Virtual Servers Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Servers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 533 623
Rank change year-on-year +129 +90 +120
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 13 51 54
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.086% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.66% 1.17% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12 44 50
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,298 £41,475
25th Percentile £43,375 £40,777 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -23.08% +40.62%
75th Percentile £50,334 £80,625 £105,000
90th Percentile £77,509 £93,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £45,250 £40,478 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.79% -26.40% +22.22%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Servers 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 1,958 4,357 6,347
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.91% 12.88% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 3,487 4,690
10th Percentile £30,550 £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 £115,000 £87,200 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.51%

Virtual Servers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Virtual Servers salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Virtual Servers salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MariaDB
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
1 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (30.77%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) IT Support
2 2 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) CentOS
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (30.77%) Security Patching
2 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) Server Management
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Change Control
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Line Management
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) MCSA
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) vSphere
4 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Meraki