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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 190 453
Rank change year-on-year -157 +263 +65
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 52 291 119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 1.94% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 3.60% 12.55% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 41 29 100
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,063 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile - £57,500 £60,918
90th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £87,500
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 1,444 2,318 4,136
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.69% 15.47% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,429 3,354
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £31,325
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £70,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,484 £86,000
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 21 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 (9.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Nutanix
2 16 (30.77%) AWS
3 15 (28.85%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.92%) Datadog
7 1 (1.92%) IaaS
7 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.92%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (34.62%) VSAN
2 16 (30.77%) Firewall
3 12 (23.08%) WAN
4 9 (17.31%) DNS
5 8 (15.38%) DHCP
6 6 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (11.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (11.54%) LAN
6 6 (11.54%) Unified Communications
6 6 (11.54%) VLAN
6 6 (11.54%) VPN
6 6 (11.54%) WebEx
7 4 (7.69%) BGP
7 4 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (7.69%) iSCSI
7 4 (7.69%) MPLS
8 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.85%) Wireless
9 1 (1.92%) SAN
9 1 (1.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) MySQL
1 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.54%) Banking
2 6 (11.54%) Marketing
2 6 (11.54%) Retail
2 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Legal
4 1 (1.92%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Senior
2 19 (36.54%) Consultant
3 15 (28.85%) Technical Consultant
4 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 13 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
5 13 (25.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 13 (25.00%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 13 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
5 13 (25.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 12 (23.08%) Architect
6 12 (23.08%) VMware Architect
7 10 (19.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
7 10 (19.23%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
7 10 (19.23%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
8 8 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (15.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (15.38%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 9 (17.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (13.46%) Replication
4 6 (11.54%) FlexPod
4 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
4 6 (11.54%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (9.62%) Raspberry Pi
6 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (7.69%) PKI
6 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
6 4 (7.69%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (55.77%) Windows
2 25 (48.08%) Linux
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.54%) Ubuntu
5 4 (7.69%) Unix
6 1 (1.92%) CentOS
6 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) Presales
2 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (34.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (15.38%) DevOps
6 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (13.46%) Customer Engagement
7 7 (13.46%) Requirements Workshops
7 7 (13.46%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.54%) Data Management
8 6 (11.54%) ITIL
8 6 (11.54%) Performance Management
8 6 (11.54%) Storage Management
9 5 (9.62%) Network Management
9 5 (9.62%) SIEM
10 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (7.69%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.46%) Python
3 5 (9.62%) SQL
4 2 (3.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 21 (40.38%) VCAP
3 17 (32.69%) VCDX
4 9 (17.31%) Degree
5 7 (13.46%) Azure Certification
6 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
6 5 (9.62%) HNC
6 5 (9.62%) HND
6 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
7 4 (7.69%) CCNA
7 4 (7.69%) CCNP
7 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.69%) Dell Certification
7 4 (7.69%) LPIC
7 4 (7.69%) MCSE
7 4 (7.69%) RHCSA
7 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (88.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (48.08%) VMware NSX
3 16 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 16 (30.77%) vCloud
4 7 (13.46%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (11.54%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.85%) Docker
7 1 (1.92%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Terraform
2 14 (26.92%) Ansible
3 11 (21.15%) vCenter Server
4 6 (11.54%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (11.54%) Grafana
5 4 (7.69%) Avamar
5 4 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
5 4 (7.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (7.69%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (7.69%) VxRail
6 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.92%) SCCM
7 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.92%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 50 (96.15%) VMware
2 26 (50.00%) NetApp
3 24 (46.15%) Microsoft
4 21 (40.38%) Dell
5 20 (38.46%) Nimble Storage
6 18 (34.62%) Broadcom
7 16 (30.77%) Cisco
8 12 (23.08%) Veeam
9 10 (19.23%) Splunk
10 6 (11.54%) Fortinet
10 6 (11.54%) Meraki
10 6 (11.54%) Palo Alto
11 5 (9.62%) Synology
12 4 (7.69%) 3PAR
12 4 (7.69%) Isilon
13 1 (1.92%) Citrix
13 1 (1.92%) EMC
13 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
13 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.92%) Sophos