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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 331 302
Rank change year-on-year +6 -29 +184
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 68 69 278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.53% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 5.03% 3.26% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 44 61 235
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,900
25th Percentile £59,375 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +17.39% -2.13%
75th Percentile £118,750 £86,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £95,000 £79,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £57,836 £57,500
% change year-on-year +29.68% +0.58% +4.55%

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 1,353 2,116 4,311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.96% 16.22% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 959 1,552 3,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £86,475
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 24 March 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 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (83.82%) Azure
2 15 (22.06%) AWS
2 15 (22.06%) Azure AI
2 15 (22.06%) Azure Machine Learning
2 15 (22.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 15 (22.06%) Snowflake
3 14 (20.59%) Entra ID
3 14 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (19.12%) GCP
5 10 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (14.71%) OpenShift
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 6 (8.82%) OneDrive
8 5 (7.35%) Figma
9 4 (5.88%) SaaS
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Storage
10 3 (4.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) WAN
2 8 (11.76%) DNS
2 8 (11.76%) VPN
3 7 (10.29%) DHCP
3 7 (10.29%) Firewall
3 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
3 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.88%) Broadband
4 4 (5.88%) LAN
4 4 (5.88%) Wireless
5 1 (1.47%) Network Security
5 1 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.47%) Telnet
5 1 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.47%) MS Access
2 1 (1.47%) MySQL
2 1 (1.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) Selenium
General
1 34 (50.00%) Finance
2 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Advertising
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Senior
2 11 (16.18%) Data Manager
2 11 (16.18%) Engineering Manager
2 11 (16.18%) Finance Manager
3 10 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Developer
4 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Senior SQL Developer
5 8 (11.76%) SQL Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) Django
1 9 (13.24%) React
2 8 (11.76%) Kafka
3 5 (7.35%) REST
3 5 (7.35%) Twisted
3 5 (7.35%) Web Services
3 5 (7.35%) WebSockets
4 4 (5.88%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (2.94%) LAMP
6 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
1 9 (13.24%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.88%) iPad
4 4 (5.88%) iPhone
4 4 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Linux
2 12 (17.65%) Windows
3 8 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.94%) CentOS
6 2 (2.94%) Debian
6 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.94%) Unix
6 2 (2.94%) VMS
7 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Agile
1 25 (36.76%) AI
2 23 (33.82%) Roadmaps
3 22 (32.35%) DevOps
4 19 (27.94%) Machine Learning
4 19 (27.94%) Migration
5 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 15 (22.06%) Data Architecture
6 15 (22.06%) Data Development
6 15 (22.06%) Data Engineering
6 15 (22.06%) Data Governance
6 15 (22.06%) Line Management
6 15 (22.06%) Regulatory Compliance
7 13 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (19.12%) ITIL
8 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
10 9 (13.24%) Cost Management
10 9 (13.24%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.65%) SQL
2 22 (32.35%) Python
3 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.76%) Go
5 5 (7.35%) Bash
5 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.94%) Bicep
6 2 (2.94%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) HNC
5 1 (1.47%) HND
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.47%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Docker
2 12 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (4.41%) vSphere
7 1 (1.47%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.47%) Firmware
7 1 (1.47%) KVM
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Terraform
2 13 (19.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (11.76%) Istio
5 4 (5.88%) Ansible
6 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.06%) Databricks
3 8 (11.76%) Confluent
4 7 (10.29%) VMware
5 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.47%) Apple
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Citrix
6 1 (1.47%) Concur
6 1 (1.47%) Meraki
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Synology
6 1 (1.47%) Veeam
6 1 (1.47%) Zscaler