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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 461 538
Rank change year-on-year +74 +77 +48
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 30 124 139
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 1.53% 2.85% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 30 103 109
10th Percentile £41,875 £41,300 £34,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,918 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,125 £115,000 £80,600
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -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 1,958 4,357 6,347
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.91% 12.88% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 3,487 4,690
10th Percentile £30,550 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £87,200 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.51%

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 3 May 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 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 8 (26.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (23.33%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) AWS
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 3 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.67%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.67%) Slack
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (53.33%) DNS
2 14 (46.67%) Firewall
3 13 (43.33%) DHCP
4 7 (23.33%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (23.33%) SAN
5 4 (13.33%) VPN
6 2 (6.67%) OpenVPN
6 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.67%) VLAN
6 2 (6.67%) VoIP
6 2 (6.67%) VSAN
7 1 (3.33%) ADSL
7 1 (3.33%) Fast Ethernet
7 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.33%) LAN
7 1 (3.33%) Network Security
7 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
7 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) MariaDB
2 4 (13.33%) MySQL
2 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Administrator
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (13.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 4 (13.33%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) SAN Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 16 (53.33%) Windows
3 13 (43.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (13.33%) CentOS
5 4 (13.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (13.33%) SUSE
6 3 (10.00%) Debian
7 2 (6.67%) VMS
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) ITIL
4 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (16.67%) Patch Management
6 4 (13.33%) Change Management
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.33%) High Availability
6 4 (13.33%) Security Patching
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (6.67%) Customer Service
8 2 (6.67%) Security Monitoring
8 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
8 2 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) CCNA
2 2 (6.67%) CCNP
2 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.67%) MCP
2 2 (6.67%) MCSA
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (93.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (53.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (23.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (20.00%) Terminal Services
5 6 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (6.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (6.67%) Firmware
7 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
8 1 (3.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (6.67%) SCCM
5 2 (6.67%) SCOM
5 2 (6.67%) vRealize
5 2 (6.67%) VxRail
5 2 (6.67%) WSUS
6 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (33.33%) Dell
4 9 (30.00%) Cisco
5 8 (26.67%) HP
6 6 (20.00%) NetApp
7 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
8 3 (10.00%) Google
8 3 (10.00%) Meraki
8 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
9 2 (6.67%) Ab Initio
9 2 (6.67%) arcserve
9 2 (6.67%) Aruba
9 2 (6.67%) Avaya
9 2 (6.67%) Citrix
9 2 (6.67%) EMC
9 2 (6.67%) Isilon
9 2 (6.67%) Linksys
9 2 (6.67%) McAfee
9 2 (6.67%) Salesforce