Hybrid/Remote Virtual Servers Job Trends

Virtual Servers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 403 469
Rank change year-on-year +31 +66 +234
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 10 53 34
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.065% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 0.78% 1.90% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 30
10th Percentile £45,850 £36,350 £42,054
25th Percentile £46,500 £39,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £76,750 £60,837
90th Percentile - £92,200 £66,400
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -10.38%

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 1,279 2,789 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.36% 14.20% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,662 3,060
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,793
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,400 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,762 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +1.39% -

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Servers and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
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 (60.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Storage
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) VPN
1 9 (90.00%) WAN
2 8 (80.00%) Firewall
3 6 (60.00%) SD-WAN
3 6 (60.00%) SSL
4 4 (40.00%) DHCP
4 4 (40.00%) DNS
5 3 (30.00%) LAN
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (30.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (60.00%) Storage Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (10.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
1 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft