Virtual Machines Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 328 460
Rank change year-on-year -16 +132 +41
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 73 289 219
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.85% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 3.73% 6.63% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 69 250 145
10th Percentile £43,700 £41,250 £31,550
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £63,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £127,500 £84,125 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.58% - +15.00%

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 1,958 4,357 6,347
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.91% 12.88% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 3,487 4,690
10th Percentile £30,550 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
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 £115,000 £87,200 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.51%

Virtual Machines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (12.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (9.59%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 7 (9.59%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (9.59%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) Ethereum
5 1 (1.37%) IIS
5 1 (1.37%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.16%) Azure
2 20 (27.40%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (16.44%) Entra ID
5 10 (13.70%) GCP
6 7 (9.59%) Cohesity
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (8.22%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.48%) Route 53
8 4 (5.48%) SaaS
9 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.11%) OneDrive
9 3 (4.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.40%) Firewall
2 15 (20.55%) VPN
3 12 (16.44%) DNS
4 9 (12.33%) SAN
5 8 (10.96%) DHCP
6 7 (9.59%) IMAP
6 7 (9.59%) Skype
6 7 (9.59%) SMTP
7 6 (8.22%) WAN
8 5 (6.85%) SD-WAN
8 5 (6.85%) VLAN
9 4 (5.48%) HTTPS
9 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
10 3 (4.11%) Network Security
11 2 (2.74%) LAN
11 2 (2.74%) VSAN
12 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
12 1 (1.37%) Modbus
12 1 (1.37%) VoIP
12 1 (1.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.37%) MySQL
2 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.74%) GitLab
2 2 (2.74%) MLflow
3 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 14 (19.18%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.85%) Law
6 4 (5.48%) Legal
7 3 (4.11%) Advertising
8 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Aviation
9 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Vulnerability Manager
2 15 (20.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (15.07%) Security Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Messaging Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) Kafka
2 3 (4.11%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.74%) Anaconda
3 2 (2.74%) Pandas
3 2 (2.74%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.74%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.74%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.37%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (1.37%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Data Centre
2 11 (15.07%) Public Cloud
2 11 (15.07%) Security Posture
3 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.59%) Blackberry
5 4 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.37%) Bitcoin
7 1 (1.37%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) NHS
7 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) SCADA
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.88%) Windows
2 20 (27.40%) Windows Server
3 15 (20.55%) Linux
4 10 (13.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.85%) VMS
6 1 (1.37%) Debian
6 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Cybersecurity
1 24 (32.88%) DevOps
2 21 (28.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (28.77%) Vulnerability Management
3 20 (27.40%) Incident Response
4 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (17.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (17.81%) Problem Management
7 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
8 11 (15.07%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.07%) Patch Management
9 10 (13.70%) Cloud Security
10 8 (10.96%) Roadmaps
11 7 (9.59%) Capacity Management
11 7 (9.59%) Identity Management
11 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (8.22%) Open Source
12 6 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
2 16 (21.92%) Python
3 8 (10.96%) Bash
4 7 (9.59%) SQL
5 6 (8.22%) Go
6 3 (4.11%) C#
6 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) Bicep
7 1 (1.37%) Rust
7 1 (1.37%) Solidity
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
2 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.22%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 4 (5.48%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.11%) CCSP
6 3 (4.11%) CISSP
6 3 (4.11%) MCSA
6 3 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.74%) CCNA
7 2 (2.74%) CCNP
7 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.74%) MCP
8 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) NIST
2 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (36.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (20.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (17.81%) Docker
4 9 (12.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (8.22%) vSphere
6 2 (2.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.74%) Firmware
6 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (30.14%) Terraform
2 15 (20.55%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.33%) Istio
4 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.11%) CASB
6 3 (4.11%) linkerd
6 3 (4.11%) SCCM
6 3 (4.11%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.74%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.74%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.74%) Packer
7 2 (2.74%) vRealize
7 2 (2.74%) VxRail
7 2 (2.74%) WSUS
8 1 (1.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (64.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (30.14%) VMware
3 17 (23.29%) Qualys
3 17 (23.29%) Tenable
4 7 (9.59%) NetApp
5 6 (8.22%) Confluent
6 3 (4.11%) Databricks
6 3 (4.11%) Dell
6 3 (4.11%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) iManage
6 3 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.74%) Cisco
7 2 (2.74%) EMC
7 2 (2.74%) Isilon
7 2 (2.74%) McAfee
7 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.37%) Apple
8 1 (1.37%) EqualLogic
8 1 (1.37%) Oracle
8 1 (1.37%) Veeam