Hybrid/Remote Virtual Machines Job Trends

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 332 316
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 +207
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 49 121 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.69% 0.87%
As % of the System Software category 3.94% 4.54% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 31 90 128
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,175
25th Percentile £43,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +26.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +16.82%

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 1,243 2,668 3,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.10% 15.16% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,680 2,929
10th Percentile £28,928 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Machines and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Virtual Machines salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.12%) IIS
2 3 (6.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (75.51%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) Azure Monitor
2 23 (46.94%) Entra ID
3 18 (36.73%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (22.45%) AWS
6 8 (16.33%) IaaS
6 8 (16.33%) PaaS
7 6 (12.24%) GitHub
8 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (10.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.20%) OneDrive
8 5 (10.20%) SaaS
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (6.12%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (6.12%) Cloudflare
10 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
10 3 (6.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.53%) DNS
1 13 (26.53%) VPN
2 12 (24.49%) Firewall
3 9 (18.37%) WAN
4 7 (14.29%) DHCP
4 7 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 7 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.16%) LAN
5 4 (8.16%) Wireless
6 1 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.04%) Telnet
6 1 (2.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.04%) MS Access
4 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) TeamCity
3 3 (6.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) Maven
3 3 (6.12%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (6.12%) Subversion
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Finance
3 16 (32.65%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Aviation
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Senior
2 9 (18.37%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Support Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Node.js
2 3 (6.12%) .NET
2 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.12%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.12%) Ionic Framework
2 3 (6.12%) Loki
2 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.12%) REST
2 3 (6.12%) Spring
2 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Onboarding
2 10 (20.41%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.20%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.16%) iPad
4 4 (8.16%) iPhone
4 4 (8.16%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.16%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (6.12%) Replication
6 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Windows
2 8 (16.33%) Linux
3 7 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.16%) Apple iOS
4 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.08%) VMS
6 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) DevOps
2 23 (46.94%) ITIL
3 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (34.69%) Agile
4 17 (34.69%) Analytics
4 17 (34.69%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (32.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (32.65%) Cost Management
5 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (30.61%) Log Analytics
7 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 12 (24.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (24.49%) Infrastructure Management
9 11 (22.45%) AI
9 11 (22.45%) Coaching
9 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
10 10 (20.41%) Business Strategy
10 10 (20.41%) Machine Learning
10 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
10 10 (20.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) PowerShell
2 13 (26.53%) Bash
3 10 (20.41%) Bicep
3 10 (20.41%) Python
4 9 (18.37%) SQL
5 3 (6.12%) C#
5 3 (6.12%) Java
5 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) Azure Certification
4 8 (16.33%) Degree
4 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.04%) MCP
7 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.16%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 13 (26.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (24.49%) Hyper-V
5 5 (10.20%) Docker
5 5 (10.20%) vSphere
6 1 (2.04%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.04%) Firmware
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 17 (34.69%) Terraform
2 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) SCOM
4 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.12%) Ansible
5 3 (6.12%) Grafana
6 2 (4.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.04%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.61%) VMware
3 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.04%) Citrix
4 1 (2.04%) Concur
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.04%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Zscaler