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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 330 311
Rank change year-on-year -1 -19 +213
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 51 140 174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.33% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the System Software category 4.11% 5.01% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 33 99 131
10th Percentile £40,300 £41,450 £41,000
25th Percentile £46,446 £51,875 £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 £96,400 £91,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +19.05%

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 1,242 2,793 3,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 14.65% 16.85%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,724 2,996
10th Percentile £28,768 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,053 £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 £76,563 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,762 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +1.39% -1.79%

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 3 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 (9.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.84%) IIS
2 4 (7.84%) nginx
2 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) Azure
2 24 (47.06%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (39.22%) Entra ID
4 16 (31.37%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (27.45%) AWS
6 13 (25.49%) IaaS
7 12 (23.53%) PaaS
8 9 (17.65%) SaaS
9 6 (11.76%) GCP
9 6 (11.76%) GitHub
9 6 (11.76%) OCI
10 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
10 5 (9.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (7.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (7.84%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (7.84%) Cloudflare
11 4 (7.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) DNS
1 11 (21.57%) Firewall
1 11 (21.57%) VPN
2 9 (17.65%) WAN
3 7 (13.73%) SD-WAN
4 6 (11.76%) DHCP
4 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.84%) LAN
5 4 (7.84%) Wireless
6 1 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.96%) Telnet
6 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) TeamCity
3 4 (7.84%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) Maven
4 3 (5.88%) Subversion
5 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (37.25%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 14 (27.45%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Aviation
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Senior
2 9 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
4 5 (9.80%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (9.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Support Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Node.js
2 4 (7.84%) .NET
2 4 (7.84%) ARM Templates
2 4 (7.84%) Loki
2 4 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.88%) Ionic Framework
3 3 (5.88%) REST
3 3 (5.88%) Spring
3 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Onboarding
2 10 (19.61%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.76%) Private Cloud
3 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
4 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.84%) iPad
5 4 (7.84%) iPhone
5 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.84%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (5.88%) Replication
7 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.96%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Linux
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.84%) Apple iOS
4 4 (7.84%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) DevOps
2 24 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (41.18%) Agile
3 21 (41.18%) ITIL
4 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (31.37%) Analytics
6 16 (31.37%) Cost Management
7 15 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (29.41%) Log Analytics
8 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
9 12 (23.53%) Migration
10 11 (21.57%) AI
10 11 (21.57%) Coaching
10 11 (21.57%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (19.61%) Business Strategy
11 10 (19.61%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (19.61%) Mentoring
11 10 (19.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) PowerShell
2 12 (23.53%) Bash
3 11 (21.57%) Bicep
4 10 (19.61%) Python
5 7 (13.73%) SQL
6 4 (7.84%) C#
7 3 (5.88%) Java
7 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) Degree
4 7 (13.73%) Azure Certification
5 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (9.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.96%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.96%) MCP
8 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.84%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 15 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 12 (23.53%) Hyper-V
3 11 (21.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (9.80%) Docker
4 5 (9.80%) vSphere
5 1 (1.96%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) Terraform
2 15 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
3 5 (9.80%) SCOM
4 4 (7.84%) Grafana
5 3 (5.88%) Ansible
6 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
1 16 (31.37%) VMware
2 1 (1.96%) Aruba
2 1 (1.96%) Citrix
2 1 (1.96%) Zscaler