Virtual Machines Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 387 565
Rank change year-on-year +72 +178 -77
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 235 201 377
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 0.61% 0.48%
As % of the System Software category 7.15% 4.30% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 184 151 210
10th Percentile £40,375 £31,250 £34,900
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,874 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,784 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Machines 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 3,287 4,676 15,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.77% 14.25% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 3,848 8,000
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 26 July 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 38 (16.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (11.06%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.26%) IIS
4 4 (1.70%) nginx
5 3 (1.28%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.85%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.85%) Confluence
6 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (79.57%) Azure
2 62 (26.38%) Entra ID
3 61 (25.96%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (21.28%) Power Platform
5 44 (18.72%) Azure Storage
6 36 (15.32%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (14.04%) AWS
8 30 (12.77%) SaaS
9 29 (12.34%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (11.06%) Serverless
11 25 (10.64%) GitHub
12 20 (8.51%) Azure AKS
12 20 (8.51%) Cloudflare
12 20 (8.51%) IaaS
13 19 (8.09%) Azure Functions
14 18 (7.66%) Amazon S3
14 18 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (7.23%) Azure Event Grid
16 16 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 50 (21.28%) Firewall
2 49 (20.85%) DNS
3 42 (17.87%) Broadband
4 33 (14.04%) DHCP
5 29 (12.34%) VPN
6 20 (8.51%) LAN
6 20 (8.51%) WAN
7 15 (6.38%) 5G
8 9 (3.83%) TCP/IP
9 8 (3.40%) Internet
10 6 (2.55%) IPv4
10 6 (2.55%) VLAN
11 5 (2.13%) Wireless
12 4 (1.70%) FTP
12 4 (1.70%) SAN
12 4 (1.70%) SSL
12 4 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (1.70%) WLAN
13 3 (1.28%) iSCSI
13 3 (1.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (23.83%) SQL Server
2 53 (22.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 50 (21.28%) Power BI
4 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.28%) Redis
4 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.28%) Tableau
4 3 (1.28%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (0.85%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.85%) MySQL
5 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 56 (23.83%) Git
2 13 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.68%) JIRA
4 9 (3.83%) Trac
5 4 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 94 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.30%) Finance
3 27 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.09%) Telecoms
5 16 (6.81%) Automotive
6 7 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Advertising
8 2 (0.85%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.43%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (17.87%) DBA
2 42 (17.87%) SQL DBA
3 33 (14.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.64%) Senior
5 22 (9.36%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (8.94%) Lead
7 19 (8.09%) Support Specialist
8 17 (7.23%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) Azure Specialist
8 17 (7.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (6.81%) Active Directory Specialist
9 16 (6.81%) Active Directory Support
10 11 (4.68%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Analyst
11 10 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Architect
12 9 (3.83%) Consultant
12 9 (3.83%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.72%) ARM Templates
2 25 (10.64%) .NET
3 17 (7.23%) YAML
4 5 (2.13%) REST
5 4 (1.70%) Loki
5 4 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.28%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.28%) CSS
6 3 (1.28%) Flash
6 3 (1.28%) Flask
6 3 (1.28%) HTML
6 3 (1.28%) jQuery
6 3 (1.28%) JSON
6 3 (1.28%) Plotly
6 3 (1.28%) SOAP
6 3 (1.28%) XML
7 2 (0.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.34%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (7.23%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.23%) PKI
3 16 (6.81%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.68%) IoT
5 6 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.28%) IBM Storwize
8 3 (1.28%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Blackberry
9 2 (0.85%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) AS400
10 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (39.57%) Windows
2 65 (27.66%) Linux
3 57 (24.26%) Windows Server
4 49 (20.85%) VMS
5 31 (13.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (12.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (4.26%) Unix
8 9 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.55%) Windows 10
10 5 (2.13%) AIX
10 5 (2.13%) Solaris
11 4 (1.70%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
12 3 (1.28%) Debian
12 3 (1.28%) SUSE
12 3 (1.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.85%) Android
13 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.43%) CentOS
14 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (36.60%) DevOps
2 69 (29.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 51 (21.70%) Collaborative Working
4 48 (20.43%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (20.43%) CI/CD
4 48 (20.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (20.00%) High Availability
6 45 (19.15%) ITIL
7 44 (18.72%) Performance Tuning
8 37 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (13.62%) Task Automation
10 28 (11.91%) Containerisation
11 26 (11.06%) Analytics
12 24 (10.21%) Agile
12 24 (10.21%) Microservices
13 23 (9.79%) Log Analytics
14 22 (9.36%) Configuration Management
15 21 (8.94%) Identity Management
16 20 (8.51%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.47%) PowerShell
2 57 (24.26%) SQL
3 45 (19.15%) T-SQL
4 38 (16.17%) Bicep
5 37 (15.74%) Python
6 33 (14.04%) C#
7 21 (8.94%) Java
8 19 (8.09%) Bash
9 17 (7.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (6.81%) Perl
10 16 (6.81%) VB
10 16 (6.81%) VBScript
11 3 (1.28%) C
11 3 (1.28%) C++
11 3 (1.28%) Go
11 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (20.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 42 (17.87%) Degree
3 33 (14.04%) Security Cleared
4 26 (11.06%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (5.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.55%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) CCNA
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CISM
9 1 (0.43%) CISSP
9 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.43%) ISACA
9 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.70%) GDPR
3 4 (1.70%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.70%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (39.15%) Active Directory
2 49 (20.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (20.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 43 (18.30%) Hyper-V
5 41 (17.45%) Docker
6 19 (8.09%) vSphere
7 15 (6.38%) pfSense
8 9 (3.83%) NFS
8 9 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (2.98%) Firmware
10 6 (2.55%) KVM
11 3 (1.28%) Ceph
11 3 (1.28%) Gluster
11 3 (1.28%) oVirt
12 1 (0.43%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 45 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 35 (14.89%) Terraform
3 29 (12.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (8.94%) ZABBIX
5 19 (8.09%) Ansible
5 19 (8.09%) Grafana
6 16 (6.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (6.81%) SCCM
6 16 (6.81%) SCOM
6 16 (6.81%) WSUS
7 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 9 (3.83%) SCDPM
8 7 (2.98%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.28%) Graylog
9 3 (1.28%) Observium
9 3 (1.28%) Puppet
10 2 (0.85%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.43%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 122 (51.91%) Microsoft
2 68 (28.94%) VMware
3 18 (7.66%) Fortinet
4 16 (6.81%) ForgeRock
4 16 (6.81%) Juniper
4 16 (6.81%) Sitecore
5 15 (6.38%) Veeam
6 9 (3.83%) McAfee
7 8 (3.40%) Oracle
7 8 (3.40%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.55%) Cisco
8 6 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.70%) Citrix
9 4 (1.70%) HP
9 4 (1.70%) NetApp
9 4 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.28%) Dell
10 3 (1.28%) IBM
10 3 (1.28%) Meraki
11 2 (0.85%) CyberArk