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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 326 318
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +214
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 52 146 176
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.73% 0.84%
As % of the System Software category 4.15% 5.15% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 102 133
10th Percentile £40,600 £41,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,050 £94,500 £76,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £57,836 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.01% -7.46% +25.00%

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 1,253 2,833 3,521
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 14.26% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,731 3,029
10th Percentile £28,942 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £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 £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 26 November 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 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.69%) IIS
2 4 (7.69%) nginx
3 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (75.00%) Azure
2 23 (44.23%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (36.54%) Entra ID
4 16 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (28.85%) AWS
6 14 (26.92%) IaaS
7 12 (23.08%) PaaS
8 9 (17.31%) SaaS
9 7 (13.46%) GitHub
10 6 (11.54%) GCP
10 6 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (11.54%) OCI
11 5 (9.62%) Azure AKS
11 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (9.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (7.69%) Cloudflare
13 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) Firewall
2 10 (19.23%) DNS
2 10 (19.23%) VPN
3 9 (17.31%) WAN
4 7 (13.46%) SD-WAN
5 5 (9.62%) DHCP
5 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.69%) LAN
7 3 (5.77%) Wireless
8 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.92%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) TeamCity
3 4 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.77%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) Maven
4 3 (5.77%) Subversion
5 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 13 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Aviation
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Senior
2 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Lead
5 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (7.69%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Node.js
2 4 (7.69%) .NET
2 4 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 4 (7.69%) Loki
2 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (7.69%) REST
3 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.77%) Ionic Framework
3 3 (5.77%) Spring
3 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Onboarding
1 10 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.54%) Private Cloud
2 6 (11.54%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.77%) iPad
4 3 (5.77%) iPhone
4 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.77%) Replication
4 3 (5.77%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.92%) IoT
6 1 (1.92%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Linux
3 7 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) DevOps
2 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (40.38%) Agile
4 20 (38.46%) ITIL
5 19 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (30.77%) Analytics
7 16 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
8 15 (28.85%) Cost Management
8 15 (28.85%) Log Analytics
9 12 (23.08%) Migration
10 11 (21.15%) AI
10 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (19.23%) Coaching
11 10 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (19.23%) FinOps
11 10 (19.23%) Machine Learning
11 10 (19.23%) Technology Roadmap
11 10 (19.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) PowerShell
2 12 (23.08%) Bash
3 11 (21.15%) Bicep
4 10 (19.23%) Python
5 8 (15.38%) SQL
6 5 (9.62%) C#
7 4 (7.69%) Java
8 3 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.92%) C
9 1 (1.92%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (19.23%) Degree
4 7 (13.46%) Azure Certification
4 7 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (7.69%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.92%) MCP
8 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.77%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (21.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (19.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (11.54%) Docker
5 6 (11.54%) vSphere
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Terraform
2 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.62%) SCOM
4 4 (7.69%) Grafana
5 3 (5.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) VMware
2 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.85%) Aruba