) Task Automation
4 8 (2.78%) Infrastructure Management
5 7 (2.43%) Computer Science
6 6 (2.08%) CI/CD
7 5 (1.74%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (1.74%) ITIL
8 4 (1.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (1.39%) Security Patching
9 3 (1.04%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (1.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (1.04%) Mentoring
9 3 (1.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 267 (92.71%) PowerShell
2 264 (91.67%) Bash
2 264 (91.67%) Python
3 3 (1.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (2.78%) Degree
2 6 (2.08%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.35%) CCNA
6 1 (0.35%) CCNP
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 269 (93.40%) Hyper-V
2 262 (90.97%) Docker
2 262 (90.97%) VMware NSX
3 23 (7.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.86%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.08%) Terminal Services
8 4 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.35%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 267 (92.71%) Terraform
2 265 (92.01%) Ansible
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.35%) SCCM
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 266 (92.36%) Cisco
2 264 (91.67%) Juniper
2 264 (91.67%) Splunk
3 262 (90.97%) 3PAR
4 25 (8.68%) VMware
5 16 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.13%) HP
7 8 (2.78%) Dell
7 8 (2.78%) NetApp
8 2 (0.69%) McAfee
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.35%) Apple
9 1 (0.35%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.35%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.35%) Citrix
9 1 (0.35%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.35%) Veeam