Virtual Machines Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 341 456
Rank change year-on-year -15 +115 +46
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 71 287 223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.85% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 3.42% 6.66% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 67 249 148
10th Percentile £43,400 £41,250 £31,775
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £63,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £85,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.58% - +15.00%

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 2,076 4,308 6,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.64% 12.75% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 3,441 4,634
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.23%

Virtual Machines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Machines trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Machines.

Virtual Machines salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Virtual Machines salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (12.68%) SharePoint
3 7 (9.86%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 7 (9.86%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (9.86%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.41%) Ethereum
5 1 (1.41%) IIS
5 1 (1.41%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) Azure
2 20 (28.17%) AWS
3 14 (19.72%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (16.90%) Entra ID
5 10 (14.08%) GCP
6 7 (9.86%) Cohesity
7 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.45%) Amazon MSK
7 6 (8.45%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (5.63%) Route 53
8 4 (5.63%) SaaS
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.23%) IaaS
9 3 (4.23%) OneDrive
9 3 (4.23%) PaaS
9 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.17%) Firewall
2 15 (21.13%) VPN
3 11 (15.49%) DNS
4 9 (12.68%) SAN
5 8 (11.27%) DHCP
6 7 (9.86%) IMAP
6 7 (9.86%) Skype
6 7 (9.86%) SMTP
7 6 (8.45%) WAN
8 5 (7.04%) SD-WAN
8 5 (7.04%) VLAN
9 4 (5.63%) HTTPS
9 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
10 3 (4.23%) Network Security
11 2 (2.82%) LAN
12 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
12 1 (1.41%) Modbus
12 1 (1.41%) VoIP
12 1 (1.41%) Wireless
12 1 (1.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.41%) MySQL
2 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Git
2 2 (2.82%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.41%) GitLab
3 1 (1.41%) MLflow
3 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Banking
4 7 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.63%) Law
6 3 (4.23%) Advertising
6 3 (4.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Aviation
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Vulnerability Manager
2 15 (21.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Security Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Senior
5 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Messaging Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (8.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (5.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) Kafka
2 3 (4.23%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.82%) Anaconda
3 2 (2.82%) Pandas
3 2 (2.82%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.41%) .NET
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.41%) Smart Contracts
4 1 (1.41%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.41%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.17%) Data Centre
2 11 (15.49%) Public Cloud
2 11 (15.49%) Security Posture
3 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
4 7 (9.86%) Blackberry
5 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.41%) Bitcoin
8 1 (1.41%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.41%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) NHS
8 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.41%) SCADA
8 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.41%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.39%) Windows
2 19 (26.76%) Windows Server
3 14 (19.72%) Linux
4 9 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.04%) VMS
6 1 (1.41%) Debian
6 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (32.39%) DevOps
3 21 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (29.58%) Vulnerability Management
4 20 (28.17%) Incident Response
5 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (18.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (16.90%) Problem Management
9 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
10 10 (14.08%) Cloud Security
10 10 (14.08%) Patch Management
11 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
12 7 (9.86%) Capacity Management
12 7 (9.86%) Identity Management
12 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Management
13 6 (8.45%) Open Source
13 6 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 5 (7.04%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) PowerShell
2 15 (21.13%) Python
3 8 (11.27%) Bash
4 6 (8.45%) Go
4 6 (8.45%) SQL
5 3 (4.23%) C#
5 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.41%) Bicep
6 1 (1.41%) Rust
6 1 (1.41%) Solidity
6 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.86%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.45%) Azure Certification
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.63%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.63%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.23%) CCSP
5 3 (4.23%) CISSP
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) MCSA
6 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) NIST
2 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Active Directory
2 14 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (16.90%) Docker
4 9 (12.68%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.04%) vSphere
6 1 (1.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.41%) Firmware
6 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (30.99%) Terraform
2 14 (19.72%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.68%) Istio
4 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.23%) CASB
6 3 (4.23%) linkerd
6 3 (4.23%) SCCM
7 2 (2.82%) Packer
7 2 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.41%) Ansible
8 1 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.41%) vRealize
8 1 (1.41%) VxRail
8 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (64.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (29.58%) VMware
3 17 (23.94%) Qualys
3 17 (23.94%) Tenable
4 7 (9.86%) NetApp
5 6 (8.45%) Confluent
6 3 (4.23%) Google
6 3 (4.23%) iManage
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco
7 2 (2.82%) Databricks
7 2 (2.82%) Dell
7 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.41%) Apple
8 1 (1.41%) EMC
8 1 (1.41%) EqualLogic
8 1 (1.41%) McAfee
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle
8 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.41%) Veeam