Virtual Machines Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 453 505
Rank change year-on-year +119 +52 -73
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 284 218 367
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the System Software category 6.63% 3.54% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 246 143 167
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,500 £32,130
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,375 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £91,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -6.98%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,285 6,158 12,951
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 14.85% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,422 4,557 7,577
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Virtual Machines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Machines trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Machines.

Virtual Machines salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Virtual Machines salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
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 30 (10.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.17%) IIS
4 3 (1.06%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (79.58%) Azure
2 80 (28.17%) Power Platform
3 50 (17.61%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (16.20%) AWS
5 37 (13.03%) Entra ID
5 37 (13.03%) SaaS
6 30 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (10.21%) GitHub
7 29 (10.21%) Serverless
8 23 (8.10%) Azure Functions
8 23 (8.10%) Azure Storage
9 22 (7.75%) Amazon S3
9 22 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (5.99%) Azure App Service
10 17 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.63%) AWS Fargate
11 16 (5.63%) Cloudflare
11 16 (5.63%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 74 (26.06%) Broadband
2 60 (21.13%) DNS
3 56 (19.72%) Firewall
4 47 (16.55%) VPN
5 29 (10.21%) DHCP
6 19 (6.69%) HTTP
7 17 (5.99%) WAN
8 16 (5.63%) 5G
9 14 (4.93%) LAN
10 11 (3.87%) VLAN
11 8 (2.82%) Internet
12 7 (2.46%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.46%) VoIP
13 6 (2.11%) IPv4
13 6 (2.11%) SAN
14 5 (1.76%) Wireless
15 4 (1.41%) FTP
15 4 (1.41%) NAS
15 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (1.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (35.21%) SQL Server
2 82 (28.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (28.17%) Power BI
4 8 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.70%) MySQL
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.70%) Tableau
7 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (11.97%) Git
2 17 (5.99%) JIRA
3 12 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.52%) Trac
5 5 (1.76%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.70%) GitLab
6 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 145 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.15%) Finance
3 25 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.04%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.63%) Automotive
6 11 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.41%) Back Office
8 4 (1.41%) Banking
8 4 (1.41%) Law
8 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.70%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) French Language
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (26.06%) DBA
1 74 (26.06%) SQL DBA
2 50 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (13.03%) Senior
4 27 (9.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (7.04%) Architect
6 20 (7.04%) Infrastructure Architect
6 20 (7.04%) Lead
7 17 (5.99%) Support Specialist
8 14 (4.93%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (4.93%) Active Directory Support
8 14 (4.93%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Analyst
10 11 (3.87%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.52%) Consultant
12 9 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (2.82%) Project Consultant
13 8 (2.82%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.80%) .NET
2 18 (6.34%) JWT
3 17 (5.99%) ARM Templates
4 16 (5.63%) RESTful
5 5 (1.76%) REST
6 3 (1.06%) Flash
7 2 (0.70%) ADO
7 2 (0.70%) JSON
7 2 (0.70%) OAuth
7 2 (0.70%) SOAP
7 2 (0.70%) XML
8 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.35%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.35%) Swagger
8 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.21%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (8.10%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.34%) PKI
4 17 (5.99%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.23%) IoT
6 11 (3.87%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.11%) Replication
10 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.06%) IBM Storwize
13 2 (0.70%) FlexPod
13 2 (0.70%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.35%) Operational Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (44.72%) Windows
2 80 (28.17%) VMS
3 73 (25.70%) Windows Server
4 60 (21.13%) Linux
5 28 (9.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (9.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (7.75%) Unix
8 8 (2.82%) AIX
8 8 (2.82%) Solaris
9 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (2.46%) Windows 10
10 6 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.06%) Android
11 3 (1.06%) Debian
11 3 (1.06%) SUSE
11 3 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.35%) CentOS
12 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (40.49%) Disaster Recovery
2 91 (32.04%) DevOps
3 84 (29.58%) High Availability
4 83 (29.23%) Collaborative Working
5 81 (28.52%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (26.06%) Performance Tuning
7 56 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 45 (15.85%) CI/CD
9 42 (14.79%) Agile
10 35 (12.32%) ITIL
11 33 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (11.27%) Microservices
13 29 (10.21%) Containerisation
14 28 (9.86%) Network Virtualisation
15 25 (8.80%) Configuration Management
16 24 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
16 24 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 21 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence
18 19 (6.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (33.80%) T-SQL
2 92 (32.39%) SQL
3 54 (19.01%) PowerShell
4 34 (11.97%) Python
5 29 (10.21%) C#
6 20 (7.04%) Java
7 19 (6.69%) Bicep
8 18 (6.34%) Bash
9 15 (5.28%) Perl
9 15 (5.28%) VB
10 14 (4.93%) VBScript
11 6 (2.11%) Go
11 6 (2.11%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.41%) Ruby
13 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.70%) Lua
14 2 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (27.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 34 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.56%) Degree
4 23 (8.10%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.46%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.76%) ISEB
7 5 (1.76%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.35%) ISACA
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.76%) QA
4 2 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (23.59%) Active Directory
2 56 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (15.85%) Hyper-V
4 33 (11.62%) Docker
5 20 (7.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (5.99%) vSphere
7 16 (5.63%) pfSense
8 13 (4.58%) Firmware
9 10 (3.52%) NFS
10 8 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (1.06%) Ceph
11 3 (1.06%) Gluster
11 3 (1.06%) KVM
11 3 (1.06%) oVirt
12 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.62%) Terraform
3 29 (10.21%) Ansible
4 22 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (7.75%) ZABBIX
5 16 (5.63%) Grafana
6 15 (5.28%) SCCM
7 14 (4.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 14 (4.93%) SCOM
7 14 (4.93%) WSUS
8 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (3.52%) SCDPM
9 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.06%) Graylog
10 3 (1.06%) Observium
10 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.06%) Puppet
10 3 (1.06%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.70%) vRealize
11 2 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 165 (58.10%) Microsoft
2 80 (28.17%) VMware
3 20 (7.04%) Fortinet
4 17 (5.99%) Juniper
5 16 (5.63%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.63%) Sitecore
5 16 (5.63%) Veeam
6 11 (3.87%) Cisco
6 11 (3.87%) Oracle
6 11 (3.87%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.52%) McAfee
8 8 (2.82%) Google
8 8 (2.82%) HP
9 7 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.41%) Citrix
10 4 (1.41%) Meraki
11 3 (1.06%) Apple
11 3 (1.06%) F5
11 3 (1.06%) IBM
12 2 (0.70%) 3PAR