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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 472 528
Rank change year-on-year +133 +56 +60
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 100 122 130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 4.51% 2.85% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 101 104
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £33,425
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,918 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,000 £115,000 £83,350
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 2,218 4,279 6,109
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.12% 12.66% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,527 3,411 4,547
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,500
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 £113,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%

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 11 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 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.00%) Azure
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (8.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.00%) AWS
4 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.00%) Google Workspace
4 3 (3.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.00%) PaaS
5 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.00%) Slack
6 1 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (76.00%) VPN
2 71 (71.00%) Cisco IOS
3 16 (16.00%) DNS
3 16 (16.00%) Firewall
4 14 (14.00%) DHCP
5 7 (7.00%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (7.00%) SAN
6 2 (2.00%) OpenVPN
6 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.00%) VLAN
6 2 (2.00%) VoIP
7 1 (1.00%) ADSL
7 1 (1.00%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.00%) Fast Ethernet
7 1 (1.00%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.00%) LAN
7 1 (1.00%) MPLS
7 1 (1.00%) Network Security
7 1 (1.00%) WAN
7 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.00%) MariaDB
2 4 (4.00%) MySQL
2 4 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.00%) Power BI
3 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (74.00%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (73.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.00%) Finance
4 3 (3.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Electronics
5 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.00%) Marketing
5 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (8.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (6.00%) Administrator
4 6 (6.00%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (4.00%) IT Engineer
5 4 (4.00%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (4.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (4.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 4 (4.00%) VMWare Administrator
6 3 (3.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.00%) Senior
7 2 (2.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Support
7 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.00%) SAN Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (71.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 71 (71.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (88.00%) Linux
1 88 (88.00%) Windows
2 71 (71.00%) Android
3 14 (14.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.00%) CentOS
6 4 (4.00%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.00%) SUSE
7 3 (3.00%) Debian
8 2 (2.00%) VMS
8 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (81.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 78 (78.00%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (75.00%) DevOps
4 73 (73.00%) Task Automation
5 71 (71.00%) Line Management
5 71 (71.00%) Mathematics
5 71 (71.00%) Platform Engineering
5 71 (71.00%) Risk Management
5 71 (71.00%) Storage Management
6 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (6.00%) ITIL
8 4 (4.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (4.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (4.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.00%) Patch Management
8 4 (4.00%) Security Patching
9 3 (3.00%) High Availability
9 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 82 (82.00%) PowerShell
2 76 (76.00%) Bash
3 73 (73.00%) Python
4 5 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.00%) CCNA
2 2 (2.00%) CCNP
2 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.00%) CISSP
3 1 (1.00%) MCP
3 1 (1.00%) MCSA
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (77.00%) Hyper-V
2 72 (72.00%) VMware NSX
3 71 (71.00%) Docker
4 27 (27.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (16.00%) Active Directory
6 9 (9.00%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (6.00%) Terminal Services
7 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (1.00%) Firmware
9 1 (1.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 78 (78.00%) Terraform
2 76 (76.00%) Ansible
3 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.00%) SCCM
6 2 (2.00%) SCOM
6 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.00%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.00%) vRealize
7 1 (1.00%) VxRail
7 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (80.00%) Cisco
2 71 (71.00%) 3PAR
2 71 (71.00%) Juniper
2 71 (71.00%) Splunk
3 29 (29.00%) VMware
4 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.00%) Dell
5 9 (9.00%) HP
6 6 (6.00%) NetApp
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) Meraki
7 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.00%) Ab Initio
8 2 (2.00%) arcserve
8 2 (2.00%) Aruba
8 2 (2.00%) Avaya
8 2 (2.00%) Citrix
8 2 (2.00%) Linksys
8 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds