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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 186 440
Rank change year-on-year -173 +254 +68
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 57 290 128
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 1.96% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 3.78% 12.95% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 46 28 107
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,675 £41,400
25th Percentile £62,063 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.85% -2.38% -
75th Percentile - £58,125 £59,209
90th Percentile £92,500 £71,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% +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 1,509 2,239 4,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.86% 15.13% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,352 3,301
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -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 May 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 (8.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) Nutanix
2 18 (31.58%) AWS
3 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 17 (29.82%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.51%) Datadog
6 2 (3.51%) IaaS
6 2 (3.51%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.33%) VSAN
2 18 (31.58%) Firewall
3 13 (22.81%) WAN
4 10 (17.54%) DNS
5 9 (15.79%) DHCP
6 6 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (10.53%) iSCSI
6 6 (10.53%) LAN
6 6 (10.53%) Unified Communications
6 6 (10.53%) VLAN
6 6 (10.53%) VPN
6 6 (10.53%) WebEx
7 4 (7.02%) BGP
7 4 (7.02%) MPLS
8 3 (5.26%) Wireless
9 2 (3.51%) SAN
9 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) MySQL
1 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.53%) Banking
2 6 (10.53%) Marketing
2 6 (10.53%) Retail
2 6 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Legal
4 2 (3.51%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Senior
2 21 (36.84%) Consultant
3 17 (29.82%) Technical Consultant
4 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (26.32%) Architect
5 15 (26.32%) Senior Consultant
5 15 (26.32%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 15 (26.32%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 15 (26.32%) VMware Architect
5 15 (26.32%) VMware Consultant
5 15 (26.32%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 13 (22.81%) Cloud Consultant
7 12 (21.05%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
7 12 (21.05%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
8 10 (17.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
8 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Architect
9 9 (15.79%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (15.79%) Presales Solution Architect
9 9 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (47.37%) Data Centre
2 9 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (14.04%) Replication
4 6 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (10.53%) FlexPod
4 6 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 6 (10.53%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (10.53%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 5 (8.77%) Raspberry Pi
6 4 (7.02%) PKI
6 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (52.63%) Windows
2 25 (43.86%) Linux
3 17 (29.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 4 (7.02%) Unix
6 1 (1.75%) CentOS
6 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Presales
2 21 (36.84%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (14.04%) DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (14.04%) Storage Management
6 7 (12.28%) Customer Engagement
6 7 (12.28%) Requirements Workshops
6 7 (12.28%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (10.53%) Converged Infrastructure
7 6 (10.53%) Cyber Resilience
7 6 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (10.53%) Data Management
7 6 (10.53%) Data Protection
7 6 (10.53%) ITIL
7 6 (10.53%) Performance Management
7 6 (10.53%) Server Management
7 6 (10.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.28%) Python
3 5 (8.77%) SQL
4 2 (3.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (42.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 22 (38.60%) VCAP
3 18 (31.58%) VCDX
4 9 (15.79%) Degree
5 7 (12.28%) Azure Certification
6 6 (10.53%) Dell Certification
7 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
7 5 (8.77%) HNC
7 5 (8.77%) HND
7 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
8 4 (7.02%) CCNA
8 4 (7.02%) CCNP
8 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (7.02%) LPIC
8 4 (7.02%) MCSE
8 4 (7.02%) RHCSA
8 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.32%) PMO
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (87.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (45.61%) VMware NSX
3 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
4 16 (28.07%) vCloud
5 8 (14.04%) Hyper-V
6 7 (12.28%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (12.28%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (3.51%) Docker
9 1 (1.75%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Terraform
2 14 (24.56%) Ansible
3 12 (21.05%) vCenter Server
4 6 (10.53%) Avamar
4 6 (10.53%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (10.53%) Dell DRAC
4 6 (10.53%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (10.53%) EMC VPLEX
4 6 (10.53%) Grafana
4 6 (10.53%) VxRail
5 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.51%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (96.49%) VMware
2 28 (49.12%) NetApp
3 25 (43.86%) Microsoft
4 23 (40.35%) Dell
5 22 (38.60%) Nimble Storage
6 20 (35.09%) Broadcom
7 17 (29.82%) Cisco
8 16 (28.07%) Veeam
9 10 (17.54%) Splunk
10 7 (12.28%) Meraki
11 6 (10.53%) 3PAR
11 6 (10.53%) Fortinet
11 6 (10.53%) Isilon
11 6 (10.53%) Palo Alto
12 5 (8.77%) Synology
13 2 (3.51%) EMC
13 2 (3.51%) Sophos
13 2 (3.51%) Ubiquiti
14 1 (1.75%) Citrix
14 1 (1.75%) Red Hat