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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 411 515
Rank change year-on-year -9 +104 +35
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 12 11 55
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.056% 0.067% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.68% 0.49% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 47
10th Percentile £36,239 £38,450 £36,279
25th Percentile £38,587 £40,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £47,620 £48,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £47,691 £53,200 -
UK median annual salary £46,370 £45,000 £40,478
% change year-on-year +3.04% +11.17% -19.04%

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 1,759 2,237 3,802
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.24% 13.55% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 1,344 2,952
10th Percentile £32,450 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,528
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +0.87% -11.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,600 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (25.00%) SAS
3 1 (8.33%) IIS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (50.00%) LAN
3 6 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 6 (50.00%) VLAN
3 6 (50.00%) WebEx
4 3 (25.00%) DHCP
4 3 (25.00%) DNS
4 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (25.00%) VPN
5 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Marketing
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
1 6 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Collaboration Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) IT Support
3 3 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (50.00%) FlexPod
2 6 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (50.00%) Replication
2 6 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) Data Management
4 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (50.00%) Performance Management
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (25.00%) Service Management
7 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
8 1 (8.33%) DevOps
8 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (8.33%) Proactive Management
8 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) IISP
3 1 (8.33%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 6 (50.00%) Grafana
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Cisco
3 6 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (50.00%) NetApp
3 6 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (50.00%) Splunk
3 6 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 1 (8.33%) IFS
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle