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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 308 326
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 +150
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 114 82 260
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 0.64% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 7.99% 4.05% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 87 77 240
10th Percentile £43,867 £44,000 £42,400
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £136,250 £88,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £112,500 £80,125
UK median annual salary £90,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +56.52% - -

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 1,426 2,025 4,284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 15.70% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 1,563 3,616
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,243 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,313 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,930 £55,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% +11.50% -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 7 April 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (83.33%) Azure
2 55 (48.25%) Azure AI
2 55 (48.25%) Azure Machine Learning
2 55 (48.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 55 (48.25%) Snowflake
3 15 (13.16%) AWS
4 14 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (11.40%) GCP
6 12 (10.53%) Entra ID
7 10 (8.77%) OpenShift
8 9 (7.89%) Serverless
9 8 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.02%) Amazon MSK
9 8 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.26%) GitHub
10 6 (5.26%) OneDrive
11 5 (4.39%) Figma
12 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.51%) SaaS
13 3 (2.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) Firewall
1 9 (7.89%) WAN
2 8 (7.02%) DNS
2 8 (7.02%) VPN
3 7 (6.14%) DHCP
3 7 (6.14%) SD-WAN
3 7 (6.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.51%) Broadband
4 4 (3.51%) LAN
4 4 (3.51%) Wireless
5 1 (0.88%) Network Security
5 1 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.88%) Telnet
5 1 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.63%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) MS Access
4 1 (0.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Git
1 6 (5.26%) Snyk
2 5 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 72 (63.16%) Finance
2 20 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Banking
4 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Advertising
6 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (28.95%) Data Manager
1 33 (28.95%) Engineering Manager
1 33 (28.95%) Finance Manager
2 29 (25.44%) Senior
3 18 (15.79%) Architect
4 12 (10.53%) Azure Architect
4 12 (10.53%) Azure Data Architect
4 12 (10.53%) Data Architect
5 10 (8.77%) Developer
5 10 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Head of AI
5 10 (8.77%) Head of Finance
5 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.89%) Senior SQL Developer
6 9 (7.89%) SQL Developer
7 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) Django
1 9 (7.89%) React
2 8 (7.02%) Kafka
3 5 (4.39%) REST
3 5 (4.39%) Twisted
3 5 (4.39%) Web Services
3 5 (4.39%) WebSockets
4 4 (3.51%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.75%) LAMP
6 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.51%) iPad
4 4 (3.51%) iPhone
4 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.63%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.04%) Linux
2 14 (12.28%) Windows
3 10 (8.77%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.39%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.51%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.75%) CentOS
6 2 (1.75%) Debian
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.88%) VMS
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (60.53%) AI
2 62 (54.39%) Agile
3 61 (53.51%) Roadmaps
4 59 (51.75%) Migration
5 57 (50.00%) Machine Learning
6 55 (48.25%) Data Architecture
6 55 (48.25%) Data Development
6 55 (48.25%) Data Engineering
6 55 (48.25%) Data Governance
6 55 (48.25%) Line Management
6 55 (48.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 19 (16.67%) DevOps
8 16 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 15 (13.16%) CI/CD
10 12 (10.53%) Asset Management
11 11 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (9.65%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 72 (63.16%) SQL
2 20 (17.54%) Python
3 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.02%) Go
5 5 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.63%) Bash
7 2 (1.75%) Bicep
7 2 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (4.39%) Azure Certification
1 5 (4.39%) Degree
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.63%) HNC
3 3 (2.63%) HND
4 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) GRC
1 6 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Docker
2 14 (12.28%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (7.02%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.39%) vSphere
6 4 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.88%) Firmware
7 1 (0.88%) KVM
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (14.04%) Terraform
2 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.02%) Istio
5 4 (3.51%) Ansible
6 2 (1.75%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.88%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 55 (48.25%) Databricks
3 9 (7.89%) VMware
4 8 (7.02%) Confluent
5 6 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.26%) Tenable
6 3 (2.63%) Cisco
6 3 (2.63%) Meraki
6 3 (2.63%) Synology
6 3 (2.63%) Veeam
7 2 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.88%) Apple
8 1 (0.88%) Citrix
8 1 (0.88%) Concur
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.88%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) Zscaler