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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 339 324
Rank change year-on-year +50 -15 +91
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 130 81 295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.53% 0.85%
As % of the System Software category 8.24% 3.65% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 94 63 259
10th Percentile £44,550 £42,800 £42,300
25th Percentile £74,250 £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 £125,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £57,836 £57,500
% change year-on-year +38.32% +0.58% -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 1,578 2,217 4,170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.88% 14.39% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 1,328 3,257
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £77,443 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,598 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 18 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 5 (3.85%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) IIS
3 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (69.23%) Azure
2 55 (42.31%) Azure AI
2 55 (42.31%) Azure Machine Learning
2 55 (42.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 55 (42.31%) Snowflake
3 28 (21.54%) Serverless
4 19 (14.62%) AWS
5 13 (10.00%) GCP
6 10 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (6.92%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.15%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.85%) Figma
10 5 (3.85%) GitHub
11 4 (3.08%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.08%) SaaS
12 3 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) Firewall
2 4 (3.08%) Broadband
3 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.54%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (19.23%) Snyk
2 7 (5.38%) Git
3 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.54%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 64 (49.23%) Finance
2 22 (16.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (13.85%) Banking
4 13 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Advertising
6 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (35.38%) Senior
2 39 (30.00%) Architect
3 33 (25.38%) Data Manager
3 33 (25.38%) Engineering Manager
3 33 (25.38%) Finance Manager
4 26 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 26 (20.00%) Senior Architect
4 26 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 25 (19.23%) Cloud Security Architect
5 25 (19.23%) Security Architect
5 25 (19.23%) Senior Security Architect
6 13 (10.00%) Azure Architect
6 13 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) Azure Data Architect
7 12 (9.23%) Data Architect
8 10 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Developer
8 10 (7.69%) Head of AI
8 10 (7.69%) Head of Finance
8 10 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) Django
1 9 (6.92%) React
2 8 (6.15%) Kafka
3 6 (4.62%) REST
4 5 (3.85%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.85%) Twisted
4 5 (3.85%) Web Services
4 5 (3.85%) WebSockets
5 4 (3.08%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (2.31%) COM
6 3 (2.31%) DCOM
6 3 (2.31%) LDAP
6 3 (2.31%) Middleware
7 2 (1.54%) .NET
7 2 (1.54%) LAMP
8 1 (0.77%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.85%) Raspberry Pi
3 5 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.31%) PKI
5 3 (2.31%) Smartcard
6 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.77%) IoT
7 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.38%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 7 (5.38%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
5 2 (1.54%) Debian
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (69.23%) AI
2 60 (46.15%) Agile
3 59 (45.38%) Roadmaps
4 58 (44.62%) Migration
5 57 (43.85%) Data Architecture
6 56 (43.08%) Data Engineering
7 55 (42.31%) Data Development
7 55 (42.31%) Data Governance
7 55 (42.31%) Line Management
7 55 (42.31%) Machine Learning
7 55 (42.31%) Regulatory Compliance
8 35 (26.92%) CI/CD
9 27 (20.77%) Cloud Security
10 26 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (19.23%) Application Security
11 25 (19.23%) DevSecOps
11 25 (19.23%) SDLC
11 25 (19.23%) Security Architecture
11 25 (19.23%) Security Testing
11 25 (19.23%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.69%) SQL
2 19 (14.62%) Python
3 8 (6.15%) Go
4 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.08%) C#
7 3 (2.31%) Bicep
8 2 (1.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (7.69%) Degree
2 5 (3.85%) HNC
2 5 (3.85%) HND
3 4 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.23%) GRC
2 6 (4.62%) QA
System Software
1 17 (13.08%) Docker
2 14 (10.77%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.77%) KVM
5 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (13.08%) Terraform
2 15 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.15%) Istio
4 4 (3.08%) Ansible
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.77%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (56.15%) Microsoft
2 55 (42.31%) Databricks
3 25 (19.23%) CrowdStrike
3 25 (19.23%) Palo Alto
3 25 (19.23%) Tenable
4 9 (6.92%) VMware
5 8 (6.15%) Confluent
6 5 (3.85%) Cisco
6 5 (3.85%) Meraki
6 5 (3.85%) Synology
6 5 (3.85%) Veeam
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.54%) Apple