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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 350 329
Rank change year-on-year +52 -21 +69
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 132 83 278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.53% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 8.02% 3.73% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 96 65 241
10th Percentile £42,625 £43,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -4.35% -10.87%
75th Percentile £127,500 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +31.36% +2.61% -4.17%

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 1,645 2,225 4,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.05% 14.24% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,215 1,339 3,148
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -9.97%
75th Percentile £76,201 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 27 June 2026.

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 7 (5.30%) IIS
2 5 (3.79%) Confluence
3 4 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 93 (70.45%) Azure
2 55 (41.67%) Azure AI
2 55 (41.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 55 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 55 (41.67%) Snowflake
3 28 (21.21%) Serverless
4 20 (15.15%) AWS
5 13 (9.85%) Entra ID
5 13 (9.85%) GCP
5 13 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.82%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
8 8 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.55%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.79%) Figma
10 5 (3.79%) GitHub
10 5 (3.79%) SaaS
11 4 (3.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.58%) Firewall
2 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.03%) Broadband
4 3 (2.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) Network Security
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
5 1 (0.76%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (52.27%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (18.94%) Snyk
2 7 (5.30%) Git
3 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 64 (48.48%) Finance
2 22 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (13.64%) Banking
4 15 (11.36%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Advertising
6 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Automotive
7 1 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (33.33%) Senior
2 39 (29.55%) Architect
3 33 (25.00%) Data Manager
3 33 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
3 33 (25.00%) Finance Manager
4 26 (19.70%) Cloud Architect
4 26 (19.70%) Senior Architect
4 26 (19.70%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 25 (18.94%) Cloud Security Architect
5 25 (18.94%) Security Architect
5 25 (18.94%) Senior Security Architect
6 14 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Azure Architect
8 12 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
8 12 (9.09%) Data Architect
9 10 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) Head of AI
9 10 (7.58%) Head of Finance
9 10 (7.58%) Support Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.82%) Django
1 9 (6.82%) React
2 8 (6.06%) Kafka
3 7 (5.30%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.55%) REST
5 5 (3.79%) Twisted
5 5 (3.79%) Web Services
5 5 (3.79%) WebSockets
6 4 (3.03%) .NET
6 4 (3.03%) COM
6 4 (3.03%) DCOM
6 4 (3.03%) LDAP
6 4 (3.03%) Middleware
6 4 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (2.27%) Loki
8 1 (0.76%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.79%) PKI
3 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.79%) Raspberry Pi
3 5 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.03%) Smartcard
5 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) Clustering
7 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
2 14 (10.61%) Windows
3 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.76%) Debian
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (68.94%) AI
2 60 (45.45%) Agile
3 59 (44.70%) Roadmaps
4 58 (43.94%) Migration
5 57 (43.18%) Data Architecture
6 56 (42.42%) Data Engineering
7 55 (41.67%) Data Development
7 55 (41.67%) Data Governance
7 55 (41.67%) Line Management
7 55 (41.67%) Machine Learning
7 55 (41.67%) Regulatory Compliance
8 37 (28.03%) CI/CD
9 27 (20.45%) Cloud Security
10 26 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (18.94%) Application Security
11 25 (18.94%) DevSecOps
11 25 (18.94%) SDLC
11 25 (18.94%) Security Architecture
11 25 (18.94%) Security Testing
11 25 (18.94%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (56.82%) SQL
2 19 (14.39%) Python
3 11 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.06%) Go
5 6 (4.55%) C#
6 5 (3.79%) Bicep
6 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.76%) Perl
7 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (3.79%) HNC
2 5 (3.79%) HND
2 5 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.76%) CCNA
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.94%) GRC
2 8 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (14.39%) Active Directory
1 19 (14.39%) Docker
2 10 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.30%) vSphere
4 2 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) KVM
5 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.12%) Terraform
3 8 (6.06%) Istio
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.27%) Ansible
5 3 (2.27%) Grafana
5 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.76%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.76%) SCOM
6 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (59.85%) Microsoft
2 55 (41.67%) Databricks
3 25 (18.94%) CrowdStrike
3 25 (18.94%) Palo Alto
3 25 (18.94%) Tenable
4 10 (7.58%) VMware
5 8 (6.06%) Confluent
6 5 (3.79%) Cisco
6 5 (3.79%) Meraki
6 5 (3.79%) Synology
6 5 (3.79%) Veeam
7 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.52%) Apple
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle