Virtual Environments Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Environments
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 570 616
Rank change year-on-year +206 +46 +136
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 33 22 57
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.071% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27 6 24
10th Percentile £32,500 - £31,475
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.66% -13.54%
75th Percentile £45,000 £56,938 £63,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £57,500 £88,875
UK median annual salary £43,000 £39,000 £41,856
% change year-on-year +10.26% -6.82% -6.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Virtual Environments
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Virtual Environments trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Environments.

Virtual Environments salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Virtual Environments salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Environments
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 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) IaaS
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.06%) AWS
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) SAN
3 5 (15.15%) NAS
3 5 (15.15%) WAN
3 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (12.12%) DHCP
4 4 (12.12%) DNS
4 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
4 4 (12.12%) VPN
5 2 (6.06%) Wireless
6 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.03%) Internet
6 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.03%) LAN
6 1 (3.03%) Modbus
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security
6 1 (3.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Git
1 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Moq
2 1 (3.03%) MSTest
2 1 (3.03%) NUnit
2 1 (3.03%) xUnit.net
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Games
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 4 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (9.09%) Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Back Office
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
7 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) IT Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Project Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Project Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) IT Technician
6 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) Senior IT Technician
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Technician
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
8 1 (3.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Project Leader
8 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.03%) CSS
1 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
1 1 (3.03%) HTML
1 1 (3.03%) NHibernate
1 1 (3.03%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Clustering
1 5 (15.15%) Security Posture
2 4 (12.12%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Derivative
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (69.70%) Windows
2 18 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 8 (24.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (21.21%) Linux
5 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.06%) CentOS
7 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (21.21%) PRINCE2
2 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (18.18%) High Availability
3 6 (18.18%) Project Management
4 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
4 5 (15.15%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (15.15%) Patch Management
4 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
5 4 (12.12%) Biotechnology
5 4 (12.12%) Budgeting
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
5 4 (12.12%) Contract Negotiation
5 4 (12.12%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (12.12%) Server Management
5 4 (12.12%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
3 2 (6.06%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) MCP
3 1 (3.03%) MCSA
3 1 (3.03%) MCSE
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 20 (60.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
3 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (9.09%) Docker
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) ZENworks
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Nagios
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 20 (60.61%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Meraki
4 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.06%) Rapid7
5 2 (6.06%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) arcserve
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) HubSpot
6 1 (3.03%) NetApp
6 1 (3.03%) Nimble Storage