Hybrid/Remote Microsoft Virtual Server Job Trends

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 480 502
Rank change year-on-year +66 +22 +338
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 2 17 14
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.012% 0.073% 0.056%
As % of the System Software category 0.10% 0.62% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile - £36,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £36,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £39,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -58.95% +18.75%
75th Percentile £41,750 £44,250 £112,500
90th Percentile - £50,000 -
UK median annual salary £42,000 £42,739 £51,750
% change year-on-year -1.73% -17.41% -9.21%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Microsoft Virtual Server 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 1,963 2,735 3,965
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.13% 11.80% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 1,746 3,424
10th Percentile £28,825 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,813 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £78,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -

Microsoft Virtual Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Virtual Server trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microsoft Virtual Server
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware