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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 331 413
Rank change year-on-year -55 +82 +123
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 86 294 216
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.85% 0.60%
As % of the System Software category 3.13% 7.16% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 68 242 153
10th Percentile £43,550 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.20% +2.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £64,688 £76,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -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 2,751 4,108 5,141
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.50% 11.91% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 3,112 4,120
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,938 £40,975 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,375 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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 July 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 10 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.65%) IIS
4 3 (3.49%) nginx
5 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.16%) Ethereum
6 1 (1.16%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 61 (70.93%) Azure
2 41 (47.67%) AWS
3 24 (27.91%) Entra ID
3 24 (27.91%) IaaS
3 24 (27.91%) SaaS
4 22 (25.58%) PaaS
5 21 (24.42%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (22.09%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (22.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (19.77%) Power Automate
8 16 (18.60%) Azure AI
8 16 (18.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (18.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (18.60%) Power Platform
9 13 (15.12%) GCP
10 12 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.98%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (6.98%) OCI
11 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (39.53%) Firewall
2 27 (31.40%) VPN
3 25 (29.07%) DNS
4 22 (25.58%) SD-WAN
4 22 (25.58%) WAN
5 8 (9.30%) DHCP
6 4 (4.65%) HTTPS
6 4 (4.65%) VLAN
7 2 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.16%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.16%) LAN
8 1 (1.16%) Modbus
8 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.16%) Wireless
8 1 (1.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.60%) Data Lake
1 16 (18.60%) MySQL
1 16 (18.60%) Power BI
2 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Git
2 3 (3.49%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (3.49%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.33%) Maven
3 2 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Banking
2 13 (15.12%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.49%) Aviation
6 2 (2.33%) Law
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Architect
2 22 (25.58%) Cloud Architect
3 17 (19.77%) Vulnerability Manager
4 12 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Senior
6 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Security Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Lead
8 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) Kafka
2 3 (3.49%) .NET
2 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.49%) Loki
2 3 (3.49%) Node.js
2 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (3.49%) REST
3 2 (2.33%) Anaconda
3 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.33%) Ionic Framework
3 2 (2.33%) Pandas
3 2 (2.33%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.33%) Spring
3 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.16%) JSON
4 1 (1.16%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (1.16%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (41.86%) Data Centre
2 16 (18.60%) NHS
3 14 (16.28%) Public Cloud
4 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
5 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
5 8 (9.30%) Security Posture
6 6 (6.98%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.33%) Replication
8 1 (1.16%) Bitcoin
8 1 (1.16%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.16%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.16%) SCADA
8 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.16%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.58%) Windows
2 19 (22.09%) Linux
3 17 (19.77%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.33%) VMS
6 1 (1.16%) Debian
6 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (45.35%) DevOps
2 33 (38.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (29.07%) CI/CD
4 24 (27.91%) Agile
4 24 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (27.91%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (27.91%) Roadmaps
5 23 (26.74%) Migration
6 18 (20.93%) Vulnerability Management
7 17 (19.77%) API Management
7 17 (19.77%) Incident Response
7 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (19.77%) Project Management
8 16 (18.60%) Analytics
8 16 (18.60%) B2B
8 16 (18.60%) ITIL
8 16 (18.60%) Log Analytics
8 16 (18.60%) Network Virtualisation
8 16 (18.60%) RBAC
8 16 (18.60%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.05%) PowerShell
2 24 (27.91%) SQL
3 19 (22.09%) Bicep
4 11 (12.79%) Python
5 6 (6.98%) Go
6 5 (5.81%) Bash
6 5 (5.81%) C#
6 5 (5.81%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.49%) Java
8 1 (1.16%) C
8 1 (1.16%) C++
8 1 (1.16%) Rust
8 1 (1.16%) Solidity
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (24.42%) Azure Certification
2 17 (19.77%) DBS Check
3 8 (9.30%) Degree
3 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) MCSA
7 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (19.77%) Active Directory
2 14 (16.28%) Docker
2 14 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.14%) Hyper-V
3 7 (8.14%) vSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) Terraform
2 18 (20.93%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (16.28%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.98%) Istio
6 4 (4.65%) Ansible
7 3 (3.49%) Grafana
7 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.33%) Packer
8 2 (2.33%) SCCM
9 1 (1.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.77%) Qualys
2 17 (19.77%) Tenable
3 16 (18.60%) Databricks
3 16 (18.60%) Meraki
3 16 (18.60%) VMware
4 6 (6.98%) Confluent
5 2 (2.33%) Aruba
5 2 (2.33%) iManage
6 1 (1.16%) Apple
6 1 (1.16%) Dell
6 1 (1.16%) EqualLogic
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle
6 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.16%) Veeam